I was going to quote someone about two weeks ago in this thread about Chubbie saying how privileged he is for being able to go to more castings due to how depressed the biz is rn. I can't be assed to find it, so please pretend I did.
One may say that Chubbs has OP levels of privilege. Not only he comes from a rich background that allows him to not have to worry about money (like most people in the biz do) but has the time to shoot more barrels so to speak that most people can. He was already known as an Internet influencer and isn't uncomfortable enough with his past-self transition withstanding. Now, even tho most people in this thread have written in detail about their own experiences being adjacent to showbiz, I want to throw my two cents so forgive the powerlevel.
I know what it is to wait for literal months for something that even promises being a paid gig because accepting gigs from your Facebook groups is the only way you can stay relevant on your local scene. I know what it is to go uncredited because crediting you means your boss looks like shit in front of the producer. I know what it is to deal with students that can't be assed to add everyone on the same chat group for crew calls and then ask you why you showed up, while knowing those four pounds you could have used for a sandwich aren't coming back. I, like the silent 95% in this fucking industry, the same percent that gets shafted a different way each couple of months and has to alternate between a call centre and editing wedding videos. We paid our dues and will continue to pay them. I think there's hardly a more privileged person in British entertainment than Chubbie Thorn. Even Jameela did more to earn her bread.
I want you to know something. I'm not a fucking commie. I've meet a lot of fantastic, humble and truly talented people, including actors, that happen to come from wealth. If you grew up wealthy you should be fucking forced to be nice imo, you had access to education to not be a prick and don't get the 'I had to decide between rent and pursuing my dreams, so I can be grumpy' card. Truth be told most actors tend to come from money, specially today when most young actors are from acting families or otherwise artistic aristocrats. That doesn't mean a lot of them don't earn their bread, you still have enough great actors of all demographics working today, the kind that take Sir Christopher Lee's advice to actors to heart. What is undeniable is that Hollywood has created the most narcisistic generation of actors to date and considering how much actors themselves have fallen out of favour, that has somehow exacerbated the issue. You can decide for yourself if this is for the Marvel baby movie people in their 40s or the actual upcoming generation of talent. You got to be a nutcase to be an actor, being able to manifest a wide array of emotions usually means there are some issues latent and since fucking influencers get the same attention without the same emotional toll or skill threshold, you have some of the most entitled, insufferable yet desperate twits working today. If you read narcissim or just a general divorce with reality from La Chubbster, it isn't special, you need to be delussional to be in the line of work so don't feel bad about going armchair on him or his wing of the Interwebs.
To close my spiel I want to really go full armchair. I think that Chube's autosexuality puts Hontra to shame. Chube keeps Wiskus (the Nebula guy in case you forgot his name like I did) because in a fucked up way is who he was meant to be (the media hotshot producing leftie propaganda) and receiving attention from him validates Chube being a desirable starlet. In DEX, Chube places himself in the role of a pseudo-Hontra and appropiates the trauma abscribed to the opiod tranny, perhaps even to appropriate the sexual assault accusations in a meta sense since the 4chan copypasta won't go anywhere. Chube doesn't want to be Hontra, Chube wants to play Hontra, to give the image of poetic trauma without actually living it. To out-woman Hontra, to live in the flesh Hontra clearly gave up on trying to inhabit. To out-woman in the eyes of a tranny isn't to actually experience womanhood, but to indulge in the perks of being a woman without ever actually 'walking a mile in heels'. One may even abscribe a Jungian quality to it: why try to be a woman and discover how far off you are if you can forever live as a 'potential' woman, doing nothing differently that as you were a man and a failed man at that.
"Abi, Morgana, and Brandon in costume standing in the most gorgeously composed shot you’ve ever seen in a goddamn film in your life".
There are many posts I was going to quote for my soliloquy but I'm going to just quote this one. Because holy shit...
Yes, I took a screenshot of a screenshot.
Full disclosure, I'm not a photographer. But this shot has too much dead space on the sides and top (shot's too open), miss the desk/bar?. Did you notice those little trash bin things on the bar are almost lined up with the columns? The whole shot is off-centre, Brandon is lined with the column, Morgana is almost centred but Chube is framed inside. They are all laying on the bar and they are too close given the shot, hence fails at blocking (how you organise your actors and objects on frame). Lighting on everything but Chube's moobs is soft and the image lacks detail, probably to hide how aged this trio is; background looks like a Haircuts for Men album cover while the foreground looks like a boring German student film. You should be worried when the most professional looking person on your film is Brandon Rogers. Visual identity is also up the wazoo, despite how lavish and almost oneiric the art design is, the wardrobe is restraint and seems to be to a Dracula adapted to modern times with solid and boring black, minus Chube who is dressed in what I assume is his attempt at creating a modern equivalent to a Victorian corset with mall goth fashion and red, a strong colour in a piece I don't think was intended to be worn over a sweater. If the guy that could have passed for Campion Bond is trying to audition for playing Mina Harker we will officially have an even shittier League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie.
