The case in summary JD Vance, author of the bestseller “Hillbilly Elegy”, is Donald Trump’s vice-presidential candidate. Following the announcement, viewings for the film based on Vance’s book increased by nearly 1,200 percent. The book, which is a biography of Vance’s life in a poor family in the Rust Belt, has sold at least 1.6 million copies and topped the New York Times bestseller list. Vance, who has previously criticized Trump, has in recent years supported him and pursues a policy with many similarities to Trump’s. Some critics have expressed concern about Vance’s portrayal of the poor in Appalachia in his book. Vance has been an Ohio senator since 2022. The summary is made by an AI service from OpenAi. The content is quality assured by news’s journalists before publication. When he was named as Trump’s vice-presidential candidate, he became world famous. In the USA, however, James David Vance became nationally known in 2016 with the book “Hillbilly’s Lament”. According to Forbes, “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis”, as it is called in English, was the book that launched his political career. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump with Ohio senator and vice-presidential candidate JD Vance at the meeting where the candidacies were announced. Photo: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP/NTB Ohio Senator Vance is now described by the Washington Post as the future of the Republican Party. Someone who can take over for Trump in the 2028 election. And someone who can inherit the Trump-loyal voters. The book hit a nerve When the book came out, both conservatives and liberals believed that it illustrated the division in the population, according to Deadline. It topped the New York Times bestseller list for two months. Before the candidate announcement, it had sold at least 1.6 million copies. Variety and Forbes write that many believed the book explained why so many in the white working class were drawn to Trump. The book is a biography and is about the Vance family in a small town in the so-called Rust Belt in the USA. It describes how the family struggles with poverty and addiction. Haley Bennett as Lindsay, Glenn Close as Mamaw and Owen Asztalos as young JD Vance in “Hillbilly Elegy” on Netflix. Photo: Lacey Terrell / NETFLIX It also describes how Yale student JD Vance is torn between his budding legal career in the big city and his family’s problems at home in Ohio. Became a Hollywood film In 2020, the film based on the book also came out, with names like Glenn Close and Amy Adams, directed by veteran Ron Howard. The film had a short window in cinemas, before it was released on the streaming service Netflix. Haley Bennett as Lindsay, Gabriel Basso as JD Vance and Amy Adams as Bev in “Hillbilly Elegy.” Photo: Lacey Terrell / NETFLIX news’s Filmpolitiet gave it a roll of the dice 3. “This appears more like a social pornographic story created for us who like to flatter people who have it worse than ourselves.” wrote film reviewer Birger Vestmo. On the open review database Rotten Tomatoes, the film has only 25 percent positive reviews from critics, but on the other hand a score of 82 percent from viewers. Violent increase in viewership On Monday night, presidential candidate Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that JD Vance was his candidate for vice president. After this, interest in the four-year-old film about the man’s life exploded. CNN, Variety and Deadline are among the media that refer to a measurement by Luminate. It shows that viewing of the film increased from 1.5 million minutes on Sunday to 19.2 million on Monday. This is an increase of 1179 percent. The measurement of streaming viewing The analysis agency Luminate collects streaming and viewing information and supplies, among other things, the official lists to Variety. Their services are used by, among others, Billboard, Nielsen and TVtracker in the USA. The film about JD Vace’s life, “Hillbilly Elegy”, was watched 1.5 million minutes on Netflix on Sunday 14 July, as Netflix measures viewing. On Monday, after Trump announced his vice-presidential candidacy, the film was viewed for 19.2 million minutes. That is an increase of 1179 percent, according to Luminate. The film lasts 117 minutes. If you divide Monday’s viewing minutes by the duration, it is estimated that the film has been seen 163,836 times. Source: Luminate, Variety According to CNN, the film became Netflix’s sixth most watched in the US on Tuesday. In addition, the book topped Amazon’s bestseller list within a day of its announcement. Skeptical of the hillbilly description, Forbes writes that the book was mostly received positively, but that some criticized the way he portrayed Appalachia. NBC News also describes polarizing reviews. Among other things, several critics reacted to the depiction of how the poor allegedly use the welfare system. The Guardian reviewer believes Vance blames hillbilly psyche and culture rather than structural economic inequalities. A photo taken in April 2021 showing the childhood home of JD Vance in Middleton, Ohio. Photo: Dan Sewell / AP/ NTB The head of Appalachia studies at Berea College in Kentucky, Silas House, believes the “Hillbilly’s lament” is offensive and gives an incorrect image of the region. He told Politico in 2022 that he does not see the book as a biography, but as “a treatise that uses ugly stereotypes and tropes” to achieve what Vance wants. The professor says he does not deny the authenticity of Vance’s family history, but that the story is full of statements about class, ethnic groups and gender tailored to specific audience groups. – For anyone who really knows the region, it is a deeply problematic book, because it is so misleading. It lacks so much context and he knew exactly what he was doing, House claims. Former Trump critic JD Vance criticized Trump in 2016. He called Trump “cultural heroin” in The Atlantic four months before the election. He is also said to have suggested via a Facebook message that Trump could be “America’s Hitler”. But in recent years he has supported Trump. He is against abortion and support for Ukraine. He has also worked to remove the possibility of having a gender other than male or female in the passport. According to NBC, Vance has also said he is against same-sex marriage. He is skeptical of the election results in 2020 and pursues a policy with many similarities to Trump’s. JD Vance at the lectern in Delaware, Ohio in April 2022, where he gave his endorsement of Donald Trump ahead of the primaries. Photo: GAELEN MORSE / Reuters/ NTB According to the BBC, Vance and Trump think particularly alike about trade, immigration and foreign policy. President Joe Biden has called him a Trump clone. His staff has described Vance as a MAGA extremist. As described, Vance comes from poor backgrounds. But after serving in Iraq and studying at Yale, he worked as an investor for PayPal founder Peter Thiel. Now he has been an Ohio senator since 2022. And can therefore become the next vice president of the United States. Interested in more foreign material? Listen to the podcast here: Published 17.07.2024, at 18.44
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