Neil LaBute Is Tackling Race The Only Way He Knows How: Terribly

Gabe — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:40:33 +0000

I posted the trailer for Lakeview Terrace a few weeks ago and made a joke about how it was a combination of Training Day and Wilson from Home Improvement, and the half-joke about how it was the most racist. But because I am bad at my job (which is why Friday is my last day, it’s been fun), I didn’t actually do any research on the film, so I didn’t realize what a cursory glance at the IMDB page would have told me: that Neil “Fuck Her, Let’s Get A Sandwich” LaBute had directed it.

Neil LaBute is an intentionally controversial film maker, and while I can’t say that I’ve ever enjoyed anything that he’s done (with the exception of the so-unintentionally-hilarious-that-you-start-to-think-it-must-actually-be-intentional remake of Wicker Man) I always sort of respected the fact that his misogynistic harangues (yes, his movies are harangues, and yes I graduated from college) on modern gender relations were, while horrible and obnoxious, created in the search for something. Even if he was a bully and his intentions were often questionable, it was still clear that he was trying to figure out a truth, or get to the bottom of an issue. And I think that’s respectable. I think that’s a really good reason to make movies, even if you make bad movies.

Lakeview Terrace: King Kong Ain’t Got Shit On You’re Racist

Gabe — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:29:05 +0000

For years now, I’ve been trying to convince Hollywood to combine Cop Land, Snakes on a Plane, Training Day, “eracism” t-shirts, White Man’s Burden, The ‘Burbs, Rear Window, and Wilson from Home Improvement into one movie. Finally Hollywood listened.

Um, you guys, my mind just broke.

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Neil LaBute Is Tackling Race The Only Way He Knows How: Terribly

Lakeview Terrace: King Kong Ain’t Got Shit On You’re Racist