The Emilia Perez situation reminds me of the scene from American Fiction in which the two white authors want to award “my pafology” to raise black voices while completely ignoring the black judges in the room who don’t want to award the book. Hollywood has completely ignored Latinos who have been for months criticizing the movie’s depiction of Mexico.
I’ve said this same thing about the “backlash” to ScarJo starring as a robot possessed by the spirit of a Japanese woman in GHOST IN THE SHELL, when the only people that seemed upset by it were white people on behalf of Asians (who were not even offended by it).
Thats funny because emilia perez was generally well liked internationally, especially in europe. Its mostly america that hates it and usually with very american arguments
If anything Emilia Perez encompasses the arrogance and audacity of the French director and producers, thus, reinforcing the stereotypes about French people.
I honestly don't blame Luca Guadagnino for storming out of the Golden Globes ceremony, after "Emilia Perez" beat out his own "Challengers" for Best Picture. It was a much better film, in my opinion, but didn't even get any Oscar nominations.
@pyotr716 you can say that you don't like the plots of either film, but challengers was an objectively beautiful movie that took creativity and hard work to film, Emilia Perez just looks like slop
As a bilingual speaker, Selena Gomez's spanish was so atrocious i cant imagine her character would ever speak spanish, much less sing it, in most situations. Distracting enough to be grating. Justice for Eugenio Derbez for being pressured to apologize for criticizing a dismal performance in a train wreck of a movie that was only supported by virtue signaling ass kissing critics.
@alexbennet4195 yes. All of the above plus word choice. It's sooo bad. No self respecting latino would audibly speak like that around spanish speakers.
Its not even about accent, bc bilingual ppl have accent, and its ok to have one. But it was clear that Selene only learned more or less the the words spelled out phoneticaly@@alexbennet4195
Emilia Perez, I honestly can't freaking understand why this movie has more Oscar nominations than Casablanca, Ben-Hur, The Lord of The Rings, Sleepless in Seattle, The Revenant, Chicago, The Goodbye Girl, Forrest Gump and Schindler's List. So, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is sending a message to the world that this movie is better than Casablanca and Schindler's List... Why ? This is a sincere question to the members of the Academy... Why ?
They wanted points for awarding a Movie that looked LGBTQ+ and Brown, but was made by a white guy. It was "Hey, look how much we support POC and LGBTQ+ Communities", without really supporting either one.
This casually happens, again, after Trump's xenophobic politics. As a mexican, I guess I should be thankful, because last time they wanted to make it look like there was no xenophobia, mexican directors got awarded like never before, or after.
Not saying that people from one country can't make movies about another country but FFS, hire consultants please and take their advice and sentiments seriously so you don't end up with a product that is just a caricature.
Yeah like the way Steven Spielberg was when he directed west side story by hiring consultants, the way film was casted. He was very respectful of the culture. Thats respecting a culture.
The director Jacques Audiard also said in a recent interview, after all the backlash, that "Spanish is a language of modest countries, of developing countries, of the poor and migrants."
@@spookypineappleif you speak English, you speak a language of immigrants. English is not native to USA, or even England. You should study more before agreeing with more stupid people's ideas
@@spookypineapple it is a profoundly colonizer view, he could have, instead, portrayed a story of one of the countries that send immigrants to France. I mean, is France the only francophone country? Are all those former colonies rich?
4:10 Basically he has all these stereotypical and, honestly, xenophibic ideas of what Mexico and Latin America is and then decides that it couldn't possibly be anything else at all to learn. He sees latin america as an inferior, lesser, people (and he has said so almost explicit when talking about the spanish language) who aren't capable of going beyond his european steretyped ideas. This guy sickens me.
this explains why hollywood/awards loved this film so much.. it's "inclusivity" and "representation" marked on a checkbox so they can all feel good about themselves, but in really it just reinforces their preconceived (one dimentional) notions of latinos and trans people.
@@per-c8229 I don't get why people group Spain and Latin Americans together. They live two separate realities when it comes to social perception, wealth and development. Sure there are overlapping cultural similarities due to colonization but Spain often times lives a different reality from Latin America. I also roll my eyes when people say stuff like "They're trying to colonize Spanish!" You can't colonize Spanish, it's a colonial language that for some reason like English and Portuguese is more often associated with the colonies than the original European country i.e. the USA and Brazil for the former and latter. Instead of trying to glorify Spanish why not try to revive indigenous languages and give more official status to both indigenous and creole languages born in the Americas.
4:10 so typically French. I'm a Colombian living in France, and I stopped counting the times French people have tried to explain to me my own country, based on what they have heard in the media.
And another tragedy is that, although it's justified that she is now suffering consequences for her actions, Karla Sofia Gascón has become the main target of the movie's hate, much more than any directed to Jacques Audiard or other people involved in the film that made distateful comments (like the casting director saying that there weren't any Mexican actors talented enough to play the roles), proving once again that people within minorities are almost always hit the hardest while those with a more priviliged combo (straight white affluent men) will more often go by scot-free.
I'd like to add a point to that, gascon hasn't probably noticed, but she was also typecast, just to check all the director's very limited boxes and it worked (if he really cared, this movie wouldn't exist). But I completely agree, he brought eyes to his movie by making it a car accident you can't help but look at, and that's what matters to Netflix.
While I think that Selena Gomez is a fine actress, she felt miscast as Jessi to me, and her lack of Spanish was obvious. The Filmmakers claimed that they couldn't find a Mexican actress who spoke Spanish for the role, forgetting about Salma Hayek or Eiza Gonzalez.
I'm sorry, what? You're telling me that the filmmakers couldn't find any Mexican actresses who spoke Spanish. For the people who use that excuse, I want to say: “We have the internet! This isn't the 20th century anymore.” That's like me making a movie set in Korea and having no Korean actors who speak fluent Korean.
@@kamsismith Yep, it's a very feeble excuse, if you ask me. Johanne Sacrebleu did a decent job of lampooning this entire spectacle, by setting their film in France, but filming it entirely in Mexico, the reverse of "Emilia."
