Steve Carell gives a powerful reminder of when Hollywood had courage [video]

Twitchy reported earlier how the situation with North Korea hacking and threatening Sony Pictures over “The Interview” led to the scrubbing of a Steve Carell project set in North Korea. ‘Hooray for Pyongyangwood’! Vague threats drive ‘feckless’ studio to scrap another NK-set film

Carell expressed his disappointment on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/SteveCarell/status/545360994923323392

Chaplin pic.twitter.com/LE5w3f3HAs

— Steve Carell (@SteveCarell) December 18, 2014

Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator, back when Hollywood had the guts to make fun of our enemies instead of kowtowing to—or siding with—them.

https://twitter.com/mariana_farinha/status/545383880203972608

@SteveCarell Okay but this movie wasn't about killing Hitler.

— ?Slut4Scorsese? (@ptandersons) December 18, 2014

https://twitter.com/NadavRaz/status/545404076788183040

Not to mention that for a strongman dictator, being made to look a fool is likely more enraging than a story about him being killed.

https://twitter.com/Cheaptarts/status/545383910423932928

Um…

@Cheaptarts @SteveCarell ppl kill ppl… NOW?!? Uh.. Hitler? Holocaust? Hello?!?

— Tony from Pandora (@tonyfrompandora) December 18, 2014

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Maybe ignorance breeds cowardice.

@SteveCarell – owned his own studio

— dUcK (@Enernoj) December 18, 2014

Free enterprise may be the answer.

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