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Post by Ginger on May 4, 2016 13:24:03 GMT -4
What's the problem, you guys? That's a very touching quote about adopting and raising an underprivileged child and the satisfaction one gets from parenting. Oh wait...
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mmmkrimpets
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Post by mmmkrimpets on May 4, 2016 13:27:46 GMT -4
Interviewer skipped a question:
So how did you and Soon-Yi meet?
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Post by GirlyGhoul on May 4, 2016 13:34:45 GMT -4
Note to self. Never click on anything Woody Allen related so soon after lunch. UGH!
He didn't save Soon-Yi from the streets- the orphanage did. He didn't save her from the orphanage- Mia did. If he's trying to argue that she needed saving from Mia well I guess snapping nudie pics and having a 'fling' while still involved with her mom were all part of the 'rescue'. (Whoops. Hello lunch! So we meet again!)
His description of his relationship with S-Y sounds suspiciously like the one Max von Sydow and later Michael Caine had with poor uneducated, child-like Barbara Hershey in Hanna and Her Sisters. Except in the movie, Barbara Hershey left her older father figure beaus in the dust and came into her own as a well rounded adult... and Soon-Yi was sitting at the kiddie table while Woody was filming the Thanksgiving scenes. (Oh. And here comes breakfast to join us, lunch!) *Shudder*
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Post by Ladybug on May 4, 2016 13:37:29 GMT -4
Ronan has only made on comment, he asked the author if her next profile will be on Bill Cosby. He's also retweeted a bunch of other tweets of people saying basically, "why are people still paying attention to this guy as if he did nothing wrong?" Mia's silent for now.
He's just a sad, sick little man.
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Post by canuckcutie on May 4, 2016 17:27:46 GMT -4
His comments about Soon Yi are condescending as hell. I have no doubt he's twisted her mind so she sees him as her "saviour". He makes it sound as though he plucked this little starving orphan from the streets and saved her. Way to rewrite the narrative.
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Post by ladyboy on May 4, 2016 19:10:17 GMT -4
As if she just went straight from being 6 to going to college and visiting the great cities of Europe. And sleeping with him. Don't forget sleeping with him as part of the "saving".
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Post by discoprincess on May 5, 2016 2:23:00 GMT -4
Ronan has only made on comment, he asked the author if her next profile will be on Bill Cosby. Burn! Good for him for continuing to shade like Woody that. No sympathy for Woody here. I'm surprised Woody is still married to Soon-Yi. He didn't try to trade her in for a younger model?! (Yuck)
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Post by narm on May 5, 2016 3:48:13 GMT -4
This wee man is enraging. He's a terrible person and I'm glad he thinks she's his private Eliza Doolittle. He's so gross and predatory, and really, is he that talented? Like, I catch myself totally singing along to Man in the Mirror and can forgive myself as I grew up listening to MJ. Some of his stuff is just really good. But is woody's stuff really that great? I know my mom was a huge fan until his predatory marriage, but I don't know that we had the same taste.
I know MJ is not really an equivalent example, but I'm considering art vs. the detestable artist.
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hellsbells
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Post by hellsbells on May 5, 2016 7:25:59 GMT -4
His movies are pretty good. I've enjoyed a few of them. But they are to a specific taste.
History has been filled with detestable artists making art.
But Woody is so tone deaf. "Hi! My wife was an orphan is Korea. Terrible life. She was adopted from an orphanage by a family in NYC, where a child predator in a relationship with her mother preyed on her for years. He groomed her to be the perfect child-woman for him."
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Post by Mutagen on May 5, 2016 7:27:23 GMT -4
He's so completely disgusting.
As far as separating the art from the artist goes, I haven't been able to bring myself to watch anything of Woody's in years. But... as reluctant as I am to say it, I do think he's made some good films, and I think the sheer number of movies he's made is pretty impressive. Despite WA's disgusting and creepy personal life, the female characters in his movies are frequently more interesting than the male ones, and he often (though not always) finds the right actress for the part.
But I still can't really watch anymore. I'm sure Cate Blanchett was great in Blue Jasmine, but I have no interest in seeing it.
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