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Organic Lube User posted:It's probably completely cynical on Disney's part but I'm still ticking another box in the "Waititi is probably a sex pest" column. lmfao
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If there's anything Vaush's contributions to Meltdown May have suggested to me, everyone is a sex pest except actual sex pests. Taika hasn't tweeted his love of horse dicks, though, so he's got one over ol' beardy.
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ANOTHER SCORCHER posted:There is a genuine tension between the cold, mechanistic, and anti-human Russo style with the pre-rapist, femininity-hating Whedon-Gunn-Waititi style. Lol I completely called this less than three weeks ago to the wailing of the Disneybrains in this thread.
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Bust Rodd posted:Aren’t Producers and Directors usually totally different things? I thought Weinstein was a producer, who is the bankroll of the production and generally IS considered to be “The Boss”. I thought that was the case, anyway. Let me just put it this way, Waititi's job is to literally tell Thompson how to do hers. Are the various studio heads at Marvel and Disney ultimately his boss? Yes, absolutely, but on set the director has the power (and not for nothing, but Disney is far more invested in being in the Taika Waititi business than the Tessa Thompson business, he's making a Star War for them after all), hence my looking askance at their apparent behavior. Maybe it's nothing, it's probably nothing, I'm just saying if I was with Disney/Marvel HR those pictures would have me reaching for the antacid.
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Dexo posted:Tbf it's a bit odd to go around labeling people as potential sex pests or whatever. Not in Hollywood after MeToo. poo poo how many producers, directors and leading stars have turned out to be sex pests in just the last 4 years? I mean I wouldn't in this particular case. But I wouldn't tell anyone of for thinking it's plausible either. MiddleOne fucked around with this message at 18:15 on May 30, 2021 |
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May 30, 2021 18:12
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howe_sam posted:Let me just put it this way, Waititi's job is to literally tell Thompson how to do hers. Are the various studio heads at Marvel and Disney ultimately his boss? Yes, absolutely, but on set the director has the power (and not for nothing, but Disney is far more invested in being in the Taika Waititi business than the Tessa Thompson business, he's making a Star War for them after all), hence my looking askance at their apparent behavior. Maybe it's nothing, it's probably nothing, I'm just saying if I was with Disney/Marvel HR those pictures would have me reaching for the antacid. That's a reasonable take. I will note that the photos dropped May 23 and filming for Thor: Love and Thunder officially wrapped on May 29 according to IMDB. It's possible that everyone involved thought it was okay because Tessa's scenes were already "in the can" by that point. Even without abuse of power, it's not a good look from a "Caeser's wife must be above reproach" perspective. That said, while "innocent until proven guilty in a court of law" might be a a pretty high standard considering the murky, difficult-to-prove aspects of sex pesting, surely "innocent until credibly accused" is reasonable. Has anyone credibly accused Taika Waititi of being a sex-pest/abusing his power? Note that a couple of people blowing smoke in this thread is not, in fact, a credible accusation in my opinion.
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A grown adult doing sex with another adult, must be a sex pest
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May 30, 2021 18:24
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Cage Kicker posted:A grown adult doing sex with another adult, must be a sex pest You left out the very critical "if the other adult is a subordinate" part that half the posters here also seem to be conveniently glossing over.
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May 30, 2021 18:26
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Organic Lube User posted:You left out the very critical "if the other adult is a subordinate" part that half the posters here also seem to be conveniently glossing over. This might be hard for you to grasp but outside of work adults are allowed to do whatever they want, unless they’re in the military
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May 30, 2021 18:41
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Bust Rodd posted:The “source” is the actual photographs of the 3 of them sitting on a balcony getting drunk and making out I meant the source saying that Taika was disciplined for the pictures. It's a British tabloid citing an Australian tabloid who cites "someone in the American film industry."
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May 30, 2021 18:42
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sometimes a smooch can just be affectionate
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Cage Kicker posted:This might be hard for you to grasp but outside of work adults are allowed to do whatever they want, unless they’re in the military I'm not weighing in on Waititi but this statement is not true it's bordering on farcical
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Its Rinaldo posted:I'm not weighing in on Waititi but this statement is not true it's bordering on farcical Come on now when you are grown up you will realize that unless you in the military nobody anywhere cares about a boss sleeping with the people who work for them you child!
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May 30, 2021 18:57
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BrianWilly posted:I for one have learned my lesson about stanning famous people with fun personalities I don't actually know, even if the rest of the internet still hasn't, and am prepared to be dispassionately judgmental if he does turn out to be a sex pest.
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Cage Kicker posted:This might be hard for you to grasp but outside of work adults are allowed to do whatever they want, unless they’re in the military most people think bosses should be discouraged from giving their employees drugs and then loving them
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May 30, 2021 19:20
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My bosses gently caress me without the drugs so that sounds like an upgrade
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It's totally cool to side-eye anything that could have that kind of power imbalance, but it's also okay to allow each of the parties involved enough agency to decide how they wish to behave. Assuming abuse absent any other information kind of assumes people involved aren't capable of making a decision. Who of the three people draped over each other in those photos has zero agency?
