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mocks Parasite Oscar win and calls Brad Pitt ‘little wise guy’ at Colorado rally
Donald has unexpectedly lashed out at the this year’s Best Picture Oscar winner, the South Korean thriller Parasite, at his latest campaign rally in Colorado Springs, stating a suprise preference for Gone with the Wind and Sunset Boulevard (respect!) and calling Brad Pitt “a little wise guy” for speaking out against his administration at the awards ceremony earlier this month.
“How bad were the Academy Awards this year?” asked the crowd, receiving a round of enthusiastic boos by way of an answer.
“The winner is a movie from South Korea, what the hell was that all about?” he continued. “We got enough problems with South Korea with trade and on top of it, they give them the best movie of the year.”
“Was it good? I don’t know. I’m looking for, like – can we get like Gone with the Wind back, please?” continued to cheers from the presumably thousands of TCM viewers in the audience.
Neon, the studio that distributed Bong Joon-ho’s film, has already responded to the president in withering style.
Here’s Phil Thomas on an unexpected lurch into a film criticism from a man otherwise known to prefer Jean Claude Van Damme’s Bloodsport – and to impatiently fast-forward through its dialogue scenes to get on with the punching.
He was also once apparently offered the chance to sit down for a screening of Steven Spielberg’s The Post at the White House but opted for The Greatest Showman instead, which just says it all.
