The trials and tribulations of David O. Selznick as he attempts to find an actress to play the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).
John Erman
Director
Tony Curtis
David O. Selznick
Bill Macy
Myron Selznick
Harold Gould
Louis B. Mayer
Sharon Gless
Carole Lombard
George Furth
George Cukor
Edward Winter
Clark Gable
Barrie Youngfellow
Joan Crawford
Carrie Nye
Tallulah Bankhead
Clive Revill
Charlie Chaplin
Gwen Humble
Paulette Goddard
Morgan Brittany
Vivien Leigh
Seriously, and this is coming from someone who was extremely skeptical before giving it a watch. I assumed the show would be painfully boring, but one of the show's strongest qualities is you needn't know anything about the lore to get invested in it.
Animation as a medium of storytelling can be thought to be open to all ages and as I hope my readings will reveal, they could be interpreted as transgender stories.
This anti-love young adult movie includes mature topics and dialogue.
It’s the most loving tribute to cinema and to Ingmar Bergman, set in world that feels so habitable that I felt like only re-watching this for eternity, because of how inviting it looks and feels.
“I’m always interested in exploring female fantasy, and the sexy witch is a loaded archetype that is simultaneously about men’s fears and fantasies about women, and women’s feelings of empowerment and agency. So whereas we are used to seeing the sexy witch or the femme fatale from the outside, I wanted to explore her from the inside.” - Anna Biller, on why she made The Love Witch
I suppose you could argue that the story wasn’t what Director James Cameron was aiming for, it was the visuals. The spectacle of it all was the point, and it certainly shows.