Finally, a little justice. Some of you might recall that the prospect of director Robert Rodriguez receiving taxpayer dollars after bringing one the most anti-American and outright racist films in years to the bigscreen was more than a little upsetting to those of us who pay taxes, aren’t racist, and kinda dig America.
Good news today via the “Wall Street Journal“:
The Texas Film Commission says it will refuse to pay $1.75 million in state incentives to the movie’s producers citing a state law that allows the state to refuse to pay incentives for “content that portrays Texas or Texans in a negative fashion.”
But what exactly is the “negative” portrayal the governor’s staff object to? Most commentators assume it is Sen. McLaughlin’s character, a virulently anti-immigration politician whose faux ad supports an “electrified border fence” and pledges “no amnesty for parasites.”
Or is it the fact that at the end of the movie, the main character – an ex-Mexican federal police officer played by Danny Trejo – gets legal status? This is after he leads a group of Mexican immigrants in a confrontation with border vigilantes.
Calls to the Texas Film Commission were forwarded to Gov. Perry’s press office. Katherine Cesinger, the governor’s spokeswoman, said the letter to the filmmakers didn’t specify why the movie ran afoul of the “negative” portrayal criteria. “The totality of the project is what the office takes a look at,” she said.
Here’s our favorite part of the story, where after crashing and burning, Rodriguez gets to stand up, brush himself off, and say: “I meant to do that.”
One big winner: Machete and Troublemaker Studios. The movie has yet to be released on DVD and, as they say, all publicity is good publicity.
Didn’t they get the message that they were supposed to cry “racism?”
Bonus video. Imagine Pee Wee as an America-hating racist and enjoy…
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