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

[kunklebunkle]

Do you really want to see Coppola tackling Slavery? I agree with Ira here, she'd be totally out of her depth:

I personally don't see a problem with Sofia Coppola removing a slave from a narrative and staying in her lane but damned if she does I guess
- Ira Madison III (@ira) June 17, 2017

[snuffyqui45]

There's staying in your lane and their's justifying you remaining in said lane with some bullshit horrifyingly obtuse nonsense like "the slaves left"

How bout say fucking nothing if you didnt want to tackle it.

[sassandthecity]

Like I like Ira but that was like the biggest bit of nonsense because Sofia basically wanted to do this movie because she liked ~the aesthetic~ of Southern gothic and basically everything else be damned.

[snuffyqui45]

Actual quote from this woman

“I’ve always loved the women in the South, and the South in general; it’s so exotic and different.”

But no we should definitely give her the benefit of the doubt 😒😒😒

[zazie_toujours]

All she wants to do is these intimate private little white girl aesthetic chamber movies. That's why Marie Antoinette worked. Young pretty white queen confined to a glorious space away from any hardship

I will say tho, Coppola gave us Emma Watson as Ja'mie King in The Bling Ring which was a hilarious performance

[civilsavage]

you're so right, which is ironic because that's a movie that i have no problem summing up with the word "forgettable".

[adrock]

even marie antoinette was deliberately completely cut off from the real world around it. she just can't do substance.

[zazie_toujours]

yeah I was like waiting for the revolution to creep in etc, but no. that was it. cupcakes and crinolines lmao

but like, I've read a couple of her interviews and, I don't want to sound like a bitch but she just does not seem like a very intellectually curious person. At all. She's just not interested in things beyond her own experience, which, lbr, is sheltered rich girl. I don't think she's the wooorst or anything but it's disappointing to say the least.

[humannatur3]

portraying a complex black slave character is absolutely possible, it's called collaborating with others to flesh out the character? i mean sofia coppola of all people would have the resources. like girl, at the least you could've called up a few historians.

[civilsavage]

you know she'd pull a tilda swinton and end up dropping acid with jaden smith or something. dear god, nevermind, she'd probably take that experience and make yet another overwrought and dreadfully boring movie about a white lady looking lovely while trying to scratch below her meringue surface...

[thirteencands]

"overwrought and dreadfully boring movie about a white lady looking lovely while trying to scratch below her meringue surface..."

what kind of accuracy

[29feb]

actually, to pull a tilda, you'd e-mail margaret cho (only) to ask if it's ok to erase a tibetan man 🤷‍♀️

[deadendqueen16]

I'm glad we're having this discussion. It's time.

Seriously, though, this is a bullshit excuse. Sofia is a talented director with a wide range of resources. She could have easily put in the work necessary to include Mattie as fleshed-out character. Simply cutting her is a cop-out.

[sluttyroyals]

What's her excuse for whitewashing Kirsten's character tho?

[headcaseheidi]

she was just staying in her lane, okay!! by not putting poc in her films she's subtextually supporting the idea that more poc filmmakers should exist and be the ones to do so!!!

[helders]

slaves ran away all the time. like, ALL of them literally ran away all the time and left the plantations all white. you guys should read more history, k?

[diabolicalwoman]

In that vulture article I read I thiiiink she said that the character is not a good person/"not someone she'd want to depict a black person as"