Three people who appeared in the viral documentary “What Is a Woman?” told NBC News that the producers misrepresented how it would portray transgender topics.
  • jeffw@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    Of course it’s What is a Woman… what scumbags

    But three people who participated in the film’s production by sitting for interviews told NBC News that its producers misrepresented how it would portray transgender topics and that they were unwittingly inserted into “gotcha” moments with right-wing provocateur Matt Walsh, who narrated and starred in the film. Two of the three people provided copies of emails in which a producer, Rebecca Dobkowitz, used flattering language and wrote that the documentary would bring to light the challenges facing trans people.

      • jeffw@lemmy.worldEnglish
        141·
        1 year ago

        Also makes me livid that the film got almost 200 million views on Twitter, when it would’ve blatantly gone against their standards pre-Musk. Musk is using the guise of “free speech” to push hatred

  • Kinglink@lemmy.worldEnglish
    58·
    1 year ago

    Not that this is OK. But isn’t this how films like Borat works? They misrepresent what the movie is about, get sign off, do all the stuff.

    Don’t know how legal that is, but I would imagine most of that shit would be shut down immediately and not get sign off once they realize it’s a comedy film/show.

      • Kinglink@lemmy.worldEnglish
        112·
        1 year ago

        But how they present it to the interviewee is as a serious interview, not a comedy movie. Rudy Guiliani didn’t go into that interview thinking “This is a comedy show” He was fooled into thinking it was a “real interview with a republican news group” or something like that (I forget how they presented themselves, but it was as a “real” news organization)

        I’d say that’s more of a problem then misrepresenting real interviews by using frankencuts (which has been done that way for decades, but still a scumbag movie when in a documentary)

        • jeffw@lemmy.worldEnglish
          111·
          1 year ago

          Did you read the original article? It wasn’t just “frankencuts,” they were basically harassed in the interviews.

          Also, nothing you can say will make me feel bad about Rudy Guliani getting tricked

          • Kinglink@lemmy.worldEnglish
            214·
            1 year ago

            Thanks for summarizing your point “It’s ok when it happens to people I don’t like.”

            • jeffw@lemmy.worldEnglish
              121·
              1 year ago

              No. It’s okay when it happens to a far right extremist who support oppressing the masses. Guliani has enabled the far right and provided conspiracy theories about GA election workers whose lives were ruined by harassment.

    • Ruxias@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      1 year ago

      No one is watching Borat and thinking “see, this is why we need to deny basic rights and decency to a whole group of people.” One is for gags, the other is explicitly made as ammunition to oppress people - mind you a group that has historically already been the target of much hatred.

    • zalack@kbin.social
      51·
      1 year ago

      I feel like people haven’t put their finger on why Borat is different.

      In general, the ‘gotcha’ moments in Borat were about getting people to say what they really thought about a topic, then just… showing that. The thing being faked there is who Borat is and what his opinions are, not what the topic is nor the context in which it will be presented.

      It wasn’t about getting them to say something they didn’t realize would be applied to a totally different context.

    • jeffw@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Are you replying to this post? I just wasn’t sure what this comment means