Portman nailed the delivery.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 December 2023 20:10 (four months ago) link
This latest “controversy” is really killing any remaining goodwill I have toward … well discourse in general tbh
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Friday, 5 January 2024 03:13 (three months ago) link
this. a24 not contacting the last remaining brother of the von erichs until after the iron claw was made…the aaliyah story a younger zendaya turned down…it should be an ethical requirement to request an individual’s permission for a biopic or “inspired story,” based on THEM. https://t.co/56QqnSQ7kI— kristen (not crystal) yellowjackets shish-kabob 🍡 (@lordesbbqribs) January 4, 2024
give me a fucking break here lol pic.twitter.com/rhW0HmvyQk— alice (@modlssss) January 4, 2024
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Friday, 5 January 2024 03:29 (three months ago) link
I think artists should be able to write about whomever they want…but I also think if they’re based on a real person, there should be a sincere effort to understand that person and give them a fair shake…kind of a theme of this movie iirc
joe was clearly the character the story was most sympathetic to imo, fwiw
― truly humbled underdog (k3vin k.), Friday, 5 January 2024 03:40 (three months ago) link
Right. I'm not myself feeling sympathetic.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 January 2024 03:42 (three months ago) link
He may be the inspiration but it's not a biography. It would be extremely misguided to even mistake it as one, just as it would be to think Charles Foster Kane is supposed to be a biographical depiction of William Randolph Hearst. Public figures inspire countless fictional characters. The plot may involve adapting a controversial event into a TV show, but it's still doing so within the realm of fiction.
― birdistheword, Friday, 5 January 2024 03:46 (three months ago) link
I don't know why so much of the audience nowadays has trouble grappling with the concept of fiction - it's like when they mistake any film, book or song as being some kind of coded memoir. Is it reality TV warping their understanding of such things?
― birdistheword, Friday, 5 January 2024 03:48 (three months ago) link
And thanks to its mixture of tones it winds up fair to all the principals? We understand without sympathizing.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 January 2024 03:55 (three months ago) link
I can understand the guy's feelings, sure, but that's just how stories work. Stagger Lee would like a word.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 5 January 2024 04:03 (three months ago) link
sensible and justified for this dude to see it the way he sees it
sensible and justified for haynes et al to proceed with their creative project without involving him
"If they had reached out to me, we could have worked together on a masterpiece"
i do like his delusions of grandeur though
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 5 January 2024 04:49 (three months ago) link
Indeed, this movie could've been up there with The Amy Fischer Story. Instead, it's merely Haynes' best movie since Safe (the Village Voice poll's best movie of the '90s).
― stephen miller is not your friend (Eric H.), Friday, 5 January 2024 14:30 (three months ago) link
It's funny how in the movie the people the story is based on are involved but not in the actual production of the movie where that happens
― plax (ico), Friday, 5 January 2024 18:29 (three months ago) link
This movie is so exquisitely awkward
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 22:55 (three months ago) link
Yeah, between this and Showing Up it was a good year for awkward.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 23:04 (three months ago) link
Showing Up is awkward, and is a remarkable film about a small local community of people (an arts community in Portland OR) trying to navigate the world, with all of the frustrations and divided feelings that come with it. It is my favorite movie so far from this year.
May December is also a favorite film this year, but it seems very slippery and knowing and almost conniving, and is almost the opposite of awkward to me, although there are some moments in it that are cringy
― Dan S, Wednesday, 10 January 2024 01:34 (three months ago) link