# "The Hunt:" A movie about hunting "deplorables" for fun **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [August 9, 2019, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunt-a-movie-about-hunting-deplorables-for-fun/838385 "2019-08-09T01:50:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunt-a-movie-about-hunting-deplorables-for-fun/838385/21 "2019-08-09T15:36:47Z")
Is there any over-the-top partisan satire cinema that’s actually good? 'Cause I’m guessing that this isn’t it. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunt-a-movie-about-hunting-deplorables-for-fun/838385/22 "2019-08-09T15:46:34Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > I think you have it backwards: this sounds like a film marketed to the alt right. I just about guarantee that the MAGAhats will be the heroes of the film. Most Dangerous Game films NEVER vilify the hunted. > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Here’s the plot description from Wikipedia, although I don’t know if it’s accurate. “The film follows twelve strangers, referred to as deplorables in the trailer, who mysteriously wake up in a clearing. They do not know where they are or how they got there. They discover that they have been chosen to be hunted in a game devised by a group of rich elites. The hunters gather in a remote facility called the Manor House, but their sport gets derailed when one of the hunted, Crystal (Gilpin), fights back and starts killing them one by one.” Sounds like the “deplorable” played by Betty Gilpin is the protagonist. This is my thinking as well. The underdogs being oppressed by the elites are ALWAYS the heroes. There is roughly a 0% chance that a movie is going to show _rich people hunting poor people for sport_ as the good guys. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunt-a-movie-about-hunting-deplorables-for-fun/838385/23 "2019-08-09T15:51:28Z")
> [@Defensive\_Indifference](#): > > This is my thinking as well. The underdogs being oppressed by the elites are ALWAYS the heroes. There is roughly a 0% chance that a movie is going to show _rich people hunting poor people for sport_ as the good guys. Maybe thats why the alt-right hate it so much? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunt-a-movie-about-hunting-deplorables-for-fun/838385/24 "2019-08-09T15:56:35Z")
Ah, OK, so it’s actually about a deplorable hunting people (albeit, other deplorables, though they probably won’t pick up on that part). Yeah, that makes sense now. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunt-a-movie-about-hunting-deplorables-for-fun/838385/25 "2019-08-09T16:11:49Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Ah, OK, so it’s actually about a deplorable hunting people (albeit, other deplorables, though they probably won’t pick up on that part). Yeah, that makes sense now. As I read it, the one deplorable starts hunting the hunters (the non-Deplorables). ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunt-a-movie-about-hunting-deplorables-for-fun/838385/26 "2019-08-09T16:26:38Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > I saw the trailer for that movie. I didn’t associate “deplorables” with any political statements. I just thought they were criminals or whatever. And they were being hunted by rich people and one of the hunted starts getting back at them. > > This isn’t the first movie to have this theme, not sure why it appears some of you are shocked by it or think it’s a bad idea. Some people hear the word “deplorable”, and think, “Hey that’s me!” I can see how people can choose to take offense to it, even though it sounds like the “deplorables” end up winning in the end, just as there are some who are up in arms about “Hillbilly Elegy”, because they assume that it’s all about beating on them. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunt-a-movie-about-hunting-deplorables-for-fun/838385/27 "2019-08-09T16:27:06Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Is there any over-the-top partisan satire cinema that’s actually good? 'Cause I’m guessing that this isn’t it. There’s that word. The linked article made multiple mentions of this flick being a _satire._ What is it satirizing? A bit sad to see Damon Lindelof associated with this after the brilliant _The Leftovers._ This film might surprise but it’s hard to imagaine how. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunt-a-movie-about-hunting-deplorables-for-fun/838385/28 "2019-08-09T16:41:29Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Some people hear the word “deplorable”, and think, “Hey that’s me!” > > I can see how people can choose to take offense to it, even though it sounds like the “deplorables” end up winning in the end, just as there are some who are up in arms about “Hillbilly Elegy”, because they assume that it’s all about beating on them. Actually, I wondered why I didn’t notice this in the trailer, and I just watched it again. Nobody says “deplorables” in the trailer. Further reading shows it’s in the screenplay. And anyway, the hunted rise up and win in the end. Plus it looks pretty awesome, so I can’t wait until it comes out. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunt-a-movie-about-hunting-deplorables-for-fun/838385/29 "2019-08-09T16:48:59Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **Telemark** : > > As I read it, the one deplorable starts hunting the hunters (the non-Deplorables). Where did you get the impression that there are any non-deplorables in this movie at all? ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunt-a-movie-about-hunting-deplorables-for-fun/838385/30 "2019-08-09T17:08:09Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Where did you get the impression that there are any non-deplorables in this movie at all? I’m not speaking for **Telemark** , but this is from the linked article: > [@](#): > > The script for The Hunt features the red-state characters wearing trucker hats and cowboy shirts, with one bragging about owning seven guns because it’s his constitutional right. The blue-state characters — some equally adept with firearms — explain that they picked their targets because they expressed anti-choice positions or used the N-word on Twitter. “War is war,” says one character after shoving a stiletto heel through the eye of a denim-clad hillbilly. If “deplorable” is meant to indicate Trump-supporting red-staters, then the “non-deplorables” would presumably be the blue-staters killing them. The movie seems to be pitting red-hatted deplorables against liberal elites. Or are you just insisting that everyone in the film is “deplorable” in the traditional sense of the word? I mean, that’s probably true, but not really on point for this discussion. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunt-a-movie-about-hunting-deplorables-for-fun/838385/31 "2019-08-09T17:24:17Z")
I saw the trailer for this on TV a few days ago and I didn’t hear anything mentioned about “deplorables.” It just looked like a fake movie trailer for a really cheesy movie, at first I thought it was one of those Taco Bell ads until Hilary Swank showed up. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunt-a-movie-about-hunting-deplorables-for-fun/838385/32 "2019-08-09T18:37:27Z")
This reminds me of The Purge movies in the style of “Movies that think they’re super-deep and politically relevant when they’re really not” ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunt-a-movie-about-hunting-deplorables-for-fun/838385/33 "2019-08-09T18:41:53Z")
I would be curious to find out what criteria were used to label a person as a “deplorable” ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunt-a-movie-about-hunting-deplorables-for-fun/838385/34 "2019-08-09T18:44:37Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Where did you get the impression that there are any non-deplorables in this movie at all? It’s deplurtles all the way down! ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunt-a-movie-about-hunting-deplorables-for-fun/838385/35 "2019-08-09T18:56:46Z")
Looks like Trump is [weighing into the debate](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1159898199802425344). ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunt-a-movie-about-hunting-deplorables-for-fun/838385/36 "2019-08-09T19:13:52Z")
I’m not going to watch it not because of any controversy but because Damon Lindelof sucks. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunt-a-movie-about-hunting-deplorables-for-fun/838385/37 "2019-08-09T19:44:23Z")
Echos of “The Last Supper” > **[The Last Supper (1995) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113613/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1)** > > The Last Supper: Directed by Stacy Title. With Annabeth Gish, Ron Perlman, Cameron Diaz, Jonathan Penner. A group of idealistic, but frustrated, liberals succumb to the temptation of murdering rightwing pundits for their political beliefs. Or a reverse on “Joe”. > **[Joe (1970) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065916/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3)** > > Joe: Directed by John G. Avildsen. With Susan Sarandon, Patrick McDermott, Tim Lewis, Estelle Omens. Two men, Bill, a wealthy conservative, and Joe, a far-right factory worker, form a dangerous bond after Bill confesses to Joe about murdering his... ---
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> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > Looks like Trump is [weighing into the debate](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1159898199802425344). “Liberal Hollywood is Racist at the highest level, and with great Anger and Hate! They like to call themselves “Elite,” but they are not Elite. In fact, it is often the people that they so strongly oppose that are actually the Elite.” This coming from the guy with a star on the Hollywood walk of fame. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunt-a-movie-about-hunting-deplorables-for-fun/838385/39 "2019-08-09T20:26:20Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I would be curious to find out what criteria were used to label a person as a “deplorable” Apparently, [“anti-choice positions or used the N-word on Twitter.”](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ads-pulled-hunt-wake-mass-shootings-1229829) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunt-a-movie-about-hunting-deplorables-for-fun/838385/40 "2019-08-09T21:22:34Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Apparently, [“anti-choice positions or used the N-word on Twitter.”](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ads-pulled-hunt-wake-mass-shootings-1229829) That is one of the most tone-deaf things I’ve ever read described. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunt-a-movie-about-hunting-deplorables-for-fun/838385.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hunt-a-movie-about-hunting-deplorables-for-fun/838385.md?page=3)