Sofia Coppola Responds to ‘The Beguiled’ Backlash

[hewontgo]

Sofia Coppola Responds to ‘The Beguiled’ Backlash https://t.co/HSsVP6GObJ #thebeguiled pic.twitter.com/dfJD67aDwC
- IndieWire (@IndieWire) 15 juillet 2017

Coppola has been criticized for not including an African American character in her film.

following up this postShe felt that treating slavery as a side-plot would be insulting

Comments

[megalixer]

tbh I wouldn't want Sofia Coppola to try and tackle the issue of slavery in one of her movies, it's obvious that she would be hopelessly out of her depth there.

that said, she has 0 excuse for casting only the whitest of the white girls in all of her movies set in the present day.

[ms_mmelissa]

that said, she has 0 excuse for casting only the whitest of the white girls in all of her movies set in the present day.

I know no one saw these movies, but she actually has worked with woc before: Katie Chang in The Bling Ring and Maya Rudolph and Rashida Jones in A Very Murray Christmas.

But there definitely is colourism/racism in her casting that she needs to reflect on and hopefully all the discussion around The Beguiled will actually lead to her actually reflecting more on how she casts her films.

[sadmagikarp]

please stop. i don't know why your ass is always trying to defend her obvious distaste for poc and minority culture (unless its fetishized and mocked like in lost in translation). and lmao @ katie chang, maya rudolph and rashida jones. like...take a seat

[anydoppelganger]

I laughed out loud when I saw that list. truly some of the most white passing actors one could pick

[ponyboy]

does the bling ring count when she chose an asian woman who was v v mixed and erased a latina tho

[ms_mmelissa]

I mean that's why I said she has issues with colourism and racism. Like those are 100% real issues that show she didn't understand the material at all, but I'm sick of people pretending like Katie Chang isn't a woc. It doesn't negate the fucked up things Coppola did to say that she is.

[anndrayya]

she definitely white washed bling ring

[democralypse]

http://www.vulture.com/2017/07/the-beguiled-subtly-tackles-race-even-when-you-dont-see-it.html

I think people should consider this take though, which is that the characters represent the toxicity of whiteness, and that the very world that the film exists in confronts race even though it's not literally depicted

[divanetta84]

I love Angelica Bastien.