@@trackandhp7yet being american is integral part of who her character is and why she behaves the way she does. Aka casting another actress for language wouldve resulted in a completely different jessie and not the one they ultimately wanted to go with
They also waited until the very last moment to bring the movie to México... and well, all the awards and nominations towards this movie just feel like more bullying against my people and culture
🇲🇽🇧🇷 Important note: Karla DIRECTLY ACCUSED Fernanda Torres' team and the film Still I Am Here (WITHOUT ANY PROOF) that they were sabotaging and speaking badly of her and the film Emilia Perez and that this spoke more of her (Fernanda's team) and the film (Still I Am Here) than of her. KARLA CREATED A ONE-SIDED RIVALRY THAT NEVER EXISTED ON THE PART OF FERNANDA TORRES, who only praised Karla. In the end, the only truth remained, Karla's film is terrible in itself, in addition to being a terrible representation of the trans community and Mexico. Only now, with the revelation by the Canadian journalist of the of the HATE SPEECHES THAT KARLA DISTILLED ABOUT ALMOST ALL MINORITIES AND DEFENDING HITLER that the international media is beginning to question her and the film Emilia Perez. And why was Mexico, the country "represented" on screen, the last country to welcome Emilia Perez if it was to celebrate the Mexican people (there is ONLY ONE MEXICAN ACTRESS in the cast, because according to them they can't find anyone else competent in Mexico). P.S. THE OSCAR ACADEMY DID NOTHING ABOUT THE UNFOUNDED ACCUSATIONS that could damage Fernanda Torres and I'm Still Here.
One of the issues with the movie is that is made by someone who doesn't care about any of the subjects in the film, he doesn't care for the Mexicans and their culture, he doesn't care for the trans and their struggles and reality, he doesn't care fdor the missing people, he doesn't care for the violence by the narco, he doesn't care for the language spoken in his film, he doesn't care for the music or songwriting, so what are we left with???? What was he even trying to say or convey with this film?, if he doesnt care for those topics why not use others??!, why not france or USA?? If its just for the awards why not investigate at the very least, why not hire someone that is familiar (as minimum) with actual spanish to help him with the dialogs (and songs)
The songs were written by spanish speaking people and saying that the director didnt care about you mentioned topics would be an Interpretation of the movie that would require one to watch it blind and deaf
@Sarahhh123 then i would like to read some explanation for the "bienvenida " song cause thats not how spanish works, seems like google translate was used And care to explain /elaborate on how i would have to be blind and deaf to say there was no care by the director for those toppics?
Thank you Brazilians, you always supported Mexicans in their claims. You were the first ones to call out this thing as as a love letter of racism against Mexicans. It had 13 Oscar nominations and no one gave a sh*t about what we, as Mexicans said about a very offensive movie about us. It's sad how white ppl just can take our culture, say a buch of horrible things and create this. It's even sadder 13 nominations just confirm that this is how American/ European ppl see us as Mexicans. No one but latam ppl said this was racist before, bc they didn't notice, bc that is how they really see us.
Exactly, I wish we had each other backs more! It's beautiful to see ❤ Brazilians are rooting for Fernanda Torres, of course, but it's clear to me that Demi will win so we have to make the best of this situation and point out all the prejudice we are subjected to, this could be a teaching moment to other latinos who refuse to acknowledge their latinidad and always side with the oppressors.
The film is atrocious. It's a case study of millionaire campaigns that makes the minds of awards people, thinking they are being progressive by praising this film, but this is the new Green Book and Crash. It's embarrassing. And all the hateful and shockingly prejudiced things Karla Sofia had said on her twitter only make things worse.
That's all because the majority of people who are voting for nominations never watching the movies! They hear “trans” and “mexico” and immediately voting for it, cause ‘we are not transfobic and racists’ , not knowing how actually the movie offends both
As of right now, I feel sorry for Karla's sittuation. Not because she hasn't shown the kind of ideas she support, but for the way Netflix will continue supporting the whole body of work even though the director might be just as insensitive and racist as Gascón, as shown by the way he created this film.
Wasn’t until Gascon posts touched American sensibilities that all those media attention grow bigger but us Mexicans we have been gaslighted for months by this French awful movie. Aside of the polemic, the movie is just bad as musical and as a satiric comment, it’s surprising that you guys didn’t see all that BS of 13 nominations before.
we Mexicans understand you, we were saying this for months! it wasn't until topics the USians consider important (BLM, islamophobia, etc) that this started to crumble
Emilia, when portraited as an evil man is brown and when is a redeemed woman has lighter skin. What ahout that? Also, the song that sing the families of the missing persons say something abour "forgiving and forgeting" whilst in Mexico we day "NI PERDON NI OLVIDO" (neither forgiving, nor forgeting). And finally, when Emilia falls in love, the girl who was looking for her husband and was relieved he was dead, justifies that "hey, we dissapeared some bad people and thats okay" when in truth the missing people are students, daughters, and loved people with families that are still looking for them. 😢
Okay but even IF the movie wasn’t deeply offensive , it’s still badly written , acted and sung. It’s wild that it could have been seen as award winning in any aspect.
Did you know that Jacques Audiard also made: 1. Dheepan, a film about refugees, while he’s actually not a refugee 2. Un Prophet, a film about prison, while he’s actually never been in prison 3. De rouille et d'os, a film about a woman who loses her legs, while he’s actually is not a woman and has two legs 4. Les Olympiades, a film about young people while he’s actually old
Esta película ha logrado lo que pocas cintas: unir a toda Latinoamérica...es que no importa si eres progre o conservador, la película es tan ofeciva que todo mundo termina odiandola....
Nice job with this video as always. Another level of irony is that no less than THREE critically acclaimed and incredibly skilled Mexican directors, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, and Alfonso Cuarón, could have easily done a film like this infinitely better.
