Boots Riley on His Anti-Capitalist Film “Sorry to Bother You,” the Power of Strikes & Class Struggle
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ก.ย. 2018
- democracynow.org - In a Labor Day special, we air an extended conversation with Boots Riley, writer and director of “Sorry to Bother You,” his new film about an evil telemarketing company, a corporation making millions off of slave labor, and one Oakland man at the center of it all who discovers a secret that threatens all of humankind. His dystopian social satire is being hailed as one of the best movies of the summer. Riley is a poet, rapper, songwriter, producer, screenwriter, humorist, political organizer, community activist, lecturer and public speaker-best known as the lead vocalist of The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club.
Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs weekdays on nearly 1,400 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9AM ET: democracynow.org
Please consider supporting independent media by making a donation to Democracy Now! today: democracynow.org/donate
FOLLOW DEMOCRACY NOW! ONLINE:
Facebook: / democracynow
Twitter: / democracynow
TH-cam: / democracynow
SoundCloud: / democracynow
Daily Email: democracynow.org/subscribe
Google+: plus.google.com/+DemocracyNow
Instagram: / democracynow
Tumblr: / democracynow
Pinterest: / democracynow
iTunes: itunes.apple.com/podcast/demo...
TuneIn: tunein.com/radio/Democracy-Now...
Stitcher Radio: www.stitcher.com/podcast/democ...
![[UNCUT]"เศรษฐา" โดนบีบให้ลาออก เผยดีลลับ "ทักษิณ" ต้องต่อโปร ไม่งั้นเจอจุดจบ! I คนดังนั่งเคลียร์](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/XlH3k81dxmE/mqdefault.jpg)
![ไม่ต้องมีที่ที่ให้ฉันอยู่ แต่ขอแค่มีฉันอยู่ก็พอ (Spaceless) - getsunova [SHORT FILM]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/MuT0d_cvJkc/mqdefault.jpg)
Boots is right; voting in progressives is not enough - organizing labor, engaging in massive civil disobedience, and coordinating direct action (strikes, boycotts, etc.) drive change.
I didn't know who this guy was. What a deep and thoughtful person. Thanks for the interview.
What Boots Riley is saying is very important.
Amy seems to be a little troubled or excited here.
Yeah that guy took them to school...
> So you're an anti-capitalist and...
> Communist. I'm a communist.
it's at 22:53 for anyone else who may be looking for this moment
@@Nein01 thankssss
Turns out that when we thought they were saying “macguffin” they were actually saying “mitigated growth”
Thank you demoncracy now for covering this movie and interviewing him
#LoveFromTheBX
this video is more importantly about praxis than the movie itself.
it's an okay movie with an incredibly funny, grotesque super bizarre plot twist (worth a watch for that alone). the discussion around the film is a million times more important.
Had no idea this movie was addressing these serious issues. Definitely making time to see it. I gave up Amazon a while ago bc of this.
I was a telemarketer for two very long weeks; felt like I was working for the Devil, had to quit...
This is ESSENTIAL viewing, thank you Democracy Now!
I can't wait to watch this!
I could and would happily listen to this interview for hours. Thank you! ✊👊
Thanks.
Great video Really interesting! People need to learn more about stuff like this, How to assert their rights. Thanks DN :D
I really wanna see this film but it's not available in my area :'(
Plan a trip
i love this man
I don’t get it. Do most of you people really think the wage system that we now have is not really and truly slavery? How about you, Amy and Jose?
i just revisited this segment. my takeaway = F U I'm a socialist. Thanks from Seattle, WA & Thanks Kshama Sawant.
Looks like a great flick Boots.. Can't wait to go see
Well there are'white' people who have to use the 'white voice' if they are from high unemployed areas and have 'bad lingo vocabulary and sometimes 'use another address so they will not be 'type cast'
I mean, that's what Riley said, isn't it?
Yes indeed, that is exactly what I thought. Just wanted clarification.
