Naomi McDougall Jones: What it's like to be a woman in Hollywood
ナオミ・マクドゥーガル・ジョーンズ: ハリウッドにおける女性の現状
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女優を夢見てきました
I could feel the magic of storytelling
物語の持つ不思議な力を感じ
思っていました
卒業した私は
Academy of Dramatic Arts
卒業した私は
and ready to take my rightful place
なる気満々でした
メリルではありません
that you understand
重要なのは 私の親が
ということです
and obsessed with "The Sound of Music,"
サウンド・オブ・ミュージックにハマり
毎日のように
"I am 16 going on 17,"
とても真剣にこう言いました
for a very serious conversation
言わないわ
that you can't sing that song,
しっかり理解してほしいの
I do need you to understand
性差別を助長しているか」
gender construct that it reinforces."
even occurred to me
みませんでした
from doing anything in my life
やりたいことを
and I get work, slowly.
少しずつ仕事も得ました
that the parts available for women
どれもひどいと
奥深い 面白く 複雑な
complicated, interesting
female characters, right?
女性の役を演じるためでした
他の300人の女優たちと
gorgeous, talented women
なったのです
to stand on a balcony,
戻ってくるだけ
inside the house.
理想の女の子で
she is the ideal girl and Brian's prize
ブライアンが追い求める」
who is making peace with the fact
人生の唯一の目的は
is to tend to her husband."
信じている」
with a tastefully shot gang rape,
集団強姦シーンあり
to my agent one day,
こう伝えてみました
going in for parts
what to do with you.
どうすればいいか分からないよ
演じるには
for women in their 20s,
可愛くもない
to be the hot one,
何とかなるかもな」
you were kind of, like,
なんていうか
役ばかりかと思っていました」
20-year-olds' mothers."
with an actress friend of mine,
話になり
how insane this is.
自分たちで映画を作ろうと
女性を描くことにし
about two complex female characters.
女性だけの製作チームが編成されました
an all-female production team:
we're sitting in the office
とある有名な
男性のプロデューサーも
you are going to have to hire
わかっているよね?
お金を預けられるためにね」
will trust you with their money."
皆そんなに興味ないよ
want to see films about women,
making something else.
8万ドルをかき集めて映画を作り
たくさん受賞し
and we win a lot of awards
ずっと引っかかっていました
just keep rubbing at me.
話し始めたのです
screenings of the film,
質疑応答から始めて
呼ばれるようになりました
and talk at conferences.
is that, to begin with,
入ってくる人たちにすると
coming up in the film industry,
What do we do about this?"
私たちはどうするべきだろう?」
唐突に言われたのです
どれも同意するけれど
with everything you're saying.
本当に気を付けた方がいい」
about where you say it."
to play the woman card.
好ましくないと言いました
性差別が続いているのではないでしょうか
sexism continues on in 2016, right?
何気なく行われます
are just trying to get along
うまくやろうとすることで
「そういうものだ」と教えようという
the way that the world "just is."
起こるのかもしれません
something about it,
現状をどうにかしないと
このままだということ
いけないのでしょう?
課題は他にもたくさんあります
significant problems in the world
課題は他にもたくさんあります
if I can't get a job,
見ることになっても どうってことありません
"Transformer 17," right?
"sharks" among their top 10 major fears.
急にサメを選び始めました
three million dollars
シリーズに300万ドルを支払いました
from driving an Aston Martin
to go out and buy that car,
この車を買い求め
2億4千万ドルの売上を記録しました
in pre-sales alone.
『ハンガー・ゲーム』が公開された年
and "Hunger Games" came out,
went up 105 percent.
105%増えました
don't just affect your hobbies,
その人の趣味に影響するだけでなく
your emotions, your sense of identity,
アイデンティティーの感覚
even your marital status.
影響を及ぼすのです
mostly American movies in your lifetime,
アメリカ映画だった場合
you have ever seen
of all of the leading characters
the last five years,
女性は 55%の割合で
that you have seen a woman in a movie,
how much it affects us,
蔓延しすぎているせいで
映画は現代版の物語ですが—
are just modern stories --
through which we process
that we understand the world
自分の立ち位置を
different than our own.
is being funneled at us
作られてしまっています
ありませんが
見る資格があるのでは?
if all of the stories were told?
