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rushthatspeaksDear Terry Gilliam,
if there is ever a point during a movie in which I say to myself, 'Gee, self, I did not think anyone would ever actually film C.S. Lewis's 1956 short story 'The Shoddy Lands'*, let alone that they would do so unironically', THERE IS SOMETHING VERY WRONG.
Also, I don't think there is such a thing as ironic blackface. If there is, it isn't your job to do it. Because you did not, in fact, manage to do so. If it is even possible. Which I think it may not be.
There are many good things about this movie including the visuals, much of the acting, some of the one-liners and the well-executed quadruple-casting of a role I know it must have been difficult to rewrite. I enjoyed portions of it very much and I think you may have a quite good film hidden in there somewhere, though I'm not sure we see eye-to-eye about the meaning of the Tarot and several other elements of the symbolism you were using.
But I left the theatre wanting to kick you and I'm not even going into the things that were ordinary Hollywood-level fail, of which there were several. I just... did not expect to have flashbacks to that particular short story because of you. You are a director I expected better from, because you clearly think little girls are people.
Apparently, you don't think the same of older women.
Sadly,
yrs etc.
* If you are unfamiliar with this, enjoy the state of not having read it, as it is one of the two or three most screamingly misogynistic pieces of fiction I have ever read, and I say this as a person who loves and respects C.S. Lewis
if there is ever a point during a movie in which I say to myself, 'Gee, self, I did not think anyone would ever actually film C.S. Lewis's 1956 short story 'The Shoddy Lands'*, let alone that they would do so unironically', THERE IS SOMETHING VERY WRONG.
Also, I don't think there is such a thing as ironic blackface. If there is, it isn't your job to do it. Because you did not, in fact, manage to do so. If it is even possible. Which I think it may not be.
There are many good things about this movie including the visuals, much of the acting, some of the one-liners and the well-executed quadruple-casting of a role I know it must have been difficult to rewrite. I enjoyed portions of it very much and I think you may have a quite good film hidden in there somewhere, though I'm not sure we see eye-to-eye about the meaning of the Tarot and several other elements of the symbolism you were using.
But I left the theatre wanting to kick you and I'm not even going into the things that were ordinary Hollywood-level fail, of which there were several. I just... did not expect to have flashbacks to that particular short story because of you. You are a director I expected better from, because you clearly think little girls are people.
Apparently, you don't think the same of older women.
Sadly,
yrs etc.
* If you are unfamiliar with this, enjoy the state of not having read it, as it is one of the two or three most screamingly misogynistic pieces of fiction I have ever read, and I say this as a person who loves and respects C.S. Lewis
