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#4339540 - 02/22/17 07:33 PM Re: King Kong [Re: JimK]  
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There is a lawsuit or something ongoing right now about female directors. Female actors may not be getting the same pay or recognition as their male counterparts, but at least they are working.

The list of female directors is small, the list of female directors that are known is even smaller, and the list that are entrusted with making more than low-budget indie films is smaller still.

Hollywood talks a progressive line to bankroll its decidedly not progressive masters. The artists all buy it and make tons of money for them. It's institutionalized hypocrisy.

The people actually running Hollywood are no different from the people complaining about Hollywood's agenda except they know it's a facade.



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#4339541 - 02/22/17 07:36 PM Re: King Kong [Re: JimK]  
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Off the top of my head I can only think of two female directors who have any weight in the industry. Kathryn Bigelow and Sophia Coppola.


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#4339547 - 02/22/17 07:45 PM Re: King Kong [Re: JimK]  
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Yet IIRC neither have directed a film with a budget over $100m. Meanwhile, male indie directors and commercial directors have been given megabudget films with equivalent or even less experience.

Now I'm not saying there needs to be 50% female and 50% male directors, because that's not realistic. But we don't live in a world where there are 5 or 6 men for every woman.



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#4339589 - 02/22/17 11:33 PM Re: King Kong [Re: JimK]  
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I don't care the sex or race of a director so long as the movie is good. I also hate quotas.


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#4339591 - 02/22/17 11:38 PM Re: King Kong [Re: Raw Kryptonite]  
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Originally Posted by Raw Kryptonite
Hollywood is BASED on discrimination. The only (accepted) industry that can call for hiring "hot, white, blonde, mid20s, willing to work topless" and have hundreds to pick from without getting sued.


While this is true, Hollywood is based more on MONEY, which tends to drive discriminatory casting. It's a fact that a lot of movies out of Hollywood don't make enough money with US audiences to cover costs, so the Suits in the studios look to foreign receipts to make their dough. It's also a market tested fact that Asian audiences eat up Hollywood films that bomb with American audiences but with one caveat: blacks don't sell in Asia. It doesn't matter if it is a dynamite movie that cleaned up at the box office in America, if the cast is dominated by black actors it won't sell in Asia, and the Suits want to sell in Asia. Big name white actors sell in Asia. That is why Matt Damon was cast in a "Chinese" movie with a ridiculous premise that will do modestly at best in the US. The Suits believe the film will make a killing in Asia.

What I just wrote especially applies to Action films. American Rom Coms with all white or all black casts don't sell in Asia. Action films bring in the coin in Asia.

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#4339613 - 02/23/17 02:24 AM Re: King Kong [Re: F4UDash4]  
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Originally Posted by F4UDash4
I don't care the sex or race of a director so long as the movie is good. I also hate quotas.

I agree completely.


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“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
#4340118 - 02/24/17 07:14 PM Re: King Kong [Re: JimK]  
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Everyone hates "quotas." That's nothing new. At the same time, the "Q" word gets tossed around almost generically like calling someone a Nazi, without an accurate understanding of what either label means.


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