Apocalypto!

[elfs]

No one can outrun their destiny.

Look, Mel. I can probably forgive the anti-semitic bullshit. I can understand that everyone carries a little-- or a lot-- of hypocritical bigotry inside them for one group or another, and it is the hypocrisy of keeping it inside all the time while living up to the higher standards of public discourse that make civilization clank along in its ungainly fashion like Frankenstein's Monster.

But get your freaking tagline's grammar right! Okay? "No one can outrun his destiny." Got it? Repeat after me. "No one can outrun his destiny." Singular referent, singular reference. Make sure you get it right before you put it on posters going up in every theater across the planet! Otherwise people really will start to think you really are a bloody idiot.

I'm just sayin'.

Comments

Re: Singular 'they'

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Well, bleah. Okay, you guys win. I still think that tagline is jarring and would be better worded with the first person singular, using the obviously male figure in the poster as the appropriate referent.

Re: Singular 'they'

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

And that's why the tagl;ine is jarring. Unless there's something else in the film, some other characters outrunning destiny, it's a misapplication of the pronoun, because it is about a male.

Of course, they could have put it as "You can't outrun your destiny".

Re: Singular 'they'

[solarbird]

Except then you have a clash of specificity in a way that bothers me. "No one" could be any person, "him" - particularly "him" tied to this one specific guy you're looking at - is a specific person. I know you mean it in the "no one, not even this guy, can escape his destiny" sense, but... no sir, I don't like it.