Taika Waititi to Tackle 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' for Netflix - Example #8092 on how creatively bankrupt the entertainment industry is

He shot down many Nazis during his illustrious flying career with the RAF in Greece, so like many of his generation, I suppose he had a ready defense against anyone trying to shit on him for his beliefs about certain people.

I don't understand this mentality that to in any way criticize Jews makes you a full on anti-Semite Nazi supporter.

Let's face the facts, Jews are only human, no? Humans aren't perfect, ergo no culture is perfect, nothing should be above criticism.

Critiquing certain aspects of Jewish culture doesn't mean you want to genocide them, they certainly don't hold back in critiquing white culture, so why should anyone else be any different?

I've honestly never seen a people in modern times as obsessed with revenge, and revenge that is out of scale with the petty shit they're taking revenge for, as the Jews.

They kind of need to calm the fuck down.

They're hopped up on a grievance narrative much like blacks and slavery because that's just the zeitgeist of modern times for whatever reason.

But this is a school of thought that has taken hold of people's minds today, look back at Jews of yesteryear, your Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Billy Crystal, Steven Spielberg, do they seem like people filled with a hatred of the "goy"? That probably would have seemed like crazy shit in the 1990s wouldn't it?

But then the Clown World mentality started up and with it people acting more stereotypical, the racial grievance industry and a fostering of bitter resentment towards white people, that's what's the problem is.

I've thought about the "Jewish question" a lot and the conclusion I've come to is that Jews are like any other people, there's assholes and non-assholes same as any other group, unfortunately the assholes in today's culture get to use their identity as a shield from criticism and that's not right, they only hurt all Jews by using their identity to try to get away with being an asshole, same deal with blacks, women etc.

Everyone needs to calm the fuck down and take a look in the mirror instead of always playing the blame game.
 
I don't understand this mentality that to in any way criticize Jews makes you a full on anti-Semite Nazi supporter.

Let's face the facts, Jews are only human, no? Humans aren't perfect, ergo no culture is perfect, nothing should be above criticism.

Critiquing certain aspects of Jewish culture doesn't mean you want to genocide them, they certainly don't hold back in critiquing white culture, so why should anyone else be any different?



They're hopped up on a grievance narrative much like blacks and slavery because that's just the zeitgeist of modern times for whatever reason.

But this is a school of thought that has taken hold of people's minds today, look back at Jews of yesteryear, your Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Billy Crystal, Steven Spielberg, do they seem like people filled with a hatred of the "goy"? That probably would have seemed like crazy shit in the 1990s wouldn't it?

But then the Clown World mentality started up and with it people acting more stereotypical, the racial grievance industry and a fostering of bitter resentment towards white people, that's what's the problem is.

I've thought about the "Jewish question" a lot and the conclusion I've come to is that Jews are like any other people, there's assholes and non-assholes same as any other group, unfortunately the assholes in today's culture get to use their identity as a shield from criticism and that's not right, they only hurt all Jews by using their identity to try to get away with being an asshole, same deal with blacks, women etc.

Everyone needs to calm the fuck down and take a look in the mirror instead of always playing the blame game.
My guess about people like Waititi is that hating others is very much the only thing left that defines their jewish identity:
* They don't have any sort of religious community, living in their own social bubble that is comprised of consuming media and regurgitating the same ideas.
* They don't do any religious acts besides celebrating the most basic holiday shit (and even then I'll be surprised if they do something besides a fancy dinner and buying gifts). This is because they never took off the fedora.
* They don't have any shared past because it's dominated by white people doing great things rather than courageous gays and black women.

So those people distilled a 2000 year old religion as "hating nazis", which is far more insulting than anything some retarded Alt-Righter can say. And even that doesn't work because there are no nazis, so those faggots need to invent ones regardless of how it contradicts reality.
 
Depp's version was a perfectly good version. While it added more backstory to Wonka, it was overall much more accurate to the book than the original and also updated Mike Teavee to the modern day. I see no reason why Charlie and the Chocolate Factory needs another remake. No Wonka could be better than the last two, anyway.

But more importantly, shouldn't you do the opposite of aim to infuriate the author of whatever you're adapting? I realize his estate must have their hands tied because they'd just look racist to say 'a Jew can't do this because dad would hate that', but if you're just going to openly say "We're having this person do it because it would infuriate the original author" your right to adapt it should immediately be revoked. but then I think any time people knee-jerk with "I can and will ruin the canon I'm adapting from just to own the haters, take that" they should immediately have the adaption taken away from them and given to someone who will actually treat the property with respect. You're already stealing someone else's work and fame to get money and fame for yourself, the least you can do is show some respect for someone else doing all the hard work for you.
 
I've honestly never seen a people in modern times as obsessed with revenge, and revenge that is out of scale with the petty shit they're taking revenge for, as the Jews.

They kind of need to calm the fuck down.
The sad part is that in this case its revenge for speaking accurately about jewish culture. Nothing he said was wrong. If narcissistic personality disorder was a race...

