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'IF YOU’RE SO SENSITIVE, LEAVE': AMERICAN INDIAN ACTORS TOLD TO EXIT ADAM SANDLER COMEDY
Breitbart ^ | 4/22/15 | John Nolte

Posted on 04/23/2015 9:39:31 PM PDT by Impala64ssa

Offended by satire, incorrect costuming, and inappropriate feather placement, a group of about a dozen American Indian actors walked off the set of an Adam Sandler comedy Wednesday, according to a report in Indian Country. Apparently, the actors were shocked to learn that Indians would not be inoculated from satire in the “Ridiculous Six” Western spoof, and that a comedy film wasn’t terribly interested in historical accuracy.

Things came to a head when one of the producers told one of the actors, “If you guys are so sensitive, you should leave.” [emphasis added]

Approximately a dozen Native actors and actresses, as well as the Native cultural advisor, left the set of Adam Sandler’s newest film production, The Ridiculous Six, on Wednesday. The actors, who were primarily from the Navajo nation, left the set after the satirical western’s script repeatedly insulted native women and elders and grossly misrepresented Apache culture.

The examples of disrespect included Native women’s names such as Beaver’s Breath and No Bra, an actress portraying an Apache woman squatting and urinating while smoking a peace pipe, and feathers inappropriately positioned on a teepee.

“When I began doing this film, I had an uneasy feeling inside of me and I felt so conflicted,” she said. “I talked to a former instructor at Dartmouth and he told me to take this as finally experiencing stereotyping first hand. We talked to the producers about our concerns. They just told us, ‘If you guys are so sensitive, you should leave.‘ I was just standing there and got emotional and teary-eyed. I didn’t want to cry but the feeling just came over me.”

The key phrase is “the examples of disrespect.”

Huh?

Wut?

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To: Impala64ssa

The headline here is they still consider Adam Sandler movies to constitute “comedy”.


61 posted on 04/24/2015 3:09:41 AM PDT by muir_redwoods ("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
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To: Impala64ssa
Adam Sandler comedy

Oxymoron.

62 posted on 04/24/2015 3:18:58 AM PDT by KevinB (Barack Obama: Our first black, gay, Kenyan, Socialist, Muslim president!)
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To: Impala64ssa

Never bought into the noble Indian BS....Indians are no more noble than any other breed of human.


63 posted on 04/24/2015 3:27:23 AM PDT by ontap
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Well, to me that pretty much sums up any Adam Sandler movie. There really isn’t much funny about him unless you’re into buffoons.


64 posted on 04/24/2015 3:38:32 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: fieldmarshaldj

That is the worst thing about Sandler movies. It’s not that they’re crude, vulgar, and offend people. It’s that they’re not funny. That’s the ultimate crime for any “comedy.”


65 posted on 04/24/2015 3:40:57 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: KevinB

Yes, both an ox and a moron.


66 posted on 04/24/2015 3:48:44 AM PDT by themidnightskulker (And then the thread dies... peacefully, in it's sleep....)
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To: Impala64ssa

Adam Sandler has made about 50 movies in which he plays an overgrown kid. I think it is a formula that works for this particular actor.


67 posted on 04/24/2015 3:55:03 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: davius

Bingo.

L


68 posted on 04/24/2015 4:08:42 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Impala64ssa

I say these folks graduated from the Democrat’s Whiner School™, where everybody learns to manipulate public opinion through made-up offenses. Recent graduating classes include blacktivists, progressive college faculty and students, educators, fags, feminists, muslims, environmentalists, communists and, of course, all media.


69 posted on 04/24/2015 4:09:21 AM PDT by W. (Many Disqus sites, Cheezburger.com and [The Internet] Archive.org all censor conservative comment.)
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To: Impala64ssa
"“I talked to a former instructor at Dartmouth and he told me to take this as finally experiencing stereotyping first hand."

So she reached adulthood in this bigoted, racist, white patriarchal society before she finally experienced stereotyping firsthand?

70 posted on 04/24/2015 4:12:02 AM PDT by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: Impala64ssa
Adam Sandler makes comedies!!??
71 posted on 04/24/2015 5:08:53 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (Fifteen two,fifteen four and a pair is six.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Reminds me of the Italians complaining about Mafia movies.


72 posted on 04/24/2015 5:13:31 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: PGR88
I don't think that Gunsmoke used actual Native Americans to play Native Americans.

This One seemed to be a logical choice.
73 posted on 04/24/2015 5:14:49 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: Impala64ssa
“I talked to a former instructor at Dartmouth and he told me to take this as finally experiencing stereotyping first hand."

I believe I've identified the problem.......Academia strike again.

74 posted on 04/24/2015 5:14:55 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Impala64ssa
Things came to a head when one of the producers told one of the actors, “If you guys are so sensitive, you should leave.” [emphasis added]

Even the left is getting sick of the left.

75 posted on 04/24/2015 5:15:44 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Jeb Bush makes John McCain look like Barry Goldwater.)
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To: 4yearlurker

Who knew?


76 posted on 04/24/2015 5:17:55 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Impala64ssa

What were they expecting? A “sacred” Adam Sandler comedy?


77 posted on 04/24/2015 5:46:37 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Just Say NO To Hillary.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Later


78 posted on 04/24/2015 5:52:47 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: Catsrus

“There is humor, and then there is humor. Personally, I don’t think Adam Sandler is funny, nor do I like any of his movies.”


I don’t think the point is weather or not you like Adam Sandler movies. Actually, I don’t think Adam Sandler has anything to do with the entire article.


79 posted on 04/24/2015 6:19:49 AM PDT by saleman (?)
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To: Impala64ssa

I am about 30% Inuit and MiQ’Maw Indian, married to a Jew, and I still crack up at the picture of Mel Brooks with the Hebrew Characters on his War Bonnet.

And all these new Age idjits with their dream-catchers, when only one tribe (The Ojibwa) actually believed in them.

Ha Ha Ha.

It’s like...My Dear Brothers and Sisters...Get a LIFE! In the old days, Hollywood used Jewish and Italian Actors to play Indians, and who can forget John Wayne as GhenJis Khan! LOL!

Why would anyone want to hire Native Actors, if they walk off the set at the slightest perceived insult.

Hattie McDaniel was asked if she were embarrassed to play “Mammy” in Gone With The Wind.

She replied that she would rather get an Oscar for PLAYING a slave than to BE a slave.

hahaha


80 posted on 04/24/2015 6:44:08 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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