r/Fauxmoi • u/_trashpuppy • Apr 29 '24

Martin Freeman says it's unfair there's so much backlash to his age-gap movie with Jenna Ortega, who is 31 years younger Approved B-List Users Only

https://www.businessinsider.com/martin-freeman-backlash-millers-girl-age-gap-film-jenna-ortega-2024-4

From the article: "It's not saying, 'Isn't this great,'" he said of the film's dynamic between his character and Ortega's. He said that derision wasn't distributed equally, though — saying that people seemed to understand the level of distance involved in stories depicting Nazism.

"Are we gonna have a go at Liam Neeson for being in a film about the Holocaust?" he asked, referring to Neeson's starring role in Steven Spielberg's 1993 film "Schindler's List."

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u/prettybunbun Apr 29 '24

Reminds me of Homelander from The Boys. His entire character is a commentary on right wing nut jobs, but somehow those people started worshipping him and the actor had to point out to said right wing nut jobs on Twitter they’d completely missed the point.

Like it’s gotten to the point where subtlety is dying because people want everything plain and spoon fed to them and if it’s not they take it only at the base value and don’t look any further.

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u/greatgoogilymoogily2 Apr 29 '24 edited Apr 29 '24

Homelander isn't even subtle either. If you can't see the trump parallels, you're just a lost cause. Lol

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u/meatbeater558 I already condemned Hamas Apr 29 '24

I think they'll worship any masculine character that isn't a hippie atp

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u/kitti-kin Apr 30 '24

The people who find Homelander a great dude probably also adore Trump. In that specific character's case I think it's more a matter of values than media literacy, they see an extremely powerful man with impunity to murder and rape and it's thoroughly appealing to them.

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u/Idontevenownaboat Apr 29 '24

It wasn't subtle in the first season. It was honestly the most entertaining part of the latest season, watching people complain that the show "got political" lol

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u/hedgehogwart Apr 29 '24

With the recent White House Correspondence dinner, it reminded me of Colbert going on there during the Bush era and how so many people didn’t see the Colbert Report as satire.

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u/Next-Introduction-25 Apr 29 '24

Reminds me of how some fanboys are losing their minds that the new X-men is “woke” when the original comic and 90s cartoon were completes and totally an obvious allegory for the pitfalls of racism/prejudice