© YouTube / Movieclips TrailersA screenshot from the trailer for 'The Hunt'
Originally scheduled for release at the end of September, 'The Hunt' depicted a hellish world in which rich liberals capture and hunt ordinary, decent, Donald Trump-voting "deplorables" for fun. In the movie, a band of captives arm themselves and take the fight back to their blue-state tormentors.
However, Universal ran into trouble when three mass shootings in Texas, Ohio, and California left 36 dead in the space of a week, days after the release of the movie's trigger-happy trailer. After pulling some TV and internet ads, the studio finally scrapped the release of 'The Hunt' entirely on Saturday, stating "now is not the right time to release this film."
The movie was also seemingly criticized by Trump on Friday. Though he did not name it directly, Trump tweeted that "the movie coming out is made in order to inflame and cause chaos. They create their own violence, and then try to blame others. They are the true Racists, and are very bad for our Country!," after a rant accusing Hollywood at large of racism.
A screenshot from the movie's website announcing the cancelation
Amid the storm of indignation, most of the movie's conservative detractors seem to have missed the message that in 'The Hunt,' the deplorables are the heroes. From the trailer at least, the movie tells the story of a band of regular folk taking revenge on a cruel, uncaring elite that wants them dead.
Universal gave no indication of whether it plans to release the movie at some point in the future.
Reader Comments
R.C.
Around 2005? I was with a friend and his ~10? year old son watching some typical dvd flick/film/movie.
The kid said: “Why is it that EVERY movie ends with ONE MAN saving the world?”
I still have no answer for any 10 year old.*
R.C.
*Or anyone? I dunno. Here at SOTT is the only “place” I’ve ever “been” where I might even hope to find a reasonable answer to that question.
RC
#2: I detect that your discussion of my words more than implies that it’s a work of fiction. Indeed, your repeated word ‘story’, (4x) alone, implies a ‘less than true tale’; and your text makes clear that such is your meaning,.
IF THAT IS your intent, you would NOT want me in your face when you said it.
I therefore feel obliged to make CLEAR to YOU, ISJARVI, that all things I have ever - in the last 7? years - typed onto here have been TRUE, (granting that none of us can do more than be aware of - and properly adjust for - our own subjectivity.); except those times I’ve declared x, y or z a work of fiction.
I frankly KNOW that my father was the most honest person I ever was blessed to know in this life. He was honestly incapable of lying.* My life's goal has been to mimic him. So far, here, over the years, what I have written has been in accord with my attempt to be now (and at all times) as truthful as my father was in his short life. (I'm almost a decade older than he ever saw.*)
So I guess your analysis might well apply to someone’s work of fiction, but it damn sure doesn’t apply to a word I’ve ever written on SOTT.
¿ Su comprende?
R.C.
*Typical US Death of a 50 something male via Med. Mal./bad blood transfusion - less than a year after he saved me first from the same fate.** No suits of course; not in our nature, which is strange given #2 below. (Read the Bio of my Pops and my Auto Bio when they come out. I'll post it here then.)
** He would have been an utter failure in my career which has routinely (on both sides of ALL negotiations) required one to be skilled at the ‘art’ of lying while ALSO somehow remaining within our inane ‘Code of Ethics.’ (“They: - our particular PTB - even recently tried to outlaw lying in mediations/negotiations, (e.g., “The most we can settle for your completely innocent, but now paralyzed client, injured by ‘our insured’ is $100K, when they know that have authority to settle for their 1M Max. Coverage amount, et al. ) but civil defense attorneys howled so loudly it was dropped.)
RC
I realize that I misinterpreted what you wrote; and I DO APOLOGIZE.
Again, apologies.!!!!
R.C.
Again, sorry.
R.C.
R,C,
R.C.
NRN
R.C.
In my opinion, it’s all about conditioning. What happens in real life when one man takes the leadership role in taking on the powers that be? They are usually assassinated and the movement dies with that person. They don’t want us to see examples of everyone banding together to fight evil. They want us to feel alone in the fight. They want us to feel that ”resistance is futile”.
"Idem."
R.C.
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R.C.
R.C.
