As I was writing this, Jodie Foster was being interviewed about her new movie where stops being a victim and stands up to her attackers. She never said anything really anti-gun. The film clip shown had her meakly going into a NCY gun shop and asking about buying a gun. The guy in the store ask for her license. She doesn't have one so he tells her she'll have to fill out the form and it will take about 30 days. "I might not survive thirty days." "There's nothing I can do for you". So then she walks out to the sidewalk where a man approaches her and tells her for $1000 he can help. She also mentioned in the interview that NYC has some of the toughest gun laws in the country, but she never says that's a good thing. She also says that carring a gun changes a person; I agree. I say it's a good thing, but Jodie never said good or bad. Maybe she's closet pro-gun and this is a subtle way to get the message across. I'd like to see the movie. My siter should see it because she lives in NYC.
First posted by Fossten in the General forums thread about The Brave One:
Jodie Foster: Cheering in Her Payback Movie 'Shameful' and No One Should Own Guns
By Lynn Davidson | September 3, 2007 - 07:19 ET
In an Entertainment Weekly interview, Jodie Foster explained her views on guns, “I don't believe that any gun should be in the hand of a thinking, feeling, breathing human being.”
She also said it is “shameful” that the “unsophisticated people who see a sophisticated movie” will cheer when she goes after the bad guys who kill her fiance in her new vigilante movie “The Brave One”
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: There's a rallying moment in The Brave One when you stick a gun in a bad guy's face and say, ''I want my dog back.'' How are you going to feel about the audience cheering on your character as she starts hunting people down?
JODIE FOSTER: It's shameful, but that's human and that's who we are as human beings. There will be unsophisticated people who see a sophisticated movie. Just like there were in The Accused. And thank God I only went to one screening of that movie with an audience.
She really equated the idiots cheering the rape in “The Accused” to the people who cheer a heroine getting revenge in a payback movie? Poor Jodie; all of those “unsophisticated people” sullying her movies. Maybe they should stay home until they learn to ignore those adrenaline-pumping, feel-good parts where the writer and director deliberately try to get the audience to react.
Foster, who was protected by bodyguards while would-be Ronald Reagan assassin John Hinckley harassed her and said in 2002 that she does not have security now, addressed the issue of guns:
EW: What do you think is the larger social commentary of The Brave One, which in some ways plays as a straight-up Dirty Harry revenge movie?
FOSTER:
Here's my commentary: I don't believe that any gun should be in the hand of a thinking, feeling, breathing human being. Americans are by nature filled with rage-slash-fear. And guns are a huge part of our culture. I know I'm crazy because I'm only supposed to say that in Europe. But violence corrupts absolutely.
Original Story here
I think its safe to say she is not a closet pro-gunner.