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Will Ferrell Defends Anti-Gay Jokes In His New Movie Get Hard

March 25, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Get-Hard-Poster-slideWhile conservatives love to heap scorn on Hollywood, seeing it as a bunch of gay-loving liberals, it’s still a fact that that Tinsel Town likes to make cheap, anti-gay jokes whenever it can, and doesn’t see much wrong with it (probably because the audience still laughs).

Numerous people have commented on such jokes in Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart’s new movie, Get Hard, in which Ferrell’s character is wrongly convicted of tax evasion and sent to jail, and so enlists the help of his black friend to prepare him for prison life. As you can probably guess that leaves plenty of room for ‘don’t drop the soap in the showers’ type jokes, with Will’s character utterly paranoid he’s going to get raped by another man. It caused Variety to comment that the film contains “some of the ugliest gay-panic humor to befoul a studio release in recent memory.”

However Ferrell himself isn’t offering any apologies for what some are suggesting are both homopphobic and racist undertones to the movie, telling AP, “Any time you’re going to do an R-rated comedy, you’re going to offend someone. But that’s kind of what we do. We provoke. We prod. We also show a mirror to what’s already existing out there. We’re playing fictitious characters who are articulating some of the attitudes and misconceptions that already exist.”

That sounds like a whole lot of rationalisation to me, to excuse some extremely cheap jokes.

Ferell’s collaborator and fellow Get Hard producer Adam McKay adds, “Any individual going to maximum security prison would be afraid of violence and sexual assault. To equate that with homosexuality is ridiculous.”

While technically correct, it is completely disingenuous as the fact is that most jokes about prison rape aren’t based around the fear of sexual violence, they’re predicated on the idea that being the bottom in anal sex is the ultimate in emasculation. Indeed the jokes rarely focus on the rape part – it is the idea of a penis up the ass that is ‘funny’, not the fact that it has been forced on them. Indeed there’s also an edge of mysogyny, as it’s the fact they are being made the ‘woman’ in sex that is often presented as the central fear, and apparently a truly hilarious idea.

To be honest, prison rape jokes are old, lazy and you would have hoped Hollywood would have grown past them, or at least found more mature ways to deal with a genuinely serious problem in jails. Instead they use jokes that, whatever they claim, rely on outdated gay sterotypes, not on the fear of sexual violence as McKay suggests. Sure Get Hard is a comedy, but that doesn’t mean it has to be ugly.

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ACTORS: Will Ferrell  DIRECTORS: Adam Mckay  FILMS: Get Hard  

Get Hard Trailer – Will Ferrell gets Kevin Hart to prepare him for life behind bars

December 22, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

get-hard-posterWhen millionaire hedge fund manager James King (Will Ferrell) is nailed for fraud and bound for a stretch in San Quentin, the judge gives him 30 days to get his affairs in order. Desperate, he turns to Darnell Lewis (Kevin Hart) to prep him for a life behind bars. But despite James’ one-percenter assumptions, Darnell is a hard-working small business owner who has never received a parking ticket, let alone been to prison.

Together, the two men do whatever it takes for James to “get hard” and, in the process, discover how wrong they were about a lot of things – including each other.

Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart join forces in the feature comedy “Get Hard,” also starring rapper Tip “T.I.” Harris, Alison Brie, and Craig T. Nelson.

The film is directed by Etan Cohen, making his feature directorial debut following a successful writing career, with credits including “Tropic Thunder.” The screenplay is by Jay Martel & Ian Roberts and Etan Cohen, story by Adam McKay and Jay Martel & Ian Roberts. Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Chris Henchy are the producers, with Ravi Mehta, Kevin Messick and Jessica Elbaum serving as executive producers.

The creative filmmaking team includes director of photography Tim Suhrstedt (“Little Miss Sunshine”); production designer Maher Ahmad (“The Hangover Part III”); editor Michael Sale (“We’re the Millers”); and costume designer Shay Cunliffe (“The Bourne Legacy”).

“Get Hard” is scheduled to open worldwide beginning Friday, March 27, 2015. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart  FILMS: Get Hard  

Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart Get Hard

December 10, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Will Ferrell has got a new comedy up his sleeve and for this one he’s teaming up with Kevin Hart, as Deadline reports that they’ve both signed on to star in Get Hard for Warner Bros.

The movie is about a wealthy investment banker (Ferrell) who gets sentenced to a maximum security prison for a crime that he didn’t commit (in movie land, nobody get locked up for something they actually did). He enlists the help of the man who usually washes his car (Kevin Hart), in order to prepare him for doing hard time before he has to report to prison in 30 days.

Ian Roberts and Ian Roberts, who serve as executive producers and showrunners on Comedy Central’s Key & Peele, wrote the screenplay, with Gary Sanchez attached to produce. The project does not have a director attached as of yet.

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ACTORS: Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart  FILMS: Get Hard  

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