She basically burned 190 million dollars on this crap. Id love to see where the money went because it sure as hell wasn't spent on good actors or the sets.
From the start, when she described The Acolyte by comparing it to two well known and established IPs that she had absolutely no credentials to do, I knew she was a narcissist. The way she also refers to George Lucas as just "George", as if she has any relation to him at all, is just pure ego.
"They only allow women to make three films." Good point. It's such a shame Kathryn Bigelow's career was cut short at Near Dark. Who knows what she might have accomplished.
Their content & self insert characters are their personal therapy sessions on screen. Their narcissism demands we all see their “brilliance” the way we saw Spielberg & Lucas, etc. yet their insecurities force them to use IPs they didn’t create because they know they’re not as talented or creative. So they hated the fans & audiences because any criticism of their therapy sessions felt like a personal attack and even worse. They resent audiences that declare “this is meh” “this is awful writing”, etc. because deep down they know the fans are definitely right. You made me think it’s not just narcissism but also a deep fear of being uncovered…the emperor with his new clothes.
Leslie: A short list of women who have directed more than 3 movies in Hollywood: Sofia Coppola -- 26 Niki Caro -- 15 Nancy Meyers -- 18 Nora Ephron -- 17
They're not playing dumb, when they accuse people of various "isms", for not liking this. They can't see past their own egos, their activism. The DEI, identity politics component, the victim hood, it's everything to them. The show is "good", purely on the merits of showcasing these virtue signals, everything else; plot, dialogue, good acting, cinematography, sets, costume, even a coherent context within the parent Universe, it's all secondary.
Oh, *_they know._* They make no bones over the fact they want critical voices [not alive anymore]. Hence, the defamation. Remember, slander is functionally *attempted murder by proxy.*
What struck me while watching your video -- Kathleen Kennedy is purposefully hiring showrunners who display signs of narcissism and of course no doubt who have the right political leanings. Fundamentally she's looking for people passionate about the agenda more than the story or even Star Wars. When she hears a pitch, that's what she's honing in on -- how passionate is this person about using the medium to push a certain point of view?
Saw an article where she says Kathleen Kennedy (pre production, only in first round of script writing phase) told her she had written "a great Star Wars show , but she should write a great Leslye Headland show."
Kennedy is building her own internal empire, she will pump out crap after crap, protected by those she hired and surrounds herself with and will worm her way into the CEO position where the corruption of Disney will be complete.
If she is not, then she is working for a company that has learned how to make identity a PR shield to deflect criticism on one hand, and inflicts fear with the other. The one thing people fear when they are successful is the loss of reputation, and by extension public confidence. SBI's head said it herself. "Grab a coffee with their marketing team and terrify them..." Which to translate means, "Threaten them with negative PR." It's a game where you are either on offense or defence. And offense, ironically, is the better position from a strategic point. However Disney have over-extended and exposed their hypocrisy to the point that mainstream media have finally noticed... The question now is, to whom are they loyal?
Not just a narcissist. She's a spoilsport, as we used to say back in the day. She's the kind of girl who would have ruined your football game, not because she wasn't allowed to play but because she wanted to be the center of attention. She'd tattle if you complained about changing the rules for her, she'd cry and gaslight you if you started winning, and she'd end the whole game by pretending to be hurt and running to an adult. Leslie Headland is that little girl, grown up.
I saw a comment on another page from a poster asserting that was Leslie’s friend in high school and Leslie ruined her life by lying about her, and everyone believed her. Shocking, I know.
Reminder: Brick Face thought _Frozen_ was about incestuous lesbian romance. Her RL sister refuses to speak to her. _The Acolyte_ is apparently a message/love letter to that sister. _DO THE MATH!_ But wait, it gets worse. Brick Face has basically admitted to stalking Amandla Stenberg for years after her Hunger Games role (when Stenberg was 13), and made the role for her specifically. Literally showed up to her with all the concept art ready-made, all showing images/portraits of Stenberg specifically, all before Stenberg even knew this project was in the works. Rather than notice the obvious red flags, she ran with it (and God knows what else behind closed doors).
Only Lucus understands Star Wars, Only Tolkin understands Lords of the Rings, only Martin understands Game of Thrones and only Rowling understands Harry Potter. Only the creators understand the world they built.
The 1978 STAR WARS Holiday Special was made for children. It was the only piece of STAR WARS the World got between 1977 and 1980, and we were glad to get it. When compared to the Acolyte the 1978 Holiday Special comes off looking honest and clean.
At worst, it was a cheesy variety show at a time Lucas didn't fully understand what his IP meant. It was still conceived with good intentions and wasn't a hateful vanity project from a narcissist.
She believed she could surpass George Lucas but discovered she couldn't. She often attributes her failures to being a woman and credits her successes to the same reason. With such a mindset, there's no winning or losing-she considers herself superior. If a movie fails or the fans dislike it, she blames them, not herself. Conversely, if the movie succeeds, she takes all the credit. Her writing reflects her anger and activism as a gay individual, and in my opinion, she's not a very talented writer.
The show was hush money. Harvey wasn't and isn't the only casting couch practicer in Hollywood or any entertainment industry for that matter. Silence Is Golden is a french comedy about early silent films from 1947 and the casting couch is what springboards its plot. All those activists should be fuming nothing is being done but of course these people love to bark because it takes less effort and is less risky than actually landing a bite.
So all you need to perform brain surgery on someone is confidence? Wow, do these people ever tell the truth anymore? Do they even care what the truth is?
It isn't even just Hollywood that's full of narcissists, though acting is a field that naturally appeals to them. That woman who ruined Bud Light did a long interview where it came out that her main objective in designing an advertising campaign was to achieve her own happiness. She described many conversations with her husband where he was fretting with her about how discontented she was, and how she had to craft her work in order to bring herself peace and happiness. The idea of having an obligation to her employer, let alone her customers, just wasn't present in her mind. The whole world was just one big therapy session to her.
