Eli Roth's Green Inferno is a commentary on the SJW
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[url]http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/herocomplex/la-et-hc-eli-roth-green-inferno-sjw-20150709-story.html[/url]
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Transcribed from the above video, we asked why the director was moved to tell the story of a remote forest and a couple kids in the green nothingness:
Roth: I wanted to write a movie that was about modern activism. I see that a lot of people want to care and want to help, but in general I feel like people don’t really want to inconvenience their own lives. And I saw a lot of people just reacting to things on social media. These social justice warriors. ‘This is wrong, this is wrong, this is wrong.’ And they’re just tweeting and retweeting. They’re not actually doing anything. Or you see people get involved in a cause that they don’t really know a lot about and they go crazy about it. I wanted to make a movie about kids like that. I think there’s a lot great things, obviously, about activism people commit their lives to it. But I want to make a story about kids who don’t really know what they’re getting into. Get in way over their heads, it actually works. And then the irony is on their way home their plane crashes and the very people they saved think that they’re invaders, and just dart them and eat them. And make them the food supply of the village.
So "Green Inferno" is your reaction to the #SJWs of twitter?
Yeah. I actually wrote it, and when I finished the draft Kony 2012 happened. I was like this is it. Everyone is going, ‘What’s wrong with you?’ They’re drinking their mugs going ‘Don’t you care about child soldiers and kids being raped how can you not tweet this video?’ Everyone got so self righteous and publicly shaming. It was something that they hadn’t heard of 24 hours ago. I think it’s a double edged sword. I think there are ways to get involved and ways to be helpful. But the SJW culture has gotten so out of control. That you feel that everyone, are they doing it because they believe in it? Or do they just want to look like good people? Are people retweeting things because they think it’s important or because they want everyone to think that they’re a caring person? And I’m not making a judgment on these people either way. I’m just making a comment on it.
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it came out in 2013 at a film festival, but it had budget issues in trying to get it released until now.
I think the nature of what's happening when he was writing his draft and now has changed. Also Roth films are too violent for me and I don't care in seeing something related to cannibal holocaust, excuse me as I rewatch last night's episode of Hannibal.
What is happening with Internet and mainstream culture right now
I thought that it was a remake of Cannibal Holocaust?
[QUOTE=DrTaxi;48167512]What is happening with Internet and mainstream culture right now[/QUOTE]
It looks like he's using SJW differently than mainstream internet culture is currently using it. I don't really remember seeing that term used at all to refer to the Kony2012 mess.
Have SJW and Slacktivist ever actually meant the same thing?
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Have SJW and Slacktivist ever actually meant the same thing?[/QUOTE]
yes, I thought this was brought up in threads you've made comments on.
[QUOTE=Ithon;48167659]yes, I thought this was brought up in threads you've made comments on.[/QUOTE]
Well by that logic the people rallying against SJWs are SJWs themselves.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;48167665]Well by that logic the people rallying against SJWs are SJWs themselves.[/QUOTE]
no, there was been several definitions brought up, people who say it's anything people they don't like, an actual classification which has been coined by the people to describe themselves, then people who observe SJW in describe their actions and behavior, within this description it either encompasses a form of slackivist or doesn't matter.
I prefer the one where you can be an SJW and not a slackavist as it better describes some people, like how some people took to the streets and littered it with stickers and spray paint. But within that you can say those people were slackvists because they were just attacking or interrupting people's lives so other people can do the effort rather then actually doing the successful things that more established organizations have done.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;48167554]It looks like he's using SJW differently than mainstream internet culture is currently using it. I don't really remember seeing that term used at all to refer to the Kony2012 mess.
Have SJW and Slacktivist ever actually meant the same thing?[/QUOTE]
his use of SJW is more fitting of the term to me than the mainstream "hur dur check ur cis privilege" types people tend to think of. I'd say (as he uses it) it sits as an extreme to slacktivism, people getting uppity/violent over things but not actually doing shit about it aside from taking moral high grounds over social media
That's a perfect note to end an interview on right here.
I have to agree that a great deal more political commentary media could be improved with the entire cast being eaten by cannibals. It's an untapped market, really.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;48167554]It looks like he's using SJW differently than mainstream internet culture is currently using it. I don't really remember seeing that term used at all to refer to the Kony2012 mess.
Have SJW and Slacktivist ever actually meant the same thing?[/QUOTE]
I've always used SJW as a label for people who use social tactics (like shaming) to try and implement their own form of "justice". The way he's using it is basically the way I've been thinking about it.
He's mostly just hating on people bandwagoning on social media shit they don't know anything about. I can still get behind that.
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I prefer the one where you can be an SJW and not a slackavist as it better describes some people, like how some people took to the streets and littered it with stickers and spray paint. But within that you can say those people were slackvists because they were just attacking or interrupting people's lives so other people can do the effort rather then actually doing the successful things that more established organizations have done.[/QUOTE]
The problem is there was no solution. Yes they raised awareness but it isn't like we were going to send a force to Africa bring order and justice to Kony, not after the political fallout of the Battle of Mogadishu. The local warlords didn't have any stake in bringing justice to Kony and if we supported one of them there would still be trading one evil for another.
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