03-06-2023, 03:47 PM
Excellent piece on the Hollywood diversity crisis.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/ce...you-fix-it
“All of us wanna be working and not having to come and do f...ing panels and speeches in the middle of our day,” Waititi said during his address. “This is a great thing. It’s good that we’re talking about it. We have to keep talking about it but this is the s... you’ve got us doing.”
[b]“You wonder why there is no indigenous stuff out there - this is the s... you’ve got us doing. Making us come and talk about the problem and tell you how to fix it. You f...ing broke it - you fix it.” [/b]
“It’s like someone coming into your house, stealing all of your s... and burning your house down and then saying ‘OK, we need to have a talk about this.’ And then, saying ‘now, you’re gonna rebuild your house and what can we give you to help you rebuild your house that we burnt down.
He praised his mentor, Merata Mita, for shaping his filmmaking experiences.
[b][b]“She is the one who started it all and the term she loved to use was decolonising the screen.”
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Waititi concluded his address by asking Hollywood to stop demanding that people of colour and indigenous communities fix the diversity issue.
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[b]So we’ll stumble, we should stumble together – you guys do most of the stumbling. We will get there but just don’t expect it to be fixed just like that.”
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https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/ce...you-fix-it
“All of us wanna be working and not having to come and do f...ing panels and speeches in the middle of our day,” Waititi said during his address. “This is a great thing. It’s good that we’re talking about it. We have to keep talking about it but this is the s... you’ve got us doing.”
[b]“You wonder why there is no indigenous stuff out there - this is the s... you’ve got us doing. Making us come and talk about the problem and tell you how to fix it. You f...ing broke it - you fix it.” [/b]
“It’s like someone coming into your house, stealing all of your s... and burning your house down and then saying ‘OK, we need to have a talk about this.’ And then, saying ‘now, you’re gonna rebuild your house and what can we give you to help you rebuild your house that we burnt down.
He praised his mentor, Merata Mita, for shaping his filmmaking experiences.
“Instead of diversification of the screen, the thing that I really want to see and what I really strive and hope for is a term coined by my mentor Merata Mita, who was the first indigenous and female filmmaker to come out of New Zealand.”
[b][b]“She is the one who started it all and the term she loved to use was decolonising the screen.”
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Waititi concluded his address by asking Hollywood to stop demanding that people of colour and indigenous communities fix the diversity issue.
“Stop asking us what to do, how to fix things, alright? I’m so tired of this, the diversity, inclusivity conversation, all the conversations,” he said.
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[b]So we’ll stumble, we should stumble together – you guys do most of the stumbling. We will get there but just don’t expect it to be fixed just like that.”
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