If Mike has no haters I’m fucking dead tbqh.
I have much to say I’m sorry OP.
I don’t think this is why he’s doing this but I just want to say; if you are scared of right wing pressure you should just stop making art. Get a different job. Do honest work in an office filing papers or something. But stop making movies or tv shows or music if pressure from religious lunatics scares you. Simple as that.
I think a lot about how we used to have real activists and artists in this country and then everyone decided they would rather be super rich and appeal to everyone so they all turned into plywood. Plywood with no political opinions, no ideas, no one willing to take a stand on anything. Artists only wanting to play it safe. Sickens me, man, it really does.
I hate to say this but even the silent generation was 100 million times better at this shit than we are! Jane Fonda, Muhammad Ali?!? They literally risked it all!! And now the best we get is like….everyone be nice! Kills me. fuck! it kills me.
Anyway. The final thing I want to say is, and I’m sorry this is too personal, I guess maybe it’s because I grew up with a mom in psychosis who beat me but lmao I’m so tired of having to sit through abuse stories that sympathize with the abuser! We’ve absolutely fallen into this insane spiral in recent years where no one is ever truly bad ! They’re just misunderstood! No one is ever truly an abuser, they’re just doing the wrong thing because they’re scared or misunderstood. Let’s sit through 3 episodes of their story now. You must sympathize with them!! Fuck off!
She lets Carrie exist in a utopia??????????????? Why are you even adapting this novel, Mike????????? Carrie is being bullied because she’s too earnest???????? I’ll see you in fucking hell dude.
Carries mom is evil. And you get info enough on her background in 3 lines of dialogue in the film to at least understand without sympathizing or defanging her. Just let that be enough!! Let people be evil! Let people hate the character!!
Anyway idk yall De Palma wasn’t perfect, his adaptation wasn’t perfect, BUT he was able to take (imo) one of the most gorgeous women in the world (Sissy) and make you understand why everyone hated her, was weary of her, bullied her, tortured her, isolated her. A real artist!
Do we even have real artists anymore?? Idk. I just don’t know.