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

SlowSpyder

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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?

Those designated humans being “MAGA types" as described by The Hollywood Reporter. “Nothing better than going out to the Manor and slaughtering a dozen deplorables," a character says, according to THR.
 

cytg111

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Is this the same people who got their feels hurt by a nazi killing game ... what was it, wolfenstein? It sounds like it.What a bunch of pussies.
 

Ichinisan

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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.
 

cytg111

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What is a MAGA type? Only thing I can come up with is the red cap. Anything else? (besides frothing at a Trump rally over rapist mexicans..)
 

woolfe9998

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Per Fox News:

It was billed as a satirical take on wealthy liberal thrill-seekers taking a private jet to a five-star resort where they embark on a “deeply rewarding” expedition that involves hunting down and killing designated humans.

Those designated humans being “MAGA types" as described by The Hollywood Reporter. “Nothing better than going out to the Manor and slaughtering a dozen deplorables," a character says, according to THR.

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.
 

glenn1

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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?

Sure just watch or read “The Hunger Games” series. It’s all about decadent elites from the city (called “The Capital”) exploiting the good salt of the earth people from the country. To the point they have no food (this the title) and forced to fight to the death in an arena for the entertainment of the city elites.
 

woolfe9998

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Sure just watch or read “The Hunger Games” series. It’s all about decadent elites from the city (called “The Capital”) exploiting the good salt of the earth people from the country. To the point they have no food (this the title) and forced to fight to the death in an arena for the entertainment of the city elites.

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.
 
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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.

Movies made by and for conservatives tend to have fewer Hollywood connections, are lower budget, have poor production values, and usually an obvious political message -- e.g. the terrible Atlas Shrugged adaptation.

The company making this was behind (or at least involved) with The Purge and Get Out, as well as a bunch of other horror thriller type movies. After watching the trailer, I get the impression that they're more trying to be provocative than they are trying to communicate any specific political message. The guys being hunted seem to be the protagonists in any case. But anything else would be far too risque to get a mainstream outfit like Universal on board, so that probably goes without saying.

I think the backlash from various conservatives personalities over this was ill-founded and ironically seems right in line with the regressive left's playbook. If this was a movie celebrating "hunting deplorables" that would be one thing. But there's no indication from the trailer that this is the case. Sad that given the right opportunity, both sides will express censorious opinions even while proudly proclaiming to be against censorship.

The PR statement is that the movie was pulled because of the recent shootings. But I don't think that's the entire story. If your movie looks bad releasing close to some recent major event, you delay until that event is no longer recent. You don't cancel it altogether.

It's a shame because the movie looks like it's finished (or very close to it), and hopefully it eventually sees the light of day. Stopping a project at the start of production because of political pressure is unfortunate. Doing the same at the end of production feels dangerously close to book burning. I hope it eventually sees the light of day.
 
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People crying about a movie that they have neither seen nor understand the plot of. Sounds about right. Can we figure out a way to tie in antifa as well?
 
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Zero. He gets them sent to his email because he's subscribed to multiple right wing websites that love shitting in their viewers skulls and slow can't get enough.

The headline directly under this on the fox entertainment page is "Miley Cyrus dances around in a thong bikini on Italian getaway". National enquirer has some serious competition from fox.
 

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Movies made by and for conservatives tend to have fewer Hollywood connections, are lower budget, have poor production values, and usually an obvious political message -- e.g. the terrible Atlas Shrugged adaptation.

The company making this was behind (or at least involved) with The Purge and Get Out, as well as a bunch of other horror thriller type movies. After watching the trailer, I get the impression that they're more trying to be provocative than they are trying to communicate any specific political message. The guys being hunted seem to be the protagonists in any case. But anything else would be far too risque to get a mainstream outfit like Universal on board, so that probably goes without saying.

I think the backlash from various conservatives personalities over this was ill-founded and ironically seems right in line with the regressive left's playbook. If this was a movie celebrating "hunting deplorables" that would be one thing. But there's no indication from the trailer that this is the case. Sad that given the right opportunity, both sides will express censorious opinions even while proudly proclaiming to be against censorship.

The PR statement is that the movie was pulled because of the recent shootings. But I don't think that's the entire story. If your movie looks bad releasing close to some recent major event, you delay until that event is no longer recent. You don't cancel it altogether.

It's a shame because the movie looks like it's finished (or very close to it), and hopefully it eventually sees the light of day. Stopping a project at the start of production because of political pressure is unfortunate. Doing the same at the end of production feels dangerously close to book burning. I hope it eventually sees the light of day.

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.
 

cytg111

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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.
I cant tell if this is irony or not. I know its not... but at the samd time noone can be this blind... Right?
Who is currently shooting up people in the name.of what? By your logic Trump should have been dragged off to jail yesterday. and the day before that. and the day before that. and......
 
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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.

'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/
 

cytg111

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I guess this "outrage" is about the Trump clan trying to "include" a broader audience.
 

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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 know that movies aren’t real, right?

Like, you realize that when a person shoots a lion it is dead but when you saw New York get destroyed by a monster in a movie that New York is just fine. Right?
 

ch33zw1z

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You know that movies aren’t real, right?

Like, you realize that when a person shoots a lion it is dead but when you saw New York get destroyed by a monster in a movie that New York is just fine. Right?

Conservatives are an endangered species, even figuratively, and the victims of perpetual persecution, or something.
 

TheVrolok

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I thought it was the liberals that were supposed to be the giant pussies.
It's whatever the right wing needs at the time, libs are either frothing violent anarchists or sissy little snowflakes depending on what will stir the base the most.
 

Hayabusa Rider

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I have an idea. Imagine a comedienne who 15 years ago had a routing that a current "christian" pastor decided to attack because she was a Jew, really wanted to kill Christ again. A whore of Zion, who should have her teeth broken and God should kill.

Will no one rid him of this meddlesome Jew? One can look at the congregation in two scenes. One is the violent left and the Trumpian right. The first would be an empty church and the latter packed full.

"Based on true events" even.

So people can go on the internet and rile others up about her and others with some guy attempting to bomb them. Trump protectionists then defy and deny that Trump supporters are remotely like this and start blaming BLM and antifa.

It could be a Tarantino film with bandoliers with the pastor leading the anti-jew assault, with cowering evil Shylocks as the Jews.

Trumpettes would be thrilled.
 

pmv

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Kind of hard to judge the movie when it hasn't been seen. Lord alone knows what angle it takes. Does seem a provocative topic to make ficiton about in the current climate, though, whatever slant it has.

(What was that movie about liberal students inviting conservatives to dinner parties and poisoning them? Never saw it - didn't really feel any desire to see it - but I gather it was all very ambiguous and ambivalent, in its politics...perhaps this is among similar lines, the usual "be careful when fighting monsters lest you become one" sort of agonishing? Or maybe it's making a point about class, as there have been plenty of works with this basic theme - didn't one have Jean-Claude van dam or some other action hero type as the hunted - but usually its about rich right-wing people hunting poor people. Maybe they decided to nuance-it-up a bit by having the rich callous people be liberals?)