The Hunt - Movie Cancelled ("Liberal Elites" hunting "Deplorables")

[soulcougher73]

I didn’t see anything in the trailer about deplorable. Thread title edit?

 

[HomerJS]

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/the-hunt-canceled-by-universal-following-significant-backlash

What a strange concept for a movie, liberal types hunting MAGA types. This is Hollywood today, I guess. Move division created by liberals. There is a market for this kind of thing?

Not a big deal. The amount of people making these kinds of films can fit inside a college football stadium!

 

[Sinsear]

Why are we censoring art?

 

[glenn1]

Yes, and in that movie, it's the people who are being hunted, or rather, forced to hunt each other, who are the victim-protagonists and the elites who are the villains. I can only assume that is also true in this movie. I can't recall the last time I ever saw a mainstream Hollywood movie which depicts murder in a sympathetic light just because the victims support the wrong person for POTUS. One would think that such a movie would bring tremendous ire down upon not only the filmmakers, but whatever studio green lit the project. Yet they only decided to sideline the project after the mass shootings last weekend.

What’s unusual is the movie reportedly chose to cast the city/country folks as explicitly belonging to the political tribe they’d belong to in real life. That’s new.

Otherwise it’s a very common theme in books and movies for the “weird city folk and their strange beliefs and unnatural practices” to be what the noble protagonist from the countryside steeped in the “traditional ways” struggles against being exploited by or assimilated into.

Besides Hunger Games, see “Brave New World” and John the Savage, “The Wizard of Oz” and Kansas-born Dorothy vs the “Wizard” in Emerald City who is shown to be a fraud, Animal Farm, Etc.

It’s even a trope of kids films and books - the “evil urban developers” trying to tear down Carl’s house in Pixar’s “Up”, the pastoral hobbits in Lord of the Rings vs. the city skyscraper (the tower of “the Eye of Sauron”), basically every movie with a farm animal protagonist “lost in the city,” etc.

 

[pmv]

'nother guy crying about a movie you haven't seen and know little of the plot. Sad.

Here's another movie for you to be outraged by

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107076/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_57

and, just for fun

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111323/

I was thinking of this one

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113613/?ref_=tt_urv

I never saw it - I fear it could induce self-doubts.

 

[Vic]

Why are we censoring art?

Because it hurts right wingers' precious feels.

 

[Vic]

What’s unusual is the movie reportedly chose to cast the city/country folks as explicitly belonging to the political tribe they’d belong to in real life. That’s new.

Otherwise it’s a very common theme in books and movies for the “weird city folk and their strange beliefs and unnatural practices” to be what the noble protagonist from the countryside steeped in the “traditional ways” struggles against being exploited by or assimilated into.

Besides Hunger Games, see “Brave New World” and John the Savage, “The Wizard of Oz” and Kansas-born Dorothy vs the “Wizard” in Emerald City who is shown to be a fraud, Animal Farm, Etc.

It’s even a trope of kids films and books - the “evil urban developers” trying to tear down Carl’s house in Pixar’s “Up”, the pastoral hobbits in Lord of the Rings vs. the city skyscraper (the tower of “the Eye of Sauron”), basically every movie with a farm animal protagonist “lost in the city,” etc.

Yes, it's true. Contrary to the usual stupidity about 'Hollyweird liberalism,' Hollywood movies frequently contain plots and themes involving good rural conservative folks rising up against evil liberal decadent city-dwelling elites. Another recent and very pointed example of this is Zootopia (another farm animal protagonist lost in the city movie).
But of course, the OP would never complain about this or call it divisive.

 

[Victorian Gray]

Both of those movies are fantastic.

I remember enjoying them both as well.

 

[Victorian Gray]

I was thinking of this one

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113613/?ref_=tt_urv

I never saw it - I fear it could induce self-doubts.

Don't remember that one. Doesn't look like I'd care for it.

 

[JSt0rm]

The liberal left hypocrisy knows no limits...

Pro gun person hunts and kills a lion for sport... Liberal left loses their effing minds.

Liberal Hollywood makes a movie fantasizing about hunting and killing "Deplorables"... Hey we're just making satirical social commentary.

The day it gets released, the first leftist who follows the movie and does a mass murder, every person connected to writing and producing this movie should be charged with accessory to murder.

you must have a case of the vapors.

 

[Ichinisan]

Yes, it's true. Contrary to the usual stupidity about 'Hollyweird liberalism,' Hollywood movies frequently contain plots and themes involving good rural conservative folks rising up against evil liberal decadent city-dwelling elites. Another recent and very pointed example of this is Zootopia (another farm animal protagonist lost in the city movie).
But of course, the OP would never complain about this or call it divisive.

Which right-leaning views did Officer Hops have?

 

[Vic]

Which right-leaning views did Officer Hops have?

She was from a rural area, had a quasi-religious conviction in law and order, and thought that 'foxes' were all thugs. But it was only her one negative childhood (bunnyhood?) experience, and the criminal conspiracies of the leftist elitist sheep mayor, that made her believe that. Luckily, she had the help of a shrewd entrepreneurial fox who showed her that redwood is really just red wood.

 

[FelixDeCat]

lol @ the liberals

 

[pcgeek11]

I was looking forward to watching The Hunt.

Now I guess I can't because some snowflake got hurt feelings. Crap!

