Hollywood fears wokeness will kill it

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[–]Chipit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Nope, not a bot. I just learned to spot power imbalances and now can identify them with ease.

We should all be banding together to defend the little guy and punch up against the powerful. NEVER the other way around.

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I'd agree on that. But also not feel bad for jewish writers out of work.

[–]jet199Instigatrix 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Mel Gibson isn't the little guy.

He's someone who could ruin my life with a text message if I gave him the wrong coffee.

Maybe go outside now and then and you'll understand how the real world works.

[–]Chipit 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Power imbalances are relative. We aren't talking about you and me. We're talking about Mel Gibson vs. Netflix, Hollywood, Big Tech, etc.

He's someone who could ruin my life with a text message if I gave him the wrong coffee.

Really? How do you know that?

[–]jet199Instigatrix 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've seen that kind of thing happen.

My own heads of department wouldn't have the power in this economy to blacklist anyone in matter how bad because they just need bodies to fill seats. We currently have people who don't know their alphabet or have stalked their bosses back working.

However even now there are people who are perfected good at what they do but can't get a job because a star didn't like them for some reason. Those famous people have huge influence across studios and other stats, they all pull together, whether the star themselves is liked or not.

It's a matter of hierarchy. The studios might not like Gibson but they will always like him more than you and me. If he says you're shit they will agree and pass it on. This is how Weinstein operated. Everyone hated him and he had no say at the big studios but if he said not to work with someone they went along with it because he was one of them. Peter Jackson was turning down people for Lord of the Rings and he didn't know why. He just knew it was the received wisdom not to work with them. Of course it was because they'd turned Weinstein down for sex.