Posted on 09/15/2018 5:58:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Paul Feig, director of 2016’s female-led Ghostbusters reboot, says the movie was caught in the same misogynistic “vortex” as then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
“I have been dying for somebody to look at Hillary Clinton’s campaign and us, because we were caught in the exact same vortex,” Feig told The Telegraph when speaking about new Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively mystery-thriller A Simple Favor.
“It was shocking. I still think about it a lot, honestly — sometimes I’m like, ‘OK, stop thinking about it.’ Because I’m really proud of the movie, and while people still send me mean things, overwhelmingly more people tell me they love it.”
Feig said the film has since inspired young women to enter into scientific fields, most pointing to nuclear engineer specialist and inventor Jillian Holtzmann, played by Saturday Night Live standout Kate McKinnon.
“Parents and their children, women in their 20s and 30s who were inspired to go into science, or are in love with Kate McKinnon,” he said. “But I definitely felt like we were the icebreaker going through the Arctic. People weren’t yet used to the idea that this could happen.”
The director, who waged a real-life battle on online trolls who harassed both himself and his cast before and after production on the controversial re-imagining, separates Ghostbusters fans, a.k.a. Ghostheads — “the ones who have clubs where they dress up, do all this charity work, the most amazing people” — from those who lashed out at the reboot with venomous misogyny.
“It ignited these passions that were already around because Trump was stirring them up,” Feig said. “I think these guys felt they were losing control.”
Its villain — Rowan (Neil Casey), a perennially-bullied bellhop-turned-occultist who sought to bring about an apocalypse as result of his seething hatred for all of humanity — was viewed by some as an in-universe take on the real-life vitriol-spewing type of troll, but Feig said the character was always envisioned as a God’s Lonely Man type “because that’s always the most dangerous guy in the world.”
Feig believes the Clinton-versus-Trump match and Trump’s eventual ascendancy to the presidency helped push along the fall of ousted Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and ushered in the #MeToo movement, which sees women stand up and speak out against sexual harassment and assault in the movie-making industry.
“Because the misogyny out there was in everybody’s face,” he said. “It was this boiling cauldron of so many contributing factors that made women go ‘Enough,’ thank God.”
Ghostbusters scared up a mixed-to-positive response from critics and a tepid response from audiences, pulling in just $229 million worldwide on a $144 million-plus budget — likely dashing Feig’s hopes for a sequel. He said previously the movie was hampered by it taking on a second life as “a cause,” saying the movie “was only supposed to be there to entertain people.”
Sounds like he was trying to capitalize on the idea of a woman running for president. Like Hillary, the movie was also a bomb.
Most of all, it was a movie that should never have been remade, and second of all, the actresses were all either unknowns or not so popular and/or bad actors. And, you don’t go and castrate the original (if you know what I mean).
The movie was wrong on all levels, including the production and director and cast.
The movie sucked. The cast sucked. The script sucked.
Rotten movie. Rotten candidate. and
How about instead of stealing a good movie and substituting good funny characters with bad unfunny ones...coming up with something original that people actually want to see!
Paul. The only thing that your movie and Hillary have in common is they both suck. I’m just sayin’
“Because the misogyny out there was in everybody’s face,” he said. “It was this boiling cauldron of so many contributing factors that made women go ‘Enough,’ thank God.”
No, actually, I’ll bet that a lot of these women, who were abused by powerful Hollywood and media honchos, know in their gut that a guy like Trump, as crude and brash as he is, is not a sexual predator. For one thing, he does not work in a business that is conducive to being around adoring, ambitious young women.
I think that these women came out of the closet because they hate Trump’s politics, and they know that they’re supposed to say he’s a sexist pig, yet they know they’re being hypocrites. Because the men who abused them were PC Liberals who say all the right things and support all the right causes.
I think it was nagging at them that they were condemning Trump’s language and demeanor, knowing that he probably doesn’t try to take advantage of his female employees the way that they were taken advantage of.
“There seems to be a misconception by some Freepers that Ghostbusters (2016) was a financial disaster.”
$144M was the production budget and did not include the massive marketing. The studio claimed it would need $300M gross to break even.
It appears they lost money on this. Estimates are about $70M, but they probably eventually made some of that up in home video and streaming, but not all of it.
The mistake was probably to spend so much on it. Personally I think some movies are worth remaking. Usually these are ones that most people have never seen. Ghostbusters was probably not a film that made sense as a remake.
I think this version was so different from the original it should have been done as a sequel rather than a remake.
To me it was not the worst movie I’ve ever watched, but it does appear to have been a bad investment. I couldn’t really recommend it as worth watching either.
“There seems to be a misconception by some Freepers that Ghostbusters (2016) was a financial disaster.”
$144M was the production budget and did not include the massive marketing. The studio claimed it would need $300M gross to break even.
It appears they lost money on this. Estimates are about $70M, but they probably eventually made some of that up in home video and streaming, but not all of it.
The mistake was probably to spend so much on it. Personally I think some movies are worth remaking. Usually these are ones that most people have never seen. Ghostbusters was probably not a film that made sense as a remake.
I think this version was so different from the original it should have been done as a sequel rather than a remake.
To me it was not the worst movie I’ve ever watched, but it does appear to have been a bad investment. I couldn’t really recommend it as worth watching either.
so this dumbass director made a shitty movie that no one wanted to see and then blames the people who don’t want to see it ... the failure of his shitty movie does indeed have parallels to Hillary Clinton’s loss ... just not the ones he’s claiming ...
That new one she is in with the muppets looks really bad.
I had zero interest in seeing it.
On the button!
"Subverting the audience's expectations" can work - for a while.
But after a while, it gets boring.
Regards,
CHris 37. Sorry you had to watch the whole thing. I watched about 5 minutes of it and said the same thing you did, “It sucked”.
Horrible acting, poor script, cheap imitation of the great original.
“I had zero interest in seeing it.”
You didn’t miss anything. Today, there is more programming than anyone could ever have time to watch. So, it’s best not to waste time on pointless drivel like this was.
I did not go to see it in the theater, which is something I rarely do any more. Sometime after it went to streaming services I watched mostly out of morbid curiosity.
I somehow made it through the whole thing too.
I watched on chinese pirated movie site, so they dind;t make any money off of me but still, how do you assemble all these “comedians” in a movie, and not a split second of it is funny?
I do not get it.
It’s like Hollywood has forgotten how to do comedy.
The Liberals/Leftists-Marxists,socialists, etc. have NO SENSE OF HUMOR. I was amongst them for a year as an undercover operative and the Communist Party members were the worst. Absolute old, nasty hags and Machiavellian men whose only goals in life were to practice subversion, deception, and treason.
Interestingly, a few of the old Trotskyites of the Socialist Workers Party/Young Socialist Alliance had a little sense of humor but they were just as fanatical as bunch of communists as the CPers were, and the Maoists were/are still the psychopaths of the Left, with the Marxist/anarchists of Antifa coming in a close second.
Even Saul Alinsky, who I met, knew the value of directed humor which is why some of the Left Comedians are so vile, nasty, and often not so funny.
I’ll pit Mark Steyn, Dennis Miller, Greg Gutfeld, Dan Bongino and Jesse Waters (Plus Diamond and Silk), against any group the left could field in the area of comedian, and then watch our people do a “Yorktown” on them.
Yep - doesn’t realize it was a “the product sucks and nobody wants it” vortex...
That isn’t taking into account marketing and the fact that studios only get a fraction of the ticket sales. I read somewhere that Feig said it would need to take in $500 million worldwide to break even.
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