Ah, a cup of coffee and a celebrity death-threat. Just the way we had hoped to start the week! When discussing BP’s responsibility for the oil spill in the Gulf, Brad Pitt declared, “I was never for the death penalty before. But I am willing to look at it again.” Hoo boy! How we love it when A-list celebrities fly off the handle and start publicly plotting murder!
While we would have preferred an alcohol-fueled rant during the Academy Awards (fingers crossed for 2011!), Brad Pitt’s death penalty diatribe against BP instead comes as part of Spike Lee’s If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise, the director’s new documentary about New Orleans and sequel to 2006′s When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. Pitt and partner Angelina Jolie own a home in New Orleans, and Pitt even started a foundation to help rebuild homes following Hurricane Katrina. While Lee’s new documentary originally ended with the New Orleans Saints’ triumphant victory during the 2010 Super Bowl, the oil spill required Spike Lee to add almost an hour of footage to the film, including an ending with a decidedly less optimistic slant.
As much as we agree with Pitt’s sentiment, we can’t help but be surprised at how little thought he put behind it. Everyone knows the long-term effects of the oil spill are going to kill everyone anyway; why waste time and money sending BP executives to jail first?! Think, Brad Pitt, think! If God Is Willing premieres tonight on HBO with a finale that is now up-to-date, provided of course that New Orleans isn’t visited by any other disasters of biblical proportion before now and then. Which, sadly, is actually a pretty big if. [Photo: WENN]
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15 Responses to “When A-List Stars Attack: Brad Pitt Suggests Death Penalty For BP Execs”
bp deserves everything coming to them.. i hope the people clean them out financially and get paid as much as they can… i like brad,he’s not afraid to speak out on the huge destruction bp has caused to the peeps down there…. it’s really sad to see it in person like he probably has.
And there wouldn’t be oil spills if you people would stop driving cars, using plastics and a million other things. before you blurt out stupidity, read up on what oil produces.
After they are cleaned out financially, they can eat the food that is drawn through the oil-polluted waters of the gulf!
oh and these movie stars are not well versed in anything other than making silly little movies and getting paid a stupid amounts of money. if people believe what they say, then who are the real idiots.
americans are makin a big deal out of this oil spill thing i never read anything about it but im guessing it was a accident americans have become very uptight this century i think all americans are thinkin jus like Brad and want blood too they are a blood thirsty mob
@Ayesha
You are a joke. If you “never read anything about it” then maybe you should have “read something about it” before you made an immature, idiotic comment. That’s right. Think twice before you comment and invite everyone to sample your ignorance.
I don’t agree with Pitt but I understand his anger.
I understand the sentiment behind such a statement. That this oil spill will all be conveniently swept under the carpet and oil executives and all there supporters will once again allow another crash to take place. If a common man commits even the smallest crime a judge would have no problem throwing them into jail. Although I do not agree with the death penalty for this oil spill I do believe they should not be easily let off the hook. It seems that once again the defenders of the wrongs of the right believe that death should come to those who oppose these shoddy greedy conservative oil drilling maniacs.
why do celebrities open their mouths except to act. yes brad pitt does alot of good deeds , but his comment is ignorant. they people have such emotion sometimes they just cannot say something intelligent why? because they experience one week out of their life what regular people live with daily, then in his case he goes back to his life of 50million dollar homes in france, and never having anyone call him out on his stupid remarks, his life is so far removed from reality, servants, millions of dollars, multiple people attending to his needs daily, brad, just do our good deeds, and KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT
There should be an ‘s’ at the end of Pitt! Death penalty is for pre-meditated murder – this was an accident by a contractor to BP (American) given Carte Blanche to do as they pleased by the government.
DESTRUCTION to American waters and soil…………….yeah….let England come over here and ruin our waters….all the people down there have no way to make a living and this oil is not going anywhere, all the destruction to the animal species and the fish,shrimp & lobster it is an awful awful mess, don’t get mad at Brad just because he has the pulpit and the guts to say what alot of us are thinking…
Way to go to bash someone who says everything we’re all thinking. What side are you people on anyways VH1! (Not a question)
Its disgusting what BP has done. A true act of war against our Earth!
I’m not quite sure you can add that he was plotting murder.Come on now. A lot of people are very pissed off at how BP handled the entire travesty. They sat on their asses and waited for someone else to do it while the entire golf of Mexico was devoured in oil. Not to mention the devastation of 10′s of thousands of wildlife. I can completely understand Brad’s feeling’s to make BP take some responsibility for what they didn’t do. Which was act in a timely manner so not to destroy 100 of species of birds, turtles and other wildlife.Maybe what he meant was the death penalty for the business and not a person or person’s in particular. At any rate far too long do these big industries get away with raping the environment of it’s natural resources..The world has long known we have other methods of energy rather than fossil fuels,
ok Mr Pitt say that when the world runs dry of oil, these BP guys ok they have shafted us big time with pollution, a mega big accident, these guys are drilling in places so dangerously remote and why? to please the greed of ALL OF US, we are ALL to blame, even you Mr Pitt with your very lavish lifestyle , ok for us to stand back and put the blame onto the company directors, try giving up your flights all over the world, your motorbike’s fast cars, then these companys may not after drill for oil in places like thousands of feet under the sea
just to let people know who BP really are
As of December 2009, 40 per cent of shares were owned in Britain compared to 39 per cent in the US. In the boardroom the situation is the same: six British directors and six Americans. And while the CEO may be British, the chairman, Carl-Henric Svanberg, is a Swede.
In 2000 the company ditched the title British Petroleum having merged with one oil American company, Amoco, in 1998 and acquired a second, ARCO, two years later.
Outside of the companys highest tiers the balance tilts decisively towards the US. BP employs 22,000 Americans against only 10,000 British. The operations it runs in Alaska, the mainland United States, and, until recently, the Gulf of Mexico, dwarf the North Sea side of the business.
There are 11,500 BP filling stations in the US, nine times the number in the UK and the company has five refineries in America, compared to none on the other side of the Atlantic
Perhaps the single most important consideration for the US politicians aiming their blows at BP this week is the impact it has on the finances of the Americas Main Street around $4.2 billion (2.9 billion) of BP profits will go to American pensioners and other US investors this year.
Sounds like hallekiefer doesn’t agree! Sounds like this person is selfish just like the BP exec, the ARMY men who knew the levees broke an hour and a half before the storm even hit, and the people in washington who ignored the cries of the people BEGGING for help(because their families,friends, lives where dying right before there eyes)! Sounds like she only cares about the story because it Brad Pitt(GREAT man, & Great on the eyesLOL)! You wanna know why this recession WILL go into a depression because of greedy, selfish, MONEY hungry people. We trusted in our government, not knowing at the time they just wanted our money and never cared about us! I stand with Mr. Brad Pitt and his wife. What thier doing down there is wonderful! There is a rap “boss” IF you will, who from LA, but instead of helping Brad Pitt hes out there buying million dollar cars and boats! I understand that YOU earn your money folk, but the least you could do is help with a little of your time! If hes was doing a great thing in New Orleans I don’t see why Spike Lee would not have put him in the doc! Go see the film… Great film, very informative! Government allows people to knock down the Applac. Mountains for coal! Thanks for opening my eyes Mr.Spike Lee!