slartibartfastibast:

What’s that story about the rich and powerful dude who shares a name with cool hippie dude and then it turns out the powerful dude is a sham and a female is actually the rich powerful one and there are known pornographers and a tropical sex paradise and somehow Israel keeps being brought up?

Was made in the 90s. Tip of my tongue here. Help me out.

Yeah to be honest I have been thinking lately about some of the themes of movies that got big in the 90s-2000s “big indie” Weinstein Era, when his model of “pick up edgy outside-the-system content, aggressively assert thematic control and push them and their star creators into public view with powerful reputational campaigns” - Kevin Smith and Quentin Tarantino certainly

Remember Shakespeare in Love, about how cool and awesome it was for a great creative maestro to fuck his actresses?

Remember Atonement, the 2007 Oscarbait historical drama about a false rape accusation and how the consequences are all so very sad and really it came out of a jealousy triangle between three teenage girls who all basically wanted to fuck this guy and even though it really looked like there was evidence - things you saw, dirty messages - it was really all just a misunderstanding and the one girl who was a scriptwriter really shouldn’t have let her imagination carry her away and late in life dying, it’s the one great regret in her life that she wishes so hard she could have done something to stop it

Yeah, I think about that sometimes.