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I call it Judd Apatow Strokes His Ego for a While and Then Rips off the Plot of The Great Gatsby for a Little While Longer, but that title doesn't quite roll off the tongue.
Insert witty 'n clever quip here.
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Yeah, I have to say I wasn't expecting a comedy about comedians to be a drama. It's dramedy at the most. My flat mate and I saw Click together and both cried - neither she nor I would admit it for months because the idea of an Adam Sandler film being a tearjerker was too embarassing for either of us.
Those films weren't too bad on the racism that I remember, and nor was Happy Gilmore, which remains one of his best regarded. Crude humour most 5 year olds would be embarassed by, sure, but not so much racism, so I could understand the workers here not fully expecting that.
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Speaking as someone who is part Native American, I can say that a few racist jokes aren't really going to get me offended by Adam Sandler..... in part because his movies have offended me beforehand.
Eight Crazy Nights anyone?
If I had a nickel for every film where Emma Stone falls off a balcony... I'd only have two nickels, but weird that there's two of them.
I can find parts of Adam Sandler movies funny (though even for me Thats My Boy was too much, seeing as it was played as a quirky romance), but on some days I would probably laugh if you jangled keys in my face.
But what I really can't stand are the "serious moments". I had the same problem with The Wedding Ringer; you can't make jokes about how many guys one of the characters raped in prison and still try and have "serious moments".
To be more on-topic; I don't blame the actors for walking off (sometimes no amount of money can replace dignity), but would anyone else watch an Adam Sandler-esque movie made by Apache that portrayed white people in a stereotypical way?
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Has there been such a movie? Guessing from the backlash against Avatar, I'd say not unless it had revolutionary special effects and a lot of Stuff Blowing Up.
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Hell yes, that sounds hilarious!
There's a Christopher Titus gag that would work perfectly for such a movie, riffing on a headline about white people suing a Native American group for stealing their land.
"*Native American voice* Hmm. Clearly, you are not a student of history. In that spirit, please accept these blankets. *to audience* If you did not get that joke, then you are not a student of history, and you went to a public school."
Mix in a little of Eddie Izzard's "Do you have a FLAG?" skit.
edited 29th Apr '15 7:26:48 AM by TobiasDrake
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Isn't every white character in a movie with a dominant black cast already acting in a stereotypical manner in some manner? At least the comedies.
edited 29th Apr '15 7:52:52 AM by GethKnight
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Speaking of Click, I fucking hate that movie. I refuse to get invested in the main character because of one reason: whomever fast-forwards through banging Kate Beckinsale is worthy of utter contempt at the least, and outright hatred on account of gross stupidity in the first degree at worst.
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When you're using redface on actual Native Americans, something has gone wrong.
Grrr. Beat me to it.
Seriously, Adam, what the fuck, dude? Want me to mock YOUR cultural heritage? Mnope? Well stop doing it to other people's, man.
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Given that the film is ostensibly intended to be a satirical riff on classic Westerns, requiring actual Native Americans to wear heavy makeup in order to capture the appearance of Hollywood Native Americans seems rather pointed to me.
The joke is that Reality Is Unrealistic.
edited 2nd May '15 1:46:56 PM by TobiasDrake
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Okay, but they're also applying brownface to people who aren't Native Americans.
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Uh huh. Just like this? Real Africa! Hollywood Africa!
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"I examined them and discovered one of the extras had a 60 pound hunting bow, and his arrow was a steel razor blade tip," Klinekole said. "He was pointing it at Danny and his vaqueros—if he would have slipped, he could have hurt someone or shot them dead with that arrow. Nobody was there to examine that stuff. The guy also told me he was shaking because he had to hold it 'for about five minutes'—how can you hold a bow for five minutes? It was a 60 pound bow!"
edited 2nd May '15 5:25:44 PM by AnotherGuy
So, it wasn't just racism, but someone being stupid and potentially leading to another's death? Odd.
edited 2nd May '15 6:38:54 PM by GethKnight
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Jesus fuck. This whole thing is a mess.
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Now, I just want things to get worse (but without anyone being killed or hurt). Just to see if Happy Madison will finally get their comeuppance.
edited 2nd May '15 7:44:09 PM by Quag15
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They dragged poor Danny Trejo into this, didn't they?
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Yep. Sometimes I think he's too nice a guy to say no to crappy projects at times.
Any actor who doesn't quit after learning they've have been aiming actual sharp arrows at him under unacceptable work safety conditions is too saintly for their own good.
Toshiro Mifune had live arrows shot very near him when he was making Throne of Blood. As this very wiki says, the look of terror on his face was real.
Though that was for Kurosawa, not for Sandler.
Did you just put Kurosawa in the same sentence as Sandler? ಠ_ಠ
I don't count that middle one either. The director called that movie Funny People. I call it Sad Stuff Happens And Nobody Laughs. x_x
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