1/28/2024 0 Comments Tad friend new yorker anna farrisFaris's new film with Mylod, What's Your Number, is about a woman who learns from a ladymag that if she sleeps with one more man than the twenty she already has, she'll never get married. * As we know, that is necessary but insufficient. Of Faris, a "leading agent" says, "What Anna has going for her, to be crass, is that guys want to nail her." * But everyone likes a hot girl, if she's not too successful or intimidating. It's as simple as making the girl cry, fifteen minutes into the movie." It's a conscious thing I do-abuse and break her, strip her of her dignity, and then she gets to live out our fantasies and have fun. We knew that, and yet this is devastating nonetheless: "To make a woman adorable, one successful female screenwriter says, "you have to defeat her at the beginning. * Another thing no one is into: A successful woman. * "In my experience, girls' revealing themselves as candid and raunchy doesn't appeal to guys at all," Stacey Snider, a partner in and the C.E.O. A few examples from the piece (which is behind a paywall, which you should read in full): The point is that in hundreds of thousands of words written about Women In Hollywood, or Women In Comedy, rarely do you see this much candor in one place. The Times magazine already recognized this conundrum when they profiled her, more briefly, in 2006 - the two pieces even use the same Six Feet Under audition anecdote - but that's not the point. And that's a beautiful thing.Īnna Faris is the hapless, mostly-self-aware ingenue burbling through this world, straddling pragmatism (compromise, or the movie won't get made) and idealism (The House Bunny is empowering!). It is laden with people in Hollywood admitting, sometimes on the record, that this is the case. But it's actually a ten-page dossier on the existence of very misogynistic or very cynical (or both) people who are paid a lot of money to produce a lot of misogynistic, cynical fare. That quote, from director Mark Mylod, comes near the end of Tad Friend's profile of Anna Faris in The New Yorker this week. "The whole process is desperately sexist.
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