Writers Roundtable: Taika Waititi, Lorene Scafaria, Destin Daniel Cretton, Kasi Lemmons | Close Up
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Taika Waititi ('Jojo Rabbit'), Lorene Scafaria ('Hustlers'), Destin Daniel Cretton ('Just Mercy'), Anthony McCarten ('The Two Popes'), Charles Randolph ('Bombshell'), and Kasi Lemmons ('Harriet') join Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter for this season's full, uncensored Writers Roundtable.
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People criticising Taika about putting Hitler in this film are missing some massive points. First, the whole movie is about a little boy who has been brain-washed by Nazi germany into thinking that Hitler is a good guy, and without a dad he allows that to infiltrate his thinking. In an age where young men are being radicalized left and right from a variety of extreme ideologies precisely because of this, we should be eager to explore this problem. In addition, Taika is himself a visible minority in his home nation of New Zealand, his people a victim of cultural imperialism, systematic racism, etc, so he is hardly making light of bigotry. And futhermore, there is a long history of putting Hitler in a farcical role in order to mock his over the top, riduculous character.
Agreed. Hitler and Nazis are comedy gold ("Are we the baddies?" from Peepshow). But wow is it tough to find a way to get the power brokers to allow that comedy to reach audiences through their gates. And it's vital to shut that fascist thinking down hard via mockery, because society will always have people attempting to rally around ideologues who espouse fascism as a solution to any number of national problems.
sswgm Agreed, though I would point out “are we the baddies?” Is from That Mitchell and Webb Look, not Peep Show
Yeah this was definitely the project for taika it displays his happy sad cinema perfectly.
@@subratbista8379 I hope his critics at this table have gone to look at his other films. They really are worth exploring and Ive always enjoyed his "happy sad"/dramedy way of telling a story for a long time.
Well said, although it is plainly evident that it is hardly just young men who are being radicalised left and right. It’s a complete human problem.
I just want to say that I’m so happy that Galloway let the conversation flow and did not interrupt. He has gotten so much criticism from us about that and I’m glad he’s listened! Kudos to you sir!
FINALLY HE HAS LEARNED THE ERROR OF HIS WAYS
He was still interrupting at certain points. But to be fair either the person/topic was going on too long or he wanted to give everyone a chance to talk
@@maritareads5229 1 hour for 6 people to get enough points in isn't enough it's so dumb. So many great guests points ruined by his interruptions
@@oxsila Shows like this are edited. The uncut interview would have been longer
@@duewest9801 Well still, there's no way the interruptions are edited i've seen at least 10 videos where the interruptions are legit and this video has many
You had me at Taika.
i see taika i click
@aljanat5This might be the dumbest troll of all-time. Taika wrote the script back in 2012
@aljanat5 ah ok, got it - you're an idiot. Thanks for clearing that up.
@aljanat5 lol you think you fucking wrote the script. You're just some fucking loser on their couch who watches youtube all day
The interviewer asking Lorene Scafaria if her boyfriend helped her with her script...while asking the men at the table what they did to write their own.
literally and bo never got this question when he was interviewed for 8th grade...
Disgusting misogyny
Oh...who are the other writers dating? Are they dating famous writers/creators? That's why he didn't ask them that.
@@lostlakepictures7378 still, she was clearly uncomfortable about it and tried repeatedly to say they don’t intervene in each other’s work in a significant manner. She literally says at the beginning they are separate entities. This guys is just infamously bad at reading the room, he always seems to be a stickler for his own series of questions and hardly ever lets the conversation between some of the best in their field to flow freely.
That really pissed me off. I'm a huge Bo fan but that was such blatant misogyny.
The moderator didn't ask Bo in the 2019 roundtable about Lorene's contribution to his work. Yet, he asked Lorene about how Bo helps her. It's not a big deal, but it's telling how men see women in this realm - really.
completely agree with you there. see how we have to add things like "it's not a big deal though" to these types of observations? it's frustrating to keep towing this line. because if she was feeling sassy and decided to quip about it instead of just carrying on normally, it would have played terribly. she's an accomplished writer in her own right, not a groupie. I think it was an incredibly thoughtless question, but ultimately just spoke to the mod's incompetence. she handled it pretty gracefully.
