Current Events > A Wrinkle in Time director blames RACISM for bad REVIEWS!

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Alucard188 posted...

Sounds like another film adaptation that failed to live up to the expectations of the book. Reminds me of The Golden Compass in that fashion, in that they removed a lot of the subtext surrounding the protag and antag's movements because of religious controversy, and then ended the movie about 2/3rds of the way through the 1st book.

Ha yeah that's an interesting point, all the atheist messages removed from that
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COVxy posted...

Alucard188 posted...

Sounds like another film adaptation that failed to live up to the expectations of the book.

Or, as it seems more indicative of the articles posted in this topic, the casting of Oprah, the race of the director, and the exclusion of heavy Christian themes has made it a political target for people

The funny thing about this ludicrous article about the director claiming the movie is doing bad because of racism is that it actually demonstrates that at least some proportion of the negative press is highly politically charged.

It's funny, because I didn't even like the movie all too much and I find myself here defending it, because it's just some ordinary child sci-fi movie. But people are attacking it disproportionately, with obvious political bias.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Article author seems to have a mean-on for the film anyway:
https://pjmedia.com/faith/disneys-wrinkle-time-erases-books-bible-quotes-cuts-jesus-christian-figures-history/

PJ Media is a heavily Conservative media blogging site, so it's no wonder they would find a problem with the removal of Christianity as a central force in the narrative. I didn't see the movie because it looked like child-friendly garbage from the trailers, just like Tomorrowland looked like adult-central garbage from the trailers. Trailers are supposed to pique your interest and compel you to want to know more about the story. Neither trailer did that at all. No surprise that both movies underperformed in their markets.
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Alucard188 posted...

PJ Media is a heavily Conservative media blogging site

Ah.
This all makes much more sense now.

creativerealms posted...

She's right but it's her racism that is the problem.

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I haven't read the novel, but replacing guardian angels with stars? Really?

COVxy posted...

COVxy posted...

I may have skimmed over it, but I didn't see her say anything of the sort in that article.

Also, some greatest hits from this site:
https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/white-supremacists-self-identify/
https://pjmedia.com/video/jordan-peterson-calls-lefts-anti-masculine-view-world-dreadful-pathological/

Yikes
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Gafemage posted...

COVxy posted...

COVxy posted...

I may have skimmed over it, but I didn't see her say anything of the sort in that article.

Also, some greatest hits from this site:
https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/white-supremacists-self-identify/
https://pjmedia.com/video/jordan-peterson-calls-lefts-anti-masculine-view-world-dreadful-pathological/

Yikes

I have no idea what I'm supposed to think about those articles.

The Admiral posted...

CyricZ posted...

This article is complete garbage and nowhere does the director say anything of the sort.

Knowledge_King posted...

She never says this. If you read the article.

You guys having a hard time reading between the lines of this tweet?

She says he's the only white reviewer to get the hair thing. Nothing about racism messing with reviews or success.
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"You're the only white person to..."

is a bad way to start a sentence regardless of context. There's no way to say it without it coming across as one of the good ones.

This lady need to shut it. What is wrong with these victim-minded idiots always blaming racism for their own failures?

She shouldn't have cast Oprah. Nobody takes her seriously as a actress and I couldn't help but laugh when I saw her on screen. Everything else looks like a mess.
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It will be funny when the star of a bad fantasy flick becomes president.

The Admiral posted...

CyricZ posted...

This article is complete garbage and nowhere does the director say anything of the sort.

Knowledge_King posted...

She never says this. If you read the article.

You guys having a hard time reading between the lines of this tweet?

LOL

What?!

The?!

Fuck?!

You done finally lost it.
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Admiral loves to chastise people for not reading links and overly interpreting things to find racism.

Yet here we are.
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Are people really arguing that interpretation for the tweet? Lmao

Oh, and PJ Media is a horrendous site

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/pj-media/
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How about a shitty-ass name for something that looks boring? No, can't be that...

(I know the name isn't new)
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FortuneCookie posted...

"You're the only white person to..."

is a bad way to start a sentence regardless of context. There's no way to say it without it coming across as one of the good ones.

It's always funny how it's ok for white people to be sensitive about stuff like this....never accused of a victim narrative or using the race card. Nope,
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FrisbeeDude posted...

FortuneCookie posted...

"You're the only white person to..."

is a bad way to start a sentence regardless of context. There's no way to say it without it coming across as one of the good ones.

