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07.01.2009 3:46pm EDT
(WARNING: SPOILERS)
According to Movie Line, the original ending planned for Sacha Baron Cohen’s new movie “Bruno” involved a violent gay bashing. Though the ending has since been changed, audience members for a February screening of the movie say that the film ended with Bruno (Cohen) and his assistant Lutz (Gustaf Hammerstan) being attacked at an Arkansas cage match for making out in the ring.
According to writer director Richard Day, an industry figure at the February screening, the original ending cuts to a press event after the cage match where Lutz’s character “is now drooling, seemingly brain-damaged, and in a wheelchair, played for laughs.”According to Movie Line, the new ending has the couple “embrace domesticity with their adopted baby.” Day and actor Jack Plotnick (the only two gay people invited to the screening) complained after the movie, despite other audience members disagreeing.
“By the time I got to the bashing, the audience started defending the movie,” said Day. “They were annoyed with us for ruining the party.”
I cringe when I see the bruno character,I have a few over the top flamboyant friends,that don’t compare to this phoney,contrived,embarrasing sterotype, who I find really offensive.
Why do I want to see a movie of over the top gay stereotypes that had its ending changed from a gay bashing to something else; only because the 2 whole gay people at the test screening objected to it forcefully? I say screw that, its just as bad as the MTV movie awards where with whats his name and Eminem (or what ever the hell the rapers name is)
Jesus. That’s absolutely hideous. Would they end a race baiting movie with a lynching?
People it’s a F*cking persona! When will those of you chastizing the movie stop wording it the way you want to and get the story straight (no pun intended). Sacha Baron Cohen is not antigay; think of it similar to Bette Midler’s Divine Miss M. Bette Midler on-stage is raunchy and racy and vulgar, but offstage she is very shocked by dealing with vulgar issues (this was all kathy griffin’s doing). Also if you didn’t read the film changed the ending to a much happier note.
Another thing you guys do is go ballistic on this blog, you think that by being a bunch of whiny, d-bags that you can turn heads and really change the world. Pull your head out of you *** for one moment and think about what exactly you are typing.
I come here to get my rachel news (when i miss it on tv.) and to read both Daigle’s and Besen’s articles. That’s it. Not to pick fights with PO’ed gays/lesbians. I am so sick of ranting about how some of you choose to not grow up and accept the fact that you A: can’t have everything your way, B: No political decision is made and finished in a single day. and C: it’s a blog on a news website, get over yourselves.
Hello????
Did anyone read this right? The movie changed the “bashing ending”. I’d never spend a dime on it anyway. What a pure waist of crap!!
DR: I’m Jewish and Cohen’s character said a lot of really nasty things about Jews during Borat. It doesn’t bother me because I was paying attention and realized that, more than anything, he’s satirizing the haters.
I haven’t seen “Bruno” yet, but if it’s consistent with his prior work, I’d expect much of the same.
I laughed at the trailers and i’m going to go see it, and i’m definitely not an anti-gay bigot ‘Gay Man’. This is just like Borat in the way it rides on stereotypes to the point of extremity, and makes the ‘evil heterosexuals’ laugh at themselves because some really do believe gay men act as flamboyant as Bruno.
I wonder if this movie will say anything on lesbians?
Horray for gay bashing! Yeah, those gays, pff… they’re just overreacting, so emotional, right?
I mean, if it were violence against real people, of course I wouldn’t laugh at that, but they’re just gays, gosh.. get over it..
sigh… This world needs more empathy. Those other audience members clearly never learned to put themselves in someone else’s shoes for a minute.
Did I miss somthing? Poking fun at stereotypes is one thing. It’s something totally different to sit in a cinema with an audience finding laughable pleasure in viewing extreme violence against someone like me. I guess I’m just not over myself because I can’t stomach it. Remind me why we should patronize Mr. Cohen? And why this bit of scatology is advertised so predominantly on this web site?
I find some of the comments here kind of sad. If any filmmaker dares try to present gays in a positive, if cliche and stereotypical way, the gay community will hate them.
Would you prefer we go back to the days where homosexuality was either completely absent from film or treated as a mental illness?
So he’s poking fun at stereotypes. Duh. A lot of comedy pokes fun at stereotypes. Get over yourselves.
Josh said, “The person who wrote this story was dropped on his head as a baby. He wears a helmet now. His name is Island Boy.”
Wow. And that ad hominem comment of yours directed at me is supposed to prove that you have a better, more mature and sophisticated taste than a Cohen aficionado? Great success… NOT!
seriously…do we really care?
I think we should get back to real stories like dadt and doma. which 365gay.com seems to be lacking, or at least lagging behind all of the other sites.
The term “spoiler or spoiling” is subject to individual interpretation and to individual question as to what is meant and as to why that label needed to be inserted. It is a fairly meaningless label that does not begin to reflect everyone’s idea about any one flick in particular.
If this is a news service more than a blog, then we need to read about the events as they happened without needless “value-laden” or “emotion-laden” labels like “warning”, “spoiler” etc being attached to a news item headline.
Gay Man,
None of my heterosexual friends have antigay prejudices and none are bigots, or else I wouldn’t keep them as friends.
To say all straight people are this way or that makes as little sense as saying all gay people are this way or that.
Heterosexuals are outsiders with prejudices against homosexuality. Sascha Baron Cohen and everyone involved with the move Bruno are anti-gay bigots.