www射-国产免费一级-欧美福利-亚洲成人福利-成人一区在线观看-亚州成人

USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
China
Home / China / World

Hollywood silent on gun control

By Jill Serjeant in Los Angeles | China Daily | Updated: 2012-12-19 08:10

Pick a social cause and you will often find a Hollywood celebrity speaking out. Gay marriage has Brad Pitt, Darfur has George Clooney and the environment has Robert Redford or Leonardo DiCaprio.

Gun control? Not so much.

Most of Hollywood's biggest action movie stars have remained silent, so far, on the divisive issue following last week's slaying of 20 young children and six adults at a Connecticut school. And pop culture experts said it's not hard to see why.

"If you are known for being a star who carries around weaponry and fires it, when something like this happens, the last thing in the world you want to do is insert yourself ... unless you say you are never going to star in another action-adventure movie," said Robert Thompson, professor of popular culture at Syracuse University.

Longtime gun control advocates like actress Susan Sarandon and Bowling for Columbine documentary director Michael Moore were quick to take to micro-blogging site Twitter after Friday's Connecticut massacre, and tens of thousands of US citizens have signed online petitions calling for stricter gun control laws.

Yet major action heroes Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Denzel Washington, as well as Pitt and Clooney, have had little or nothing public to say.

That may change, according to a veteran public relations executive who handles many Hollywood clients.

"I think there will be a very public display of outrage from prominent people in the entertainment world and people wanting to do something about guns," said the public relations chief, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak for his clients.

"I think the stereotypical Hollywood action star not wanting to touch an issue like this may be dated. There is a lot of talk about people wanting to express very public outrage. Let's see who joins, and how that manifests itself," he said.

With Hollywood studios again under scrutiny for making violent movies, Paramount Pictures canceled Saturday's premiere in Pittsburgh, in the US state of Pennsylvania, of Tom Cruise's new film Jack Reacher, in which Cruise plays a cold-blooded former military sniper.

In New York, the Lincoln Center Film Society postponed a Monday screening and conversation with Cruise "out of respect for the families who lost loved ones in Newtown, Connecticut", according to a statement.

Reuters

 

Editor's picks
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
主站蜘蛛池模板: 毛片在线网站 | 一级毛片不收费 | 免费的特黄特色大片在线观看 | a级黄色毛片免费播放视频 a级精品九九九大片免费看 | 日韩视频久久 | 国产aⅴ一区二区 | 国产成人精品999在线 | 午夜寂寞福利 | 亚洲欧美日本综合 | 久久亚洲国产精品一区二区 | 亚洲国产欧美目韩成人综合 | 亚洲男人的天堂久久精品 | 欧美三级一区二区三区 | 欧美在线高清视频 | 99国产精品欧美久久久久久影院 | 国产女主播在线 | 中文字幕高清在线天堂网 | 亚洲精品中文字幕在线 | 成人免费夜片在线观看 | 国产欧美va欧美va香蕉在线 | 高清在线一区二区三区亚洲综合 | 日本欧美一区二区三区视频 | 欧美一级大黄特黄毛片视频 | 亚洲国产成人久久精品影视 | 欧美另类色 | 作爱视频在线免费观看 | 中国国产一级毛片 | 综合欧美视频一区二区三区 | 一道本久久 | 亚洲偷自拍另类图片二区 | 中文字幕 亚洲 一区二区三区 | 日韩综合色 | 久久久久久极精品久久久 | 99日韩精品| 免费看a网站 | 久久精品国产一区二区三区日韩 | 99视频只有精品 | 久久综合九九亚洲一区 | 免费看特黄特黄欧美大片 | 午夜桃色剧场 | 日韩在线二区 |