@@Fionalah I meant Alissa Heinerscheid, the marketing director at Anheuser-Busch, who came up with the stupid idea, not Dylan Mulvaney. Though I had to do a quick search to make sure Heinerscheid actually WAS woman, because that's the kind of world we live in now.
Compared to "The Acolyte" If you go back & watch "X-Men the Animated series" It was so well crafted. The story of the struggles of mutants having to deal with humanity was such a universally relatable storyline. Media back then was not afraid to face difficult topics head on. They found really unique ways to abstractly teach people life lessons. They touched on difficult situations & found intelligent ways to convey certain stories. Even when I was all grown up & rewatched it, it really felt like the story is crafted so well & executed at such a high level that anyone is capable of relating to it in someway or another. It's stuff like that, that we are deeply lacking nowadays. So much so that literal kid's cartoons from the 90's told deeper and more mature stories than most media nowadays. Stuff used to take pride in who can find the most creative ways to convey certain things. Who can give the audience certain feelings without overly explaining it. It used to not matter what kind of character, creature, species they were. What matters is that they found ways to convey artistic depictions of the Human condition. Creative ways that can connect us on a deeper level. This stuff we are seeing across the board when it comes to video games or different kinds of media really seems like we are seeing a horrible outcome of a awful trend where people keep getting positions, who in no way deserve those positions. It doesn't seem these people are hired based off of their talent or skill..? We are seeing very expensive shows, games, movies, with such terrible writing. Awful world design, character development, poor aesthetics. So much right now just feels overall creatively bankrupt and I really hope we all snap the f*ck out of it and get back to making better things. Better games better shows better movies This show comes off so cheap & tacky.. It's not just the terrible writing & terrible acting. The whole thing is a complete self centered power trip.. It's horrible set design, horrible world building, horrible camera work. It all makes this show feel so small. Like it's filmed in a single green screen room.. Grasping at awful CGI techniques to try and force any bit of a false reality into this mess of a show. It's so far from Legitimate Star wars movies that it feels as if this whole thing is a big parody.. A very expensive parody..
Perfectly stated. Our Christmas tradition is to watch “Have Yourself a Merry Morlock X-Mas” episode each year with the kids, because of the grounded message it conveys. Couldn’t imagine what Disney’s “modern” version would be.
@@raymondrichards9262 She Lena Dunhamed her own sister as a child. Nothing short of a miracle from God Himself could help her, and I doubt she and Him are on speaking terms.
@@raymondrichards9262 Reminder: Brick Face thought _Frozen_ was about incestuous lesbian romance. Her RL sister refuses to speak to her. _The Acolyte_ is apparently a message/love letter to that sister. _DO THE MATH!_ What therapist alive today could fix that?
We’re all the heroes of our own stories. Certain psychopathic qualities can make for an effective company executive. People with narcissistic tendencies seem to thrive in an industry where they’re scrutinised by so many.
Leslye Headland is the perfect avatar for the people who think Lucas should be reigned in, they should be agreeing with her all the people who think Lucas is a bad creator or he needs help or he's insert whatever stupid reason for hating George Lucas or thinking he's incompetent to any extent or that he isn't all that great .
In my experience, finding someone in the entertainment industry who isn't a massive narcissist is quite a challenge. It actually makes sense since it's a high status profession, and narcissistic types crave status.
The bit about pretending you know what you're doing is - in a limited way - good advice. And it doesn't make men into monsters for their audacity is risk-taking. I'm sure most directors had a couple student films and had been experimenting since they were kids with filming stuff. HOWEVER, it's probably better if you do the learning thing on indie films. The recent spate of failure have been handing properties to directors who aren't suited for the project. If Robert Altman were still alive, he would be the wrong choice for a star wars film or to have directed The Eternals. Learning through doing is fine, but you want to limit the cost. The recent spate of disney films has been handling documentary or arthouse female directors 200 million dollars. And if any of their style comes through in the final work, then you have a weird product. With Headland, she seems to claim that she gave Kennedy a treatment for a star wars show and was told it was a good star wars show, but she wanted a Headland show. So unless Headland is lying to make herself seem like an auteur, then bastardizing genres and properties in an experimental way might be coming from Disney. I don't think Headland has helped herself, but Disney handed her and Stenberg a poisoned chalice and they were stupid enough to drink. If you're a film executive and someone comes to you with an idea with limited commercial appeal, just say no. Learning through doing is great, but disney hasn't done their female directors favors. They've given then public failures that should have been caught at the pitch stage. (I'm not trying to defend Headland exactly. A decent number of directors may have been worked their way up and learned the trade so when they were directing they knew what they were doing. But some directors were madmen, treading a line between genius and hubris. For instance, the film 'Walkabout' is culturally significant. But wandering off into the wilds of Australia could equally have ended with the sentence "And they were never heard from again.". I'd note that it's not just women who had their creative failures count against them. Michael Cimino didn't escape from the failure of Heaven's Gate.)
@Joecbg100 undercover journalist captured a VP on camera admitting thar Disney's DEI practices are extremely racist and sexist. They exclusively try to reject white males, and even only higher POC if they're quote "dark enough." In other words? South Park was 10000% correct when its episode had Carmen's Kathleen Kennedy demand to make new product have 'more women in and make it lame and gay'. The reason DEI is the cause is because DEI offers bonuses and incentives to reach certain agendized quotas. Money.
What's about five of your videos, you're really really good. You have an ability to explain both sides of a subject in a very thoughtful way. You just got yourself a subscriber. And I hope your channel explodes over the next year you deserve it.
Maybe this will make them understand that they should hire people who have made a name for themselves in this field to helm multi-million dollar productions. I mean, I'm no expert, but I think that's I would do?
