Still thinking about the train wreck that was the 2014 Zachary Quinto docuseries THE CHAIR pitting Shane Dawson vs Anna Martemucci in a first time filmmaker contest The idea was to pit a "traditional" filmmaker who'd come up through film school vs a New Media maverick
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Like the fact that he SCREAMS and goes off into this HUGE DIVA TANTRUM over being asked to take the slightest criticism, to listen to another person's opinion about ANYTHING And then talks about how he feels like he's "given up so much" and "compromised so much"
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Like, they should be going in much harder on him He should not be directing a feature film, he's ignorant of so much shit, if it were a real, normal film set he'd either have just been fired or have someone else assigned to ride herd on him and keep him in line
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But everyone's so fucking nice, everyone's trying to couch their criticisms in the most conciliatory possible tone, and he acts like he's under constant persecution
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Nobody in the city of Pittsburgh wants to even audition because his script is such garbage and he acts like the Pittsburgh acting community is somehow conspiring against him Like they're all ungrateful wretches for not wanting to participate in his work of art
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Martin Scorsese would be embarrassed to act like that I mean I would like to think Martin Scorsese *wouldn't* act like that But come on, this is pure diva behavior from someone who's DONE NOTHING Does he think his shitty YouTube career actually counts as filmmaking
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Cause he keeps saying how excited he is to graduate from a career of telling jokes on the Internet and becoming a real filmmaker but he doesn't seem to think this requires learning any new information or changing any of his behavior
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It's a very pure psychological case study in... I dunno, someone whose YouTube fame has successfully destroyed his mind The extremely fucked up landscape of 2009-era YouTube obviously destroyed the minds of his young audience but also destroyed his
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It's like -- the whole story of this docuseries is Zachary Quinto and his associates getting a horrifying peek through a Lovecraftian portal into some insane, illogical alternate pocket dimension where Shane's shitty jokes are funny and he's a deeply beloved and admired celebrity
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It's like some Twilight Zone shit Like the movie even has him playing the male lead himself because he genuinely thinks he's a heartthrob, he's the young Brad Pitt who can effortlessly sell the role of the hot dude Cherami Leigh has pined for her whole life AND HIS FANS AGREE
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It's like meeting some goblin from a shit dimension where on his home planet he gets applause and money and sexual attention for shitting right there on the floor, and now he wants to work at your Fortune 500 accounting firm as a Senior Vice President of Shitting on Floors
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And when you, as a normal human with a typical human brain, are horrified by this and try to put a stop to it you suddenly run into this wall of screaming fans of his floorshitting career and offering their parents' credit card numbers to see more shit on more floors
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Quinto said in the aftermath of all this that he was grateful to have participated in this experience because his emotional reaction to all of it was "clarifying" I bet
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Sometimes, you don't even actually know what your values are until you make the shocking and unsettling discovery that there are other people who somehow actually don't share them
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