>Matt Damon, Ben Affleck Become Next Stars to Formally Adopt Inclusion Riders
>Frances McDormand really set Hollywood’s talking point for the next year when she ended her best-actress acceptance speech at this year’s Oscars with these two words: “inclusion rider.” The actress left the room abuzz, while viewers at home frantically began Googling the phrase—which refers to a contractual stipulation that stars can include in their contracts, assuring that their film sets are inclusive both on and off-screen. On screen, specifically, the goal is to reach at least 50 percent gender parity, with 40 percent inclusion for people of color, 5 percent L.G.B.T.Q. inclusion, and 20 percent disabled inclusion.
>If major stars in Hollywood start adapting these riders, they could help to normalize inclusion until the practice actually becomes the norm. Following McDormand’s call to action, Michael B. Jordan got the trend going in earnest, formally announcing that he would be using inclusion riders for all forthcoming projects he produces. And now, his decision has directly inspired a few more big stars: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.
>On Monday, Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni—the head of strategic outreach at Pearl Street Films, Damon and Affleck’s production company—tweeted at Jordan, saying that the company would be following in his footsteps and adopting the rider as well.
You guys realize that tons of actors aren't going to bother adopting this and maybe Entertainment Tonight or something will bitch about it for a couple days but then they'll forget about it and those people will make the movies they want to make. So what if Matt Damon and Ben Affleck don't? Do you know how few films they even make to begin with? It's a couple of drops in the pond.
>You guys realize that tons of actors aren't going to bother adopting this
So, now the narrative is that actors are just too lazy or uninterested to do it instead of studios kicking off stars to the curb if they adopt this policy?
Nicholas Ortiz
>one studio makes money on a movie >durr movie sales haven't been trending down for a decade >durr nothing but capeshit, and blockbuster series like Fast&Furious can make any money
The future of film is through companies independent from the major Hollywood studios, you can already see it happening with Netflix and Amazon
Parker Rodriguez
>no source for your bullshit
Joshua White
Right wingers cry just as hard about Netflix and Amazon shows and movies being "leftist propaganda" as they do with Hollywood stuff. Go take a look at Jessica Jones threads and you'll find more crybabies than you can shake a stick at
Ayden Nelson
This is fine for already big name actors like Damon and Affleck, or minority actors, but how fucking shitty would it be for up and coming white actors? If they aren't legacy'd into the business, what chance do they have at all now when they're basically discriminated against?
>20% disabled Maybe in Hollywood where everyone is a retarded marxist, but that number is orders of magnitude larger than normal society.
Cooper Carter
Every actor who doesn't adopt this horseshit will have hundreds of buzzfeed articles like >ugh, Ryan Gosling is really being a nazi right now written about them until they give up
>Director-producer Paul Feig has adapted the inclusion rider as part of all the feature film and television productions at his Feigco Entertainment.
>The move came a week and a half after Frances McDorrmand sparked interest and support for the term after she concluded her Oscars best actress acceptance speech by saying, “I have two words to leave with you tonight, ladies and gentlemen: inclusion rider.”
>“Thrilled to announce that Feigco Entertainment is officially adopting an #inclusionrider for all our film and TV productions moving forward,” Feig wrote Tuesday on Twitter. “Thank you to @Inclusionists and Stacy L. Smith for their guidance and inspiration. We challenge other companies and studios to do the same.”
Liam Wood
Show me one case of something like this ever happening in the past.
Dylan Nelson
TWO WORDS
Christopher Baker
ANIME CATGIRLS
Kayden Jones
How was life under a rock on the Moon for the last 2 years?
Sebastian Ramirez
So you can't show me an example and respond with deflection. Seems I struck a nerve.
Lucas Smith
>You guys realize that tons of actors aren't going to bother adopting this
People who don't have leverage, sure. That's given, because they have no negotiation power. But plenty of stars with clout have been already started doing this in the past week and a half. Damon, Affleck, McDormand (whose Oscar win will give it a ton of power), Michael B. Jordan (who is a rising star), Brie Larson, Paul Feig...
