1x01 Pilot | 6x18 The End
So I sent an email to 7 of my friends, including Sarah, and I said, ‘Does anyone want to go see ‘Lost in Translation’ tonight?’ and then I sent an email immediately afterwards to the 6 of my friends who weren’t Sarah and I said, ‘NOT YOU.’
— John Green, on how he asked out his wife for the first time. (via imaginecomplexly)
(Source: youtube.com)
Me too, Meryl, Octavia, and Jessica. Me, too.
Viola Davis deserves this and so much more. It’s nice to see she’s getting the recognition she deserves. Jessica Chastain is so beautiful it hurts.
(Source: didyoublush)
(Source: kurtana)
When prompted by a question from Chris Rock who was seated in the audience, he blurted out a small, clear truth: He said one reason we did Red Hook Summer independently was because he could not get Hollywood to green light the follow-up to “Inside Man” – which cost only $45 million to make and grossed a whopping $184,376,240 million domestically and worldwide – plus another $37 million domestically on DVD sales. Within minutes, the internet lit up with burning personal criticism of him stitched into negative reviews of “Red Hook Summer” by so-called film critics and tweeters. I don’t mind negative reviews. That’s life in the big leagues. But it’s the same old double standard. The recent success of “Red Tails” which depicts the story of the all black Tuskegee Airmen, is a clear example. Our last film, “Miracle At St. Anna,” which paid homage to the all-black 92nd Division, which fought on the ground in Italy, was blasted before it even got out the gate. Maybe it’s a terrible film. Maybe it deserved to bomb. The difference is this: When George Lucas complained publicly about the fact that he had to finance his own film because Hollywood executives told him they didn’t know how to market a black film, no one called him a fanatic. But when Spike Lee says it, he’s a racist militant and a malcontent. Spike’s been saying the same thing for 25 years. And he had to go to Italy to raise money for a film that honors American soldiers, because unlike Lucas, he’s not a billionaire. He couldn’t reach in his pocket to create, produce, market, and promote his film like Lucas did with “Red Tails.
— James McBride Dropping knowledge (via howtobeterrell)
Jan 30 '12
· 150 notes
· via femmenoire
· Tagged white privilege, white supremacy, black creativity, black film,
(Source: troubletonejones)
Jan 30 '12
· 275 notes
· via mylittlefaith
· Tagged receipI NEED PICTURES!!, amber riley, chord overstreet,
