I loved the book "The Disaster Artist" - funny and poignant. In the book, Wiseau comes across as almost in love with Sestero. Did they play it that way in the film?
So in short order everything went from “Yasss, kings” to “Timothee and Armie” are cancelled. I really think a distinction needs to be drawn between "People doing bad things", "People endorsing People doing Bad Things" and "People not doing bad things themselves but failing to use the ideal language in condemning People for doing bad things." At the moment, all these seem to draw equal outrage and that's unfair. Go after the actual bad guys, not the slightly imperfect allies.
If there is one nominee that is surprising this year, to me, it’s all the love Willem Dafoe is getting for the role in this film. Not that he isn’t good-he certainly is, it’s just that it’s such a normal, understated character that I can’t see where the performance kicks in. Maybe it’s a love for the character critics are seeing. This is a film about poverty and to see a character like Dafoe plays be
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I loved the book "The Disaster Artist" - funny and poignant. In the book, Wiseau comes across as almost in love with Sestero. Did they play it that way in the film?
No, unfortunately. They way it's depicted is that Tommy is jealous of Greg: Greg has an agent, a girlfriend, people like him and Tommy is ridiculed by everyone so he acts out because he feels he's losing Greg to all of these outside forces.
I really think a distinction needs to be drawn between "People doing bad things", "People endorsing People doing Bad Things" and "People not doing bad things themselves but failing to use the ideal language in condemning People for doing bad things." At the moment, all these seem to draw equal outrage and that's unfair. Go after the actual bad guys, not the slightly imperfect allies. I completely agree. Not everyone is going to be up to speed on issues or why what they say is "problematic". Like Angela Lansbury. Old people is going to old. She was born in 1925 so unsurprisingly she has outdated views on sexual harassment
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I was living in London when the "Film Stars" book came out and it really got slammed at the time -- so much so that I don't know how much it was even released in the U.S.
But if people are really getting on Armie and Timothee for their comments (or non-comments) on Woody Allen and Polanski without acknowledging that Gloria Graham was really a horrible, horrible person who seduced her 13 year old stepson to get back at her husband, Nick Ray, then the double standard of guys who screw around with young girls is creepy, while young guys who get to screw around with women old enough to be their mothers is Oh Boy! SCORE! is way off the charts.
But if people are really getting on Armie and Timothee for their comments (or non-comments)on Woody Allen and Polanski without acknowledging that Gloria Graham was really a horrible, horrible person who seduced her 13 year old stepson to get back at her husband, Nick Ray
They play very coy with that factoid only alluding to her disastrous marriages and that she married her step-son, never revealing that she in fact had sex with him at 13 and later married him. I only learned that after reading up about her after seeing the film.
,then the double standard of guys who screw around with young girls is creepy, while young guys who get to screw around with women old enough to be their mothers is Oh Boy! SCORE! is way off the charts.
Way off the charts and normalized as it's a impressive feat on behalf of the boy.
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So in short order everything went from “Yasss, kings” to “Timothee and Armie” are cancelled.
I really think a distinction needs to be drawn between "People doing bad things", "People endorsing People doing Bad Things" and "People not doing bad things themselves but failing to use the ideal language in condemning People for doing bad things." At the moment, all these seem to draw equal outrage and that's unfair. Go after the actual bad guys, not the slightly imperfect allies.
If there is one nominee that is surprising this year, to me, it’s all the love Willem Dafoe is getting for the role in this film. Not that he isn’t good-he certainly is, it’s just that it’s such a normal, understated character that I can’t see where the performance kicks in. Maybe it’s a love for the character critics are seeing. This is a film about poverty and to see a character like Dafoe plays be ( ... )
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No, unfortunately. They way it's depicted is that Tommy is jealous of Greg: Greg has an agent, a girlfriend, people like him and Tommy is ridiculed by everyone so he acts out because he feels he's losing Greg to all of these outside forces.
I really think a distinction needs to be drawn between "People doing bad things", "People endorsing People doing Bad Things" and "People not doing bad things themselves but failing to use the ideal language in condemning People for doing bad things." At the moment, all these seem to draw equal outrage and that's unfair. Go after the actual bad guys, not the slightly imperfect allies.
I completely agree. Not everyone is going to be up to speed on issues or why what they say is "problematic". Like Angela Lansbury. Old people is going to old. She was born in 1925 so unsurprisingly she has outdated views on sexual harassment ( ... )
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at the time -- so much so that I don't know how much it was even released in the U.S.
But if people are really getting on Armie and Timothee for their comments (or non-comments)
on Woody Allen and Polanski without acknowledging that Gloria Graham was really a horrible,
horrible person who seduced her 13 year old stepson to get back at her husband, Nick Ray,
then the double standard of guys who screw around with young girls is creepy, while young
guys who get to screw around with women old enough to be their mothers is Oh Boy! SCORE!
is way off the charts.
I think I'll skip that flick.
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They play very coy with that factoid only alluding to her disastrous marriages and that she married her step-son, never revealing that she in fact had sex with him at 13 and later married him. I only learned that after reading up about her after seeing the film.
,then the double standard of guys who screw around with young girls is creepy, while young guys who get to screw around with women old enough to be their mothers is Oh Boy! SCORE! is way off the charts.
Way off the charts and normalized as it's a impressive feat on behalf of the boy.
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of the reasons she left Hollywood -- she was hated there!
I really like Annette Bening, but I'll definitely pass on that one.
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