As you may or may not be aware, Peter Jackson’s latest project is The Dambusters.
Yay… whoo hooo etc. It will be bigger than King Kong! But then so will Play School the Movie, if Peter doesn’t get a grip on the idea that he’s making a movie for other people, not himself.
Immediately the hand wringing begins as to how do we treat the sensitive issue surrounding the bosses dog, and that…. that “n word”. [insert sudden intake of breath]
Oh my god we might offend people if we use that word, and then people might feel bad and it would be just simply awful. We’d have to sit down and have a strong cup of tea to recover from the vapours!
Nigger.
Nigger nigger nigger.
NIGGER!
Alrighty, everyone OK out there? Just send the death threats and lawyers’ wank to the usual address, and I’ll use them in the appropriate way, thus saving me buying toilet rolls for another month.
Fact: Guy Gibson’s dog was called Nigger.
Fact: Nigger was hit by a car and killed just before the mission.
Fact: The code word for a successful breech on the dam Gibson was going for was “nigger”.
There are two choices. Either you make a historical film accurately or make a PC fantasy. Funny how it’s a worry about using a word that might cause offence, but they don’t bat an eye at the depicting of wholesale death and destruction and illegal attacks on civilians. Screw the families of people who got a sudden case of being very dead that night because their house just happened to be in the way of a large amount of water. They can just suck it up. I dare you to imagine what the BBC and Reuters would be making of it if the IDF were bombing dams in Lebanon.
“But they won’t let him paint fuck on his helicopter because that would be obscene”.
Obscenity is so subjective really, isn’t it. It’s a funny old world of fucked up priorities, isn’t it.
Now no doubt some of you who have wandered in here for your weekly dose of being offended are now really wound tight and trying to work out how you can get me shut down, so I’ll just screw with your heads a little for a moment:
Guy Gibson will be played by Samuel L Jackson. Samuel L Jackson says “nigger” all the time, and no one gets all asthmatic and hyperventilates. Whoo hoo, problem SOLVED!!! World saved at no extra charge.
Apparently the word “nigger” isn’t offensive after all. Just when a honkey… err, white man uses it.
Of course the renaming of the film Nigger on a Plane might raise a few eyebrows, but there you go. If Samuel says it, no worries, if I say it the world ends.
You people are such a bunch of soft cocks. How the hell did we ever beat Germany and Japan? Must have been a time when being PC wasn’t the first priority.
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