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13 Tweets Ripping Mel Gibson's ‘Action Movie’ About Police Brutality
13 Tweets Ripping Mel Gibson's ‘Action Movie’ About Police Brutality
The film is called "Dragged Across Concrete." Huh?
Hollywood has made some really bad choices greenlighting projects in the past — casting Emma Stone and Scarlett Johansson as Asian chicks, putting no people of color in a film about the Bible set in Egypt — but nothing seems quite as bad as a movie about police brutality starring Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn as the protagonists. Yeah, you read that right.
In the film, called Dragged Across Concrete, Gibson and Vaughn will play cops who are suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics gets wide attention. They then descend into the criminal underworld to exact vengeance.
Given Gibson's history of racism and anti-Semitism, there's no way this is a good idea.
The film hasn't even started shooting yet, and Black Twitter already is not here for it. See the most drag-a-docious reactions, below:
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Beyonce's babies deserve better than to be brought into a world where Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn play antihero racist cops
— Alanna Bennett (@AlannaBennett) February 1, 2017 -
"Hey, I'd like a role that humanizes cops who engage in police brutality." – Mel Gibson, loud racist and anti-Semite
— Olivia A. Cole (@RantingOwl) February 2, 2017 -
LRT - The synopsis for Mel Gibson/Vince Vaughan movie about police brutality. I mean... pic.twitter.com/bnuEIVzFex
— Rebecca Theodore (@FilmFatale_NYC) February 1, 2017 -
@Variety Yeeeeaaaaah. Pass. pic.twitter.com/odeycG5em9
— Béné (@PtitePoucette) February 2, 2017 -
@skinnyblackgirl @RCPerryman_Esq @bomani_jones @Variety mel been waiting for this role a loooooonnnnnggggg time...
— Gift Of Gab (@ToineL0VE) February 1, 2017 -
@bomani_jones this is worse than asking Ja Rule for his insight on 9/11 pic.twitter.com/44OYrSeXCf
— ND (@nathand_12) February 1, 2017 -
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@bomani_jones @Variety vengeance on who??? pic.twitter.com/9uOrtdKcPw
— D.Y.L.F (@_bigvee_) February 2, 2017 -
@TivatimeTami @Variety and then "exact revenge" on the people they brutalized. 😂 Holy shit, burn it with fire. pic.twitter.com/cfu3Qf4ASd
— Jeff Torres (@iamJeffTorres) February 1, 2017 -
@Variety Won't this conflict with Mel's shooting of RACIST SANTA 3: NORTH POLE PATROL?
— Sebastian Girner (@SGirner) February 1, 2017 -
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@Variety is the KKK financing it?
— Faith Ch🍩yce (@faithchoyce) February 1, 2017 -
THIS IS A HORRIBLE IDEA GUYS https://t.co/TgExkPWYZg
— El Flaco (@bomani_jones) February 1, 2017 -
@Variety so we are going to watch them shoot innocent black folks and get put on paid administrative leave? Sounds about white. 🙄
— Kylieadams26 (@Kylieadams260) February 1, 2017 -
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@Variety Couple of Trumpsters to make a movie abt police brutality. Who else will be in this film? Jon Voight? James Wood? Chachi?
— Ajay Chand (@AjayCnyc) February 1, 2017 -
@Variety mel gibson can kiss my black ass
— sabrina (@sabrinapls) February 1, 2017See how Vice President Mike Pence kicked off his version of Black History Month by shouting out a white president with BET Videos, above.
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