Bret Easton Ellis: Hollywood’s wokeness is 'reverse racism'

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  • @SubZero-hs9xc
    @SubZero-hs9xc Рік тому +16

    I love Easton Ellis, great writer

  • @rigsby1454
    @rigsby1454 Рік тому +27

    Bret always challenges. People who call him right wing don't really listen to what he says. You don't have to like what he says

    • @Withnail1969
      @Withnail1969 Рік тому +4

      One of the most interesting Americans. Culturally significant.

    • @susannadvortsin
      @susannadvortsin Рік тому +7

      He speaks the truth and that's why people don't like him. They are afraid of their own lies being exposed.

  • @theweedusama
    @theweedusama Рік тому +13

    Less than Zero was awesome and so was the movie. Its one of my favorite 80s movies.

  • @angelagilmartin2109
    @angelagilmartin2109 Рік тому +6

    Thanks for such a great interview. I lived through the 80s and miss the freedom of it thoroughly

  • @bileductable
    @bileductable Рік тому +26

    Got to give credit where it's due, this is a good interview and Bret doing media again is a blessing

  • @nfbconnect
    @nfbconnect Рік тому +21

    He isn’t wrong. We all have been subjugated so no one should be getting privileges

  • @Withnail1969
    @Withnail1969 Рік тому +5

    Can't wait to read this, love Brett Easton Ellis.

  • @paulvalentine1483
    @paulvalentine1483 Рік тому +8

    Ellis is brilliant.

  • @chsfive
    @chsfive Рік тому +15

    Bret didn't leave the Left, the Left left him. Great interview.

  • @juan_gm
    @juan_gm 10 місяців тому +5

    What a brave guy. Not easy to denounce all the wokeness madness.

  • @martinrossel6933
    @martinrossel6933 Рік тому +21

    Great interview and brilliant novel. A film adaptation; screenplay by Tarantino and direction by David Lynch.

    • @EastSide-qc5oy
      @EastSide-qc5oy Рік тому

      I doubt either one of them would be interested. Ellis isn’t exactly someone that anyone is rushing to work with or adapt his work. He’s mostly just coasting on his early success.

  • @Furcatt
    @Furcatt Рік тому +3

    The amount of research BEE does is astronomical

  • @matthewwestervelt9168
    @matthewwestervelt9168 Рік тому +13

    Bret seems really keyed up in this interview.

    • @InsidiousJazz
      @InsidiousJazz Рік тому

      If I were a lesser man, I'd say that he's probably on something.

    • @logicbeagle
      @logicbeagle Рік тому +1

      That’s what I thought. Never seen him this way before. Is he back on the Pepsi?

    • @InsidiousJazz
      @InsidiousJazz Рік тому +2

      @@logicbeagle That's probably how he finally finished another book. Pepsi really works wonders, just ask Stephen King.

    • @Unfunny_Username_389
      @Unfunny_Username_389 10 днів тому

      @@InsidiousJazz If that's wonders, I can only imagine what the blunders look like.

  • @jnrpoet
    @jnrpoet Рік тому +2

    Best of the current interviews!

  • @bingbong3643
    @bingbong3643 Рік тому +5

    Based and Ellis pilled

  • @SweatDrenchedProductions
    @SweatDrenchedProductions Рік тому +4

    My hero.

  • @DonatienAlphonse
    @DonatienAlphonse Рік тому

    Maybe publishers no longer offer you advances because they doubt your ability to repay them.

  • @Lortanflout
    @Lortanflout 2 місяці тому

    There a few artists I would want to spend time with more than Bret.

  • @jbnycyoutub
    @jbnycyoutub Рік тому +3

    Excellent

  • @kadeshow
    @kadeshow Рік тому +5

    BEE is the only person I can disagree with politically and still respect as an artist. I am a big fan and think he is a fantastic writer.

  • @DianeWolff-w3w
    @DianeWolff-w3w 7 місяців тому

    The Mahabjarata, produced by Peter Brooks. Art and theater as universal. The Silk Roads, influences and ideas travelling back and forth and mingling. Artistic models of freedom and mobility

  • @DonatienAlphonse
    @DonatienAlphonse Рік тому

    Actually, advances do payout for authors who can still sell.