Pauline McCullen - Are you saying there is an equivalence between People that have been historically disenfranchised, and discriminated against performing to please those same people that have discriminated and disenfranchised them TO people who just want to be accepted as "MORE" White or "REGULAR" White people in order to get MORE privilage and MORE status than they already have???????? Are you equivocating the two?????
I seem to like this guy..
From his lips to the legislative lawyers ( pointy little) ears..
I will be going to see this movie when it comes to Ireland and I hope it will come to Ireland. I like the sound of it. What I am saying is: If a person is from a 'not so good area usually high unemployment area' that Person will have to use their 'White Voice too' and even sometimes use another address to get the job. That is regardless of skin colour. I am in fact agreeing with Riley. I like the guy too.
Thanks for the tip. Gotta great Tuesday night deal at the Grand Lakes theater in Oakland and was reminded why I quit cocaine in 1983 and ain't never going back to that crap after seeing that flick. The man should'a known better but money changes us all and usually it ain't good.
The Onion has gotten edgy in the last few years
They are really nailing it
I fucking love DemNow's choice of music.
I ain't Elmo, I'm Boots from the Coup!!
Teachers who ignored the law and shut down schools, yet still fed children who rely on those meals showed the lessons of power in unity and courage to any group of oppressed seeking a voice for change. Americans had best heed that lesson and change the course of our nation and planet, or all these distractions and actions are moot. As an ice free arctic emerges this summer or spring 2019 the latency heat calcs used to fry all that ice will scorch the northern hemisphere in a blink driven even harder by albedo loss, methane/gases, urban heat loss, solar, volcanic/geo heat emissions and humanity will likely go extinct in a blink before or not long after 2020.
Awesome movie, but this interview needs spoiler alerts. :(
Socialism is good
We need new creators. Re-releasing the woke version of earlier movies is a road to nowhere.
Oh no! This film won't get an international release. I live in the UK. :(
do not fret, the internet will provide...
@@paladro love ur comment.
Shame you couldn't get him in to do a fresh interview, as implied. Seen this one ages ago. It's great, but like I say......
BTW isn't Labor Day May the first???
This is the second time the "white voice" being brought up in films, recently.
Great guest, inciteful dialog but serious question for Amy and Juan, you guys patronize Amazon or how about uber? I sure hope the answer is no..
most excellent interview. I really appreciated learning about workers asserting their rites yet it is the CONsumer that needs to stop purchasing in extravagance. usa has 5% of the worlds population and uses 80% of the resources with 99% of the purchases disposed of within 6 months.
We were told to listen to the trumpet sound of revelation. Trump/Pence epitomizes the greed, pride, lust, envy, gluttony, anger and slow to change that divides humanity into those who embrace that and those who find it repugnant. It is our, each and every one of us responsibility to recognize that for every indulgence another is set back. Nestles and child slavery, dams for electricity stopping the arteries of nutrients and life to the sea destroying other creatures, as mentioned the Amazon worker wages, Uber is having issues paying a decent wage, school systems denied libraries and the kids having to wear prison orange as uniforms in high school while wealthy areas receive abundant entitlements, the diamond mine slavery, copper waste ponds in Montana as acidic as stomach acid, Ohio river has coal plants on average every 38 miles with the average discharge of 110• which will increase exponentially now that the ORSANCO overseeing committee dropped out of the game because Chinese manufacturers will be bringing in thousands of chemical induced jobs- employing people to poison the earth to perpetuate the need for more jobs....
Will humanity ever get tired of being enslaved to the corruption or will their pharma-coma send them into more artificial environments, with fake foods, replacing their bodies with fake parts to keep the economy strong? Will we ever awaken to the alien ideals we are living in? False power of the dollar bill is a principle that too many bit into and are now getting bit back as the 1% tighten their grasp. If as a group we boycott cash the 1% would be the poorest of all because they ain't got no soul!
You need the existing unions!
Watch another interview of him.... he might as well have a teleprompter or que cards he is reading from. what a shame, he was almost impressive.
Oh man I wish I could talk to Boots Riley in person, I know so much more about organizing! Ha ha. Give him some answers! I mean, read some Lenin dude!
