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Post by DC-Fan on Feb 12, 2019 2:15:08 GMT
So Brie Larsen wants racial quotas?
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Post by hobowar on Feb 12, 2019 2:15:59 GMT
How dare she? What a fookin' bitch! I seriously hope she dies!
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Post by scabab on Feb 12, 2019 14:26:51 GMT
There's something very unlikable about this woman.
Wonder Woman received critical acclaim without all this social justice. It was a good movie and so it got good reviews. It doesn't have to be anymore complicated than that.
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Post by Power Ranger on Feb 12, 2019 14:33:20 GMT
Oh STFU.
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Post by Power Ranger on Feb 12, 2019 14:41:41 GMT
Is it just me or is a better message/attitude to have for her to say she'll do a few extra hours of sitting on her butt answering questions so long as in that time the people she sits down with are women, people of colour or people with disabilities, rather than her dictating a % of the press simply be that way? Just I find this sort of grandstanding cheap, what am I supposed to applaud that she made demands/request that other people have to actually put the work and effort into sorting out whilst she does no extra work herself? I mean if she were to do that no one losses the chance to interview her or do their job, she's actually creating more chances for people rather than changing who gets the chance, which will probably be seen as a bigger positive and potentially cause less pushback or resentment, same goal gets reached just she has to actually put herself out instead of others imo. I’d suggest that she’s just virtue signalling.
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Post by Skaathar on Feb 12, 2019 14:53:20 GMT
There's something very unlikable about this woman. Wonder Woman received critical acclaim without all this social justice. It was a good movie and so it got good reviews. It doesn't have to be anymore complicated than that. She definitely needs to tone it down. I understand what she's trying to do and can appreciate the thought behind it but she's too heavy handed with it.
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Post by charzhino on Feb 12, 2019 15:01:41 GMT
Brie is a decent actor and deserved her award for Room. But with stunts like this, Im getting the ever increasing feeling shes being used as a political activist pawn by Disney-Marvel Studios to push their narrative.
She's basically only been within the world of comic book movies for 2 minutes and is/being made to look like the spokeswoman of Marvel.
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Post by Skaathar on Feb 12, 2019 15:05:05 GMT
Brie is a decent actor and deserved her award for Room. But with stunts like this, Im getting the ever increasing feeling shes being used as a political activist pawn by Disney-Marvel Studios to push their narrative. She's basically only been within the world of comic book movies for 2 minutes and is/being made to look like the spokeswoman of Marvel. Or maybe she's doing it of her own volition. Or even a combination of both.
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Post by charzhino on Feb 12, 2019 15:08:47 GMT
Brie is a decent actor and deserved her award for Room. But with stunts like this, Im getting the ever increasing feeling shes being used as a political activist pawn by Disney-Marvel Studios to push their narrative. She's basically only been within the world of comic book movies for 2 minutes and is/being made to look like the spokeswoman of Marvel. Or maybe she's doing it of her own volition. Or even a combination of both. She could be doing it on her own but I doubt it. She's walked into a whole new world for the first time, she doesn't know much about the character from the source and is talking like shes been with the MCU since iron man 1. Id understand completely if Scar Jo was behaving like this for a black widow movie, but hearing it come from Larson, basically a noob leads me to think she is being "encouraged".
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Post by dazz on Feb 12, 2019 15:12:54 GMT
The thing I find funny about that is 1: "I don't really need them" no shit love you don't need extra fucking perks and privileges you are part of the 1% and the nature of your job gives you perks like globe trotting on other peoples money for which you a paid to do so, 2: This to me makes it seem like she wasn't doing or wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't part of her perks, like she wouldn't be going out of her way, putting herself on the line for others to get chances, which makes it a little hollow, this seems no different than her demanding a bowl of skittles but only the green & purple ones.
Maybe it's just how she said it I dunno, I think had she simply said "Hey if they want to give me the ability to make demands then fine I will, but I want to make demands that benefit others not myself I have enough going for me, spread the wealth and all that" then I would take it in better, this just sounds like utter wank however.
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Post by DC-Fan on Feb 12, 2019 18:11:44 GMT
with stunts like this, Im getting the ever increasing feeling shes being used as a political activist pawn by Disney-Marvel Studios to push their narrative. She's basically only been within the world of comic book movies for 2 minutes and is/being made to look like the spokeswoman of Marvel. Since it's taken MCU 20 movies to finally make a movie with a female lead, Larson is probably being told by Kevin Feige to do this so he can say "Hey, look! We support diversity and movies with female lead characters."
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Feb 12, 2019 18:19:18 GMT
I have to say that i don`t care.