Wow, didn't notice that at all. Also it doesn't matter much because you don't know that was the exact reason he didn't ask Bo the question. There could have been many reasons.
i was thinking this too! and then he interrupted her and asked more about him, idk why but it made me kinda uncomfortable
Not sticking up for the moderator cuz he's annoying, but maybe he didn't know they were a couple then, if they even were. That roundtable was 1 year prior to this.
There are 2 New Zealanders at this table. For a Nation of under 5 million, that's not to shabby. Just saying
@akshay Viswambharan that is a shame. Hopefully there will be some Indians and Chinese next time. My point is for a small country it's quite impressive
@akshay Viswambharan I mean those 2 groups have huge domestic audiences that don't need to pander to US audiences. Obviously more eyes more money but they have their own thriving market so it's understandable they may not feel the need to get on the Hollywood reporter if their work isn't pushing to an American audience.
@akshay Viswambharan Those countries are not majority English speaking.
Three of them grew up in Polynesia.
@akshay Viswambharan I'm just proud of my fellow countrymen, that's all. There's no need to turn this into a debate about racism.
They cut right before Taika talked about his time as a nude life model. COWARDS.
You can just see Taika uncomfortably trying to stay quiet when the other writers are trying to explain what the Hitler character in Jojo Rabbit actually is haha
You da man taika, go the kiwis
@aljanat5 Never seen this copypasta before.
I get the strong impression that these screenwriters either never saw JoJo Rabbit or just didn't get that Hitler is merely an imaginary friend ala Harvey the Rabbit, who happens to look like Hitler because the boy's cultural hero is Hitler. It's not that the child knows Hitler, understands Hitler, or would like Hitler if he met him. He's a construct, not Hitler. OBVIOUSLY
Is Taika guilty of 'cultural appropriation'?
@@hariseldon3786 why do u ask
Taika Waititi is by far the least pretentious of this whole group but has the most cause to actually be pretentious. I find it comforting that the guy who's made a movie for the smallest budge ( $1.35 million) in the lot, while also having a Billion dollar movie under his belt is the most humble of them all.
Anthony McCarten's actually done a lower budget movie - it just not well known (Show of Hands - another New Zealand film)
I don't think Destin came off as pretentious at all, he seemed super chill and lowkey
@@TanNguyen-ko1wu absolutely! I clicked on this for Taika, but came away super impressed with Destin. What a sweet, introspective, talented and humble human being.
He does not have a billion dollar movie. Yet. Thor 4 should change that.
@@TanNguyen-ko1wu Destin wasn't pretentious, i agree. I was speaking on the majority of this round-table coming off as pretentious in a lot of their comments. I should've specified why I originally wrote that.
Galloway did not ask Burnham how Scafaria helped him write Eighth Grade. Journalists have a history of insinuating artists' male partners are at least partly responsible for their work.
Did he ask Scafaria about bouncing of Burnham because she is female, or because Burnham was there last year? Would he have asked Burnham if Scafaria had been on the roundtable before him?
@@johnyludvigsson interesting, I thought the same thing
@@johnyludvigsson That’s exactly it PLUS he has asked similar questions of other guests, male and female, before. It’s just a question about process which is of interest when you know that an individual is in a relationship with another writer.
yes, that got on my nerves
It was obvious to me that Scafaria was not fond of these series of questions. It wasn’t like he asked one question; he kept pushing and each question was blatantly clear he was putting Scafaria in a position that put more weight on Bo than her (does Bo read your script? has he given you notes? What were they? Vs do you two collaborate? Do you find him to be helpful in this process? Do you two have a working dynamic to your relationship? Do you critique his work? Have you given him notes?)
This was the most 'serious' I've seen Taika and I was all for it
I’m a simple man I see taika I click on the video
As a Tongan American it’s such a blessing to see a Polynesian filmmaker/writer make it big. Taikas the man
I'm very biased having seen all of Taika's films, long and short. Plus I'm a New Zealander, a Maori, and I recall a personal interaction with Taika in Wellington decades ago... The messages/values he wished to convey could never have resonated so deeply, without the safety-net of humour carrying them in a most palatable and accessible way.
