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Leslie Jones ain't having none of this shit.
Good for her.
She's awesome and talented and shouldn't have idiots shitting all over her work.
Leslie Jones: Ghostbusters actress hits back at critics | EW.com
If the movie sucks it won't be because of her.
She definitely isn't talented and if her skin was white, I doubt you'd be defending her at all. There are, however, a number of talented black actresses whom Paul Fieg could've chosen. Naomie Harris was phenomenal in Pirates of the Caribbean. I didn't even realize until recently that she's the same actress in the last couple of Bond films, the reason being that she's actually capable of playing a range of characters. Leslie Jones, on the other hand, only ever plays an obnoxious, one-dimensional stereotype. Go ahead and throw that precious race card of yours like you always do; it's rather expected at this point and only serves to confirm your own biases. Ernie Hudson is highly respected in the Ghostbusters fan community and the color of his skin is irrelevant. He's a classy actor who played a likable character. Leslie Jones is loud and yells a lot. It's not funny and it sure as hell isn't original; that's EVERY fucking role she plays, dude. Even if Paul Fieg insisted on sticking with SNL cast members, Sasheer Zamata would've been a much better choice.
Am I to assume from the article you posted that you support the screenwriters' decision to make her character an MTA worker instead of a scientist? I can understand why Leslie Jones is defending their decision because she feels obligated to and is probably just happy to have been given the role in the first place. Or did you simply post that article because you're assuming the reason why fans don't like her character is because she's black?
For the record, since the cast was first announced, I've heard just as much criticism (if not more) about Melissa McCarthy's involvement in this movie than Leslie Jones'.
Go ahead and throw that precious race card of yours like you always do
it's rather expected at this point and only serves to confirm your own biases.
I don't get all the hate, I don't have any problem with this. It's a new Ghostbusters movie, and I like the Ghostbusters, I like women, and funny women are my favorite kind of women, Ivan Reitman is producing it and a lot of the original cast is going to show up apparently. Also this is the very first trailer and we've only seen about a minute and a half of the movie, and people are already judging the hell out of it. I didn't hate the trailer at all and I'm hoping for the best. Funny how some people who claim they love movies actually hate most movies, and evidently want to hate them.
Old old old friend of mine (I mean, in terms of duration, not in terms of his chronological age) who is also pretty knowledgeable about movies and who I'd be really, really surprised if he considered himself a feminist, had this to say about the movie and the fact that the minute and a half long trailer already has 3 times as many dislikes as it has likes on Youtube.
Wikipeida
After Pascal left Sony, she was interviewed about Sony Entertainment's gender pay gap that had been exposed by the leaks. Tina Brown asked Pascal to explain why actresses did not realize they were being paid less than male actors. Pascal said, "People want to work for less money. I'll pay them less money. I don't call them up and go, 'Can I give you some more?' ... what women have to do is not work for less money.... People should know what they're worth and say no."
Women making less than their male counterparts and male co-stars learned of the difference from the hack, such as actress Charlize Theron, who had been able to obtain an additional $10 million in early January 2015 to match the fee of Chris Hemsworth, her male co-star in The Huntsman film production.[75] Gender pay discrimination was pervasive at Sony Pictures under Pascal, with only one of the seventeen studio executives earning more than $1 million per year being female according to the unconfirmed emails, and Columbia Pictures co-presidents of production Michael De Luca and Hannah Minghella serving in identical jobs but with a million dollar difference in pay.
I guess Ivan Reitman has no respect for Ghostbusters since he's producing the new film. I guess also Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver and Annie Potts have no respect for Ghostbusters since they've agreed to be in the new film. Maybe Rick Moranis is the only person left from the original lineup that has respect for Ghostbusters since he's apparently the only one that declined the invitation to be in the new one.
Next someone will remake Big Trouble in Little China. It will probably star Channing Tatum and Harold Cho; I will kill myself. It's only a matter of time, and there's been a trend of ruining other Carpenter films with shitty remakes.
The misogynistic fans railing against this are a small sliver of the fanbase, and in no way representative of most fans, and I think SJW journalists are purposefully overplaying and overstating their anger. We can blame these asshats for politicizing the film, but we should also place a share of the blame on the reaction from SJWs who are reacting and amplifying these guys' statements.
There's been an official interest in remaking that for about a year now.
[MENTION=23796]Crabs[/MENTION] Why do you hate women so much?