Alright, I pushed some extra energy out of me to go through this one, so buckle up, this is going to be a long one.
Chapter 22, Flatliners.
In this chapter, Ellen talks about her experiences during the shooting of a movie that she was in, Flatliners. The garbage remake of the 1990 movie.
When we start the chapter, she mentions an anecdote involving someone else who was in the production, named Kiersey (Clemons).
We're two paragraphs in and Ellen fucks up the timeline, since Flatliners is a 1990, not from the 80s, and the way she's describing the movie it almost reads like she's low-key advertising it.
She mentions one of the times when the movie was almost a mess because of how terrible the production was. I have to reread this part because she doesn't mention which one of the movies had the worst production. In this part, she recalls a part when they were doing a car stunt with her colleagues, apparently everyone had thick seat belts except the two of them. She even rightfully called it out.
Very quickly they noticed how awful things would turn out for both of them, as the director wanted "genuine" reactions from them.
But apparently she was willing to see it because she wanted the thrill at the beginning?
All of it because she was a thrillseeker, so much of a badass that she watches POV videos of rollercoasters just to see how it's the experience of riding one. Even her friends call her "the mayor of Six Flags Magic Mountain" (because that's how teenagers talk, of course), and she tends to bring them to those rollercoasters. She loves the thrill.
But this was too much for her.
And to be fair to her, this is sounds actually nighmarish if this was exactly how it happened, I can't imagine myself doing this.
After the cut, she and Kirsey were in shock for the deranged experience. It was more than they anticipated.
And they didn't have the time to even process or even protest on what happened before they started rolling again with the shooting of the scene.
The only positive thing about that experience is that she and Kiersey got closer together and started speaking about this experience and how they should've handled it.
Ellen says that he should've quit way before because someone decided to be based with Kiersley, saying that she only got the role because she was black. Obviously, she didn't said nothing during the time. Because that's what activists tend to do.
And now we're back with her becoming spastic because having to use dresses, but just a little though. And actually giving a good reason with her not using the clothes, arguing that because this movie is about medicine students and the movie in-universe happened in just a couple of days, there is no reason for the character to be using these kind of clothes, but obviously, she was bitching about how she has to be "fixed" since "the problem was her". Classic victimist behavior.
And then, things gets spicy on this chapter, because we have something that we never seen before in this book yet.
ELLEN MAD!
It started when Ellen and the crew of the movie were reading the script. Everything seemed normal at first, having everything ready before going further into the role.
When the crew was getting ready to go. One of the producers wanted to speak with her a little bit about something. When she acommodated herself in the office, the producer started talking, and the first sentences already made Ellen know that things were gonna go south in a hurry when the producer started talking about gay people.
And then the producer drops the bomb on her.
And this set off Ellen in a big way, first she was shocked and dissapointed, and then she got BIG MAD. (Or little big mad?) She even swore in the exchange! And she even saw him as queerphobic, whatever the fuck that means.
And then she destroyed the producer with Facts and Logic! Almost telling him to check his privileges in a way and owning him. I'll take "Bullshit that didn't happened" for 1000$, Alex.
And she became stunning and brave by destroying him with Facts and Logic! Ellen was MERCILESS. She unloaded all the frustrations and rage towards bigots on him.
But for some weird reason, she decided to go along with it after all of that hoopla about accusing the producer of being a bigot and a "queerphobic", so I think it's safe to say that everything that happened here is just something that happened in her tiny head.
And then for some reason, she puts a poem-like thing written between this and the next story. But it's more victimist faggotry that I guess she wrote to herself.
Days later, a photoshoot was coming, and her was getting ready for it even though she was starting to get ready for it. Now, you read at this and tell me if this is just the trans boy wanting to come out or someone getting serious BPD about the situation.
And then the shooting happened. Finally getting some wardrobes for her, feeling powerful that she managed to get her way finally with the producers, like a stunning and brave lesbian woman,
But then, the eeevil producer man appeared again to her. And he showed her photos of Ellen when she had long hair, something that the Lil' Dood didn't liked one bit.
She retaliated once again.
And this was the last straw for Ellen, since she didn't want to see the photos... She just left the production! Right there, she was pissed and left. And that's how we actually end the chapter!
This chapter eroded the sympathy I had for Ellen since previous chapter, deleting it entirely.
From the looks of it, the production was just a bunch of stupid assholes, but that's to be expected from a presumably Hollywood production. But we fall back to the same thing, Ellen going upset for the wrong reasons.
Doing a dangerous stunt that could have hurt me horribly? A-Okay.
Someone wants to make me wear dresses and look prettier with long hair? Fucking unacceptable, time to scorch the earth with production and get out of here.
Give me a break, Ellen.
