Marty McFry
Don Corleone
"She was mine before she was yours.... Wooooo"
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Post by Marty McFry on Aug 17, 2013 6:05:50 GMT -5
I heard an interview on PWtorch about this segment just this week.
The segment was written by HHH and Brian Getwitz. They wanted Chyna to be Owen but she refused and that's why Jason was asked. Originally he declined but Owen gave him his blessing and he did it.
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Post by BRAINFADE on Aug 17, 2013 13:42:32 GMT -5
It wasn't comedic genius or anything, but it made me chuckle.
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percymania
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
Percymania will live forever! Oh yeah!
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Post by percymania on Aug 17, 2013 13:50:37 GMT -5
A mix of good and bad. The Owen and DLo impersonations were the funniest to me.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2013 7:21:37 GMT -5
All this weeping and wailing about makeup. Unbelievable. I suppose Robert Downey Jr in Tropic Thunder is terribly offensive to today's people as well. It's makeup, exactly the same as x-pac. I see that you are not from the US. On the surface, darkening one's skin to impersonate a black man makes sense. But when there's racism running throughout our nation history, including minstrel shows where white men wore blackface and put on variety shows playing up offensive stereotypes, things like this are dicey. There's less "that's horrible" and more surprise that no one seemed to care, which is strange when you consider that blackface has been considered taboo for almost a century. Maybe people just expect that kind of stuff from wrestling. I haven't seen Tropic Thunder, but I bet Robert Downey Jr.'s thing is clever or making some kind of point. Dave Chappelle did "whiteface" and as a white guy I found it really funny. It's complicated, there's a lot of wounds that will take a long time to heal, if they ever do.
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Post by wildojinx on Aug 18, 2013 8:13:33 GMT -5
I heard an interview on PWtorch about this segment just this week. The segment was written by HHH and Brian Getwitz. They wanted Chyna to be Owen but she refused and that's why Jason was asked. Originally he declined but Owen gave him his blessing and he did it. Chyna as Owen would NOT work, especially with Chyna's voice being much lower in tone.
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