I've seen Emilia Perez, and while I liked it mostly there is another point of view I would like to share, I think this is a film about a Narco kingpin, that always gets what it wants: pretty young wife, checked, top of the cartel world, checked, gender reassignment surgery male to female with new identity included, checked, get his kids back, checked, help the helpless with his money and connections, again checked, she even gets another squeeze lover to go with all the above... criminals in Mexico are always trying to pass their crimes as respectfull individuals with normal jobs, and Emilia gets even the "ascension" to sainthood that many young people in Mexico see as worthy to try, getting into a gang and sell narcotics, living the life for 8 or 10 years, and most likely getting killed and a great burial scene... Emilia does the same, the raise and fall of another "Jesus Malverde" or "Jesusa", the fact that this narco is a trans woman is irrelevant, she's never stops being a narco... Now I understand that maybe foreign persons or film-makers might have a though time to understand that this is the reality in Mexico, so I can see why use a musical film format to describe this society, but this is where this film is far from perfect, I've seen this movie a couple of times, and I still cannot recall a tune, song or number from this, 'Dancer in the dark' this is not, as a musical you got to use the song numbers to transcend where simple spoken words cannot, not to sound like a disney movie, but there is not even an 'i want' song... Here in Mexico there is a lot of criticism of this movie, but it is very shallow, Selena Gomez's bad accent, or the fact there are no mexican actors in the main cast. The main reason for me that this movie falls short of being great is the fact that is not that different from other tales of latinamerican druglords, well maybe, trans-women can now be narcos as well, so hurrey for inclusivity...
I'm honestly cringing at the fact that I initially enjoyed this movie! Now it's aged badly like a platter of seafood that's doused in milk and left to sit out in the sun on a 99 degree summer's day while inside an extremely hot car trunk! 😬😬😖😖
You enjoyed it because you too don't know a thing about México and the real impact of the narco culture, you just know what you've been told in your country, the whole stereotype pack 😢
My biggest concern is how we are going to survive all these financial and political crises, especially the power struggle in the US. The government has really made things difficult for its citizens and we cannot just sit by and suffer the consequences of bad governance🙏...
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Imagine giving the wrong message about trans people, about a serious problem latino countries (and others) live everyday like narcos and kidnappings, a whole wrong stereotypical depiction of a country you know nothing about and even after the whole country of Mexico, other Spanish speaking countries and the trans community criticize the movie for obvious reasons, the director and main star keep throwing not subtle but direct obvious shade to said country and communities. Not even Karla’s Spanish in the movie is good cause you can clearly hear her Spanish accent. Not even the documents in the movie are well made or realistic. Acting is real bad, the only half decent one is Zoe Saldana but come on… if you make a movie and say it’s based in the USA or in Britain you will expect the accents to match. Remember how everyone criticized Keanu for his “English” accent? Yeah, same issue but worse cause not only the accents, if you know actually Spanish the dialogues make little sense nor is how people would normally talk. So all of this movie is wrong and I’m sooo glad Karla’s tweets resurfaced, seems like a fitting situation tbh. If this horrendous thing wins any Oscar in a year full of actually really good movies, what a f*** joke.
It sucks because Audiard has a pretty good track record for making movies with marginalized groups at the center. "Dheepan" which is about Sri Lankan refugees eking out a living in Paris, "A Prophet" the story of a French-Algerian rising through the ranks of France's penal system and the underrated "Read My Lips" about a deaf woman who gets mixed up in the criminal underworld. All of those movies are gritty, grounded films. "Emilia Perez" feels like an extremely calibrated effort to appeal to the more modern tastes of Academy voters by checking off as many boxes as possible. You really gotta go looking in other corners of film beyond the Netflix Awards circus to find more interesting movies sometimes.
This is a decent enough video, but forgetting to balance the audio is a pretty big mis-step for a channel of this size. The level difference between the narrator and the clips from movies/interviews is really bad. Even on headphones the clips are super quiet, on speakers they're basically muted.
You didn’t even mention the abismal, ABISMAL way in which they speak “Spanish”. Sorry, I like Selena Gomez, but her Spanish is TERRIBLE and the Spanish lines in the script are very badly written. We live in a globalized world. It isn’t hard to do better, and it makes no sense they didn’t think they would be called out if they didn’t.
I have loved your chanel for years. My admiration for you grew even more after this nuanced critique. And it is so exciting to see you mention our protest movie. Thank you ❤
As a loyal follower of The Take, I feel happy to see you taking this theme. No one character, really nobody in EP is a good person in a tiny way, no problem with make a movie about villains or bad people, but gosh, the intention of washing as sweet Disney princess those two (Emilia and Rita) is offensive and an insult to Mexicans, to victims and to any movies lovers
Why make a movie that is set in Narco Mexico if you won't be careful about it. Millions feel the consequences of the rise of these warlords, thousands of mothers scour the land searching for their long lost loved ones, millions of kids have no future and join to eb cannon fodder and the French man decides to just come in and make a comedy that is ankle deep? It's so disrespectful and to top it off the Oscars patting themselves on the back for being so progressives themselves, applauding and potentially awarding this mess of a film. And nobody is to blame but the racist director
It had a good message but failed because it felt so fake and pandering. So it felt hollow. I lost all respect for Golden Globes when this won best picture.
I have never understood the awards system. Everyone likes different things and types of movies which is great and how it should be. But to say one movie is better than another is ridiculous. I also have never understood how things people have said in their past reflects on them now. (Unless they are still sayings things like that now.) Everyone and I mean everyone has said somethings they wish they had never said out loud. Learn from it and grow, that's really all we can do. Hope, everyone has a great night/day.
I'm just your average everyday cis white queer man, and the way they chose to handle just about everything in this movie gave me so much of the ick. We deserve so much better.
If you want to see a really beautiful film about a trans woman, portrayed by a trans woman, worthy of all the praise it got, check out A Fantastic Woman.
VEry interesting take, as usual. I really hope you girl will make a video about I'm Stil Here, particularly to explain the scene about the Truth Commission in the end.
If she hadn’t been nominated for the Oscar no one would have cared. She was never a front runner (Demi has been the front runner since people first saw The Substance) but now it’s getting talked about as if she was ever in the lead to win the Oscar.
This film was clearly made with the idea of winning awards in mind, not with art nor true commitment. As a trans woman with Latin roots, I don't know a single person in either community who didn't feel appalled by this pure excuse for a film, and we haven't yet talked about the terrible music and the poor writing. I absolutely loved the Mexican parody, though.
What about the fact that Karla accused the Fernanda Torres' PR team of promoting the hate she was getting on social media when Fernanda herself defended Karla on her Instagram. Fernanda's movie I'm still here is a real representation of LATAM, not this joke of a movie.
Is it just me or is the audio of this video all over the place? I can barely hear any of the clip interspersed between the narration of the video, and the narration itself goes from super loud to barely audible after each clip played.
I think it's cool that they tried to go for a movie about a transformation that's both physical and mental. But you have to SHOW the mental transformation because that's what's interesting about a transformation story! You're telling the audience "yep, this character had an arc", without showing us said arc.
