Comments on: Give Wes a Break http://whippersnapper.wordpress.com/2007/10/11/give-wes-a-break/ Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:11:39 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Al http://whippersnapper.wordpress.com/2007/10/11/give-wes-a-break/#comment-2819 Al Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:37:20 +0000 http://whippersnapper.wordpress.com/2007/10/11/give-wes-a-break/#comment-2819 Did you even read her piece? No one is so much as attacking Wes Anderson personally, as much as they are critically analyzing his work, and if the work an artist producers reflects the artist themselves then one can easily make the connection between Wes Anderson's cinematic portrayal of people of color and his personal feelings or personal interactions with people of color (long sentence). As a woman of color filmmaker, I really don't want to settle for "Wes". And it's not so much the issue of being perfect, there seems to be a deliberate (conscious or subconscious) exclusion of people of color (women of color) when it comes to his screen writing. Did you even read her piece?
No one is so much as attacking Wes Anderson personally, as much as they are critically analyzing his work, and if the work an artist producers reflects the artist themselves then one can easily make the connection between Wes Anderson’s cinematic portrayal of people of color and his personal feelings or personal interactions with people of color (long sentence).

As a woman of color filmmaker, I really don’t want to settle for “Wes”.
And it’s not so much the issue of being perfect, there seems to be a deliberate (conscious or subconscious) exclusion of people of color (women of color) when it comes to his screen writing.

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