Japanese Forest, Japanese Spirits… and a White Girl?
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JayKlook — 9 years ago(August 04, 2016 09:58 AM)
TCM was only loosely based on a killer from Wisconsin, tho, not Texas. None of those events happened.
Ed Gein lived in Wisconsin and was a seemingly regular man. He wasn't a big lumbering lunatic with a crazy family (well, not noticeably a lunatic, definitely a lunatic tho).
The only real similarity between TCM and real life events is that Leatherface and Ed Gein both killed people, and did things with their bodies. Leatherface to a much greater extreme.
The opening of the 2003 TCM remake that showed "actual police footage" wasn't real. There's even a little featurette about Gein on the DVD.
Psycho, Leatherface, Buffalo Bill (Silence of the Lambs), House of 1000 corpses, these are all loosely based on Ed Gein.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein
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bcjester — 9 years ago(August 04, 2016 10:02 AM)
The Forest is extremely loosely based as well. My point was that if "The Forest" is disrespectful then so to would TCM.
The only thing in the movie The Forest that is remotely based and grounded in reality is that people go their to kill themselves sometimes.
So my point still stands, and I still reserve the right to be 100% wrong.
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JayKlook — 9 years ago(August 08, 2016 08:37 AM)
But it's not really the same. The Forest is a movie about a Forest where people commit suicide. It's based on a Forest where people commit suicide.
TCM is about a lumbering likely special needs man (with a psychotic family) who snatch up/chase people around with a chainsaw in Texas. It's based very loosely based on Ed Gein who killed some people in a completely different manner. The only similarity is killing people and cutting some things off them.
By the way, I'm not at all arguing against your point of whether it's disrespectful or not. I'm really just discussing the semantics of your comparison. Also, I'm not aggravated at all, just interested in this comparison. Internet arguments have a way of coming off as squabbling.
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ScorpionTDC — 10 years ago(December 24, 2015 08:40 AM)
I haven't seen the film itself, but nothing in that trailer is disrespectful to suicide victims
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Eve_of_Destruction — 9 years ago(July 26, 2016 03:22 AM)
Mental illness or not suicide is ultimately a choice. My cousin and 2 close friends committed suicide. So I have been there through the repurcussuins on the parents and sisters and brothers. I myself have contemplated it but I know what I would leave behind would be worse than what I went through to put me in that position. I would never do that to my family.
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Eve_of_Destruction — 9 years ago(July 28, 2016 04:20 AM)
Mental illness or not suicide is ultimately a choice. My cousin and 2 close friends committed suicide. So I have been there through the repurcussuins on the parents and sisters and brothers. I myself have contemplated it but I know what I would leave behind would be worse than what I went through to put me in that position. I would never do that to my family.
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bcjester — 10 years ago(December 26, 2015 10:37 PM)
Yes because visiting Japan is absolutely illogical and silly. You're right my bad. Being a Caucasian person who works in Japan(you need a work visa for that by the way) is u heard of. Man I'm sorry you're right. I don't know where I came up with these half-brained schemes of mine.
Next time I need to renew my passport I just won't because it's silly and illogical for me to visit another country.
God dude,thank you so much for opening my eyes!
Sarcasm aside it's more likely she's just visiting than having a work visa or simply living there. Nothing silly about that. People vacation overseas in different countries all the time. -
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bcjester — 10 years ago(January 09, 2016 03:08 PM)
After seeing the film I will give you a proper response and then a jokey one cause, why not.
Proper response.
As stated earlier she could have been there on a work visa. She was: she was the english teacher at a school. She did not go to Japan to kill herself. She went to start a job as an English(Language) teacher in Japan. Just so happened she was thinking about committing suicide and went into the forest(I wont spoil it and explain why)
Jokey response.
why do white people jump out of an air plane with a parachute.
Why do white people dive into a cave in the same way
Why do white people slide down the side of a mountain with two glossed plank. strapped to each foot respectively.
Why do white people do the same as above but with one glosse plank(snowboard)
No question marks as they are all rhetorical questions.Lol and horrible stereotypes as all nationalities do these crazy things. -