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Krankenstyle posted:The academy very much dont care about his "transgressions", theyre like 80% sex weirds and they gave him an oscar in 2002. I wasn't being serious. He'd get his rear end arrested the second his foot hits American soil.
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Every time I read the synopsis of Ck's movie, I think 'wow, holy poo poo, that was film you wanted to write/direct/make/distribute? for real?'
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Snowman_McK posted:Every time I read the synopsis of Ck's movie, I think 'wow, holy poo poo, that was film you wanted to write/direct/make/distribute? for real?' Louis is a waste of talent. He's funny, he's got some skill as a writer and director....and THAT is what he chooses to do as a passion project. I've never cooled off so rapidly on someone whose work I loved as I did with Louis.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Louis is a waste of talent. He's funny, he's got some skill as a writer and director....and THAT is what he chooses to do as a passion project. I've never cooled off so rapidly on someone whose work I loved as I did with Louis. It dovetailed perfectly well with the allegations against him becoming impossible to ignore and him admitting they were true. That timing would be suspect in a film about a creepy guy being revealed to be creepy.
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I mean, just the fact that the film itself was like a transparent spectacle made about his own anxieties about being an artist influenced by Woody Allen and making it about a quasi-incestuous love triangle with a father trying to make his daughter not date a very old famous dude. It was clearly, deliberately written, like a lot of his later stuff on Louie, to goad growing popular anxieties over sexism and sexual misconduct and minimize it. Frankly, his embarrassment could not have come at a better time, nor could it have had a more just outcome short of actual criminal repercussions. It was the peak of his delusions of creative grandeur, his critical lionization, and his being outed as a hypocritical scumbag just completely bulldozes any of that virtually overnight. People talk about "canceling" being useless, symbolic language - but, to be fair, in that case, public shaming totally worked to "cancel" a movie.
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Public shaming can be extremely effective in the right context and arena, against the right person. But it can't be the only tool you have despite it being satisfying and addicting. It also requires a requisite critical mass of accusations that have become impossible to dismiss.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Public shaming can be extremely effective in the right context and arena, against the right person. But it can't be the only tool you have despite it being satisfying and addicting. It also requires a requisite critical mass of accusations that have become impossible to dismiss. A lot of it depends on how damning the charges are and how self aware that person is. For instance, I've heard some gross stuff about Trump that broadcast news wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole, namely that he and some other guy raped a 13 year old in the 90's; but the mitigating factors are many. For instance, the girl is supposedly terrified to go public (who could blame her?), plus retroactive rape cases can be tough to prove (fairly sure the only reason Cosby got tagged is that he was a serial predator), and Trump's so lacking in basic human decency that even if they had a strong case he'd fight it like an innocent man. It'd be kind of rich to see him fry though considering how, even after exoneration, he maintained the Central Park 5 were guilty. I think one of the main differences with Louis is that he knew it was coming (after I believe Jen Kirkman pseudo outed him, although she was smart enough to not use his name), he knew he hosed up, and while his actions after it blew over would suggest it's in limited supply, he has SOME self awareness, insomuch as he knew issuing a public apology was a good idea, he knew to shut the gently caress up for a while (albeit not long enough). El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 06:39 on Apr 21, 2019 |
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Having seen the film, in the end the John Malkovich character ends up ignoring Chloe Grace Moretz when he gets bored with her, so it turns out he was just a womanizer looking for easy prey after all. But over the course of the whole movie everyone around the main character tells him to let his daughter make her own decisions and stop having hangups about her growing sexuality and the movie seems to frame these people as being right and the main character as wrong, so combined together the message I got out of it was "yes there are creeps out there looking to use young impressionable women, but your 17 year old daughter should be allowed to find this out on her own" or something like that.
