Ben Stiller Fights Disability
Source: www.derekhail.com
Twenty-one disability groups are hot and bothered over Ben Stiller’s new film “Tropic Thunder,” after promotional posters for the film, and some of the dialog slam down the R bomb: retard.
“It’s sort of edgy territory, but we felt that as long as the focus was on the actors who were trying to do something to be taken seriously that’s going too far or wrong, that was where the humor would come from,” Stiller said. “[The joke is on] actors reaching for roles in terms of hopefully winning awards.”
When Stiller said that, I don’t think he entirely realized that the people he is talking to are mentally disabled. Unless he said this while tossing out apples, or included the words “rainbow” or “hugs time,” his message was never going to get through. I say give them a couple of tickets and let them laugh it off. Probably one of the first things they’re going to say as they’re walking out the theater is going to be “Jesus, what a bunch of retards.”
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