Adam McKay Says ‘Wicked’ Could Be ‘Banned in 3-5 Years’

Adam McKay says, “I love publicity! La publicité! L’amour, l’amour!”

Good. It’s terrible.

McKay thinks he’s smarter and more talented than he is.

I'm not sure most Americans have the capacity to draw any parallels between the incoming administration and Wicked. Including the incoming administration.

Oh, please.

MARY!!!

That's my thought, r6

R4, stop trying to make a crappy “cashed in” kids movie something profound. It’s shit. It was made to sell Chinese merchandise.

Star Wars: Episodes II and III were released during the George Dubya Bush administration, and there was some small attempt to make them into commentary on where the country was going politically. Such suggestions were met with derisive scorn from right-wingers. But none of this dialectic resulted in the kind of pushback where it might have been suggested that the films be banned. Still, this was well before right-wing trolldom became sufficiently organized online to be able to make a dent in the marketability of films they disliked.

"Wicked: Part Two" will have to do considerably more explicit heavy lifting to sufficiently antagonize the Trumpsters into trying to ban it. McKay will need to up his game.

We live in a country where books are being banned in red states with no rhyme or reason and you think there's no way a popular film that shows Fascism and scapegoating as bad things stands no chance of being banned by the Fascists and scapegoaters doing the book banning?

You should be more frightened than you are.

While thinly veiled, the politics of Wicked are beyond the vast majority of Americans to grasp.

Allegory, satire, symbolism, and metaphor are now beyond the capacity for most people.

If they do ban Wicked or Rocky Horror Picture show, it will be the end of "conservative" branded politics in the US for a long time. Let's hope it happens.

What planet do you live on, R12?

He wishes. And btw, when will this fucking “press for Wicked” ever be over? They keep trying to force me to care but I am NOT holding space for this. Just let me stay home and pretend this visually loud thing doesn’t exist. Nobody is gonna ban your movie.

I liked it more than I expected, but I don’t believe the story is quite as profound or deep as some think it is.

Banned for crimes against music.

[quote]You should be more frightened than you are.

I think I'll pass.

McKay really doesn’t understand how conservatives think

A subtle metaphor for Trumpism = 🤔 🤷 from conservatives

Elphaba would need to literally say “I want top surgery” or something to get a reaction from them.

[quote]Elphaba would need to literally say “I want top surgery” or something to get a reaction from them.

Now, now. Let's not give Chu any ideas.

[quote] I think I'll pass.

Okay, ostrich.

[quote]Okay, ostrich.

You're missing the point.

Fascists, not unlike abusers, retain their power through fear. Why would I live in a state of constant fear or trepidation? One can be aware of a situation without the corresponding experience of fear.

If I remember correctly, in one of Seneca's letters to Lucilius, he addresses the latter's fear of the potential of being exposed to judicial torture in an upcoming court case. Seneca counsels him by saying something to the effect of, "You'll either be tortured, or you won't. But if you fear being tortured, you'll only be torturing yourself." Perhaps an extreme example, but it conveys the same principle.

Quotes like this are just one of many reasons I don’t take costal elites seriously.