Posted on 03/03/2016 3:08:02 PM PST by drewh
Audiences at screenings around the world have been cheering and applauding a macabre scene in a new film by Sacha Baron Cohen in which "Donald Trump" accidentally contracts HIV.
"The Brothers Grimsby" opens March 11 in the US, though chances are you're learning that for the first time here, given a decision by Sony Pictures to limit its marketing of the satiric comedy. The studio is concerned about the reaction from the real Donald Trump.
At the film's world premiere in London last week, the Daily Telegraph reported that the Trump moment was met with "loud cheering." The Metro newspaper called it a "massive cheer." A viewer at a different screening tweeted, "Went to watch Grimsby and the whole cinema clapped when Donald Trump got given AIDS in it."
Elsewhere in Europe, there were standing ovations. The joke, done in Baron Cohen's standard over-the-top style, is proving cathartic to overseas audiences terrified by Trump's rise.
Back at Sony's Hollywood headquarters, however, there has been much less enthusiasm about the scene in question. Three industry sources said that Sony had made its displeasure clear and pushed to remove the scene, but that Baron Cohen has final authority over the film.
Studio executives are nervous about angering the famously vengeful and litigious Trump, compounded by the possibility of getting on the wrong side of the possible next president. Still traumatized by its run-in with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un in 2014, Sony decided its best option was to limit the damage. The film now includes a disclaimer indicating that Trump did not, in fact, participate in making the movie. "If you were told that they're shying away from the movie because of the political implications, I can tell you that's 100 percent true," said a well-placed source.
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I suppose this new movie is vying to displace “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes” in one ore more categories.
Screw Europe.
Dissolve NATO and let the Euroweenie losers fend for themselves against ISIS and the muzzies, and that includes the cheering limeys in Londonistan.
Screw Europe.
Dissolve NATO and let the Euroweenie losers fend for themselves against ISIS and the muzzies, and that includes the cheering limeys in Londonistan.
Has this cipher ever made a movie that wasn’t a waste of celluloid?
Actually, it's pretty easy to think Obama has contracted AIDS...
He was servicing his homo buddies in Chicago about the right time frame...
So...AIDS is a laughing matter?
It is if you’re not a mouthbreathing leftist. No one on our side would be crass enough to do so but imagine if someone made a movie that featured 0bama being buggered by larry sinclair, getting aids and then dying from it after a prolonged painful illness.
This should be deleted!
“...the whole cinema clapped when Donald Trump got given AIDS in it.”
Much like when I clapped when Meryl Streep got syphilis in “Out of Africa”.
“Can you imagine the reaction if this had been about Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama?”
Of course, but it will never happen.
It’ll probably anger a bunch of homosexuals. I keep reading they’re trying to diminish people’s revulsion of HIV.
The liberals and Euros are really attacking Trump in the Daily Mail comments’ section. Cheering when a man gets AIDS? How low has our culture fallen?
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