Movies The Sound of Freedom

[TheRejectionist]

 

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[Husky_Khan]

Number one movie in America on the 4th of July!

And now it's in the running for movie meme popularity as well.

Still don't really know what QAnon is and still don't care.

 

[TheRejectionist]

@Husky_Khan your meme is very appropriate considering Franco's very recent past.

Sexual misconduct accusations and lawsuit

In 2014, a seventeen-year-old girl posted screenshots of alleged messages between her and Franco on Instagram.[165][166] The messages showed that Franco, then aged 35, tried to meet her in a hotel room after she told him she was seventeen. He sent multiple pictures of himself to prove his real identity. Franco admitted on Live! With Kelly and Michael that he had written the messages.[167][168] Though his actions were legal, given the age of consent in New York is seventeen, he was the subject of media backlash due to the wide age gap. He initially responded to the scandal by tweeting, "I HOPE PARENTS KEEP THEIR TEENS AWAY FROM ME. Thank you." He later stated he was "embarrassed" and that "I learned my lesson."[169][170]

At the 2018 Golden Globe Awards, Franco wore a Time's Up pin in solidarity with the MeToo movement, to protest sexual harassment against women.[171] His pin drew criticism on social media from actress Ally Sheedy, who hinted she had quit acting after working with Franco on a play.[citation needed] A former girlfriend, Violet Paley, also alleged that he once forced her to give him oral sex in a car while they were dating.[172] On January 9, 2018, The New York Times, citing the allegations, canceled a planned event with Franco.[173] On January 10, Franco said on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert that the accusations made against him on Twitter were "not accurate".[171]

On January 11, 2018, the Los Angeles Times reported that five women were accusing Franco of inappropriate or sexually exploitative behavior during the period when Franco was serving as their acting teacher or mentor. One former student stated that Franco "would always make everybody think there were possible roles on the table if we were to perform sexual acts or take off our shirts" in his projects. Another alleged that Franco held a sex scenes class and removed students' vaginal guards while simulating oral sex with them. Franco's attorney, Michael Plonsker, disputed the allegations.[174]

In her 2018 memoir, Busy Philipps puts forth an account in which Franco screamed at her before violently shoving her to the ground while on the set of Freaks and Geeks.[175]

On October 3, 2019, two former students of Franco's now-closed film and acting school, Studio 4, filed a lawsuit against him and his partners. According to The New York Times, the complaint alleged that the program "was little more than a scheme to provide him and his male collaborators with a pool of young female performers that they could take advantage of." The case claimed that pupils were subjected to "sexually exploitative auditions and film shoots" and had to sign away their rights to the recordings.[176] The litigants sought unspecified monetary damages as well as the return or destruction of any questionable material. Franco has denied the plaintiffs' claims through his attorney.[177]

On February 21, 2021, it was reported that the lawsuit was settled and that, according to documents filed on February 11, both students had agreed to drop their individual claims.[178][179] The deal was submitted for preliminary court approval by March 15, 2021.[180] In June 2021, terms of the settlement were revealed, and it was disclosed that Franco, pending a judge's approval, would pay more than $2.2 million to resolve two different legal disputes: one by the two women who cited sexual exploitation (they will receive $894,000), and another class-action plaint by approximately 1,500 Studio 4 students who maintain that they were defrauded. A joint statement by the plaintiffs and defendants reads in part: "While Defendants continue to deny the allegations in the Complaint, they acknowledge that Plaintiffs have raised important issues; and all parties strongly believe that now is a critical time to focus on addressing the mistreatment of women in Hollywood."[181]

Charlyne Yi worked with Franco on The Disaster Artist and claimed in April 2021 that, after trying to quit the film over the allegations, a bigger role was offered by the filmmakers to Yi. Yi viewed this enticement as an attempted bribe and also accused Franco's long-time co-star Seth Rogen of enabling his behavior.[182][183] A month later, Rogen commented on the allegations against Franco and expressed doubts that he would ever work with him again.[184][185]

On December 23, 2021, Franco admitted to having had sex with students and to being in treatment for sexual addiction since 2016; however, he did not address other forms of sexual exploitation.[93][186]

 

[TheRejectionist]

 

[TheRejectionist]

a relatively "normie" movie reviewer , Jeremy Jahns , talked about the movie 10 days ago and as of today it has 804.655 visualizations.

 

[Husky_Khan]

What's interesting is apparently Sound of Freedom is making morr money this week day by day then last week. And it's being shown on more theater screens as well.