For real. You would assume that If someone is going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on something that they would want experienced people who meet certain standards? This show really does seem like a awful outcome of this awful trend where people keep getting these positions, who in no way deserve those positions. It doesn't seem they are hired based off of their talent or skill..? A show this expensive, with this famous of a subject, should Not have this bad of writing. The world design, the set design, the aesthetics, the overall look & feel of it's visuals as a whole come off so cheap. It's all so surface level & tacky. On top of everything people have already said, I also think the camera work in this show is awful. The show genuinely feels like kids who are role playing as adults in order to direct this.. It really feels like it's deliberately going against everything that is Star Wars. It feels deliberately disrespectful to the lore and has no respect to the source material. Are they deathly allergic to having male characters? Are they allergic to quality storytelling, world building, character development.. This is awful! It really seems like whoever is making these doesn't realize Star Wars used to be a really well made world full of diversity. It didn't matter what kind of character, creature, species you were, they found great ways to convey artistic depictions of the Human condition. Creative ways that connect us all on a deeper level. This show comes off so cheap & tacky.. It's not just the terrible writing & terrible acting. It's horrible set design, horrible world building, horrible camera work. It all makes this show feel so small. Like it's filmed in a single green screen room.. Grasping at awful CGI techniques to try and force any bit of a false reality into this mess of a show. It's so far from Legitimate Star wars movies that it feels as if this whole thing is a big parody.. A very expensive parody..🎉
Nah, I hear a lot of people tend to think Caravan of Courage is forgettable and bland, plus a lot of people don’t like the brother character. Battle For Endor is considered a VAST improvement.
I came into this industry.Not knowing how to do the job I lied to get.... And for no good reason, they're only letting me manage 3 billion dollar projects! Men! Grrrrrr!!
In a word, "Yes." She is. Headland is also a talentless amateur. This show is a self-insert vanity production. Nothing more. You have hit the nail on the head.
There's a difference between being narcissistic and having Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Just like there's a difference between "I'm on the spectrum" autistics and the autistics who remain nonverbal well into adulthood because they can't handle even the most simple human interactions.
6:11 With this phrase is notorious that Lesyle is envious and contemptuous for George Lucas, ,obviously George Lucas is the key, he's the creator. What does she expect? This attitude that Lesyle Headland has against George Lucas is not so different from the new star wars fans who believe that George Lucas is not so important. And yes he is important. Without him there is not Star Wars that's it. They like it or not he's important, he understands better than anyone else how his universe work out. I don't understand why people still having faith on this woman, she's a snake dressing up as a sheep.
Well, if all they have to offer us is dumpster fires, at least the Acolyte is turning out to be a rather entertaining dumpster fire. Dumpster Fires in Space, rather than Star Wars. -That is what the fire shown burning in the vacuum of space symbolizes in the first episode of the Acolyte.
6:59 The fact that in this photo I find few differences, if any, between the two immortalized subjects, curiously reminds me of the ending of Animal Farm.
I worked in restaurants and managed 80% of my life. I seen these types of behaviors in different forms manifest. I fought it. It cost me my job. I walked away from a career just to watch it manifest in this form. Internet and our infant minds developed this garbage thinking. Monkey see, Monkey do is not just a funny saying
@@chasehedges6775Man, to think Planet of the Apes is an older franchise than Star Wars, and both were pitched by Fox. Maybe Dr. Zaius was right about human race.
I've never seen Frozen, so I may be missing some subtleties here, but I found that whole speech weird. She compares a sister relationship to a heterosexual romantic relationship, and says that as a queer person she would have understood that sort of thing if she had seen it between sisters.. (Btw, that also makes it sound like as a lesbian she could never understand the love for a brother..) This mixing up of familial love and romantic love is so powerful that she cried through the entire movie and she believes it would changed her entire life if she had seen it as a kid, because this is the kind of love/relationship she would have "understood" as a little lesbian.. Ok? I can't tell if she's just being really bad at coming up with ways to make things sound "stunning and brave and super important" in front an interviewer or not..
Leslye is just a footsoldier, she is doing what is recquired of her. You have to look higher up, even higher than Kathleen Kennedy and Bob Iger into people who financially back modern culture in the West. They set trends. Also, Star Wars is to be watched by kids, not 30+ year old nerds, it's modern classic hero's journey fairy tales and forming experiences. So their hope is that said much younger audience watches it and there it sticks and lingers.
Of course but these people can't really be affected by criticism of a show, they are way out of reach. So the only way is to keep pumeling Disney into the ground by pointing everything wrong with these projects and the people involved in them. The strategy behind DEI and promoting wokeness is well known at this point, it's social engineering on a massive scale, but the only way to fight it is to denounce the ideology and for companies to keep losing ungodly amounts of money, as Disney has been doing
and that is the problem with Hollywood. 3 tries to make movies that probably all failed means you probably shouldn't be a film maker and just like disney she is using women as a sheild. you have to learn too lesyle 😂
Headland completely misunderstood the phrase "fake it 'til you make it" and never got out of the fake-it phase. Copying other successful persons isn't just acting like them, but understanding _why_ their work is well-received and _how_ they create a successful product. She obviously only has a surface-level understanding of storytelling and filmmaking and lacks the deep knowledge and wisdom of those she is trying to emulate.
Yeah, you're supposed to just fake it for a bit so you can get in the room where it happens and learn from being there not grift and lie that you can do things when you can't and don't want to do them properly anyway.
Im so tired of her constantly using the phrase "as a queer person" to justify every incoherent thought and action. She bullshitted and lied her way to power. Thats true privilege
Really thoughtful analysis Nerdword. Are you a psychologist? I think you’re spot on in your observation. Granted, overt narcissism is certainly not uncommon in Hollywood of all places, but Leslye does seem to be particularly insufferable.
They never learned the value of money, so a million give or take is like peanuts to them, while even in industrialized nations actual peanuts became shockingly expensive - due to the inflation caused by terrible decisions of the rich and influential, just like you mentioned.
