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I used to be a huge fan of his father since the 70's, it seems like his son has inherited his penchant for visuals and horror images or genre. Did you know George? Panos has certainly showed lots of promise, his further projects could be even more successful.
Too much technical dialogue and language, with a different language subtitled on top of it, too fast to catch up with all that is going on. But I guess one doesn't need to understand everything that is happening in the film.
Ah don't worry, you're in good hands, trust me. [Grinch evil grin]
Or less dividing talk. I would say it is ironcally the idea of good and evil that is actually crazy. It's like saying that God or the universe is crazy when things like this happen in life, from the awakened expanded awareness or point of view there is no good and evil, but it is scary and crazy to a human ego that wants to choiose the side to feel safe and comfortable, hence the nature of responses to this thread. I expected that.
To me campiness always means to be a positive thing. It makes films superior in quality, I rarely watch films that are not campy. I think most filmmakers strive to make their films campy, why wouldn't they.
Such a powerful and beautiful scene!!! It made me cry and smile at the same time, one can not see this as rape at all, otherwise one would have not understood the point of the film and scenes like this, in her eyes the rape has been transmuted into ecstacy (that's also explained in the previous few scenes, how she's able to experience the little death somewhere between pain and bliss), this is her power, and I can tell you there are only very very few people on this planet who are capable of such a power of consciousness and energy of the body, understandably people who have awakened their kundalini, it is the same people who use the body as a transmuter of pain, the same people who can walk through the fire, teleport themselves and make true miracles on Earth. This is a real thing. In this film Emanuelle is basically portrayed as a Goddess, a super human in a way. I hope that gives a bit of understanding how you can see this film, or this scene.
It did for many people I know. That's why darkness in our life is so much needed as a contrast.
Yes, and it helped so much in our evolution. We would have not reached such higher levels of self empowerment. God works in mysterious ways, and in this realm no one is a villain and a bad guy.
That is exactly what I said in a previous comment is not what's about, what I wrote explains everything, and why decisions like this have been made for decades.
In my view she said what was quite obvious, she didn't know how inauthentic it would be if she continued... nothing to do with being PC nonsense, but research into the subject. Authenticity is closely related to timing, what was authentic 100 years ago would not be today for example, and that is also related to what people sometimes mistakenly refer to as being PC, a good actress can play a transsexual but it would be less authentic than having in the current climate the real trans actors playing those roles, this is the same like male playing female or white playing black these days, which is okay, but not if Females and Black people were discrimated against in Hollywood and not given the equal chance, it's also not like a heterosexual playing gay, race and gender is more on the eyes. No matter how good of an actor you are, it still can become perceived as inauthentic by casting itself, when you make a special effects out of an explosion, people tend to prefer practical effects these days, not CGI, because it is more real, there's no acting in a real explosion, it is happening, acting is only in the way it's used how to tell the story, not the effect itself. It's the same reason why some filmmakers use real people, and not actors (recent Eastwood's film for instance), so the film would "feel" more authentic. They're not there to be so-called great actors in order to please their ego, but they're there to convey authenticity, the casting itself already made the acting and film more authentic. Acting is in the way the story is told, and how such people are used. That's the acting=pretending. Audience sees the difference very often.
On a side note, transsexual people or gay/lesbian people tend to "look" and "act" different than others, I know most people won't see the difference, but some do, biological body is different, so no matter how good of a method actor we are, there are always limitations. It's the same reason why filmmakers are coming up with better CGI or 3D, just to make the experience more authentic. I think most people would always go for an auhenticity than just to see a fitting great actor playing the part that becomes fake in their eyes. It's also the same reason why some Vietnam films couldn't be made in the 70's, it is related to money, and to timing based on readiness of the public. I am always for no censorship, and no boundaries in our artistic expression, and no MPAA rating to keep children away, but I also believe in human compassion behind our art, and individuality, and that's always been a key factor throughout the world, not just in Hollywood.
So yes to me it is always more "authentic" to hire an actual transsexual "at this time" like in the case of a French film Fantastic Woman. To draw in the bigger audience the filmmakers don't always rely on the main lead to be a famous star, but the co-lead, there's been many examples of this happening in huge films. To me what Scarlett said is what she truly felt in the heart and knew was true, there was no other way around it once the issue becomes understood.
Thanks God this has nothing to do with political correctness, but authenticity... which matters, just like Scarlett said.
I know, the issue is misdirected anyway, which boggles the mind.
