An American Carol: The Left Brings On The Ugly
Posted by Dirty Harry on Sunday, August 10th, 2008
“Why be original? I’ve done that. It doesn’t work, like BASEketball.”
Bitter Writer runs with it:
There you have it. BASEketball didn’t win the box office, therefor originality is a bogus concept. …
Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
David Zucker, once associated with comic genius like Airplane! and now known primarily for churning out awful Scary Movie sequels, has let the world in on his current philosophy about moviemaking, which is perhaps more overtly shameless than one might expect.
Later, the same site posted this:
Considering [Kelsey] Grammer’s also appearing in An American Carol by David Zucker, who has essentially announced that he has no intention of being original ever again[.]
So the latest line of spittle-flecked attack is all about beating Zucker over the head with what’s obviously a self-deprecating comment. The irony so lost on Bitter Writer is that An American Carol — the idea of an openly conservative comedy openly taking on the left — may be the most original idea for a film in a decade. Of all the ad hominem attacks the left has and will launch against Zucker this may be the one that most exposes what Bush Derangement Syndrome can do to one’s common sense.
Hat tip: Christian Toto
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Mr24pon 10 Aug 2008 at 8:46 am 1I can only imagine how much worse it’s going to get too. Especially after the trailer hits. It’s funny how when we on the right question aspects of a movie we’re told we can’t do anything because we haven’t seen it. Then we see it and we react with questions and we get either we’re trying too hard to find something, we’re making a big deal out of nothing, we can’t take a joke (if it’s a comedy), or we’re the ones with the thin skin. I wonder what they’re seeing now as they turn the mirror on themselves?
And for the record, I like BASEketball. lol
StevefromMKEon 10 Aug 2008 at 8:57 am 2Here I thought the left and Hollywood were so tolerant. At least that’s what they keep telling us to be.
abeon 10 Aug 2008 at 8:58 am 3Since you seem considerably more unhinged than the fellow who wrote that article, are you sure you should be using the phrase “spittle-flecked attack” in reference to him given your own shrill invective? And why is it wrong for someone to take Zucker’s comment about originality and connect it to his string of god awful movies since “Basketball”?
Dirty Harryon 10 Aug 2008 at 9:08 am 4Abe: Uhm, because, An American Carol is the most original and bold thing a filmmaker has done in recent memory…? That point’s made in my post if you care to remove the BDS Glasses and take another look.
R.I.F.
abeon 10 Aug 2008 at 9:21 am 5Even Rosanne had an episode inspired by A Christmas Carol, Harry. Adapting Dickens’ idea to a scenario other than Christmas isn’t exactly that original. Why do you expect others to automatically anticipate “originality and boldness” rather than failure and lameness from Zucker given his track record? You’re being unfair…
Dirty Harryon 10 Aug 2008 at 9:25 am 6Abe: You’re being intentionally obtuse.
There are only seven to eight stories available to storytellers — that’s it and we all know it. Originality has nothing to do with which one of those stories you tell — it’s “how” you tell it. By your intentionally obtuse standard there has been not a single original story since Plato.
Using A Christmas Carol to ridicule the left and defend America has never been done before. Those themes haven’t been so openly examined in over a decade.
Kenn Christensonon 10 Aug 2008 at 9:35 am 7If I were Zucker, I’d be saying “Bring it on!” The more the “pod people” protest - the more publicity the film will get. Remember how much “The Passion” made?
I’d also say , that if you weren’t being attacked, you hadn’t done your job, correctly.
Kiton 10 Aug 2008 at 9:39 am 8WHEN IS IT BEING RELEASED?!?!
Dirty Harryon 10 Aug 2008 at 9:48 am 910/3 — is the release date.
abeon 10 Aug 2008 at 9:52 am 10Yea, there are “seven to eight stories” available to storytellers when you’re talking as broadly as possible. But “A Christmas Carol” has been parodied before in various comedies. Another incarnation of it isn’t exactly the height of originality. Yes, you are right in that there has NEVER before been RIGHT WING use of Dickens’ format before in order to “ridicule” liberals and “defend America.” Your threshold for originality is absurdly specific.
Dirty Harryon 10 Aug 2008 at 10:00 am 11Abe: You may be the first person on the planet to use the word “absurd” to describe “specific.”
Think about that.
