Posted on 08/30/2017 5:33:23 AM PDT by rktman
“It,” a horror film launching Sept. 8 about young boys in a fictional Maine town who face up against a creepy, child-killing clown-entity named Pennywise, is expected to be one of the highest grossing movies of the year.
Even the trailer for the film — an adaptation of the 1986 horror novel of the same title by Stephen King — broke industry records, prompting the entertainment industry to eagerly anticipate a break in the box-office slump.
But as the film’s drop date nears, one Boston University “Master Lecturer of Rhetoric,” Regina Hansen, has suggested a different storyline to focus on: the dominance of straight, white masculinity that pervades the tale.
In an article published this summer for Science Fiction Film and Television that delves into King’s novels, “It,” and additional on-screen depictions of his work, Hansen argues that his “white male underdog characters” achieve their heroic qualities “at least in part through the marginalisation of female characters, black characters, gay characters and characters with disabilities.”
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Well, he does base a lot of his stories in rural Maine.
Lunacy. These people are certifiable.
Lots of former slaves in that area. Right? ;-)
LOL. So the SJWs are attacking King now. It couldn’t happen to a nicer liberal a-hole.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Wow, Stephen King a closet Nazi, who would have thought....
Stories are written that dont have black or homo characters. The horror!
Well the producer could have It set in Lewiston and have Pennywise eating Somalis.
Could grief! I couldn't agree more.
Professor?
Scholar?
They keep using those words.
I do not think the words mean what they think they mean.
Why, oh why, would anyone throw their money into the sewer takng courses from the clowns pretending to be academics?
AND dangerous. Scarier than “IT”.
Comedy routine with the prof/scholar designations? Kind of like a PhD board. Who says the board members are correct? In a lot of cases, it appears they are totally wrong. I’ve known a bunch of PhDs that are nearly as dumb as mad maxine.
An adaptation...means it's not true to the original story, doesn't it? The book was good; the first film was pretty close. I wonder what changes they're making this time around?
According to liberal “thinking,” fiction must reflect the socialist/marxist/fascist/totalitarian society that liberals are trying to impose on us.
Academics = intellectuals = people who are not able to provide goods or services of value to others, so they pontificate and expect to be paid for it, usually from public funds.
That settles it...I won’t be going to see it.
Only because I hate clowns though.
Hansen argues that his “white male underdog characters” achieve their heroic qualities “at least in part through the marginalisation of female characters, black characters, gay characters and characters with disabilities.”
You know the truly sad and pathetic part of this? Not that this moron said it, but that someone pays her to say it!
“Well the producer could have It set in Lewiston and have Pennywise eating Somalis.”
LOL!! Then Pennywise would have been the hero.
King’s endings suck. I thought kathy Griffin should play pennywise
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