Hollywood becomeslatest tariff victim

'Every film made in Hollywood,' said a famous director today, 'has an unwritten code to signal who are the good guys and who are the bad guys.  It used to be skin colour but that isn't allowed these days, so there's a kind of subliminal code in place.

'If a character pulls out an Apple phone, he or she is the good guy.  But if a Range Rover pulls up, whoever gets out is the bad guy.  It's that simple.  Now we can re-use Apple phones all day long, borrow them off staff, share them between films, but the Range Rovers are going to be shot to hell in the third act and driven off a cliff.  We need a constant supply of them, but with all these tariffs and the Brits refusing to send us any more cars, in any colour, we're totally screwed.  How else can we signpost the bad guys?' he mused.

'Here's an idea,' suggested a producer sat next to the director, 'why not just use British actors as the bad guys like we used to in the olden days before Range Rovers became cool?'  Both film makers studied their iPhones to see if there were enough British actors to go around and whether they were subject to sanctions too.  'Gee', said the director, 'it could still be tight, perhaps under the new regime we can go back to skin colour after all.

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