Twilight Sparkle is being sent to Ponyville to learn about friendship. She's not happy about it.
Letters From A Disgruntled Friendship Student
by milesprower06
Hiatus Bonus Chapter
"The Inner Hue" Film Cancelled Amid Terrorist Threats
THE FOAL FREE PRESS
CONTROVERSIAL FILM "THE INNER HUE" CANCELLED
Months of controversy finally came to a head and erupted yesterday when national cinema chains began to pull out of showing Pony Pictures of Equestria's new political comedy, The Inner Hue, after griffon terrorists threatened retaliation against theaters that showed the film. After numerous pullouts, Pony Pictures announced that they will be cancelling the theatrical release altogether, a mere week before the release on Hearth's Warming Day.
"The Inner Hue" revolves around two famous fashion designers who are recruited by the Royal Guard to assassinate the dictator of the nation of Griffondor while they design a uniform for the reclusive nation's leader. The controversy stems from the fact that the targeted dictator, Fried Chik Un, is currently alive and in power. Declaring the film to be an act of war, Un demanded that the film be pulled. Amid further threats to theaters, it seems Pony Pictures is doing just that.
But not all ponies are thrilled at the decision, and it seems that the hype and growing controversy is causing more and more ponies to be immensely curious about a film that has otherwise stayed off their radar.
"The fact that cinemas and Pony Pictures has caved in to a terrorist threat is nothing short of disgusting," offered one moviegoer who is determined to boycott the cinemas who pulled out of showing the film.
"If the cinemas across Equestria are to be taken seriously, then we have truly become a nation that is ruled by fear, and the Al Hayda terrorists who carried out the 9/11 attacks on Manehattan won."
A theater in south Equestria, in Fort Hoof, is making the best of a bad situation, opting to show Team Equestria, the political comedy from 2004. The film's tagline is 'Putting the 'F' back in friendship.'
But some are more wary of the potential consequences the film could bring.
"Think about it, if the Griffon's made a movie about assassinating Princess Sparkle, would we not be offended and ask it to be pulled?"
The commentator above seemed to not notice our journalist team shaking their heads.
Fuck off, Sony. If you want to preserve an ounce of your dignity, #ReleaseTheInterview
Sign the petition here!
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I knew there was going to be a chapter on this. Of course they should release it. And no, I don't think anypony would have a problem with a movie about assasinating THIS Princess Sparkle, except her anyway.
Jesus, did they really pull the film?
Ffs.
I kind of understand the fear, as this isn't one person putting their life at risk, but a group of people putting several lives at risk - movie-goers and employees alike, not all of which have anything to do with the film - all to make a political statement of not being censored. It's one thing when you're gambling your own life, but to put others at risk as well?
Princess Sparkle? She can be killed, another thing could be Celestia
"Fried Chik Un"
Brilliant!
You know I have seen the ReviewTechUSA videos on this subject and I have to say I don't think the Sony Pictures hackers are really from North Korea. Probably some douche bag who thinks doing this for shits and giggles thinks nothing bad is going to happen to him. That will be until the feds kick down his door and drag him to Gitmo. So he can forever forgotten.
Wouldn't it be hilarious if the movie sucked?
They'll do underground screenings in people's basements
Its kinda sad, though. The fact that some dictator can decide what Americans can create. What a slap in the face of the 1st Amendment.
I think this whole business is dumb. But I dont think we can blame studios for pulling a movie for the safety of employees and movie goers when they'd be crucified if something happened after they had been warned.
Hue.
Wha- Make up your mind. Is he a griffon or a zebra?
Those god damned pegasi! I'll kill them all one day! Rainbow Dash will be last, after I cum inside her.
I'll sign the petition. Sure.
5396864 I'll admit it's likely (even probably) a bunch of losers jacking off to all this in their mother's basement (both literal and figurative.)
But if its not. If there is a danger. Then I'm glad that I don't have to worry about hearing that my sister or one of my friends is dead because they went to see a movie when studios didn't treat terrorist threats seriously enough.
Is this all going to end up being nothing? Probably. Is this the right thing for the studios to do. Yes.
