It'd be amazing trying to make a movie like Mommie Dearest now because of how unbelievably complicated Joan Crawford was as a person. I say this not to diminish her actions because she was an abusive piece of shit but man oh man does this movie ever portray her exclusively as a comic book villain.
I think that's why Mommie Dearest fails as a prestige drama and succeeds as a camp film, because there's so little nuance to Joan, every…
Me at 14 - "zombies R cool, wow so much blood!"
Me at 32 - "wow the socio-political message of this is really well developed and so brilliantly interwoven to the plot it never feels heavy-handed, it's amazing how many times I can watch this and still gain something new from it every time.... zombies R cool, wow so much blood!"
Sam Levinson - "whoa guys, I don't know if you can handle my film that I, an older white dude wrote about the complexities of being a teenage girl, it's pretty E̳͉̊̇̌̍D͔͍̪̠̙̼̦̿̇G̱̼͖͔̖̀ͧ̾̈ͬͭ̒Y̔̔͛̈ͤ, like TRIGGER WARNING am I right?"
-puts sunglasses on and blasts Linkin Park-
"p.s. this is what a feminist looks like"
-drives off into the distance-
James Wan stands at a pile of unproduced scripts sitting on his desk, a body horror, a giallo and a few pages of a women in prison movie he'd been working on, a breeze blows through the open window and the scripts spill over the floor, pages strewn everywhere, he quickly picks them up and tries to piece them together. "Wait this isn't the right order, I can't tell which script is which.... wait... wait a second... this is... yes...…
