This is currently screaming, front page news on the Drudge Report:
Drudge goes on and on in this vein but his outrage and panic is untainted by one very important fact:
THE MOVIE IS NOT ABOUT SANTA CLAUS!
Billy Bob plays a conman who poses as a department store Santa. It is not, as Drudge alleges, an “interpretation of a post-modern Santa.” Santa Claus is not in this movie. Santa Claus does not exist in this movie’s universe… Drudge does not point this out anywhere in his alarmist “report.” He refers only to “Santa” throughout. Matt Drudge is a fucking lying asshole.
For those who don’t know, Bad Santa is a forthcoming dark comedy from director, Terry Zwigoff (Crumb, Ghost World). Zwigoff is a genius. Drudge is a tool.
Get a grip. First of all, Santa doesn’t exist. Second, if Billy Bob Thornton does in fact play a department store Santa, it has something in common with Miracle on 34th Street. And last, we know that Drudge is a big time conservative, so rather than hiding behind some Santa charade, why don’t you just say that he’s full of shit and be done with it?
The lengths that you guys go to to cover up what you really mean astonish me. Geez. :rolleyes:
The piece is written so as to give the impression that Thornton is actually playing the character of “Santa Claus” and that Miramax is somehow corrupting that mythology through some sort of post-modern. amoral revisionism. The piece is deliberately misleading. It’s a slanderous attack on Miramax. It accuses them of something that is untrue.
I worked as a santa one christmas. After a day spent at a Santa-skate, a vist to an old folks home and a group home for developmentally delayed adults my “helpers” and I desperatly needed a drink. One of my elves had driven, sadly the older my elves got the longer their skirts were, so I didnt have a change of clothes so we went to the tavern in costume as we walked in there were two kids waitning for a bus on of them said “Santas gonna get drunk” and were the ever right. If you go into a bar dressed like a santa in December your drinks are free. So I guess I was an evil Santa too.
It’s worth mentioning that when Silent Night, Deadly Night was released, it caused a tremendous controversy because it was “desecrating” a childhood icon. I wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest if Drudge remembers that controversy, and is hoping that starting a new one will get more people to pay attention to him.