5396864 Nope, pretty sure it's just Sony and the 'I don't want to start a possible WWIII' crowd.
[RANT] Now, visualize for a moment what sort of weaponry North Korea has. Know how big the country is. Understand how poor they are. Now, count the number of AMERICAN military Airbases in the immediate surrounding area. Now count the number of NON-American military bases in that area. Now count the number of Nuclear Missiles on Earth and calculate what kind of damage they would do. Now remember that the instant North Korea declares war will be exactly 1 hour before the war is declared formally over, because that's how long it would take for Russia to call us and let us know that all those Nukes they're getting set to launch are aimed at the idiot who tried to start WWIII, then for our missiles to arrive. ANY offensive gesture on North Korea's part WILL lead to their termination, and the rest of the world will be perfectly alright with that.[/RANT]
And so will I.
5396815 We can already tell it sucks.
5396864 The risk to moviegoers and staff is absurdly low, no doubt about that. But if the goofballs making these threats turn out to be capable of causing even a small fraction of the damage they claim they could, the cost would be too high. All it takes is a Korean James Holmes to be successful at one theater.
I'm not so sure they should. The hackers threatened violent retaliation against moviegoers if the film is released, specifically invoking 9/11, as well as warning anyone who even lived near a theater showing The Interview. This means that releasing The Interview right now could endanger not only SONY, but also theater employees, moviegoers, and anyone within driving distance of a theater showing the film. And, no, we don't know if the hackers are serious, but that's just the thing. We don't know. They very well could be.
5396843
No, it's not Kim Jong-Un or anyone from the North Korean government who threatened SONY, not as far as we know. It's likely just some American jackass doing this "for fun". The thing is, if they attack even one theater, SONY's gonna be to blame. SONY will be the studio that released a movie even after terrorist threats against all theaters showing it.
And let's not forget, the biggest theater chains in America had already refused to show it even before SONY announced they were pulling the movie. There's no point releasing it anyway, not until they're sure it's safe.
5396678 They did, and they aren't even going to release it on DVD or put it up for sale online. What a waste of time, effort, talent, and money. And I'll bet the people who worked so hard on that movie won't even get a dime in compensation.
I wasn't really interested in the movie to begin with, mostly because I don't like the story premise, but I'm really disappointed in Sony for this. And I suppose the theaters that refused to show the movie too.
Not sure how I feel about the North Koreans being griffons here, but the Fried Chik Un name is clever.
That reminds me, how did North Korea and Kim Jong Il react to Team America when it came out, relative to how Un's reacting now? I'm asking because Un's only been dictator for a few years, so I've been looking at his regime in the context of a little boy trying to assert his power and credibility to North Korea's political hierarchy and the international community.
Where's Neko Majin C when you need him? Someone get us that slave/middleape to the princess.
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I thought Al Hayda was made up of camels and Saddle Arabian horses, not pegasi.
5397082
Yeah. It sucks, but SONY basically has to pull the film, otherwise, if something actually does happen, suddenly it's SONY's fault 'cause some "hacking" jackass (hackass?) decided to cause a national panic for shits and giggles.
5397066 Have you seen the news? The FBI has confirmed that NK is most likely responsible for the Sony attacks. I agree with Twilight's Sparkle on this.
5397111
They're still gonna release it eventually, but whenever that is, it's a long time from now. At the very least, half a year after they finally know for sure if it's safe to.
5397249
Yeah, and Anonymous hacked the PSN a couple years back.
I don't really trust investigations by the government when it comes to this sort of thing.
They should just release the movie, no matter what the terrorists says.
For a long time we haven't HAD to defend free speech, but now we have too. This is a chance to prove the strength of our beliefs, even in the face of overwhelming opposition. If we cave in every time we're threatened, it will be interpreted as a sign to all terrorists, that they can do whatever they want if they say the right things. We can't let that be what we are to the world. We can't let the very principals this country was founded on become nothing but a lot of fancy talking. It's time to REALLY put the F back in Freedom.
5397261 *sigh* Look, I don't trust the government anymore than you do, but all roads lead to the Koreans. We could go back and forth till the apocalypse and still disagree, so I won't waste my time trying to convince you otherwise.
