"The Hunt:" A movie about hunting "deplorables" for fun

[Jophiel]

Is there any over-the-top partisan satire cinema that’s actually good? 'Cause I’m guessing that this isn’t it.

[Defensive_Indifference]

@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.

[simster]

@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?

[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.

[Telemark]

@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).

[k9bfriender]

@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.

[BlankSlate]

@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.

[Slash1972]

@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.

[Chronos]

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?

[Defensive_Indifference]

@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.

[Eyebrows_0f_Doom]

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.

[Asuka]

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”

[Baker]

I would be curious to find out what criteria were used to label a person as a “deplorable”

[Bryan_Ekers]

@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!

[Walken_After_Midnight]

Looks like Trump is weighing into the debate.

[asterion]

I’m not going to watch it not because of any controversy but because Damon Lindelof sucks.

[E-DUB]

Echos of “The Last Supper”

The Last Supper (1995) - IMDb

Or a reverse on “Joe”.

Joe (1970) - IMDb

[snfaulkner]

@Walken_After_Midnight

Looks like Trump is weighing into the debate.

“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.

[Velocity]

@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.”

[Darren_Garrison]

@Velocity

Apparently, “anti-choice positions or used the N-word on Twitter.”

That is one of the most tone-deaf things I’ve ever read described.