Jim Carrey staat niet meer achter Kick-Ass 2

Jim Carrey heeft op Twitter aangegeven niet meer achter de film Kick-Ass 2 te staan, waar hij een rol in speelt. Hij vindt de film te gewelddadig.

24-6-2013 Door: Bioscoopagenda

Jim Carrey staat niet meer achter Kick-Ass 2

Jim Carrey verklaart dat hij door de schietpartij in Sandy Hook van mening is veranderd over de film. Bij die schietpartij schoot een 20-jarige man 20 kinderen, 6 leraren en zijn moeder neer. Dit gebeurde een maand na de opnames van Kick-Ass.

Jim Carrey kan door die gebeurtenissen niet meer de film supporten.

Inmiddels heeft Mark Millar, de bedenker van Kick-Ass ook gereageerd. Een kleine greep uit zijn reactie:

Ultimately, this is his decision, but I've never quite bought the notion that violence in fiction leads to violence in real-life any more than Harry Potter casting a spell creates more Boy Wizards in real-life. Our job as storytellers is to entertain and our toolbox can't be sabotaged by curtailing the use of guns in an action-movie. Imagine a John Wayne picture where he wasn't packing or a Rocky movie where Stallone wasn't punching someone repeatedly in the face. Our audience is smart enough to know they're all pretending and we should instead just sit back and enjoy the serotonin release of seeing bad guys meeting bad ends as much as we enjoyed seeing the Death Star exploding. The action in Kick-Ass 2 is like nothing you've ever seen before. The humour, the characters, the heart and the set-pieces are all things we're very proud of and the only warning I'd really include is that it's almost TOO EXCITING. Kick-Ass 2 is fictional fun so let's focus our ire instead of the real-life violence going on in the world like the war in Afghanistan, the alarming tension in Syria right now and the fact that Superman just snapped a guy's fucking neck.

Jim, I love ya and I hope you reconsider for all the above points. You're amazing in this insanely fun picture and I'm very proud of what Jeff, Matthew and all the team have done here.