this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2024
76 points (100.0% liked)

movies

7 readers
8 users here now

Warning: If the community is empty, make sure you have "English" selected in your languages in your account settings.

πŸ”Ž Find discussion threads

A community focused on discussions on movies. Besides usual movie news, the following threads are welcome

Related communities:

Show communities:

Discussion communities:

RULES

Spoilers are strictly forbidden in post titles.

Posts soliciting spoilers (endings, plot elements, twists, etc.) should contain [spoilers] in their title. Comments in these posts do not need to be hidden in spoiler MarkDown if they pertain to the title’s subject matter.

Otherwise, spoilers but must be contained in MarkDown.

2024 discussion threads

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] jlow 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

And not a single woman, if I'm not mistaken! And probably all white except for Miyazaki?

[–] Steve@communick.news 15 points 8 months ago

Akira Kurosawa is #18.

But what would you expect? It's a ranking based on IMDB scores. It's got nothing to do with diversity.

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 6 points 8 months ago

Hollywood has a long history of primarily funding films made and mostly starring white men, which gives them the resources to make higher quality films with stars that have more practice resulting in a far better chance of putting out a widely known and higher quality product. That isn't saying anything negative about anyone else, just that when you filter out women and minorities from the directing role and give them fewer and less experienced stars and production crews funded at a lower rate, the odds of being high quality and getting attention is far lower.

Also note how many of the listed films are blockbusters, or at least were highly promoted and widely distributed.

There is something to be said about the number of women and minority directors that have highly rated films with far fewer than 50k ratings total, due to both a smaller output and less public recognition. Their exclusion is a sign of the lack of engagement by the audience, probably for the same systemic issues of racism and misogyny.

It is a self reinforcing system, and calling it out is important but certainly isn't a surprise.

[–] veeesix@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

Akira Kurosawa

Japanese, male.