I heard he wasn’t such a crack mayor.
In fact I heard he was actually pretty bad.
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Wait. Rob Ford is dead?
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Someone should make a post about it!
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When Hollywood replaces black people with white people, we call it whitewashing. What should we call it when they replace a woman with a man? Boywashing? Dudewashing? Malewashing?
I have the flu, so am having trouble thinking of a good term.
Jizzwash?
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Platt’s statement that
“I play an entitled, incapable entry-level reporter (my boss is played by Jennifer Ehle)”
to me suggests strongly that what we’re going to see in this film is the usual lazy screenwriting trope of a Very Competent Woman who, as a subsidiary character, trains and assists the Incompetent Noob Boy, who then surpasses her, gets the big scoop, and ultimately wins her approval.
See also Tasha Robinson’s "Trinity Syndrome":
Is a fundamental point of your plot that your Strong Female Character is the strongest, smartest, meanest, toughest, or most experienced character in the story—until the protagonist arrives?
…or worse, does he enter the story as a bumbling fuck-up, but spend the whole movie rapidly evolving past her, while she stays entirely static, and even cheers him on? Does your Strong Female Character exist primarily so the protagonist can impress her?
I’m betting yes.
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As awkward and offputting as Ben Platt’s statement was, it’s really not his statement to make. It’s the writers’ statement to make or not. Ben is an actor and not responsible for the content of the movie. He could, I suppose, not take the job, but I don’t think it makes sense to blame the actor for the writing.
She worried that they were “rewriting the fact that it was a female reporter who investigated Rob Ford”. If the tweet is to believed it isn’t about any “erasure”. Doolittle is still the one who does the investigation. Is it a good idea to have a bumbling male reporter as the lead instead of Doolittle? Who can tell after a tweet when we know almost nothing about the movie? People are far too quick to judge with far too little information nowadays.
If it is more of a comedy it might work. In a serious drama, probably not, but IMHO Rob Ford is a better subject for a comedy anyway.
As the scion of three generations of actors, I don’t think a lot of actors have the luxury to turn down problematic parts. They’re not to blame for the writing, just as they shouldn’t be praised for great writing. It’s very irritating when people who should know better quote movie lines, like, “…as [name of character] says in [name of movie]…” without crediting the writer.
I don’t think anyone here is doing that.
The woman in question made a critical comment about a film that particular actor is in, which happens to based upon events in her life. He was not ‘obligated’ to respond to her comment.
Outside of just not taking the role in the first place, the next best thing he could have done was keep his mouth shut.
I’m willing to bet that as a cis-gendered White male, that actor has more parts to choose from than many of his counterparts who are ‘Other.’
And I’m not saying that he shouldn’t have taken the role; I’m saying he should have kept his inane thoughts to himself, instead of choosing to escalate the problem.
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Follow me here (I am paraphrasing some of this)…
Her: I’m glad you are rewriting this entire thing (sarcasm)
Him: Well THIS is what is being rewritten, not what YOU are saying was rewritten.
That’s the part I blame him for. Those aren’t words or tone he needed to use.
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Its a “thriller” - whatever the hell that means…
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Who the hell would even fund this mediocre story? Nothing could be more entertaining than the actual reality! Been there, done that, bored. Doolittle has every right to be pissed.
I’m guessing that Platt’s character at the end of the film won’t turn into Superman.
And let me just say, great pull quote!
It’s not just that Hollywood can’t read the room. It’s a black hole of blind incomprehension and any appearance otherwise is just radiation emitted at its event horizon.
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When will women learn how hard patronizing men work on their empty platitudes? /s
THE FEMINAZIS ARE RUINING WESTERN CIVILIZATION!!!
Oh, I’m sorry, what were you saying? Seriously though, the wail of the manbabies would be audible from the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
Came for this. Leaving satisfied.
Pricking?
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The subject was enough to know I don’t want to watch the movie. All the rest is just extra reasons.
There are about 100 movies on Netflix I’d like to watch at some point, and I can’t even manage to watch them.
Rob Ford could only have been played well by Chris Farley, or possibly John Belushi. Sadly neither are available.
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