5397356
I've been seeing Youtube and (I think) Comedy Central ads about it for some time. Seth Rogen was actually on The Colbert Report just this Monday to talk about the movie (which makes Sony's and so many theaters' moves a little more disappointing). I just didn't care about the movie.
Tbe whole thing is all clucked up.
5397182 5397209 Remember when Spike sold himself into slavery and helped Rainbow re-enact the pegasi attacks in Manehattan? Camels, Saddle Arabians, pegasi, zebras, all of them work with Al Hydra. Not Changelings. Not threstals. Who do you think are the most common victims of Al Hydra, excluding other camels?
I'll just leave a note here that Sony Pictures probably got an ultimatum from the home office to can the release.
You know, the Japanese home office. The one in a country much closer to North Insania. The one not in America. The one that would feel much more directly threatened by any actions of a government based on terrorism.
Lose a little honor by sitting on a movie for a few years, or lose a lot of honor by not taking a threat seriously and causing a loss of innocent lives? This is a classic catch 22.
5397477
Causing the loss of innocent lives? You act as if it would be Sony's fault. I say release it lime nothing happened and we go back to n Korea being ignored. If they do something then we would have UN approval to bring a hell of a lot of freedom to Kim and s Korea sure would like to have a unified Korea again.
5396864
Praise be to thee, BasedSparkle.
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5397418
Al Hydra? I think you've got your Enchanted Comics confused with your Manehattan attacks. And I'm pretty sure those were hijacked airships, not pegasi.
Al of this crap is exactly why I despise politics.
5397522
Indirect versus direct.
The direct cause would of course be whatever happens. The indirect cause would be the release of the film itself.
Direct cause of death: Gunshot wound to the head. Indirect cause of death: Constant abuse of their spouse.
Direct cause of flooding: Broken levees. Indirect cause of flooding: Mismanagement of city funding and lack of materials to properly reinforce said levees as well as the city being built in a dry valley.
Direct cause of accident: Drunk driver. Indirect cause of accident: Bartender continuing to serve a visibly intoxicated individual and failing to confiscate their keys.
Sony would not be truly responsible for the deaths, but the association is there.
5397562
See Chapter: Spike at your Service.
Pegasi on Al Hydra's payroll. Camels could have done airships themselves and would not need pegasi.
5397619
A reenactment is not the actual attack. Although unlike Civil War battles, it is an odd thing to reenact...
And that's exactly what the camels did. And you still have Al Hayda confused with Al Hydra. Al Hydra's the terrorist group trying to take over the world and fight off Director Furry's SHIELD.
5396744 Scootaloo called, she wants her daddy to come home
5397761 I'm not ferocious... am I?
MY SIDES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm sure Sony will care about dignity when they cause Fallout in real life
did you ever think they might be pulling the movie for the very thing that is happening (publicity for an otherwise normal movie) just to "come to their senses" and release it when it gets completely hyped?
yield to common sense, people
5397912 Yeah. Most of them are. We need more dicks in this country (and it doesn't help that there are so many willing to give theirs up.) I say get every bomber in the Asian continent in a slow spiral dropping bombs every few dozen feet and making the spiral smaller and smaller until they can't turn any tighter. Then deposit one Nuclear Device at the center of that (3 foot wide) circle and blow what's left to smithereens.
5397956
So many willing to give their's up?
Please, do explain further.
5398259 I'll let this music video do the explaining:
5398446 Ugh, country. Stopped listening after 10 seconds. Give me words or give me rock.
5398465 Most of the 'men' in America are giving up their masculinity and going more for soft lines and being charming Metrosexuals. (Even some of the athletes, you know, the ones who get stretchered off for a skinned knee).
As opposed to those of us who drink straight from the tap by sticking our heads under it, cook over fire whenever possible, and think that the solution to taking an actual, physical battleaxe to the hip is to superglue it back together and beat the shit out of the guy with the axe, using your own broadsword.
Instead of lotion to soften the skin and makeup to hide the scars, we show them proudly. Fishing practically requires sticking a worm on a hook, several times. And that knife we carry around, we know how to use.
No piddly little 2.5in swiss-army knife with a pearled handle, it's a minimum 6in blade with a hand woven paracord grip. Because it won't break when you drop it under the tire of your 4WD that you are using to scale that small mountain there.