Why does this movie look like it was made no place in particular about flat, cartoonish, characters with no personalities of their own (they each get one or two traits and opaque emotions apiece) ? Does the film find them as uninteresting as audiences do? Why is such a big deal made out of proposing that a person's gender is only skin deep and that it can be changed through Instant Cosmetic Surgery -- miraculously obtained by a killer/abuser/drug dealer/gangster who then spends the rest of the movie lying about who she is and what she's done to make her rich enough to afford the surgery? Being "trans" in this movie is just a way for the title character to go into hiding and disguise her criminal history. This is the opposite of a trans story in which somebody tries to live authentically and be their true self -- which is only one level on which "Emilia Perez" is laughably inauthentic.
I've noticed lately that your sound is WAY off. The Laverne Cox interview audio is completely inaudible. As is the Jen Richards. This has been happening a lot and I hope you are able to fix it. :)
the language thing was not adressed but the spanish lines are bad, like made with google translate, they didin't bother (besides Zoe) to even understand what they were saying, there was criticism specially to Selena Gomez for it because a spanish speaker literally can't understad what she says, that is valid criticism too that was done and was shut down
I found EP watchable because it tried many things at once but there was lots of stuff that didn't work. I was especially uneasy about the protagonist being presented as this great person as if the movie decided to totally ignore all the bad things they had previously done. That was lazy writing. The problem is that Audiard has a soft spot for gangsters and violence (cf. his other movies). I think that didn't mix well with the transition arc, it's not what the trans community needed as representation.
"Emilia Perez follows the titular character-" INCORRECT! We meet Zoe Saldana's lawyer character first, and she's the perspective from which the audience is meant to perceive Emilia. The film follows Zoe as she assists Emilia and her wife (Selena Gomez)
This movie was awful. The movie reminded me of Chi-raq because both movies trivialize serious issues affecting marginalized communities. I'm all for unconventional storytelling, but I didn't like the undecidness on what genre the movie is trying to be.
@@kamsismith Ditto, I couldn't make it past the 30 minute mark, and had to look up the summary online. It's like "Crash", 20 years later, nobody has forgiven it for winning Best Picture over the far more deserving Brokeback Mountain.
@@trinaqI watched the movie with my mom and brother and stopped after the first half. My brother was especially baffled by the concept after waking up. My sister is an LGBT advocate and she thought my brother and I were lying after my brother told her the concept. I don't want to blame the actors as they were working with the material they were given, I blame the creators as he admitted he didn't do research on Mexico and its culture and 90% of the actors weren't Mexican except one. I watched the parody version of the movie and it was hilarious. I know they're doing a full-length version of it.
@@trinaqI feel people don't care about these movie award shows anymore since a couple of movies have been snubbed or overshadowed by others. While Oscars so white did some good, most of them award forced diversity over good storytelling.
@@kamsismith I don't blame your sister for her reaction, I honestly thought that "Emilia" was a parody when I heard the plot, and was shocked to discover that it was the real deal. The only positive things I can praise the film for is casting a Trans Woman as the titular Emilia, and Zoe Saldana's amazing performance, in a film that doesn't deserve her.
I would prob like this movie if it was written by people that spoke Spanish and knew how to write musicals. And frankly just make it about the lawyer. It’s basically about her experiences already. More of that. She was great in this crap. I swear some parts felt racist and anti-trans. But my main beef is with the crappy singing and language.
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The Emilia Perez situation reminds me of the scene from American Fiction in which the two white authors want to award “my pafology” to raise black voices while completely ignoring the black judges in the room who don’t want to award the book.
Hollywood has completely ignored Latinos who have been for months criticizing the movie’s depiction of Mexico.
I’ve said this same thing about the “backlash” to ScarJo starring as a robot possessed by the spirit of a Japanese woman in GHOST IN THE SHELL, when the only people that seemed upset by it were white people on behalf of Asians (who were not even offended by it).
That is a perfect example of what happend
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Ah yes. Mexicans who made Johanne Sacrebleu were actually white people.
Johanne Sacreblu bein mention and praised in almost every international media while EP is getting its rightfull destaine is glorious to watch!!!
México representa!!!
Thats funny because emilia perez was generally well liked internationally, especially in europe. Its mostly america that hates it and usually with very american arguments
I was going to say the same, I love they mentioned Joanne Sacrebleu ❤
Vine a buscar este comentario 🤘🏼🫶🏼😎 Johanne Sacreblu 🤘🏼🙌🏼🫶🏼
Waiting for the english subs 🙏
If anything Emilia Perez encompasses the arrogance and audacity of the French director and producers, thus, reinforcing the stereotypes about French people.
I couldn't agree more!
I honestly don't blame Luca Guadagnino for storming out of the Golden Globes ceremony, after "Emilia Perez" beat out his own "Challengers" for Best Picture. It was a much better film, in my opinion, but didn't even get any Oscar nominations.
It's an opinion so correct it's just a straight up fact
They were both terrible films 🤷♂️
@trinaq 100% agree dude
@pyotr716 you can say that you don't like the plots of either film, but challengers was an objectively beautiful movie that took creativity and hard work to film, Emilia Perez just looks like slop
@@ethan.branthoover3460 👏 I 👏 SAID 👏 WHAT 👏 I 👏 SAID 👏
As a bilingual speaker, Selena Gomez's spanish was so atrocious i cant imagine her character would ever speak spanish, much less sing it, in most situations. Distracting enough to be grating. Justice for Eugenio Derbez for being pressured to apologize for criticizing a dismal performance in a train wreck of a movie that was only supported by virtue signaling ass kissing critics.
Why, because her grammar is bad? Her accent?
@alexbennet4195 yes. All of the above plus word choice. It's sooo bad. No self respecting latino would audibly speak like that around spanish speakers.
Its not even about accent, bc bilingual ppl have accent, and its ok to have one. But it was clear that Selene only learned more or less the the words spelled out phoneticaly@@alexbennet4195
@@alexbennet4195 It sounds like she speaking dothraki instead of spanish, it's that awful
@@alexbennet4195 It sounds the exact opposite of fluid, you can tell she’s absolutely measuring and weighing each and every syllable.
