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Quincy tv show anti gun propaganda1/14/2024 ![]() ![]() How can anyone hope to stop Myers? With a gun in hand, and very carefully. ![]() Myers is locked up at the movie’s start, but you know how that goes: He escapes fairly quickly, and heads towards town to carve up all the horny teens and clueless adults he can find, en route to a final confrontation with Strode, whose PTSD-inflected paranoia seems more justifiable the more dead bodies show up. ![]() Laurie Strode (Curtis), the protagonist of the original movie, was permanently traumatized by her encounter with the murderous Michael Myers, turning her into a sort-of doomsday prepper who lives isolated in the woods, and raised her daughter Karen (Judy Greer) to be proficient in all sorts of survival tactics, much to the detriment of their relationship. The new Halloween, directed by indie auteur David Gordon Green and co-written with idiot-humor king Danny McBride, ignores every other movie in the series (and there have been a lot) except the first, functioning as a direct sequel set exactly 40 years later. But Halloween itself is also fairly pro-gun, by the logic of those “common-sense gun safety” laws that Curtis supports, and difficult to quibble with on political terms unless you’re being intentionally obtuse. Earlier this month, there was an incredibly stupid story in the news cycle, invented and promoted by Fox News: “Jamie Lee Curtis wields firearms in new ‘Halloween’ movie despite advocating for gun control.” In response, Curtis gave an interview to USA Today in which she espoused her support for the Second Amendment and “common-sense gun safety and gun laws,” because I guess you have to play this game when dealing with these kind of smooth-brained provocateurs instead of simply saying “Jesus, you are too stupid for words.”Īny faction in the culture wars is prone to pre-judging a piece of art before it’s released, but Fox News’ suggestion was particularly dumb: Curtis is an actress portraying a fictional character, and this fictional character happens to need a lot of guns in order to stave off the supernatural-ish serial killer who’s haunted her for 40 years. ![]()
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