Apparently Ryan Gosling’s newest film ‘Drive’ isn’t Fast OR Furious enough for one fan.
Michigan woman Sarah Deming is suing FilmDistrict Distribution LLC and her local cinema after claiming she was misled by the film’s trailer. As well as arguing that the film had little actual driving action, Deming also tacked onto the lawsuit claims there was antisemitism in the film.
Local 4 (Detroit) reports;
“Drive bore very little similarity to a chase, or race action film, for reasons including but not limited to Drive having very little driving in the motion picture.”
“Drive was a motion picture that substantially contained extreme gratuitous defamatory dehumanizing racism directed against members of the Jewish faith.”
Deming wants her ticket refunded but much more. An ending to misleading movie trailers and she says this is quite serious.”
‘Drive’ is the story of a movie stuntman by day and get-away driver by night, played by Ryan Gosling.
However, Entertainment Weekly has filed the case under ‘wacky, crazy and true’ stating;
“Trailers are up for interpretation: What says “offensive” to me might say “black comedy” to you. No one, presumably, forced Ms. Deming to go the movies — and she could have always left the theater, if she realized it wasn’t what she signed up for.”
Time suggests that a supposedly ‘misleading’ trailer might be just as ‘misleading’ as Deming’s case;
“In a suit arguing that a movie trailer is flashier than the story it sells, the circuit court judge might give Deming's legal complaint similar reviews.”
Seeing as not even heartthrob Ryan Gosling can convince Deming to drop her claims of antisemitism The Guardian suggests that maybe she should just avoid violent genre films altogether
“Drive is a very equal-opportunities picture when it comes to violence: pretty much everyone in it gets pummelled. So if Deming believes, as she seems to do, that any film in which a Jewish actor… gets knocked about is antisemitic, one quivers to imagine what she has to say about half-Jewish Steven Seagal's career.”
Jewish lifestyle blogger at Heeb Magazine, Jonathan Poritsky, also seems to agree that the antisemitic claims are a joke writing;
“This claim of anti-semitism is completely bogus, a last-ditch effort to make sense of Deming’s foolish claim that she was mislead into seeing a decent film frivolous”
Meanwhile while others have shrugged off Deming’s lawsuit The Washington Post warns readers that it actually may cause a bigger impact;
“Some people have suggested that Deming's lawsuit is frivolous or even stupid, but that's not true at all. If her suit succeeds, it could establish a precedent by which all movie distributors could face lawsuits for advertising terrible movies.”
A writer from the NewYorker agrees writing;
“Here’s a lawsuit that, if it’s allowed to proceed, runs the risk of clogging courts with copycats for generations to come.”
While the Michigan woman continues to drive the film industry crazy, Ryan Gosling doesn’t seem to be too worried;
“So what do you do?”
“I drive... for movies”
“Isn’t that dangerous?”
“It’s only part time.”