Off the top of my head, three female directors that blow her 'they will only let you make three films' theory out of the water: Asia Argento, Sofia Coppola, Kathryn Bigelow.
I have news for Leslie Hedland: Many women have directed more than 3 movies in Hollywood. Sofia Coppola -- 25. Niki Caro -- 15 Nancy Meyers -- 18 Nora Ephron -- 17 Yes she is a narcissist and also an accomplice to Harvey and a self-pitying activist.
Great video and breakdown of L. Headland, one critique though, Star Wars fans don’t mind politics, it’s for everyone, we just don’t like being pandered to, badly written scripts or spoon fed narratives in our Star Wars 😂 Andor was political on its face and had a scene in episode 6 where a rebel lesbian woman of color killed a white imperial officer and his white family due to a heist gone wrong, and like, no one batted an eye and the show was praised by audiences and critics. Oh and in the following episode that same rebel lesbian POC told her pretty white lesbian girlfriend to check her privilege… I mean, it wasn’t subtle, it was good writing
The irony is that Headland and her ilk are the ones who say, "If you don't like it, don't watch.", after deliberately inserting themselves into a franchise that they constantly admit they don't like.
Kinda funny that looking into her filmography you see a pattern of her starting a project, getting bored or something, and then other people finish the project. With The Acolyte she only wrote/directed the first episode.
That video of her walking on stage gave me such douche chills that I can't watch it any more. Contrast that with Hayden coming on stage (who literally played Anakin effin Skywalker) and he is humble and respectful.
Make a bad product, blame the consumer. Modern Marketing 101
If "smug" was a person, it would be Leslye Headland.
Mmm, I think that now has to go to Amandla Stenberg. Did you see that video she did? So hypocritical and just full of narcissism.
Former assistant to Harvey Weinstein.
@@SiMon-em3wu Assistant = Pimp
I like her and I'm LOVING The Acolyte.
She basically burned 190 million dollars on this crap. Id love to see where the money went because it sure as hell wasn't spent on good actors or the sets.
Happy Men’s Mental Health month to all my brothers in arms.
I’m with ya sir. 💪
Back to you man. 💪
The Acolyte is so bad, it makes Star Wars: Holiday Special look like a classic 🤣
Ewoks The Battle For Endor is a masterpiece compared to Acolyte.
THERE was a lot of good in the SW holiday special.
@@robguitarwizard We met Boba Fett.
SKIP HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS NARCISSISM PEOPLE.
@@johnhoran9840 👍
There's a lot of things I'd call Leslye Headland....Narcissist is one of the nicer things.
Likewise, most of which the algorithm would ping. I will instead leave one that hasn't been picked up on yet: "she's a Lena Dunham."
From the start, when she described The Acolyte by comparing it to two well known and established IPs that she had absolutely no credentials to do, I knew she was a narcissist. The way she also refers to George Lucas as just "George", as if she has any relation to him at all, is just pure ego.
"They only allow women to make three films." Good point. It's such a shame Kathryn Bigelow's career was cut short at Near Dark. Who knows what she might have accomplished.
Same. She’s a good director
@@SW-fn7clI was about to say thesame thing. Lmao
Blue Steel was her third film.
@@SW-fn7clGerwig would have done WAAAAY better with something like The Acolyte.
Their content & self insert characters are their personal therapy sessions on screen.
Their narcissism demands we all see their “brilliance” the way we saw Spielberg & Lucas, etc. yet their insecurities force them to use IPs they didn’t create because they know they’re not as talented or creative.
So they hated the fans & audiences because any criticism of their therapy sessions felt like a personal attack and even worse. They resent audiences that declare “this is meh” “this is awful writing”, etc. because deep down they know the fans are definitely right.
You made me think it’s not just narcissism but also a deep fear of being uncovered…the emperor with his new clothes.
Leslie: A short list of women who have directed more than 3 movies in Hollywood:
Sofia Coppola -- 26
Niki Caro -- 15
Nancy Meyers -- 18
Nora Ephron -- 17
Debbie Does...?
They're not playing dumb, when they accuse people of various "isms", for not liking this. They can't see past their own egos, their activism.
The DEI, identity politics component, the victim hood, it's everything to them.
The show is "good", purely on the merits of showcasing these virtue signals, everything else; plot, dialogue, good acting, cinematography, sets, costume, even a coherent context within the parent Universe, it's all secondary.
it's not even secondary - it simply doesn't exist in this series
Oh, *_they know._* They make no bones over the fact they want critical voices [not alive anymore]. Hence, the defamation.
Remember, slander is functionally *attempted murder by proxy.*
What struck me while watching your video -- Kathleen Kennedy is purposefully hiring showrunners who display signs of narcissism and of course no doubt who have the right political leanings. Fundamentally she's looking for people passionate about the agenda more than the story or even Star Wars. When she hears a pitch, that's what she's honing in on -- how passionate is this person about using the medium to push a certain point of view?
Not even sure they care about the agenda, as much as use it as convenient social leverage to justify and defend their self aggrandizing
If you hire activists then these activist only work for their agenda and not for the company or the shareholder. 😇
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Saw an article where she says Kathleen Kennedy (pre production, only in first round of script writing phase) told her she had written "a great Star Wars show , but she should write a great Leslye Headland show."
Kennedy is building her own internal empire, she will pump out crap after crap, protected by those she hired and surrounds herself with and will worm her way into the CEO position where the corruption of Disney will be complete.
That is a lot of narcissism coming out of a very angry Leslye Headland. She needs to get that looked at by a trained professional.
The same person who worked for Weinstein and saw nothing , telling women how to get into movies .
@@lonew2657 “There is no good and evil. There is only power… and those too weak to seek it.” - Said by someone.
The kind of professional one hires on the dark web?
If she is not, then she is working for a company that has learned how to make identity a PR shield to deflect criticism on one hand, and inflicts fear with the other.
