Helen Mirren’s film “Winchester” highlights the “rapid firing” allowed by repeating rifles and questions the morality of profiting from firearm manufacturers.
Mirren plays Sarah Winchester, the wife of the creator of the famous Winchester repeating rifle.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the film adheres to lore about Sarah, depicting her in a state of gnawing concern over the paranormal presence of individuals killed with the rifles her late husband created.
Viewers see her “[ordering] constant construction on [the Winchester] home to try to confuse the ghosts she believed were haunting her.”
“[Sarah] was trying to placate the ghosts of the people who’d been killed by the Winchester rifle. She felt their deaths very strongly. She felt responsible. She felt the weight of their deaths upon them. And she was trying, in her own way, to placate their spirits,” Mirren said.
Helen Mirren and Jason Clarke in Winchester ( Blacklab Entertainment, 2018)
Mirren stressed that the film is not an attack on private gun ownership, but said it does raise questions about the morality of profiting from companies that manufacture guns that are privately owned.
“The issue is more putting the question mark or the weight of moral decision upon the people who make a fortune from making arms — whether they’re guns, bombs, grenades … or whatever it is,” She said. “It puts a moral decision upon the people who make huge fortunes from making and then I would say the armaments dealers in the world I would like to see it… I see it personally in a much more global way.”
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“…Mirren stressed that the film is not an attack on private gun ownership,…”
An attack on private gun ownership is EXACTLY what it is, in the typical underhanded, Jewish fashion.
When will Hollywood make a movie detailing the lives saved, and tyranny prevented by Winchester? Don’t hold your breath for it.
In case anyone’s interested, here’s the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Juc2cL26mg
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So true, Jolly, and we know who Mirren is and where her loyalties lie (or lay – I’ll never get that right).
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LIE works fine if you ask me , especially when it comes to this
“morality of profiting from companies that manufacture guns that are privately owned.”
oh but its ok if the companies are not privately owned? .. where is the thinking on this
So true, and I did notice that play on words.
On a side note… I have been to the great haunted and unfinished mansion, where stairways lead to nowhere or to open windows. Creepily beautiful. I must one day return.
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Wait…….isnt this the same actress who uses machine guns and sniper rifles in the Red series of movies with Bruce Willis…..she made money from the use of guns……hypocrisy at its finest
Stupid old English trollop.
Thats what i was thinking.
Maybe she will retjrn that money with interest…..
Holding my breath
Just snatch me a case of the new AK 12’s and be quick about it. And throw in a pallet of ammo while your at it.
Charge it to Putin……
‘Helen Mirren: ‘Winchester’ Film Questions the Morality of Profiting from Manufacturing Guns’ …….. HEY!!!! FIRST QUESTION THE MORALITY OF PROFITING FROM ORGAN HARVESTING!!!! GUNS SHOULD BE WAAAY DOWN ON YOUR ‘MORALITY’ LIST !!!!!!!!!
“The issue is more putting the question mark or the weight of moral decision upon the people who make a fortune from making arms…”
YOU MEAN LIKE THE SO-CALLED ‘GOVERNMENT’, B#TCH???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????