00:00:00.000So, the Venice Film Festival is currently happening, and that's usually where a lot of the Oscar bait films go to premiere, and all the actors show up and they do QAs and all the rest of this thing.
00:00:08.000Well, it's always where actors also say kind of dumb stuff.
00:02:09.000The first people that authoritarians try to shut down are not politicians.
00:02:13.000They're journalists who ask questions.
00:02:15.000They're the artists who refuse simple answers.
00:02:17.000They're the filmmakers, writers, actors, and musicians.
00:02:23.000Oh, it's the artists who bring us together.
00:02:25.000That's who brings us together with films that label half the American population horrible and film festivals that refuse to acknowledge the existence of other worldviews.
00:03:00.000What's interesting about when you get far enough away from a time period that's quite distinct, I think there's always a lovely feeling associated with it.
00:03:07.000It's almost like you pave over all the trauma with puppy dogs and ice cream.
00:03:11.000And the 80s was a brutal, brutal time for people.
00:03:37.000So I think, you know, I think when you look back at 2026 and this era, I think you're going to like pick on the big ticket items that don't really, didn't really leave the Footprint culturally that you would think it would.
00:04:04.000The 1980s, you don't remember it properly.
00:04:05.000Sure, the 1980s were kind of great, but you remember it poorly.
00:04:08.000Ryan Reynolds remembers it really well.
00:04:10.000Ryan Reynolds must have been suffering deeply in the 1980s in some unspecified way.
00:04:16.000We'll get to more on this in a moment.
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00:05:19.000Now, Maggie Gillenhall, who is on the board of the Venice Film Festival, she says one of the great tragedies of filmmaking right now is that it's very hard for women to get their films financed.
00:05:28.000I mean, first of all, let's be very clear.
00:05:29.000It is very difficult for anyone to get their film financed because film is expensive.
00:05:35.000Maggie Gillenhall, I mean, Like, can we point out at this point that Maggie Gyllenhaal has had films financed that are some of the worst films in human history?
00:05:47.000What was Maggie Gyllenhaal's latest film?
00:05:48.000I just have to look this up because, as I recall, it was a piece of.
00:05:52.000I mean, her last film, The Bride, is one of the worst movies ever made, ever.
00:06:08.000Million dollars, 80 to 90 million dollars.
00:06:10.000It did 24 million dollars at the box office.
00:06:12.000Lady, I'm pretty sure if it's hard for you to get financed, it's because you financed a project to the tune of 80 to 90 million dollars that made 24 million dollars at the box office.
00:06:21.000Unless people not understand how budgets for film work, that budget is just for the film.
00:06:26.000That does not include what's called the P and A, meaning the print and advertising campaign, which usually is as much as the budget.
00:06:34.000So that movie cost probably at least 150 million dollars to make 24 million dollars.
00:06:47.000Here's Maggie Gyllenhaal complaining about how difficult it is to get films funded after, again, suckering someone into paying for one of the worst movies ever made.
00:06:57.000I do think it's much harder for women to get their films financed.
00:07:00.000Also, could it be possible that the things that women, having had a different experience of being alive in the world, want to make movies about? Are not always deemed high art.
00:07:21.000I will also say, sitting next to one of the people who makes that decision, that I am on a panel here with many, many women and have also on my jury incredible female filmmakers.
00:07:35.000But I will also say that that's also a question I have and it's a legitimate one.
00:07:44.000I'm glad that you've declared your own.
00:07:49.000Speaking of women who complain about not getting role offers, Elliot Page is now complaining, which again, I feel like this is contradictory.
00:07:56.000Elliot Page, a woman cosplaying as a man, says that he has not received any role offers since the Odyssey.
00:08:05.000Well, I mean, there's a reason for that, which is that you're not very good in the Odyssey.
00:08:09.000And also, that was a kind piece of casting because Christopher Nolan is friendly with Elliot Page.
00:08:14.000But it's a real problem for the movie, as I've discussed, because Elliot Page is supposed to be playing a.
00:08:22.000Young man who dies in a war and it doesn't work because Elliot Page looks like a 110 pound woman.
00:09:10.000Um, well, I was just informed that it's very hard for women to get jobs, but now Elliot Page, I've been told by Hollywood, Elliot Page is a man, so I don't get it.
00:09:22.000Where's the sexism working in favor of Elliot Page?
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