DreamWorks Goes ‘No Retard,’ Yanks ‘Simple Jack’ Site
Well, that was fast: Mere days after first drawing attention on a disability issues blog (and eventually going under magnifying glasses at the NY Times and here at Defamer HQ), DreamWorks’s mock Web site for Simple Jack is gone. The site had been part of the studio’s complex interweaving of Tropic Thunder tie-ins, with its “Once upon a time… there was a retard” tagline tipping the story of a disabled farmhand whom Ben Stiller’s character portrays in pursuit of an Oscar. But activist Patricia Bauer’s vigil continued, culminating late Monday with a handy restitution checklist for Stiller, DreamWorks and their distribution partners at Paramount:
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Politically correct bullshit. Why don’t you complain about something that matters. There are far worse things in this world.
you m m make me sad… james is comletely right i was laughing my as off when i saw this at the start of tropic thunder and there are worse things in the world than this bullshit dedicate your life to somehting that matters
Oh come on. He wasn’t making fun of people with disabilities, it’s making fun of people in movies that interpret people with disabilities. I agree they shouldn’t have used the term retard as much. But it was funny. If you pull it from the film the film wouldn’t run as long and most of it wouldn’t make any sense. I mean there are so many movies that push things to the limits and they get away with it. If Tropic Thunder removes simple jack, it won’t have that scene when Robert Downy Jr. tells him never to go full retard. If the scenes get pulled it will only prove that people with disabilities are retards because they can’t understand the meaning of a joke. The jokes not even about them. So to everyone trying to pull the scenes from the best comedy of 08, GET FUCKED.