The one thing people fear when they are successful is the loss of reputation, and by extension public confidence.
SBI's head said it herself. "Grab a coffee with their marketing team and terrify them..." Which to translate means, "Threaten them with negative PR."
It's a game where you are either on offense or defence. And offense, ironically, is the better position from a strategic point. However Disney have over-extended and exposed their hypocrisy to the point that mainstream media have finally noticed... The question now is, to whom are they loyal?
Better still, an untrained professional
Not just a narcissist.
She's a spoilsport, as we used to say back in the day. She's the kind of girl who would have ruined your football game, not because she wasn't allowed to play but because she wanted to be the center of attention. She'd tattle if you complained about changing the rules for her, she'd cry and gaslight you if you started winning, and she'd end the whole game by pretending to be hurt and running to an adult.
Leslie Headland is that little girl, grown up.
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I saw a comment on another page from a poster asserting that was Leslie’s friend in high school and Leslie ruined her life by lying about her, and everyone believed her. Shocking, I know.
Pretty much
Hollywood is full of these types now.
Reminder: Brick Face thought _Frozen_ was about incestuous lesbian romance. Her RL sister refuses to speak to her. _The Acolyte_ is apparently a message/love letter to that sister. _DO THE MATH!_
But wait, it gets worse. Brick Face has basically admitted to stalking Amandla Stenberg for years after her Hunger Games role (when Stenberg was 13), and made the role for her specifically. Literally showed up to her with all the concept art ready-made, all showing images/portraits of Stenberg specifically, all before Stenberg even knew this project was in the works. Rather than notice the obvious red flags, she ran with it (and God knows what else behind closed doors).
Only Lucus understands Star Wars, Only Tolkin understands Lords of the Rings, only Martin understands Game of Thrones and only Rowling understands Harry Potter. Only the creators understand the world they built.
THIS👍💯
The lesson is very simple: Let the creators cook.
Martin allowed (💰) others to "finish" his story on the small screen 😬...
Careful now you’re using common sense, logic, and facts. Something that Headland lacks.
@@wolfmauler Yeah, that fits but I’m not a GOT fan, unfortunately
Headland: "... it just destroyed me completely."
If only.
The 1978 STAR WARS Holiday Special was made for children. It was the only piece of STAR WARS the World got between 1977 and 1980, and we were glad to get it. When compared to the Acolyte the 1978 Holiday Special comes off looking honest and clean.
At worst, it was a cheesy variety show at a time Lucas didn't fully understand what his IP meant. It was still conceived with good intentions and wasn't a hateful vanity project from a narcissist.
@@Fionalah Cheesy variety shows were the norm at the time. They were all…well, like that.
She believed she could surpass George Lucas but discovered she couldn't. She often attributes her failures to being a woman and credits her successes to the same reason. With such a mindset, there's no winning or losing-she considers herself superior. If a movie fails or the fans dislike it, she blames them, not herself. Conversely, if the movie succeeds, she takes all the credit. Her writing reflects her anger and activism as a gay individual, and in my opinion, she's not a very talented writer.
Schrodingers Wah-men
Only God can help her.
She did surpass George Lucas’s horrible dialogue…
@@TrueLunacy haha Thats funny.
@@Droz75 “attack me with all your strength.”
The way the media rally around and protect Headland is strange. She seems very unlikable, likely she has dirt on major players.
The show was hush money. Harvey wasn't and isn't the only casting couch practicer in Hollywood or any entertainment industry for that matter. Silence Is Golden is a french comedy about early silent films from 1947 and the casting couch is what springboards its plot. All those activists should be fuming nothing is being done but of course these people love to bark because it takes less effort and is less risky than actually landing a bite.
So all you need to perform brain surgery on someone is confidence? Wow, do these people ever tell the truth anymore? Do they even care what the truth is?
Only their "truth" matters and their truth is always based on delusional fantasies.
Cluster-Bs gonna Cluster-B. So in answer to your last two questions, that was never in the cards.
Seems like she might need brain surgery, you should give her your card.
Star Wars is a broken, barely functional ship sailing into the desolate sunset.
Drama much?
@@conscientiousobjector5988 Whatever
The Mouse has left da house.
@@rozzgrey801 👍
It's more like the Titan sub at this rate. Had a lot of promise, then crushed and discarded to the depths, only achieving new lows.
How do you just walk into Hollywood and get to direct a film without any credentials?, I'd love to give it a go
Same LOL
I wanted to be an actor ever since i was little and still kinda want to.
Now, with the way Hollywood is, I’m not sure that I want to.
Easy. Just be a queer person. Helps if you're diverse, too.
Oh, also be utterly ruthless.
Wait a minute. You cannot just walk in, that's dumb.
You need to be gay or a female, better be both and you are set.
It isn't even just Hollywood that's full of narcissists, though acting is a field that naturally appeals to them. That woman who ruined Bud Light did a long interview where it came out that her main objective in designing an advertising campaign was to achieve her own happiness. She described many conversations with her husband where he was fretting with her about how discontented she was, and how she had to craft her work in order to bring herself peace and happiness. The idea of having an obligation to her employer, let alone her customers, just wasn't present in her mind. The whole world was just one big therapy session to her.
Spoiler: it wasn't a woman
@@Fionalah I meant Alissa Heinerscheid, the marketing director at Anheuser-Busch, who came up with the stupid idea, not Dylan Mulvaney. Though I had to do a quick search to make sure Heinerscheid actually WAS woman, because that's the kind of world we live in now.
Cluster-Bs gonna Cluster-B.