Emilia Perez, I honestly can't freaking understand why this movie has more Oscar nominations than Casablanca, Ben-Hur, The Lord of The Rings, Sleepless in Seattle, The Revenant, Chicago, The Goodbye Girl, Forrest Gump and Schindler's List.
So, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is sending a message to the world that this movie is better than Casablanca and Schindler's List... Why ? This is a sincere question to the members of the Academy... Why ?
Cuz it's a trans actoress
Because... trans.
They wanted points for awarding a Movie that looked LGBTQ+ and Brown, but was made by a white guy.
It was "Hey, look how much we support POC and LGBTQ+ Communities", without really supporting either one.
Because..."representation"
This casually happens, again, after Trump's xenophobic politics. As a mexican, I guess I should be thankful, because last time they wanted to make it look like there was no xenophobia, mexican directors got awarded like never before, or after.
Not saying that people from one country can't make movies about another country but FFS, hire consultants please and take their advice and sentiments seriously so you don't end up with a product that is just a caricature.
Yeah like the way Steven Spielberg was when he directed west side story by hiring consultants, the way film was casted. He was very respectful of the culture. Thats respecting a culture.
Johanne Sacrebleu mentioned!!! Mi gente latino!!!!
The director Jacques Audiard also said in a recent interview, after all the backlash, that "Spanish is a language of modest countries, of developing countries, of the poor and migrants."
Oooof. Can they just give the whole film the hook? There’s so many far more deserving ones, particularly A Real Pain and Challengers.
WOW. The director is also a racist piece of shit too. Can't say I didn't see that coming.
How is he wrong?
@@spookypineappleif you speak English, you speak a language of immigrants. English is not native to USA, or even England. You should study more before agreeing with more stupid people's ideas
@@spookypineapple it is a profoundly colonizer view, he could have, instead, portrayed a story of one of the countries that send immigrants to France. I mean, is France the only francophone country? Are all those former colonies rich?
4:10 Basically he has all these stereotypical and, honestly, xenophibic ideas of what Mexico and Latin America is and then decides that it couldn't possibly be anything else at all to learn. He sees latin america as an inferior, lesser, people (and he has said so almost explicit when talking about the spanish language) who aren't capable of going beyond his european steretyped ideas. This guy sickens me.
this explains why hollywood/awards loved this film so much.. it's "inclusivity" and "representation" marked on a checkbox so they can all feel good about themselves, but in really it just reinforces their preconceived (one dimentional) notions of latinos and trans people.
Well Spanish is a European language
@@abandonedfragmentofhope5415Yep, he was making a jab at Spain too not only at Latinos
@@per-c8229 I don't get why people group Spain and Latin Americans together. They live two separate realities when it comes to social perception, wealth and development. Sure there are overlapping cultural similarities due to colonization but Spain often times lives a different reality from Latin America.
I also roll my eyes when people say stuff like "They're trying to colonize Spanish!" You can't colonize Spanish, it's a colonial language that for some reason like English and Portuguese is more often associated with the colonies than the original European country i.e. the USA and Brazil for the former and latter.
Instead of trying to glorify Spanish why not try to revive indigenous languages and give more official status to both indigenous and creole languages born in the Americas.
@ true, no point grouping them together, spain is as racist/xenophobic as france, if not more
4:10 so typically French. I'm a Colombian living in France, and I stopped counting the times French people have tried to explain to me my own country, based on what they have heard in the media.
The same thing happened to me in about every country I've been to in Europe, exhausting
And another tragedy is that, although it's justified that she is now suffering consequences for her actions, Karla Sofia Gascón has become the main target of the movie's hate, much more than any directed to Jacques Audiard or other people involved in the film that made distateful comments (like the casting director saying that there weren't any Mexican actors talented enough to play the roles), proving once again that people within minorities are almost always hit the hardest while those with a more priviliged combo (straight white affluent men) will more often go by scot-free.
I'd like to add a point to that, gascon hasn't probably noticed, but she was also typecast, just to check all the director's very limited boxes and it worked (if he really cared, this movie wouldn't exist). But I completely agree, he brought eyes to his movie by making it a car accident you can't help but look at, and that's what matters to Netflix.
Did u not see her racist and islamophobics tweets from 22? She is no innocent. She also said questionable stuff about the lgbt community
omg you guys using the trixie and katya clip is *chef's kiss*
was literally coming to comment this lmao
Even those Queens don't like the movie
While I think that Selena Gomez is a fine actress, she felt miscast as Jessi to me, and her lack of Spanish was obvious. The Filmmakers claimed that they couldn't find a Mexican actress who spoke Spanish for the role, forgetting about Salma Hayek or Eiza Gonzalez.
Her character also is an American whose first language isn't Spanish, so that's a weird response for them to go with.
I'm sorry, what? You're telling me that the filmmakers couldn't find any Mexican actresses who spoke Spanish. For the people who use that excuse, I want to say: “We have the internet! This isn't the 20th century anymore.” That's like me making a movie set in Korea and having no Korean actors who speak fluent Korean.
@@kamsismith Yep, it's a very feeble excuse, if you ask me. Johanne Sacrebleu did a decent job of lampooning this entire spectacle, by setting their film in France, but filming it entirely in Mexico, the reverse of "Emilia."
@@riaglitta They made the character into an American to explain away why she can't speak spanish
@@trackandhp7yet being american is integral part of who her character is and why she behaves the way she does. Aka casting another actress for language wouldve resulted in a completely different jessie and not the one they ultimately wanted to go with
They also waited until the very last moment to bring the movie to México... and well, all the awards and nominations towards this movie just feel like more bullying against my people and culture
Johanne sacrebleu is way better
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it's 1000% more entertaining than watching emilia perez...
🇲🇽🇧🇷 Important note: Karla DIRECTLY ACCUSED Fernanda Torres' team and the film Still I Am Here (WITHOUT ANY PROOF) that they were sabotaging and speaking badly of her and the film Emilia Perez and that this spoke more of her (Fernanda's team) and the film (Still I Am Here) than of her. KARLA CREATED A ONE-SIDED RIVALRY THAT NEVER EXISTED ON THE PART OF FERNANDA TORRES, who only praised Karla.
In the end, the only truth remained, Karla's film is terrible in itself, in addition to being a terrible representation of the trans community and Mexico.
