Home Alone. A beloved holiday movie franchise about the importance of family, having
Saw-like traps at the ready to protect your home, and feeling an unsettling sense of dread when you remember that there’s a Donald Trump cameo in the second film.
I’d actually forgotten that he was in the movie until CinemaSins added an astronomical amount of sins to the
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York count back in 2019, but there he was, giving Kevin McCallister directions so he could embark on his solo adventure in New York.
From 57 to JESUS CHRIST!
And like, it’s not the longest cameo in the world, and there’s no way anyone involved in the film would’ve had the sense to timewarp to the future to see
Tye Sheridan as Cyclops, Sailor Moon s Melvin Butlers, Peridot of the Crystal Gems, Morpheus, and They Live s Roddy Piper. (Screenshot: 20th Century Studios, TV Tokyo, Cartoon Network, Warner Bros., Universal)
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Now that we’ve more or less figured out how to wear glasses and protective masks at the same time without fogging up said glasses, now’s as good a time as any for taking some inspiration from genre’s greatest bespectacled characters to step one’s glasses game up. Personality glasses people: this is your time.
Joker,
The Master,
Gladiator) as the 19th-century French emperor. As previously reported, the film’s title stems from the saying, “There is a general’s staff hidden in every soldier’s kitbag.”
“Napoleon is a man I’ve always been fascinated by,” Scott told the outlet. “He came out of nowhere to rule everything but all the while he was waging a romantic war with his adulterous wife Josephine. He conquered the world to try to win her love, and when he couldn’t, he conquered it to destroy her, and destroyed himself in the process.”
“No actor could ever embody Napoleon like Joaquin,” Scott continued. “He created one of movie history’s most complex Emperors in
Home Alone 2 : Calls For Trump To Be Cut From Film He Bullied His Way Onto
On 1/14/21 at 10:39 AM EST
The
Home Alone actor responded to a call on Twitter for 20th Century Studios, the distributor of the film franchise, to cut out Trump s cameo scene from that movie s sequel
Lost in New York.
A Twitter user wrote: petition to digitally replace trump in
home alone 2 with 40-year-old macaulay culkin, to which the actor replied, Sold.
This is not the only call for the president s cameo to be removed from the movie. Earlier this week, a fan launched a petition asking Disney (who own 20th Century Studios) to replace him with president-elect Joe Biden. A Canadian TV broadcast of the film in Christmas 2019, meanwhile, cut out the scene entirely though the network who aired it told CNN: As is often the case with feature films adapted for television,
Apple has reportedly committed to Ridley Scott epic 'Kitbag' starring Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon Bonaparte. Production will begin in the UK next year.