Posted on 03/27/2015 12:04:40 PM PDT by drewh
Go to Starbucks and order a “tall blonde, black” and engage your barista in a serious conversation about race. Once you’re feeling adequately entitled, head over to your local movie theater, and go see Get Hard, the new comedy out Mar. 27 featuring Will Farrell and Kevin Hart–preferably after midnight, when the audience will be (ahem) more inclined to talk back to the screen. And laugh the P.C. police away.
Get Hard is a genuinely funny movie. It pokes fun, mercilessly, at America’s racial politics–which is precisely why the left is telling itself to hate the film. At the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, one audience member–evidently in need of a humor transplant–arose during the Q&A to offer the enlightened opinion that “This film seems racist.”
Really? And in related news, a teacher in L.A. was suspended for using the “n-word” in appropriate historical context. We’ve come that far.
There is nothing racist about the film–though it satirizes racial stereotypes, as well as the absurd racial and class themes of contemporary politics.
The story is about a white fund manager (Ferrell) who is sentenced to maximum security prison for fraud, and asks the car wash attendant (Hart), whom he assumes has already been to prison, to help him prepare. His fear is being sexually assaulted in prison–which leads, yes, to some edgy gay humor.
For daring to tackle these politically-charged themes, debut director Ethan Cohen has, ridiculously, fallen under a cloud of suspicion. The Associated Press notes that Cohen co-wrote Tropic Thunder–“a film that memorably flirted with racially sensitive territory.”
Cohen’s film also includes a (funny) joke that compares a Compton street gangster to a “young Ronald Reagan.” If I should have been offended, as a conservative, I forgot to notice. I just laughed.
You will, too.
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Fortunately my life and entertainment choices aren't encapsulated within a political bubble.......
There's life out in dem dere hills and it don't have to be political........
As I’ve often said here, if you participate in all the FR suggested boycotts, you’ll have to become Amish.
“Talladega Nights is worth a look”
For a Will Ferrell movie, it’ actually pretty funny. Good cast, good script, and did an accurate job in satirizing the Charlotte area. My favorite bit in the movie is when they choose Applebees when they decide they need to celebrate at a really high-end restaurant.
Actually, this may be the ONLY funny Will Ferrell movie.
Bonfire of the Vanities with Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis and Melanie Griffith. Even if it’s just for that one line by Griffith.
If one boycotts the movies and the liberal musical artists, they'll end up having to watch endless home movies and listening to themselves humming tunes........
I still mourn his passing. Of all the SNL prime time players, he IMHO, was the best as far as character development and persona. Almost never broke character, like Akroyd (sp?). Very subtle and nuanced. The glue that held that show together for many years.
Phil Hartman, that is. ..
I remember this movie, when it was “Blazing Saddles”.. but, allow me to make a wild guess and assume that Blazing Saddles is funnier.
I’ll pass.
Re: “I still mourn his passing. Of all the SNL prime time players, he IMHO, was the best. . .”
I agree. I miss Phil, too. A terrible loss
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