Only now, with the revelation by the Canadian journalist of the of the HATE SPEECHES THAT KARLA DISTILLED ABOUT ALMOST ALL MINORITIES AND DEFENDING HITLER that the international media is beginning to question her and the film Emilia Perez.
And why was Mexico, the country "represented" on screen, the last country to welcome Emilia Perez if it was to celebrate the Mexican people (there is ONLY ONE MEXICAN ACTRESS in the cast, because according to them they can't find anyone else competent in Mexico).
P.S. THE OSCAR ACADEMY DID NOTHING ABOUT THE UNFOUNDED ACCUSATIONS that could damage Fernanda Torres and I'm Still Here.
You should watch "johanne sacrebleu" the mexican response to this movie
Not enough people know about this fantastically hilarious movie response.
One of the issues with the movie is that is made by someone who doesn't care about any of the subjects in the film, he doesn't care for the Mexicans and their culture, he doesn't care for the trans and their struggles and reality, he doesn't care fdor the missing people, he doesn't care for the violence by the narco, he doesn't care for the language spoken in his film, he doesn't care for the music or songwriting, so what are we left with????
What was he even trying to say or convey with this film?, if he doesnt care for those topics why not use others??!, why not france or USA?? If its just for the awards why not investigate at the very least, why not hire someone that is familiar (as minimum) with actual spanish to help him with the dialogs (and songs)
The songs were written by spanish speaking people and saying that the director didnt care about you mentioned topics would be an Interpretation of the movie that would require one to watch it blind and deaf
@Sarahhh123 then i would like to read some explanation for the "bienvenida " song cause thats not how spanish works, seems like google translate was used
And care to explain /elaborate on how i would have to be blind and deaf to say there was no care by the director for those toppics?
@@Sarahhh123 The songs were not written by spanish speaking people, be so fr
JOHANNE SACREBLU MENTIONED LET'S GO!!!!
Thank you Brazilians, you always supported Mexicans in their claims. You were the first ones to call out this thing as as a love letter of racism against Mexicans.
It had 13 Oscar nominations and no one gave a sh*t about what we, as Mexicans said about a very offensive movie about us. It's sad how white ppl just can take our culture, say a buch of horrible things and create this. It's even sadder 13 nominations just confirm that this is how American/ European ppl see us as Mexicans. No one but latam ppl said this was racist before, bc they didn't notice, bc that is how they really see us.
Exactly, I wish we had each other backs more! It's beautiful to see ❤ Brazilians are rooting for Fernanda Torres, of course, but it's clear to me that Demi will win so we have to make the best of this situation and point out all the prejudice we are subjected to, this could be a teaching moment to other latinos who refuse to acknowledge their latinidad and always side with the oppressors.
The film is atrocious. It's a case study of millionaire campaigns that makes the minds of awards people, thinking they are being progressive by praising this film, but this is the new Green Book and Crash. It's embarrassing. And all the hateful and shockingly prejudiced things Karla Sofia had said on her twitter only make things worse.
That's all because the majority of people who are voting for nominations never watching the movies! They hear “trans” and “mexico” and immediately voting for it, cause ‘we are not transfobic and racists’ , not knowing how actually the movie offends both
As of right now, I feel sorry for Karla's sittuation. Not because she hasn't shown the kind of ideas she support, but for the way Netflix will continue supporting the whole body of work even though the director might be just as insensitive and racist as Gascón, as shown by the way he created this film.
Wasn’t until Gascon posts touched American sensibilities that all those media attention grow bigger but us Mexicans we have been gaslighted for months by this French awful movie. Aside of the polemic, the movie is just bad as musical and as a satiric comment, it’s surprising that you guys didn’t see all that BS of 13 nominations before.
Justice for Eugenio Derbez! The Selenators dragged him for rightfully criticizing Selena’s horrendous Spanish.
Thank you for making this video! As a trans woman complaining about this movie often felt like screaming into a void
you´re a man.
we Mexicans understand you, we were saying this for months! it wasn't until topics the USians consider important (BLM, islamophobia, etc) that this started to crumble
When the movie has 13 Oscar nominations but the satire is way better and the public likes it more than the actual movie...
The video doesn't mention the horrible and poor script written by chat gpt Spanish is terrible
Chat gpt speaks better Spanish, not kidding
@@3emu12I came to say this 😅
Emilia, when portraited as an evil man is brown and when is a redeemed woman has lighter skin. What ahout that? Also, the song that sing the families of the missing persons say something abour "forgiving and forgeting" whilst in Mexico we day "NI PERDON NI OLVIDO" (neither forgiving, nor forgeting). And finally, when Emilia falls in love, the girl who was looking for her husband and was relieved he was dead, justifies that "hey, we dissapeared some bad people and thats okay" when in truth the missing people are students, daughters, and loved people with families that are still looking for them. 😢
Okay but even IF the movie wasn’t deeply offensive , it’s still badly written , acted and sung. It’s wild that it could have been seen as award winning in any aspect.
Shows what happens when they rush to award someone or something without understanding it
Did you know that Jacques Audiard also made:
1. Dheepan, a film about refugees, while he’s actually not a refugee
2. Un Prophet, a film about prison, while he’s actually never been in prison
3. De rouille et d'os, a film about a woman who loses her legs, while he’s actually is not a woman and has two legs
4. Les Olympiades, a film about young people while he’s actually old
What went wrong was that the movie was bad
Esta película ha logrado lo que pocas cintas: unir a toda Latinoamérica...es que no importa si eres progre o conservador, la película es tan ofeciva que todo mundo termina odiandola....
Worst film I have EVER watched
Worst movie ever.
Johanne Sacrebleu >>>>>>>> Emilia Perez
Video audio is a bit off. Lots of insertions with lower volume.
Thanks! Came down to the comments section to make this same point 😊
💯
And choppy cuts of the narrator's audio too
Johanne Sacreblue, MI GENTE LATINO!!!!
Nice job with this video as always. Another level of irony is that no less than THREE critically acclaimed and incredibly skilled Mexican directors, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, and Alfonso Cuarón, could have easily done a film like this infinitely better.
