Director Robert Redford, who plays an anti-war activist in his new film The Company You Keep, talks to Krishnan Guru-Murthy about politics, ethics and whether violence still has a place on the big screen.
Mr. Redford, please don't stop. You are no where near perfection, you are no where near an absolute, because it really doesn't exist, but you speak your mind and cut through all the bullshit. Please keep yourself healthy and in the publics eye. We need you and people like you. Be well my friend.
Robert Redford has a lot of intelligence and depth! For such a good looking man (and he still is), he has integrity and insight into many matters. A good soul who has not sold his soul in Hollywood. From Australia.
Bob's political insights, which, unfortunately include "journalism" (journalism needs to be ABSOLUTELY separate from politics) quite often now, are anything but cliche'. He's a free thinker, well informed, insightful, open minded with solid ethics that lay in complexity and grey. But also, there is a truth or a lie inherent within any one issue. It's ethical or not. He's brilliant really. And even more importantly, a good man. Ethical.
+Joseph Ballard I'm saying media must be totally neutral to be pure journalism. I just said what you have said, PULBLIC ACCESS TO INORMATION FREE FROM POLITICAL INFLUENCE. however, ABSOLUTELY SEPARATE. Show all points of view and why, politicains must validate their standpoints. Journalists MUST be neutral, like a physician, and deliver the facts and allow the PEOPLE to assess. CRITICAL THINKING.
Journalism isn't what it used to be the 1050s 60s 70s 80s journalism was good quite truthful but I don't trust it as much today and who in their right mind would pay £2.80 a day for a newspaper. Of course social media has damaged good truthful journalism. Anyway Redford is right I admire him as a actor and environmentalist.
Robert Redford is a wonderful human being. If he'd been president instead of a braindead B- movie actor in the eigthies, the US would be quite a different country today. A better one I reckon.
B Movie braid dead actor in the 80s!? He pulled back in the 80s and one an oscar for directing and one an Oscar for his first directorial debut and then went from there and formed Sundance and was an activist! But he still made "Brubaker", "The Natural" and "Out of Africa". Odd comment! You must have accomplished something more.
I agree that 70s was his best decade when he ruled over the hearts and the box office but calling him out for his work in the 80s is a travesty. He made Ordinary People and won an Oscar for it... He worked in a relatively fewer films than the 70s but they were still good and had substance... I think its coz his priorities changed in the 80s as he focused more on other interests of his life like environmentalism, politics, art and journalism... He is a multi faceted person and Hollywood wasn't the only domain he was interested in. He also made a great movie in 1992 A River Runs Through It and launched the career of Brad Pitt... But despite all that, I agree that he should've entered into politics... He would've made a great president... He is well informed and has a power of conviction... I wish that too that he should have gone the presidential route... America needed and still needs men like him and I'm not an American. But I have huge respect for this man as a person, as an artist and as someone who will be a gold standard for men to come in Hollywood.
RR seems like a decent, pleasant man, but his political insights are little more than clichés. That said, he's right about the cult of violence in Hollywood films today. Well done to Guru-Murthy for exposing Tarantino for the petulant teenager he really is.
chel3SEY Tarantino is easily top 5 greatest movie makers of all time hands down, violence in movie's yes because life is violent , cant stand this asshole if you don't like it don't fuking watch it PERIOD
Van Seaco Einstein, that's just the kind of bombastic, thuggish response I'd expect from a Tarantino fan. I suppose you'll be telling us next that Sylvester Stallone is one of the greatest actors of all time, the Laurence Olivier of his generation. And that Inglorious Basterds is a true and accurate account of WW2, just as Django Unchained is a historically faithful depiction of slavery in the US. That rattling noise in your head is the little peanut of a brain of yours rolling around in your big empty head. No doubt you'd like to stab a knife in my eye for saying so. That would be kool. Violence on screen, violence in real life. Get it? Wicked. Grunt...
