Rethinking Heroes #40: A revealing Conversation with Director Renny Harlin who followed his boyhood dream in Finland and became a Hollywood blockbuster Director. Plus SF’s ironic MAGA-supported Transgender Congressional Candidate Bianca Von Krieg, helping the GOP take down Nancy Pelosi.
Cary Harrison left no stone unturned with Hollywood director Renny Harlin and MAGA transgender Congressional candidate Bianca Von Krieg. The conversation revolved around transformative storytelling and breaking into Hollywood. Then, we talk with a MAGA Quisling candidate for Congress, an unlikely political pawn promoted on the alt-right news channels and willing to bring down her own party in order to replace Nancy Pelosi.
## The Art of Telling Statement-forming Stories
Director Renny Harlin started the show with a vivid portrayal of what his new film 'The Bricklayer' brings to the table. The narrative, which revolves around a CIA operative who comes out of retirement to clear the agency's name, brings a refreshing yet gritty perspective on global politics and heroism.
More deeply, Harlin emphasized that he believes in 'real' action cinema, where the audience can feel the authentic impact of each scene. From an early age in Finland, he knew he wanted to tell big stories and kept showing up in Hollywood until he got his chance. Resilience and passion actually matter. He clarified how he involves an extreme commitment from his actors, getting them embroiled in hard-hitting sequences that convey real struggles and emotions to the audience.
Harlin postulated that he could always lead the audience on an enticing journey through profound storytelling. His passion for creating engaging narratives resonated profoundly with his distinguished career success, with films that had grossed over 1.2 billion worldwide.
## The Politics of Heraclitus: From Transgender Advocacy to Seemingly Progressive Congressional Candidateship
The conversation then pivoted to touch on the political canvas with the MAGA-popular transgender Congressional candidate, Bianca Von Krieg. She put forth her views and plans on defunding the police, taxing the rich, implementing Medicare for all, and the Green New Deal.
While her general platform would be mainstream in developed European countries, MAGA and the GOP detest these policies. They detest transgender people even more. But when a transgender person wants to take down one of the most powerful members of her own Democratic Party, the GOP can only hope to gallop this Trojan horse to victory.
## Keeping the message despite the messenger?
Krieg calls for long-term investment in solving poverty and socioeconomic disparities. She advocates for a shift in caretaking responsibility from employers to society, funded by taxing affluent individuals. Underlining the inequality in wealth, she called for a much-needed reform in the tax structure to emphasize progressive taxes. Krieg believes such economic relief could rightly serve all socio-economic strata.
Despite being a vocal critic of “grooming” in schools (which Cary challenged as being an invented, nonexistent controversy), Krieg batted for an objective and circumspect perspective on the issue. The many paradoxes of Bianca Von Krieg are evident, particularly when this T of LGBT is pushing the bilious campaign slogans of such luminaries as former presidential candidate, Ronald Dion DeSantis. While giving a nod to these fabricated fear-making controversies, she simultaneously calls out the politics of fear, stressing the imperative of providing solutions over cultivating hatred and fear. So why support the interests of MAGA?
She signaled the significance of maintaining an open dialogue with the opposition to keep her party truthful, using the 'enemy' to keep her party untainted. But history will always show that emboldening the enemy only clobbers the resistance. It's a convenient excuse for a moral compass spinning wherever Fortuna smiles.
Some might argue that her party is in desperate need of support as the juggernaut of authoritarianism, fascism, and privatization further crushes the constitution, aided and abetted by Scotus. In World War II, this would've been seen as the Vici or the Quisling. Here, it's entertaining TV. But, Bianca Von Krieg made her video appearance with her camera switched off, yet another paradox.
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