This was awesome.
Sad to me to see that Chloe Zhao’s gone on to directing blockbuster superhero crap.
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That was probably a one-off and will give her the cash/influence to do whatever she wants next.
Might suck, but that’s the way it works.
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Plus Full Metal Jacket
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This looks deliciously creepy and stars Jessie Buckley with multiple Rory Kinnears? I’m in.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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According to imdb, there were already 4 other versions of this same film. Filmmakers who can’t get funding for their projects must see stuff like this and wonder why they keep focusing on/remaking the same thing over and over again.
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Great to see the industry spending large amounts of time and money on worthy projects.
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Oh, wait, I see @PsiPhiGrrrl got there first, and better.
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Also, from the trailer, it doesn’t look great… like, stilted acting and shoddy cinematography…
I think it’s that Hollywood is a inherently conservative (little c, here, not meaning politically) industry that needs to be pushed to take risks. And then the risks of previous years become entrenched in the process of what gets green lighted.
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Cairo is a city that has been around for centuries and it’s fucking huge… like 20 million people… the 6th largest city in the world, and the largest in Africa and the Middle East.
I mean… come on…
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Maybe it was actually Cairo, IL.
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Unless Cairo IL has Sheiks and sand… probably not…
Also found this, that explains more about the Egypt angle of the film (which I’ve not seen)…
Emir Abydos builds a wall around Cairo, separating it from the “heathens” outside.
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So this is how people went about showing their edgy hot takes before they invented the internet and social media.
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Don’t they pronounce that Kay-row?
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Yes, they do.
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I need to see this.
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Yoiks, didn’t know that about the author!
Still one the best psychological horror stories ever written.
Not sure how one would adapt it into a movie, though…
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A friend of mine did her dissertation on the intersection of feminism and eugenics (or that was a part of it, at least). Gilman was a key figure in her work, and people like her were the apogee of what today we’d call white feminism. She leaned hard into the most racist aspects of eugenics to argue for women’s (by that she meant white women) right to vote. As @PsiPhiGrrrl and @anon67050589 both noted, this was like the 4th version of this particular story.
At this point, if it’s not intersectional, I have no use for it…
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