Comments on: Colin Trevorrow Expands His Twitter Comments Regarding Gender Imbalance Among Directors In Hollywood

By: Babybruck

Babybruck — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:32:06 +0000

Would love to see a woman do a Van Damme movie or Seagal epic.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:32:06 +0000

Sounds to me like Treverrow was referring to specific women he knew who had turned jobs down, and extrapolated from that. Maybe he was right to do so, maybe he was wrong, but it seems like an understandable thing to do.

By: Chaburchak

Chaburchak — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:32:06 +0000

I think the only safe answer to any given question these days is "I don\’t know. I have own opinion, of course, but I\’ll be keeping it to myself because people don\’t really want to know what you think these days, only that you agree with their view and if you don\’t, you should be pummeled via social media until you comply…

By: auchenflower

auchenflower — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:32:06 +0000

Sounds like a wanker. Just another white dude doing some mansplaining. All of a sudden he feels like he can speak on behalf of an entire gender? Glad he\’s being put in his place.

By: Big Al

Big Al — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:32:06 +0000

Since we\’re parsing words… He wants to empower his daughter? I\’m sure there\’s a good intention there, but the way he puts it, in the context of this #controversy, it rings patriarchal, condescending, mansplaining. You can help someone feel that they are empowered, but you can\’t really empower someone without believing they have none without you. Words matter.

By: K

Mon, 23 May 2016 02:32:06 +0000

He was asked his opinion and he\’s right. He shouldn\’t have generalized because of course struggling female filmmakers would kill to do a blockbuster. But Ava isn\’t struggling and she has a clear voice. Unfortunately most women make an impact in this industry by making strong voiced films. But isn\’t Wonder Woman being directed by a female? I just feel like if they really wanted to make these movies they would. Bigelow loves war and blowing shit up obviously sooo she does.

By: JD

JD — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:32:06 +0000

@bigAL- he is the father to his daughter. A parent. He 100% empowers that child with every step he does or doesn\’t take in that process. Let\’s not overpeel the potato.

By: No

No — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:32:06 +0000

It\’s really interesting listening to and reading about the "struggles" of the Hollywood gender elite as it battles over which assembly products get to have a formulaic response by this year\’s male or female product manager, aka director.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:32:06 +0000

He fundamentally doesn\’t get it. He can tell his daughter that she can do anything. He can instill in her all the confidence in the world. But then she\’s going to actually enter the world and she\’s going to find that the opportunities her daddy told her were ripe for the picking don\’t f*%king exist – because she\’s a girl. Pardon my plain English. Dude just patently doesn\’t get it. It\’s SYSTEMIC.

By: dslkjsdafdlklkl

dslkjsdafdlklkl — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:32:06 +0000

Granted there are only like 4 directors that hopped from independent film to studio blockbuster and that\’s the director of Cop Car for Spider-Man, director of 500 Days of Summer for Spider-Man, director of B-grade monster movie to Godzilla, and this guy. Not really a big enough sample size to extrapolate from.

By: NC

NC — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:32:06 +0000

1) people confuse opinion with fact. 2) this shows that one should perhaps not be thought of as speaking for a group. (ahem Jaime King speaking on behalf of female filmmakers). 3) Why go after the filmmaker? The filmmaker is not going to turn down the opportunity to direct what he/she is interested in. The real discussion should be about who is "granting" the opportunities. That is the thinking that needs to change.

By: Remus

Remus — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:32:06 +0000

If her was a woman or black he wouldn\’t have gotten the Jurassic or Star Wars jobs. He knows it. We know it. Why can\’t these directors ever just speak the truth on it. But at the end of the day nothing to see here. The system is the system. Hollywood is Hollywood.

By: Kieran

Kieran — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:32:06 +0000

I think he seems like a very smart man and he is bringing up the more complex factors in many perceived gender-equality issues that people want to ignore in favour of the easier, more palatable explanations that paint one group as the oppressors and another group as the victims. It is much more nuanced than that and Colin got lambasted because he tried to point that out.

By: kieran

kieran — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:32:06 +0000

Auchenflower, you sound like the wanker not him.

By: Emperor Zerg Rush

Emperor Zerg Rush — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:32:06 +0000

Babybruck – If Segal\’s boobs get any bigger, you just might get your wish.

By: Emperor Zerg Rush

Emperor Zerg Rush — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:32:06 +0000

Seagal, that is.

By: M CREW LITE

M CREW LITE — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:32:06 +0000

@NC – I have to agree with you. As a African-American I am tired of having these discussions on racial or gender inequality. It seems we go in a circle and end up where we started from. The real problem is the way Hollywood grants opportunities and too who. Change the corporate culture of Hollywood and you change Hollywood.

By: auchenflower

auchenflower — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:32:05 +0000

Kieran, you\’re a wanker.

By: MovieMan

MovieMan — Mon, 23 May 2016 02:32:05 +0000

She\’s his daughter. He\’s her parent. If we\’re going to start talking patriarchy, condescension, and mansplaining when analyzing how a 38-year-old talks to a 3-year-old then I think this conversation has grown pretty ridiculous.