Sound of Freedom

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@Husky_Khan your meme is very appropriate considering Franco's very recent past.

True. I do tend to think of Franco's allegations just being general level allegations of degeneracy until I heard about the acting school he and his friends set up as basically a front so for them to have women they could try and exploit sexually and romantically.

 

[TheRejectionist]

What's interesting is apparently Sound of Freedom is making morr money this week day by day then last week. And it's being shown on more theater screens as well.

Sound of Freedom

www.boxofficemojo.com

True. I do tend to think of Franco's allegations just being general level allegations of degeneracy until I heard about the acting school he and his friends set up as basically a front so for them to have women they could try and exploit sexually and romantically.

I do not know the extent of what happened in that... "school"... but if he had to settle means there was , hypothetically, some grounds to the accusations.

 

[TheRejectionist]

 

[Husky_Khan]

Apparently Tim Ballard was on the Timcast podcast recently. This minute long clip has him talking about how the media environment has changed so much in just eight years in the realm of child trafficking and why media agencies don't want to confront how the policies they support are aiding in child trafficking.

 

[TheRejectionist]

Apparently Tim Ballard was on the Timcast podcast recently. This minute long clip has him talking about how the media environment has changed so much in just eight years in the realm of child trafficking and why media agencies don't want to confront how the policies they support are aiding in child trafficking.

Brand gave his take.

 

[TheRejectionist]

 

[Husky_Khan]

Bloomberg Entertainment Report Noah Berlatsky was one of the haters of The Sound of Freedom.

What he says aboot the movie:

Berltasky wrote, "So, is Sound of Freedom a QAnon dog whistle, or is it just another thriller? The answer is that — whatever the filmmaker's intentions — it functions as both. These narratives do little to help victims. But they can create coalitions of feeling, disgust and righteous rage that connect conservative conspiracy theorists with the mainstream. That's why Trump's screening it. And that's why its popularity is ominous."

But apparently he has an unmentioned relation to the topic that this movie covers.

Bloomberg Writer Noah Berlatsky Who Attacked 'Sound Of Freedom' Gets Exposed As Pro-Pedophilia Activist

Bloomberg writer Noah Berlatsky, who recently penned an article attacking Sound of Freedom and moviegoers attending the film, was quickly exposed as a pro-pedophilia activist.

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I actually recognized the name Noah Berlatsky because in the leadup to the release of the first Dune movie he was ignorantly calling Frank Herbert's book a 'Mighty Whitey/White Savior' Narrative and of course later panned the movie.

Spoiler: Dune Stuff

 

[Blasterbot]

Ah yes... because if the child prostitute is homeless it's OK. Jesus Christ these people make me want to advocate the death penalty.

 

[Doomsought]

Ah yes... because if the child prostitute is homeless it's OK. Jesus Christ these people make me want to advocate the death penalty.

Its nothing new either, the "Vagina monologues" included a homeless woman violating an underage girl.

 

[Skallagrim]

I surmise that this world suffers from a dire shortage of gallows.

Maybe one day, our grand-children will have the joy of watching a based-on-the-true-story film about the mass executions of all these degenerates. The Sound of Justice, perhaps?

 

[Lord Sovereign]

Apparently Tim Ballard was on the Timcast podcast recently. This minute long clip has him talking about how the media environment has changed so much in just eight years in the realm of child trafficking and why media agencies don't want to confront how the policies they support are aiding in child trafficking.

God help us, it has all gotten so far out of control.

 

[Husky_Khan]

I surmise that this world suffers from a dire shortage of gallows.

Maybe one day, our grand-children will have the joy of watching a based-on-the-true-story film about the mass executions of all these degenerates. The Sound of Justice, perhaps?

Exile them to the Falklands, Brave New (Old) World style.

 

[Zyobot]

I surmise that this world suffers from a dire shortage of gallows.

Maybe one day, our grand-children will have the joy of watching a based-on-the-true-story film about the mass executions of all these degenerates. The Sound of Justice, perhaps?

Even then, I'm guessing the current generation will still experience a "Years of Lead" phase in which accused degenerates are subject to all sorts of assassinations, kidnappings, and criminal intimidation by their radicalized enemies.

The rotting edifice may not come crashing down tomorrow, but that doesn't mean the people in charge (and their accomplices) won't have to worry about vigilante justice and increasingly brutal retaliation in the decades to come. Maybe that'll be the culture our children and grandchildren grow up in, before it's their turn to overthrow the system for real.