The Hilary Swank Movie About Hunting Republicans for Sport Will Not Be Coming to Theaters
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“The Most Dangerous Game” is a nearly 100-year-old short story about a rich person hunting human beings for entertainment that is commonly used to teach Freytag’s Pyramid to American seventh graders and is not very good but also not at all controversial. Killing humans for fun=bad. However, a twenty-first century spin on the tale has outraged Republicans who obviously did not do the assigned reading and therefore cannot understand that the reader/viewer is supposed to identify with the hunted and not the hunters, which has caused them to whine and bellyache on Twitter until Universal caved and threw the whole movie away.
The film, called The Hunt, stars Hilary Swank, Emma Robers, and GLOW’s Betty Gilpin and is set in a world where 12 people, called “Deplorables” in the trailer, from red states like Arkansas and Mississippi are kidnapped and hunted by the wealthy. Like the short story that inspired it, the film does not look very good, but it also does not look like a movie that would fuel outrage in any reasonable person.