Ashley Judd went as far as tell her agency WME that she wanted them to be 50/50 male-female including all ethnicities, races and sexual orientations. And the 50/50 needs to be included in all decision-making levels, which means they would have to add two females at the top. For context, this is the same agency that had Mark Walhberg get millions more money for the reshoots for All the Money in the World, while not doing it for Michelle Williams who they also represented.
Eli Kelly
To be fair that agency fucked up majorly so they brought this upon themselves.
Jeremiah Peterson
Every actor that worked with Woody Allen after the Farrow allegations was pressured to denounce him, those who worked on his most recent film had to donate their salaries
Lucas Nguyen
well speaking of Matt Damon, I wonder why he went with this inclusivity thing youtube.com/watch?v=J31kzUErvZA hmmmmmmm really gets you thinking
Benjamin Wood
>Realize you're being a dumbass >Make a course correction after having a moment of self-realization
Hmmmmmmm....
Luke Evans
Jessica fucking Jones was aggressively anti-male. Even episodes without the villain would shoehorn in some stereotypical douchebag for Jessica to beat up in an unrelated scene. The cast is mostly female and they still gender switched the lawyer boss character into a strong lesbian.
I loved the Bendis comic series, but the show was lazy virtue signalling at its most blatant.
Eli Garcia
THREE ZEROS
Kevin Morales
Yeah, he's totally not forced to change his beliefs in order to retain his career, for sure youtube.com/watch?v=njFBkJSpUrY HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Jacob Hall
not him, but you can't be serious. brands cave to SJW pressure all the time. and celebrities apologize to sketchy allegations and questionable accusations every week.
Carson Green
>at least 50 percent gender parity isn’t this the maximum
ironically, that assumes two genders
Michael Adams
Has anyone ever tried an exclusion rider?
Or an inclusion rider for a minimum non-Jewish whites?
>isn’t this the maximum No because the numbers are calculated in relation to whites in the movie. A movie with 80% non-white cast is 80% diverse, a movie with 80% white cast is 20% diverse
Jayden Ramirez
Unironically can't wait for this trend to get bigger. I stopped taking Hollywood seriously long time ago, and now every movie is going to be a clowncar meme galore. We'll finally get black transabled Hitler we always deserved
>Thank you to @Inclusionists and Stacy L. Smith for their guidance and inspiration Oh, so it's all just part of Hollywood accounting, disguised as a social cause. Well that makes a lot more sense.
Cooper Price
More women of color getting bleached on screen confirmed
Daniel Stewart
>making Roman empire drama >must include at least 40% blacks Already happening user.
John Anderson
>prison drama
Plenty of ways to do this. Even shows like Oz had plenty of strong female characters.
>WW2 film
It would be nice to see WW2 movies with more women parts instead of yet another warfare oriented approach. Would actually force film makers to innovate and tell more diverse stories. Like maybe do a movie about the Night Witches.
>Roman empire drama >must include at least 40% blacks
What are nubian slaves? Or, you know, you could do what plenty of Shakespeare adaptations do in order to save money and transfer it to modern setting, and this stops being an issue.
William Green
>pandering to people who only watch Marvel capeshit films
ah yes I see no way this could possibly backfire
Charles Anderson
The one time where the inclusion rider forcefully hires more white men
Zachary James
>Oz had plenty of strong female characters I can think of three. It had like 50 male characters.
>force film makers to tell more diverse stories You sure know how to get good creative writing: force diversity.
>stop making movies about what you want and cater to our very narrow specific demands
>Michael B. Jordan got the trend going in earnest, formally announcing that he would be using inclusion riders for all forthcoming projects he produces since when is that kid a fucking producer
Jonathan Cruz
oh fuck are they going to recast everyone in the Spy sequel?
Anthony Cruz
Sister Peter Marie, Shirley Bellinger (death row inmate), Diane Whittlesey (the CO McManus was fucking), Dr. Gloria Nathan, Claire Howell (the fat chick banging inmates)... And those are just the ones with prominence that are easily memorable. The show also had more than a few minor female characters in reoccurring roles, like the big tits puppet TV show host who hooks up with whatshisname. It's entirely doable to do prison movie with more female roles. Girlfriend, wives, sisters, prison and government staff, etc.
