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This makes me think of how rape-y the Game of Thrones show is with its leading women.

Interstellar and the death of film

The Appeal of Anime

A pre-release apology. At least studios know that the public won’t put up with this anymore.

-and somewhat of a tangent based on the last line in the article-

I’m super nervous about the Hollywood adaptation of Naruto. A VFX guy is at the director helm, which makes me think that the primary goal is visual spectacle over emotional punch.

Hollywood adaptations/reboots/spinoffs have a way of sucking the soul out of certain IPs. It’s as though studios don’t feel like they’re dong enough if they keep the source material too intact. 

In my opinion, the most successful adaptations draw directly and closely from the source material. Why do a film adaptation the first place if you’re going to lose the very elements that make people love a property so much?

Young actors and models are so vulnerable to being scammed and taken advantage of. 

I once did a national TV spot for a very well known makeup brand (ok, it was Maybelline on the Sundance channel). The agency that I booked it through mysteriously disappeared soon afterwards and I never got paid a cent. 

Even one of the very well established agencies that I would signed with would take MONTHS to pay me for work. If they weren’t such a well known agency, I definitely would’ve thought that I was working with some fly-by-night scam artists. It wasn’t until there was a class action lawsuit filed against them that they became responsive towards my inquiries regarding paychecks.