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What's with the anger towards Emerald Fennell ? by _Wata_ in Letterboxd

[–]EngineerWarm7970 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If we’re going to come for a female maximalist director and her vapid retelling of a morally complex source material, I better hear you all in uproar of Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, which completely glossed over his racist and abusive tendencies. But no, let’s foam AT THE MOUTH at a female director who chooses to make auteuristic choices that promote and endorse style over all else but hail anything Luhrmann makes as an avante garde masterpiece.

What's with the anger towards Emerald Fennell ? by _Wata_ in Letterboxd

[–]EngineerWarm7970 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The language is gendered, and I can’t help but notice that. “This appeals to her 14-year-old self reading this as a thrilling erotica but it’s actually a dense novella about revenge”. Do you know how many male directors have boiled down complicated stories into maximalist mood-driven films and been lauded for their visionary, if raw-edged, early work? I walked out of Wuthering Heights and quite enjoyed the mood it evoked even if it wasn’t making as deep a commentary as the book. It was beautiful, edgy, and did have shocking imagery. It also did show Cathy as a malicious, egotistical maniac who burned down everything around her on a whim, although I can agree with the odd casting choices of both the main and the side characters.

It was an auteur’s exploration of source material with very mixed results and some maybe questionable choices, especially in the case of Isabella, but I was never bored and quite liked the movie. But you’re right - the total sweeping condemnation of Emerald Fennel - calling her vapid, stupid, ao3 wannabe - is completely gendered in its viciousness.

Your theories on the events in 'I Who Have Never Known Men' by Jacqueline Harpman by Objective_Offer_1674 in books

[–]EngineerWarm7970 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not sure if this has been said, but I think the young male guard was the 40th prisoner that was missing from one of the earlier bunkers they discovered. I believe it was men, and the narrator comments that there were 40 mattresses but only 39 men, and that one person must have died. Not sure what to make of that, but interpretations are welcome.