AhhHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAaaaaa... a Zoe Quinn movie.

[Spider RedNight]

*Sigh* No comment. The Internet's obsession with Zoe Quinn got boring five minutes after it started.

I'm in this boat; I guess I never really invested enough to entirely find out about the entire ordeal, anyway.

 

[Jux]

Either that or a few people here were suggesting having a guy play Brianna Wu.

And we have a Bingo! Really, not sure how dead naming Quinn, which is still a shit move imo, but w/e, is transphobic, since she's not being called by a male name, but making the suggestion Nicholas Cage plays Wu (hurr hurr, because he'll take any role), is a transphobic as fuck thing to say.

 

[Tsun Tzu]

Oh, god.

So many triggers.

So little time.

This is hullaaaaryus...and will, with 95% certainty, not amount to anything anyway, so I'm not sure why some of you folks are getting so bent out of shape about it.

I mean, come on. The most this could hope for is some sorta made-for-tv schlock that'd make the SVU episode look like fuckin' Shakespeare.

 

[Darks63]

Either that or a few people here were suggesting having a guy play Brianna Wu.

And we have a Bingo! Really, not sure how dead naming Quinn, which is still a shit move imo, but w/e, is transphobic, since she's not being called by a male name, but making the suggestion Nicholas Cage plays Wu (hurr hurr, because he'll take any role), is a transphobic as fuck thing to say.

I think its less trans phobic and more how some view her as being unhinged which Cage (used to) play well.

Bring it on i say that SVU ep was funny as shit Ice T explaining gaming and the level up stuff were the best.

 

[Jux]

Either that or a few people here were suggesting having a guy play Brianna Wu.

And we have a Bingo! Really, not sure how dead naming Quinn, which is still a shit move imo, but w/e, is transphobic, since she's not being called by a male name, but making the suggestion Nicholas Cage plays Wu (hurr hurr, because he'll take any role), is a transphobic as fuck thing to say.

I think its less trans phobic and more how some view her as being unhinged which Cage (used to) play well.

Bring it on i say that SVU ep was funny as shit Ice T explaining gaming and the level up stuff were the best.

Not buying it, one could easily pick an actress to make the same point.

 

[Darks63]

Either that or a few people here were suggesting having a guy play Brianna Wu.

And we have a Bingo! Really, not sure how dead naming Quinn, which is still a shit move imo, but w/e, is transphobic, since she's not being called by a male name, but making the suggestion Nicholas Cage plays Wu (hurr hurr, because he'll take any role), is a transphobic as fuck thing to say.

I think its less trans phobic and more how some view her as being unhinged which Cage (used to) play well.

Bring it on i say that SVU ep was funny as shit Ice T explaining gaming and the level up stuff were the best.

Not buying it, one could easily pick an actress to make the same point.

About the only Female actress that comes to mind that does crazy well is Charlize Theron. I do agree though that going to a male right off the bat is a little suspicious but I wanted to play DA.

 

[Jux]

About the only Female actress that comes to mind that does crazy well is Charlize Theron. I do agree though that going to a male right off the bat is a little suspicious but I wanted to play DA.

That's fine, I'm not trying to jump on you for it. I'm just sayin, it sounds like a weak dodge. Even if, and this is a big if, they didn't -mean- to be transphobic about it, one would still be aware that naming a male actor to play a transwoman, on the face of it, looks transphobic to pretty much most people (that aren't transphobes anyway). No excuse for doing that, claiming obliviousness there is beyond the pale.

 

[Jux]

A novel idea, getting a transwoman to play a transwoman in a movie. But no, barring that, I would think the subject, in this case Wu, would want to be played by a woman, not a man. What's the point in having a male actor play her? Is this some biopic about her transitioning, or is she just some side character maybe in a Quinn movie?

I find the Cage comment indefensible.

 

[IceForce]

It's going to be hard to translate online harassment to a film I reckon. Don't get me wrong, it's a horrible thing, but from a visual standpoint wouldn't it just be a lot of shots of her sitting at a computer reading disgusting tweets and messages?

Actually, that's been done before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberbully_(2015_film)

Maisie Williams was in it.

 

[Breakdown]

A novel idea, getting a transwoman to play a transwoman in a movie. But no, barring that, I would think the subject, in this case Wu, would want to be played by a woman, not a man. What's the point in having a male actor play her? Is this some biopic about her transitioning, or is she just some side character maybe in a Quinn movie?

I find the Cage comment indefensible.

Eddie Redmayne is playing a transgender role in the Danish Girl, is that transphobic?

Besides, Nicholas Cage is a very versatile actor.

 

[Cati]

About the only Female actress that comes to mind that does crazy well is Charlize Theron. I do agree though that going to a male right off the bat is a little suspicious but I wanted to play DA.

I can think of a few actresses that I've thought "did crazy" pretty well (as a general comment on actresses "doing crazy", not whether Wu should be portrayed as such). Fairuza Balk was great in The Craft as Nancy. And I have a memory of Lena Heady's character in Dredd being unstable (and well acted), though it's been a while since I've seen that. Kate Mara in American Horror Story, whose character was pretty unbalanced after death. Ooh then there's Famke Janssen, who was fantastic towards the end of Hemlock Grove when her character was losing it. And Troian Bellisario I thought was good in Pretty Little Liars at the times her character was having difficulties keeping her shit together mentally (although not "crazy").

Also, as far as I know, Brianna Wu hasn't said she's trans. That doesn't change the implications of suggesting a male actor play her, given the common belief that she *is* trans, but unless she has come out and said she is, it's not very polite to keep saying she is as if it is a fact.