Silly Robert Duvall hates Canada, but can't stay away............

[Darth_Kitten]

http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=2644099b-d60b-415f-8912-ea3287ae8157

The old right wing jerk keeps coming back to Canada to work, yet doesn't seem to like us. :think: Uh, is something wrong with this picture? :evilgrin:

Jamie Portman
CanWest News Service

BEVERLY HILLS, California - Hollywood veteran Robert Duvall hasn't changed his opinion of Canadian actors. He still figures the good ones are in short supply.

He also says there's a lot of hostility in Canada toward Americans.

[sujan]

1. I knew

that the old fart was no good.

[Deja Q]

2. Sounds like a typical repuke

Hates something because they're different but will exploit them for personal gain anyway. :puke:

Damn right something's wrong with the picture, the guy has sickening double standards to the point of hypocrisy.

And, gee, I wonder why Canadians hate Americans... :eyes: How much more obvious can it get?!?!?!

[caribmon]

3. I am sorry but...

So Duvall is worried about 'security' in Canada because he can't pack a gun?

Generally guns are, and should be, used for killing wildlife like deer, moose and elk in a sustainable fashion to fill up the freezer for the winter. Not for trophies, nor for shooting people who are in your front yard.

At least that's what guns are for in Canada. Some DU'ers may not agree with me on that, but that is a reality for a lot of my family who live in central BC. There are no horns on the wall, its food. Simple enough... and apologies to the vegetarians.

We have 30 million people in a country larger than the US and can live very comfortably in a sustainable environment… If we can keep the multinationals from raping our resources that is.

For the rest of it, we don't have an hysterical NRA lobbyist segment in Ottawa, nor do we have an enormous weapons industry that is crucial to our economy. So why should we create fear to fuel an industry?

If Duval doesn't like it he can leave, it's simple. We aren't going to change our lifestyle and culture for an actor. We have decriminalized pot, made gay marriages legal, and spend less on our military and more on healthcare than you do... so shoot us, take us over, bitch about our 'lack of security', buff up your guns and go home to Texas or wherever if you don't like it. Simple... it's like changing the channel.

Click.

We have already taken Hollywood by storm because of our highly talented film industry (much thanks to the government funded National Film Board of Canada which has consistently given more projects to visual artists than any country on earth on a percentile level).

I say that with tongue in cheek, because what righties have been screaming about in Canada for years (the NFB) has now turned out to be one of the largest industries in Canada, our film industry, which has decisively taken huge market share from the south for many good reasons. Including talented cheap labour, less stringent legal loopholes on shoots, a broad talent pool of actors and comedians and more.

And if Duvall thinks we can't act, he should look at how many Canadian actors are already intrenched in Hollywood... in fact many of them don't even do movies in Canada anymore...

Start here?

Successful Canadians in Hollywood... Here's a very few of hundreds to start...

Denys Arcand
Dan Aykroyd
Raymond Burr
John Candy
Jim Carrey
David Cronenberg
Hume Cronyn
Atom Egoyan
Glenn Ford
Eugene Levy
Beatrice Lillie
Donal Logue
Mike Myers
Leslie Nielsen
Catherine O'Hara
Oscar Peterson
Mary Pickford
Walter Pidgeon
Gordon Pinsent
Christopher Plummer
Keanu Reeves
William Shatner
David Steinberg
Dorothy Stratten
Donald Sutherland
Kiefer Sutherland
Dave Thomas

Duvall can join the Ted Nugent School of Knocks as far as I am concerned. I totally lost all respect for him at this point. And for that Texan Freeper-cum-democrat or reversed; who actually has the audacity to post shit like this.

[Deja Q]

4. I envy you, your society

Keep on the lookout for NAFTA; in the event of an oil shortage the US can still usurp your country's reserves. (And we all know who to thank for signing that monstrosity into law...)

I actually pity the US though I'm embarrassed and ashamed to be a citizen. I feel its day is coming - which is inevitable once the oil runs out, but I think another element will ruin it for good. And that element is George W Bush. The next time a Dem gets electd, it'll be a miracle if he/she can turn things around and progess our country to even 1/100th the level of integrity of yours.