Writer and director David Mamet has made headlines at least as many times for his various political and social manifestations as for his film and theater works. The openly conservative screenwriter strongly criticized the activities of the organization called DEI (Diversity, equality and inclusion).
DEI is a load of garbage
– said Mamet at the sold-out event of the La Times book festival.
Fascist totalitarianism
– he continued.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the writer-director was at the event to promote his autobiography, released this fall, which details his forty years in the film industry and how he fell out of favor as the child of Communist Jewish parents in South Chicago became a Trump sympathizer. .
Mamet didn’t leave out the Academy of Motion Pictures’ new diversity rules, which expand opportunities for LGBTQ+, women, ethnic minorities and people with disabilities.
It’s terribly intrusive that you can’t get a fucking statue if 7 percent of the actors in your film aren’t…, 8 percent aren’t…
– expressed his opinion regarding the criteria for the Oscar award.
While Mamet acknowledged that discrimination has prevented different groups from asserting themselves in Hollywood for years, he believes they have gone too far. In his book, he compared the leaders of the DEI to the party representatives assigned to the armed unit in the former Soviet Union, the commissars.
Mamet didn’t mince words. He used the outdated term “transsexuals” when referring to transgender people and objected to gender-neutral restrooms.
Growth, maturity, decline, death
The film studios did not escape the director’s criticism either, he blames them for the hegemony that stifled the voice of independent filmmakers, and according to him there is no place for individual initiatives. He added that the film industry goes through the process of growth, maturity, decline and death that happens to everything that is organic.
Mamet is convinced that he is not being left out of jobs because of his political views, rather he sees his age as the reason why he was pushed out of Hollywood. According to him, his young colleagues want to work with their own age group.
Mamet’s name is associated with productions such as Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Ed Harris, Jonathan Pryce and Alan Arkin Glengary Glen Rosswhich also stars Robert De Niro and Jean Reno Roninor filmed starring Gene Hackman In the grip of gold.
Of course, Mamet is not the only one who has fallen out of favor in the movie industry stronghold. Due to Mel Gibson’s anti-Semitic and anti-gay statements, he lost a lot of opportunities, and the industry and part of his audience stigmatized him for life.
