{"id":1934,"date":"2017-09-03T19:03:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T19:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/09\/03\/paul-schrader-received-a-visit-from-the-department-of-homeland-security-for-a-facebook-post-about-donald-trump\/"},"modified":"2017-09-03T19:03:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T19:03:03","slug":"paul-schrader-received-a-visit-from-the-department-of-homeland-security-for-a-facebook-post-about-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/09\/03\/paul-schrader-received-a-visit-from-the-department-of-homeland-security-for-a-facebook-post-about-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Schrader Received a Visit From the Department of Homeland Security for a Facebook Post About Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As tends to be the case with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/paul-schrader\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paul-schrader\">Paul Schrader<\/a> movies, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/first-reformed\/\" id=\"auto-tag_first-reformed\">First Reformed<\/a>&#8221; doesn&#8217;t sound like it\u2019s for the faint of heart. Ethan Hawke stars as a grief-stricken ex-military chaplain, with Amanda Seyfried as a member of his church coping with the recent suicide of her husband. It&#8217;s currently making the festival rounds at Venice and Toronto, prompting the \u201cTaxi Driver\u201d screenwriter to talk about his latest project \u2014 and that time he was visited by the DHS earlier this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/08\/first-reformed-review-ethan-hawke-paul-schrader-venice-film-festival-1201871518\/\" title=\"\u2018First Reformed\u2019 Review: Ethan Hawke Is Better Than Ever in Paul Schrader\u2019s Tense Eco-Thriller\">\u2018First Reformed\u2019 Review: Ethan Hawke Is Better Than Ever in Paul Schrader\u2019s Tense Eco-Thriller<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI did get visited by Homeland Security this year because I posted something on Facebook about Donald Trump and the John Brown moment we are now in,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2017\/film\/festivals\/paul-schrader-first-reformed-ehtan-hawke-amanda-seyfried-venice-1202546436\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Schrader tells Variety<\/a>. \u201cSo they came and visited me to ascertain whether I am a threat to the president\u2019s life. I am not \u2014 except in theory. There is this sense in the world now that something must be done, and it\u2019s tearing this character apart.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link read-more\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Read More:<\/strong><a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/08\/paul-schrader-first-reformed-photo-ethan-hawke-amanda-seyfried-1201870963\/\" title=\"Paul Schrader\u2019s \u2018First Reformed\u2019 Photo: Intriguing New Look at Ethan Hawke and Amanda Seyfried in Venice Drama\">Paul Schrader\u2019s \u2018First Reformed\u2019 Photo: Intriguing New Look at Ethan Hawke and Amanda Seyfried in Venice Drama<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He knows it may not be for everyone, but Schrader feels content now that he&#8217;s made this movie: \u201cI can hang up my spurs and saddle if I want,\u201d he says. Read the full interview <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2017\/film\/festivals\/paul-schrader-first-reformed-ehtan-hawke-amanda-seyfried-venice-1202546436\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<aside class=\"pmc-related-link sign-up\">\n\t\t\t<strong class=\"pmc-related-type\">Sign Up:<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/indiewire.com\/email\" title=\"Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.\">Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As tends to be the case with Paul Schrader movies, &#8220;First Reformed&#8221; doesn&#8217;t sound like it\u2019s for the faint of heart&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-1934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-vc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}