I've seen Emilia Perez, and while I liked it mostly there is another point of view I would like to share, I think this is a film about a Narco kingpin, that always gets what it wants: pretty young wife, checked, top of the cartel world, checked, gender reassignment surgery male to female with new identity included, checked, get his kids back, checked, help the helpless with his money and connections, again checked, she even gets another squeeze lover to go with all the above... criminals in Mexico are always trying to pass their crimes as respectfull individuals with normal jobs, and Emilia gets even the "ascension" to sainthood that many young people in Mexico see as worthy to try, getting into a gang and sell narcotics, living the life for 8 or 10 years, and most likely getting killed and a great burial scene... Emilia does the same, the raise and fall of another "Jesus Malverde" or "Jesusa", the fact that this narco is a trans woman is irrelevant, she's never stops being a narco... Now I understand that maybe foreign persons or film-makers might have a though time to understand that this is the reality in Mexico, so I can see why use a musical film format to describe this society, but this is where this film is far from perfect, I've seen this movie a couple of times, and I still cannot recall a tune, song or number from this, 'Dancer in the dark' this is not, as a musical you got to use the song numbers to transcend where simple spoken words cannot, not to sound like a disney movie, but there is not even an 'i want' song... Here in Mexico there is a lot of criticism of this movie, but it is very shallow, Selena Gomez's bad accent, or the fact there are no mexican actors in the main cast. The main reason for me that this movie falls short of being great is the fact that is not that different from other tales of latinamerican druglords, well maybe, trans-women can now be narcos as well, so hurrey for inclusivity...
I really hope this will be one of those cases when a movie is nominated for a bunch of Oscars, but it doesn't win any
I'm honestly cringing at the fact that I initially enjoyed this movie! Now it's aged badly like a platter of seafood that's doused in milk and left to sit out in the sun on a 99 degree summer's day while inside an extremely hot car trunk!
😬😬😖😖
You enjoyed it because you too don't know a thing about México and the real impact of the narco culture, you just know what you've been told in your country, the whole stereotype pack 😢
Johanne Sacrebleu mentioned ❤
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Thank you for watching! Make sure to check out the other videos we've done so far on this year's Oscars contenders:
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Anora - ruclips.net/video/jh-FgV1gjIM/видео.html
Make a video about "I am still here", pleeeeease
Brazil is waiting!
This movie answers an ancient question: what would happen if Borat was written as a serious musical instead of a sarcastic comedy film?
Imagine giving the wrong message about trans people, about a serious problem latino countries (and others) live everyday like narcos and kidnappings, a whole wrong stereotypical depiction of a country you know nothing about and even after the whole country of Mexico, other Spanish speaking countries and the trans community criticize the movie for obvious reasons, the director and main star keep throwing not subtle but direct obvious shade to said country and communities. Not even Karla’s Spanish in the movie is good cause you can clearly hear her Spanish accent. Not even the documents in the movie are well made or realistic. Acting is real bad, the only half decent one is Zoe Saldana but come on… if you make a movie and say it’s based in the USA or in Britain you will expect the accents to match. Remember how everyone criticized Keanu for his “English” accent? Yeah, same issue but worse cause not only the accents, if you know actually Spanish the dialogues make little sense nor is how people would normally talk. So all of this movie is wrong and I’m sooo glad Karla’s tweets resurfaced, seems like a fitting situation tbh. If this horrendous thing wins any Oscar in a year full of actually really good movies, what a f*** joke.
It sucks because Audiard has a pretty good track record for making movies with marginalized groups at the center. "Dheepan" which is about Sri Lankan refugees eking out a living in Paris, "A Prophet" the story of a French-Algerian rising through the ranks of France's penal system and the underrated "Read My Lips" about a deaf woman who gets mixed up in the criminal underworld.
All of those movies are gritty, grounded films. "Emilia Perez" feels like an extremely calibrated effort to appeal to the more modern tastes of Academy voters by checking off as many boxes as possible. You really gotta go looking in other corners of film beyond the Netflix Awards circus to find more interesting movies sometimes.
Johanne Sacreblu!! VIVA MEXICOO
This is a decent enough video, but forgetting to balance the audio is a pretty big mis-step for a channel of this size. The level difference between the narrator and the clips from movies/interviews is really bad. Even on headphones the clips are super quiet, on speakers they're basically muted.
Another thing to say is that, they don't use mexican actors or mexican crew for the film... Even if the movie is using México just a simple context...
This movie is an insult for all latinos.
Trixie and Katya cameo!!!!
YESSSS GABY MEZA'S INTERVIEW WITH CAMILA FEATURED!!!
Glad to see Trixie and Katya get the respect they deserve as TOP Hollywood film reviewers.
Si no hubieran salido los tuits de Karla Sofía el resto del mundo seguiría pensando que la película es buena
Que increíble es ver hasta donde ha llegado el ingenio de Camila ❤❤
I really like Zoe but she need to question herself . After the Nina Simone situation, I was like ok fine I don't blame her. But this is too much...
Viva Johanne Sacrebleu ❤
You didn’t even mention the abismal, ABISMAL way in which they speak “Spanish”. Sorry, I like Selena Gomez, but her Spanish is TERRIBLE and the Spanish lines in the script are very badly written. We live in a globalized world. It isn’t hard to do better, and it makes no sense they didn’t think they would be called out if they didn’t.
I have loved your chanel for years. My admiration for you grew even more after this nuanced critique. And it is so exciting to see you mention our protest movie. Thank you ❤
As a loyal follower of The Take, I feel happy to see you taking this theme. No one character, really nobody in EP is a good person in a tiny way, no problem with make a movie about villains or bad people, but gosh, the intention of washing as sweet Disney princess those two (Emilia and Rita) is offensive and an insult to Mexicans, to victims and to any movies lovers
just go watch Johanne sacreblu please
Why make a movie that is set in Narco Mexico if you won't be careful about it. Millions feel the consequences of the rise of these warlords, thousands of mothers scour the land searching for their long lost loved ones, millions of kids have no future and join to eb cannon fodder and the French man decides to just come in and make a comedy that is ankle deep? It's so disrespectful and to top it off the Oscars patting themselves on the back for being so progressives themselves, applauding and potentially awarding this mess of a film. And nobody is to blame but the racist director
It had a good message but failed because it felt so fake and pandering. So it felt hollow. I lost all respect for Golden Globes when this won best picture.
12:51 @thetake I don’t want to be nit picky but please contrast the lettering next time. It’s not very ADA friendly 🙏🙏
I have never understood the awards system. Everyone likes different things and types of movies which is great and how it should be. But to say one movie is better than another is ridiculous.
