A thread for discussing representation and diversity in all kinds of media. This covers creators and casting decisions as well as characters and in-universe discussions.
Historical works and decisions are in-scope as well, not just recent news.
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This week, producer Ross Putnam started a Twitter account called "femscriptintros
", where he puts up examples of how women are introduced in the screenplays he's read. And nearly all of sound like terrible porn or are too concerned with emphasizing said lady is beautiful despite whatever traits she may have. Here's a Take Two podcast made today where he talks about it.
(Edited April 19 2024 to add mod pinned post)
Edited by Mrph1 on Apr 19th 2024 at 11:45:51 AM
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Meaning I need to buy the Blu-Ray.
Let's hope they hire a decent costume designer for the sequel.
Fork Films (founded by Abigail Disney)
is funding this year 16 documentary films, 14 of which are directed by women and on a wide variety of topics from reproductive rights to mental health to anti-Islamic conflicts.
Needs More Gay covers queer themes in the Power Rangers series and recent film adaptation.
Mark Ruffalo declares that he is "woke to the transgender experience"... by producing a very un-woke film depicting trans people getting once again played by cis men.
I'm happy that the Power Rangers movie might be getting a sequel. I really enjoyed the film myself, and was worried that the low box office might have prevented continuations.
Queen of Good Things, Honest
It is?! Sweet! That movie was amazing during the 90% of its runtime where it wasn't overtly being a Power Rangers movie. Like, even some of the general Ranger bits like trying to morph and the training montage are great. It's just when shit like Rita and the Zords are directly onscreen that it falls apart.
My Tumblr. Currently liveblogging Haruhi Suzumiya and revisiting Danganronpa V3.
don't say that. Now we'll get no Rita and no Zords in the sequel 
There had better be Zords.
I think the movie did have some uneven pacing, as much as I liked it. You do care about the characters in their Breakfast Club remake, and then your reward for all that is the giant robots and Putty fights. The film KNOWS this, given what plays when we get the Zords.
The Mary Sue article on the "space racist" trope as applied to women of color.
https://www.themarysue.com/space-racist-trope-needs-to-go-away/
I do find myself agreeing very much with this article having had similar complaints with stuff like the X-Men myself, particularly the infamous "n-word lover" moment from God Loves, Man Kills.
The most prominent example I can think of is Ashley Williams in Mass Effect. I'll have to think about her character, because she is prejudiced against aliens but was never prejudiced against because she was Latina - it was because of her family and the stigma that came with it.
The Academy just inducted in a record 774 members (one hundred more than last year), from Gal Gadot to Leslie Jones to Jordan Peele, Donald Glover, Dwayne Johnson...
Halle Berry is looking to go into directing, having decided that her 2002 Oscar win (the only time a black woman has won Best Actress) has been nil in increasing diversity.
edited 28th Jun '17 4:36:06 PM by Tuckerscreator
Wait... what? Google isn't telling me when Poison Ivy was a child.
Aging up in-universe. I watched 1 1/2 season of Gotham, and Ivy was a kid, a 12 years old redhead Creepy Child about the same age as Bruce & Selina. Apparently later on they used some plot device to age her body, meaning that she is now played by an adult actress behaving like a 12 yo.
So the official trailer for the Jumanji reboot dropped and wow. They seriously went there with the two female characters?
one of the girls is transformed into Karen Gillen's character basically the Hollywood homely becomes insanely hot trope. The other girl is turned into Jack Black. Basically a double whammy of tone deaf gender writing and this was after the complaints of Gillen's outfit.
edited 29th Jun '17 7:54:54 AM by windleopard
We've been over this. Please don't just drop a link and say "discuss." I can't view Youtube links at the moment so I have no idea what you're hinting at.
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I'm Sad Frogerson.
Michelle Rodriguez has threatened to leave the Fast and Furious franchise if the series doesn't improve on its limited amount of female roles. I have absolutely no investment in the Fast and Furious franchise, but the fact that one of the actors of such a popular franchise is willing to leave does seem like a big deal to me.
But 7 had that wonderful Designated Girl Fight back when Hollywood was desperately trying to Rhonda Rousey the next big thing.
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The Showrunner of Dzwiedz 24
Didn't they definitely end the series when Paul Walker died and Vin Diesel's character was killed off? Particularly considering that it was beating a dead horse for at least three last movies and the writing is so dumb that beefcake machismo is expected if not outright unavoidable?
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
They never killed Vin Diesel's character off.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
Didn't they definitely end the series when Paul Walker died and Vin Diesel's character was killed off? Particularly considering that it was beating a dead horse for at least three last movies and the writing is so dumb that beefcake machismo is expected if not outright unavoidable?
Okay, posts like that with no basis in reality don't help anyone. Seriously, I have no affection for the Fast and the Furious movies (The Rock aside, but I like him in literally anything), but your first sentence was utterly untrue and the first part of the second sentence is straight up delusional. The last three movies are what revitalized a completely ailing franchise into a huge moneymaker.
I was so distracted by the nonsensical statements I basically glazed over your final point which is actually not that far off.
edited 29th Jun '17 11:58:18 AM by Larkmarn
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Sens 8 will get a two hour finale to wrap up the series
it's a living
Huh. Damned decent of you, Netflix.
Today in white people, Emilia Clarke has said that facing sexism in the entertainment industry is "like dealing with racism."
Actually it's like dealing with sexism, Emilia.
"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."
In the pursuit of great, we failed to do good.
Well both are forms of discrimination based on irrelevant traits you didn't choose. I don't get why this comparison is so wrong.
I think her larger statement in context has a point but I do worry it continues to portray racism and sexism as separate issues rather than frequently intersecting ones.
HBO is producing a new adaptation of Fahrenheit 451, starring Michael B. Jordan, Laura Harrier, Lily Singh, directed by Ramin Bahrani and written by Amir Naderi.
edited 29th Jun '17 5:07:24 PM by Tuckerscreator
I wonder how they're going to update the technology to fit the modern era, considering just how prophetic the original story was about media and how it controls our lives. Maybe they'll just portray it as a contemporary work instead of focusing on the scifi elements.
