George Lucas explains that “the audience doesn’t know what they want to see” in a new interview.
“If they don’t like a character, that’s interesting, and as a filmmaker I want to find out why. But when the studios hear that, they take the wrong message. They let the audience actually make the movie. Of course, now they go crazy with that. Now, it’s all about what the fans think. That isn’t how you make the movie. You make a movie by finding someone that knows how to make movies, that has a story to tell and is passionate about it.”
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@JFennellAuthor I remember what the weird aspect was - they could communicate telepathically, which they used to play hangman, and the people whose names were used in the hangman games would then die somehow.
This is such an old dynamic it's wild to watch it play out over and over again when you can just read about it in any book about the history of science and/or technology.
Just FYI, doctors mostly aren’t saying “DON'T DO THIS.” They’re saying “screening is complicated.” They've seen exciting new techniques fail to improve outcomes tons of times. They take a whole oath about not doing harm and their field is filled with moments when doctors haven't waited for good evidence...and real harm gets done.
This happens with experts all the time...they see something new and there's skepticism...sometimes warranted, sometimes unwarranted.
Regardless, any amount of informed skepticism is extremely easy to re-package as “The old guard doesn’t want the future.”
That repackaging has been used by industrialists for as long as industrialists have existed...they turn every request for evidence into proof that the incumbents are scared.
The thing is there are a lot of Vioxx's and Theranos's and "radium therapy"s in the past proving that well-informed people who say, "Actually, that's not gonna work" are actually very often right.
And there's also tons of examples of industrialists being like "This is the future" and being correct while saying "you can't regulate us, that will stand in the way of the future" as steam boilers explode and human beings along with them.
But I guess we're just gonna keep having the same goddamn fights forever!
Claims anti-trans 'feminist' Laoise de Brún made in her article on the initial three day wait vote in May:
- women use abortion as a contraceptive
- allowing pre marital sex is bad for women
- the pill is a transhumanist technology (not joking she really said this)
Sad to see these sops handed out to a belligerent minority who are completely hostile to the governing parties while discounting how many of us see the welcome given to Ukrainians as a point of national pride
I'm proud of how we came up with Hank Scorpio because he's actually the result of a few conceptual ideas that worked together perfectlly (when being voiced by @AlbertBrooks, of course):
- What if Homer had a boss who actually gave him respect?
-What if this boss was one of those "modern" Silicon Valley jeans-wearing bosses? (remember, this is 1996)
-What if this type of boss was actually a Bond villain but his villainy is only ever in the background?
Hot take; Alex Kurtzman was the best executive Trek ever had. While I have critiques of his writing & like Roddenberry’s ethos more, he’s a better scriptwriter than Roddenberry or Berman. He also seemed like a genuinely good boss, compared to Berman/Gene’s toxicity, esp to women.
I posted this on Instagram yesterday and got flooded with comments of relief that this gag in The Devil Wears Prada 2 was created by an actual human (me), so I figured I’d also post it here because I think these companies should get their flowers when they hire an artist.
@SummerHartxxx Of course, the majority of people involved in sex work are women so there's a big dose of misogyny in here too. Fallen women must be punished.
If we could criminalize our way out of these problems, not only would sex trafficking have ended, we'd also have ended overdose deaths, and homelessness.
We have never been able to solve problems like these with criminalization. We've proven over and over it doesn't work.
We cannot combat complex socioeconomic and gender based violence with the carceral system and greater legal and police involvement. The belief in this is what keeps us stuck doing the same thing over and over.
@SummerHartxxx That sex is something done to women rather than activity they can enthusiastically participate in.
You can't tell what's an abusive situation from surface details, whether we're talking about porn or relationships.
@SummerHartxxx When they try to blanket condemn particular sexual acts as bad, you know they don't understand sexual abuse/assault. Any sexual act, whether you think it's good/icky/whatever can be abuse if done without consent. And "few women have good sex" is just playing into the idea /
Sheri's Ranch claims they truly support "independent contractors" and women building their own business. Then why try to own our intellectual property? For what reason would they need power of attorney of the ladies?