It always struck me as odd that angry dudes on the Internet think “social justice” is a threat to everything good and pure in this world, but one redditor’s hysterical rant about identity politics and the death of filmmaking really raises the bar for privileged whining.
“I just sat through a night of indoctrination and been kicked in the nuts by the social justice agenda. I'm so *******done,” wrote Nicholas Henderson, a.k.a. Rebelarch, in a post on the subreddit r/KotakuInAction (also known as a fiercely misogynist hub for the Gamergate movement). He was furious over his failure to win glory at Campus MovieFest, the world’s largest student film festival, with a five-minute short called Loot.
Why did Henderson’s movie flop? Because of those damn ladies and queers, of course.
My cast and crew went through a grueling 100 hour shoot in 6 days. I spent three 20 hour editing sessions to cut the movie right after and hand it in by the deadline. Little did we know, we ****** up. We didn't need to compose shots, fight the sun for perfect lighting, develop a coherent script, wait for wind, planes, and motorcycles to pass to get good audio. No you could take an afternoon, not know how to use a camera, no need for proper ISO, aperture, shutter, or even a ******* color balance, hell your footage could be completely over exposed or crushed in black to the point where the image can't be made out, the audio could be sloppy with noise, popping, essing, and inaudible. You could take this one afternoon and film absolute ****, and hand in a recognition worthy film as long as you were in on the agenda. As long as you knew what was up, and got it. Just include homosexual relationships, transgender identity, rape, sex trafficking, poverty, domestic violence against women and you'll be in.
My cast and crew went through a grueling 100 hour shoot in 6 days. I spent three 20 hour editing sessions to cut the movie right after and hand it in by the deadline. Little did we know, we ****** up. We didn't need to compose shots, fight the sun for perfect lighting, develop a coherent script, wait for wind, planes, and motorcycles to pass to get good audio. No you could take an afternoon, not know how to use a camera, no need for proper ISO, aperture, shutter, or even a ******* color balance, hell your footage could be completely over exposed or crushed in black to the point where the image can't be made out, the audio could be sloppy with noise, popping, essing, and inaudible. You could take this one afternoon and film absolute ****, and hand in a recognition worthy film as long as you were in on the agenda.
If ATRL was a movie forum, this sounds exactly like the type of meltdown that would happen here.
Exactly. This guy is so ridiculous, along with any other losers afraid of embracing diversity and social change. He just lost because his film was not up to par.
Exactly. This guy is so ridiculous, along with any other losers afraid of embracing diversity and social change. He just lost because his film was not up to par.
That's not true.
I mean, look at the waves Brokeback Mountain made. All because it was about some gays.
Think about it, if the same film had been made about a straight couple instead, you wouldn't even remember it.
But omg how did I KNOW he was going to have a neckbeard
I kind of felt sorry for him for a second: the way he say he worked so hard and did all these things to make it great. But if this is the result who is he to judge?
I mean, look at the waves Brokeback Mountain made. All because it was about some gays.
Think about it, if the same film had been made about a straight couple instead, you wouldn't even remember it.
You can't always separate the movie itself from it's subject matter though. They are one. The intense power of Brokeback Mountain is because of it's gay storyline, for sure. But that doesn't mean it's a bad movie that is only seen as good because of it. It's beautifully shot, it has great acting, etc. The storyline is what made waves but we could take out the crucial part of any movie and say that it wouldn't have remembered.
If it were a straight couple you wouldn't remember it because movies about straight-romance have been made again and again. This comment reminds me of when straight people ask, "Why don't straight people have to come out?"
Also lol @ him thinking that this film about video game clichés is going to have more of an effect than real topics like "homosexual relationships, transgender identity, rape, sex trafficking, poverty, domestic violence against women".
It's no secret that movies with intense topics win Oscars. None of the above-mentioned topics needed to be in the winning film so long as one with better subject matter than his was eligible.
I mean, look at the waves Brokeback Mountain made. All because it was about some gays.
Think about it, if the same film had been made about a straight couple instead, you wouldn't even remember it.
THAT'S THE WHOLE ****ING POINT
The whole point of the movie is to get gay exposure
You can't just say 'oh but if they were replaced with a straight couple', cause that's the norm, ofcourse no one is gonna be upset or riot over the norm.
But they will over whatever isn't straight, white, and male arientated.
And tha'ts WHY things like homosexuality, feminism, racism and other minority support movements need to be exposed as much as we can.
