Btw, I wonder if Georgians have figured out how little money actually comes into their state with the filming of these movies in their state given that they gave the studios a tax exemption to do so?
Michigan did a similar thing a few years back until we saw that the Hollywoodies brought their own people in and hired only a very small number of menial job temporary employees. They also obstructed traffic and commerce by shutting down city blocks for shoots which cost the state many millions in lost revenue.
The tax rebates were ended by the governor, the business immediately went elsewhere (Georgia), and the revenue loss ended.
The actors disparage their fly over sites for which they’d have disdain, and the only reason that they are there at all is because of the ridiculous taxes imposed by their own state’s liberal tax policies which has caused the hypocrites to move elsewhere in order to avoid paying the taxes that they expect others to pay.
John Wayne, Charleton Heston both gone. Clint Eastwood is the last real man standing in Hollywood.
The story of Richard Jewell took place in Atlanta, and screw the radicals who say that it shouldn’t be filmed there.
Link: https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/clint-eastwood-film-new-movie-georgia-despite-hollywood-boycott-over
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He was this big war hawk and tough guy yet he dodged the draft with the help of the studio. John Ford, who served, would cut him down for that hypocrisy. The story goes that Ford and Lee Marvin reduced Wayne to tears on the set of "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" by giving him such a hard time about avoiding service. Marvin is buried in Arlington and won a Purple Heart, the Presidential Unit Citation and a couple others as a Marine in the South Pacific. Wayne is a tough guy to guys who don't know much about these actors beyond their screen images. Marvin was the authentic tough guy/bad^ss. Keep in mind that guys like Jimmy Stewart and Clark Gable, among others, also served, so it's not like it was some unheard of thing for prominent actors to serve during WWII. Stewart was a very good pilot and went out of his way to ask to be sent into combat for the Army Air Forces, flying several missions. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He was on active duty into the late 1960s.
Wayne was also another one of these moralizers who was a serial cheater on his wife, just like Ronnie. That isn't much of a man.
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