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I could have enjoyed so many more movies if I could hear the dialogue. I have to try and find a middle ground with the volume, loud enough for me to barely hear the dialogue, but low enough where the sound effects don't hurt my ears.
To be fair, it was a political debate so I think I would talk to her that way.
She's okay for small stuff. If she's taking pointers from her mom, I have to get her away from her mother immediately.
At least she didn't say he was mansplaining.
My girlfriend's mother is an old Italian lady and she can't cook. I guess that now makes her my ex.
What I hate are generalizations. Examples:
-Men are pigs
-Muslims are terrorists
-Liberals have a mental illness
-Conservatives are racist
-White people have white privilege
-Black people are criminals
-Asians are bad drivers
And so on.
Generalizations cause such a negative impact on society.
I hate the term "mansplain" for two reasons: it doesn't rhyme with "explain", "sexplain" is much better and the second reason is that people use it for everything even when it has nothing to do with the person being a woman. I once corrected a woman on a a wrong fact, and immediately got accused of mansplaining. Like, you can't tell me that she's never been wrong and you can't correct her.
Around that time it was only a few. But the last ten years, about half of the movies I see are like this. I often gravitate to old films just to avoid the headache of me putting the volume up and down the entire duration of the film.
Yeah, he's actually fine as an actor in the films he doesn't direct. Nothing award-winning, but passable.
The fact that Tyler Perry not only continues to make movies, but people continue to watch them.
This is better than Scorsese's list.
[quote]Again, the way you paraphrased, I don't hate apples = I don't like them, but I don't feel strongly enough about them to hate them.[/quote]
Not necessarily. The other day a friend of mine offered me some Doritos and my other friend said that there was no point of asking me because I hate them. I replied that I didn't hate them. In fact, I love them. I don't know why he thought I hated them, but I told him that I don't hate them and said it in a way where I was confused why he would think that. Saying "I don't hate them" doesn't automatically mean that I don't love them.
Now, unless the role specifically states for a character to be black, then why wouldn't a white woman have every right to audition? Let's not look at this from a Hollywood perspective. Let's say I open a coffee shop and I say I only want minorities (of any kind, race, religion, disability) working for me so I can give them an opportunity. Now if a white man in a wheelchair comes up to me and asks for a job, I tell them: "sorry, I only want black, disabled people to have a chance". You're fine with giving this marginalized demographic a change, but not that marginalized demographic because they're white despite being disabled. That is the epitome of discrimination.
It's less than a minute in when he says it.
Okay. Have a good day.
I think the reason for that is to stay consistent. Let's say a scene in a movie takes place in Lake Chattanooga, no one would know that it's in Tennessee unless they labelled it that way. But if later on they go to London and it only says London people would notice that in one scene it said "Lake Chattanooga, Tennessee" and a scene later on only said "London".
Funny enough, in the YouTube series "Cinema Sins", they gave credit to "Mission: Impossible - Fallout" for only putting "Belfast" on screen and not the country it was in. The narrator said he was happy "not needing to be told Belfast was in Ireland." But the funny thing is while he's giving credit to the movie for "not needing to be told that Belfast was in Ireland", he is actually wrong. Belfast is in Northern Ireland.
I absolutely despise the sound of movies when they come on home video or Netflix. The dialogue will be really low, then when the sound effects or music come on, it's so loud that you have to rush to turn the volume lower and then turn it back up when the dialogue starts again. This wasn't really an issue about 10 years ago.
There's a difference between me saying that he is discriminating against those demographics and him making a comment and not taking other things into consideration. If a man named Person A says "Person B shouldn't have killed Person C because murder is wrong" and then I tell him "it was self defence", his original comment is "ignorant" because he wasn't thinking that self defence was an option. His heart was in the right place by saying murder was wrong, but he also should have been aware of other reasons for doing so.
The reason it makes "zero sense" (which doesn't make sense itself, you can't make one sense or two sense) is because that's not what I'm saying at all. I'm not saying he HAS to cast someone that is disabled. Nowhere did I say that he had to. Let's just say he does write a screenplay with a disabled lead and begins auditioning actors, because he already has the mentality that he is probably not going to cast a white man, a white man who is auditioning will not get the role. The comment he made "I've seen that movie before" is him talking about representation. So, if Jordan Peele does write a movie with a disabled lead, the white disabled man who auditioned won't be represented based solely on his skin colour. He made his comments thinking that race is the only factor when talking about representation
I know he never brought up disabled people. That was my point all along. He's overlooking disabled, gay, Muslim people just for being white. He didn't realize that by him saying he'll probably never do a movie with a white man in the lead role because he's "seen that movie before" that he will be overlooking other stories like disabled people and Muslims that we don't often see either
Now you're just putting words in my mouth. I never even said that he was a bad person or that I didn't like him.