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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.”
If you can’t keep fact and fiction apart in your head, you shouldn’t see this movie. RE: If you aren’t smart and see this movie as something that it’s not, educational? don’t see it. Why even comment on it? Why give it the attention your boyfriend probably needs?
I bet though, if this were about lesbians and their sterotypes, everyone of you homos would be there.
Meanwhile, glad you aren’t going, less stinky aftershave when I go see the movie.
Entertainment is more than twinks dancing with each other in some sort of Dennis Cooper cage.
And the violent ending, what’s wrong, you can’t handle a gay bashing? They happen all the time. It’s horrible but it happens.
You realize the movie is NOT real right. It’s not a documentary.
It is amazing to me that during one of the most important times in our community’s history that this is the type of movie, joke or not that someone would produce and distribute.
OMG people, seriously? You people are all hating on a series that actually uses the extremes to show how “retarded” (seems like the word of the day) homophobia, racism, etc. are. If you saw Borat or any of his TV work you’d know this. Much of the critisism is about the stereotypes, yet I didn’t hear you complain when “Another Gay Movie” was out which does the same satirical, extreme stereotypical “hamster up the gay man’s ass” play. It was hilarious. They changed the ending – so no gay bashing to a gay couple with an adopted himilayan whistle kid…again, a stereotype. Seems like a lot of uproar for nothing. If you don’t like this humor, don’t see the movie, but don’t degrade those that actually can differentiate between reality and a comedic movie.
So many heated reactionary comments over this movie. Understandable though, since this article conveniently doesn’t elaborate how the Arkansas cage match turned into a gay bashing incident. Here’s the 411 on that:
A 5-Dollar event in Arkansas was billed as Blue Collar Brawling, supposed to feature hot chicks, cold beer and hardcore fights. Instead, Cohen and his assistant Hammerstan showed up, stripped and made out in the ring. Well, you can guess what followed after that. Goes to show how irrational and violent a mob of homophobic people can be. Was the original ending made purely for laughs, or was it a commentary of unscripted homophobia? Well, most of us haven’t seen the movie, yet many are so quick to provide a review.
I wouldn’t see this crap piece of movie on my death bed with a morphone drip. I did notice 365gay.com advertising the film on the main page, unfortuantely
They should have left the gay-bashing in. It could have shown the rest of the world what violence gay people are subjected to every day in a manner people can digest.
So why are you accepting ads from him, then? Huffington Post has had like 50 invented “stories” about this movie for the last 5 weeks. I’m just confused as to how this much fake news is being bought here.
Menstruator,
What makes you so nasty and so downright hateful? Been sleeping on a bed of nails again?
My guess (and it’s just a guess, folks) is that Cohen wanted the gay-bashing at the end to act as a bitch slap of reality at the audience. No matter how outrageous “Bruno” might be, somehow turning the comedy on a dime into a large dose of the reality of gays and lesbians might actually do some good. Pity they wimped out on the ending; it might have made the film slightly meaningful.
hmmmmm…. what to think about this…..
There’s a pretty brutal gay-bashing towards the end of Brokeback Mountain. Did the gay community have a knee-jerk backlash to that, thinking Ang Lee and his cast were somehow endorsing homophobic behaviour, or did intelligent viewers realise that the point of that scene was to show the violence and hatred engendered by bigotry for what it was? So, if as a community, we can understand artistic nuances like that in drama, why is everyone pre-programmed to clutch their pearls when someone tries to convey EXACTLY THE SAME MESSAGE through satire?
Rantboy,
Do you understand the difference between comedy and drama?
Yes, Scott P, I do. Have you ever read a definition of “satire”? Comedy isn’t all giggling at those crazy kids in the sitcoms, you know – satire is supposed to be savage, because it’s comedy that is mad as hell and isn’t going to take it any more. I suggest you do some more reading before you patronise me….
Agreed, BUT you were comparing two very different story lines and asking why there was no protest about Brokeback.