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

[marketalazarova]

i'd love to be a little fly in the room during her psychoanalysis sessions where she discusses her fixation with women whiter than herself

[winterbam]

Lol

[adrock]

right? i read this article on bitch i think and it pointed out this quote from her in the 90s where she's like "all the boys liked perfect blondes" and how she was surprised she was having a moment and then she turns around and fixates on that kind of woman. it's odd.

[pivotandsway]

it kind of reminds me of teachers in middle school/high school who were obviously not popular when they were teens showing extreme preference for the golden children of a class. at least when i was in school ages ago. like they get to rewrite their past as adults. very "I'm not Josie Grossy anymore"

[dafabulouslife]

i wanna see this movie tho

[snuffyqui45]

"Discussion" "conversation"...I'm so very fucking tired of hearing these words come from white people's mouth

She thought treating slavery as a side-plot would be insensitive so the alternative was to erase to non-white characters and include a fucking bullshit line about how "THE SLAVES LEFT"

Because that was't insensitive or insulting at all????

Bite me, lady. Fucking bite me.

[ponyboy]

lmfao the slaves.... left? ;alskdjf;sljf i'm screaming

[snuffyqui45]

you mean you didnt know that that was a thing that slaves could do??

Cause it totes happened all the time. Slaves just packed up and left. It's just like when I left my retail job. It's totally the same thing.

[civilsavage]

i was just about to post a similar thought. it does reek of deflection at best and desperation at worst. either way the movie sounds like another snoozer.

[colonel_green]

I'm actually reading Cullinan's novel right now (which came back into print as a result of this movie being made, seemingly; I looked a while ago and couldn't find it anywhere), so I'll be interested to evaluate how the two characters that Coppola either removed or whitewashed are portrayed. I mean, I'm sure that it could be improved on, since it's a novel from the 1960s written by a white guy, but people who've seen the 1971 film (I'm not among them) have generally said that the slave character is well-portrayed, from what I've seen

[bohemiancouture]

Sofia has a huge issues with not including more diversity in her work in general and that's something she will need to correct in her next film but I don't see an issue with what she said here. I'm taking away from the article that the character in the book and first film was portrayed as a bad stereotype and that she was worried about upsetting people. And also that it might not having been factually correct? I don't see why people are upset over that part of it. She's also saying that she probably isn't the best person in the world to write about a black women's perspective in civil war times which she IS NOT. I'd rather her stay in her lane for that one than fuck it up. People would still find fault.

That being said she needs to include more black women and women of color in her work and there is no excuse for that.