Native Actors Walk off Set of Adam Sandler Movie After Insults to Women, Elders

[G_j]

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/04/23/native-actors-walk-set-adam-sandler-movie-after-insults-women-elders-160110

Approximately a dozen Native actors and actresses, as well as the Native cultural advisor, left the set of Adam Sandler’s newest film production, The Ridiculous Six, on Wednesday. The actors, who were primarily from the Navajo nation, left the set after the satirical western’s script repeatedly insulted native women and elders and grossly misrepresented Apache culture.

The examples of disrespect included Native women’s names such as Beaver’s Breath and No Bra, an actress portraying an Apache woman squatting and urinating while smoking a peace pipe, and feathers inappropriately positioned on a teepee.

The film, which is said to be a spoof of The Magnificent Seven and was written by Adam Sandler and his frequent collaborator Tim Herlihy, is currently under production by Happy Madison Productions for a Netflix-only release. The movie will star Adam Sandler, Nick Nolte, Steve Buscemi, Dan Aykroyd, Jon Lovitz and Vanilla Ice.

Among the actors who walked off the set were Nation tribal members Loren Anthony, who is also the lead singer of the metal band Bloodline, and film student Allison Young. Anthony says that though he understands the movie is a comedy, the portrayal of the Apache was severely negligent and the insults to women were more than enough reason to walk off the set.

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[fadedrose]

1. We add insult to injury

Take their lands, break treaties, and then we use them as a basis for comedy.

I won't go to see this one.

[underpants]

2. Sandier taking the low road

Who could've seen that coming?

[LuvNewcastle]

4. He's almost as lowbrow as it gets.

He hasn't quite stooped to the level of incest porn, but I wouldn't be surprised if one day.....

[underpants]

6. Paul Blart Mall Cop

That's one of Sandler's movies too. He and his writers wanted to see if they could get the main character's name past studio execs and the censors. I get the inside joke aspect but really? "Blart" is a bloody fart.

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. They are walking out of his movies before they are finished now

let alone in the theaters...........LOL

[butterfly77]

25. Amazingly unfunny..

[Snow Leopard]

5. From the halls of

The chronically offended and outraged. It is a comedy, and probably a poor one but still. Are only white males allowed to be mocked or stereotyped?

[CBGLuthier]

8. Oh... Do go on. Please do go on

The plight of the poor oppressed white man can not be told enough.......


to make anyone take you seriously.

[Snow Leopard]

21. I didn't say anything about being oppressed

that is for a multitude of others to complain about. I just was noting that, white males are the only one no one complains about when they are mocked or stereotyped. I watch those shows and laugh if they are funny or don't if they are not, but I certainly don't get outraged by it. That was my only point, people being chronically outraged and offended.

[gollygee]

22. White men have most roles on TV and in movies

so they have a great number of about every type of role, including key comedic roles where they're made fun of. However, white men also hold the greatest amount of power in the US so making fun of them doesn't feed into oppression. Also, they aren't usually made fun of for being white or male, although since they have so many roles, and such a high percentage of the key roles, there are an abundance of jokes they're a part of and some might touch on that.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. Why would you want to mock somebody based on a immutable characteristic?

I like a joke as much the next guy or gal but that I don't get.

[KitSileya]

13. And who mocks white men? (If in fact they are being mocked.)

The plethora of women script writers, women directors, women producers, the female CEOs of Time Warner, Disney, 20thCFox? The Native American ditto? Oh, I know, it's the huge number of Native American women who are in charge of the Hollywood film and TV industry. They live only to mock white men in series and films where talking animals have more speaking roles than Asian American actresses, and somehow, even dipshits like Adam Sandler gets the (gorgeous and young) girl at the end of every film.

[LanternWaste]

16. Try not to confuse people mocking you with people mocking all white males.

"Are only white males allowed to be mocked or stereotyped?"

Try not to confuse people mocking you with people mocking all white males.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. I wouldn't express less from a Republican.

NT

[G_j]

11. had to Google

it appears you are right..figures..

The perpetually man-boy actor is a registered Republican. He donated $2,100 to Rudy Giuliani's 2008 failed Republican primary campaign. Not much else is known about his politics.

[joeybee12]

10. Wow...Adam really put together a stellar cast...

of all the has-beens in the industry.

Very unfunny, right-wing dipshit.

[Arugula Latte]

12. I could never stand Adam Sandler.

He was so annoying and not funny at all on SNL, and he's only gotten worse. The only decent thing he's done was The Wedding Singer.

[deutsey]

15. Yes...what was the name of that opera singer character?

Opera Man or something like that. Irritatingly unfunny.

I thought his Hanukkah Song was ok. Like you, I thought he managed to do a pretty good job with The Wedding Singer. But I can't think of much else of his that I thought was much good.

He obviously knows what appeals to a mass market, though, and knows how to serve up what it apparently likes.

[Arugula Latte]

18. Yes, Opera Man.

Most of his characters seemed to be something like that. "Paper Bag Man" or whatever. Real creative.

There is an SNL "Jeopardy" sketch where Jimmy Fallon plays Adam Sandler annoyingly accurate. Will Ferrell as Alex Trebek tells him: "I feel like I want to punch you."

[vankuria]

14. Not an Adam Sandler fan

and wonder how in the world he managed to get to the level he's at. I mean he's a one dimensional actor always playing the same character, just a different storyline. I wouldn't even call it acting, more like an imitation of someone stupid...but that's just my opinion.

[KittyWampus]

17. what producer was stupid enough to give Sandler money now or in the past?

[Brother Buzz]

19. Sandler is the producer

That should tell you something.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

20. Adam Sandler is a one trick pony

And his jokes appeal to twelve year old boys. What did they expect?

[Orsino]

23. Context is all, I suppose...

...but the situation sounds shitty. At least Sandler will probably have to respond and/or apologize.

[seabeyond]

24. well. yea for the native men. cause sandler has been allowed this insult to women much of his

career and we reward him.

good.

[cbdo2007]

26. He's more of an insult to comedy overall than to any specific group of people.

There are plenty of funny movies out there with offensive cultural stereotypes, and when it is done well it works, and it is super funny and nobody's offended. But that's his problem is he's just not funny anymore. He had a couple of funny movies just out of SNL but it sure got old fast.