Compared to "The Acolyte" If you go back & watch "X-Men the Animated series" It was so well crafted. The story of the struggles of mutants having to deal with humanity was such a universally relatable storyline. Media back then was not afraid to face difficult topics head on. They found really unique ways to abstractly teach people life lessons. They touched on difficult situations & found intelligent ways to convey certain stories. Even when I was all grown up & rewatched it, it really felt like the story is crafted so well & executed at such a high level that anyone is capable of relating to it in someway or another. It's stuff like that, that we are deeply lacking nowadays. So much so that literal kid's cartoons from the 90's told deeper and more mature stories than most media nowadays.
Stuff used to take pride in who can find the most creative ways to convey certain things. Who can give the audience certain feelings without overly explaining it.
It used to not matter what kind of character, creature, species they were. What matters is that they found ways to convey artistic depictions of the Human condition. Creative ways that can connect us on a deeper level.
This stuff we are seeing across the board when it comes to video games or different kinds of media really seems like we are seeing a horrible outcome of a awful trend where people keep getting positions, who in no way deserve those positions. It doesn't seem these people are hired based off of their talent or skill..? We are seeing very expensive shows, games, movies, with such terrible writing. Awful world design, character development, poor aesthetics. So much right now just feels overall creatively bankrupt and I really hope we all snap the f*ck out of it and get back to making better things. Better games better shows better movies
This show comes off so cheap & tacky.. It's not just the terrible writing & terrible acting. The whole thing is a complete self centered power trip.. It's horrible set design, horrible world building, horrible camera work. It all makes this show feel so small. Like it's filmed in a single green screen room.. Grasping at awful CGI techniques to try and force any bit of a false reality into this mess of a show.
It's so far from Legitimate Star wars movies that it feels as if this whole thing is a big parody.. A very expensive parody..
Perfectly stated. Our Christmas tradition is to watch “Have Yourself a Merry Morlock X-Mas” episode each year with the kids, because of the grounded message it conveys. Couldn’t imagine what Disney’s “modern” version would be.
She self inserted her entire life to the one of the biggest franchise on this world, so yeah she is grade A narcissist.
Star Wars fans just wished she spent a few bucks and gone to a therapist like everyone else and kept the hell away from this beloved franchise
And completely obliterated decades of lore (set down by the creator himself) just to massage her bloated ego.
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She Lena Dunhamed her own sister as a child. Nothing short of a miracle from God Himself could help her, and I doubt she and Him are on speaking terms.
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She Lena Dunhamed her own sister as a child. I don't think therapy can fix someone _that_ fucked up.
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Reminder: Brick Face thought _Frozen_ was about incestuous lesbian romance. Her RL sister refuses to speak to her. _The Acolyte_ is apparently a message/love letter to that sister. _DO THE MATH!_
What therapist alive today could fix that?
We’re all the heroes of our own stories.
Certain psychopathic qualities can make for an effective company executive.
People with narcissistic tendencies seem to thrive in an industry where they’re scrutinised by so many.
Pretty sure Kathleen Kennedy is also a narcissist. Unfortunately there's a lot of it about these days.
Leslye Headland is the perfect avatar for the people who think Lucas should be reigned in, they should be agreeing with her all the people who think Lucas is a bad creator or he needs help or he's insert whatever stupid reason for hating George Lucas or thinking he's incompetent to any extent or that he isn't all that great .
In my experience, finding someone in the entertainment industry who isn't a massive narcissist is quite a challenge. It actually makes sense since it's a high status profession, and narcissistic types crave status.
Yes, she's a narcissist. But more importantly, she's an unindicted co-conspirator
and a director of 💩
@MissMedeiros we're all creators of shit. Just very few of us try to sell popcorn to people to watch it.
Just two words that would have blown headland's argument out of the water with regard to female directors, Kathryn Bigelow!
Point Break(1991) is still a classic. One of Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze’s best.
One of the best film directors.
@@chasehedges6775 also Academy Award winner for her directing.
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@@stingray2001 Also Jennifer Kent who directed The Nightingale(2018).!
The bit about pretending you know what you're doing is - in a limited way - good advice. And it doesn't make men into monsters for their audacity is risk-taking. I'm sure most directors had a couple student films and had been experimenting since they were kids with filming stuff. HOWEVER, it's probably better if you do the learning thing on indie films. The recent spate of failure have been handing properties to directors who aren't suited for the project. If Robert Altman were still alive, he would be the wrong choice for a star wars film or to have directed The Eternals.
Learning through doing is fine, but you want to limit the cost. The recent spate of disney films has been handling documentary or arthouse female directors 200 million dollars. And if any of their style comes through in the final work, then you have a weird product. With Headland, she seems to claim that she gave Kennedy a treatment for a star wars show and was told it was a good star wars show, but she wanted a Headland show. So unless Headland is lying to make herself seem like an auteur, then bastardizing genres and properties in an experimental way might be coming from Disney.
I don't think Headland has helped herself, but Disney handed her and Stenberg a poisoned chalice and they were stupid enough to drink. If you're a film executive and someone comes to you with an idea with limited commercial appeal, just say no. Learning through doing is great, but disney hasn't done their female directors favors. They've given then public failures that should have been caught at the pitch stage.
(I'm not trying to defend Headland exactly. A decent number of directors may have been worked their way up and learned the trade so when they were directing they knew what they were doing. But some directors were madmen, treading a line between genius and hubris. For instance, the film 'Walkabout' is culturally significant. But wandering off into the wilds of Australia could equally have ended with the sentence "And they were never heard from again.". I'd note that it's not just women who had their creative failures count against them. Michael Cimino didn't escape from the failure of Heaven's Gate.)
Don't even need to ask. 😂
Nope LOL😅
That is like asking if water is wet.
Is Lesley Headland wet?
Only a narcissist could make something that bad that no one likes and think everyone else is wrong.
And call it “art”. 🤣
@@JoeOvercoat We call it GARBAGE.
She called the Acolyte "the _most important_ piece of art" she's ever made.
the james o'keefe recent news report explains how well see for yourself.
The what?