  • @Phil_Official
    @Phil_Official Рік тому

    Whenever he snickers you instantly know what he is about to say, hehe

  • @duanestreetpark
    @duanestreetpark Рік тому +1

    'I don't care.' It's an artistic manifesto. Great BEE.

  • @1984craine
    @1984craine Рік тому +1

    What's the name of the interviewer?

    • @Sdea1903
      @Sdea1903 Рік тому +2

      I’m not sure mate as its been a long time since I have been in the United Kingdom but by the sound of her voice and wonderful nature I think its the incomparable Mariella Frostrup.

    • @mrridikilis
      @mrridikilis Рік тому +1

      @@Sdea1903 I haven't seen her since she guest-starred on one of my favorite short-lived British comedies "Coupling" almost 20 years ago

  • @Edward-zw9ld
    @Edward-zw9ld 7 місяців тому

    the 80s was the Reagan Era

  • @Furcatt
    @Furcatt 4 місяці тому

    Crazy rude taking that call 27:41

  • @legendre007
    @legendre007 Рік тому +9

    Oh, my! Bret Easton Ellis is going to get canceled for this. 😮

    • @s.fleming2441
      @s.fleming2441 Рік тому +3

      😅is that the title of his Biography?

    • @mogznwaz
      @mogznwaz Рік тому +3

      He can be cancelled if we allow him to be

  • @DonatienAlphonse
    @DonatienAlphonse Рік тому +1

    You have NOT been canceled. You still have a VOICE.

  • @BZandpower
    @BZandpower Рік тому +2

    28:00 HOW RUDE! He takes a phone a call?!?! 😅

  • @julianshepherd2038
    @julianshepherd2038 Рік тому +12

    Woke is aware of social and political issues, especially racism.
    It's an American term used in the UK by right wingers but not by those they condemn as woke.
    This is not America.

    • @alexv1190
      @alexv1190 Рік тому +7

      it's a dumb word they use to talk bad about anything good.

    • @marvinkunz843
      @marvinkunz843 Рік тому +3

      I'd consider 'woke' to not only be the act of becoming aware of social and political issues, but to also act upon this awareness.
      With that, it enters the political space as it isn't necessarily agnostic in how to address these issues.
      Would you disagree with that?

    • @StratsRUs
      @StratsRUs Рік тому

      " Americans make terrible Historians" - John Irving

    • @tonupharry
      @tonupharry Рік тому +1

      This must be a story Murdoch wants to push on his agenda to turn the world fascist and make him world king .🤔

    • @theprotagonist8755
      @theprotagonist8755 Рік тому +5

      @@alexv1190 woke = anything good. Yeah ok softee the grey man

  • @kamandi1362
    @kamandi1362 Рік тому +7

    Call it what it is: antiwhite.

    • @KalelKing-xn2uz
      @KalelKing-xn2uz 7 місяців тому

      America has been anti-black since its 1600s. Now you are mad the offspring is flipping back on its creator

  • @Lowity
    @Lowity Рік тому +1

    Based

  • @bcfortenberry
    @bcfortenberry Рік тому +21

    The phrase “reverse racism” implies that racism is acceptable flowing in one direction and anything contrary to that is completely unacceptable.
    They’re telling on themselves. They always do.
    Let me get out a tiny violin and play a tune for poor, put-upon Bret Easton Ellis. He’s been through so much.

    • @tonupharry
      @tonupharry Рік тому +2

      Im sick of Ham complaining
      their life style isnt privileged enough others are finding their way in .

    • @frakismaximus3052
      @frakismaximus3052 Рік тому +1

      Cute, but the left has been pushing the idea that only white people can be racist for at least 30 years. Thus, in light of that cultural nugget, "reverse racism" becomes a somewhat useful term, sadly.

    • @s.fleming2441
      @s.fleming2441 Рік тому +8

      Actually reverse racism as he put it and is understood to be reverse racism is well intentioned actions that still reveal a kind of prejudice. Its said this way because racism is overtly negative normally. . These are not identical and reverse racism isn't racism flowing in an unusual direction. That probably just what was fed to you, part of the infantilization he was mentioning. So then you may put your own violins away now.

