'Hillbilly Elegy' director: 'There's no version of me voting for Donald Trump'
Source: The Hill
09/07/24 5:48 PM ET
The director of the 2020 movie based on Ohio Sen. JD Vances (R) book, Hillbilly Elegy, said that he wont be casting a vote for former President Trump despite Vance being his VP in a video posted Saturday.
Theres no version of me voting for Donald Trump to be president again, whoever the Vice President was, Ron Howard said in a video from Variety.
Howard had previously said in 2022 that he was surprised by some of the positions [Vance has] taken and statements hes made.
I always knew he was conservative, but [he] struck me as a very center-right, a kind of a moderate thinker, Howard told The Hollywood Reporter at the time.
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FarPoint
(13,292 posts)I sure do appreciate him expressing his opinion now. I don't recall him ever speaking up when Vance ran for Senate in Ohio.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,590 posts)As he said, the JD he knew was conservative, but not particularly radical. . Lots of people from Appalachia are conservative.
FarPoint
(13,292 posts)My reference was that of the movie, Hilly Elgin??? Made in Middletown Ohio by Ron Howard...
Ron Howard never spoke up when Vance ran for the Senate and won here in Ohio....so we Democrats suffer...
I unfortunately live 30 miles from Middletown...
I believe Ron Howard speaking out 2 years ago could of helped...maybe not as MAGA's proliferate in Ohio rural area's. I was actually waiting for him to speak up then....no such luck.
onetexan
(13,579 posts)Was that power corrupts, & absolute power corrupts absolutely. When this moron vapid vance got elected to the senate, his greed for power grew, to the point he was willing to sell his soul to the devil.
Marcuse
(7,867 posts)jaxexpat
(7,423 posts)TNNurse
(7,055 posts)involved in that movie to speak out and maybe apologize.
AZLD4Candidate
(6,118 posts)You could have declined directing and let some right wing turd direct it. Clint Eastwood comes to mind. But when money and paycheck is involved, Hollywood loses his social conscience.
JLo performed a private set to Putin. Beyonce did it for Qaddafi.
FakeNoose
(34,738 posts)When "Hillbilly Elegy" was written, Vance most likely had no clue that he would later become a US Senator, or ever run for VP. I haven't read his book but I understand that some - or much - of the sentiment towards his family was faked in order to plump up the story and make it a bestseller.
It's doubtful that Vance's family is even speaking to him any more. Ron Howard probably got the same fake attitudes from Vance that his own family got.
It's not Ron Howard's fault that JD Vance is a complete asswipe, and now the whole world knows it.
Escurumbele
(3,543 posts)before and during the movie is NOT the the same guy he is today.
I read the book and saw the movie, Vance is a different person that he was then, or that he pretended to be. Unless you know Ron Howard "sold his soul", which he doesn't have to, he doesn't need the money, instead of a director who believed in the book and the person who Vance seemed to be at the time, and not a con man as he seems to be now, then tell us how you arrived at that conclusion please, its good to know.
AZLD4Candidate
(6,118 posts)Those who hold onto their conviction tend to go nowhere in it. I lost a chance for a big producer and director to make my award winning Camp Grant Massacre biopic because they both wanted me to re-write the ending to make it a happy ending. They were offering 2% of the budget for the upfront fee and 5% of the profits on the backend. I walked out because I would not disrespect native Americans by rewriting history to make rich white people wealthier.
Same with my Rape of Nanking biopic. My agent got a Japanese film company to finance. After I refused, they offered me, on the final offer, $750,000 and 10% of the profits to make it, so long as I allowed them to make edits to make it more "marketable," meaning they wanted to whitewash their responsibility in it and the history of it. I refused and didn't sign the deal.
I know plenty of people with my same history. Convictions get sacrificed, no matter how "important" or "wealthy" you are. The powers behind the scenes will get what they want or you, stupid artist/actor/writer/singer/dancer/model, will be passed over, no matter WHO you are.
jvill
(315 posts)Expecting people from a movie to apologize for making it has got to be one of the whiniest things ever posted on this site, and thats saying a lot.
Its chronic victimization like this, almost utterly devoid of agency, that makes being a democrat a backup default option, rather thsn something to which people aspire.
FakeNoose
(34,738 posts)... regardless of what movies he has directed. Regardless of whom he has met in Hollywood. Ron Howard is a liberal and a Democrat through and through. It's probably one of the reasons his movies are so wonderful.
andym
(5,560 posts)--------
Keep in mind that not everything a filmmaker does has to be have a political angle. The Hillbilly Ellegy film wasn't made as a political act.
ificandream
(10,186 posts)I hope he does something like that this year.
IronLionZion
(46,683 posts)he's just pandering to Trump and MAGA voters while not actually believing in anything. He says outrageous things to get publicity and then pretend to be a victim of the liberal media.