The early 2000s were wild, a dev could just say shit like this in interviews and still get treated like a gaming celeb with magazines shooting ego-stroking promo videos where he plays with swords while wearing sunglasses indoors.
You’d never get a director like Tomonobu Itagaki today because of woke mind virus cancel culture!!! 
I’m watching Grim Beard’s new video on the Tekken spinoff Death by Degrees which includes a funny tangent about the one-sided feud between Tomonobu Itagaki and Katsuhiro Harada where he shows this interview
Dude had a sexual harassment lawsuit against him too.
I don’t think I’ve ever been less surprised by a piece of information before. People sometimes call him the Japanese Tommy Wiseau but I don’t think Tommy’s ever been a sex creep
On the disaster artist book they mention the actress playing Lisa being very uncomfortable by Tommy being fully naked for their sex scene, and I don’t remember if he demanded her being naked, too.
So he has at least a very warped view of what consent looks like, but that seems to be par for the course for Hollywood.
The Room is incredibly misogynistic, that and him being a talentless rich guy who tried to buy his way into Hollywood is why I don’t feel like celebrating Wiseau as some cult hero.
I feel at some point people stopped laughing at the room for the surreal disaster that it is, and started actually thinking wiseau was some auteur with an interesting vision and not the talentless bully he seems to be.
People ascribe an authenticity to the room that they wouldn’t if say, bezos or musk, or some millionaire orthodontist decided to make a shitty masturbatory movie. It’s counter culture without the content, or the awareness that you’re making something bad on purpose, which is how an actual artist would have something to say.
and started actually thinking wiseau was some auteur with an interesting vision and not the talentless bully he seems to be
Exactly, I don’t get it because people like…I dunno, Cronenberg or whoever were able to get interesting stories out of student films on a shoestring budget. Wiseau was able to buy high-tier equipment (even if he had no clue on how to use it), and the best he could come up with, and he did seriously think The Room was his masterpiece, was shit-tier sexist nonsense.
Plus, from contemporary accounts he was a creep and an asshole to the people on set.
I feel at some point people stopped laughing at the room for the surreal disaster that it is, and started actually thinking wiseau was some auteur with an interesting vision and not the talentless bully he seems to be.
Are there actual unironic Tommy Wiseau fans out there? My impression was that everything he’s tried to make since The Room has been universally hated
Apparently the charges got dismissed. It’s probably a case of
prioritizing protecting corporate reputations, but I wonder what his defense was, “Your honor, this is an adult woman. I am a libertarian who plays with swords and wears sunglasses inside.”?
Rubs eyes. I fucking hate that I mechanically love this series.
It could just answer “Yes.” and came back less creepy.
When I was 27, 17 year olds were like children to me, how the hell do any of these creeps find them attractive?
It’s a power dynamics thing, isn’t it?
When I was 27, 17 year olds were like children to me, how the hell do any of these creeps find them attractive?
You fail to take into account that might be precisely why these creeps find them attractive
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Yeah that was a good GrimBeard video. Loved how Harada apparently was disappointed when Itagaki quit because he found his antics funny.
In a better world this would be intresting to explore. He has a point. Generations prior to ours were raised with a national age of majority around there. We have pushed our concept of majority up but I don’t think we actually treat anyone any better. I dunno if liberal theory has the ability to improve this situation so I am not optimistic about the mass discourse
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
