Politics
Andrew Garfield Personally Warns Billionaires His Peasant Movie Is Coming For Them
By BSN Staff, . BSN Network. Satire.
LOS ANGELES, CA. Actor Andrew Garfield, best known for portraying a fictional billionaire's crime-fighting ward in a major studio superhero franchise, has issued a formal warning to the global billionaire class that they should be, in his exact words, "scared shitless" by his new film about medieval agricultural workers rebelling against land ownership.
The remarks, captured on video at a promotional event for "The Uprising," a period drama about the 1381 Peasants' Revolt, have drawn significant backlash from commentators who noted that the film is distributed by a subsidiary of a company whose parent corporation is valued at approximately $140 billion.
Garfield appeared untroubled by this detail.
"I just think billionaires need to reckon with what this film is saying," Garfield told reporters from a podium at a venue that charged $28 for a glass of sparkling water. "These peasants had nothing. And they rose up. I hope that lands."
Billionaires contacted by BSN Network for comment were, by all available measures, fine.
Elon Musk did not respond to a request for comment, possibly because he was busy. Jeff Bezos's representative said he was unavailable. A spokesperson for a third billionaire, who asked not to be named because they represent several billionaires and did not want to pick one, said their client had not seen the film and had "no current plans to be scared shitless by it."
Meanwhile, reaction from ordinary people was more nuanced than Garfield's team may have hoped.
"I looked him up," said Darnell Pruitt, 34, a warehouse worker in Memphis who did not pay to see the film because he could not afford the ticket. "He's worth like sixteen million dollars. That's not a peasant. That's a very comfortable man telling me to feel something about peasants."
Pruitt added that he did not begrudge Garfield his success, but that he found the situation "a little weird."
Garfield's publicist, reached by phone, offered the following clarification: "Andrew is deeply committed to using his platform to amplify historically marginalized voices and to spark conversations that challenge existing power structures through the transformative medium of narrative cinema."
When asked whether any of that meant Garfield would be returning his salary for the film, the publicist said the call was breaking up and hung up.
Critical reception for "The Uprising" has been largely positive, with reviewers praising Garfield's performance as Wat Tyler, the revolt's central leader, who was stabbed to death at a peace negotiation arranged by a fourteen-year-old king. Several critics noted that the film's final twenty minutes, in which the peasants lose comprehensively and everything returns to normal, complicate its revolutionary message somewhat.
Garfield addressed this in a separate interview.
"The ending is intentionally ambiguous," he said.
The revolt took place in 1381. All of the peasants are dead.
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