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DiCaprio And Inception Co-stars Trash BP, Cheney And Palin

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The cast of Christopher Nolan’s just-released blockbuster Inception gave some surprisingly political answers to questions at a press junket recently. While promoting the mind-bending action film which posits many interesting ideas like shared dreams, stealing ideas from people’s subconscious, and how having your mind haunted by a sexy French woman isn’t always a good thing, the cast was asked whose dreams they would like to infiltrate. Cue the Sarah Palin bashing.

First up was Leonardo DiCaprio who chose BP exec Tony Hayward, an unsurprising choice considering he’s a well known environmentalist. Next up were Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ellen Page. Page used her answer to go off on Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin. At first she seemed like she was only semi-serious, wearing a smirk sort of like the one she wore in the funny parts of Juno. But, the more she talked about Palin, the more serious she got and her expression changed a scowl sort of like the one she wore in the sad parts of Juno.

Now, before all of you Palin fans get out your “Hollyweird” pitchforks, I think the actors should at least be commended for giving thoughtful answers to such a stupid question when they probably just want to start screaming, “Oh my God, who cares whose dreams we’d want to go in?! I’ve been sitting in this stupid press junket chair for eight hours! Just go see my movie, it’s got pretty special effects in it! I promise!” And, besides, their answers do inspire us to imagine what kind of dreams those three public figures would have. I imagine Hayward’s would probably involve a bunch of people calmly telling him, “Don’t worry, we never liked the Gulf of Mexico that much anyway,” while Palin’s presumably features her flying around on a helicopter and hunting Katie Couric, Dave Letterman, and her future son-in-law from above.

As for Cheney’s dreams, I don’t even want to imagine. Mostly because I think they’d be creepy, but also because Phillip K. Dick already asked the most relevant question 40 years ago.

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  • Toshiba2

    Truly a great movie!!

  • http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

    Who cares what a greasy , moon-faced , make-up wearing little twerp thinks about anything ? No offense .

  • MichelleF

    Just proves our side is doing something right if HW hates us. I’m cool with that!

  • MichelleF

    Oh and for the record, these are Leo’s peeps:

    DUers Pour Venom Over Dick Cheney Heart Problems

    Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2010/07/17/duers-pour-venom-over-dick-cheney-heart-problems#ixzz0txdiJSXF

    Stay classy American lefties!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Thorkil-Kowalski-Vrge/566276352 Thorkil Kowalski Værge

    Why are the greatest beneficiaries of capitalism often opposed to it?

    Is it because they do not know from where our wealth comes?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dona-Barone/1060506711 Dona Barone

    Just proves our side is doing something right
    __________________
    Your SIDE is getting smaller and smaller…you might almost say it’s ELITE.

  • roxsteady

    No, it’s because while they don’t have a problem with capitalism, they do have a problem with those who rape the land and don’t seem to give a shit wen something goes wrong. See BP’s and all the other oil companies plans for remediation. Also, see the lack of money by these cash whores going to research. If you’re using the same technics that were used during the Ixtoc spill that happened in 1979 there is clearly a problem. They’re making billions of dollars yet, can’t spare any for research and development of clean ups. Does that make sense? Am I coming through? Hello? These cash whoring cretins should be thrown in jail!

  • shootfromthehip

    Leo is once again using his considerable clout to stand up and tell the truth.

    Bravo.

    If only our so-called “liberal” media would do the same.

    Leo knows a hell of a lot more on this subject than someone who covers it every day and SHOULD know, such as brain dead zombies like Wolf Blitzer.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Terry-Canaan/666670819 Terry Canaan

    “Who cares what a greasy , moon-faced , make-up wearing little twerp thinks about anything ? No offense .”

    That’s no way to talk about John Boehner.

  • murf

    LOL .. Right Shootfromthehip.. Why haven’t our leaders consoled with this genius Dicaprio ?!

    Playing pretend doesn’t mean you know shit about reality.

  • Azarkhan

    Multi-millionaire Hollywood assholes trashing Republicans-how strange is that?

  • Chudi

    Can somebody tell me where these people went to college? For some reason, these guys in hollywood think they are smart, if they can read lines written by somebody else for them. Palin might have gone to 5 colleges, but at least she finished. It pisses me off to see these sanctimonious morons..

  • http://lokisings.blogspot.com/?zx=cfd58c68e6530bf1/http://hardcoreexodus.blogspot.com Woof1

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  • MichelleF

    Dona Barone says:
    July 17, 2010 at 1:58 pm Dona Barone(Quote)
    1 4
    Just proves our side is doing something right
    __________________
    Your SIDE is getting smaller and smaller…you might almost say it’s ELITE.

