Sacha Baron Cohen is no stranger to controversy. He's considered to be one of the most successful comedians of the modern age, but that's apparently not for his lack of trying to dismantle his own career by offending just about everyone on the planet.
We like to pretend they don't mean anything, but at the end of the day, critics always find reason to pick holes in the annual Oscar results. Forrest Gump taking Best Picture, over Pulp Fiction? No way. Best Director for Robert Redford, not Scorsese? Insanity. Crash winning Best Picture, over Brokeback Mountain? Complete and utter bullshit.
Deadpool may be a Marvel creation, but director Tim Miller and producer/star Ryan Reynolds' movie version is about as distant as a super-character can get from the usual Marvel Studios hero. Through 20th Century Fox - the studio having the cinematic rights to the character after introducing him in X-Men Origins - Deadpool has been allowed to become very much the anti-Marvel crusader.
Superhero origin stories are ten-a-penny these days. They're Hollywood's bread and butter. And we're so used to seeing origin stories on-screen now (more than once, in the case of some characters - looking at you, Spider-Man), that it seems we've simply come to accept whatever origin myths they're peddling, no matter how illogical.
Did you hear the one about Joseph Fiennes being cast as Michael Jackson? Well, turns out it's not a joke. It has been reported that Ralph's brother will indeed be playing the King of Pop in the upcoming TV movie Elizabeth, Michael & Marlon, something that, predictably, provoked outrage in certain quarters, with people angry over the decision to hire a white English man to play an African-American musician. For the most part, though, people were just stunned.