On which note, you drive a 4WD because you need it to do things. The environment took care of itself for three billion years. We aren't going to kill it off anytime soon. Ever seen a Prius hauling lumber and roofing for that repair job on your house? The one you do because your girl told you to?
Being nice gets trumped by being Chivalrous (yes, Chivalry does in fact allow a Man to be an ass, sometimes. Like when some guy tries to cop a feel and you beat his ass for it). And of course, when those of us who still have our balls carry a purse, it's a fucking purse, not a shoulder-bag. And you WILL carry it, and all of the bags from every store your girl drags you to, because you WANT to. Because She gets to be the soft one who molds perfectly into your chiseled body. And no-one would dare tease us for it, because we are clearly still Men.
(Yes, even the Men who have bodies that make skeletons look anorexic because of stupid-fast metabolisms).
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Plus, on a completely unrelated to the song note, Transsexuals. More literal version of giving up their balls.
(Any of you who read this, it isn't being brought up as a downside. Hell, it means more titties to stare at, I'm for it )
5398555
Let me guess. You're a 16 year old white boy, you've lived in suburbia most of your life, you'd run from an angry squirrel and you cry when the guys at school give you a 'titty twister'.
5398750 That's actually pretty entertaining. And completely wrong.
I'm a 22YO ex-Eagle Scout Euromutt who grew up in the mountains of Colorado with a 50ft ravine as a backyard. I have hunted and eaten squirrel several times. And they figured out that it doesn't work so well when the person they're attempting to grab is thinner than their arm. And kicking them rather hard in the stones.
When I'm not at work, or school, or posting on here, I'm usually out in my backyard practicing with my longstaff.
5398804
Impressive display of bluster, but you're really trying too hard to tell us how manly you are. I'm sticking with my initial analysis.
5398825 Yeah, there's the other part of it. I would NOT consider myself to be particularly manly. That's what I did, because that's what all the kids where I lived did. Boys and girls. It was just life. Nobody tried to fluff themselves up to be something else, or to look like the models on TV. We didn't (and don't) primp, or strut, because it's fake, and will eventually break down. Muddy cargo pants and a blood-stained knife-sheath happened. Mud encrusted scabs happened. Broken arms happened. We got back up, and moved on. There was no bitching and moaning about how much it hurt, because (with a few exceptions) we had, at some point, experienced worse pain.
I walked off a broken foot because I was sick of crutches when I was 13, and it hasn't impaired me at all. I kicked the asses of people who mocked my friends (and choices in friends) because I was the only one of them who could. Every time I did something that would be (in modern times) presented as abnormally Manly, it was because that was how things were done where I lived.
Hell, I was picked on and bullied from 1st grade to nearly the end of 12th grade. I've been called every name under the sun, and genuinely beat up on a few occasions, because the few times I fought back, I did serious damage. So I normally let them. It protected my friends, because I could handle it, and hey, afterwards the girls flocked to me, win-win.
I've been in ONE proper fight, and I limped away as the loser. Every other fight, I've won (usually by cheating). I grew up with the mythology of the Knights of Old as my heroes. I learned the code of Chivalry, and still live by it as best as possible (Though a lot of it no longer applies).
It's not a manliness contest. I know I'm not the most manly person here. I'm not even the most manly one in my current group of geeks (that belongs to a Norse-Scottish Beanpole with biceps as big as my neck. And yes, he is still a beanpole at 6.5 feet tall). I just haven't given away my natural Manliness for silly reasons.
5397912
The people who cancelled it weren't female, and even if they were, that's a very insulting name to call my gender...
Anyway, yea, it's just fucking stupid how these idiots in hollywood are acting like a bunch of cowardly dicks.
5398555
POINT OF ORDER, SIR!
We are not giving anything up. We are trading organs we do not want for an approximation of organs we should have been born with. The gate swings both ways too. Chaz Bonno, Brandon Teena (murdered) to name just two prominent FtM cases.
On the plus side, at least you're unlikely to murder one of us in a fit of testosterone-fueled rage because you 'got tricked by a thing.' Yes, this does happen frequently enough that the 20th of November is a day of mourning in our community.