Robert Brooks
He has his own production company. Unless you're an idiot, the best way to remain a viable A-list star for a long period of time is to produce your own shit.
John Turner
well, good for him i guess.
Benjamin Hall
okay so let's say the next Shawshank Redemption is in the works. You want to focus on the friendship between two inmates, and the dirty deeds of the warden and guards. Wait, gotta shoehorn in equal screentime to women, so write in awkward visitation scenes with wives, girlfriends, and storylines that will pad out the movie and throw off the pacing.
Noah Miller
WANT GIBS
Sebastian Hall
Except you can just make the warden and some of the guards, or even the support staff like secretaries, etc. women. Wasn't that fucking hard.
Grayson Ross
>40s prison drama >make the warden and guards women I'm going to stop taking the bait now.
I hate that cunt so fuckin much. Imagine the shit films we're gonna get just because she wanted to have a moment of virtue signaling.
Charles Bailey
BBC rider
Charles Sanders
There's nothing left to watch that isn't propoganda. I'm at the point where I'm just going to throw out my phone and disconnect my Internet
Nathaniel Lee
>NOOOOOOOOO! Black Panther was supposed to flop! Where did we go wrong, pedes?
Colton Perez
Why would it have to be specifically set in the 40s?
Liam Murphy
It's pretty wrong-headed. Nobody should be looking at population demographics when deciding their cast, it's not how stories work.
They're putting the cart before the horse. Inclusion is nice and all, but it can't come before the point of the production, which is making a movie. Movies can't just be platforms for signaling your virtues.
So, inclusion rider excludes any story about a 40s prison?
Julian Davis
40s prison movies don't automatically have to exclude women and minorities getting roles either. Something like Shawshank could easily be transported to more contemporary setting without losing anything pivotal.
Alexander Martinez
I wonder what would happen if you included that no more than 10% of the cast or crew should be Jewish. That's over 5 times the proportion of the population they make up in the US but I still bet it would cause a lot of shit to fall on you.
Ethan Carter
Any actor that has an inclusion rider / preaches politics / makes comments about white men goes on my list of 'never getting a cent from me again'. There's too much media out there for it to even bother me writing them off
I don't look hispanic to most people. How do I play up my diversity enough to get hired? Should I only write scripts pertaining to latin culture?
Thomas Brooks
Looked up his comment: >Damon spoke on the topic of sexual assault last month in an interview with ABC News, where he discussed the numerous allegations of sexual harassment and assault against Harvey Weinstein and said that he felt men shouldn’t be grouped together for their bad behavior instead of being judged on a “spectrum.” >“You know, there’s a difference between, you now, patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation, right?” he said. “Both of those behaviors need to be confronted and eradicated without question, but they shouldn’t be conflated, right?” Matt's pretty liberal though, if I'm not mistaken, so he probably really did just correct his wrongthink and start virtue signalling to save face. Likely sincere, but still pathetic.
Matthew Lopez
What you're saying is that shawshank redemption couldn't be made today.
Justin Cruz
Not that guy, but you're missing the point. The fact that concessions have to be made is damaging enough. You can't box art, the whole point of art is to be outside the box.
Alexander Cruz
of course they did, ugley is a harvey fuck, they knew the cards to play with a visionary pug
Jackson Foster
I don't like this #metoo and inclusion rider stuff. The only place where you can fire experienced and talented men and replace them with inexperienced and overconfident women of color and expect it to work out is in the upcoming movie "Dreams: Based on the Novel "Slam" by Sapphire" That is it can only work in a fictional world of unicorns and magic fairies
Asher Cox
>Get me Al Pacino or Mindy Kaling...ya know, whatever
Xavier Fisher
There are like zero of them besides this and Locke.
Angel Hernandez
This could either end hollywood because people aren't retarded enough to just swallow such blatant bullshit, or it could essentially rewrite history and reality because people are in fact that retarded... Or they'll just stop making movies based in tried and true stories and do something original to be diverse lol. Also, there's no reason you can't have a movie with 100% white male actors with no white people behind the scenes or doing the writing, which I think is as big of an issue they go on about as affirmative action casting.
