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Posted by Defamer Hollywood at 4:12 AM on March 1, 2008
Our progressive neighbors to the North -- they of universal health care and stealthy American media insurgency -- may yet cede their place among North America's movie industry vanguard. The Toronto Globe and Mail reports that the country's Conservative leadership wants no part of backing "any film or television show that it deems offensive or not in the public's best interest - even if government agencies have invested in them." Naturally the Canadian left is mortified envisioning a future sans even the tamest of subversive exports. "Would this committee put money into Juno?" asks Toronto lawyer David Zitzerman. "It might not want to encourage teen pregnancy. Would the government put money into a film with a dirty title, like Young People Fucking? Would they invest in something like Brokeback Mountain? They might not want to encourage gay cowboys to have sex together in Alberta." Hollywood studio heads, having long endured the repercussions of Canadian filth from Strange Brew to Paul Haggis, were rumored to vigorously laud the move in a conference call Thursday.
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goldfarb
Posted 5:46 AM 1/3/08
ugh...these pricks wouldn't have allowed funding of a single Cronenberg film...
we're discussing this at work today - we do VFX and animation, all of it is in some way publicly funded and/or tax credits etc...and as much as I like my job, the idea of govt. stooges involved in our 'culture' has always sickened me...
goldfarb
secretagentman
Posted 6:30 AM 1/3/08
The crazy thing about Young People Fucking is, the title is the 'dirtiest' thing about it. It's a funny, sweet movie about finding the right person/love. Usually I'm so snooty about being Canadian with the health care and the strict gun laws and the gay marriage but this, this hurts.
secretagentman
SteamyMcFirecrotch
Posted 6:30 AM 1/3/08
What a bunch of hosers, eh!
SteamyMcFirecrotch
cardboardbelt
Posted 6:56 AM 1/3/08
Shit, this is really going to jepordize my new Montreal filmed project, 'Hate Crime Hard-On'
cardboardbelt
judithvansteppes
Posted 12:51 PM 1/3/08
Harper [Canadian prime minister] will eventually be canned and all will return to normal, though his move made no sense- for all the hullabaloo about gay marriage in Alberta they still made a killing off Brokeback Mountain, this proving the old adage, "conservatives love money more than they hate anybody".
judithvansteppes
raincoaster
Posted 4:40 AM 2/3/08
Could someone please beat Stephane Dion with a big stick until he takes down Harper and his robot army of closeted gays?
raincoaster
Miss d
Posted 9:45 AM 3/3/08
I guess he forgot all about Trailer Park Boys, eh?
Miss d