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Old 08-09-2015, 02:26 PM
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An effort is underway to stop the release of a horror film that closely resembles the 2014 killing of six people in a California college town.

The trailer for "Del Playa" debuted on Wednesday, and shows a young man taking violent revenge after getting rejected by women and taunted by bullies.

Del Playa happens to also be the name of a street in Isla Vista, California, near the campus of University of California-Santa Barbara. Last year, Elliot Rodger fatally stabbed and shot six students and injured 14 during a spree across Isla Vista before dying by suicide. He'd written a so-called manifesto that expressed resentment toward women for spurning him.

The strikingly similar movie plot was denounced in a petition on Change.org started by a former Santa Barbara college student.

"The film 'Del Playa' intentionally seeks to commoditize the death of six beloved students, and makes light of the tragedy faced by the entire Isla Vista/UCSB community," said the petition posted by Kate Nollner. “'Del Playa' not only justifies the motives behind the Isla Vista gunman, but also glorifies his actions."
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Old 08-09-2015, 03:24 PM
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If they don't want to watch it then don't watch it. Its a small distribution film I'm guessing. My impression is its cecil the lion sort of thing. Its easy go get angry about something like the film showing at a university than say sex trafficking, police brutality, or the prevalence of hand guns and guns in general in the US.
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Old 08-09-2015, 03:52 PM
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If they don't want to watch it then don't watch it. Its a small distribution film I'm guessing. My impression is its cecil the lion sort of thing. Its easy go get angry about something like the film showing at a university than say sex trafficking, police brutality, or the prevalence of hand guns and guns in general in the US.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, Bossinthewall. Might this make the killer into an anti-hero? Will others carry his image too, into the breaking day (cf. movie theater shoot-em-ups)?
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Old 08-09-2015, 05:46 PM
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I know this statement goes over like a lead balloon but...Media is not a mirror!!

It may be considered bad taste exploitin' tragedy fer profit...and if ya feel like that don't patronize it.
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Old 08-09-2015, 07:13 PM
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, Bossinthewall. Might this make the killer into an anti-hero? Will others carry his image too, into the breaking day (cf. movie theater shoot-em-ups)?
The film make him into an anti-hero? Do you mean like Natural Born Killers? I find it very unlikely. Billions of dollars are made about violence. But we're not seeing films about how cool it is to be a nazi/white power skinhead. Or the happiness that is KKK. Or how AIDS was the best thing that happened to 'the gays.' And so on. How many films are out there making terrorists likeable?

(If this or my previous post came off as combative, it wasn't mean in that tone : / )
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They once tried to ban alcohol.....so yeah.
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