History Quotes / DontShootTheMessage

-->-- '''Bad Webcomics Wiki''' [[http://badwebcomicswiki.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Gyno-Star criticising]] ''Gyno-Star''

-->-- '''Fluellen''', ''Theatre/HenryV'

-->--'''Brent Hartinger''', from [[http://www.afterelton.com/TV/2010/5/seth-macfarlane-complete-idiot this article]] in afterelton.com on the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Quagmire's Dad".

->Said villains, by the way, introduce themselves as being a gang of wealthy preppies who derive both pleasure and a sense of patriotic pride from slaughtering the poor. And ''this'' is where ''The Purge'' goes OffTheRails. Folks, explicit, heavy-handed political message-mongering is not ''necessarily'' bad storytelling. Hell, my favourite movie is ''[[Film/Robocop1987 Robocop]]'', and ''Robocop'' is [[{{Anvilicious}} about as subtle as a baseball bat to the face]]. As the saying goes, SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped, class is a reliable source of solid drama and the idea that sweeping, showpiece anti-crime measures like the Purge ''do'' tend to disproportionately harm the lower classes while shielding or even benefiting the wealthy shouldn't be news to ''anyone'' at this point. But having your main villain basically walk up to the camera and say, "JustForFun/{{Hello}} [[{{Anvilicious}} I'm a walking metaphor for the predatory nature of class-disparity that inevitably results from unfettered capitalism and the consolidation of personal wealth!]]" is just lazy, bad, stupid writing and film-making. The only way it could be ''less'' subtle is if the bad guy took off his mask and turned out to actually just '''be''' Mitt Romney!

->''There’s a great quote, “There’s nothing I like less than an opinion that I hold dear being argued badly.” With Fletcher, I twisted that a little to like, “There’s maybe nothing worse than a philosophy that you normally would agree with, but put in the mouth of a fucking despicable human being.” Suddenly the human being and the philosophy become inseparable.''

->A male character on [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy the show]] has sex with a transgender character without her revealing her former-gender (extremely unlikely, IMHO, despite the fact that it's one of Hollywood's most popular transgender storylines), and when he finds out, he spews vomit for thirty seconds, then freaks out while another character compares the transgender person to a sex offender? And [[Creator/SethMacFarlane MacFarlane]] thinks the transsexual community will be "very, very happy" and that this is the most sympathetic television portrayal of such a character ever?
-->--'''Brent Hartinger''', from [[http://www.afterelton.com/TV/2010/5/seth-macfarlane-complete-idiot this article]] in afterelton.com on the WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy episode "Quagmire's Dad".

-->--'''Bertie''', ''WesternAnimation/TucaAndBertie'' "SweetBeak"

-->-- '''Creator/JRRTolkien''',

->When you're an asshole, it doesn't matter how right you are. Nobody wants to give you the satisfaction.
-->--'''Morty Smith''', ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''

->I think it's pretty clear no-one has said "no" to this guy in 25 years. Look, here's the thing. A conversation about race is clearly important, but there's a time and a place, and it is ''not'' the length of time it takes to whip up a Tiramisu Frappuccino. But still, let's give Howard Schultz credit; he ''did'' start a conversation across the racial divide, with a white billionaire pitching an idea and any number of African-American customers telling him how stupid it was.

-->--'''Damien Chazelle'', in a [[https://screencrush.com/whiplash-damien-chazelle/ 2014 interview]] about ''Film/{{Whiplash}}''

-->--''Creator/RogerEbert'' [[https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/atlas-shrugged-2011 in his review of]] '''Film/AtlasShrugged'''.

->"''I will take an insincere display of charity over a genuine display of apathy any day of the week."''
-->-- '''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows''', on "We Are The World"

->Said villains, by the way, introduce themselves as being a gang of wealthy preppies who derive both pleasure and a sense of patriotic pride from slaughtering the poor. And ''this'' is where ''The Purge'' goes OffTheRails. Folks, explicit, heavy-handed political message-mongering is not ''necessarily'' bad storytelling. Hell, my favourite movie is ''[[Film/Robocop1987 Robocop]]'', and ''Robocop'' is about as subtle as a baseball bat to the face. As the saying goes, SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped, class is a reliable source of solid drama and the idea that sweeping, showpiece anti-crime measures like the Purge ''do'' tend to disproportionately harm the lower classes while shielding or even benefiting the wealthy shouldn't be news to ''anyone'' at this point. But having your main villain basically walk up to the camera and say, "JustForFun/{{Hello}} [[{{Anvilicious}} I'm a walking metaphor for the predatory nature of class-disparity that inevitably results from unfettered capitalism and the consolidation of personal wealth!]]" is just lazy, bad, stupid writing and film-making. The only way it could be ''less'' subtle is if the bad guy took off his mask and turned out to actually just '''be''' Mitt Romney!