I also have never understood how things people have said in their past reflects on them now. (Unless they are still sayings things like that now.) Everyone and I mean everyone has said somethings they wish they had never said out loud. Learn from it and grow, that's really all we can do. Hope, everyone has a great night/day.
The moment I saw this pop up, I prayed you’d have Trixie and Katya in here. Yay!
the director seems to have that infuriating blend of confidence and ignorance.
This film never looked good to me. Now I probably won't watch it; even with 13 Oscar noms 🤪
Is this the one that won over wicked?
I'm just your average everyday cis white queer man, and the way they chose to handle just about everything in this movie gave me so much of the ick. We deserve so much better.
If you want to see a really beautiful film about a trans woman, portrayed by a trans woman, worthy of all the praise it got, check out A Fantastic Woman.
what baffles me is how Directors like Cameron and Tarantino have been praising this movie too much!
VEry interesting take, as usual. I really hope you girl will make a video about I'm Stil Here, particularly to explain the scene about the Truth Commission in the end.
😂😂😂 I’ve never seen international trolling done so well
And they were RECENT recent tweets, so the "oh it was long ago, she's probably learned" excuse doesn't work.
I’ve only seen clips of this movie and it honestly looks like an SNL skit. 13 Oscar nominations is a disgrace.
You should watch this, fix the sound and re-upload. The clips are not audible. Good video otherwise:) also Disney, not "Dinsey" ;)
some sound clips were so low I couldn't hear them, those ones when trans people spoke. Funny, that.
If she hadn’t been nominated for the Oscar no one would have cared. She was never a front runner (Demi has been the front runner since people first saw The Substance) but now it’s getting talked about as if she was ever in the lead to win the Oscar.
People have referred to this movie as the gen z version of crash and that’s all I have to say about that
This film was clearly made with the idea of winning awards in mind, not with art nor true commitment.
As a trans woman with Latin roots, I don't know a single person in either community who didn't feel appalled by this pure excuse for a film, and we haven't yet talked about the terrible music and the poor writing.
I absolutely loved the Mexican parody, though.
What about the fact that Karla accused the Fernanda Torres' PR team of promoting the hate she was getting on social media when Fernanda herself defended Karla on her Instagram. Fernanda's movie I'm still here is a real representation of LATAM, not this joke of a movie.
Is it just me or is the audio of this video all over the place? I can barely hear any of the clip interspersed between the narration of the video, and the narration itself goes from super loud to barely audible after each clip played.
I think it's cool that they tried to go for a movie about a transformation that's both physical and mental. But you have to SHOW the mental transformation because that's what's interesting about a transformation story! You're telling the audience "yep, this character had an arc", without showing us said arc.
Why does this movie look like it was made no place in particular about flat, cartoonish, characters with no personalities of their own (they each get one or two traits and opaque emotions apiece) ? Does the film find them as uninteresting as audiences do? Why is such a big deal made out of proposing that a person's gender is only skin deep and that it can be changed through Instant Cosmetic Surgery -- miraculously obtained by a killer/abuser/drug dealer/gangster who then spends the rest of the movie lying about who she is and what she's done to make her rich enough to afford the surgery? Being "trans" in this movie is just a way for the title character to go into hiding and disguise her criminal history. This is the opposite of a trans story in which somebody tries to live authentically and be their true self -- which is only one level on which "Emilia Perez" is laughably inauthentic.
I've noticed lately that your sound is WAY off. The Laverne Cox interview audio is completely inaudible. As is the Jen Richards. This has been happening a lot and I hope you are able to fix it. :)
the language thing was not adressed but the spanish lines are bad, like made with google translate, they didin't bother (besides Zoe) to even understand what they were saying, there was criticism specially to Selena Gomez for it because a spanish speaker literally can't understad what she says, that is valid criticism too that was done and was shut down
I found EP watchable because it tried many things at once but there was lots of stuff that didn't work. I was especially uneasy about the protagonist being presented as this great person as if the movie decided to totally ignore all the bad things they had previously done. That was lazy writing. The problem is that Audiard has a soft spot for gangsters and violence (cf. his other movies). I think that didn't mix well with the transition arc, it's not what the trans community needed as representation.
"Emilia Perez follows the titular character-" INCORRECT! We meet Zoe Saldana's lawyer character first, and she's the perspective from which the audience is meant to perceive Emilia. The film follows Zoe as she assists Emilia and her wife (Selena Gomez)
Watching the actual movie will explain the "backlash".
also the director's comments about the spanish language, it is so insulting
Noches de Fuego mentioned on The Take, mi gente latino!!!!!!! The world is healing.
This movie was awful. The movie reminded me of Chi-raq because both movies trivialize serious issues affecting marginalized communities. I'm all for unconventional storytelling, but I didn't like the undecidness on what genre the movie is trying to be.
@@kamsismith Ditto, I couldn't make it past the 30 minute mark, and had to look up the summary online. It's like "Crash", 20 years later, nobody has forgiven it for winning Best Picture over the far more deserving Brokeback Mountain.
@@trinaqI watched the movie with my mom and brother and stopped after the first half. My brother was especially baffled by the concept after waking up. My sister is an LGBT advocate and she thought my brother and I were lying after my brother told her the concept. I don't want to blame the actors as they were working with the material they were given, I blame the creators as he admitted he didn't do research on Mexico and its culture and 90% of the actors weren't Mexican except one. I watched the parody version of the movie and it was hilarious. I know they're doing a full-length version of it.
@@trinaqI feel people don't care about these movie award shows anymore since a couple of movies have been snubbed or overshadowed by others. While Oscars so white did some good, most of them award forced diversity over good storytelling.
@@kamsismith I don't blame your sister for her reaction, I honestly thought that "Emilia" was a parody when I heard the plot, and was shocked to discover that it was the real deal. The only positive things I can praise the film for is casting a Trans Woman as the titular Emilia, and Zoe Saldana's amazing performance, in a film that doesn't deserve her.
I would prob like this movie if it was written by people that spoke Spanish and knew how to write musicals. And frankly just make it about the lawyer. It’s basically about her experiences already. More of that. She was great in this crap. I swear some parts felt racist and anti-trans. But my main beef is with the crappy singing and language.
I couldn’t even get past the first 10 minutes.
Of the movie or the video?