I am all of these things too (but only part Maori) and find his recent work to be a little watered down. His films are very sweet, his framing is very centered and the colors are punchy and rich - his humor can be hit or miss, but mostly it hits. He works better when he isn't writing a story that is out of his depth. Jojo rabbit was out of his depth. Sorry, but it's honestly true. The writers in this interview all seem to have small problems with the way he wrote that film. When this film first released, it had a rotten score on Rotten Tomatoes. Taika has no interest in putting in research or creating themes. He just wants to make fun movies that warm your heart and make your eyes water. He's great at that. But that's it.
You should be so proud of him. He's one of the best filmmakers working today, without question.
Jeri Brown I think it’s What We Do in the Shadows. Because Boy came before Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
@Jeri Brown He co-directed Eagle versus Shark with Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords).
Wow man.. that must be really cool as a Maori to see the success and from what I can tell (as I am not a Maori) the authenticity of his movies. I come from an Italian American family who are all pretty serious, but his movies and humor make everyone laugh.. cheers man
Taika Waititi and Anthony McCarten represent two ends of the spectrum when it comes to the New Zealand narrative. Waititi calls out NZ for being 'racist AF', McCarthen feels he has to 'fight' for the freedom to write a script for a African American female character. Waititi is intolerant of systemic/objective/passive discrimination and McCarthen is positively bloated with entitlement. If you want to know what it's like to be from in NZ, these two men embody the dichotomy that IS New Zealand culture. I think because New Zealanders have to grapple with these two opposing mind-sets every single day it makes us wildly complex, powerfully discerning people. The endless grappling, while exhausting, creates compelling writers indeed.
Oh thank goodness other people noticed it too. McCarten really reeked of entitlement the whole time and it made listening to him painful work
Yes! Also props to Kasi Lemmons for keeping a straight face as he tried to undermine her point.
Interesting. Thanks for the perspective.
@@lanzinator4734 dont think he was undermining, he also agreed with her that if your going to write about something out of your background then you should dive deep into the material and not just a surface level
can you personally recommend some notable NZ writers? fiction, of course
Anthony McCarten seemed to simply reek of entitlement, hats off to Taika and Kasi Lemmons for politely slamming him
When he mentioned that he's writing a movie about a real-life black woman... that's apparently Whitney Houston... and Kasi is directing it lol.
"most writers dont make it until they are 30" never thought the host would give me hope.
When he said that I was like "damn okay way to get the energy up"
True cause you have much experience in many fields and most importantly life
Pretty sure it’s even later than that. The most common age of a successful writer is 30s-40s I believe
You write what you know. So yeah, experience seems to be key
LOVE Taika's take on the mythology of superheroes and comics! And LOVE Kasi Lemmons take on deep diving, not 'dipping your toe' into the culture outside of your own when writing. This was golden, thanks The Hollywood Reporter.
NO ONE: Steven Galloway: Martin Scorsese said...
And sorcese clearly snubbed him and said he was misquoted in the director's roundtable. Such lousy conducting by quoting something that suits you
As writers, some of them are quite awful listeners. Ehh
I actually identify with Destin when he says he gets calmer the more stressed he becomes and that completing every project feels like it's killing him, so can relate!
JoJo Rabbit is one of the best film I've seen in a looooong time. . it was so refreshing I was so happy he kept his innocence after all that. . I cried AF!!
same
I love how Waititi had to defend fictionalizing Hitler.. it was a comedy portrail.. it's meant to be that way..
They go on about super hero movies clogging up the theatres and the lack of creativity.... Yet can't seem to grasp a what Taika was going for.
These are the kind of people who get triggered by Apu's voice on the simpsons.
Wait, are you saying you don’t see how making comedy out of Hitler/the Holocaust might need some explanation?
@@MadMaxFuryRose About as much explanation Mel Brooks and Chaplin needed for skewering Hitler.
I think it’s pretty obvious that he was showing how idiotic and childish war is
This round table was so fresh and offered so many great perspectives. So happy to see Taika here 😭
I like your profile icon.
Lorene Scafaria is just a delight.
The last thing we need is a "deluge" of "Bohemian Rhapsody-kind-of-movies".
