Sandra Oh speaks movingly about “The Joy Luck Club” and its singularity at the time, one of the only films to put female Asian characters at the center of its story.
#THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING 2018 TV#
Throughout women bear witness to what it felt and feels like to see characters on screen like themselves, even if the film or TV program had it flaws. If anything, it goes a long way to explain why this absolute necessity is still being treated as a “minority” issue - grouped with efforts by queer and nonwhite artists for visibility - when women make up more than 50% of the population. Portman gets a laugh when she says, “I’ve worked with two female directors on features, and one is myself.” But that’s hardly an amusing statistic. Sharon Stone recalls one director who would ask her to sit on his lap when giving notes, citing how few opportunities there have been to collaborate with women behind the camera. One actress after another shares stories of misogyny on set. Rose McGowan, now inextricably linked to the #MeToo movement, reflects on what it was like to be so often the only woman on a set in the early part of her career, keenly aware of how the camera operator was tracking her arse. Davis talks without self-pity about feeling objectified by the filmmaking process. Along with many others who spoke to director Tom Donahue, like Natalie Portman and Chloe Grace Moretz. It’s a subject this interviewee here, as well as one of the film’s executive producers, Geena Davis, is clearly passionate about. She, along with many others, weighs in on the need to offer little girls - and boys - a chance to see that women can be the heroes, the protagonists, the lead figures in the stories we tell. Indeed, “Wonder Woman’s” director Patty Jenkins is one of the many voices heard here.
It’s echoing what the Time’s Up movement has been saying since the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke - not so much about abuse of power, though that’s a topic of conversation here, too, but about the absolute necessity of sharing what power there is equally between the genders. Produced in close collaboration with actress-turned-advocate Geena Davis – who questions yet again why the success of “Thelma & Louise” didn’t do more to change Hollywood – “This Changes Everything” appeals to the general public while functioning primarily as a memo to the entertainment industry itself. As always, it’s a story eminently worth telling, especially for the benefit of younger generations whose exposure to feminism may have started with buying a ticket to “Wonder Woman” in 2017. Better yet, it also explains how folks are now pushing back and using the law, media pressure and other forms of recourse to change the numbers. Henson, Reese Witherspoon, Cate Blanchett, Jill Soloway, Shonda Rhimes, Alan Alda, Sandra Oh, Anita Hill, Jessica Chastain, Rose McGowan, Judd Apatow, Rosario Dawson, Maria Geise, Amandla Stenberg Producers: Ilan Arboleda, Kerianne Flynn Executive Producers: Geena Davis, Regina K.Featuring a strong, eclectic and impressively starry roster of women working in front of and behind the camera, “This Changes Everything” offers up a handy-dandy, quickfire history lesson that points out how, for generations, sexism and prejudice in the entertainment industry has shut out and silenced filmmakers who aren’t straight white men. Director/Producer: Tom Donahue Featuring: Geena Davis, Meryl Streep, Chloë Grace Moretz, Yara Shahidi, Natalie Portman, Taraji P. THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.
Some of Hollywood’s biggest names, including Meryl Streep, Jessica Chastain, Natalie Portman, Cate Blanchett, Reese Witherspoon and countless others, offer their insights into the urgent need for change facing both the entertainment industry and society as a whole. A reflection on the Harvey Weinstein allegations and the decade old #MeToo Movement that they brought into the public view, THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING provides a comprehensive look at the film industry’s role in reinforcing oppressive versions of gender and the current call for action pushing back against it.
0 kommentar(er)
