It was an old quote, and didn’t entirely represent his views.
This is the fourth year GLAAD has conducted its study, but according to GLAAD president Sarah Kate Ellis, it’s still a struggle “to find any marked improvement in the representation of LGBT lives on the silver screen.”
I have news for these commenters: ‘What’s with all the exclusion? Isn’t having only one gender kind of unfair?’ is pretty much how women feel looking at all media, all the time.
In terms of pacing, Winter’s War lumbers and creaks its way to its third act, which—after a handful of early scenes—finally sees Freya and a resurrected Ravenna reunited to fight the good guys and, eventually, each other. This is what the movie should have been. It was excellent. But we had to endure a full Charlize Theron-less hour of Hemsworth running through the forest in order to get to that point. (This makes the fact that Theron used the Sony hack to negotiate a payday equal to Hemsworth’s hilarious. She has a fifth of his screen time. Maybe. You go, Charlize. We can all only aspire to such greatness.)
Hollywood has no idea what to do with Asian people. And, given the fact that Hollywood often serves as a reflection of contemporary culture, this is a major problem. Aside from casting us as goofy comic relief (Long Duk Dong, really) or evil mystical ninjas (come on, Daredevil season 2), they just don’t know what to do with us. The confusion and ignorance around what we bring to the table sometimes gets so bad that rather than try and find out who we actually are, they’ll overwrite us with white characters, erasing us completely from narratives that inherently belong to one culture or another (looking at you, Ghost in the Shell).
He spoke with Hero Complex about Episode 8 director Rian Johnson’s approach.
Kara/Supergirl is hope and goodness personified, driven to save people by little more than the stubborn belief that they’re worth saving. According to the always image-conscious Cat, this means that Supergirl must be perfect and, by extension, can’t be human, but Kara’s humanity, so to speak, is ultimately what makes her a hero. Where her big-screen counterparts are defined and limited by their powers, Kara is defined—and freed—by her restraint. As exemplified by her encounter with a would-be robber in the episode “Human for a Day,” she doesn’t need to resort to violence or even to use her super-strength, freeze breath, or any of her other exceptional abilities to save the day. She proves herself not by winning battles and defeating enemies, but by helping people.
But a professor and writer for The People’s Liberation Army Daily denounced the film as American propaganda.
we’ve already seen some leaked footage of the Joker punching Harley Quinn. Based on the horror stories about Jared Leto harassing his co-stars “in character” by sending them used condoms and anal beads, it seems likely that emotional abuse will figure heavily into his characterization of the Joker as well.
A lot of the arguments in the DC fandom center around whether or not the Suicide Squad movie’s depiction of Harley Quinn and the Joker is “accurate” or not. Specifically, Jared Leto’s Joker has come under a lot of fire from fans for not seeming like he behaves the way the Joker would behave. Perhaps the Joker wouldn’t send used condoms to his colleagues in the mail, but the physical abuse of Harley Quinn would sadly be “accurate” based on past canon.
There’s more than one way to experience the Dark Side.
Margot Robbie Is a Self-Aware Damsel in New Legend of Tarzan Trailer (x)
We’re definitely not fans of Tarzan’s lingering stink of xenophobia and colonialism, as Charline pointed out last year. But Margot Robbie’s awareness of her gender role is intriguing. What do you think? Click to join the conversation on TMS.
