Actor
Jim Carrey, aka Colonel Stars and Stripes on Kick-Ass 2 says that he won’t be
promoting the film because of the violence portrait in Jeff Wadlow’s film.
Three
months ago the U.S. woke up to an indiscriminate act of senseless violence when
a 20 year old Adam Lanza went to the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,
Connecticut and killed 20 students and six adults. After this terrible incident
of gun violence, Jim Carrey released a video on Funny or Die, insulting gun
owners, so if he went on to promote a film that has a high body count, someone
would ask him, why promote a film with such violence when you’re against it. So
before things went sour, Carrey announced via Twitter that “in all good
conscience I cannot support that level of violence.” And later on “my
apologies to others involve with the film. I am not ashamed of it but recent
events have caused a change in my heart.” .
Not
to feel left out, Mark Miller, the creator of the comic book, wrote the
following on his blog:
“[I'm]
baffled by this sudden announcement as nothing seen in this picture wasn’t in
the screenplay 18 months ago. Yes, the body-count is very high, but a movie
called Kick-Ass 2 really has to do what it says on the tin.”.
The
only problem is that Sandy Hook didn’t happen 18 months ago, but Miller
continued:
“A
sequel to the picture that gave us Hit-Girl was always going to have some blood
on the floor and this should have been no shock to a guy who enjoyed the first
movie so much… This is fiction and like Tarantino and Peckinpah, Scorsese and
Eastwood, John Boorman, Oliver Stone and Park Chan-wook, Kick-Ass avoids the
usual bloodless bodycount of most big summer pictures and focuses instead of
the consequences of violence… Our
job as storytellers is to entertain and our toolbox can’t be sabotaged by
curtailing the use of guns in an action-movie.”
Personally
I agree with Carrey’s decision to not promote the film, since it’s not films,
music, … that cause gun violence, but the lack of gun control.
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