Scarlett Johansson

[boricuamusicfan]

This superhero renaissance gave me what I had been anticipating for more than three decades: a solidly crafted Wonder Woman film, and for that, I will always be grateful to the MCU. Because it was thanks to the MCU's phenomenal success that DC/Warner Bros. stopped dragging their feet and saw that there was money to be made in superhero movies starring people other than Superman or Batman, which led to them [finally] greenlighting Wonder Woman. And now, thanks to the success of WW, we will get a sequel in June of 2020, which hopefully will be a hit also so we can get a whole Wonder Woman trilogy. That's all I want; three Wonder Woman movies and then I can die a happy fangirl.

[Millis]

She's doubling down on her Woody Allen support AGAIN. I really like Adam Driver and Marriage Story is getting great reviews, but I don't think I can deal with seeing her on a screen.

[Ginger]

I read her new comments on Oh No They Didn't and the ONTD headline was something like "Scarlett Johansson continues to be awful". I had no problem with what she said this time around.

She admitted she made a mistake regarding being cast as a trans character:

“In hindsight, I mishandled that situation. I was not sensitive, my initial reaction to it...I wasn’t totally aware of how the trans community felt about those three actors playing — and how they felt in general about cis actors playing — transgender people.

I wasn’t aware of that conversation — I was uneducated...So I learned a lot through that process. I misjudged that... It was a hard time. It was like a whirlwind. I felt terribly about it. To feel like you’re kind of tone-deaf to something is not a good feeling.”

I don't know what else can be expected of people except to admit when they are wrong and do better in the future.

As for Woody Allen, apparently the Vanity Fair interviewer grilled her about Woody Allen for an extended period of time and she just reiterated what she said a couple of months ago - she talked to Woody about it, and she believes his side of the story. And she's choosing to be honest and say that.

Are people expecting her to change her stance on Woody Allen every two months? While I err towards the side of Dylan Farrow, it's not like I'm positive about it. I've got lots of doubt, and Woody has been very convincing in the past when he's denied it. I can't totally condemn Scarlett for believing him.

Also, it feels lately that Scarlett Johansson is bearing the brunt of the anger for Woody Allen's alleged molestation. Whatever Woody did or didn't do, it had nothing to do with her. This is starting to feel like blaming women in the vicinity for what a man did.

[Metizia]

I fear for her daughter & Creeper Allen's daughters. How could he marry someone he should have seen as a daughter. I feel bad for Soon-Yi too wasting her youth with some old creeper.

[Millis]

I don't see it as blaming Johansson for what Allen did, but she pays lip service to the Me Too movement while saying that she chooses to not believe Dylan Farrow. In other words, she believes women as long as it's convenient for her. Allen may be convincing, but if you research the case there is a lot more backing up Dylan's account than just her word. Johansson is in a position where she can pick and choose who she will work with, so her choosing to work with a man who is very credibly a pedophile does not sit right with me and I will continue to judge her and everyone, man or woman, that continues to defend and work with him.

[Ginger]

Mar 9, 2005 10:42:27 GMT -4 Millis said:

I don't see it as blaming Johansson for what Allen did, but she pays lip service to the Me Too movement while saying that she chooses to not believe Dylan Farrow. In other words, she believes women as long as it's convenient for her.

Is Scarlett really someone who is going around paying lip service to Me Too? It's not something I identify her with.

She also said that a blanket "believe women" doesn't work for her if that means never being able to consider anything case by case, and I can't say I totally disagree with her there either.

[boricuamusicfan]

I don't see it as blaming her for what Woody did either.
She is just a hypocrite, IMHO. She jumps on the MeToo/Socially Conscious Movie Star bandwagon one minute, then next minute she gives zero fucks about using her privileged, entitled white ass to get whatever role she wants and to claim she deserves it. And of course, she makes terrible decisions regarding being on the side of a pedophile and his culpability.
Yea, she is trash.

[celerydunk]

We live in a country where innocent men have been put to death for crimes they were later proven innocent of, and guilty people walk away. Woody Allen hasn't been charged (let alone convicted) of anything and I think skepticism is important apart of a society. We need one or two hold-outs to keep us from burning people at the stakes.

[deeconsistent]

Nov 28, 2019 14:56:50 GMT -4 celerydunk said:

We live in a country where innocent men have been put to death for crimes they were later proven innocent of, and guilty people walk away. Woody Allen hasn't been charged (let alone convicted) of anything and I think skepticism is important apart of a society. We need one or two hold-outs to keep us from burning people at the stakes.

I get what you're saying, but when it comes to sexual assault (especially against women), our culture's default is already to be heavily skeptical of the victim. Believing all women isn't realistic or practical, but it's a response to the fact that sexual assault is something that isn't really taken seriously and the victim is frequently put on trial. One of the most common pr defenses is having a female acquaintance of the accused

[celerydunk]

I absolutely agree that victim blaming is a huge problem. I just dont want to go too far the other way and start "cancelling" people that dont agree with our own personal opinions of controversial cases.