@Joecbg100 undercover journalist captured a VP on camera admitting thar Disney's DEI practices are extremely racist and sexist. They exclusively try to reject white males, and even only higher POC if they're quote "dark enough."
In other words? South Park was 10000% correct when its episode had Carmen's Kathleen Kennedy demand to make new product have 'more women in and make it lame and gay'.
The reason DEI is the cause is because DEI offers bonuses and incentives to reach certain agendized quotas. Money.
What's about five of your videos, you're really really good. You have an ability to explain both sides of a subject in a very thoughtful way. You just got yourself a subscriber. And I hope your channel explodes over the next year you deserve it.
Maybe this will make them understand that they should hire people who have made a name for themselves in this field to helm multi-million dollar productions. I mean, I'm no expert, but I think that's I would do?
For real. You would assume that If someone is going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on something that they would want experienced people who meet certain standards? This show really does seem like a awful outcome of this awful trend where people keep getting these positions, who in no way deserve those positions. It doesn't seem they are hired based off of their talent or skill..? A show this expensive, with this famous of a subject, should Not have this bad of writing. The world design, the set design, the aesthetics, the overall look & feel of it's visuals as a whole come off so cheap. It's all so surface level & tacky. On top of everything people have already said, I also think the camera work in this show is awful. The show genuinely feels like kids who are role playing as adults in order to direct this..
It really feels like it's deliberately going against everything that is Star Wars. It feels deliberately disrespectful to the lore and has no respect to the source material. Are they deathly allergic to having male characters? Are they allergic to quality storytelling, world building, character development.. This is awful! It really seems like whoever is making these doesn't realize Star Wars used to be a really well made world full of diversity. It didn't matter what kind of character, creature, species you were, they found great ways to convey artistic depictions of the Human condition. Creative ways that connect us all on a deeper level.
This show comes off so cheap & tacky.. It's not just the terrible writing & terrible acting. It's horrible set design, horrible world building, horrible camera work. It all makes this show feel so small. Like it's filmed in a single green screen room.. Grasping at awful CGI techniques to try and force any bit of a false reality into this mess of a show.
It's so far from Legitimate Star wars movies that it feels as if this whole thing is a big parody.. A very expensive parody..🎉
Revenge Of The Sith and Ewoks The Battle For Endor are better than any of the Modern Disney Star Wars stuff.
Also Caravan of courage and the holiday special ❤
Dont besmirch Episode III like that. It's an actual bonafide classic
Yeah, Episode 3 Revenge Of The Is a masterpiece and my personal favorite SW movie.
Nah, I hear a lot of people tend to think Caravan of Courage is forgettable and bland, plus a lot of people don’t like the brother character. Battle For Endor is considered a VAST improvement.
I came into this industry.Not knowing how to do the job I lied to get.... And for no good reason, they're only letting me manage 3 billion dollar projects! Men! Grrrrrr!!
A narcissist might be an understatement and sociopath or even psychopath is probably more accurate
Really love your thoughtful breakdowns
In a word, "Yes." She is. Headland is also a talentless amateur. This show is a self-insert vanity production. Nothing more. You have hit the nail on the head.
STAR WARS SAVED MY LIFE 😭😭
Lmao, that was so hilariously unauthentic, I can't believe she thought that was a good idea. Just pure narcissism
Very well thought-out and explained analysis
Pixar recently announced they would be doing more stories with universal themes, rather than creating cathartic outlets for the writers.
Yes she is
The Farce is strong with this one.
Yes, next question.
YES!
Narcissism is NOT rare. 1 in 6 people are narcissists.
There's a difference between being narcissistic and having Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Just like there's a difference between "I'm on the spectrum" autistics and the autistics who remain nonverbal well into adulthood because they can't handle even the most simple human interactions.
Wrong
6:11 With this phrase is notorious that Lesyle is envious and contemptuous for George Lucas, ,obviously George Lucas is the key, he's the creator. What does she expect? This attitude that Lesyle Headland has against George Lucas is not so different from the new star wars fans who believe that George Lucas is not so important. And yes he is important. Without him there is not Star Wars that's it. They like it or not he's important, he understands better than anyone else how his universe work out.
I don't understand why people still having faith on this woman, she's a snake dressing up as a sheep.
Well, if all they have to offer us is dumpster fires, at least the Acolyte is turning out to be a rather entertaining dumpster fire.
Dumpster Fires in Space, rather than Star Wars. -That is what the fire shown burning in the vacuum of space symbolizes in the first episode of the Acolyte.
Wow, I didn't even know any of this. Also, thanks for always making informed videos
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy will make us pine for the kinder, gentler times of Leslye Headland.
6:59 The fact that in this photo I find few differences, if any, between the two immortalized subjects, curiously reminds me of the ending of Animal Farm.
I worked in restaurants and managed 80% of my life. I seen these types of behaviors in different forms manifest. I fought it. It cost me my job. I walked away from a career just to watch it manifest in this form. Internet and our infant minds developed this garbage thinking. Monkey see, Monkey do is not just a funny saying
Very true.
Or as one of the ape characters in the 1968 original Planet Of The Apes put it: “Human see, human do.
I suggest that Leslie lives by, “See no evil. Hear no evil. Speak no evil.” western style.
@@chasehedges6775Man, to think Planet of the Apes is an older franchise than Star Wars, and both were pitched by Fox. Maybe Dr. Zaius was right about human race.
@@jesustovar2549 Soooo true. We’re so screwed as a species and we are so messed up.
Not to sound dramatic, but something about her eyes scare TF outta me🤔
It the "modern whaman" crazy eyes, typical in woke Hollywood.
I've never seen Frozen, so I may be missing some subtleties here, but I found that whole speech weird. She compares a sister relationship to a heterosexual romantic relationship, and says that as a queer person she would have understood that sort of thing if she had seen it between sisters.. (Btw, that also makes it sound like as a lesbian she could never understand the love for a brother..) This mixing up of familial love and romantic love is so powerful that she cried through the entire movie and she believes it would changed her entire life if she had seen it as a kid, because this is the kind of love/relationship she would have "understood" as a little lesbian.. Ok? I can't tell if she's just being really bad at coming up with ways to make things sound "stunning and brave and super important" in front an interviewer or not..
