stuttering in movies/tv

[maineguy]

Do any of you hate as much as I do when movies or tv make fun of stutterers? Every once in a while, like last night with Curb Your Enthusiasm, I'll be watching a show with friends and the show will mercilessly make fun of stutterers. I always turn red when this happens. Maybe i could see a stutterer parking in a handicap space to be a little funny (last night''s episode), but at the same time it's saying that stuttering isn''t a handicap, which it definately is. Now i'm kind of hesitant to watch this show in a room full of people, because this could easily be a recurring storyline.

[cotton]

How did the show make fun of stutterers?

I remember a stutterer in A Fish Called Wanda who ran over a guy he hated with a bulldozer. After that he stopped stuttering and was dancing shouting tongue twisters. Funny!

[Andrew]

I can't watch My Cousin Vinny because of the stuttering scene... it brings back memories of myself stuttering in public (although, not to that extent). I usually change channel or fast forward that part because the rest of the movie is superb.

[Gary1450]

I agree - My COusin Vinny pisses me off in that court scence.

Although some of the stupid looks on their faces look dumber than the stutterer they're trying to make fun of.

[Andrew]

Pearl Harbor had a short scene... pissed me off a little, but at least it was short "the Japs are coming [sic]"... not a 10 minute stutter like in the movie. If Jewish people can go up in arms over a movie or phrase or something for it being anti-semetic, I say we start a anti-stutter movement where its frowned down upon to make fun of us for something we never asked to have. No one makes fun of a vet who got his leg blown off by a IED... but its ok to make fun of people's speech impediments.

[Bobby]

has anyone seen "one flew over the oos nest" ?

theres a character called Billy Bibbit, who has a pretty bad stutter. We watched this movie in class for english. and when ever billy would speak i would have an almost worse feeling then i do when i stutter. its like you know how they feel, and the pain they go through, its like you share that pain while he stutters.

[cotton]

Pearl Harbor had a short scene... pissed me off a little, but at least it was short "the Japs are coming [sic]"... not a 10 minute stutter like in the movie.

I remember that. It gets me anxious when I watch that because I think about real life situations where I'll have to call 911 to save a life. clock's ticking. I think the film cleverly used the stutterer to intensify the suspense.

[cotton]

has anyone seen "one flew over the oos nest" ?

theres a character called Billy Bibbit, who has a pretty bad stutter. We watched this movie in class for english. and when ever billy would speak i would have an almost worse feeling then i do when i stutter. its like you know how they feel, and the pain they go through, its like you share that pain while he stutters.

What's Billy Bibbit in the mental ward for? For stuttering? That makes us look bad. Sometimes I see people's reactions to bad stutterers. They don't know what to think if they're mentally challenged or crazy.

[Bobby]

What's Billy Bibbit in the mental ward for? For stuttering? That makes us look bad. Sometimes I see people's reactions to bad stutterers. They don't know what to think if they're mentally challenged or crazy.


he volenteered to be in the mental ward.

many people do, as they find that they are no longer in societies eyes, which means they dont have to worry about there problems in public.

[Flash]

I really hate it when people make fun of stutters on T.V. I usually see it once or twice a year and when it happens, I get really pissed off. :mad:

Does anyone here watch WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment)? I watch it occasionally and back a few months ago they had a wrestler who stuttered. I know wrestling these days is fake, all scripted, and it's just acting. His character was portrayed as this big mean guy that was strong and tough but stuttered. I can't remember his name.....maybe someone who watches it can help me out with that. For some reason, the company released him and he hasn't been on for a while. I wasn't sure if his stuttering was real or if was just an act for his character. Sometimes it did kinda look fake but I wasn't ever sure if it was fake. I don't wanna jump to conclusions and cl that it's fake because if it's not then it would be really disrespectful. Does anyone know who I'm talking about and know if his stuttering was real or fake?

Edit: I remember his name now....It's Matt Morgan.

[Andrew]

I really hate it when people make fun of stutters on T.V. I usually see it once or twice a year and when it happens, I get really pissed off. :mad:

Does anyone here watch WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment)? I watch it occasionally and back a few months ago they had a wrestler who stuttered. I know wrestling these days is fake, all scripted, and it's just acting. His character was portrayed as this big mean guy that was strong and tough but stuttered. I can't remember his name.....maybe someone who watches it can help me out with that. For some reason, the company released him and he hasn't been on for a while. I wasn't sure if his stuttering was real or if was just an act for his character. Sometimes it did kinda look fake but I wasn't ever sure if it was fake. I don't wanna jump to conclusions and cl that it's fake because if it's not then it would be really disrespectful. Does anyone know who I'm talking about and know if his stuttering was real or fake?

Edit: I remember his name now....It's Matt Morgan.

When the Dudleyz first entered WWE, Buh-Buh's character always stuttered on camera then someone would hit him on the back of the head for him to get the rest of the word out. He doesn't stutter in real life.

They're not making fun of us specificically, they are in a buisness where they make money by pushing the envelope. I remember a public outcry when they had a arabic character on TV following the eve of one of the 9/11 annerverseries called Mohammad and he would always beat up on the caucausions just to draw a response from the crowd.

With that said, it pissed me off either way.

[Gary1450]

I thought it looked real too. I've learned not to be offended by shows or characters like that even though it's tempting.

[stayathomemom]

Matt Morgan made his re-debut to WWE on on April 22, 2005, with a new gimmick of a stuttering big-man who is defensive over his speech disorder and allied himself with Carlito Caribbean Cool to become Carlito's "backup", helping Carlito defeat The Big Show at WWE Judgement Day. This partnership ended when Carlito was drafted to RAW and subsequently Morgan was released by WWE on July 5 2005.

[Standingtall]

I love watching my cousin Vinny, and I still get uncomfortable watching other people stutter on TV and in the movies. I wonder what the other actors think, because Mel Tills has been in a few of my favorite movies, Smokey and the bandit, Any which way but lose, Cannon ball, etc. That stuttering plot on WWE, must no work for them, cause it sure doesn't last long. Wish my stutter was that way.