Boycott Chapter 27 wants to offer a special thanks to "this_guy"

This was found as a comment on a blog of some 16 year old with a crush on Jared Leto,
if she only knew who John Lennon was...but now she will only know his killer:

I've posted about it a few times, but I really...oh my god. This pisses me off, Jared Leto or no Jared Leto.

It's a movie about the man who shot John Lennon. It's a very objective look at what happened, not trying to paint MDC in any kind of light, just telling it like it is. One of the arguments is that this movie is making him famous, which is what the killer was after, supposedly.

MDC was famous the moment he pulled the trigger. That's what did it. Making a very generic (in the sense of any kind of empathy for the character) movie about the event isn't going to make him anymore famous than he already is.

MDC was a very fucked up individual, and what he did was...it was shocking, terrifying heart-breaking and world changing. Whether we like it or not, it happened, and so fucking what if an artist read a book and decided he wanted to explore it cinematically.

I've seen the movie, and it's very well done. There is nothing that sheds any kind of positive light on the killer. It generates more heartache over John Lennon's death, and it made me appreciate what he meant to this world.

Now that that's done, I think I want to buy a domain that would be supporting the release of the movie. I don't know if there are any, but I really really feel compelled to do so. What do you think, feel like giving me some thoughts on all this?

THE RESPONSE....


I've never seen the film, but I've got to say that if I was forced to choose sides, and deal with losing friends over one or the other, I'd choose to boycott Chapter 27.

By this, I mean, people in the Lennon camp are unhappy with the actors for doing the movie. Lindsay Lohan, etc., are losing friends for doing it. I imagine that some people in the Lennon camp are losing friends who feel the movie is a good idea.

I love John Lennon. I choose that side.

The bottom line really isn't whether it's right or wrong. John Lennon's widow, his best friend, his surviving son have asked the world not to give the killer any more attention than he has already received. They made a request to honor their dead loved one. Who are we to not honor that?

I am an artist, a writer, a person who believes that all the world should be in the realm of use by an artist for self expression... but the line is drawn when someone requests that something be left unsaid. It's disrespectful to the dead, and that's final.

This might be something that is hard for people to understand who weren't alive when John Lennon died. My mother was, and she knows the way the world shook when it happened... it's one of those things that you remember where you were standing when it happened. It was bigger than anything you can imagine. The Beatles were a phenomenon unlike any band before them, or any band since. There is no comparison.

As someone who's father has died, I understand some of it. I get irritated when a movie cops out in the end, and the character dies of brain cancer. I feel like these movies are made for everyone's entertainment and education but my own. I can't imagine if my father were murdered, and someone took his story and made a movie about any aspect of it at all without my permission, and made money and gained fame for the killer. It doesn't matter what the killer wants, only the family that is left behind.