Where's the F*CKING 'allegedly'?
Arghh!
R.C.
Re pic at top. My guess is that in his left hand, he holds a Baretta FS92; and in his right????? one of those stupid American? Desert? Eagle? .50 Cal?
I forgeT/don''t know for as a weapon they - the latter - seem so damn worthless. R.C.
*Cerebellum?
RC
The AR-15 US Army Standard Rifle uses much heavier and faster bullet but still basically a 22 caliber bullet. JFK was claimed to have been shot in the front of the head by James Files with one of the very first bolt action Thompson Center pistols using a then experimental .221 caliber bullet, which is itself revealing considering that the weapon, later known as the M-16 rifle was to adopt the 223/5.56 caliber bullet. After files told his story and many years later a shell casing for the extremely, extremely rare .221 fireball was found where files said he was when he claimed to have fired the fatal shot.
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The desert eagle is made by Israeli industries. I actually had a brief encounter with the vice president of Israeli Industries may years ago when he was visiting Seattle. Israeli industries is known for high quality weapons. This is a very large handgun. Not something you can hide unless you're a true stallion of a man weighting 20 or more stone and standing 6,6" or more, otherwise I suppose you could be the same weight and be 5,5 with enough seal fat to cover it.
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I guess that the .50 Cal. Desert Eagle (you agree with my guess? both?) probably has a .44 Mag-like recoil due to some of the energy being used to work the slide. But it still, to me, makes NO SENSE, given its size, its ammo, et al. It almost seems like a pistol they made just to get folks to use in films and idiots to buy it at insanely inflated prices.
I grew up with rifles and am familiar with the Stoner/Armalite/Colt/AR-15, et al history; and have owned two, including a preban Colt H-Bar and a ~73 (triangular front handgard AR-15, but which wasn't a Colt.
I do feel comfy with my Single/Double Action Sig 226 in, 9mm. I'm proud to say that I legally could have shot > 7? people, but still ain't shot a one, and only ONE time did the100% Legal-to-be-Killed (armed with pistols) targets even SEE my pistol.
My blood pressure goes down when I bet on pool, or when I get 'in the shit', which it seems my sad lot to have endured/suffered/enjoyed. I really don't know why, other than my Mum once telling me (I was 16 and got home from surfing at 11 p.) "You're just like your father; weird events seem to swirl around you." And she was right.
R.C.
*(Not big on DAO Semi Autos, such as Glocks/ HK's and everyone else, it seems. I'd prefer that first pull to be a long and hard one. (I've had to pre cock it one time...see the auto bio whenever I get done writing it.) (I had a friend, a deputy, no less, who, while cleaning his .45 Glock or HK (striker fired) semi auto who managed to shoot off one of his fingers with one; that was enough for me.
RC
I think a lot of kids, if honestly given serious firearms training wouldn't want to touch guns, I took my friends out with my S&W38 special and put some +P bullets in it and had them stand back behind me. They thought this was really kool right up to the moment that thing spit out a thunderbolt and then they didn't want to even touch it, and I'm not kidding you one bit. Scared the living daylights out em. Just like it did the first time I ever fired it. It's not good that kids only know real guns from TV. They don't know what guns do and that's not good.
I'm really not a huge gun nut. I just happened to have been required to carry a gun for the jobs I made my living doing over the course of my life. I'm old and retired now, but a firm believer in firearms, having seen what can happen when you need one and don't have one is a mind expanding experience. Guns are terrible weapons. I sometimes think of getting rid of my handgun but I know that at my age there's not a chance in hell I can help anyone should I stumble upon something without one. Someday I will have to of course. I can't decide but that may be the day I decide to go home. I don't want to die in a nursing home anyways. Don't worry I would never shoot myself. That's a horrible way to die and a worse way for your loved ones to find you. Get the book final exit to plan your ...ah ..exit.
Maybe being eaten by a shark isn't really all that bad after all and so even though you were a dumb kid to go surfing with sharks there might still be some value in that experience.
The irony is, if you censor or stop the release of a movie (or even a documentary) after people are aware of it, you only make people more determined to see it. Black market here we come!