Swan Chase Films lol so true
Swan Chase Films would rather die
I agree, I think it was great on its own, even Rocketman was great and still miles away different from BR
As good as BH was, it’s popularity is almost a disservice to itself. It’s not as good a dramatic movie as it’s numbers would indicate and I think the musical performances created a mass appeal effect that impacted the take away from the film. It is almost as though it had that big action movie euphoria in a dramatic film. Movies that can do that do not need to resonate AS deeply emotionally or with the story because people enjoy the films for other reasons as well as those basics of storytelling.
Jeri Brown the story was weak. Something about ‘Rocketman’ was so much more heartbreaking.
Lorene Scafaria - Hustlers (screenplay) 2019 - The Meddler (written by) 2015 - Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (written by) 2012 Taika Waititi - Jojo Rabbit (screenplay, directed by) 2019 - Thor: Ragnarok (directed by) 2017 - What We Do in the Shadows (screenplay, directed by) 2014 Kasi Lemmons - Harriet (screenplay by) 2019 - Black Nativity (written for the screen by) 2013 Destin Daniel Cretton - Just Mercy (written by) 2019 - The Glass Castle (screenplay by) 2017 Charles Randolph - Bombshell (written by) 2019 - The Big Short (screenplay by) 2015 Anthony McCarten - The Two Popes (written by) 2019 - Bohemian Rhapsody (screenplay by) / (story by) 2018 - Darkest Hour (written by) 2017
A year late but Lorene Scafaria also directed all three of films; Hustlers, The Meddler, and Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. Despite her previous credits, she still had to fight to direct Hustlers! The industry is so disappointing and she seems utterly brilliant.
You are missing Hunt for the Wilderpeople, which Waititi wrote and directed (adapted from a book, released 2016.)
Q:Which one of all your characters would you like to be on an island with? Taika: Ahh, Thor he's a fun guy he's my mate😂
I’m not even 5 minutes in and I can already tell that Taika is on edge whenever someone mentions Superhero or Marvel... even tho there is another Marvel director in that discussion which is Destin (Just Mercy guy) who will be the director of Shang Chi.
Yep. Waititi completely misrepresented Scorsese's argument too. There was a similar moment in the Actresses' roundtable when Johansson was asked about Marvel vs. the independent films she's been nominated for and she was clearly uncomfortable with the question.
Bernardo Souto what is the correct interpretation?
@@MrZeB14 Well can you blame them? They love and have fun in the Mcu no matter what others say
@@AdamC2013 watch the directors roundtable , Martin explains it there ...the interview clearly took it out of context and misreprented it
Well he can't bite the hands that feeds him. Nolan was the only person who I felt did not end up just making another comic movie to please DC. I also expected Ryan Coogler to elevate black panther story from it's source. But that movie was no different from what Marvel would promote.
i find it ironic that the man who wrote bohemian rhapsody, a movie that completely misrepresents freddie mercury, queen, and gay culture, is the one claiming he should be allowed to write about whatever he wants.
He's stating that writers shouldn't be forced to write solely about their own demographic/experiences. If we want a world of understanding, it might help to grant people the right - which we already have and should celebrate - to explore perspectives outside their own. However, as far as Bohemian Rhapsody the film goes, I must agree. It was quite a wash.
Listen closely to how he said “I was involved with Bohemian Rhapsody.” Involved with. There are numerous stories out there about the script being practically written by the studio heads and according to the demands of the living Queen members. McCarten could divulge everything that transpired behind the scenes in a heartbeat, if he had the permission to do that.
He's arguing that a writer's background shouldn't prevent them creating characters from other cultures, which is a perfectly reasonable point. As for Bohemian Rhapsody, much of the film was written in a sanitised way to meet the demands of the surviving band members who had a large amount of creative control, as did the studio.
When done right its amazing. There's a film called Rabbit Proof Fence, an film about Australian aboriginal children done by an white guy.
how did it "misrepresent" him? the film was even consulted by Brian May and Roger Taylor. i doubt you know Freddy more then those 2 guys.
Thanks to Galloway for asking that question “what crazy jobs did you do before?” Gives hope to us struggling writers out here doing odd jobs too.
Really like Taika Waititi's description of his writing style as that's what how I am trying to write my first screenplay. Fascinating insight into the world of screenwriting. There is a market for original content in the film industry, not everything has to be based on real life, nor does it have to be about CGI and colours and explosions. It's an exciting time to be a writer.