 

[pmv]

Yes, it's true. Contrary to the usual stupidity about 'Hollyweird liberalism,' Hollywood movies frequently contain plots and themes involving good rural conservative folks rising up against evil liberal decadent city-dwelling elites. Another recent and very pointed example of this is Zootopia (another farm animal protagonist lost in the city movie).
But of course, the OP would never complain about this or call it divisive.

Hmmm...there seem to be two counterposed tropes.

You have one that sees rural people as terrifying and stuck in some sinister quasi-medieval mode of life that the modern city dweller visits at their peril. E.g. Deliverance, Straw Dogs (Cornwall apparently being the Deep South of the UK), The Wicker Man (the Scottish Islands are also the Deep South, I guess), The Hills Have Eyes, Severance (the whole of Eastern Europe is also the Deep South), Wolf Creek, in fact, come to think of it, any number of horror movies...

But there's also a counter-trend of showing the city as a den of vice and iniquity that is no place for the homespun right-thinking small-town or rural citizen (Crocodile Dundee, Mr Smith Goes To Washington...)

Seems like 'small towns' get a better rap than either big cities or the properly rural.

I guess there's an optimal size for a settlement in movies, somewhere between murderous hillbillies and urban chaos.

 

[Ichinisan]

She was from a rural area, had a quasi-religious conviction in law and order, and thought that 'foxes' were all thugs. But it was only her one negative childhood (bunnyhood?) experience, and the criminal conspiracies of the leftist elitist sheep mayor, that made her believe that. Luckily, she had the help of a shrewd entrepreneurial fox who showed her that redwood is really just red wood.

The movie depicts the country folks as bigoted and biased, not noble and righteous...although Hopps was supposed to be far more idealistic and open-minded than her parents and the rest of her town.

I don't think the movie flatters small town country folks in the way you imply it does.

 

[Starbuck1975]

She was from a rural area, had a quasi-religious conviction in law and order, and thought that 'foxes' were all thugs. But it was only her one negative childhood (bunnyhood?) experience, and the criminal conspiracies of the leftist elitist sheep mayor, that made her believe that. Luckily, she had the help of a shrewd entrepreneurial fox who showed her that redwood is really just red wood.

And how many liberals did she hunt for sport due to their political ideology or cultural leanings?

 

[zinfamous]

Per Fox News:



Doesn't sound like the movie is going to be endorsing the actions of these characters at all. Sounds more like something written by conservatives to show the evilness of liberals. Or maybe it's non-partisan, trying to show what happens when political tribalism goes too far.

hey man, this kind of nuance is too complicated for deplorables like the OP.

 

[zinfamous]

The day it gets released, the first leftist who follows the movie and does a mass murder, every person connected to writing and producing this movie should be charged with accessory to murder.

OK, so when is Trump being charged with accessory to murder for commanding all of his retarded followers to go out and murder non-white people and immigrants? When is that happening? Trump has already done these things, many times. Surely you hold someone like POTUS to the same standards that you do these phantom evil liberal masterminds, right?

right?

 

[glenn1]

The movie depicts the country folks as bigoted and biased, not noble and righteous...although Hopps was supposed to be far more idealistic and open-minded than her parents and the rest of her town.

I don't think the movie flatters small town country folks in the way you imply it does.

<shrug> it was an example of the general trope, I don't think ATPN needs to apply a PhD dissertation level of rigor here in analysis of forgettable animated features.

Back to the OP, it doesn't seem like there was any particular backlash from right-wing "thought leaders" or FoxNews, etc. trying to get this movie cancelled. Seems like it was just a decision from the studio execs the PR headache it would create just doesn't justify the release right now. That's probably heavily influenced by recent events that are roughly analogous to the movie plot and wouldn't be the first time.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...ille-day-might-face-delay-after-paris-attacks

For those wanting to see the film, I'd not be surprised if the studio slightly reshot some scenes to reduce the perceived risk and releases it at some point. It will probably blunt most of the "liberal elites" storyline in favor of a more conventional "evil rich person looking to hunt people for sport" storyline and will downplay any mention of the politics of said rich person doing the hunting. For those who really, REALLY want to see the "liberal elites hunting deplorables" they'll probably provide that as "extra footage" on the more expensive "uncensored" version of the DVD or something.

 

[Juiblex]

Yes, it's true. Contrary to the usual stupidity about 'Hollyweird liberalism,' Hollywood movies frequently contain plots and themes involving good rural conservative folks rising up against evil liberal decadent city-dwelling elites. Another recent and very pointed example of this is Zootopia (another farm animal protagonist lost in the city movie).
But of course, the OP would never complain about this or call it divisive.

Interesting. I've never seen that type of movie, but I'll check out Zootopia.

 

[Bitek]

If you want to enjoy some racist deplorables getting their due, just fire up the Machete series and awe as Danny Trejo goes to work.

First movie from 2010, you would have thought DJT watched n the movie and cribbed notes for his future campaign.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Without reading the link that could be a real funny comedy.
Bunch of MAGA tough guy wannabes getting hunted by accountants and script writers. Maybe they’re trapped on an island or filming a movie way out in the woods.
Obviously keep it light humor, something like scary movie, completely unbelievable contexts.

Kind of like the deliverance in reverse.

 

[ElFenix]

has anyone made a jerboy scroll for slow?

 

[Jhhnn]

Reminds me of a user here. "agent00f" trying to dehumanize everyone he disagreed with as "degens" (degenerates). Post after post after post... There was really something wrong with him.

Both of those movies are fantastic.

I think he was the only poster I ever put on ignore.