If that's the net effect of your movie, look at the landscape as a whole and think...do I *need* to do this, or can I tell a good story without that slant?
yep. I could not believe the movie went there.
Also, you can tell it's not gonna have a happy ending when the main guy's all bumpy.
Tara ,'First Date'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
le nubian - Jun 05, 2011 6:12:33 am PDT #14642 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
§ ita § - Jun 05, 2011 8:24:54 am PDT #14643 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
A Billion Wicked Thoughts, oh, it's that fandom kerfuffle book. I wouldn't be happy anyone's paying attention to that.
I could not believe the movie went there.
And both moments at the same time, so you couldn't even ignore it! Jeez.
Dana - Jun 05, 2011 9:03:27 am PDT #14644 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
A Billion Wicked Thoughts, oh, it's that fandom kerfuffle book. I wouldn't be happy anyone's paying attention to that.
Yeah, those guys are giant fuckheads.
Amy - Jun 05, 2011 9:24:04 am PDT #14645 of 30000
Because books.
I've heard of the book, but not anything about it. Is it a giant load of crap?
Dana - Jun 05, 2011 9:27:21 am PDT #14646 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Yes. They basically introduced themselves to fandom by comparing woman's interest in m/m slash to men's interest in "shemales."
Amy - Jun 05, 2011 9:34:17 am PDT #14647 of 30000
Because books.
Charming!
Consuela - Jun 05, 2011 10:33:41 am PDT #14648 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
They also misrepresented their relationship with BU, ran a survey about sexual behavior without an age filter, changed the questions in the middle of the survey when people complained about them, use offensive terminology, and worst of all, they make sweeping claims about female sexuality based on counting the number of erotic stories in online repositories. It's all really really gender-essentialist--the worst kind of EvoPsych bullshit. Oh, and they pretty much ignore anyone who isn't straight--I don't think they think the Kinsey scale exists.
In my experience, a large percentage of slash writers and readers are women who are lesbian or bi or otherwise gender queer. This is not captured in that book, much less recognized by most of the academic studies of slash fandom. It's not just straight women.
§ ita § - Jun 05, 2011 11:30:26 am PDT #14649 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Here's the SurveyFail fanlore entry. Sketchy!
Unrelatedly, it was kind of weird to have a Weasley in the X-Men.
Amy - Jun 05, 2011 11:43:36 am PDT #14650 of 30000
Because books.
Wow. Sketchy is putting it mildly.
It amazes me sometimes that publishers don't fact-check more often, but then it's also disheartening to think that editors should always assume that if people aren't lying, they're at least probably exaggerating their credentials.
sumi - Jun 05, 2011 1:36:44 pm PDT #14651 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
ita - which Weasley? (Or is that spoilery?)