Audience Q&As after screenings are the Bad Place. Too much prefacing or anecdotes. Questions are often dumb or misinformed.
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You know when you’re a bright-eyed, precocious kid and a grown-up says there’s no such thing as a bad question? This does not apply to audience Q&As after screenings.
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And then sometimes they’re just ignorant AF. Like when an intriguing movie set in Oakland that wrestles messily with race, gentrification, & hip hop is met with an audience member asking the director, “Were you afraid when you were in Oakland?”
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It sucks, but I’m always conscious whenever I’m at a screening of a movie like this and the audience is almost entirely white (and affluent). Being seen, the white gaze, double-consciousness, etc. That q in particular only reinforced it.
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I’ll add, aside from it missing the point the movie is attempting to make about Oakland (like I said, it does so messily, but still) it’s not an interesting question. Whatever the answer might be would never be as revealing as it is of the person asking it.
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Aisha, I have a question about this tweet. Well, actually, it's more of a comment. But before I get to that, there are four or five points I want to make and
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The last three I've attended in Los Angeles have been hijacked by a marriage proposal, a selfie request and an onstage fawning-over someone's cosplay. Painful.
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Dear god who are these monsters??
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