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Illumination's "Sing" seen by SJWs as "disgustingly tribal"
Tactical Nuke:
this is an old gem
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4071692/Gorilla-gang-leader-jail-son-wants-sing-hip-hop-Animated-kids-movie-Sing-social-media-users-outraged-tribal-stereotypes.html
http://www.revelist.com/movies/gorillas-tribal-stereotypes/4211/set-to-open-later-this-year-sing-is-described-as-being-set-in-a-world-like-ours-but-entirely-inhabited-by-animals/1
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--- Quote ---Music-centric animal animated movie Sing is killing it with kids at the box office, grossing $76 million in five days.
But sensitive social justice warriors who have gone to see the movie aren’t exactly ‘singing’ its praises on social media. Instead they’re calling the kids film tribal, principally for the fact that one plotline in the movie features a gorilla named Johnny who wants to sing but whose father runs a criminal gang.
In the movie, which stars the voices of Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon and Scarlett Johansson, Johnny, voiced by Taron Egerton, (SPOILER ALERT) is desperate to embrace his musical side instead of being part of the gorilla gang of robbers run by his father Big Daddy (voiced by Peter Serafinowicz).
When Johnny shirks his duties as a getaway driver for Big Daddy’s gang during a gold robbery, his father ends up in jail. Even though Big Daddy ultimately ends up appreciating his son’s musical career, that’s not good enough for people out there who seem intent on equating gorillas being on the wrong side of the law in Sing with racism
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forgetin' /discuss
Tayasaurus:
What is our infatuation with loving gorillas
bestguy22:
forget i knew this was happen the moment i saw the gorilla boy
his voice actor is white though ??
Zack:
I think that the people that are getting upset over gorillas and criminals in an animated movie and then comparing them to races in real life are the people being tribal.
Master Matthew²:
Ya know, its really clear how much of an starfish you are, when you walk into a movie theatre going "how can I be offended today?"