Did anyone else notice the subtle slam against Obama when she was on stage and then the tattoo with the American flag and the Tea Party snake in the middle of it?
Somehow I can't imagine a rocker also being a teabagger. Those two things just didn't fit in the movie.
I don't particularly care for tattoos. I thought Ricki's looked obviously fake. If you can't make something look right then leave it alone.
I have met many rockers with Libertarian views.
As for the possibility of someone being a rock star and a Tea Partisan, two words: Ted Nugent.
shareYou are clearly thinking of rich, globe-trotting, plush-living, Hollywood-hobnobbing, leftist-type rockers, not the many country and rock singers who play in dive bars across the United States, who are as American as apple-pie and very patriotic. Some even go to war-zones to play for the troops and cheer them up.
And did you miss the conversation which revealed that Ricki voted for George W. Bush twice?
It wasn't really a slam against Obama but a portrayal of a realistic character. Ricki's daughter wasn't happy about her mother's voting choices so she was clearly a Democrat. So, in conclusion, no particular president was slammed in the film. After all, Ricki smoked marijuana when she got the chance, which is in theory not a very Tea Party thing to do.
People and their politics are complex.
Isn't the "Don't tread on me" snake a symbol of the Marines? Or another military branch? Ricki says her brother was killed in Vietnam, she even had his picture with a flag on a shelf at her home. I took it as a tattoo for him.
shareNo. It's the motto of the "Tea Party". The tattoo has nothing to do with her brother and everything to do with the political ideology of that character.
share"Did anyone else notice the subtle slam against Obama when she was on stage"
Yeah it wasn't subtle. Anyone who was actually listening to and watching the movie caught it.
Indeed. The slam was anything but subtle – just like the tattoo. They were both contrived plot devices intended to make Ricki's character more complex, but it just made her a caricature.
shareAre you so ignorant that you think the "Don't Tread on Me" snake was a recent creation? It goes back to America's pre-independence days.
And why do you use a homophobic slur in such a context? Are you as infantile as the brats at msnbc who were the first to do so?
And numerous rockers, including Ted Nugent, would take issue with your opinion.
My people skills are fine. It's my tolerance of morons that needs work.
Well said warpedrecord. Pro-military people are in general very anti-democratic. If you don't believe me than check out the Facebook page of any friend you might have with a military background.
As for Ricki, it was a position that she very likely developed resulting from the pain of the death of her brother while in combat and that by supporting a pro-militaristic president, as well as the tattoos, she was keeping her only sibling alive and doing what he would have wanted her to do.
Not anti-democratic. Anti-democrat.
shareShe's a hardcore Democrat and would do nothing to slander our King.
He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator.