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jsmooth995:

Possibly the first time I’ve ever seen a room full of Hollywood luminaries fail to have an opinion on something. (at about two minutes in)

Awkward silence.

“not gonna take that on” one says. Yeah, I bet he doesn’t wanna explain.

I love the reporter pushing through and not taking the easy answer that was given at first - he was spot on. they were talking about indie directors and he was asking about mainstream, major directors.

alla these people minus mcqueen are on my shit list.

the feeling i get @2:00 is painful. like, stomach churningly painful. the physical expressions of discomfort, the awkwardness manifesting itself… ugh. the more afraid we are to talk about the existence of white privilege, sexism, racism, the more powerful it becomes. feigning ignorance or touting that you don’t see race/whatever bullshit you want to come up with is not an option. when you’re a person of colour, a woman, not part of the status quo, a “minority” as the interviewer puts it, you can’t choose to ignore discrimination. you can’t choose to “not step into that.” you fucking live that (and fight that) every day. every time your pitch gets turned down, your screenplay ignored, a white actor cast in a black/asian/poc role, you wonder, is it because of the colour of my skin? and sometimes, hell, it is fucking blatant. like established hollywood actor danny glover being refused funding and producers because his film about haiti “lacked white heroes.”

i hate the face jason reitman makes when he says “not stepping into that,” and the dismissive chuckles that follow. what, exactly, is “that”?!!? not stepping into acknowledging hollywood is still a fantastic fucking paradise for white cis men? not acknowledging firstly, and then maybe looking into how hollywood could possibly be more representative of the multititudes of identities, races, and religion that populate that very same city? yeah, no, that’d be fucking scary to step into that.

for the record, the five white male directors who don’t have anything to say about why there are not more “minorities” (which is a misnomer in this case, women are not “minorities” in most places around the world, there are 5 million more women in north america than men) aren’t named in the reblogs/video. i did a bit of digging and here are their names:

• alexander payne (sideways, about schmidt, who also made citizen ruth! which makes me requestion my interest in that film, since i read it as feminist)
• michel hazanavicius (OSS 117, french parodies of james bond)
• bennett miller (moneyball, capote)
• jason reitman (juno, up in the air)
• mike mills (beginners, thumbsucker)

also, can we laugh at the hollywood reporter’s description of this video?

By contrast, the filmmakers behind those contenders have no trouble speaking their minds. This especially opinionated group wasn’t afraid to disagree while opening up about their challenges and influences.

don’t even get me started on how we DO talk about the very few directors who happen to not be white men…

Disappointing Gay Best Friend: GOIN’ OUT (by mikalabierma)

i also refer to this problem as the “Sex and the City effect” (sorry, i hate that show)