{"id":1463,"date":"2017-06-18T18:54:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T18:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/06\/18\/the-onion-explains-why-there-are-so-few-women-directors-in-hollywood-watch\/"},"modified":"2017-06-18T18:54:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T18:54:44","slug":"the-onion-explains-why-there-are-so-few-women-directors-in-hollywood-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/06\/18\/the-onion-explains-why-there-are-so-few-women-directors-in-hollywood-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Onion Explains Why There Are So Few Women Directors in Hollywood \u2014 Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Never one to shy away from hot-button issues, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/the-onion\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-onion\">the Onion<\/a> has now seen fit to chime in on one of Hollywood&#8217;s most heated debates: the paucity of female filmmakers. A new video finds one Shaun Ditko, the Onion&#8217;s critic-at-large, offering a simple solution to a complex problem: &#8220;There just simply isn&#8217;t enough chocolate on set to keep them happy.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/06\/wonder-woman-gal-gadot-patty-jenkins-female-superhero-analysis-1201836303\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">READ MORE: \u2018Wonder Woman\u2019: What Does One Great Female Superhero Mean For the Future of the Genre? \u2014 Analysis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;How does Hollywood expect to be more inclusive when a woman&#8217;s need to always have chocolate treats available to keep her calm and content goes completely ignored?&#8221; she asks as images of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/sofia-coppola\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sofia-coppola\">Sofia Coppola<\/a>, Kathryn Bigelow and Ava DuVernay appear onscreen. A lack of chocolate-covered cherries isn&#8217;t the only barrier to entry, Ditko explains, as the film industry likewise fails to provide an adequate amount of silk pajamas, fuzzy slippers and seaweed-infused facial masks on set.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/05\/cannes-sofia-coppola-best-director-beguiled-1201833491\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">READ MORE: Cannes 2017: Sofia Coppola Makes History as the Second Female Filmmaker to Win Best Director<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Until such a time as these humble request are met, she assures us, &#8220;progress is at a standstill.&#8221; Watch the video below and ponder <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Poe%27s_law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Poe&#8217;s law.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never one to shy away from hot-button issues, the Onion has now seen fit to chime in on one of Hollywood&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-nB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}