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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 14, 2017 14:22:02 GMT
I read it yesterday and I thought it was brilliant! Yes, heartbreaking and painful but she seems very honest and smart in the way she expressed all that pain.
Weinstein respond it. He denied all the sexual stuff, of course, but admits some of the bullying, including his attack to the director and the confrontation with her husband during a screening test. According to him it's normal when doing an artistic work!
He also says he doesn't remember to have demanded her to do a lesbian sex scene but that Frida was bisexual and Hayek wanted a sex scene with Geoffrey Rush so they needed the other scene too!!! Even when Hayek was clear when she said she didn't have problem to do it but she knew it wasn't originally in the script and she knew Weinstein wanted it just for his own pleasure (he also wanted it included frontal nudity), I could imagine people accusing her of... something! I read a very few comments but didn't have a problem finding one by someone accusing her of hypocritical for having talked about the LGBT community then but not wanting to do the scene!!! And of course, progressive Weinstein is using progressive tactics! He wasn't a pervert he just wanted to do the right thing and showed Frida having sex with women!
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Post by roverpup on Dec 14, 2017 15:42:26 GMT
Those words are eloquently and passionately spoken and in light of this passage I would like to bring this back around to an actual connection to something closer to what this board is about and relate it to BC/Sherlock.
One of the most maligned episodes of the entire series by a lot of fans was directed by a woman, Rachel Talalay.
Where were all the supportive female voices for her efforts when this was presented?
In fact she was attacked quite brutally by many of the very fans who profess to be “equality” experts on the internet and are always bleating about social justice. I found T6T to be creative and daring in its writing - actually letting the character of Mary get some of the spotlight and the choices made by this particular woman director reflected that spotlight very well. But she also handled the action sequences as well, making them thrilling to the core. I found it to be directed with an innovative touch and I applaud the exposure that the makers of a prestige show such as Sherlock gave to a talented woman behind the lense. Too bad some of the most vocal fans of the show weren’t a little bit more forward thinking.
If you don’t acknowledge the work of quality female directors like RT and support their efforts in shows like Sherlock when they utilise such talent, then how can you support what SH is talking about in the extract with increasing female directors representation in the business?
And relating to BC himself - I think his stated support of women directors, producers, etc. through his company SunnyMarch is also something to be recognised. He obviously enjoys working with talented women in positions of directors and producers (Hamlet, Sherlock, etc.) and I have no doubt that with the acquisition of “The End We Start From” he is serious with making films which promote female talent.
Future women need both the support of male allies like Cumberbatch, M&G of Sherlock, etc. and females in the business (like Sue Virtue and Beryl Virtue) to make themselves an established presence and change the status quo. And they need the support of the audiences both male and female (especially ones who preach such high ideals such as equal representation).
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Post by onebluestocking on Dec 14, 2017 16:24:13 GMT
I thought it was interesting that he did not deny THREATENING TO KILL HER!
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Post by onebluestocking on Dec 14, 2017 16:27:20 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 14, 2017 16:39:48 GMT
Agreed. It probably wasn't her fault but the screenwriter but still it was not very good.
Fanfom is crazy and there are a few Sherlock fans with mad theories attacking creatives for fabricated issues but saying it's not a strong episode doesn't equals to it.
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Post by mllemass on Dec 14, 2017 17:33:44 GMT
It wasn't about pretending to like something just because a woman made it. It was about not condemning a director just because she was female. Other (male) directors directed less-popular episodes of Sherlock, and no one wrote articles about them being bad directors.
I checked out Empire's list of worst-to-best Sherlock episodes, and Empire lost all credibility by placing The Sign of Three so low on the list. I didn't even read any further because they clearly don't know what they're talking about. TSOT should be first or second on that list.
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 14, 2017 17:46:52 GMT
Were there articles about she being a bad director? That indeed seems unnecessary and nasty!
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Post by coolclearwaters on Dec 14, 2017 19:26:03 GMT
That was a powerful column by Salma Hayek. I’ve always liked her and loved Frida. It’s astonishing that she was able to make that film while living through such a nightmare.
Something has to change.
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 14, 2017 19:53:51 GMT
I imagine his behavior was something "normal" so the only thing someone like her could do was to tolerate it.
It's very heartbreaking to read comments on Twitter about her. There are a lot of people praising her but then you have others attacking her. They say she talked until now because she doesn't need him anymore thanks to his millionaire husband. The truth is that she always has been rich! Her family is very rich (and by the way, she is probably slightly "less" Mexican than Guillermo "the white man" Del Toro even when her skin is darker. Her father is a Mexican-Lebanese politician/oil executive and her mother an opera singer who born in Mexico but both parents are from Spain).
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Post by coolclearwaters on Dec 14, 2017 20:06:40 GMT
She has faced outrageous prejudice over the years for being Mexican, too. I remember an interview where she said that powerful people in the industry told her to deny being from Mexico, because “people don’t want to see a movie about their maid”, or words to that effect. Comedians used to make fun of her accent and said “why doesn’t she learn to speak English?” Her English is better than theirs and her accent is not hard to understand at all.
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