South Park in Reason Magazine
Trey Park and Matt Stone feature in this month’s Reason magazine talking about South Park with a big emphasis on religion, free speech and censorship.
The interview was held as part of a conference Reason held in Amsterdam to explore the future of free expression and free markets in Europe. Amsterdam was specifically chosen because it was “the site of one of the most brutal crimes related to free speech in recent memory: the 2004 murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh.”
On religion:
Reason: What’s more terrifying, crossing Islam or crossing Scientology?
Trey Parker: They’re really the same people. This is what happened. I was on my honeymoon in Disney World. I turned on the television, and there were thousands of rioting Muslims, and the caption said, “Muslims enraged over cartoon.” And I said, “Oh, shit. What did we do?”
On free expression:
Reason: This is a bizarre time to be alive. You have places like YouTube, where you can createwhatever you want and disseminate it. At the same time you have lawsuits, and you have people literally being killed. So what’s the state of free expression?
Matt Stone: Basically all we’ve ever done is said what we wanted to say, and people have thrown money at us. […] It’s pretty good, you know? We can say whatever we want. […] It doesn’t mean that we don’t have battles like we did this year, where you get really frustrated with the fact that Mission Impossible: 3’s bigger than South Park and they can shut you down.
July 6th, 2007 at 5:32 am
cya
seems to be good