Taika is a living legend. Amazing dude
Short Term 12, mentioned at around 16:30, is one of the finest films to come out of the US certainly in the past decade. I can't recommend it enough.
I second this! Short Term 12 is a beautiful and heartbreaking story. I'm so proud of Destin and to see his work reaching larger audiences. Do yourself a favor and watch his movies.
One of my favorite blind buys!!
Not quite my tempo it’s a spectacular film
I wholeheartedly agree. After watching it I wrote my first feature length script. It ushered me into my writing career and I haven’t looked back since. I’ve probably seen it over 20 times now.
too bad it hasnt aged well with brie larson in it
I'd like to see them get writers on here who don't also direct their films. I think the conversation would be wildly different.
Travis Gunn Charles Randolph and the two popes guy didn’t direct their scripts
Travis Gunn It would be too depressing because screenwriters are screwed over 9/10 times. Lol
Nate Simon I know that. I said what I said.
Boba Fett All the more reason to give them a voice.
The only thing about this that irritates me is that I'm seeing it 2 years later. Taika Waititi will go down as the Mel Brooks/Spielberg of our era and the fact that he is a person of color changes the narrative for entertainment and I'm all for it
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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Aged like milk my man.
@@LaserLips2 How so? What happened?
@Iris Miller Some marvel fans absolutely hated Thor: Love and Thunder, it got a lot of bad reviews saying it's over the top silly with disjointed plotlines. Haven't seen it yet personally so withholding judgement, but even if it's godawful it won't take away from my love of Jojo Rabbit and OFMD
Taika is a star. Brilliant and humble and just a great guy
This is really educational and amazing to watch, learning from their experiences and etc
i see taika waititi, i click
This was really amazing. I really loved the different viewpoints and perspectives. Such a treat.
If youtube is going to be about corporate media now, it should at least be media like this. Enough with the 57 year old Late Show format crap. That's a TV shaped media in an Internet shaped hole. This is better than anything on TV. These are consistently enlightening, charming, interesting, and surprising.
jamesonknott it’s like FM/AM radio vs podcasts. People want in depth conversations, not bullet points and cut to commercial
@@dallasmoffis It's one of the few Joe Roganisms I really agree with. He's really onto something there. The internet has opened the door to long-form, deliberate, meaningful discussions that used to get left on the chopping block by producers with lowest-common-denominator imaginations.
This round table is amazing! More of this please!
I think the idea that superhero movies are somehow a new concept is insane. Like Taika said, it's just new mythology, but because they come from comic books, another relatively new concept, and a very new artistic medium compared to other mediums, some people just see it as cheaper in some way for that reason. But really, it's just the new action movie. In the 40s through the early 80s, it was the adventure flick. In the late 80s to early 2010s, it was the cheesy but sometimes gritty, gun-porn, action thriller where one brooding guy with a dark past kills rooms and rooms of henchmen before facing off with the ultimate threat- the equally generic bad guy. Concluding with the drive off into the sunset with the most generic character archetype of all time, the damsel in distress love interest. But really, it's jus the new action movie. With some exceptions. Some are good, most are just explosive eye-candy. Idk why people like Scorsese seem to think it's new. Certain genres just capture the mainstream for about a decade. The 60s had westerns, the 80s had slashers, now the 2010s have comic book movies. There's nothing wrong with that. The mainstream blockbusters will always get flack
Jack M the original comment was that marvel films were theme parks. Not all the superhero genre. It was later changed and adopted to all superhero films because marvel fans are vicious
@@armanimartinez8105 There are 23 MCU movies. I don't think there is 23 of anything that's good. Line up any 23 people and some of them will be shitty. Some MCU movies are good (Iron Man, 2008) and some just suck (Thor II), some solid (Winter Soldier) while the rest were acceptable. But Scorcese didn't care about that nuance. Because in truth, he hated that they were fantasy fare. He would have preferred boring movies set in the real world than exciting fantasy ones. Like it is in television. There are about a thousand cop dramas an equal number of medical dramas, most of which suck. But no one says anything because they are set in the real world. And that's why the streaming services are dominating entertainment now. Because they don't subscribe to that mentality. They don't believe that the heightened reality of medical dramas and cop dramas is somehow more mature than fantasy. They accept that fiction is fiction and that is that and judge stories based on their own individual quality.
