Harvey Weinstein on Violence in Films - Producing Anti-Gun Film with Meryl Streep - Battles with the NRA

A new side of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein is emerging. Weinstein, age 61, is an impressive man of integrity who is fearlessly taking on new perspectives to heart. He is an enlightened man still evolving at a time in his life where the Karmic middle class see this as a sunset into rocking chairs sitting on their laurels. But Weinstein sets himself apart from the showbiz bourgeois and is reinventing himself. Hello Sunshine! Weinstein has produced some of the the most violent films to come out of Hollywood including  Pulp Fiction and Django Unchained is now taking a solid stance against gun violence and  the most powerful lobby group in the United States- The National Rifle Asociation of America. The NRA's main ambition is to protect and uphold The Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States - the Right to Bear Arms.

Accused of hypocrisy Weinstein states that "I must look in the mirror too....the chain stops here... I can't make one movie and say this is what I want for my kids and go out and be a hypocrite."  

Weinstein's news coincides with the announcement that Weinstein and Meryl Streep are producing an epic film something like "Mr.Smith Goes to Washington" which Weinstein states will be the strongest film against gun violence ever made and that the NRA are "...going to wish they weren't alive after I'm done with them."

Weinstein is putting himself out there fearless against criticsm and accusations of posturing and insincerity. 

The topic came up when Stern asked about his plans to direct a film based on a book about the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto during the Holocaust, but used it as a basis to explain his feelings on guns. 'It's not a Holocaust story as much as it is Jews with guns. It's my whole philosophy. It's the idea that when injustice is that great you can't just march into the camps,' he said.

'I never want to have a gun... This is when you're marching a half a million people into Auschwitz. I'd find a gun if that was happening to my people.'

Bless your heart Harvey.

Having spent some time in Cannes in 2013 at a select Press Conference I have a new video coming up with Weinstein and Tim Burton. Please stay tuned to filmfestivals.com and this blog. 

Meryl Streep and Harvey Weinstein