Hollywood’s Green Screen, Take 1 Kabillion


We all know what a green screen is. It’s that solid-color screen actors stand in front of while being filmed, in order that a scene may be digitally added behind them later. James Cameron uses them quite a bit in his films. But there’s another “green screen” that’s just as ubiquitous in Hollywood.

For example, we’ve discussed here before James Cameron’s environmental hypocrisy; a “green screen” covering his lavish lifestyle. It’s something altogether common in the “movement.”

For today’s episode, we’re talking about so-called environmental “superhero” Robert Redford. Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer recently released a new short film about Redford’s particular green hypocrisy. Watch this, then click below the fold for more details:


As reported by the directors of the above film at the Not Evil, Just Wrong website,  Redford opposed “an eco-village near his property whilst quietly selling $2 million lots in the Sundance Preserve for luxury vacation homes.” From the article:

Redford is one of the main opponents of a plan by the Pacific Union College to build an eco-village in Angwin California. The college says it needs the funds because of a dire financial situation. The village is close to Redford’s vineyard in the Napa Valley. However whilst publicly opposing this development “to preserve the rural heritage” Redford has been quietly selling development lots in the Sundance Preserve for $2 million. These lots are intended for vacation homes close to Redford’s Sundance Ski Resort.

The actor joined the group Save Rural Angwin and released a statement in 2009 in opposition to the development. Since that time, the college revised its plans for the scope of the project before apparently abandoning them, according to a Save Rural Angwin newsletter from October of 2010. And though the fight seems to be over for now, the hypocrisy remains as plain today as it was to a green admirer of Redford talking to the New York Times in 2009:

“I don’t want to use the hypocrisy word here,” Mr. Johansen said. “I don’t think he’d be in opposition to this if he knew the whole story.”

Or as director Phelim McAleer put it to The Independent:

“It’s the hypocrisy that gets me,” said the film’s Irish director, Phelim McAleer. “He’s taking a lovely virgin ridge and building McMansions on it. Granted, they’re nice, lefty, eco-McMansions. But they’re McMansions all the same. At the same time, he’s trying to stop other people from building houses in a nice spot.”

NIMBY.

Of course, as the video shows, there’s yet more to Redford’s two faces of environmentalism. In the wake of the Gulf oil spill, Redford was part of the media blitz to declare that this must be the beginning of the end for big oil. He was featured in this video produced and promoted by environmental group National Resources Defense Council, along with this blog post expanding on the point of view in the video. He also appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann to elaborate on both.

Naturally, this didn’t stop him from putting his personal profits “ahead of people and the environment,” when working as a paid narrator of United Airlines commercials. Planes, McElhinney and McAleer point out, run on oil.

We are so often harangued to make do with less by those who have more than anybody that it’s almost become pointless to point out. The constant spectacle of Hollywood and the extravagant lifestyles of its elite are everyday fodder for gossip websites and television shows without end. Yet those same mansion-owning, yacht-driving, luxury condo selling stars never stop piously intoning that Americans have to “do better”, “make do with less”, and on and on. And the green movement will keep humoring and indulging them. Because just like United Airlines, the greens have a product to sell. And they want celebrities to sell out. Err, it. Thankfully, we have Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney to continue to expose the rank hypocrisy.

As a parting thought, consider this. When you see a commercial for some new prescription or OTC medication, do you feel more comfortable hearing from actual doctors, or actors playing doctors on TV? So why should we accept hysterical global warming claims when all their spokespersons are just actors playing scientists on TV? Food for thought. Processed, injected, preservative-filled food.


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Redford is but

Flagstaff Monday, January 31st at 7:19PM EST (link)

a hole in the road. One that needs to be filled with asphalt for a season and then replaced in the spring. Good old petroleum product.

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Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer...

Ron Robinson Monday, January 31st at 7:22PM EST (link)

… were both at RightOnline in Sand Diego this weekend and I met them both.

They are great folks and they both have a lot of authority in this conversation.

Pay attention.

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I have a personal Redford story

renny Monday, January 31st at 8:15PM EST (link)

I was in Kenya a year after “Out of Africa” was filmed partly in the Masai Mara.
At one time, before Kenya underwent its falling apart, visitors and tourists stayed on Governor’s Island, residing in “tents” about 30X30′ or larger with attached lavs of maybe 15X15′ with walk-in bathtubs you could almost swim in.
The floors were tiled and the rooms fully furnished like a motel room, but the ceiling and sides were canvas tent. In the day, they lifted the tent sides (then covered by mosquito netting), and at night they were dropped.
Meals were served al fresco by a grill chef, and you dined with a resident baboon who paroled the trestle table dining and a lurking crocodile who peered closed enough to see what you were eating.
When the cast and crew for “Out of…” stayed there, they all were housed in the tents, including Meryl Streep, who was evidently a gracious lady,
BUT Robert Redford refused to sleep there and had a charter FLY back and forth to and from Nairobi every day. So he could stay in a top flight hotel and not have to lower his superior tush onto a perfectly American commode in a” tent.”
At least that was the tale of the guards and guides who were still yukking it up at Redford’s expense a year later.
Environmentalist, indeed.

 

Acting

ModernAgeFan Monday, January 31st at 8:17PM EST (link)

When all you do for a living is pretend, sometimes it gets confusing to remember when the cameras are rolling and when they are not. This just goes to show, once again, how useless it is to take anyone from Hollywood seriously on any topic other than acting or directing. We ought to make some You Tube videos with these guys spouting off their ecological wisdom with canned laughter in the background.

