Kelly recalled an article in the New York Times in 2005 that addressed the disability rights perspective.īut this time - in response to a torrent of critiques by writers and activists - The Guardian, the Washington Post, People, Vanity Fair, Salon, BuzzFeed, and The Hollywood Reporter have all covered the controversy, which has become too clamorous to ignore. It was “ nothing like this,” said John Kelly, the New England regional director of Not Dead Yet, a disability rights group that lobbies against assisted suicide he also has an injury similar to Will's. That film provoked criticisms, as Me Before You has, but activists say their concerns did not resonate much in the mainstream. The last mainstream English-language film in which a character decides she would rather die than live with quadriplegia was 2004’s Million Dollar Baby, in which a boxer ( Hilary Swank) begs her trainer ( Clint Eastwood) to kill her after she sustains a spinal cord injury his decision to kill her is depicted as a personal tragedy but a moral triumph of the story. In the face of the filmmakers’ contention that the film is “just about one character,” protesters maintain that they’ve been bombarded with movies about assisted suicide for disabled people for a century. “I think it's a huge opportunity, and I think it clearly has the potential to be a tipping point,” he said. Johnson called the traction of this protest - and the sheer scale of it - “unprecedented.”
The backlash has proven the power of the activists’ collective voice - and might mark a turning point for disability representation in film and television. What began as an informal collection of tweets and blog posts has snowballed into an international outcry. Sharrock's representatives had no further comment.) (“One of the things you don't tell people who are outraged is they don't understand,” said Mark Johnson, chair of the Americans With Disabilities Act Legacy Project, who has had a spinal cord injury similar to Will’s for 45 years.
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Echoing similar defenses from the actors in the film, director Thea Sharrock recently said that the movie is about “the right to choose” and called activists’ anger a “misunderstanding,” while screenwriter/novelist Jojo Moyes said you can’t judge a character “unless you put yourself in somebody’s shoes” - which only made protesters angrier. Their main critique is that the film perpetuates the stereotype that life with a disability is not worth living they vehemently object to the film’s exhortation (and promotional tagline) to “live boldly” when its main character ultimately opts to kill himself. Most of the vocal detractors of the film have been people with disabilities.
It’s been marketed as a quirky, opposites-attract romance that is thwarted by disability. Me Before You, based on the British novel of the same name, is the tragic love story of bubbly caregiver Louisa ( Emilia Clarke) and Will ( Sam Claflin), a man who sustains a spinal cord injury and decides to seek assisted suicide because he considers life with quadriplegia to be an unacceptable compromise. Protests of the film began online in February after the tearjerker’s trailer immediately raised red flags. Disability rights activists were ready for Me Before You in part because, as one put it, the problems they saw in the movie were “depressingly familiar.”
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