Don’t be alarmed no.
Tonight.
The Element Pictures/ Screen cinema/Blue Moon Brewing craft beer showing of the Russell Brand and Michael Winterbottom (snigger) documentary The Emperor’s New Clothes in The Screen, D’Olier Street, Dublin.
Sit blummin’ down
More as we get it.
Earlier: Brand So
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Blue Moon which of course we all know is brewed that small Molson-Coors microbrewery.
And Russell brand the multimillionaire talking about financial equality. It is a room of hypocrisy.
I see several bald men. Seems legit.
Maybe ABM just stands for “A Bald Man”? I’ve always wondered.
Don’t duck with the baldies, we have very high sperm counts.
My hairline is slowly receding – Does that mean my sperm count is increasing? Outstanding!
Russell isn’t in my head, but Stairway to Heaven sure is!
+1971 Classic headline there lads!
Ah, the beer stampede captured for posterity.
Didn’t bother myself, too busy trying to figure out who else from these here comment sections is in attendance.
Which one’s Mr. T?
Russell seems very angry in this Q&A
Looks like they’re all leaving.
Has Fast and Furious 7 just finished?
I enjoyed it. It’ll probably get slated for being overly simplistic, but isn’t that the point? He’ll also suffer from people attacking him rather than addressing the points he makes, playing the man rather than the ball.
Whatever way you look at it, it is ridiculous the way that society has become more and more unequal. There will eventually come a tipping point.
He’s mad as hell and he’s not gonna take it anymore
He’s hanging around David Icke so much he’s slowly turning into him
I thought t’was great
And almost 2 hr flick
With no Running commentary or fighting over who took the last bag a’Taytos.
No scrambling for whatever has been the anointed “that’s my seat”
No looking for the gizzy or the homework journal that needs to be signed
No “BED!”….”but I’m still hungry”
….
Ye get the jist
TBF. I thought ye’d be a lot more sociable.
Wha’harm
I enjoyed and appreciated the film
I could a done with less George Osborne tbh
And Brand’s direct to camera mono’lectures got tedious
And the Q&A could’a done with more Audience input
And that stampede towards the beer table was hilarious
However its “The potential for change actually exits” is what I take from the evening and keep
Thanks for organising it BS
Exists not exits
Nice start huh.
There really was a fierce amount of George Osborne.
That’s what happens when you just start paying attention to the world five minutes ago.
Is that right?
I was tempted to stand up and say hello to everyone, but the right moment didn’t present itself…
Yes, thanks BS and EP. It was quite enjoyable. Nice to be back in the Screen. I’ve not been there in years.
The presentation was good. While knowing a lot already, the angle it took still made for some surprising viewing. It was a bit depressing too. Galling at times too. Music choice was a bit odd at times.
His lack of commitment to the cause in the Q&A was a bit miffing though. And at times he appeared to be quite angry, not sure at what or who. He’s a odd ticket at times, Russell.
What was the air quality like? The last time they opened a window in the Screen was 1984. Would love to have been there for a qwalk at the Broadsheeters. What sort of crowd, a big mish mash I’d imagine. Pics please! More of these events BS.
* gawk
Exactly what you imagined Lilly
Beards
And man bags
And a solitary (though impressive) man-bun.
Air was grand.
Explain his lack of commitment Sheila?
Ah here
Drogma
I appreciate Brand isn’t everyone’s cuppa tay
But he is self made
He did not inherit his wealth
He did not extract his wealth out of Government policies
He doesn’t have gaffs in Switzerland, Jersey, Cayman or whatever yer having yerself
Nor was he part of the School boy network that never stops rewarding their own
He did not nor will not blag a board of of self serving dimwits to award bales and bales free shares
And if he gets a bonus.
He pays it to himself
In 20 years time the O’ Redacted children will be swanning around with 9 figure wealth under their holes, without having to have worked a day in their lives, and the only tax they’ll have paid to the State, that provided a subsidised education, is duty on gargle and fuel.
#ThePotentialForChangeActuallyExists
GROW UP
Cool, he got ye all fired up. What can we be doing apart from boycotting Dunnes Stores, Topaz, INM etc? What can individuals do to bring about incremental change?
I enjoyed the film, didn’t stay for the Q&A but having gone in expecting to dislike it (wrong attitude, I know, but Brand irritates me no end), I enjoyed its overall narrative (especially surrounding pay levels and justification for this at the top). It’s made me question capitalism a bit more.
The only low point was the looter; they seemed to be downplaying a grown man joining his mates and stealing a £150 iPod dock in the London riots. As small a crime as it was compared to what happened in the financial sector (and severe the initial sentence was), he did only serve 3 months but crucially he didn’t have to do a damn thing and he wouldn’t have broken the law!