Oh dear. Has bobcat Goldthwaite gone too far with his movie God Bless America?

[muriel_volestrangler]

23. #18 confirms they were talking about the character

So I'll ignore the parts in your post about the age of the actor, since we now know they're irrelevant.

Art may 'mirror life', but that doesn't mean it's good comedy. Romeo and Juliet, is, after all, a tragedy. It will be interesting to see if this can be called 'satire' in any sense, because the trailer makes it look more like pandering to people's wish fulfillment, by making a list of people who annoy you, and then getting rid of them. The film will need more than that to qualify as 'satire'. The problem with films is that the main characters are almost always portrayed sympathetically; and by sharing a list of 'people who annoy me' with the typical viewer, that looks the way this one goes. "American Psycho" had a serial killer as the main character, but he was portrayed as a complete arsehole.

In what way do you think this could be a satire on the DC sniper duo? It's not taking an existing attitude that some people support, and then exaggerating it to show that it's actually wrong (as, for instance, "A Modest Proposal" did); no-one supported the DC snipers. Even (spoiler) 'Four Lions', which may be the closest to "unacceptable for comedy" we've had recently (it certainly got criticism for that), has the bombers dying in about equal numbers to their victims, and some of them having remorse, and a lot of it being accidental after they can't back out, or incompetence by the authorities. There's no "there's a prat - let's kill him - yay! He's dead!".