So … are they all “the Hutt”? Is it just the species, like … “Snoopy the dog”? Or is it a line of rulers or nobles or something?
You know what? I hear it. I asked a question I definitely do not need the answer to.
Final point, I promise: I also wonder if (subconsciously) he was in this mode to try to dude out with McConaughey, which I suspect would have been a miscalculation.
It seems possible this is a feature, not a bug, when it comes to these comments, if you see my point.
Unzip the suitcases, kiddo, and open up the dresser drawers, because it’s time to unpack!
Right. It feels incredibly glib about the arts in general, which he has worked extremely hard to insist that he isn’t.
It’s, you know. It’s tacky.
Like, you don’t have to do that. You’re SO LUCKY. You’re making a fortune doing something you love, that you’re good at, and you are *constantly* given rewards, encouragement, applause, recognition of all kinds.
You just don’t have to do that.
If Timothee Chalamet wants to make being a reverse-snob part of his deal, whatever. Be a child, you know?
But at a time when arts funding and support are so imperiled, it would be nice not to lead with your contempt for wide swaths of the arts during your campaign to have your own art recognized.
Yes. That’s very wise. [shudder]
I went to the ER once and I was very panicked, and what kept coming out of my mouth to the nurses was “I’m sorry. I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I’m sorry.” And to their credit, they were wonderful, kept telling me no, no, don’t apologize, you’re fine, we’re here. But it came, I think, from this same thing.
This is a very smirky group, which you really notice when you endeavor to never watch them with the sound on.
It’s very touching and I like the way they handled it, and it’s also a reminder (an accurate one) that the bar is in the basement, and he is grateful just to be granted a bit of humanity and decency.
I do think it’s one of those things where if you don’t know, you … don’t know! Everything is learning.
People who didn’t know their dishwashers had filters are in for … a possibly unpleasant surprise, but then brighter days ahead.
I mean I don’t think it would be okay to say scurrilous things that you know aren’t true (or you have no idea whether they’re true) about a specific named victim of the Salem witch trials, either. (I know you’re not suggesting otherwise.)
To some degree … yes. I do think time tips this balance toward more freely telling stories and away from a privacy -forward model *although* you always have an obligation to a basic level of responsibility to the memories of the people you portray who are gone, and the lives of those who are alive.
In fact, if you imagine that while one person is flying in at the end of Avengers: Endgame, another person flies in and tries to elbow the first person out of the way out of sheer eagerness? It's like that.
One thing I can tell you about the PCHH team: If you tell the group that you are a little stalled coming up with puns, they will fly in from all directions like in Avengers: Endgame. Puns from all directions. Puns you thought you'd never see again.
I feel like he decided at some point that he was at risk of being considered adorable in a way that would prevent him from being taken seriously, and has decided he’d rather be kind of a snotty pill. Which, like many people, he considers far more interesting than it is, as a personality.
Right. The whole story is "poor Carolyn, hounded by people who wouldn't leave her and her family alone."
Without the apparent self-awareness to be like, "Such as ourselves."
Murphy's shop has gotten away with a lot for a long time.
You will miss nothing.
It's an absurd thing to say. The portrayal is cruel at every turn.
The portrayal is an absolute cartoon.
And finally: Try to watch this show and tell me it’s reasonable to say the portrayal of Daryl Hannah comes from a place of compassion.
Hannah has yet to comment about her inclusion in Love Story, but Jacobson stresses that they took the Kill Bill star's depiction "very seriously" in the writers' room and on set. "We always try to come from a place of compassion," she notes. "Given how much we're rooting for John and Carolyn, Darrell Hannah occupies a space where she's an adversary to what you want narratively in the story. But we still try to really show respect to the fact that she does have a fluency with this world that Carolyn doesn't have. She is able to swim in his tank in a way that is much more difficult for Carolyn."
Here’s the whole quote from the producer:
It’s painful to say, but when people die young, there’s a temptation to graft stories onto them that are simplistic and possibly wrong, for the simple reason that they did not live long enough for all the complications of their stories to play out.
It really underscores how they were interested in a very tragic-romance tale that had no space for who Hannah really is, or who John or Carolyn really were either. How do you know that relationship was good for them? Really, in retrospect, how?
I also think the broader context for that quote is interesting. “We” are rooting for John and Carolyn is a very interesting perspective on this story, because I think it’s *very* possible to watch this and not root for the relationship at all.
I, of course, don't know what's true and what's not true. But what an absolute nightmare that would be.
If everything she says in this piece is true (that the drug use is entirely invented, the pressure for marriage is entirely invented, her insulting treatment of *the Kennedys* is entirely invented), imagine how that would feel. Just reckless.
