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Stanley Kubrick’s daughter Vivian has claimed she is “very assured” that her late father would have been a Donald Trump supporter after the presidential candidate used footage from the director’s Oscar-nominated 1987 movie Full Steel Jacket in a marketing campaign video.
The clip in query was posted to Trump’s X/Twitter account with the caption: “WE WILL NOT HAVE A WOKE MILITARY!”
The video consists of scenes from Full Steel Jacket during which a brutal, racist Marine Sargeant performed by R. Lee Ermey shouts at and assaults Matthew Modine’s Non-public Joker. These scenes are captioned: “President Trump.”
It then cuts to footage of navy officers expressing assist for LGBTQ+ rights. These scenes are captioned: “Comrade Kamala.”
Modine has spoken out towards the video, telling Entertainment Weekly in a press release that: “Trump has twisted and profoundly distorted Kubrick’s highly effective anti-war movie right into a perverse, homophobic, and manipulative software of propaganda.”
Nevertheless, in her personal assertion posted to X/Twitter, Vivian Kubrick responded straight “to those that assume my father wouldn’t have wished Trump to make use of” footage from Full Steel Jacket.
She wrote: “I agree in precept that an anti-war film is incongruous with selling the concept of a tricky non-woke US navy and thus warfare itself – nonetheless – these are very harmful and unusual instances and thus utilizing this footage is likely pure expedience.”
After arguing at size that Trump is in reality a peaceable chief, she continues: “In truth, I imagine my father (who supported Reagan), would very a lot approve of saving America, certainly the world, from the extremely harmful Globalist forces threatening to take over this planet.
“And if that footage from FMJ helps Trump make the purpose that the US navy wants correctly educated, tremendous robust, targeted, devoted warriors, and never introduce the demoralizing results of woke-ism, and attracting folks to affix up merely to have their sexual reassignments paid for, then Trump has my blessing.
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“Lastly, understanding my father very properly, I can guarantee you he had a profound grasp of how paradoxical human nature is! Which accounts for the way on the identical time he made anti-war movies, he had an ideal ardour for weapons (self-defense not searching) and he had fairly just a few!
“My father had an ideal respect for all times – his motion pictures being unimpeachable proof of his love for all times, liberty and the pursuit of happiness! So on that foundation, I really feel very assured he could be a Trump supporter and would forgive utilizing FMJ incongruously, if it helps the reason for freedom! Capisce?”
New York-born Kubrick, who died in 1999, is extensively thought-about one of many biggest filmmakers of all time. His motion pictures embrace 2001: A House Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Paths of Glory and Dr Strangelove.