Troyon 10 Aug 2008 at 10:06 am 12Your standard of originality is absurd because it’s impossible. There is nothing new under the sun as Solomon said. The Christmas Carol plot is a device. If done well it’s good. If not then it’s bad. The originality comes in the jokes, the images, etc. You are being obtuse — intentionally. Maybe you’re just stupid, but I doubt it.
abeon 10 Aug 2008 at 10:08 am 13Okay.
Stephanieon 10 Aug 2008 at 10:35 am 14And that is Abe’s reply…OK?
LOL! Yep a man and his loserness is never parted…or should I say a boy and his loserness…
Its funny but I agree. When Tipper Gore and her army of cankled verbige Nazis got congress to pass the warning labels on records and cds, Nikki Sixx was like awesome great, that means more people will buy them. I tend to agree with him. Let the leftwing fascists protest and cry……Zucker maybe laughing all the way to the bank.
Tommy Von 10 Aug 2008 at 10:45 am 15DH, thank you for that. I missed it until you pointed it out. Priceless.
Carloson 10 Aug 2008 at 10:45 am 16Liberal Hollywood, you know, the one with all the sequels, prequels, remakes, and reboots, attacks Zucker because he’s not “original”? LOL. Thanks for the belly laugh, Libs.
Jimboon 10 Aug 2008 at 11:04 am 17Ive found at least a few laughs in every Zucker movie. His recent Superhero Movie sure wasn’t a comic masterpeice but was way way way better then anything those Meet the Spartians hacks have put out. While I agree that “Christmas Carol” concepts are getting a bit old I still am looking forward to American Carol.
Tangoon 10 Aug 2008 at 12:30 pm 18Bingo, Carlos.
Kevinon 10 Aug 2008 at 12:30 pm 19Lame on that writer. BASEketball is one of my favorite movies. I’ve probably watched it 20 times.
Carolynon 10 Aug 2008 at 2:28 pm 20Excuse me, but can somebody please visit abe’s mom?
Bring some cookies, Jack Daniels, lot of kleenex and a couple hours to listen to her sobbing she tried her best to teach abe how to read and write, etc. Then once she’s halfway through the Jack Daniels and muttering about the time he wore a dress in sixth grade, you quietly leave her and go to the basement door. You open it and tiptoe down the stairs. At the bottom you see a ratty sofa with this smelly lump snoring on it. You go past Abe straight towards a rickety tv tray holding up his mom’s computer. One swift yank, the cable’s in your pocket and, joy! blissful peace for us all.
Oh, come on people! Do it for us! I’ll not only pop for the Jack Daniels - I’ll pay your cab fare!
Mr24pon 10 Aug 2008 at 2:55 pm 21Kevin on 10 Aug 2008 at 12:30 pm 19
“Lame on that writer. BASEketball is one of my favorite movies. I’ve probably watched it 20 times.”
You said no Journey psyche outs.
00smoothieon 10 Aug 2008 at 6:11 pm 22Do yourself a favor and read the Weekly Standard article: http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/385rlkfy.asp. It takes about 10-20 minutes to scan depending on how quickly you read.
Sharpshinyon 10 Aug 2008 at 6:21 pm 23I was really struck by the note he ends on: first, the inevitable straw man, “Why is criticizing America being equated to hating America?”
Uh, it’s not. Conservatives criticize America all the time. The American welfare system, the American social security system, the American education system, etc, etc.
The difference can be found in the author’s own characterization of patriotism: “Chocolate makes you fat and rots your teeth, but that doesn’t mean we don’t love the hell out of it.”
Precisely! This liberal has made our own point better than we ever could have. Conservatives view America as fundamentally good, though not without flaws. Liberals view America as fundamentally bad—unhealthy, like chocolate; if you love it, you do so in spite of your better nature.
That’s why, when a Dem wins the White House, conservatives don’t threaten to move to Canada, Norway or France. This is our home. We have nowhere else to go. If America dies, we die with it.
Phoenixon 10 Aug 2008 at 7:35 pm 24Bush Derangement Syndrome has stayed the course and achieved it’s objective: the wholesale liberation of liberals from their facades. It took firm resolve, but they are now cornered in their own isolated wails.
Bush should retire saluting “Mission Accomplished!” just to see how many he can make die of apoplexy with one mighty smack (and prove we have a sense of humor about liberal hysteria).
conservative13on 11 Aug 2008 at 3:49 pm 25Abe, you should just stick to posting at The Daily Kos. Everything that you post makes you look like a fool.