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Tim Robbins Says It’s ‘Deranged’ to Compare Trump Assassination Attempt to His 1992 Film ‘Bob Roberts’ (www.indiewire.com)
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Tim Robbins is shutting down any “deranged” comparisons between his 1992 film “Bob Roberts” and the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

Conspiracies surfaced on social media after Thomas Matthew Crooks killed a Trump rallygoer and tried to assassinate the former president, injuring two others in the crowd as well. Robbins weighed in after one theory claimed the shooting was arranged by convicted felon Trump to boost his campaign for re-election, much like the plot of Robbins’ political drama “Bob Roberts.”

“To anyone drawing a parallel between my film ‘Bob Roberts’ and the attempted assassination of Trump, let’s be clear. What happened yesterday was a real attempt on a presidential candidate’s life,” Robbins wrote. “Those that are denying the assassination attempt was real are truly in a deranged mindset. A human being was shot yesterday. Another killed. They may not be human beings that you agree with politically but for shame folks. Get over your blind hatred of these people. They are fellow Americans. This collective hatred is killing our souls and consuming whatever is left of our humanity.”

“Bob Roberts” was written and directed by Robbins, who also starred. The film centered on the rise of a populist conservative politician (Robbins) who stages being shot by an assassin to win a U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania.

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[–] Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I understand that it's a believable, yet wild conspiracy theory. I also think it's a stretch for the man who wrote and directed a movie with that exact situation as a plot point to be calling it deranged. It's obliviously not that farfetched seeing as he wrote a movie with the concept.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The film is a comedy/satire so perhaps he felt he pushed elements of it into wild and wacky territory that would be considered farfetched, possibly deranged.

However, the deranged bit refers to the people who are suggesting it is as conspiracy - it's one thing to use the idea in comedy movie and quite another that this would happen in real life. For one, that shot would be incredibly risky for someone to attempt especially without a sniper rifle or the relevant training.

I think he may be overreacting as it may not have even been mentioned if not for the Pennsylvania link.

[–] Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

Very true. Unfortunately being a satire doesn't seem to protect anything from becoming a reality anymore. The Onion is news. Idiocracy is morphing into documentary territory.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

it may not have even been mentioned if not for the Pennsylvania link.

It was the first thing I thought of.