"And people have the right to be offended by any of those jokes. "People talk a lot about freedom of speech, and what they forget is, like, yeah, you can make whatever joke you want," said Rogen. But what they didn’t want Sausage Party to be was hateful.
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Of course, Rogen and Goldberg understand that an adult animated movie about horny, foul-mouthed, ethnically stereotyped food was never going to please everyone. Getting Sausage Party made at all was its own battle, but getting it made the right way involved a near-constant search for balance between wanting to push the boundaries of what an animated feature film can do, and stomping, pissing, and shitting all over those boundaries until audiences run screaming.
… The movie is a little different because of it."įor Rogen and Goldberg, the exchange was emblematic of their decade-long struggle to inject their bawdy, uninhibited sensibility into a Pixar-style animated movie - and the complicated creative risks they took in the process. Because honestly, it was a valid note, and we listened to it. "I remember getting quite flustered, because that doesn't happen very often," added Rogen. "And then five minutes later, it just sunk in. "When that person said that, I remember being like, Fuck you, what do you fucking know?" Goldberg told BuzzFeed News. She sheepishly left the mic, and the moderator shifted to another question.įour months later, sitting in a booth at Canter's Deli in Los Angeles, Rogen and Goldberg remembered that tense encounter - and the impact it had on their film. But the woman persisted, repeating her curiosity about the filmmakers' "Mexican cultural references," until, as is often the case with awkward moments during film festival Q&As, some in the audience began to jeer her. "To be very clear, not reality," he said. Goldberg, a hint of irritation flashing across his face, jumped in. "Mostly very outdated," he said, laughing anxiously again. Rogen nervously talked over her, explaining that Teresa's scenes - which begin in the Mexican food aisle, reimagined as a dusty desert cantina - were meant as references to classic Westerns like The Wild Bunch. "But I just want to know who was your reference other than Salma."
"Oh, the movie very much stereotypes every single cultural group," Rogen said, his trademark jackhammer laugh tightening in his throat. "But," she added, "who else did you use for your Mexican cultural references? Because I don't think that was represented very well in the film." With her voice comparatively muted, she started by praising the work of Salma Hayek, who voices Teresa, a lesbian taco shell. Roughly 10 minutes into the Q&A, however, a woman stepped up to the mic. As the audience roared in approval, a sense of relief washed over Rogen and Goldberg.ĭuring the Q&A that followed, one audience member prefaced his question by boasting, "Well, for one, I feel repulsed and blessed at the same time." Another wanted to know if the film had been approved by the MPAA: "How are y'all getting the big ol' fuck scene past them?" "Did you guys like the movie?" Goldberg asked the crowd after the screening he and Rogen were joined by directors Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan and co-writers Kyle Hunter and Ariel Shaffir on stage. The lifelong friends and creative partners had been working on the R-rated animated feature for 10 years and had stuffed it with more profanity, violence, drug use, sex, and envelope-pushing jokes about race and religion than any major animated film since 1999's South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut - or most live-action comedies, for that matter.Īnd on top of that, as Rogen and Goldberg nervously explained to the Austin crowd, some sequences in their anthropomorphized-food movie were still very much incomplete, including a bloody, no-holds-barred battle between the food that resides in a suburban supermarket and their human overlords who shop there and eat them, as well as the massive, graphic, dear- god-what-is-happening-right-now food orgy that serves as the film's, er, climax.įor anyone concerned, those are not much by way of spoilers - Sausage Party is the kind of film that truly needs to be seen to be believed.Īnd that night in Austin, it turned out, the vast majority of the audience were true believers.
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg did not know what to expect when they stepped in front of 1,000-plus people at the 2016 SXSW Film Festival in March to introduce their newest movie, Sausage Party.
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