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K. Waste posted:I mean, just the fact that the film itself was like a transparent spectacle made about his own anxieties about being an artist influenced by Woody Allen and making it about a quasi-incestuous love triangle with a father trying to make his daughter not date a very old famous dude. It was clearly, deliberately written, like a lot of his later stuff on Louie, to goad growing popular anxieties over sexism and sexual misconduct and minimize it. Frankly, his embarrassment could not have come at a better time, nor could it have had a more just outcome short of actual criminal repercussions. It was the peak of his delusions of creative grandeur, his critical lionization, and his being outed as a hypocritical scumbag just completely bulldozes any of that virtually overnight. I'll always be happy it all timed out the way it did with CK. My favorite is Tig Notaro literally publicly calling him out to come forward and address these rumors honestly, and then two months later it all came out. It was such an open secret you could feel the bubbling anger from women comics towards him about it.
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CK could have gotten out of it much easier if he handled it better. The original rumors actually were actually somewhat false (the "he stopped them from leaving" stuff is still in the public consciousness, even now, and colors how people see what happened) and he was right to deny them. But instead of saying right then and there that "I got consent at the time, and have a fetish and didn't understand the power differential that informs how consent works, am sorry, and have not done anything like that since," like he did in his letter - he just denied and ignored it, which made everything worse. I guess he figured it would just blow over, but it was a bad move, just like his attempt at a comeback. He seems like he just makes a lot of idiotic decisions around this whole thing, which explains why he would have taken nervous "yes, because I think you're joking" as an excuse to pull his dick out.
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Darko posted:CK could have gotten out of it much easier if he handled it better. Well, yeah, confessing and admitting to wrongdoing is always going to be morally better than denying until the accusations become impossible to deny. And Louis C.K apparently actively tried to silence his harassment victims from speaking out. That’s what makes him a scumbag maybe even more so than just whipping it out without consent. There’s a big difference between “Doing something bad and stopping because you’ve been made to realize how bad it is” and “Doing something bad and stopping because you can no longer get away with it.” If he had been a gross sexual harasser who may have legitimately been so clueless that he didn’t realize how much his behavior disturbed people, and stopped once confronted, that would be a very very different situation. But we know that isn’t the case. Sucrose fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Apr 21, 2019 |
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There was also the whole calling someone on the phone and jerking off on the other end thing. That goes way beyond not understanding how power informs consent /misconduct or “not reading signals.” That’s straight up deviant predatory behavior.
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K. Waste posted:There was also the whole calling someone on the phone and jerking off on the other end thing. That goes way beyond not understanding how power informs consent /misconduct or “not reading signals.” That’s straight up deviant predatory behavior. Yep, there’s pretty much multiple things that confirm Louis C.K. as a genuine predatory creep and not just some guy who went too far with his fetishes and didn’t understand the extent of his power.
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Alan Smithee posted:his show sucked anyway There were really good episodes scattered through, and they were, ironically, the more serious ones. The flashback to his awful Catholic upbringing was good. I haven't watched it since he was outed as a creep, or even for a few years, at that.
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Snowman_McK posted:There were really good episodes scattered through, and they were, ironically, the more serious ones. The flashback to his awful Catholic upbringing was good. That one was good, but it was all Tom Noonan.
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The show was good for a while then it got incredibly long winded and self satisfied. Like the rest of his output.
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Sucrose posted:Well, yeah, confessing and admitting to wrongdoing is always going to be morally better than denying until the accusations become impossible to deny. And Louis C.K apparently actively tried to silence his harassment victims from speaking out. That’s what makes him a scumbag maybe even more so than just whipping it out without consent. Yes, it was his manager or publicist who came out and admitted that he helped Louis by working to blackball any women who tried to out him. He knew exactly what he was doing and his “apology” was always a fake.
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Dr. S.O. Feelgood posted:That one was good, but it was all Tom Noonan. This is true of basically anything with Tom Noonan. Dude's a worker.
