Post by Ayla on Feb 13, 2016 15:17:10 GMT 8
Zoolander 2’s Trans Jokes Are As Lazy and Offensive As You Feared
Concerns over the trailer for Zoolander 2, which mocked an androgynous model played by Benedict Cumberbatch, were founded. The film’s trans jokes do offend—even worse, they’re dumb.
In an almost impossible turn of events for a film that opens with such macabre wish fulfillment—in the opening moments, Justin Bieber is brutally assassinated in a long, graphic scene—Zoolander 2, critics agree, is really, really ridiculously bad.
Of course, this is a sequel to Zoolander we’re talking about, a film that, back in 2001, satirized the fashion world and celebrity culture with all the subtlety of an Alexander McQueen leopard print trench coat. Absurdity was the film’s hottest accessory then, and it was flaunted with all the deranged confidence of a male model strutting the catwalk.
Perhaps, then, expectations should be managed.
www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/10/zoolander-2-s-trans-jokes-are-as-lazy-and-offensive-as-you-feared.html
Concerns over the trailer for Zoolander 2, which mocked an androgynous model played by Benedict Cumberbatch, were founded. The film’s trans jokes do offend—even worse, they’re dumb.
In an almost impossible turn of events for a film that opens with such macabre wish fulfillment—in the opening moments, Justin Bieber is brutally assassinated in a long, graphic scene—Zoolander 2, critics agree, is really, really ridiculously bad.
Of course, this is a sequel to Zoolander we’re talking about, a film that, back in 2001, satirized the fashion world and celebrity culture with all the subtlety of an Alexander McQueen leopard print trench coat. Absurdity was the film’s hottest accessory then, and it was flaunted with all the deranged confidence of a male model strutting the catwalk.
Perhaps, then, expectations should be managed.
www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/10/zoolander-2-s-trans-jokes-are-as-lazy-and-offensive-as-you-feared.html