It seems to be a thing with le cinema artistique type artsy fartsy directors to torture their actors. Bertolucci did it. Friedkin did it to Ellen Burstyn. Kubrick did it to Shelley Duvall.

I don't mean to absolve Brando. Just highlighting that he was on both the giving and receiving end of the abuse.

It's very inspiring.

I like it. Seven proper episodes, plus a holiday special.

There is no calculus for how we decide how our knowledge of how a movie was made should affect our experience of that movie. It's just not how it works. Meaning is made from a mixture of what the movie brings us and what we bring to the movie. If you're someone who can watch this movie knowing how it was made and it…

Bertolucci was also one of the filmmakers petitioning for Roman Polanski's release. Just to make sure we're all as disturbed by this as possible.

Consider this: Brando himself had said that he felt manipulated, violated, and raped while making this movie. He refused to work with Bertolucci again and went 15 years without so much as speaking to him. This is corroborated by both Bertolucci and Schneider.

Wrong. Knowledge is for property owners. Wrong. Wrong. Sad. Wrong.

SNL is taking away from his freedom of speech somehow.

Okay, this settles it. "This is why Trump won" is the new "Thanks, Obama."

It really fucking sucks that this public reaction is coming so late, when Schneider herself has been up front about this for years.

Whereas my arousal is always organic.

A version of the Fly where Nathan Rabin is slowly turning into a Bernie Sanders who can't digest meat.

Myanmal and Chi-Chi.

This is probably going to be the only good Batman movie we get for a while. Let's enjoy it.

The burning cross is the perfect replacement for the Nazi flag. Too bad it's been associated with those KKK guys.

Myanmar and Chi-Chi.

Post-election, guess which social media platform is still a cesspool of both sides-ism, do-nothing useless above-it-all libertarian/marxist/whatevers, and the obligatory avalanche of "fake news," i.e. propaganda?

The even-numbered My Girls tend to be better.

Since the real Mythbusters turned into "Two guys doing low-budget reenactments of movies and the hyperactive one always ends up hurting himself," I'm kind of looking forward to this.