Tanista
6d ago
I mean, sure. But you'd really hope that such people would want reassurances that the woman was there willingly and weren't coerced, drugged, or blackmailed into it themselves. I think most 'normal' people would be sketched out, even if they don't immediately go to the cops.
This is topical again because of Diddy but, when people see people hanging around a rich, powerful guy and being used for sex, they assume "whore" not "sex slave".
Because, y'know, there are a lot of whores out there.
(3) Also, modern script writers are just bad. I know I've banged on here about "The Rings of Power" before, but you can tell that Payne and McKay are movie writers not TV writers.
Studios often seem to go for relatively inexperienced writers and directors which I suppose makes sense if you have idiotic inclusion standards like Disney or need to have an all-powerful producer like Kevin Feige but just seems baffling for a vanity project/streaming tentpole like Rings of Power.
People seem to love Tony Gilroy's Andor, so maybe that's going to change.
The problem with Snyder is that he takes two hits to make an okay movie. If every Snyder-fan defense is "watch the extended cut" then he's just awful as a theatrical director.
I think Man of Steel in particular was overly maligned for some of Snyder's choices (I'm just not wedded to Superman not killing), but the fact that everything he's done since has faced more or less the same reaction as BvS and his best works are things like 300 and Dawn of the Dead where he didn't have script control is telling. He was promoted way outside of his competence when he became the architect of the DCEU.
This part of the theory was always baffling. Why would a known socialite working to pull off a psyop use her real name?
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