    Oh Dona, you couldn’t be more wrong. The % of Conservatives has grown since BO took office. It’s not over 40%, you loony libs only make up 20% of the population and the other 40% are I’s. Truth hurts, doesn’t it!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Westover/1496648721 Tony Westover

    Wow, Ellen Page is quite the little cunt. Sarah Palin has accomplished a whole lot more in two years than she has. Sounds like li’l Ellen is threaten by (and jealous of) Palin and her success.

    And there wasn’t anything wrong with Leonardo DiCaprio answer. The environment is usually the first thing on his mind which is perfectly fine and everything he said was true.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Westover/1496648721 Tony Westover

    Jon Bershad said:
    Now, before all of you Palin fans get out your “Hollyweird” pitchforks, I think the actors should at least be commended for giving thoughtful answers to such a stupid question when they probably just want to start screaming, “Oh my God, who cares whose dreams we’d want to go in?! I’ve been sitting in this stupid press junket chair for eight hours! Just go see my movie, it’s got pretty special effects in it! I promise!”

    What a stupid, baseless assumption. These elitist people have publicists to tell us every little event that happens in their lives that they want to brag about like we’re supposed to care and you think they don’t want to be asked a question like this? Gimme a friggin’ break, they probably asked to be asked that question.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Westover/1496648721 Tony Westover

    Chudi said:
    Can somebody tell me where these people went to college?

    Leonardo DiCaprio and Ellen Page only have high school educations. So either of them trying to come off as intellectually superior is quite humorous, although I didn’t get that vibe from DiCaprio.

    Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a Columbia University dropout. That’s more than most Hollywood elites can claim, although there have been plenty of who have actually put in the hard work and had the mental fortitude to finish their higher education.

  • writer

    Leo, there was an election. Cheney hasn’t been in office for over a year and a half.

  • DonnaK

    MichelleF wouldn’t know the truth if it slapped her upside the head. She lives in a world that she wishes existed!! Not going to happen! Have you noticed that only 20% of the people think the repubs could run the country better? How do you explain that MichelleF?

  • MichelleF

    Donne, you are really giving Rox a run for her money for the most annoying female award. But I digress.

    I’ve done a little research for you:

    Generic Congressional Vote

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/generic_congressional_vote-901.html

    Direction of Country

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/direction_of_country-902.html

    Conservatives” Are Single-Largest Ideological Group

    http://www.gallup.com/poll/120857/conservatives-single-largest-ideological-group.aspx

    Enjoy, you little ray of sunshine!

  • stoogedudes

    I wonder what the Mediaite staff offices were like this morning…”I have a breaking news exclusive! Hollywood actors have liberal views!!! This is an exciting and interesting development, let’s put it up on the website!!”

    Look, their views does not diminish their talent. Jon Voight is batshit crazy, but he’s a damn fine actor and he makes any movie he’s in better because he’s in it (except for Baby Geniuses).

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    “Apostrophe jones says:
    July 17, 2010 at 12:55 pm
    8 5
    Who cares what a greasy , moon-faced , make-up wearing little twerp thinks about anything ? No offense .”

    Why does every thread turn to Glen Beck as the subject?

  • http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

    Bill Adkins . You don’t really get the internet thing , do you ? If you send an anonymous letter , I bet you sign it : Anonymous , Bill Adkins . I bet your CB handle was Bill Adkins , good buddy . If you go to an AA meeting , I bet you say ” My name is Bill Adkins and I’m an alcoholic “.

  • libra blue

    Love Leo! One of a handful of very few genuinely great actors in Hollyweird. He is a class act and I agree with him about Tony “scum of the Earth” Hayward. I am not a fan of Palin’s or Cheney’s either.

  • kit9

    DiCaprio is an environmental hypocrite of staggering hollywood dimensions and Page is a Canadian, in all her delusional elitist antiAmerican glory. Don’t get mad at her idiocy, just pat her on her little Canadian head, and pity her. She’s the fat ugly step retarded step kid to the US’s hot quarterback/cheerleader.

  • kit9

    The fact that Leo isn’t slamming the Obama administration’s utterly dismal performance of the spill-especially their complete and utter subservience to BP for the first two months-says everything you need to know about him and his insincere dedication to the environmental integrity.

  • Madmax313

    Dicaprio can kiss my ass. What the hell is he going to Copenhagan for? He doesn’t speak for me! That hypocrite goes over there in a private jet, in a limosine, puking CO2 all 0ver the place to put a stop to global warming. STFU Leo.