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Post by Vassaggo on Feb 12, 2019 18:45:41 GMT
Or maybe she's doing it of her own volition. Or even a combination of both. She could be doing it on her own but I doubt it. She's walked into a whole new world for the first time, she doesn't know much about the character from the source and is talking like shes been with the MCU since iron man 1. Id understand completely if Scar Jo was behaving like this for a black widow movie, but hearing it come from Larson, basically a noob leads me to think she is being "encouraged". I'll have to disagree. This was her and Shalene Wooedley's shtick 5 years ago. Took me a second but I remember reading a article about them bucking the system and wanting to change it when I barely knew who they were. It was a Vulture article. www.vulture.com/2014/05/shailene-woodley-brie-larson-women-in-hollywood.htmlEdit: you could argue that Marvel chose her to be Captain Marvel because of her views, but she doesn't need the encouragement she's been doing this kind of thing before anybody knew who she was.
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Post by charzhino on Feb 12, 2019 19:11:50 GMT
She could be doing it on her own but I doubt it. She's walked into a whole new world for the first time, she doesn't know much about the character from the source and is talking like shes been with the MCU since iron man 1. Id understand completely if Scar Jo was behaving like this for a black widow movie, but hearing it come from Larson, basically a noob leads me to think she is being "encouraged". I'll have to disagree. This was her and Shalene Wooedley's shtick 5 years ago. Took me a second but I remember reading a article about them bucking the system and wanting to change it when I barely knew who they were. It was a Vulture article. www.vulture.com/2014/05/shailene-woodley-brie-larson-women-in-hollywood.htmlEdit: you could argue that Marvel chose her to be Captain Marvel because of her views, but she doesn't need the encouragement she's been doing this kind of thing before anybody knew who she was. Didn't really follow her career before all this tbh. Good insight
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Post by Vassaggo on Feb 12, 2019 19:18:04 GMT
I'll have to disagree. This was her and Shalene Wooedley's shtick 5 years ago. Took me a second but I remember reading a article about them bucking the system and wanting to change it when I barely knew who they were. It was a Vulture article. www.vulture.com/2014/05/shailene-woodley-brie-larson-women-in-hollywood.htmlEdit: you could argue that Marvel chose her to be Captain Marvel because of her views, but she doesn't need the encouragement she's been doing this kind of thing before anybody knew who she was. Didn't really follow her career before all this tbh. Good insight To be honest I think I fumbled over that article when I was trying to figure out who Brie Larson was after the Fappening. So not the best of reasons lol.
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Post by Skaathar on Feb 12, 2019 19:24:13 GMT
Didn't really follow her career before all this tbh. Good insight To be honest I think I fumbled over that article when I was trying to figure out who Brie Larson was after the Fappening. So not the best of reasons lol. I do remember reading something about how Brie had always been vocal about her political views, but I never really followed her enough to know for sure.
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Post by Vassaggo on Feb 12, 2019 19:29:26 GMT
To be honest I think I fumbled over that article when I was trying to figure out who Brie Larson was after the Fappening. So not the best of reasons lol. I do remember reading something about how Brie had always been vocal about her political views, but I never really followed her enough to know for sure. Now if she comes out with something really off the wall and damning Marvel can't feign ignorance. She has a track record of being political. Maybe not that wide known at large because I don't think people cared or knew who she was until Room.
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Post by thisguy4000 on Feb 12, 2019 22:58:42 GMT
I do remember reading something about how Brie had always been vocal about her political views, but I never really followed her enough to know for sure. Now if she comes out with something really off the wall and damning Marvel can't feign ignorance. She has a track record of being political. Maybe not that wide known at large because I don't think people cared or knew who she was until Room. She sort of made a name for herself with 21 Jump Street.
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Post by Vassaggo on Feb 12, 2019 23:08:17 GMT
Now if she comes out with something really off the wall and damning Marvel can't feign ignorance. She has a track record of being political. Maybe not that wide known at large because I don't think people cared or knew who she was until Room. She sort of made a name for herself with 21 Jump Street.Well true I guess and Scott Pilgrim. (I didn't realize that was her until after rewatching Scott Pilgrim recently) I would say that Room, while not making her a household name, was the movie that made her commonly known, IMHO.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Feb 12, 2019 23:08:47 GMT
Now if she comes out with something really off the wall and damning Marvel can't feign ignorance. She has a track record of being political. Maybe not that wide known at large because I don't think people cared or knew who she was until Room. She sort of made a name for herself with 21 Jump Street.Don't be silly, she wasn't even born when that show started
But seriously, I had no idea she was in that movie.
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