Stranger Issues’ star Matthew Modine has in contrast Donald Trump with Hitler.
It comes after the previous president used footage from Full Steel Jacket, which Modine starred in, for a current marketing campaign advert he shared on X touting the US army with the caption: “We won’t have a woke army!”
This advert is contrasted with clips, apparently taken from TikTok, of recent army service-members dancing in drag.
“Within the Thirties, Leni Riefenstahl directed the Nazi propaganda movies ‘Triumph Of The Will’ and ‘Olympia,’” Modine informed Leisure Weekly in an emailed assertion about Trump’s advert.
WE WILL NOT HAVE A WOKE MILITARY! pic.twitter.com/zpWZhSKcEs
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 13, 2024
“These two movies are thought-about among the many best propaganda ever made. Riefenstahl denied any data of the Holocaust, repeatedly invoking the ‘how may we now have recognized?’ defence. Paradoxically, Trump has twisted and profoundly distorted [Stanley] Kubrick’s highly effective anti-war movie right into a perverse, homophobic, and manipulative software of propaganda.”
He continued: “Shortly earlier than Riefenstahl died, she acknowledged her connection to Adolf Hitler in a BBC interview. ‘I used to be one in every of tens of millions who thought Hitler had all of the solutions. We noticed solely the great issues; we didn’t know dangerous issues have been to come back.’”
“It’s no exaggeration to see Trump’s reflection within the horrible determine Hitler was. Please hearken to Riefenstahl’s last warning: ‘…we didn’t know the way dangerous issues have been to grow to be.’ Trump has proven us who he’s and made no secret of what he intends to do.”
Launched in 1987 and tailored from the e-book The Quick-Timers by Gustav Hasford, Full Steel Jacket dramatises the horrors of the American army throughout the Vietnam Warfare.
It begins at boot camp, the place the strict drill teacher Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermey) relentlessly bullies new recruits into conformity and obedience.
A publicist for Vincent D’Onofrio, who additionally stars within the movie as Pvt. Leonard “Gomer Pyle” Lawrence, a important goal of Hartman’s bullying, additionally informed EW that “he didn’t present any consent for this utilization by the Trump Marketing campaign.”
However Vivian Kubrick, daughter of Full Steel Jacket director Stanley Kubrick claimed that her father would have supported Trump’s use of the movie’s footage.
“I really feel very assured he can be a Trump supporter and would forgive utilizing FMJ incongruously, if it helps the reason for freedom!” she wrote on X.
Donald Trump is but to reply publicly to Modine’s feedback.
Elsewhere, Rufus Wainwright has spoken out in opposition to Trump utilizing his cowl of Leonard Cohen‘s ‘Hallelujah’ at a marketing campaign rally, labelling it “the peak of blasphemy”.