    • @s.fleming2441
      @s.fleming2441 Рік тому

      @@DavidByrden1 he is projecting hard XD.

    • @mogznwaz
      @mogznwaz Рік тому +13

      There is no such thing as reverse racism, just racism, and no particular race owns it. In fact I am sick of racism being the original sin - it’s tribalism and tribalism is not just about race, it’s the mindset that puts religion against religion, political view against political view, football team against football team.

  • @Leon-hv4tf
    @Leon-hv4tf Рік тому

    Shiny flapping rain coats

  • @spaghettihorse1
    @spaghettihorse1 Рік тому +1

    Abuse of his superpowers..well..

  • @BryantPP
    @BryantPP Рік тому

    As a Pierce, of Pierce&Pierce, I'm disappointed hearing this from Bret... Honey, when did you become THAT guy? Don't you remember Union Square? You just had Lunar Park published...Or no...

  • @DonatienAlphonse
    @DonatienAlphonse Рік тому +1

    Writing isn't intellectual? Well, yours isn't. That's true.

  • @DonatienAlphonse
    @DonatienAlphonse Рік тому

    You've hurt abd betrayed a LOT of people: friends, family, the fans your grifter boyfriend steals from, the victims your vexatious litigant boyfriend sues, and CALIFORNIA TAXPAYERS.

  • @DonatienAlphonse
    @DonatienAlphonse Рік тому +1

    Lunacy of the Left. Hmm ... it's the RIGHT picking fights with Mickey Mouse, M&Ms, Mr. Potato Head, Barbie, and "Woke" beer.

  • @DonatienAlphonse
    @DonatienAlphonse Рік тому

    You should have dedicated the book to the people you've lied about and those who've saved your, now, disgraceful career.

  • @DonatienAlphonse
    @DonatienAlphonse Рік тому

    You were not part of the "popular kids". Noo rich kids snorting blow and driving BMWs are NOT "the world". That's YOUR BUBBLE.

  • @DonatienAlphonse
    @DonatienAlphonse Рік тому

    "The Informers" lost $20 million and bankrupted a distribution company. 👏 👏 👏

  • @DonatienAlphonse
    @DonatienAlphonse Рік тому

    No, Sweetie: if it's FICTIONALIZED, it did NOT actually happen.

  • @DonatienAlphonse
    @DonatienAlphonse Рік тому

    You DO pretend to be something you're not.

  • @DonatienAlphonse
    @DonatienAlphonse Рік тому

    His movies have all FAILED.

  • @Leon-hv4tf
    @Leon-hv4tf Рік тому +1

    Gunthers twisted brain

  • @Leon-hv4tf
    @Leon-hv4tf Рік тому

    Which meant they were some one lol

  • @DonatienAlphonse
    @DonatienAlphonse Рік тому

    He is STILL a LIAR.

  • @Leon-hv4tf
    @Leon-hv4tf Рік тому

    Pat average

  • @DonatienAlphonse
    @DonatienAlphonse Рік тому

    Lying is his super power?

  • @jeffree9015
    @jeffree9015 Рік тому +3

    What a wolly.

  • @DonatienAlphonse
    @DonatienAlphonse Рік тому

    It couldn't be that your no longer popular because you haven't wriiten anything good in almost 20 years?

  • @FatalDawn1
    @FatalDawn1 Рік тому

    Yes interesting very nice Bret lol uuuf

  • @BZandpower
    @BZandpower Рік тому +3

    SAD to see one of my favorite writers become a RIGHT WINGER

    • @rigsby1454
      @rigsby1454 Рік тому +15

      He's far from right wing

    • @Sdea1903
      @Sdea1903 Рік тому +20

      Anything that doesn’t adhere to your ideological bent is right wing aye?

    • @robertbeckerbecker1354
      @robertbeckerbecker1354 Рік тому +3

      Hexs not right wing.

  • @minkleymcmoo5248
    @minkleymcmoo5248 Рік тому +1

    I think racism depends on the intention. Disrupting mono racial groups is not 'racism'.