With her bitch vagina and her opinions.

Or her Goldman Sachs cabinet! Phew! Lots of bullets dodged.

Jail the bitch!!!!!

But let’s all remember how corrupt Hilary is, with her email mismanagement and her charity—the one with high ratings from watchdog organizations. Good thing we dodged that bullet, huh?

Are they as obsessed with getting “real” emotions out of male actors or just female ones?

I’m thinking no. It’s only acceptable to show genuine fear and horror (rather than simulating those emotions) if we’re watching a woman. It’s not okay culturally to see a man who’s helpless and vulnerable.

I think it boils down to him getting a kick out of genuinely having this 19 year old woman sexually assaulted knowing she is too inexperienced and afraid of harming her career to stop it happening. This doesn’t feel like a situation where the director wanted to evoke a genuine emotion (like fear), the level of…

“I wanted her to feel humiliation” sounds exactly like what a rapist would say. So there’s that.

Friedkin also pulled this crap with the adult actors on The Exorcist. Fired guns, slapped actors collaborated with techs without consulting Burstyn to the point that she was seriously injured. Blair also came away with a back injury after they did not listen to her begging them to stop that still affects her today. …

I think Kimberly Pierce handled this responsibly in “Boys Don’t Cry”. The rape scene in that movie is really awful and violent, but she protected her actors as much as possible by making sure they knew exactly how the scene would go, and they talked it over together, as well. And Hillary Swank was able to convey the…

Funny that his call for realism, the desire for the actor to not act a way but feel a way to a camera, didn’t come up in the ending scene where Brando was stabbed.

I mean, it was a stabbing, he could have survived it. And sometimes actors get hurt.

Translation: I wanted to film a rape, and this was as close as I could get. Because it wasn’t really about the “art”.

So, I know you gave only two examples, but I’m wondering: has a director ever pulled this shit with a man? Or are they only ever using the element of surprise for a “genuine” reaction from female types? Because there’s nothing fucked up about that whatsoever.

Also, no one’s art is so important that it justifies using such shady means if you can’t manage to draw the performance you’re looking for using legitimate means. Actors are human beings, not props.

I’d draw a distinction between what Scott did in Alien (scared the crap out of his actors with unexpected gross special effects) and what Kubrick did to Duvall and Bertolucci here. The first example might be a little mean but is ultimately pretty harmless. The latter two were psychological, emotional, and physical…

She’s stopped being a literal impression of Kellyanne and become an avatar for all of us.

I feel like...this is not Madonna’s original butt. She always had a nice one, but it never had that heft.

On a similar theme, writer Michael Rowe popped up on my FB feed with this interesting observation, “I never saw CRACKED becoming the source of serious social commentary it has become, but this piece is terrific, if very obviously written for a certain audience.”
http://www.cracked.com/blog/no-free-speech-not-under-attac…

I’m sure Baldwin never imagined that this would be his lasting contribution to the world. 

It brings me great comfort that Alec Baldwin keeps doing this impersonation with the sole purpose of getting under Trump’s skin.