Oof, great point about doing Representation Right. Definitely not something that European fantasy classics thought about, and let’s be real, no one is gonna look at GoT and assume it’s meant to be representative of people from medieval England, whereas people are 100% gonna assume this is meant to represent the…
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I (part Puerto Rican) have mixed feelings about that sort of thing to the extent that I feel like I can’t really judge without taking in the movie (show/book) and trying to understand the context for what it’s trying to do. One prominent example where I think I was wrong: I suspected in advance of Black Panther coming…
Just because he wasn’t being “sexual” doesn’t mean that pressuring an actress about her pregnancy wasn’t MASSIVELY crossing a line, we’re way past “being an asshole” here.
This is why you use a photojournalist vest for all your random pocket shit when flying. It’s like a pair of cargo shorts that you can take off and put into a scanner basket, thereby inconveniencing no one at the checkpoint.
About Ronan being Allen’s biological child- while he is listed as such, and nobody in the family has ever definitively said otherwise, go compare his features with Farrow’s and Frank Sinatra’s. He looks so much like young Sinatra; almost an equal combination of Frank and Mia. There is not one shred of resemblance with…
Yeah. Even though all of this information has been available for years and years.
Ew.
I also have a thirdhand connection to someone who worked on Buffy, and I’ve heard some quite horrifying stories as well. The interesting thing is that they don’t just center around Whedon, though his tendency to play favorites and wield authority like a high-school mean girl was obviously a major contributing factor.…
Don’t underestimate the role of conventions in all of this. I’m also going to side step some details here because it involves a job I had that I still use for references, but the fan conventions for these shows typically pays small, guest stars somewhere in the $25k - $50k range per weekend. A regular is probably…
I think there are a bazillion shows and movies that have a response to this, but ... maybe watch Birdman. Show business seems particularly subject to fickle fortunes and conflict, so almost nobody is going to feel like they can just relax and enjoy the sunshine.
I was a big fan of Buffy back in the day and have friends-of-friends who were part of that cast and crew. As things tend to happen when we drink (back when you could get together to drink with people), we’d get to gossiping about shit that went down on set, and let me tell you - Charisma’s story is but one of many…
Whedon was born into the profession or at least had a significant leg up. He has talent but also had significant family connections, you’re not a staff writer on a major sitcom in your early 20s without dad calling in some favors no matter how talented you are.
Yes you’ve demonstrated clearly that you find caring about women’s feelings boring
But didn’t we already know he was a Weinstein style good-guy gaslighter from the time he gave that speech like, “I write strong female characters because it’s still necessary” horseshit? Didnt anyone read that as the kind of public good-guy grandstanding that it was? And then his actual ex-partner told us he sucked?…
I would agree with you that Fischer doesn’t owe the public any details if he doesn’t want to give them. But if he’s going to talk about the issue publicly and ask people for their support, providing those details would clearly make people a lot more willing to give that support. Not everyone knows all the industry…
1. This isn’t funny.
“...but it’s been known he did it because she was pregnant for a long time.”
Thing is, he doesn’t really owe us details - it’s an open secret that Joss Whedon is a piece of crap. We didn’t know the details of him firing Charisma, but it’s been known he did it because she was pregnant for a long time. And his ex-wife wrote an open letter a few years back detailing some of his abuse and…