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The Huntwas supposed to come out in theaters last fall.But … it didnt.
And that was before anyone saw it.
Contrary to prerelease hand-wringing, however,The Huntisnt simply about the lefts hatred of MAGA types.
According to the writers, its about the judgments people ofallpolitical affiliations make about the so-called other side.
In a sea of villains, Crystal is our only hope.
So we immediately decided that every single progressive in this movie felt like they were woke.
This guy feels like hes saying the right thing: I would never blame the victim.
But hes literally about to murder someone, and therefore hes a villain.
His usage of that particular phrase, he doesnt even understand what it means.
But Im going to be noodling over that one.
But it wasnt meant to diminish the issue at all.
It was meant to be a diminishing of the casualness with which it is treated.
Lets be super-duper aware of that.
Lets go as hard on ourselves as we possibly can.
That was basically our process.
We have to take the hardest shots atourbubble.
It is a privileged life.
Were the writers concerned they were flattening certain arguments, or being flippant with their critiques of certain people?
Both things had to coexist.
So we heightened the reality as much as we could.
And then we had to do the same thing with the liberals.
She wears clothes like this.
This is who she is.
And lets be wrong about her.
Lets let the movie be about the cautionary tale of, heres what happens when you get it wrong.
Maybe theres a little bit more to him than meets the eye.
But Cuse and Lindelof take a gentler approach to the phenomena.
In fact, they were able to find inspiration in the most outrageous of conspiracy theories: Pizzagate.
Then what if it became real?
That was what got us excited.
She should not be canceled for expressing herself.
I think cancel culture exists to protect, right?
You have to trust that no one innocent is going to get basically swept up in the system.
But I cant sit here inside my glass house and throw stones.
At the same time, we went through this entire process where a hundred people read the script.
We shot the movie in Louisiana with a crew of people from all walks of life and political ideologies.
I was waiting for someone to come up to me and say, This movie is problematic.
Its offensive, and that never happened.
Maybe it never happened because Im me, and whos going to come up to me and say that?
Did it ever occur to you?
Again, broad generalization, but we still live in a capitalist society.
Let the industry decide.
IfThe Huntcame out and it bombed and it was 30 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, thats not cancel culture.
Thats people saying this is a piece of shit and it shouldnt exist.
But if someones saying the movie shouldnt even be released.
Why cant we trust people to make up their minds for themselves?
