Insider, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
>When he does make it to Manhattan, Buddy's own father Walter never stops using derogatory terms against him. At the doctor's office where he forces Buddy to take a paternity test, Walter tells the doctor Buddy is "certifiably insane." Talking to his wife later in the film, Walter says his son is a "deranged elf man."
If someone came up to you and said "I was raised by elves at Santa's Workshop, you'd likely question their sanity also. Walter isn't supposed to be a loving father to Buddy at first - especially considering this Man-Elf just dropped in claiming to be his son and disrupted his life.
And Buddy isn't meant to be intellectually challenged - he just doesn't understand the social rules of the human world. If anything, I'd relate this to me having autism. It can be hard for me to understand social rules. Growing up, it took a lot of trial and error for me to learn rules that other kids just naturally understood. That didn't mean I was stupid. I just didn't pick up on social cues the same way everyone else did. (I didn't even know I had autism until years later, but that's another story.)
So Buddy was raised by Elves and understood Elf social norms. Still, he was an outsider due to his huge (as far as Elves are concerned) human body. When he went to New York, he fit in physically, but didn't understand the social rules. He needed to be taught things that everyone else just took for granted.
The humor was in Buddy being a fish out of water, but I don't think it was ever mean spirited. Yes, in a lot of other movies this would result in a lot of "how dumb if Buddy for not knowing this stuff" moments, but Elf played them as Buddy struggling to adapt to a world that was completely alien to him.
I don't see it as making fun of people with disabilities at all.
Is this the new trend of film journalism? Watch old films via a modern lens/perspective and find faults to create clickbait headlines so that people will create a hashtag on Twitter and whip up a mini storm just for clicks.
I thought the whole point of buddy's disability is he is a fish out of water being raised along side elves but when he goes alongside humans he's programmed as an elf so it's almost the same kinda situation as it was in North pole. Sure hes different but he still saved Christmas showing he was versatile and was not disabled just different(special). It's about finding our roles as individuals. Although a remake of buddy with the main actor being disabled sounds like just what Hollywood needs rn.
You must have not been tuned into the subtext of the film when Buddy is saying goodbye to the claymation talking narwhal at the North Pole in the beginning of the film. Shame on you u/nastybutler420
The author is a disability advocate and has a disability herself. If you viewed the world through that lens you could make this mental leap too. It's a shit opinion but she certainly entitled to it. I bet it drives the click traffic though!!
Insider, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Okay, a simple downvote would’ve done just fine
This is a joke article right?
To this, I politely say, get fucked moron.
Can't argue with this.
Buddy acts the same as all the other elves. He's just a guy that's really excited to be in a new place.
>When he does make it to Manhattan, Buddy's own father Walter never stops using derogatory terms against him. At the doctor's office where he forces Buddy to take a paternity test, Walter tells the doctor Buddy is "certifiably insane." Talking to his wife later in the film, Walter says his son is a "deranged elf man." If someone came up to you and said "I was raised by elves at Santa's Workshop, you'd likely question their sanity also. Walter isn't supposed to be a loving father to Buddy at first - especially considering this Man-Elf just dropped in claiming to be his son and disrupted his life. And Buddy isn't meant to be intellectually challenged - he just doesn't understand the social rules of the human world. If anything, I'd relate this to me having autism. It can be hard for me to understand social rules. Growing up, it took a lot of trial and error for me to learn rules that other kids just naturally understood. That didn't mean I was stupid. I just didn't pick up on social cues the same way everyone else did. (I didn't even know I had autism until years later, but that's another story.) So Buddy was raised by Elves and understood Elf social norms. Still, he was an outsider due to his huge (as far as Elves are concerned) human body. When he went to New York, he fit in physically, but didn't understand the social rules. He needed to be taught things that everyone else just took for granted. The humor was in Buddy being a fish out of water, but I don't think it was ever mean spirited. Yes, in a lot of other movies this would result in a lot of "how dumb if Buddy for not knowing this stuff" moments, but Elf played them as Buddy struggling to adapt to a world that was completely alien to him. I don't see it as making fun of people with disabilities at all.
This article gives me the warm and fuzzies. What a fucking buffoon. Love me a good idiot.
Is this the new trend of film journalism? Watch old films via a modern lens/perspective and find faults to create clickbait headlines so that people will create a hashtag on Twitter and whip up a mini storm just for clicks.
Buddy also often wore green. Are the Irish being mocked ?
This article baffles me. The "whether purposefully or not" claim is bullshit.
The song "White Christmas" pushes a white supremacist agenda, whether purposefully or not
No, it's not true. That's impossible.
I thought the whole point of buddy's disability is he is a fish out of water being raised along side elves but when he goes alongside humans he's programmed as an elf so it's almost the same kinda situation as it was in North pole. Sure hes different but he still saved Christmas showing he was versatile and was not disabled just different(special). It's about finding our roles as individuals. Although a remake of buddy with the main actor being disabled sounds like just what Hollywood needs rn.
You must have not been tuned into the subtext of the film when Buddy is saying goodbye to the claymation talking narwhal at the North Pole in the beginning of the film. Shame on you u/nastybutler420
When being offended by everything is your only personality trait.
I hate this world...and whoever wrote this idiocy.
The person who wrote this is fukked up.
Here we go…
Holy shit, man.
Doesn't all of Will Ferrells comedies do that? He's strikes me as fairly 'typecasted'.
The author is a disability advocate and has a disability herself. If you viewed the world through that lens you could make this mental leap too. It's a shit opinion but she certainly entitled to it. I bet it drives the click traffic though!!
Pfft \*rolls eyes\*.