@WoolFlannel It's called independent thinking. Coming up with your own opinions.
@@asherujudo7383 you’re so right. And I agree, Thor 2 was terrible. So bad. I loved Thor: Ragnarok, absolutely hilarious and the music was fantastic.
Taika made the best film at this table, by a LONG way .
I LOOOVE THIS ROUNDTABLES!!!!!!!
I’m glad I found this channel 🙌🏼
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS MORE TAIKA WAITITI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Omg I didn’t see this coming they usually post short videos first ahhhhhhh I’m so excited!
I hate when the do the shorts first.
I think Taika Waititi is one of the most talented writer/directors out today - I recommend Eagle Vs. Shark
I'm pretty sure that Taika think otherwise. Paul Thomas Anderson, Yórgos Lánthimos, Richard Linklater, Spike Jonze, Bong Joon Ho are masters and there filmography is much bigger than Taika's (except Bong Joon Ho). Maybe someday
That’s honestly his worse film. It’s the only one of his I haven’t liked.
No!
@@jesaispasvraimentquoiecrireici Also, The Coen Brothers are still alive & working.
Hunt for the Wilderpeople is probably his best.
I cant believe that Galloway interrupts these conversations right in the middle of sentences the editor trying to cut the conversation down to an hour 👁👄👁
As writers, some of them are quite awful listeners. Ehh
you a baby?
@@beastysped3270 yes daddy 😭😭
writers have short attention span
Most writers are deeply self involved.
28:00 in, Lorene Scafaria gets asked about her mans influence on her (whom I also love) and replies "I dunno, we're pretty separate entities" like a boss. Wonder if the men will get asked the troupe question of how much their director/producer/writer wives have helped them. I'll eat my hat made of cake if they do
Lorene is so refreshing, hustlers did not get the hype it deserved.
This was the most interesting round table of all, by far. Please more tables of writers.
I love these kind of conversations.
Lorene: "there was a guy talking into a headset for 6 months to nobody, he was losing his mind." Reporter: "I can relate..."
honestly, that was really interesting
she had the worst film there she was trying so hard to make it more then the cash grab it was
On the one hand, fiction needs freedom. On the other hand, writing a fictional Hitler from the pov of a 10 year old is dangerous. I am guessing these salty writers didn't see Jojo Rabbit in its entirety. It was satire done perfectly. This is what I dislike about the 'woke intelligentsia'. They'd rather not tell stories instead of trying something new.
Considering Taika is very much a part of the 'woke intelligentsia' (even if he isn't insufferably pretentious about it) I don't think that's where the problem lies. His fellow kiwi who wanted to 'hold his feet to the fire' comes from a very different background. When you've lived a fairly privileged life it's hard to have an instinct for what's right and what isn't, so you try to poutily 'overcorrect' while completely missing the point. It's like the sort of people who saw the #metoo movement and said 'Well maybe we shouldn't hire women at all.'
@@chrvatz Fair point!
I love these roundtable discussions
I loved Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. Wonderful writing and Directing by Lorene Scafaria.
This was one of the best roundtables. Great interviewing. So insightful. All of their voices were so calming.
Literal lies
god taika looks so bored
surrounded by a bunch of stiffs.
What an intelligent and heartfelt conversation between a group of extremely diverse and admirable people whose conversation is actually one that I am feeling deeply grateful to be listening to during the first hours of my birthday this year: TO ME, THAT SEEMS IN SOME WAY -mythically, if in no other- TO PROVIDE MORE DIRECT ACCESS to the deeper layers of my unconscious, hence to integrating my present Ways of Being with how I dreamed of Being when I was Young!
I guarantee you that this is the first time a pacific islander has been on a panel like this. And there are two of us this time! So proud.
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They should do these roundtables with smaller, non-commercial/awards circuit movies.
Nice, Insightful 👍
This table is amazing
Of course Taika Waititi drew first blood in this conversation. 😂 I just love the guy! ♥️
Kasi Lemmons came in through with "Do your research!". Yes!!
Awesome!
Loved this one
Just came hwte for Taika. Love everything he writes or acts or directs .
