This article states that it’s 2800 boxes of LEGOs.
We don’t know that the defendant isn’t guilty. The whole point of the deliberation as shown is that the prosecution’s case had big holes in it, and that the defense attorney was too incompetent to see them or point them out – i.e. that the case had not been proved so the jury were obligated to vote not guilty. The Scottish alternative verdict of Not Proven would have been just as true.
Maybe not for the jury system per se, but certainly propaganda for something.
Actor Nathan Jones, who plays a villain in the latest Mad Max movie, has apparently had to issue a statement explaining that his character is fictional and he didn’t actually try to rape the film’s protagonist.
Eh, at least those folks are getting upset about rape. The actress who played Furiosa probably also gets hate mail, for fighting off a rapist.
Oh no, do we have to have an attempted rape in this movie? Is that plot relevant?
I’m going to see it Tuesday and have really been looking forward to it. It’s not that I can’t handle it, I’m just leery of writers’ need to always have this trope, sometimes it seems for sheer entertainment value rather than a necessary part of the story.
But Fury Road was so so so good, I’m hopeful this is an event that somehow matters.
If it’s an excuse to show copious amounts of violence against a rapist, I’m cool with that too.
I would say, yes, the attempted rape of the main character is relevant. Remember that this is a post-apocalyptic world that is being portrayed.
I thought it was well handled in Fury Road (which rocked my face off) so I’m just going to put my faith in George Miller.
Yeah, for a while there, there was a trend towards all “strong female protagonists” being rape survivors. Usually, that’s not necessary… but when your story is about a post-apocalyptic hellhole, I think it kind of goes with the territory.
That’s what people said about Game of Thrones and we were not on the same page there. There’s a good way and a bad way to do it. I know because I’ve done it in my own work. And I still question my choice. Anyway it’s just one of those things you could write a sociology dissertation about, but we’ll see how the film goes.
Don’t see it then.
Oh I’m definitely gonna see it.
I can’t say how well they did it, because I haven’t actually seen the film. And yeah, I can definitely see how that would be relevant.
I just hope he gets slaughtered.
Without spoilers: Unsurprisingly, in Furiosa the title character is repeatedly in various kinds of danger; after all, it’s the backstory that explains the development of the extremely scarred thermonuclear badass character that we saw in Fury Road.
But I don’t think you’re going to find it over-focusing on rape and/or female suffering, and I didn’t think the difficult situations were gratuitously included or salaciously handled. Just my two cents.
Thanks for your insight. I’m really pumped for this!
Here’s a contender. (Link goes to Yahoo.) The incident is from December last year, but the fire investigators just released their findings. And the dead dude took out his house and his neighbors’ house at the same time.
Sounds like extreme mental instability (organic or self-induced) rather than stupidity. Like he wanted to go up in a fiery explosion.
Netflix-owned arthouse cinema in NYC gets caught streaming a movie off Amazon Prime onto its big screen, when the “film” started buffering.
Just saw an article about Star Trek attempting to revive a dead language. It turned out to be about various Trek series occasionally using common Latin phrases in episode titles. If the author actually believes what he is saying instead of just writing clickbait, then I nominate that Chris Snellgrove is a stupid motherfucker.
Way too much information here:
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Filmore, Utah, population 2,643 (2022)
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As it gives the percent Jewish as 0.0%, their family must have moved away as a even a two person household would be 0.08% of the population.
Fillmore is on the boundary between Southern Utah and Central Utah. Central Utah was really orthodox LDS while Southern Utah has always been a bit quirky.
My father grew up in Central Utah, in a town that was 98%+ percent Mormon. They would have not known how to handle non-Mormons, let alone Jewish people. Even in my generation, there would have been at least 90% Mormon.
It really depends on the community, and luck of the neighborhood and schools. Saints in the Mormon Corridor tend to more insular than many outside this concentration.
I’m not surprised that he became a comedian. A lot of comedians grew up using humor to cope with difficult situations.