People have gotten their panties all in bunch over a “gay” joke that was in the trailer for Ron Howard’s latest flick, The Dilemma. The joke has since been cut from the promotional trailer but it’s going to remain in the film, as it should.
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Howard explained to The LA Times,
“[Vaughn's character] has a mouth that sometimes gets him into trouble and he definitely flirts with the line of what’s okay to say. He tries to do what’s right but sometimes falls short. Who can’t relate to that?
Howard writes that it was “appropriate” to remove the scene from ads “in light of some events that surrounded the release of the trailer,” referring to the recent, tragic spate of gay teen suicides. “The Dilemma is a comedy for grown-ups, not kids,” Howard says. ”We never expected [the joke] to represent our intentions or the point of view of the movie or those of us who made it. I don’t strip my films of everything that I might personally find inappropriate. Comedy or drama, I’m always trying to make choices that stir the audience in all kinds of ways. I defend the right for some people to express offense at a joke as strongly as I do the right for that joke to be in a film. But if storytellers, comedians, actors and artists are strong armed into making creative changes, it will endanger comedy as both entertainment and provoker of thought.”
If we start trying to remove everything that offends anyone, we will have nothing left. Every movie out there is going to have something that will offend someone watching it. Guess what? That’s life. You can take it away. You have to learn to deal with it and gain some self control while you’re at it. Or you could just go live in a bubble.
Happy Halloween!
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