 

Redford at a Soros climate fest in 2009 cited money to be made going green

katesmith Monday, January 31st at 9:26PM EST (link)

Speaking from a George Soros climate profiteer convention, 4/16/2009, Redford said:

“Wall Street realized there was money to be made in ‘going green.’” ….

 

In City Island, Andy Garcia longs to be an actor.

Locked and Loaded Monday, January 31st at 11:08PM EST (link)

When he goes for an audition and gets a callback, his aspiring-actress confidante is congratulating him. He doesn’t really know what he did so well, and he tells her it was just bulls..t. She enlightens him, and says “No, that’s acting.”

This speaks to me on the real-life substance of many, if not most, Hollywood actors.

 

"Those who have what they want are fond of telling those

davesinsanantonio Tuesday, February 1st at 6:34AM EST (link)

who haven’t what they want that they don’t want it.” Or, deserve it. That is why when they insist that the rest of us pay more taxes or live under certain onerous restrictions they will fight tooth and nail to keep their particular loophole intact.
To paraphrase a sign-off line here, “they have been called hypocrites so often that it doesn’t bother them anymore.” Actually, their hypocrisy never bothered them before, because they are HYPOCRITES! In their unbounded arrogance they not only feel entitled to all they have, but also to all we have. We don’t deserve to get ahead, and don’t even deserve what we already have. So, there! Stop criticizing their perfection!!! Or, their grabbing for our stuff!!!

 

Sounds like he is a better capitalist

reaganator Tuesday, February 1st at 8:35AM EST (link)

than he is an enviromentalist.

Sundance Resort

Eric Lynes Tuesday, February 1st at 1:51PM EST (link)

I’ve been to Sundance a few times, and I can tell you that there is green, hippy eco crap everywhere. Which is sad, since the area up there really is very beautiful. But yes, Reganator, he his a much better capitalist than environmentalist.

 
 

Not just wrong; evil.

Plumb_Bob Tuesday, February 1st at 2:35PM EST (link)

McAleer and McElhinny are recovering leftists, and hesitate to call Enviros “evil,” hence their site that shares a name with their first anti-eco project, “Not Evil, Just Wrong.” I respect their efforts and wish them well.

However, I think they’re just hedging on things they would rather not admit. If a man pretends to be more moral than he is, and by the practice of his faux morality prevents the poor and oppressed from improving their lot in life, in what way is that not evil? Just because the man claims to be doing good, does that prevent him from earning the assessment that he’s evil?

Personally, I think it’s time to revive our understanding of sin. No human being is completely bad; but when we allow the sin in our souls to rule our conduct, the self-righteous illusion that we’re doing good is no excuse. Pride is sin, and so is vanity; and when men become proud and it leads them to stifle the poor in the name of their pet projects, it’s not just wrong, it’s evil, and we should say so.

(Unrelated to this topic, please visit my political blog, “Plumb Bob Blog: Squaring the Culture,” at http://www.plumbbobblog.com. Thanks.)

I have always despised that title

E Pluribus Unum Tuesday, February 1st at 2:41PM EST (link)

Ms McElhinny is a great, great speaker and writer. But that title sucks rocks. I’ve always embraced just what you wrote:

Not just wrong; Evil.

The evidence for that is so enormous, it’s not practical to ignore that the end goal of the left is and has always been subjugation of the people. And that is absolutely evil. The opposite of freedom..

Protect the Borders
Kill the Terrorists
Punch the Hippies

 
 

People that have milllions have no idea what it means

ihateliberals Tuesday, February 1st at 6:23PM EST (link)

to have just a small change to their daily cash requirements. When you are worth $50 million and a cost of $1 million comes your way it is nothing more than pocket change. When you won’t make $1 million in your life time just a ten cent per gallon rise in gasoline cost could mean the difference of being able to get to work or not. This notion is inconceivable to the filthy rich. They not only don’t care about this “inconvenient truth” they blame that person for not doing better. Hollywood in the old days was a friend of the people somewhere along the way the people became the enemy. They can’t remember that the Free market system is what pays their salaries and makes them their millions. They are so quick to bite the hand tht feeds them.

maybe we should all boycott the movies for a yeat and see what happens to them. The only problem with that is the harm to the little people that work in the industry.

Its not the wealth of Hollywood that makes it anti-capitalism

JSobieski Tuesday, February 1st at 7:49PM EST (link)

There are plenty of people of who are rich and truly appreciate the free market system. Rather, its the “win the lottery” nature of Hollywood as a business. Hollywood is a lot like feudalism–the top 1% are rich, and everyone else is waiting tables and juggling credit card debt for as long as they can while trying to make it big.

The nature of Hollywood also explains why Hollywood has so many limousine liberals in contrast to say, people in the oil and gas industry.

 
 

I can't thnk of a single movie Star

ihateliberals Tuesday, February 1st at 6:37PM EST (link)

that i would want to meet. For some reason celebrities have the ability to cast a spell over people that I have never understood. I have met many in my life and they are just people Many of them barely passed high school. They are good at remembering lines and repeating what other people tell them to say. Redford is most likely too dumb to realize that he is being HYPOCRITICAL. They are all puppets under the control of the EVIL left.

 

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