November 29 2005 at 6:30 PM No score for this post
b-ro the merciless (no login) from IP address 67.191.184.221
After hearing yet another impression of Carl from slingblade (this time on family guy the other night) I got to thinking. Everytime there's a prominent movie about "mentally challenged" people everyone does an impression of the challenged character for many months or even years after. Think of how many Forrest Gump impressions or rainman inpressions or Carl impressions you've heard over the years. Why do we do this? Is this some kind of socially acceptable way of making fun of challenged people? Do impressions provide a safe outlet for pent up anti-mentally challenged aggression? Hey, didn't you play the retarded quarterback? All I'm saying is: that's all I'm saying. Nuff said.
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Which begs the larger question: why doesn't hollywood make films about females with such disabilities? I'm sure Charlize would jump at the chance to play such a character.
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on a serious note, there's a real reason for that. for 1, hollywood has gotten sick of movies about the mentally challenged. It used to be sort of an easy A to play a retarded character, but they played it out with Rain Man and Forrest Gump (not to mention Gilbert Grape), so when I Am Sam and Radio came along, they were like, enough already! There was that one movie with Juliette Lewis and Giovanni Ribisi, but for the most part women who want Oscars don't go dumb, they ugly up. Hillary Swank got the Oscar for Boys Don't Cry, Charlize got it for Monster (and is trying to pull the same crap with North Country), but it's just a matter of time before the Academy catches on to that scam, too.
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Yes, we're happy to provide the services of bringing people's prejudices to the surface rather than leaving them buried deep inside where they can fester. Whether it's bagging on barely 18 celebrity girls with drug addiction or eating disorders (like the Olsen twins), babbling about the nuances of ultra-violent and morally ambiguous video games (like Grand Theft Auto), or exposing how actors get Oscars by playing retards and uggos, the Dark Crazy is always there, doing it's part to make this world a better place.
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Funny you should say that about Charlize jumping at the chance to play a mentally challenged person. She did a guest spot on Arrested Development where she played a mentally challenged person who got engaged to Jason Bateman's character, but because she had a british accent no one seemed to recognize that she was retarded.
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