'Machete' Director: My Film is Satire So Give Me Tax Dollars

The irony of the most anti-capitalist industry in America begging for tax credits/incentives/welfare in order to keep pumping out their anti-corporate/American product is just too rich. Nevertheless, from this story, it’s obvious “Machete” creator Robert Rodriguez is very much counting on mucho tax dollars to make his film… And may still receive them:

Oddly, Machete may have been shot in a different state if not for Perry, who signed a bill last year giving his office the ability to grant larger tax incentives to lure filmmakers to shoot in Texas.

Perry signed the bill at an April 2009 ceremony at Rodriguez’s Troublemaker Studios. Rodriguez told The Associated Press at the time that, without the bill, he would have had to move the production of projects including Machete to another state.

“Thanks to this bill, I don’t have to go shoot out of the state,” Rodriguez said.

But now that Rodriguez is worried about losing his corporate welfare — his tax cuts for the rich — the latest defense of his racial demagoguery is to blame Arizona’s new immigration law for all his problems and tsk tsk the rest of us for missing that “Machete” is satire:

“The movie is very over-the-top satirical, and it’s only because of what’s happened in Arizona that some scenes actually feel at all grounded in reality, which is pretty nuts and says more about Arizona than any fictional movie[.]”

Where to begin.

First off, Rodriguez brought this entirely upon himself with his Special Cinco de Mayo Message For Arizona. So the real reason that some scenes…feel grounded in reality is mainly due to the fact that the director chose to intentionally and cynically shove his racially-driven film right down the throat of this debate. Let me assure Robert that prior to his release of The Special, no one was thinking:

“Gee, maybe the movie that Rodriguez fella’s working on just wouldn’t be appropriate right now.”

And now Rodriguez wants to toss off as a joke the same film he turned into an object of controversy. “Over-the-top satire,” he calls it. Really? From what the trailer tells us, “Machete’s” plot features the film’s HERO defending his RACE with the assassination of a sitting United States Senator.

Anyone laughing?

And if you are, please tell us how these satirical loglines are in any way different from Rodriguez’s:

To protect their race, Minutemen assassinate illegals.

To protect their race, Texas Rangers plot to assassinate the Mexican President.

To protect his race, our hero plots to assassinate a black Senator pushing for reparations.

There are other more obvious examples. But the whole concept is too vile to go any further even as a hypothetical.

But you can’t judge a film by its trailer. So…

…tune in tomorrow. Big Hollywood has a copy of the script and at 5 a.m. 7am PST, Kurt Schlichter’s review hits the streets.