My guess about people like Waititi is that hating others is very much the only thing left that defines their jewish identity:
Waititi, like Peele, being a halfbreed jew might exacerbate their pursuit of stereotypical racial behavior, just like it does with white/black mixed people, who tend to favor one of their races stereotypical behaviors over another, often at extremes -- playing up how black they are (they easy way) or trying to behave more white (sellout). Or maybe not! They can enjoy their jewish privilege while still claiming to be black or whatever abo savage shit that waititi is, maybe as long as they play by the rules of the [current] game, which is 'bash whitey'. (I think I lost my point, I'm a bit ill. Jews did this headache.)
 
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The biggest eye-opener as to the Nazi condition I ever saw was a sub of one of Hitler's speeches that was at the end of an E;R vid, his first one on Steven Universe before Susan found out about it. Whenever you see these fucking people try and dab on the Nazis, it's always that sort of 'HAHA LITTLE SILLY MAN IN SHORT HA' and 'THE FUNNIE GOOSESTEP HAHA' or 'THINK OF DE CHIL'DRENS''. And yet I learned more about National Socialism and the dark path these morons lead all society down in it's weak-sauce limp-wristed criticism of the status quo at the end of some hokey review on YouTube than I ever did from MSM.
Waititi's smug statment about how he refused to do any research about Hitler because Hitler bad while making a movie about him as a lead was incredibly infuriating, especially with how he went "See?! I can make edgy jokes! Comedians shouldn't complain."
 
Waititi's smug statment about how he refused to do any research about Hitler because Hitler bad while making a movie about him as a lead was incredibly infuriating, especially with how he went "See?! I can make edgy jokes! Comedians shouldn't complain."
In the movie's defense, that character isn't Hitler, it's what a little kid imagines Hitler to be.
I doubt a child in the 1940's would do any research and even if he did, all the info he would have was propaganda.
 
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Dude's not Jewish, since his maternal grandmother wasn't ethnically Jewish, and barring any official conversion, that would end the matrilineal chain. I find it absolutely ridiculous that people who neither practice the faith nor fall under the halakhic definitions of Jewishness try to claim it as an identity in order to batter people over the head with it.
https://ethnicelebs.com/taika-waititi
 
They're hopped up on a grievance narrative much like blacks and slavery because that's just the zeitgeist of modern times for whatever reason.

But this is a school of thought that has taken hold of people's minds today, look back at Jews of yesteryear, your Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Billy Crystal, Steven Spielberg, do they seem like people filled with a hatred of the "goy"? That probably would have seemed like crazy shit in the 1990s wouldn't it?

lol do you actually know any Jews

Every year Jews ritually curse the name of and symbolically kill some Persian Satrap who was mean to local Hebrews in his corner of the Achaemenid Empire 2500 years ago

There are other groups of people on planet Earth that are as petty and tenacious when it comes to holding ethnic grudges (the Chinese immediately come to mind), but very few and far between
 
Waititi, like Peele, being a halfbreed jew might exacerbate their pursuit of stereotypical racial behavior, just like it does with white/black mixed people, who tend to favor one of their races stereotypical behaviors over another, often at extremes -- playing up how black they are (they easy way) or trying to behave more white (sellout).

Whatever happened to just being a human being?

Dude's not Jewish, since his maternal grandmother wasn't ethnically Jewish, and barring any official conversion, that would end the matrilineal chain. I find it absolutely ridiculous that people who neither practice the faith nor fall under the halakhic definitions of Jewishness try to claim it as an identity in order to batter people over the head with it.
https://ethnicelebs.com/taika-waititi

Reminds me of the film critic Nathan Rabin, who doesn't have a Jewish mother but said that he still likes to think of himself as a Jew which translates to being an obnoxious liberal.

lol do you actually know any Jews

Every year Jews ritually curse the name of and symbolically kill some Persian Satrap who was mean to local Hebrews in his corner of the Achaemenid Empire 2500 years ago

There are other groups of people on planet Earth that are as petty and tenacious when it comes to holding ethnic grudges (the Chinese immediately come to mind), but very few and far between

Ancient times are ancient times, but how many Jews in the 90s seriously had a negative attitude towards modern white America?
 
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lol do you actually know any Jews

Every year Jews ritually curse the name of and symbolically kill some Persian Satrap who was mean to local Hebrews in his corner of the Achaemenid Empire 2500 years ago

There are other groups of people on planet Earth that are as petty and tenacious when it comes to holding ethnic grudges (the Chinese immediately come to mind), but very few and far between
If "being mean to local Hebrews" you mean wanted to murder every Hebrew in the Persian Empire, then no, I don't think the yearly cursing of Haman is unjustified.

That's like saying that the Irish Catholics should stop cursing Cromwell for putting the finishing touches on the destruction of Gaelic independence, or telling Spaniards they need to stop celebrating their victories over the Moors because that was one thousand years ago,
 
Ah yes, everyone knows that making a whole series based on very minor characters is a great idea.

MAKE NEW THINGS, HOLLYWOOD!!!
Don't give me that "original things don't sell" crap, the John Wick IP is only 6 years old and it's one of the most popular things in Western pop culture right now, it can be done.
the properties they keep sucking dry were original at one point and became beloved. they need to quit hiding behind that bullshit excuse.
 
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