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arry wrote: | There's nothing in that arrangement which puts either party on the spot unexpectedly. |
Fresh and unsullied, ingenues all. New in tinseltown. Shocked, they were. "Casting couch? Why, no, never have I ever heard that phrase. To what does it refer, pray tell?"
Rogerborg wrote: | My point was purely that no-one should have to make a choice like that as a result of an abuse of position. |
Eh, worse things happen at sea. Mostly to cabin boys.
On the scale of Paul Feig to Roman Polanski, he barely scores a Woody Allen.
Yes, I'd gas him. No, I don't have much sympathy with women who lacked the self respect to walk away, and I have nothing but contempt for anyone who pimped for him on stage.
I'd fare poorly as a White Knight.
arry wrote: | If that was your missus, how would you feel about it? |
I'd blame her mother for putting her on the stage. Also, the hypothetical person who might put herself in that situation wouldn't be my missus. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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Corden is shitting himself, he will be doing voice over work advertising pay day loans before you know it.
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Jayy wrote: | people like James Corden who think it's funny to make jokes about it and nobody will bat an eye? |
As above, Tina Fey already did it.
So did Seth MacFarlane.
Lulz were lulled when everyone knew he was doing it, but assumed it was only to generic faceless Z listers on whom we could project imaginary vices that excused it.
But now there's a cavalcade of vapid tarts blubbering about the traumas to their feels, and some of them are that one chick who played that sympathetic character in that film you sort of liked, so it's the horror, the horror.
Double standards ain't the half of it. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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Rogerborg wrote: | arry wrote: | There's nothing in that arrangement which puts either party on the spot unexpectedly. |
Fresh and unsullied, ingenues all. New in tinseltown. Shocked, they were. "Casting couch? Why, no, never have I ever heard that phrase. To what does it refer, pray tell?" |
If you wanted to be an actress then, barring the odd one here and there, it's a choice you make at a relatively young age and your entire schooling is chosen around that decision. That reads like you're insinuating that a fresh faced teenager should know that, if she embarks on a career in acting, she's to be expected to suck off a fat bloke if she wants to make it to the top. That's pretty cold a thought, don't you think?
I'm sure those that went in had heard 'the stories' about casting couches but I would expect at least some went in hoping for the best, and very much fearing for the worst should it occur. That's not an acceptable position to put someone in.
Besides, wind it back a little and think about all the other industries this might apply to. The net casts pretty wide.
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Eh, worse things happen at sea. Mostly to cabin boys.
On the scale of Paul Feig to Roman Polanski, he barely scores a Woody Allen. |
Oh of course, there's always worse things going on in the world - but that shouldn't excuse the guy's actions. Some of the defending comments on here are, frankly, a bit disturbing. For example:
Quote: | Weinstein is and always has been physically repulsive. How else is he going to get laid except by offering potential sexual partners money, film roles or self-advancement? |
Oh, I dunno, maybe go on a diet, be charming, treat girls you date with respect and be a nice person?
Rogerborg wrote: | Yes, I'd gas him. |
Good - we agree on that entirely.
Rogerborg wrote: | No, I don't have much sympathy with women who lacked the self respect to walk away, and I have nothing but contempt for anyone who pimped for him on stage.
I'd fare poorly as a White Knight. |
That sounds a lot like victim blaming Rog; although I do agree and find it hard to pour out much from my sympathy thimble in this particular instance - albeit I can only imagine what it must feel like to be so close to the defining moment in your career and thinking you were just about to break through into the big time, only then to find out that that's only going to happen 'if'. Oh well, only 8 years of acting school, years of low paid acting jobs and working double shifts in retail to make ends meet, down the drain, so to speak.
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I'd blame her mother for putting her on the stage. Also, the hypothetical person who might put herself in that situation wouldn't be my missus. |
A whole industry and generation written off because of people like Weinstein. How sad is that
What if it was a job offer at the end of her (latest) degree course and she'd so desperately wanted it, which is why she studied for it in the first place? You'd be sympathetic to the situation then perhaps? |
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arry wrote: | That reads like you're insinuating that a fresh faced teenager should know that, if she embarks on a career in acting, she's to be expected to suck off a fat bloke if she wants to make it to the top. That's pretty cold a thought, don't you think? |
It's long been my understanding that big-screen Hollywood is a soulless cess pit of dead eyed users and abusers who only care about what you can do for them.
If you've formed a different opinion, I'd be fascinated to hear what informs it.
arry wrote: | think about all the other industries this might apply to. |
Slippery slope manufacturing? I think it's pretty much a Hollywood problem. A few powerful men controlling access to riches beyond the dreams of avarice, thousands upon thousands of desperate young frippets (of all genders) looking for any way to distinguish themselves from the other disposable talents - I honestly can't see any other way that it would work. Not till God makes men of some other metal than earth.
arry wrote: | I can only imagine what it must feel like to be so close to the defining moment in your career and thinking you were just about to break through into the big time, only then to find out that that's only going to happen 'if'. Oh well, only 8 years of acting school, years of low paid acting jobs and working double shifts in retail to make ends meet, down the drain, so to speak. |
Thing is, almost all of them are going to fail anyway.
And those who did choose to make the deal with Sweaty Satan didn't seem to fare particularly well out of it.
Rogerborg wrote: | A whole industry and generation written off because of people like Weinstein. How sad is that |
Eh, Hollywood is an industrial scale dream-shredder. How many really decent roles are there for the sort of shooting-for-the-stars divas that Weinstein favours? A couple of dozen a year? How many aspirants are going to be wiping tables while their freshness goes sour?
I don't imagine many porn puppets set out for tinseltown with ambitions of being golden showered in the golden hour, but that's what happens to many of those who don't even make it past the regular casting couch, and who are made an unexpected and doubtless unwelcome - at first -
offer.
Who weeps for DP Debbie? Is her repeated debasement not far more publicly tragic than a stubby chubby being waggled at a shrinking violet? Do we not care about Debbie's story because she can't act demure and distressed as well as Weinstein's accusers?
Still, I'm sure you're too woke to have ever watched any porn.
arry wrote: | What if it was a job offer at the end of her (latest) degree course and she'd so desperately wanted it, which is why she studied for it in the first place? You'd be sympathetic to the situation then perhaps? |
Sure, if that happened.
Hollywood is different though. It shouldn't work the way that it works, but wishing won't make it so.
Like the fall of Saddam or Gaddafi, Weinstein's considerable vacuum is unlikely to be filled by anything better.
And why would it? How many showbiz wimmins have taken the plunge and set up their own production companies?
OK, Mila Kunis, for one. But how well did it do? Errr...
It's a ruthless, cutthroat business. Are you really surprised that those who make it to the top aren't exactly boy scouts and philanthropists? ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 193 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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