Harvey Weinstein is a monster. He was such an accepted villain in Hollywood that in the credits sequence of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings, there's a troll designed to look like him. Weinstein's crimes have him rotting away in prison, but the shadow he cast over Hollywood was a staggering one. But the reason Weinstein was allowed to wield his power over the industry for so long was that he was a hitmaker. No only was he the producer or executive producer on a lot of moneymakers, but he took movies like Shakespeare in Love and Pulp Fiction and won Academy Awards.Enter Joe Russo, half of the directing duo responsible for a bunch of Marvel hits like Captain America: Winter Soldier and Avengers: Endgame, as well as the recent Electric State, on Netflix. Recently, Russo sat down with The Sunday Times to talk about movies. When the topic of why blockbusters don't win any major awards anymore, Russo blamed someone familiar. He said it was a trend “started by Harvey Weinstein.”Russo continued, “He vilified mainstream movies to champion the art films he pushed for Oscar campaigns.” Russo went on to say, “Popular films were winning Oscars before the mid-’90s, then Weinstein started mudslinging campaigns…It affected how audiences view the Oscars because they’ve not seen most of the movies. We’re in a complicated place. Things we should all be enjoying collectively we instead punch each other in the face over.”Look, in the pantheon of things Weinstein did, this stuff doesn't...
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