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Parasocial relationships with public figures are just constant setups for disappointment or annoyance. I don't actually think Waititi is a sex pest and the edgelords in this thread are being pretty obvious about their edgy takes, but nonetheless this fannish impression of him as one "the good ones" is just bound to backfire. In particular, the weird tendency to pit certain filmmakers against each other like it’s Sunday night football or something, "Yay Taika is here to save us from the Russos!" "Please James Gunn come and make mine Marvel again!" gets real comical. As if all this isn’t just one big old boy’s club anyway and they aren’t all playing in the same sandbox. BrianWilly fucked around with this message at 22:19 on May 30, 2021 |
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May 30, 2021 22:14
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BrianWilly posted:Parasocial relationships with public figures are just constant setups for disappointment or annoyance. I don't actually think Waititi is a sex pest and the edgelords in this thread are being pretty obvious about their edgy takes, but nonetheless this fannish impression of him as one "the good ones" is just bound to backfire. I'll agree that a director dating/romancing/sexing one of his films actors is not a good/wise look. That said, aside from the look, has there been any indication that this is anything other than three consenting adults doing "adult" things of their own free will? If not, then should we not simply drop the subject and move on?
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May 30, 2021 23:04
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ANOTHER SCORCHER posted:Lol I completely called this less than three weeks ago to the wailing of the Disneybrains in this thread. Lmfao
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May 30, 2021 23:38
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Absolutely insane person sees string of extremely stupid posts by other insane people: see, I was right!
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Everyone posted:I'll agree that a director dating/romancing/sexing one of his films actors is not a good/wise look. Sounds like someone doesn’t want the Resident Evil film series to exist
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Sir DonkeyPunch posted:Sounds like someone doesn’t want the Resident Evil film series to exist Or A Quiet Place.
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What if it's love?
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socialsecurity posted:Come on now when you are grown up you will realize that unless you in the military nobody anywhere cares about a boss sleeping with the people who work for them you child! I imagine almost all major companies have rules against relationships between a manager and their direct report.
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Hilarious that it was Tessa Thompson too, who Dismarvel basically uses as a stand-in for queer representation. In the future they're preparing for us even Black lesbian women end up servicing their ethnically-ambiguous (but actually white, or white-descended, or white-passing) [male] masters.
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a Loving Dog posted:Now you’re just trying too hard reel it back in a bit
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ANOTHER SCORCHER posted:Hilarious that it was Tessa Thompson too, who Dismarvel basically uses as a stand-in for queer representation. In the future they're preparing for us even Black lesbian women end up servicing their ethnically-ambiguous (but actually white, or white-descended, or white-passing) [male] masters. She is also kissing Rita Ora in those photos. Ignoring the uncomfortable conflation between the actress and her character, bisexuality is still queer.
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BurritoJustice posted:She is also kissing Rita Ora in those photos. Ignoring the uncomfortable conflation between the actress and her character, bisexuality is still queer. She was ordered to make out with a white woman who blackfishes, I’m aware.
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ANOTHER SCORCHER posted:She was ordered to make out with a white woman who blackfishes, I’m aware. So Taika is Cleveland now!
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Sir DonkeyPunch posted:Sounds like someone doesn’t want the Resident Evil film series to exist Nepotism is cool and good.
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That person, was Zack Snyder.
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Argue posted:they're just foreshadowing the reveal that taika is mephisto Honestly I think Taika would make for a pretty funny mephisto
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I know that in this case Tessa Thompson is working for Waititi, but overall isn’t she more “powerful” in terms of Hollywood? As beloved as his movies are, Thor Ragnarok is probably his only big hit so far.
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Sir DonkeyPunch posted:Sounds like someone doesn’t want the Resident Evil film series to exist A little bit. I saw the first two but pretty much gave the rest of them a miss. Still, they're apparently rebooting the series with Hannah John-Kamen as Jill Valentine, so I'll probably check it out. I'll stand by the idea that if you're sexing up somebody in an unequal power relationship, it's not a good look even if there's no actual abuse involved. And as far as I know there was no abuse involved in the Tessa/Rita/Taika thing.
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Directors aren't the employers of the actors in their films. The studio pays all of them. To fire an actor or even a crew member - especially one previously attached to the project with a long-term contract on a major Disney blockbuster - a director would have to go through all kinds of producer and studio red tape. It's not the power dynamic some of you seem to think it is. It's also third-hand guesswork on the part of a tabloid whose job it is to exaggerate how "unhappy" anyone is about this, so it's all bullshit anyway.
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Oasx posted:I know that in this case Tessa Thompson is working for Waititi, but overall isn’t she more “powerful” in terms of Hollywood? As beloved as his movies are, Thor Ragnarok is probably his only big hit so far. Jojo Rabbit grossed like 7 times its budget and won him an Oscar. He also produces What We Do in the Shadows, which was nominated for Best Comedy Series, and directed an episode of The Mandalorian. It seems like Waititi has some weight to throw around.
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