I'm one second into this video, but yes.
Yes. They all are at Disney
She is just insane. I mean just look at her. She has crazy written all over herself.
Leslye is just a footsoldier, she is doing what is recquired of her. You have to look higher up, even higher than Kathleen Kennedy and Bob Iger into people who financially back modern culture in the West. They set trends. Also, Star Wars is to be watched by kids, not 30+ year old nerds, it's modern classic hero's journey fairy tales and forming experiences. So their hope is that said much younger audience watches it and there it sticks and lingers.
Of course but these people can't really be affected by criticism of a show, they are way out of reach. So the only way is to keep pumeling Disney into the ground by pointing everything wrong with these projects and the people involved in them. The strategy behind DEI and promoting wokeness is well known at this point, it's social engineering on a massive scale, but the only way to fight it is to denounce the ideology and for companies to keep losing ungodly amounts of money, as Disney has been doing
are these the same "people" who are invading Gaza right now?
...In reply to the title of this video, the answer is - Yes. R.I.P. Disney Star Wars 💀
"She's just the flavor of the month." 😅 Priceless.
As a convicted felon, it’s now his “criminal dealings” she is trying to distance herself from.
The answer is obviously yes. Btw, congrats on going viral!
I’m sure no young woman has ever asked her anything except maybe where she shops for clothes so they don’t go there by accident.
That's a great insult, I will definitely steal this. 😂
Also better creative writing then anything Headland ever produced.
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and that is the problem with Hollywood. 3 tries to make movies that probably all failed means you probably shouldn't be a film maker and just like disney she is using women as a sheild. you have to learn too lesyle 😂
Nerdword.... Thank you......spot on...
*_THE LACKOLYTE..._*
...by _Leslye HeadBland._
Being a fanfic writer myself, I know fanfiction when I see it 😂
how much uh...forbidden subjects...does your writing have?
Headland completely misunderstood the phrase "fake it 'til you make it" and never got out of the fake-it phase. Copying other successful persons isn't just acting like them, but understanding _why_ their work is well-received and _how_ they create a successful product. She obviously only has a surface-level understanding of storytelling and filmmaking and lacks the deep knowledge and wisdom of those she is trying to emulate.
Yeah, you're supposed to just fake it for a bit so you can get in the room where it happens and learn from being there not grift and lie that you can do things when you can't and don't want to do them properly anyway.
I googled smug narcissist and she came up👍
Very fascinating video 🎉🎉
Im so tired of her constantly using the phrase "as a queer person" to justify every incoherent thought and action. She bullshitted and lied her way to power. Thats true privilege
She uses that line every time people question what she's doing.
yes. it's all about her.
NPD is a common trait among SJW's.
Absolutely fucking yes and its insufferable
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Nobody who is not a narcissist seeks to be in show business. It's the nature of the beast.
I think that you should go through the dsm5 and put the symptoms of narcissism against interviews of hedland. It becomes blazingly apparent she is
We all watch (Well most of us don't) in horror as she has her way with Star Wars just like she watched Harvey has his way with thousands of women
Really thoughtful analysis Nerdword. Are you a psychologist? I think you’re spot on in your observation. Granted, overt narcissism is certainly not uncommon in Hollywood of all places, but Leslye does seem to be particularly insufferable.
Ha, I wish! I took a few classes in university but that's it. 😊
what i thought when she said she loved all star wars on the red carpet before she got the job lmfao
small hats....
The way she presents herself screams narcissism- the perpetual smugness really shows!
How do the people with the most money make the worst decisions? Literally throwing away millions, even BILLIONS of dollars
They never learned the value of money, so a million give or take is like peanuts to them, while even in industrialized nations actual peanuts became shockingly expensive - due to the inflation caused by terrible decisions of the rich and influential, just like you mentioned.
Im here to say YES
South Park has content for years to come because of these people and this show
Short answer…….yes!
Off the top of my head, three female directors that blow her 'they will only let you make three films' theory out of the water: Asia Argento, Sofia Coppola, Kathryn Bigelow.
Ngl she got that Minecraft cube looking head
Great video.
Her association with Weinstein makes sense .
I have news for Leslie Hedland: Many women have directed more than 3 movies in Hollywood.
Sofia Coppola -- 25.
Niki Caro -- 15
Nancy Meyers -- 18
Nora Ephron -- 17
Yes she is a narcissist and also an accomplice to Harvey and a self-pitying activist.
Great video and breakdown of L. Headland, one critique though, Star Wars fans don’t mind politics, it’s for everyone, we just don’t like being pandered to, badly written scripts or spoon fed narratives in our Star Wars 😂
Andor was political on its face and had a scene in episode 6 where a rebel lesbian woman of color killed a white imperial officer and his white family due to a heist gone wrong, and like, no one batted an eye and the show was praised by audiences and critics. Oh and in the following episode that same rebel lesbian POC told her pretty white lesbian girlfriend to check her privilege… I mean, it wasn’t subtle, it was good writing
The irony is that Headland and her ilk are the ones who say, "If you don't like it, don't watch.", after deliberately inserting themselves into a franchise that they constantly admit they don't like.
Star Wars shouldn’t even be on tv imo. Should be grand, thoughtful epics with wisdom and excellent storytelling - not bland, mediocre tv
Kinda funny that looking into her filmography you see a pattern of her starting a project, getting bored or something, and then other people finish the project.
With The Acolyte she only wrote/directed the first episode.
That video of her walking on stage gave me such douche chills that I can't watch it any more. Contrast that with Hayden coming on stage (who literally played Anakin effin Skywalker) and he is humble and respectful.