John Cusack Goes to War ... (interview) [View All]

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I'm pretty sure there have been previous posts about his new movie, but here's a recent interview with him. LOVE it that his sister is in it, too - she's got perfect comic timing.

By Tina Daunt, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
May 23, 2008
John Cusack is angry. And he thinks you should be too.

He's angry enough to take what might be a suicidal cinematic chance: making a stylized satire of a war in progress.

As a topic, the Iraq war has been a graveyard for big-budget films. But with "War, Inc.," which opens today in Los Angeles, Cusack is gambling that the movie, directed by Joshua Seftel and co-written by Cusack, will sway audiences by using pointed humor and an auteur's absurdist lens to make the case against privatizing the military.

"Everything is outsourced; everything is for profit," the 42-year-old actor-writer-director said recently in an interview at his Venice production office. "I don't think people really understand that. Corporations have privatized the war to the point where the war itself is the cost-plus business. They are hollowing out the very core function of what it means to be a government. They're using the State Department as an ATM."

He scoffs: "They should be sent to prison. They should be convicted. Their ideology should be shamed. We should revolt against them. We should mock them."


Rest of the interview: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/celebrity/la-et-cause23-2008may23,0,5796088.story