  • http://debunkerhill.com CatM

    Chudi:

    I didn’t know conservatives cared about where people went to college. After all, your heroes Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Karl Rove never finished college. In fact, Glenn Beck couldn’t even finish one class. And we have no proof Sarah Palin actually finished college. A lot of people have their doubts. If she did, it certainly doesn’t show.

    Of course, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates never finished college either, and they did all right for themselves. Einstein only finished because his professors were charitable and wanted to get him out of their hair.

    Still, it must pain conservatives to fork over money to support the careers of people who actually make successful movies, unlike, say, Stephen Baldwin, Dennis Miller, and Victoria Jackson. But hey, you’ve always got Mel Gibson….

    Oh, wait…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Alfred-J-Lemire/100000045361210 Alfred J. Lemire

    A sensible person would not so readily have leaped for the bait in the question and swallowed its hook. Each indulged in a public self-gratification, expressing a tasteless fantasy that served, I think, mostly to demonstrate that each is a a member in good standing in Hollywood’s left, to gain approval from their colleagues. Little kids in grade school do that all the time, saying, doing, and wearing things they hope will win them the approval of their peers.

    Mr. DiCrapio, Mr. Gordon-Levitt, and Ms. Page, unfortunately, delivered nightmares that told this citizen less about their Other than about the about their intellectual and ethical weaknesses.

    But their meanness and viciousness may be a sign of progress. Years ago, I heard people derogate people of limited financial means and low ethics or morals as “poor white trash.” The terrible trio are rich white trash: being trash has nothing to do with personal wealth. It describes who one is as a human being.

  • sandman

    As far as filthy rich, famous celebs go when talking about environmental issues, they always try to apportion blame and responsibllity ‘equally’ among us all for the state of the world’s environmental problems. The fact is that its people like DiCaprio and his cronies who pollute this planet much more than most people. EG wonder if he’s ever noticed is Hollywood pal John Travolta flying around all over the place in his ( not in a little namby pamby private jet) but a PASSENGER jet for @##@’s sake! Travolta’s feet must be quite large – because his “carbon footprint” must be least the size of the gulf oil slick by now. Hypocrites.

  • Mr B

    I find it amusing how the left revels in Sarah Palin being labeled “stupid”. Yet, she is still relevant today, after all the attacks on her, and has the Obama administration reeling from her Facebook posts. Facebook! That’s like Twitter being the greatest threat to Communism in China. Amazing. Honestly though, I think that says more to how pathetic the Obama administration is than how overly exceptional Palin is. Inept is easy to point out; and the polls show the results.

    Ya’ll keep raging on. Some day soon, you’ll get Rush Limbaugh fired, Glenn Beck fired, Ann Coulter silenced, and karl Rove frog marched,,,,, Just a handful of people embarrassing you on a regular basis with their “stupidity”.

    Rage on brave warriors. Rage on. Your hate appears to be empowering others, but not you.

  • SLO

    So it’s ok that the Hollywood ELITE earn millions off of Capitalism because they spew hated of the right. You might want to research Hollywood companies to really find out how “green” they are or actually go to Hollywood to see how they have they have “raped the land” as someone previously said about the right. I grew up in the LA area and believe me the Hollywood Liberals could care less about the land if they need it for their own use. Check out all the airports Burbank, LAX, John Wayne etc. and you will see their private planes the spew pollutants in the air. As Jerry Maguire said “Show me the money” well follow the money and find out what these people own especially stocks of oil companies that you all hate so much. Plus who complains the most about being treated unfairly as in the jobs they do or don’t get. Actors!!!!!!! They say if your over 40, overweight, wrong color, or wrong sex you can’t get a job in Hollywood. If they are so Liberal why is that a problem? Hollywood Liberals are the most sexist and racist of any employer I have seen in the past 40 years.

  • BlackWidow

    SLO said:
    So it’s ok that the Hollywood ELITE earn millions off of Capitalism because they spew hated of the right. You might want to research Hollywood companies to really find out how “green” they are or actually go to Hollywood to see how they have they have “raped the land” as someone previously said about the right. I grew up in the LA area and believe me the Hollywood Liberals could care less about the land if they need it for their own use. Check out all the airports Burbank, LAX, John Wayne etc. and you will see their private planes the spew pollutants in the air. As Jerry Maguire said “Show me the money” well follow the money and find out what these people own especially stocks of oil companies that you all hate so much. Plus who complains the most about being treated unfairly as in the jobs they do or don’t get. Actors!!!!!!! They say if your over 40, overweight, wrong color, or wrong sex you can’t get a job in Hollywood. If they are so Liberal why is that a problem? Hollywood Liberals are the most sexist and racist of any employer I have seen in the past 40 years.

