Posted on 03/09/2021 5:21:42 AM PST by Red Badger
Move came last year, but announcement comes days after claim cartoon skunk 'normalized rape culture'
The amorous French skunk Pepe Le Pew won’t be making an appearance in the upcoming sequel to “Space Jam.”
The news comes shortly after a New York Times columnist claimed the animated skunk featured in Loony Tune cartoons “perpetuates rape culture,” according to Deadline.
“Deadline has learned that a hybrid live-action animation scene between Jane the Virgin actress Greice Santo and Pepe Le Pew, shot back in June 2019 for Space Jam 2 was left on the cutting room floor,” Deadline reported.
“The live-action scene was filmed by the pic’s first director, Terence Nance. As we first reported in July 2019, Nance left the production with Malcolm D. Lee taking over. Under the direction of Lee, Pepe Le Pew was eliminated from the sequel a while ago and never animated for the live-action footage which was shot. According to sources who saw a rough cut three months ago, they didn’t see any kind of cameo by the skunk,” Deadline wrote.
While the writer, Anthony D’Alessandro, said Pepe’s firing from “Space Jam: A New Legacy” has nothing to do with the recent remarks made by The New York Times’ Charles Blow, he wrote “wait until you hear about the scene with Pepe which was cut.”
Pepe was set to appear in a black-and-white Casablanca-like Rick’s Cafe sequence. Pepe, playing a bartender, starts hitting on a woman at the bar played by Santo. He begins kissing her arm, which she pulls back, then slamming Pepe into the chair next to hers. She then pours her drink on Pepe, and slaps him hard, sending him spinning in a stool, which is then stopped by LeBron James’ hand. James and Bugs Bunny are looking for Lola, and Pepe knows her whereabouts. Pepe then tells the guys that Penelope cat has filed a restraining order against him. James makes a remark in the script that Pepe can’t grab other Tunes without their consent.
Blow wrote in his column that “Some of the first cartoons I can remember included Pepe Le Pew, who normalized rape culture; Speedy Gonzales, whose friends helped popularize the corrosive stereotype of the drunk and lethargic Mexicans; and Mammy Two Shoes, a heavyset Black maid who spoke in a heavy accent.”
After criticism, the columnist wrote on Twitter that right-wing blogs “are mad bc I said Pepe Le Pew added to rape culture. Let’s see. 1. He grabs/kisses a girl/stranger, repeatedly, w/o consent and against her will. 2. She struggles mightily to get away from him, but he won’t release her. 3. He locks a door to prevent her from escaping.”
“This helped teach boys that ‘no’ didn’t really mean no, that it was a part of ‘the game,’ the starting line of a power struggle. It taught overcoming a woman’s strenuous, even physical objections, was normal, adorable, funny. They didn’t even give the woman the ability to SPEAK,” he wrote.
Woman?
It was a CAT.
And a SKUNK.
There are no genders, so there are no species........................
So I guess he really didn’t like ‘CatDog’
So, why aren’t they canceling all the muslim rapists?
He did it all for the p-—y!
Knee slappin’ funny!
All cultures are equal..................
Wasn’t going to see it anyway. Now I will skip it with extreme prejudice.
Hollywood will soon come to the realization that their “woke” movies are far less appealing and entertaining. This is especially true in Asia where most of the profits are made.
How long until somebody cancels “A Charlie Brown Christmas” because Snoopy had the audacity to lick Lucy on the nose without her consent ?
Good one. Can I have a shot at one?
If you support the legality of Back Page (sex trafficking website) but cancel Pepe Le Pew ... you might be a Democrat. LOL
This shouldn’t come as a surprise considering the mad-on the left has for a certain frog....
Kek.
They’ll redo him as a transgender, recruiting children, and tnen celebrate him/her/it.
They should cut the whole movie. The first one sucked as much as any movie possibly could.
But I’m sure it sold a lot of licensed t-shirts which was the crossmarketing goal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDBvLPyJHU8
Anyone know if SNL repeats with "Pat" have been banned?
So French culture is being cancelled?
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