Then it's better the movie is not made at all, because it can be an extremely serious matter resulting in nothing but death and depression, which is contantly happening based on research, our culture influences our mindset. Sell the right idea or not at all. Scarlett was aware of its seriousness, nothing to do with PC, but information that can be dangerous. Maybe it can be fine in 10 years from now, but not now. That's why there's MPAA, that's why some films are not financed, that's why films like Boys Dont cry can't be made anymore with a female acctress, etc. People evolve, everything has its own timing, and I think the sociologists could understand this a bit more. If it was an independent small film, it would not matter, but if it's aimed for the wider audience, it's better to wait or not make such a film at all. As an allegory in a way, we dont talk to suicidal people carelessly, we make sure to make things better for them, that's all what it is about. It's the same why Stallone didn't make a Rambo film about ISIS, because it was perhaps dangereous for him, some things have timing. This so called pitchfork mob are people this film is representing, it's about them, they didnt force anyone, they were merely listened to the same like any consultants. This has everything to do with art, and the artist became more awakened and aware how to do the art. This has been happening since the begining of cinema. Some people don't seem to get the bigger picture.
Only trans people can determine whether it is or not acceptable, because they are the ones that risk judgment based on the wrong representation that media sells into the subconscious of the people. They are the ones concerned and to listen to if the film tries to be true to reality. When filmmakers decide to make a film based on reality, they usually consult real experts to know whether it is authentic or not. Scarlett merely listened to the right people, decision was hers as a producer, it is not the majority, but the minority she represents, there's always fewer experts than lay men when it comes to some subjects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_oqeXz7vbc&t=294s
But I agree that if the character it is based on is not trans, the whole issue is just misguided, issue about nothing. But I understand trans people's point of view if they thought it was trans. Well whatever.
You probably didn't see the meaning of this film the way I did, her saving this girl was the way how to in a sense save her soul, not the life... for me the film was showing how to live fully enjoying the same thing as if it was new, it was about how to awaken from an unconscious sleeping jaded life, this film attempted to show what exactly it is like to awaken in life, to step out of the routine. This is something no previous Groundhog Day storyline ever attempted I think. If she didn't die, it would have never been able to show in a way that us helping others is something we take ourselves with us, even though those affected by us will not experience it at all, because in the film some days have started over again for her, so it is like what she did for others the previous days never happened to them (or maybe only in some parallel alternate reality), but it happened to us. It's all about us at the end, and with dying we see it so clearly. To me this was a greater film than Groundhog Day exactly for this reason, it went far beyond the surface of that film.
OMG those Hallmark romantic films are probably the best choice, sure bet for an exciting happy life.
Is paying for your crimes supposed to ruin your life forever? What his past has to do with his life now, live in the present, what he did is over, done, help people to get better by giving them a chance. It is no different from the case with James Gunn, we are not victims of the past, we help the world by helping them be part of the society, not condemning them for the rest of their lives, even without knowing or meeting such people, simply judged just by the information of their past alone, no individuality, nothing, it seems not to matter to these big corporations. I feel people are awakening to this whole backwards way how people treat each other, there's been studies done that came with a hypothesis that if people in the US appropriately treated prisoners with real natural medicine and helped them with real compassion, 3/4 of all of them would not need to be sentenced for so long, but they have to be, because most of the society in America itself is unable to live with forgiveness and without vengeful heart. The more crimes and prisons the more of a reflection of the society itself, most people are responsible for other people's criminal actions, it is inter-connected and internalized and goes from generation to generation, how parents raise children and other people treat them. The value of forgiveness and compassion for God's creation (that means everyone/everything) which connects to mental health is something that can be brought back, maybe just by observing Tibetan societies for example, one can learn something.
You'd like to be Alien creature? Wow, what a courage. Must be fun killing all those insignificant humans huh. :D
This is what Carpenter talked about many times, that creating so much backstories has become trendy only in the last few decades, you can notice that before 90's there were hardly any big backstories. No Carpenter film from 70's and 80's had any either. When you see a film like Bye Bye Man (2017), there are those who wish to have some backstory about this villain, yet missing the point why exposition ruins the scariness of not knowing.
Transsexual? So ignorant, trans people know they're trans or more accurately that they're the opposite gender than their body anatomy indicates even at 3 years old, before they can even fully talk or understand, and they know it till their 80's, to the end of life. Trans people are not even like most other people, their body biology is completely different from either males or females, they're medically recognized as intersex for a reason, and on average with a higher intelligence than most of the population, so that plays a role as well. It has nothing to do with sex, but the perception in the brain that a child recognizes very fast and early on if the body is right, because right around the age 4 we all are coming to be discovering our own body and physical anatomy. I dont know about homosexual people, as I have not studied the science behind it, but about transsexual this is something we know from research, it's simple nature, nothing to do with puberty or sex, but an intersex physiology of the body mismatching bio gender and bio sex, it's all about the brain neuro connections that regulate the body, not sexual orientation. I am sure that many of us already knew who we were attracted to already at 8, so knowing we'd be gay at 8 is also not far fetched. These things have nothing to do with society, but the body, society can only help to re-enforce what the body already knew in the first place. Thanks God that science does not pay attention to so many ignorant people who cringe because a little trans child knows something about themselves what can be already observed through the brain scans even at that age.