Since the flashbacks take place in the '80's, probably not?
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cjbark-34442 — 9 years ago(January 31, 2017 09:10 AM)
In the mini-series, whenever Jarrad Blanchard (Henry) was scripted to call Marlon Taylor (Mike) this behind the camera, when it stopped rolling - he would always apologise. Anyway this film takes place in the late 80's, not late 50's, so I guess Muscietti will have no reason to put racism into this re-adaptation, unless he really wanted to stay true to the book. But Henry Bowers was efficiently described to be a racist (amongst plenty of other things), and I guess if Muscietti and crew wanted to show Henry to be as prejudice as he was in the book, that word will possibly be put more than a few times in the films. But Derry was fckd up for more than just it's racist side I guess.
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niandun — 9 years ago(January 31, 2017 03:11 PM)
I'm pretty confused by the logic that racism wouldn't be in the picture as a result of the decade shift. Racism didn't end in the 50s and 60s. Pretty sure there was a news report a few months ago about a black woman living by herself in rural Illinois/Indiana and suffering racially-based defacement to her property. If this is 2017, can you imagine the lone black kid in 1980s small town Maine? Of course Henry Bowers would still be giving poor Mike hell because he's black, and a white trash bully like Henry would totally be using the n-word (I knew people like him growing up). I think it would be more realistic if Henry used the n-word, but the production team and actors probably didn't want to stoke controversy. I don't remember reading it in the Fukunaga script.
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Harry_Roat_Jr — 9 years ago(January 31, 2017 04:30 PM)
I count myself as very liberal, but I get annoyed at the bleeding heart types who wring their hands at movies made or set in a time where content depicted was common and accepted. That's how history gets whitewashed. I love that the kids in Monster Squad called each other gay slurs- it shows how far we've come. So I hope they don't shy away from the N word in this movie.
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adam-82441 — 9 years ago(February 01, 2017 12:40 AM)
Agree entirely. By cleansing history it lessens the impact and makes the characters less realistic. Kids are inexperienced, naive and scared so use minority based slurs to feel part of a larger and more protected group. It's just how kids are. There's genuine bigotry in but a few but the majority will throw the slurs around to fit in. Someone as vicious as Bowers will be saying this beep and meaning it.
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agusmaga93 — 9 years ago(February 01, 2017 09:39 AM)
I don't remember reading it in the Fukunaga script.
Yes, Henry (renamed "Travis") does say the N-word in Fukunaga's script. It's when he loses his knife after Ben escapes him and Bowers blames having lost his knife over Mike, and that's how they start chasing him up to the Kitchener ironworks.
"Travis, Snatch, Victor, and Hockstettler are still looking for the knife in the water under the bridge.
SNATCH: It probably got washed away, Travis.
Travis grabs Victor by his collar and growls in his face.
TRAVIS: It aint been washed away. Its been stolen.
VICTOR: Stolen, by who?
Travis points up the embankment at Mike, biking home over the bridge.
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DeadOrAliveYerComingWithMe — 9 years ago(February 02, 2017 02:03 AM)
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DeadOrAliveYerComingWithMe — 9 years ago(February 02, 2017 11:33 PM)
My man, you are a BEAST. AvP:R was garbo, though.
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