But the guy has also done some terrific popcorn movies like Kingsman and the 007 films.
–InThe Menu, he’s the celebrity chef who serves rich, smug assholes.
In every sense of that verb.
–In theHarry Potterfranchise, he’s He Who Shall Not Be Named.
And trying to murder a baby wizard barely made the medal stand for the worst shit he pulled.
I think we didnt used to have trigger warnings.
I mean, there are very disturbing scenes in Macbeth, terrible murders and things.
But I think the impact of theater should be that youre shocked and you should be disturbed.
Shakespeares plays are full of murders, full of horror.
Its the shock, the unexpected, thats what makes an actor, theater so exciting.
Well played indeed, good sir.
I thought bringing Shakespeare into it was the perfect touch.
But what he’s describing isn’t limited to Elizabethan England or Hollywood cinema.
Notice those ancient cave paintings never look like the kids drawings on your fridge.
It was all about blood and gore.
Hunting scary critters before they got hunted.
And the stories they told around the campfire weren’t exactly NPR shows.
If they were, they’d be the true crime ones.
One of the major driving force of literacy in Europe was cheap, lurid, salacious novels.
That’s where the term “Penny Dreadfuls” comes from.
And consider your classic fairy tales, which have stood the test of time for a reason.
Even though they’re all about terrifying trips into the forest.
Wolves eating old ladies.
Old ladies trying to cook and eat children.
Sexy virgins moving in with seven short imbeciles armed with picks and axes.
And I guess the short answer is, we’ve raised a generation filled with pussies.
Not the whole generation, thankfully.
Not even the majority.
At least I don’t think.
But the ratio of Pussies-to-Normies is the highest it’s ever been.
It’s only taking their already two-ply softness and adding five more plys to it.
That goes for children too.
It taught me a lesson about managing the deer population and the usefulness of deer carcasses.
That meat from Bambi’s mom probably filled that man’s freezer and fed his family for six months.
So let’s stop the pandering, once and for all.
Suck it up, you little hothouse flowers.
Life is terrible and dark and violent.
So your entertainment should be too.
You hated seeing Mufasa die, well guess what.
Your father is going to die.
And it taught me not to go hunting 3-ton Great Whites in a broken down old fishing tub.
A lesson I’ve carried with me ever since.
Then put it up to a referendum.
That goes double for trigger warnings.
