Because a just cause is always worth fighting for.
Posted on: Tue, Aug 12 2008 9:30 AM
Posted by: kim Posts: 21
very true video.
Posted on: Tue, Aug 12 2008 11:08 AM
Posted by: Vinny Posts: 746
Great video-It should be shown to adults as well.
Stay Strong
Vinny
Posted on: Tue, Aug 12 2008 11:17 AM
Posted by: Whitney Posts: 691
Since I saw this post, I won't make my own post but I get really disgusted when I see disabled people portrayed in the media as such grossly exaggerated sterotypes. I have a couple of examples. Yesterday, my husband was watching the movie "Are We Done Yet?" with Ice Cube. I didn't see the middle part at all but at the end there were two blind characters getting food for each other at a picnic. But instead of the food making it on the the plate, they were dropping the food on the ground because they missed the plate. I turned to my husband and he to me and said, "Why is that funny?"
Then one of my new favorite Christmas movies Elf, with Will Ferrel, has a scene that makes me cringe. The scene with the famous children's book writer. Why is it that Little People are always portrayed one of two ways - bitter and angry, or buffoons? And why must it be that they must be subjected to short jokes or references to their height in just about everything I've seen?
Whitney
Posted on: Tue, Aug 12 2008 12:05 PM
Posted by: Lieslmcq Posts: 2,303
LOL, Shelley. Not sure he would buy it since we lack the very basic thing you need to travel!
Posted on: Tue, Aug 12 2008 12:11 PM
I agree with you, Whitney. It sounds like the blind joke in Are We There Yet was making fun of us without any redemption involved. I feel the same way about Carlos Mencia (as everyone knows). I am hoping that the new movie is one that shows the ridiculousness of these stereotypes. I saw a preview for it that made ungodly fun of Hollywood method actors, which makes me think it will be the latter type of portrayal. I hope so, anyway. As far as I know, none of the people who were protesting the movie had seen it, so I am loathe to trust their word.
Posted on: Fri, Aug 15 2008 6:06 PM
Posted by: BMWgirl Posts: 236
People with disabilities who are upset about this movie need to get a life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No one is forced to watch it. I wasn't forced to go watch Backdraft two months after my freind was killed in a fire. As an athesist, I wasn't forced to go see passion of the christ. I am not forced to give my ticket dollar \to Mel gibson or Patricia Heaton hence I will not due to their anti stem cell research advocatcy.
But I don't think Backdraft should have been banned, I don''t even think passion should have mbeen banned.
I do NOT want the entertainment industry to be censored due to anyone's beliefs or agendas, the disability community is included in that!!!!!!!!!!
It already has an R rating for language so yeah GET A :LIFE to all you pc police!!!
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