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Kaiju-Sized Mistake As Monster Hunter Movie Premieres With Offensive Slur [Up: Threadmarks for explanation, Capcom's Response, & MC Jin's response]
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Sounds like someone wanted to make a dumb joke because aha the "-nese" at the end of Asian country nationalities sound like knees, but didn't realise the nationality that was the aspect of the joke would find it offensive.
I mean what else should I have expected from a Wes Anderson "wife must be in the film" and will also get a stunt actor maimed, to not fact check this.
I mean what else should I have expected from a Wes Anderson "wife must be in the film" and will also get a stunt actor maimed, to not fact check this.
This actually does seem like American callous military racism, but some one on the writing team should have had the common sense to not do this in a fictional move about killing big ass monsters with equally big ass weapons.
Even attempting to isekai army folks was a bigger mistake than Deviljho
Even attempting to isekai army folks was a bigger mistake than Deviljho
It's a dumb rhyme based on phonetics; not sure how it is offensive though. Why would a joke based on English phonetics be offensive in China? Surely the pronunciation is completely different?
Note: the director of this is "Paul W. S. Anderson". Wes Anderson was the writer/director of, eg, Fantastic Mr Fox, Grand Budapest Hotel, The Life Aquatic, and others. Also not to be confused with Paul Thomas Anderson of Boogie Nights and Punch Drunk Love.
(Though, I would love to see a Wes Anderson take on Monster Hunter)
I want a Wes anderson monster hunter movie more than this
Yeah I think they were trying for a jarhead thing
Oof. Way to just dive face first into cement. So many people had to make this happen writers, editors, actors, directors. So many people saw the scene, heard the words...and it still made it into the movie?
Yowza.
Yowza.
I've played like five hours of Monster Hunter games over the years, never got to the part with Army dudes
I'm guessing the guy who makes the joke is chinese and it's supposed to be a pun?
Its being linked to a rhyme in the culture that is considered offensive because of the similar connotations.
Like five min research could have picked this up
(The writing team I mean, not you)
Words aren't innately offensive. These things don't exist in a vacuum.
It's a pun I think. The dude asking the question is presumably Chinese, so when he says his knees are Chinese, he's speaking of his ethnicity.
Besides the point but I would genuinely LOVE to see what a Wes Anderson Monster Hunter film looked like.
Think of the pastels!
Happens a bunch of movies and it's always baffling nobody reviewing the scene in question stops for a moment and thinks "hmmm maybe we shouldn't do this"
2 1/2 hours of a depressed, giant Gwyneth Paltrow roaming the countryside being pursued by a depressed, tiny Luke Wilson in a headband. She's finally brought down by a giant cannon that fires explosive Gene Hackmans.
I'm not sure y'all have ever seen a Paul W.S. Anderson film (good on you if that's the case):
That is not a joke edit. It's aggressively awful like that on purpose.
jfc
Michael Bay writing in all it's glory
Wait, what's the offensive bit? What's the joke? What are the proverbial 'these' in the actually offensive rhyme?
Why are there US soldiers in a... Monster Hunter movie?
I think I'm just gonna leave.
Why are there US soldiers in a... Monster Hunter movie?
I think I'm just gonna leave.
I've seen a bunch of em, they were a guilty pleasure of mine for a while but never seen that one and geez, that sure was an assault on the eyes. Catwoman's Basketball scene isn't so bad now haha.
Honestly seems like something that would have gone over the head of the writers as being offensive, I certainly wouldn't have noted it as being anything more than an awful pun. Obviously there's some historical context here that they really should have picked up on. I'm surprised that no one on the Capcom side would have noticed it since its problematic with Japanese people too.
I remember when I was a child in the 90s in the UK.
Kids would have rhymes which starts with "Chinese, Japanese"
They would pull the edges of their eyes up and down when saying it.
Seems like in America they say they have dirty knees.
This is a racist joke. The person writing will 100% know it's a racist joke.
Why are people in this thread saying "oh no it's just a silly rhyme"
Well done! đź‘Ť You've identified that some racist jokes have plausible deniability.
Kids would have rhymes which starts with "Chinese, Japanese"
They would pull the edges of their eyes up and down when saying it.
Seems like in America they say they have dirty knees.
This is a racist joke. The person writing will 100% know it's a racist joke.
Why are people in this thread saying "oh no it's just a silly rhyme"
Well done! đź‘Ť You've identified that some racist jokes have plausible deniability.
The breasts being flashed at you.
There's also a "money please" variation.
Man, watching this clip (that editing...) with a hangover was a fucking mistake.