"hire more women workcamp guards" is a tweet that will never not be relevant

I don't do this often but goddamn I was right when I called this one of the best shows currently airing despite people roundly denouncing it because they (suprise suprise) took a super shallow surface read of a cartoon about poor people who happen to be white.

A voice of a very small and select and privileged part of a generation in fact.

Pretty much agree. Though I think criticism of a white man directing a film specifically about the systemic abuse and disenfranchisement of women of color is a going to have a lot of valid points.

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I highly doubt this will be a scathing pisstake of toxic masculinity and male fear wrapped up with a vicious look at self-help paleocapitalist bollocks which is what VBT was. I mean I'd like to be proved wrong but this review doesn't touch on it.

There’s not a single likable character in the entire cast. They’re all horrible and the movie is fucking awesome.

"Well sure, though I think that was a faulty premise to begin with. I
don't think that any filmmaker who sets out to make woman-based films is
doing so with that as literally her only impetus. That's just not
going to happen."

Yeah I know I just said I misinterpreted you. I do feel more than comfortable saying Spielberg examined how the themes of the film he was directing related to him.

No you said you wouldnt feel comfortable saying what he has and hasn't though in response to me saying Spielberg probably did a lot of self examination when prepping and directing The Color Purple. So you seemed to be disagreeing with the notion that he would have. If you just meant you wouldn't want to guess then…

No there's nothing weird and mysterious, of course. But I don't think just wanting to make a film with female leads is enough to mean the film will be of good quality.

I would say being a good director is much more than just finding the right script. - that's not meant to sound snarky it just feels like you were being a bit reductive about what a director should do.

I think it's more of an assumption to say a director, one as I said empathetic and talented as Spielberg wouldn't spend time in that sort of self examination. I don't know him personally but I've read biographies and interviews and seen his films. That's enough to have some idea about his psychology.

Because you need more than just underepresentation as inspiration for making a film. You want a strong story and themes at the very least. It doesn't inhibit good art at all it just isn't a prerequisite or a barometer of it.

Why would directing a film expressly about patriarchy and race and feminism not cause someone to examine their biases? Especially an artist as talented and empathetic as Spielberg.
And I've already said I was incorrec to say people are saying it's wrong - in which case it doesn't need calling out.

I would say when he directed The Color Purple he'll have done a lot of that examination.
And if it's not wrong then it really isn't an issue that needs calling out.

If that's the only reason people do that the quality of the films would be pretty awful, and they tend to be good so I doubt that's the reason

I agree that's important but if at the end of that examination you feel your best work will be done sticking with what you've done it's not wrong to stick with that.

The same thing it says about someone that only wants to make art with and about the female perspective.

Why is that an issue? There's nothing wrong with sticking to what you like and want to do, it's served him well.