Adam Sandler Movie So Offensive Several Extras Walk Off Set

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Adam Sandler is currently in New Mexico filming The Ridiculous Six, his first original movie for Netflix. Details about the film are scant. We know that it is apparently a parody of the classic Western The Magnificent Seven; we also know that a portion of the film features portrayals of American Indians so offensive that a dozen Native actors, including the film’s “cultural advisor,” straight-up walked off the set yesterday.

Per Indian Country Today Media Network, here are some of the retrograde jokes that prompted the American Indian extras—most of whom are members of the Navajo Nation—to ditch the movie:

The examples of disrespect included Native women’s names such as Beaver’s Breath and No Bra, an actress portraying an Apache woman squatting and urinating while smoking a peace pipe, and feathers inappropriately positioned on a teepee.

Two extras interviewed by ICTMN’s Vincent Schilling said they were initially uneasy about participating in the film, but were assured by Sandler’s producers that the portrayals would not be racist. That promise was quickly revealed as a lie.

Said an extra named Loren Anthony:

“I was asked a long time ago to do some work on this and I wasn’t down for it. Then they told me it was going to be a comedy, but it would not be racist. So I agreed to it but on Monday things started getting weird on the set.”

According to Anthony, the actors were supposed to be portraying members of the Apache tribe, but, in their costumes, “[W]e did not look Apache at all. We looked more like Comanche.” He also expanded on the aforementioned “Beaver’s Breath” gag:

“One thing that really offended a lot of people was that there was a female character called Beaver’s breath. One character says ‘Hey, Beaver’s Breath.’ And the Native woman says, ‘How did you know my name?’”

A Navajo film student named Allison Young said the producers told the extras that if they were going to be “sensitive,” that they “should leave”:

“We talked to the producers about our concerns. They just told us, ‘If you guys are so sensitive, you should leave.’ I was just standing there and got emotional and teary-eyed. I didn’t want to cry but the feeling just came over me. This is supposed to be a comedy that makes you laugh. A film like this should not make someone feel this way.”

David Hill, a 74-year-old man of Choctaw descent, compared the film’s producers to Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder:

“They were being disrespectful,” he said. “They were bringing up those same old arguments that Dan Snyder uses in defending the Redskins.”

There is probably a strong crossover between people who support the sovereignty of the Washington Redskins and people who would willingly watch an Adam Sandler movie in 2015. That group of people is also, I guess, Netflix’s new target audience.

Calling something Apache, and it's actually Comanche is like someone confusing an Aussie for a Kiwi, or an Paddy for a Brit, a Chinese for a Japanese or a Puerto Rican for a Mexican. I hope this Netflix deal is the nail in his coffin and his career is buried wherever Mike Myers' is.

Also, "injun" names are total 70s schtick, get with the times you old fuck, you haven't made a decent movie since Longest Yard.
 

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bad press is still good press
 

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Not true my friend, if this one gets too far out of hand it could force Netflix to pull it and do major damage to Sandler's career. I do have a feeling this might be a bit of a publisty stunt actually, but if not then it doesn't look good regurdless of the truth.
 

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Ethnic name jokes are just lame and unfunny, it's up there with doofus and poop jokes. Who the fuck still laughs at the beans make you fart stuff that Mel Brooks did in the 70s.
 

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Sandlers career peeked a long time ago. A particular group will care about the slander produced, the rest will just look past it. Though, like @Keith said, Netflix could pull it.
 

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Netflix should pull this shit. It doesn't seem have any redeeming values.
 
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