27:53 -- Galloway...why did you think it would be appropriate to ask Scafaria about whether her male partner had any notes for her on her now iconic screenplay? I don't remember any questions for Burnham about Scafaria at last year's roundtable. Ew.
@@er832 Ironic, isn't it, being attacked for pointing out that we're...being attacked?
taika waititi"maybe the costumes arent Italian enough"😂😂😂😂😂
Love it.
lol that's the most sedate I've seen taika Waititi in a discussion. I guess he was a bit out of his element with all the seriousness.
he wasn't stoned, he he
Aw i love unhinged Taika! Such a creative spirit
He seems to pick his moments when to be serious and when to have a laugh.
I think all the other writers take themselves too seriously. I love that Taika is normally joking around
kman20 Rian Johnson needs to be here to balance out the extroverts-introverts ratio
07:22 The black woman Anthony McCarten is making a movie about is Whitney Houston. And guess who's now directing?... Kasi Lemmons
El entrevistador ha mejorado muchísimo comparado con años anteriores. Se ve que leía los comentarios negativos.
The best roundtable I've seen
Taika the GOAT
Goat? Taika is brilliant!
@@lyndasutherland6165 GOAT means Greatest of all Time. It’s a big compliment.
I completely understand if Taika chooses not to tackle Akira if it ever happens. It just seems like a stress bomb itself based on the material.
LooYee it is literally a miracle that the anime movie is as good as it is. And that anime was realized by the Akira creator.
Taika lets mythology remind us that we come from somewhere and evolve. I'm not sure about the other writers, but it seems mythology is such a powerful concept that it can withstand actors ad libs.
Can you guys please make this a podcast if your haven’t already? Thaaaanx ^_^
wonderful talk
taika let out the deepest sigh after this
Pretty sure Charles is just Ryan Reynolds in a wig. You ain't tricking me this time Reynolds
Good amount of heat on this table
About time 🤗
A whole industry rests JUST on the shoulders of these guys at the table ✨👑🔥
Where is the EDITORS roundtable?
Whenever I watch these videos, I suddenly become so articulate. I remember waking up one time and I was halfway into a fucking essay in my head
Charles Randolph (the writer on red) has such a fabulous hair. I can't keep my eyes off of his hair.
Finally, the moderator allowed for the conversation to flow and did not steal the stars' thunder. Kudos!
Alexander Chee comes to mind in this conversation. He said before exploring characters outside of your life experience, ask yourself, as a writer: Why do you want to write from this character’s point of view? Do you read writers from this community currently? Why do you want to tell this story? In the context of Hollywood and writers' rooms, it would also make sense to consult (if it's a singular project like most films) or work with writers of different backgrounds, whether or not the story is about an African American lawyer or four sisters from Massachusetts during the civil war era. It's not just about conducting "research", different perspectives add to the depth and empathy of a story, period.
Thought that voice seemed familiar. Kasi Lemmons was a cop in John Woo's cult action film "Hard Target"!!! Wow, so cool to see her at this roundtable.
Taika sounds like Johnny Depp with an accent.
No. And... Everyone has an accent. So you mean, different accent.
Interesting how Anthony McCarten said “I was involved with Bohemian Rhapsody.” Involved with. There are numerous stories out there about the script being practically written by the studio heads and according to the demands of the living Queen members. McCarten could divulge everything that transpired behind the scenes in a heartbeat, if he had the permission to do that.
Gabriel I literally even said that there are stories out there, from innumerable sources. Also, IDK why you have to dispute what I have to say when you just have to go on to repeat it? I guess you just wanted to call me a “fool.” You’re one of the Internet smarties.
11:12 McCarten having to explain how satire functions, did not we get over this with Mel Brooks already ?
Leave it to white men to miss the point every single time.
Best for me so far is still the Producers roundtable. This is good too but I liked the people in producers more and how they all blend together.
Taika waititi’s Boy movie is one of my faves. Old time classic nostalgia that pays homage to NZ
Look at this uber diverse, uber talented bunch!
I love the writers round tables
I love the concept, but they're always ruined by Stephen's interruptions
I really loved “Just mercy” by Destin Daniel Cretton. Michael B Jordan and Jamie Foxx are great in it, and I think that Foxx should have been nominated as best supporting actor at the Oscars. The movie deserved to be more successful