To the editor: Cinematographic activity suffers for many reasons, but prices would worsen things (“Trump announces 100% prices on films made abroad, surprising studios”, “ May 4). Incitations are what the film industry needs. The films are shot where the location is called in the script and where there are incentives to make it profitable.
The kind of reckless decision of President Trump is the brand brand of his administration – he has an uninformed policy of bootlickers they do not understand. Instead of consulting in a responsible manner with the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Cinema, Studios and Independent filmmakers, Trump appointed actors Jon Voight, Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone as his “special ambassadors” in Hollywood. He said these three would help bring back Hollywood affairs lost in foreign countries. The results speak for themselves.
Lisa Loyle, Holy Monica
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To the publisher: The most frightening thing about the film rate proposed by Trump is its possible objective, because the censorship of points of view from outside the United States while its grip on the domestic media continues to degenerate by punitive prosecution and while deportations continue, our access to alternative points of view becomes all the more important.
David Lutness, Valence
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To the publisher: Trump says that the films made abroad will be priced, which would probably mean that filmmakers cannot take their hard drives abroad and return with a digital sequencing which constitutes a film without being taxed. Should we stop there? What about other artists and writers? Shouldn't we examine the customs and customs newspapers for drawings and sentences that may have been composed abroad? What about philosophers and thinkers who travel? Perhaps we can scan their brain to come and to quantify what ideas abroad should be tariff.
I saw “Judgment in Nuremberg”, a large part of which was filmed in Germany last night (without supplement of a foreign film). It is a fascinating study on the way people are common has accepted or ignored the clearly rare that were happening around them.
Robert Fox, Los Angeles
