Re: South Park B/L/U: another opinion

Jeff Bone (jbone@activerse.com)
Wed, 07 Jul 1999 16:34:02 -0500


Jim says:

> My point is: why are we celebrating this movie

Because it rocks, you BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP [1] and if it wasn't for
BLEEP [2] great movies and statements of free expression and other BLEEP
[3] like this we would all have to watch what the BLEEP [4] we said and
maybe even e-mail would get all BLEEP [5] up and look like this and that
would BLEEP BLEEP. [6]

;-)

> Though I grant them the full right to make South Park, or any movie
they
> want, why are we rewarding a movie containing these elements with a
profit,
> and incentive to repeat it?

Well, I can't speak for anyone but myself, but IMO South Park has always
and continues to ultimately be about shooting the finger at the censors
and other folks who would be a "moral compass" for our society. I'm not
lost, I don't *need* or *want* a compass. By pushing the envelope and
intentionally (and yes, *very* effectively!) tormenting those kinds of
folks, Trey and Matt serve a cause that I definitely favor. Hence, my
$6.75 goes to funding that cause. In fact, now that I'm viewing this in
an activist sense rather than just as a damn funny movie, I think maybe
I'll go back and see it again. Maybe several times. ;-)

"Cause, like, those censor people... it's like, you go in a room,
and there's all these
crusty old fuckers sitting around, going, like, 'uhhhhhhhhhhh...'
And like another thing
is, is like, none of them ever rocked in their lives."
[paraphrase]
- Trey Parker on censors, interview on Canned Ham this week

jb

[1] uncle fucking donkey dong
[2] fucking
[3] shit
[4] fuck
[5] fucked
[6] fucking suck