{"id":8660,"date":"2017-09-20T20:31:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T03:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8660"},"modified":"2017-10-07T20:35:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T03:35:05","slug":"the-extinction-of-the-human-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/20\/the-extinction-of-the-human-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Schrader on The Extinction Of The Human Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

from VARIETY<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Paul Schrader on the Extinction of the Human Race and His New Film \u2018First Reformed\u2019<\/h1>\n

By<\/em> Brent Lang<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s no surprise that Paul Schrader<\/a>, a filmmaker associated with such dark classics as \u201cTaxi Driver\u201d and \u201cAmerican Gigolo,\u201d has a pessimistic streak. But it\u2019s still bracing to hear him argue that humanity, as we know it, is unlikely to last through the next century.<\/p>\n

In an interview at the Toronto Film Festival<\/a>, Schrader said he believes that global warming is accelerating at such a rate that there\u2019s little that can be done to arrest the ecological changes. His Cassandra-like streak informs \u201cFirst Reformed<\/a>,\u201d his new drama that\u2019s been screening to strong reviews at the fall festivals. The film grapples with issues of faith while also sounding a warning about the destruction of the natural world. It follows Ethan Hawke<\/a> as a small-town priest who toys with becoming a suicide bomber in the service of a radical form of environmentalism. Schrader spoke to Variety<\/em> about religion in film, working with Hawke, and why he believes the world will be well rid of the human race.<\/p>\n

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from VARIETY Paul Schrader on the Extinction of the Human Race and His New Film \u2018First Reformed\u2019 By Brent Lang It\u2019s no surprise that Paul Schrader, a filmmaker associated with such dark classics as \u201cTaxi Driver\u201d and \u201cAmerican Gigolo,\u201d has a pessimistic streak. But it\u2019s still bracing to hear him argue that humanity, as we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}