    You have to be kidding me. You only have to watch the Academy Awards to see how diverse Hollywood is.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Apostrophe jones said:
    Bill Adkins . You don’t really get the internet thing , do you ? If you send an anonymous letter , I bet you sign it : Anonymous , Bill Adkins . I bet your CB handle was Bill Adkins , good buddy . If you go to an AA meeting , I bet you say ” My name is Bill Adkins and I’m an alcoholic “.

    Thanks for your concern, Apostrophe, and I once tried the ‘so courageous in anonymity and hiding behind the keyboard’ tack – but it grew tiresome. BTW, I also sign my name to letters to the editor – and I get hate mail and telephone calls and I enjoy the fight. Don’t go to AA meetings — is it your experience that you only use your first name, “My name is Apostrophe and I’m an alcoholic?” I think you could get away with the ‘Jones’ as no one would believe it to be your real name.

  • SLO

    “You have to be kidding me. You only have to watch the Academy Awards to see how diverse Hollywood is.”

    Then you certainly don’t read or see the articles or interviews about how biased Hollywood is. The Academy Awards is a very small portion of what Hollywood is about and usually makes sure that is the way they look, diverse. The unemployment rate of Hollywood actors for blacks and women, especially women over 40 is the highest. Then there are the overweight women who only get parts that make fun of their size. Live and work in the area for a while and you see what’s behind the curtain.

  • MichelleF

    Wow, now I’m definately seeing the movie!

    Al Gore plugs sci-fi thriller that’s aiding climate campaign

    Al Gore is giving two thumbs up to the new science fiction thriller “Inception” that stars fellow environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio – a film that is aiding one of Gore’s climate change advocacy groups.

    Proceeds from the film’s July 13 premiere in Los Angeles went to the Gore-founded Alliance for Climate Protection, which is pressing Congress to approve legislation that caps greenhouse gas emissions.

    “I have never recommended a movie before on algore.com, but I am making an exception this weekend for a movie that I had an opportunity to see when it premiered in Los Angeles last Tuesday: ‘Inception,’” Gore, the former vice president, wrote on his website Friday afternoon. He also tweeted the recommendation.

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    “Do yourself a favor and see it! It is, in my opinion, a real work of genius by the writer and director, Chris Nolan, with brilliant performances – especially by my friend and fellow environmentalist, Leo DiCaprio – incredible special effects, and a truly great musical score by Hans Zimmer,” he added.

    Gore admits he’s not an impartial observer: “Warner Brothers devoted the proceeds from the ‘Benefit Premiere’ to the Alliance for Climate Protection – so you could say I am biased,” he notes. But Gore adds: “This movie really is one of the best, most entertaining, and most thought-provoking I can ever remember seeing.”

    read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/109387-al-gore-plugs-sci-fi-thriller-thats-aiding-climate-campaign

  • SLO

    sandman said:
    As far as filthy rich, famous celebs go when talking about environmental issues, they always try to apportion blame and responsibllity ‘equally’ among us all for the state of the world’s environmental problems. The fact is that its people like DiCaprio and his cronies who pollute this planet much more than most people…… Hypocrites.

    Have you ever seen DiCaprio smoke that guys must do 5 packs a day. I feel sorry for any actress that has to kiss him in a scene! Then there is our smoking President. I wonder who picks up his butts when he is done with his cig for the moment.

  • sandman

    SLO said:
    Have you ever seen DiCaprio smoke that guys must do 5 packs a day. I feel sorry for any actress that has to kiss him in a scene! Then there is our smoking President. I wonder who picks up his butts when he is done with his cig for the moment.

    Er..um..I smoke 6 packs a day…sorry…what can I say? ( I pick my own butts up tho…and dispose of em in a environmentaly responsible way…I shove em up DiCaprio’s and Obama’s ass !)

  • http://debunkerhill.com CatM

    Mr B,

    Why on earth would we want to have Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh fired or Sarah Palin marginalized? These obvious leaders of the conservative movement serve as ongoing reminders to so many on the left of what we are fighting for–not to have a country dominated with people like that.

  • Sunnyr

    This smarmy toad will NEVER get another dime of my money! I refuse to go to any of his crappy, third-rate movies again.

  • shootfromthehip

    Wow. That will show Leo SunnyR!

    I’m sure he’ll miss your $10.

  • Rogue-Comic

    Regardless of the actors’ political views, the guys that made “Inception” are the same guys behind “Momento,” “The Prestige,” and the Bale Batman movies. It’s probably going to be a really good flick. Who cares if you disagree with someone who can afford to disagree with you?

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