It's always funny how it's ok for white people to be sensitive about stuff like this....never accused of a victim narrative or using the race card. Nope,

Let's not pretend that it's not a terrible way to start something.
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dave_is_slick posted...

FrisbeeDude posted...

FortuneCookie posted...

"You're the only white person to..."

is a bad way to start a sentence regardless of context. There's no way to say it without it coming across as one of the good ones.

It's always funny how it's ok for white people to be sensitive about stuff like this....never accused of a victim narrative or using the race card. Nope,

Let's not pretend that it's not a terrible way to start something.

It's just the same people who cry about shit like handwave real dogwhistle language when it's directed at minorities. Fuck them
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that director is herself racist. according to her social media posts, her comments in the news, and accounts from people who know her, she only sees race and gender in people. she is big on identity politics and thinks race and gender play into everything in the world. she doesn't see people as just individuals but what they are labeled as. and her movie sucked, but she doesn't want to admit it so she makes up boogeymen to explain it. also, the book was religious but she removed religion from the movie. I never read the book, but that is stupid. I hate when a major theme of a book is removed from the movie. don't even make the movie if you are going to totally change the theme of the story.

FortuneCookie posted...

"You're the only white person to..."

is a bad way to start a sentence regardless of context. There's no way to say it without it coming across as one of the good ones.

I mean...that was a fact in this case. And he noticed something that was specific to Black People and she was just complimenting him.

Zikten posted...

but she doesn't want to admit it so she makes up boogeymen to explain it.

She never did this. Read.
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she blames white people for her movie failing.

Zikten posted...

she blames white people for her movie failing.

point to where she said this
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prince_leo posted...

Zikten posted...

she blames white people for her movie failing.

point to where she said this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMDU2eJfoW0" data-time="

could you give me a timestamp, not about to watch a 5 minute video
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prince_leo posted...

could you give me a timestamp, not about to watch a 5 minute video

around 1:10 he says that she doesn't see anything other than race and gender

around 1:50 he yells at her for being mad at white people for not understanding the hair subplot, and says that she should have been a better storyteller to make it more clear, instead of expecting people with normal hair to get it with no help.

around 4:10 he goes on about that again. saying it's her fault as a filmmaker, not white viewer's faults

at the end of the video he says that with this lady it's always someone else's fault

basically this woman refuses to admit she made a bad movie and she just wants to blame people. she posts on twitter all the time about white people this and white people that. and before the movie came out she made a huge deal out of the people in her movie being black and acted like that was the important thing. and said her movie was going to be one of the most important movies in history. she is crazy and racist

thanks for the timestamps, but even watching him and reading your post, I still don't see it

yeah she tweets about race and gender a lot. that's true. and I haven't seen the movie, so idk how much attention the hair subplot gets or how critical it is to the character. it seems more like it was something included so women of color could acknowledge and connect with. to use an example you'd be familiar with zikten, in the first Thor movie Odin's horse that he has in the Jotunheim scene has 8 legs. this is a nod to the comics and to real world Norse mythology. to further connect the two, it'd be like the director tweeting to a journalist "you were the only non-Nordic journalist who didn't like comics to see, understand, and ask me about the extra legs. thank you!"

anyway, none of this has anything to do with your original point that "she blames white people for her movie failing."
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I would have expected Disney to consider spacing those releases farther apart.
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Zikten posted...

prince_leo posted...

Zikten posted...

she blames white people for her movie failing.

point to where she said this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMDU2eJfoW0" data-time="

What the fuck. She doesn't even talk in that video. Not even a clip of one of her tweets.

I mean, greatevilempire didn't read it, and the admiral came to some random ass conclusion. But this is by far the stupidest post in the whole topic.
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Zikten posted...

prince_leo posted...

could you give me a timestamp, not about to watch a 5 minute video

around 1:10 he says that she doesn't see anything other than race and gender

around 1:50 he yells at her for being mad at white people for not understanding the hair subplot, and says that she should have been a better storyteller to make it more clear, instead of expecting people with normal hair to get it with no help.

around 4:10 he goes on about that again. saying it's her fault as a filmmaker, not white viewer's faults

at the end of the video he says that with this lady it's always someone else's fault

basically this woman refuses to admit she made a bad movie and she just wants to blame people. she posts on twitter all the time about white people this and white people that. and before the movie came out she made a huge deal out of the people in her movie being black and acted like that was the important thing. and said her movie was going to be one of the most important movies in history. she is crazy and racist

No where do you even type "she said". This means she didn't say it. The guy in the video is making assumptions and assertions (much like you are), but she never actually says anything like this.
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