When the world woke up last week, everyone thought the same things. A) The weekend’s finished and we have to go to work. B) Who’s that chick who won the Oscar for best actress for a film we’ve never heard of before?
Who was Marion Cotillard, where had she come from and what the hell was La Vie en Rose about? And what did it mean? For God’s sake why wasn’t it done in English? Surely the producers didn’t expect the majority of the world to watch a film they couldn’t understand. God damn those crazy French.
As an Oscar winner, we’d expect Marion Cotillard’s stunning career to go from strength to strength. If not winning more Oscars, then definitely starting up random charities or collecting third world children like Happy Meal toys. But instead of riding high on the success and mulling over lucrative film offers, Marion’s gone and ballsed it up. Big style.
With the Oscars being an American award ceremony. it would of course be dumb to slag off the country that’s elevated your status from a nobody to an A-lister. But this is what Marion Cotillard has gone and done.
Everyone can remember what they were doing when they heard about the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It united the world in fear, terror, paranoia when we saw a Muslim with a bag and it sparked off a series of wars. But a tragedy like 9/11 is never without conspiracy theories, and old Marion is full of them.
In an interview with a French TV station, Marion Cotillard said:
“I think we’re lied to about a number of things. We see other towers of the same kind hit by planes. Are they burned? There was a tower; I believe it was in Spain that burnt for 24 hours. It never collapsed. None of these towers collapsed. And there [in New York], in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed.”
Maybe it’s just us, but having watched the tragedy unfold on TV, we’re pretty sure that the damage was caused by two massive planes. Something quite big flying relatively fast and crashing in to a stationary object won’t do it any help of staying up. Digging herself a deeper grave by the minute, Marion also added:
That the towers, planned in the early 1960s, were an outdated “money sucker” that would have cost more to update than to destroy.
Yup, we completely agree. It definitely seems plausible to then fund two wars against countries where people have died unnecessarily just so a new building can be erected in New York. Go USA for that brilliant scheme. On a more comical note though, Marion also questions the 1969 moon landing as well, by saying:
“Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered. And in any case I don’t believe all they tell me, that’s for sure.”
Not quite as controversial as her 9/11 comments but just as funny. Seeing as Marion Cotillard likes the odd conspiracy story, we wonder if her Oscar win was just a set-up. Perhaps the judging panel wanted her to believe Americans give a toss about foreign films. We wonder if she still believes in the Easter bunny. We hope so, because we don’t want her to miss out on those chocolate eggs.
Read more:
Oscar winner Marion Cotillard dismisses 9/11 as conspiracy – NY Daily News
Melanie says
I guess that when your job involves pretending made-up things are real and/or pretending to be other people and feeling what they feel, it’s a little tricky to sort out reality.
Maybe when you watch movie magic being made right in front of you, you start to believe anything is possible and probable and plausible.
King Jimbo says
This is worrying… caused maybe by too much red wine at lunch.
toolahroolahroolah says
Of course everythings she said is bollocks, but given the current u.s. administration’s repeated displays of stunning incompetence one can certainly see where idiots get these ideas.
There is a certain comfort with this crowd though. You can count on them to screw it up. Releases one from any expectations.
euclid says
Yes, of course. And L’Arc de Triomphe was built by
trolls for President Vespasian to ward off the evil spells
being beamed by orcs through the Eiffel Tower to
control the minds of the unsuspecting French. Naturally.
Glad she’s setting the record straight.
Harry says
Damn it, just when we were starting to like her and like the French again, she assassinates herself, her Oscar, and the American nation all in one great swoop of blabbing. It was so much fun to empathize with Piaf again, and throb with artistic pain at her intensity and her suffering — so moody, so French. Oh I was really getting into it, and I believed that Cotillard was summing up all of France’s virtues and giving them to me personally. Now she has to go and say all this da-daesque stuff about filthy American plots, proved conclusively by irrefutable YouTube videos, beyond all suspicion of fakery. She accuses America of dark-laid plots that would have been a stretch even for the KGB in its heyday to even imagine let alone accomplish. The “angels in Los Angeles” blithely gave her her Oscar, but they are American too, so it doesn’t make a bit of sense. However, it might be another American plot to set her up to discredit herself by havng to give her Oscar back. In the worst case scenario, if it explodes on her mantlepiece, we hope she’s out giving more interview/exposés at the time because we certainly need her around to remind us often of what a pack of low-down, scheming, dirty little rats we are. Casse-toi alors, pauvre con.
Grodin says
Hmm, she thinks we’ve been lied to regarding 9-11? So do I.
According the Zogby and Scripps polls, so do about 48% of Americans!
It seems like half a massive amount of people agree with Marion.
Even the chair and co-chair of the 9-11 Commission said they were lied to by the Pentagon! Good on Marion for seeking out the truth. That’s the best way to honor the victims of that terrible day. Coverups, cowardice, and lies are where the real shame is.
gir says
“Hmm, she thinks we’ve been lied to regarding 9-11? So do I.
According the Zogby and Scripps polls, so do about 48% of Americans!”
Appeal to popularity.
“Even the chair and co-chair of the 9-11 Commission said they were lied to by the Pentagon!”
Appeal to authority.
And both of those exhibit a false dichotomy.
You fail elementary logic.
gir says
JEWS DID 9/11
BU$H LIED EVERYONE DIES AT THE END; I HAVE AN ITCH ON MY SHIN AND ITS BECAUSE OF THE CIA
euclid says
No, you see, this is American logic at its finest:
There have been lies about 911. Lies are told by bad people.
So bad people did 911. Therefore kill all bad people.
Remember Good People – Thou Shalt Not Kill*
*except when:
• it’s in the national interest
• someone has something you really, really want
• you need the resources to sustain your way of life
• they believe something different
• something scares you
• you’re really, really mad
• they’ve broken laws (like the one against killing people)
• they don’t support the rights of the zygote
• they’re bad people
• etc.
Grodin says
gir…
All I wrote was factual and can easilly be researched by anyone with a computer. Nothing illogical about it.
I don’t think the Jews did it, but I can see you are the kind of person who has no problem writing that kind of thing to try and get a reaction, or perhaps to try and create racial/political tension where there needn’t be any. You fail elementary maturity.
I would think it is in everyone’s interest to get a thorough honest account of how America was attacked on 9-11. If you read Beyond Precedent, written by the chair and co-chair of the 9-11 Commission, you will see what a farce the 9-11 Commission was. I think the victims of 9-11 deserve the truth.
Grodin says
Correction to the above comment, the book is called Without Precedent.
Aleksis says
I doubt she’s “knackered up her career” as most French filmmakers (probably even American ones) and cinema-goers probably don’t give a shit about what her views on politics/conspiracies are. She’s a fantastic actress, totally deserving of the Oscar. Definitely fixing herself up there with La Binoche and Deneuve as one of the French greats if she keeps it up.
These conspiracy theories are nothing new or interesting. It’s a shame that such a talented artist as Cotillard should be babbling about them, but it’s hilarious to think she’s “ruined her career” because of these wobbly speculations.
Also lol @ the person who said Cotillard was making us “like the French again” and was disappointed about her ruining this new-found, cinema-induced forgiveness and respect. Probably as immature as Cotillard blurting about 9/11 conspiracies.
gir says
ahahahahaha elementary maturity. As compared to the guy with all the logical fallacies arguing US government conspiracy theories on a British satirical entertainment blog.