According to this article about Santa Fe native Michelle Williams (and this is an exact cut & paste quote)
I think this is absolutely ridiculous. Sure, she stared in the movie, but then so did practically every other actor. Sometimes if you don’t have dialogue and your character really doesn’t know what to make of something as her character doesn’t when she learns about her husband’s affair, it’s only natural that you would stare. It doesn’t mean you’re a terrible actress, just that you choose to underplay the scene. If the school can’t get around her choice to stare rather than ham it up, then screw them.
It wasn’t just for staring, it was the gay stuff, according to this article and some other ones.
That’s bad too, I guess.
I wonder… if Huck had spit on his dick and given to Tom right there on the raft, I wonder if they’d have been proud.
Nah, I doubt it. Since Mark Twain was by all accounts a devout and God fearing Christian atheist-author it probably fit in with the school’s values, and other than swearing and underage smoking and benefitting from a stolen treasure and murder and alcoholism Tom Sawyer has no objectionable themes.
Maybe Michelle will see (or at least stare at) the Light and henceforth do only good Christian word-of-God movies like Left Behind IV: The Anti-Christ Gets Bar Mitzvahed or Francis Ford Coppola’s Billy Graham’s Paul Crouch’s Lew Wallace’s BEN HUR 2: A TALE OF THE CHRIST’S SECOND COMING and such, or just start a sock puppet ministry (“This is Sockular Humanism boys and girls, and he’s gonna go after our friend Miss Holey Hose!”) and return to righteousness.
Or not.
Either way I must apologize, I’m in a slightly sillier mood than usual where this type of crap is concerned. But we can all agree it’s because of the weather and the frigging Illuminati.
I was trying to figure out what she was staring at. Then I realized it was supposed to be “starring”. Then I realized it was a less than a non-biased source.
So what? It’s a private religious school. The Headmaster doesn’t condone the content and asked her not to return. So don’t go. Shun the school for not bending to pressure. If there’s something illegal about it, let me know. Otherwise grow up and understand not everyone will bend to your will.
Getting worked up over this is no different than if the Headmaster tried to ban gay pride parades. And I’m sure we know that would go over like a fart in church.
Oh, a bitch session. Sorry for intruding. I just wish the OP’s in these things would state that only posts ranting about the link were welcome. I’m still learning after all this time. :smack:
I don’t see where the OP said that opposing views weren’t welcome. It’s a rant about douchebaggery but I didn’t see where he claimed there was anything illegal or about it or that anyone should stop it.
Well, technically the OP was about a typo I found amusing. The second part was just a standard “What a frigging maroon”.
My high school principal- true story, one of those “I wouldn’t make it up because it sounds too made up”- was a good ol’ boy Larry-the-Cable-Guy-in-a-cheap-suit clone who also coached the football team (of course) and who called me “Mrs. [English Teacher’s] little sissy friend” and made God knows how many homophobic jokes that I mainly resented because they were just frigging stupid. (One time he went into some idiot diatribe about how “and lemme tell you this 'bout the marijuana… it does something to your wrist… makes it go real limp like this…” and then he prounced around in a queer accent saying something about ‘I cain’t find my little purse to put my poetry book in’. It was one of those “WTF does that even mean?” moments.
Anyway, a few years after I graduated his youngest son, Sonny, graduated. Sonny was practically born wearing a tiara- Buffy & Jodie and Mr. French never knew such a Sissy- but his dad put him on the football team (where he excelled) and the baseball team (where he excelled) and he got a scholarship to some state college to play baseball, so his dad had no doubts that Sonny was straight as they come, cause queers can’t even play baseball let alone enjoy it. Sonny and his dad had a strained relationship, but Sonny did manage to graduate salutatorian.
In his speech at graduation (this is confirmed by several people who were there) he thanked God and the people he loved most: “My mama… my daddy… and my boyfriend, Dennis”. His father LITERALLY had to have an ambulance give him oxygen.
It didn’t end pretty. He disowned the kid, he and his wife got a divorce over it, the kid lost his baseball scholarship over it, etc., but last heard he and his dad have a semi relationship and he got through college on his own and is a counsellor now.
The point is… well, I guess the point is that I have a story about a homophobic high school principal, and while not related to the OP really it is a good one (and quite true).
Good Lord, Sampiro, you have simultaneously the most fucked up and funniest stories to tell. I would pay good money to see that principal’s freakout live.
Lucky Dennis, having a boyfriend with solid brass balls the size of coconuts! More mad props for Sonny here. Oh, and props for Michelle Williams and her mom, too.
May I take this opportunity to express my “WTF?” at the following opinion expressed by Ms. Williams’ former principal?
This is the same “WTF?” response I had back when people complained that the movie “Thelma and Louise” promoted bad values because the two lead characters shot a guy and then ran off together and committed more crimes, etc. I’m all like “But it didn’t end so well, did it? I mean, the chicks had half the cops in three states chasing them down and then drove off a cliff and DIED! How can you say that these actions are being rewarded or condoned?”
Similarly, I don’t see how anybody can interpret “Brokeback Mountain” as “promoting a gay lifestyle”. The story’s a love tragedy, for gawd’s sake, and the protagonists are emphatically not leading " a gay lifestyle" for most of their lives. The end result is mostly misery and murder. I would have thought the homophobes would have been cheering and sending their church youth groups in droves to watch this flick. “See? This is how letting ‘teh gay’ into your life can make you unhappy forever and ruin your marriage and get you killed!”
Apparently as far as the homophobes are concerned, merely recognizing that gay people are human beings with emotional depth and the capacity to love sincerely is equivalent to “promoting a gay lifestyle.” :rolleyes:
(And I think the OP is spot on about Michelle Williams staring in the movie. If I caught my husband getting it on with another guy, I’d be staring too. ;))
I saw this story earlier. So they’re upset that their precious has starred in a gay-themed movie?
And also If These Walls Could Talk 2, wherein Ms. Williams played a lesbian and engaged in nude love scenes with Chloe Sevigny and we all know what she’s done. Maybe we should the school a copy?
You just know there’s a fan community for this somewhere on livejournal.
And that.
I woke up this morning and said ‘I think I’m ready to renounce my religion now, but I’ll see how the day goes’ and the first thing I read is this. That’s it. God clearly wants me to worship the internet.
