The reason for the controversy is the film’s dinosaur
Pachycephalosaurus, pronounced (paak-ee-sef-a-low-saw-rus), that keeps escaping
from its enclosure.
Jurassic World, This year’s biggest Hollywood blockbuster, finds itself
embroiled in an unseemly – and perhaps unintentional – controversy, , according
to The Independent.
And the reason for the row is the film’s dinosaur Pachycephalosaurus,
pronounced (paak-ee-sef-a-low-saw-rus). Pachycephalosaurus is a lizard-like
animal that keeps escaping from its enclosure.
A British comedian, Guzzy Bear, said that he was surprised to hear an
apparently ‘racial slur’ in the movie every time the Pachycephalosaurus was
called out.
Since the name of the dinosaur is rather long, one of the film’s
characters refers to it by an abbreviated appellation, saying: “The Pachys are
out of containment!"
Phonetically, the word sounds like the British racial slur ‘Paki’, an
insulting term used for Pakistani immigrants.
This has caused a major furore on social media sites as many are
planning to boycott the movie over the racial slur.
