GLoP Goes To The Movies

Apparently the movie is so confusing even Jonah, who liked it, thinks it begins in Moscow, Russia. It’s actually Kiev, Ukraine (according to Wikipedia and the Sub Beacon).

I don't listen to GLOP all that much but enjoyed this one even though I hardly go to movies at all anymore. Just the Dolly Parton song at the end was worth it.

Surprisingly — well, surprising to me, someone naive enough to believe John Podhoretz and Jonah Goldberg are some kind of conservatives — both JPod and Jonah have positive things to say about the Academy’s new race and sex quota policy.

JPod thinks it’s about time for Hollywood to be forced to hire more women directors. He offers no evidence that there are a lot of women in the talent pool of potential directors; nor that they are as good as the men in the talent pool. (Like computer science, this may be something many women have the abilities to do — but mostly don’t want to.)

Jonah says that Hollywood is private companies, so they can do what they want. Completely forgetting that discrimination by race and sex is illegal in this country, even for private employers.

This maybe the reason Netflix bought Halle Berry's first film as a director. I think there are plenty of women who can direct. I think the problem is that a hollywood studio film is like $100 m to $200 million dollar enterprise ... There are very few people that can manage an investment of this size... Maybe with the audience collapse - hollywood will go back to making smaller films $20 to $30 million budgets ... you can get a lot of fresh directors with that kind of budget...

Taras (View Comment):

Surprisingly — well, surprising to me, someone naive enough to believe John Podhoretz and Jonah Goldberg are some kind of conservatives — both JPod and Jonah have positive things to say about the Academy’s new race and sex quota policy.

JPod thinks it’s about time for Hollywood to be forced to hire more women directors. He offers no evidence that there are a lot of women in the talent pool of potential directors; nor that they are as good as the men in the talent pool. (Like computer science, this may be something many women have the abilities to do — but mostly don’t want to.)

Jonah says that Hollywood is private companies, so they can do what they want. Completely forgetting that discrimination by race and sex is illegal in this country, even for private employers.

Kinda no. Hollywood can discriminate as they please, they can hire the actors who are best described by the script they're producing.

Also you may not agree with JPod or Jonah, but I dont think its fair to apply a purity or litmus test to anyone.

There is plenty of evidence that there are many women who can direct. They work quite a lot in tv. Lucy Liu and Amanda Tapping, for example, have directed dozens of TV episodes. There is a real glass ceiling here - because of the size of the project - directing a tv episode or an independent movie - its a much smaller project and much lower investment than a Hollywood studio movie.