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Why did the show 'American Dad' accuse him of pedophila?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gINv-rcrEGM

I heard a rumour once about him but I don't think there is any substance to this.

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Its just a conspiracy theory that its around since decades

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just look at him?!? there is no way he is not a pedophiler

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Yo, cool it with the antisemtism

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Hey, NGMI, you're the one making antisemitic comments. You just said he looks Jewish.

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I'm sorry. Some people, you, are too stupid/autistic for irony.

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Like some people are too linguistically-clumsy and inept to phrase their "ironic" comments in a comprehensible form.

Also, they can't spell... "the antisemtism"

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sure thing buddy. Sure thing. Cope harder.

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How is that anti-semitic? Some people just have a look. One time a guy told me I have a punchable face.

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Well, THEY are at the top of entertainment and banking so go figure.

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Another MC neo-Nazi. Looks like UR banned!

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Well, there is the peculiar photograph from the set of Poltergeist with Spielberg holding little Heather O'Rourke who is making the gesture for vagina:
https://images.app.goo.gl/K4ENkb4or9gVmjrq9

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She is just sitting in his lap. BFD. There's nothing wrong with that.

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Have to admit those pics are kinda creepy to me. It’s their lack of expression. Almost like a blackmail photo.

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If that's the case, that little girl must have a huge vagina.

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Those pictures are so creepy.

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Normally, a joke like that in American Dad could just be written off as a cheap shot but considering that it's a Seth MacFarlane show, I dunno...MacFarlane does seem to have some inside scoop into all the dirt going on behind the scenes on Hollywood. He nailed Harvey Weinstein at the Oscars a year or two before #metoo.

Another reason why this joke raises eyebrows for me is that there's definitely something weird going on in his movies when it comes to kids. All of his child characters are treated like convenient props, which I've always found creepy and which I'm surprised no one's ever talked about. I didn't see A.I. but I can tell from the story synopsis that it's right in his wheelhouse. He sees children as objects, can't relate to them at all as actual human beings.

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Actually he is well regarded for his ability to connect to and direct children.

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He is well regarded because he's a manipulative director who's very skilled at projecting an image of himself as being something other than what he is. This manipulative quality is why everyone immediately mentions his name in the same breath of Kubrick.

To put it another way, he's very good at telegraphing this idea that he's "good with children" without actually doing anything substantive with the characters they were playing.

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I have no idea what world you're coming from. Spielberg--long before he was a father himself--had an extraordinary ability to direct children. Spielberg built up a rapport with little Carey Guffy on the set of Close Encounters. How do you think that sequence in which Guffey is looking with wonder in the heavens and exclaiming "Toys!" came about? Why do you think 5 year old Drew Barrymore cries on cue in E.T. but doesn't deliver near as good a child performance in Firestarter a couple of years later? Christian Bale owes his entire career to Spielberg.

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I agree. Him and Drew were quite close and she has only said nice things about him.

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First of all, his adopted daughter is completely on the skids. Do you really want to to go there? I didn't (because it's not relevant), but you brought his fatherhood up. 😕

Secondly, how many great child performances have you seen outside of a Spielberg film? And ones in which the child wasn't just in "some" scenes to "cry on cue", but actually had to CARRY the movie because they were the main character, as well as the heart and soul of the movie? For example, Natalie Wood in Miracle on 34th Street and Chloe Moretz in Kickass? Dean Stockwell in the Boy with the Green Hair? Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet? Hayley Joel Osmont in the Sixth Sense and Natalie Portman in Leon: The Professional?

What about Bugsy Malone, an entire cast of kids who had to actually dance and do slapstick?

What about the most famous child stars of all--Freddie Bartholemew, Shirley Temple, Jackie Cooper, Jackie Coogan and Margaret O'Brien and the dozens of heartfelt and dazzling performances that they gave throughout their careers?

I could spend all night naming well over 100, maybe 200. The point is: there is absolutely nothing exceptional about Spielberg's ability to direct children and get "emotions" out of them. Yet he's created this mystique as being exceptionally talented at doing what so many others have done--and much better.

Why do you think 5 year old Drew Barrymore cries on cue in E.T. but doesn't deliver near as good a child performance in Firestarter a couple of years later?


Because Mark L. Lester is a mediocre director in general, regardless of whether he's directing children or adults. You might as well have made the same argument if Ed Wood or Uwe Boll had directed Drew Barrymore in a movie around this time.

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his adopted daughter is completely on the skids

Of course, you have conclusive evidence this is due to Speilberg. Please share this unshakeable evidence.

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Because he is one of the illuminati and as such, preys on children to maintain youth and vigor. Or melts them down for adrenochrome or some shit, I don't know.


Also, he hasn't made a good movie since Saving Private Ryan.

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Might be related to this blind

https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2020/09/blind-items-revealed-2_12.html?m=1

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only see a bunch of ads, no video available.

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Blind Items Revealed #2
September 4, 2020

The offspring of this permanent A++ list director is filming a documentary about the physical and sexual abuse she has suffered.

Mikaela George Spielberg/Steven Spielberg

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Seth MacFarlane, at his best, uses comedy to reveal truths about the entertainment industry that outsiders are not aware of. For instance, he used Family Guy to foreshadow Bruce Jenner's transition.

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He also made jokes about Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, and James Franco long before any accusations came out.

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