Looks like a full grown Kat
#BRNWNR
lol all I have to say about Boots
Make a anti communism movie in Cuba
Make a anti socialist movie in Venezuela
Make a movie critical of the party leadership in 2018 China under xi ping
In all three cases your ass will never be seen or heard from again.
But you can make a movie shitting on the American flag ,then burning that flag ,and with pictures of the presidents in sniper scope if it tickles your fancy and boom @!!!
you get on democracy now and be interviewed about how" oppressed "you are in america.
This liberal gaslighting shitrag ie a Marxist piece of garbage.
America has a ton of problems but isn't a nation on the face of this earth I would prefer to call my home.
Mr. Riley, I have a great suggestion about how you can avoid the free enterprise system. Move to Venezuela.
Rachel Golem
So corporations greasing the hands of politicians, who in turn pass & sign dirty laws in their favor is free enterprise to you?
Brilliant. What a witty riposte! Why not call him a commie too? Loser.
Not a very bright comment, really. Venezuela's economy is predominantly privately-owned - notably, most of the print and broadcast media.
Re: Sorry To Bother You- Good intentions, horrible execution. Also Boots made himself look small by attacking Spike Lee, whose film is in the theatre at the same time as his. What director does that?
Yeah because film directors criticizing other film directors is utterly without precedent.
A director who thinks a movement is more important than a film. If you watch the interview, you understand that about riley.
Alasdair Church I’ve never seen a film director critique another director while both films are in theaters.
FunkFight1 I read Brother Boots’ critique and didn’t think it was valid. Ergo, it comes across as jealousy.
Which part wasn't valid? The part about the only thing that made the cop the hero were the totally fictional elements? The part about the supposed hero of the story actually infiltrating organizations that were fighting racism and fighting the klan for years and didn't actualy thwart the klan in real life but was made to look heroic in the movie? The part about the made up racist cop bust by the whole department which made it look like the whole department was interested in fighting racist cops? Those are inarguable facts. Spike's movie is pro-cop propaganda. Even John David Washington says so in his interviews. he says he wanted to do the film to show cops as the good guys. How would it not be a valid critique? Nothing about that sounds jealous. Sounds like the critique is a service to the rest of us.
The ironic thing is working class people got Trump elected.
it was mostly rich dudes
Luke Barela
No, the Midwest and the South voted Trump.
@@jcincorporated6207 nah the working class stayed away from both parties because they are to the left. All the rightwingers voted. Only 70 million people voted. There are over 300 million people in the US. The majority of the working class is to the left of the democratic party.
Trump won by less votes than Romney lost by. 10 million Obama voters also stayed home.
Keep blaming capitalism as government grows and grows. Things will get worse and worse. Nannie State government intervention crony capitalism isn't capitalism. Until you understand the difference, income inequality will continue to grow and grow and grow!!!
No true scotsman fallacy. Capitalism by its very nature is crony.
+Joe Dirt Wall Street did, you are correct! Are you surreptitiously saying Wall Street is ALSO RESPONSIBLE for making government large in the USA? I agree with you again! However, you are actually making my point for me Mr. Dirt, Wall Street bankers are not capitalists, they are exactly what Chomsky says they are, radical statists! Nice try Mr. Dirt!!!!!!!
+The White Man (ILuvMyWhitePrivilege) Let me teach you something. People associate capitalism with big business, multinational corporations, international bankers, etc, those people are not capitalists, they are radical statists who want big government and ZERO free market competition. In fact all they do is undermine free markets! Then who are the REAL capitalists? The local farmers and small business people who create a better product at a cheaper price with their local and private capital. Please don't confuse the two!
@Joe Dirt Piss off, anti-semite.
Show me a time when capitalism existed without government support. Industrialization, trade etc it's all a cooperation between government and capitalists.
White voice, Boots?
So, when you educate yourself, you know - by reading books- you have to look over your shoulder to ensure that rapper "Boots" Riley approves of your tone and diction..
Tired old trope that should've been put out to pasture in the last 10 years..
this comment is 3 years old and it’s still dumb