Juan Cooper
I thought we were talking generally, with Shawshank as just an example of a typical period prison movie. And you're wrong, you could still remake Shawshank today, inclusion riders don't magically stop movies like that being made. That's pure hyperbole. And acting like adapting it today and making some changes to reflect the times the movie is made in, which always happens with adaptations, is somehow inherently bad is silly.
Inclusion rider is an idea to combat the institutionalized disparity when it comes to what types of roles and movies Hollywood puts out, because studios for decades have insisted that unless you have a predominantly a white guy oriented movie, it doesn't sell, and that's why women and minorities have getting the shaft, with very small portion of movies actually having casts and crews that aren't largely male and white.
Justin Nguyen
And movies like Locke is still entirely doable because the phone conversations can be played by non-white actors, and you're being a retard if you think somehow single person movies cannot exist when they crew could be the one that is covered in the inclusion rider. These things are negotiable when need be, yet race bait alarmist act like it's literally killing movies.
Isaac Sanders
>this post >reddit spacing you need to go back princess
Grayson Perez
How much are they paying you for this?
Joshua Young
yeah but, i mean, don't you see? you're gay, dude.
Juan Martin
>because studios for decades have insisted that unless you have a predominantly a white guy oriented movie, it doesn't sell nigga which decades are you talking about, 40s and 50s? movies have been inclusive as shit since I can remember and I'm thirty fuckin seven.
James James
>Business insists that their way is making them money, but we think their way is wrong so they have to do it our way That doesnt make sense, if anyone knows what makes money in the business is the studios actually making said money in the business Having said that, i dont think they "insist" that white males bring most money, they just go where the money is, no matter the sex or color, it just happens that white males were traditionally most profitable Why? I dont know, but it is what it is
Anyway, i think that the narrative is changing and stupid, at least on the surface, things like inclusion riders and stuff are good business wise for studios because its modern and hip and that means the money is to be made So when studios or whoever finances stuff, makes decisions incorporating more women or blacks or whatever seemingly just for the sake of diversity, they are doing that for money, end of story They dont really care if youre man or a woman or black or white, just if you make them money or not, essentialy being by far the least bigoted, racist, mysoginist or whatever people in the whole hollywood - they just see the money
Ryan Turner
xi/xer isn't paid, they just now believe that now that (((media))) has has done its damage and made society in its image it's time for society to make media in its image and further lower the standards.
Joseph Kelly
Why is it called inclusion rider? Where does the rider part come from?
>if anyone knows what makes money in the business is the studios actually making said money in the business
Yeah, that explains why Wonder Woman was one of the biggest hits last year and now Black Panther is closing in in making Avengers level money.
Studios just stare at spreadsheets and act conservative as hell, refusing to take risks and never taking the right lessons when somebody contradicts their data because their biased POV makes them think only X sells.
Carter Edwards
what's the message of this vid? they're watching 40 year old movies ffs
Asher Parker
Think you forgot to read/comprehend the rest of what he typed.
Cameron Reed
Fuck conservatives. Ruining this country.
Tyler Cooper
They weren't forced to do anything, it's just a virtue signal. Timothy Chalamet is a New York crypto kike you think he's not a hardcore leftist?
Jose Miller
cute
Hudson Clark
>Frances McDormand >On screen, specifically, the goal is to reach at least 50 percent gender parity, with 40 percent inclusion for people of color, 5 percent L.G.B.T.Q. inclusion, and 20 percent disabled inclusion. I can't think of a single Coen bros film that meets any of those criteria
Alexander Watson
The music industry is the biggest satan pit on planet but Hollywood is a close second.
Asher Rivera
Why are you trying to justify making every film production even more of a bureaucratic nightmare than it already is? This is why I can never be a leftist, they love big government and bureaucracy and they infest everything with it. Just leave people alone.
Anthony Davis
Good thing they didn't agree to this then.
Joshua Miller
>at least 50 percent gender parity What did they mean by this
Luke Lee
She's married to one of those guys and stars in half their movies
William Ortiz
Doesn't matter, they didn't agree to it.
Jordan Sanchez
The Coens specifically spoke out against this sort of crap in an interview for Hail Caesar, they're based. I don't think any genuinely talented director would support this as they tend to be smarter and more serious about art than the rest of Hollywood.
