I feel like he decided at some point that he was at risk of being considered adorable in a way that would prevent him from being taken seriously, and has decided he’d rather be kind of a snotty pill. Which, like many people, he considers far more interesting than it is, as a personality.
Right. The whole story is "poor Carolyn, hounded by people who wouldn't leave her and her family alone."
Without the apparent self-awareness to be like, "Such as ourselves."
Murphy's shop has gotten away with a lot for a long time.
You will miss nothing.
It's an absurd thing to say. The portrayal is cruel at every turn.
The portrayal is an absolute cartoon.
And finally: Try to watch this show and tell me it’s reasonable to say the portrayal of Daryl Hannah comes from a place of compassion.
Hannah has yet to comment about her inclusion in Love Story, but Jacobson stresses that they took the Kill Bill star's depiction "very seriously" in the writers' room and on set. "We always try to come from a place of compassion," she notes. "Given how much we're rooting for John and Carolyn, Darrell Hannah occupies a space where she's an adversary to what you want narratively in the story. But we still try to really show respect to the fact that she does have a fluency with this world that Carolyn doesn't have. She is able to swim in his tank in a way that is much more difficult for Carolyn."
Here’s the whole quote from the producer:
It’s painful to say, but when people die young, there’s a temptation to graft stories onto them that are simplistic and possibly wrong, for the simple reason that they did not live long enough for all the complications of their stories to play out.
It really underscores how they were interested in a very tragic-romance tale that had no space for who Hannah really is, or who John or Carolyn really were either. How do you know that relationship was good for them? Really, in retrospect, how?
I also think the broader context for that quote is interesting. “We” are rooting for John and Carolyn is a very interesting perspective on this story, because I think it’s *very* possible to watch this and not root for the relationship at all.
I, of course, don't know what's true and what's not true. But what an absolute nightmare that would be.
If everything she says in this piece is true (that the drug use is entirely invented, the pressure for marriage is entirely invented, her insulting treatment of *the Kennedys* is entirely invented), imagine how that would feel. Just reckless.
Here's the gift link re: last RT.
I'm so glad she wrote this. The portrayal of her in this series is, to me, indefensible. She deserves an apology from the filmmakers and FX.
And if you hear yourself saying you portrayed a real person (who's alive!) in a particular way to manipulate your audience, please go improve.
I encourage you to seek out the Raoul Peck documentary ORWELL: 2 + 2 = 5, which makes a pretty compelling case about where Orwell’s actual words (which I don’t think these are?) fit into our current whole deal.
A very good teacher I had in school told me, "Everyone needs to lose a job and fail a test." He positioned it as part of the process of being a person, and it really helped me get past failing something, which I was not used to. But I think you're right: It has to just happen, and you live.
Yyyyyyeah, OUCH.
Noooooooo
Oh no, I don’t think it’s your fault at all.
You have put your finger (sigh) on such a real thing. When I had an issue with my foot a while ago, the BEST thing about the treatment experience was the urgent care that was affiliated with the same hospital system I mostly deal with, and as much as I fear behemoth companies, it helped.
There it is.
Why am I getting a bunch of random notifications from LinkedIn?
DO THEY KNOW SOMETHING I DON’T KNOW?
I tripped and fell (no ice or snow needed!) and jammed my pinky finger, and it’s only about 90 percent normal. This happened in October.
But it has slooooooowly gotten better.
I think this is an early scene in All The President’s Men! (A guy at a hearing who doesn’t want to say who he is.)
I don’t actually think it is a callback—this is from Ryan Murphy’s shop (though he’s not the creator), so I think it’s more a play on American Horror Story, American Crime Story, etc. Turns out a bit awkward, though.
I agree that I did not care for that performance, but I think part of that is (as is often the case) the writing. I don't think they knew what they wanted to say about him that was interesting.
They didn't give us the last episode, which presumably includes the actual leadup to the accident. So I don't know. I agree with you that it's a complicating factor if they don't address it.
Also: I don’t know who has it in for Daryl Hannah in the making of this thing, but holy smokes.
But it was really interesting to me that my feelings about this as someone who experienced their story as an adult was sometimes different from the feelings of the other panelists, who were all younger when these two were famous.