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Alan Smithee posted:his show sucked anyway It's come up in this thread before, but I hate this take. Why should the quality of his work have anything to do with how horrible a creep Louis CK is? Bill Cosby was hilarious, it doesn't make him any less of a monster.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:A lot of it depends on how damning the charges are and how self aware that person is. For instance, I've heard some gross stuff about Trump that broadcast news wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole, namely that he and some other guy raped a 13 year old in the 90's; but the mitigating factors are many. That was definitely reported by multiple outlets. There was a lawsuit, a cancelled press conference, etc. during the election. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/04/donald-trump-teenage-rape-accusations-lawsuit-dropped https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-teen-jane-doe-rape-accuser-disappears-again http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/11/woman-who-accused-trump-of-raping-her-at-13-drops-suit.html https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/donald-trump-rape-accuser-lawsuits-230647
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enki42 posted:It's come up in this thread before, but I hate this take. Why should the quality of his work have anything to do with how horrible a creep Louis CK is? Because people want to believe their media consumption counts as political and social action. Pedro De Heredia fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Apr 22, 2019 |
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As a fan of the Onion and other similar outlets, I love the fake news segments from Louis' show. The rest can be safely abandoned to the dustbin of history, but I will never forget Hurricane Jasmine Forsythe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc4tfdMUWIo
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I am sure we can debate the quality of Louis' show for eons, but this scene had me laughing so hard I couldn't breathe. And then with all of the revelations, it just reaches a whole new level. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXQpM_2-hx4
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Krankenstyle posted:Anyone got some Cosby bits they wanna post? Cosby with kids talking about a woman https://youtu.be/6ptlxOMi4Ak 
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Krankenstyle posted:Anyone got some Cosby bits they wanna post? This didn't need the editing to be O_O. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpmD1SY1mr0 Like do you think he even had a moment in his own mind when filming this?
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Krankenstyle posted:Anyone got some Cosby bits they wanna post? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWUBnrIaphQ
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Pedro De Heredia posted:That was definitely reported by multiple outlets. There was a lawsuit, a cancelled press conference, etc. during the election. Indeed, with the suit being dropped after the people were allegedly threatened.
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ImpAtom posted:https://theblast.com/disney-winnie-pooh-jim-cummings-rape-animal-abuse-custody/ I don't want to say it isn't true, but it's weird this behavior only happened after their divorce and not during the 10 years they were married.
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ImpAtom posted:https://theblast.com/disney-winnie-pooh-jim-cummings-rape-animal-abuse-custody/ Am I reading things incorrectly or was his ex angry she wasn't invited to the Christopher Robin premiere even after the alleged abuse?
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Egbert Souse posted:Am I reading things incorrectly or was his ex angry she wasn't invited to the Christopher Robin premiere even after the alleged abuse? She says it was an unhealthy, codependent relationship that doesn’t seem weird to me
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Egbert Souse posted:Am I reading things incorrectly or was his ex angry she wasn't invited to the Christopher Robin premiere even after the alleged abuse? He says that's the reason she's accusing him of these things. Again, I don't want to say she's lying, but it would have been helpful if the reporters at least attempted to verify anything. She apparently called the cops and at one point a deputy had to pull out his gun, there should be some sort of paper trail.
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Skwirl posted:He says that's the reason she's accusing him of these things. It is worth noting that he admits to at least some of it but frames it as "we were just having a good time," which is something we've heard a whole lot from harassers and victims. (That said her sex-worker-shaming is pretty crappy and has nothing to do with the other allegations.)
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Skwirl posted:He says that's the reason she's accusing him of these things. Yeah, the cop would definitely report an altercation with a rich old white guy, and do all the paperwork that entails. Definitely
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DeimosRising posted:Yeah, the cop would definitely report an altercation with a rich old white guy, and do all the paperwork that entails. Definitely You can verify if a phone call was made to the police, that should be public record. I'm not saying it didn't happen, I'm saying the reporter should have maybe made at least one phone call to check.
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