Max Landis Has Twitter Meltdown Over Vanity Fair Story Implying He’s Sexist
“This is actual pathetic journalism that involves skipping all the movies I’ve liked with female protags this year,” the writer-director tweets
Writer-director Max Landis put up his dukes and came out swinging Sunday in self-defense after a Vanity Fair story accused him of “attacking another popular genre film with a female protagonist” — namely “Arrival.”
Arrival's "emotional" subplot and relationships are among the least earned I've ever seen in a wide release movie.
While beautifully made and full of very cool ideas, Arrival ultimately weirdly falls into the exact same category for me as Interstellar.
The Vanity Fair story by writer, Joanna Robinson, however, says of Landis’ critique: “Perhaps if he’s so unimpressed with the critically and commercially successful female characters and storylines in genre fare these days, Landis should show us one of his own.”
Landis, who wrote “Chronicle,” “Victor Frankenstein” and “Mr. Right,” took to Twitter again, this time to fight back at the implication that he’s a sexist.
In all three, the male characters are ultimately bumblers, who lose their showdowns with the villains only to be saved by women.
— Max Landis (@Uptomyknees) November 13, 2016
Because my work focuses on emotional arcs over plot arcs, the male "action" hero rarely needs to actually win a fight.
True story, the person who wrote the weird, unfounded, inflammatory hackjob @VanityFair article already had me blocked on Twitter. pic.twitter.com/fv1gx23IWY
god it's so crazy that "sounding like the president" now means you're being a whiny insecure megalomaniacal baby man