世界はどう変わるでしょうか?
a lot of you are hearing about this,
始めて聞く話だと思いますが
have spent years --
これまで何年も
私よりずっと長く
a lot longer than I have --
記事を書いたり
and writing articles
to do a better job about this.
叫んできたのです
最近出したスケジュールによると
recently released their slates,
47本の映画のうち
between now and 2017,
1つもないのです
will be directed by a woman.
待つのは得策ではないと
to grow a conscience
ruling class of people
みんな握っている人たちにとって
and power and resources,
about giving it up.
面白くないことのようです
変わりはしません
I promise you, here, now, today,
お約束します
かなり少ないはずです
plan for the revolution --
4項目からなる計画をお伝えする前に—
and important news for you.
お伝えしますね
実在します
do -- 50 percent.
to the micro-budget film,
予算の少ない映画
インディーズ映画では
to the studio system,
なってしまうのです
five percent of movies.
will look at this
向いていないんじゃないか」
just aren't as good at directing movies."
信じたいじゃないですか
the film industry is a meritocracy, right?
five percent as talented as men,
that there are serious systemic issues
from here to there.
受け止めますか?
of untapped potential over here.
大きな可能性がここにあります
and this is really good news:
これは本当にいいお知らせですよ
興行成績が良いのです
最近の調査によると
recently released a study
そうでない映画に比べ
make 23 cents more on every dollar
23セント多く稼いでいます
commissioned a study
調査を委託し
1,700本の映画を調べ
made over the last five years
returns on investment --
どれくらいお金が稼げるかを
女性の場合で比較しました
filled each of the following roles:
それぞれについてです
screenwriter and lead actor.
高いという結果となりました
if it's a woman.
of all movie tickets.
51%が女性です
興行成績が良く
男性も少なからず
some portion of the male population
女性だけのためではないのです
18 percent of all of their films
「女性の映画」は
ニーズを満たしておらず
is a giant underserved audience
可能性があるのです
you want to see them.
観たい観客はいるのです
let's call it "Hollywood" --
仮称しましょうか
people in Hollywood --
素敵な人はいます ー
見せてくれないこと
from getting to you.
4項目の計画をお伝えします
for the revolution,
in this room or anywhere in the world --
会場の皆さんや 世界中の方の
革命ではありません
the revolution together.
革命を起こしたいのです
who watches movies.
言いたいのです
by a female filmmaker per month?
観てくれませんか?
検索してみてください
データベースです
of films by women.
注意深く観察してください
to the female characters.
支えるだけの存在か?
to emotionally support the men?
you're not going to be able to unsee it.
無視できないですよ
観る習慣が変わってきます
it's going to shift your viewing habits.
is going to continue to grow.
市場がさらに広がります
the female filmmakers out there:
女性の皆さん
勇気が必要です
映画を作るのは難しく
constantly telling you
皆さんの物語を
作ってほしいのです
range -- that is on us to fix.
この層を私たちが変えましょう
待つのはやめましょう
they are not going to.
ないのですから
手紙を書くことは
now, today, features, not shorts.
長編の映画を作る必要があります
and they want and need to see them.
観客がいるんです
we need to stop wasting so much energy
私たちを必要としないシステムに
もうやめませんか?
and invest in cultivating them.
観客を増やすための 投資が必要です
how to make our movies
見つけられれば
to the audiences that want them,
quite so important.
私たちに投資してください
that you want to see.
助けてください
女性の製作者に25ドルを寄付できるなら
25 dollars in a crowdfunding campaign,
援助ができるなら
million-dollar hurdle,
物語のために投資してください
the other half of the story.
起こしましょう
to all of the businesspeople
起こることではないですが
very often in the world,
居合わせています
significant social change
社会的変化を起こしながら
崩壊する時が来ました
and distribution are crumbling --
方法は崩れかけています
壊してしまいましょう
映画に出資する
and produced by women
映画が対象です
of female filmmakers
女性映画製作者に
それを待つ観客へと届ける機会を
to the audiences who want them.
ビジネスにもなることです
一つの例に過ぎません
もっと大きいのです
儲かるチャンスを見逃しています
実際 十分に実行可能です
but it is actually so doable.
その責任者に頼んでも変わりません
because you ask the people in charge,
みんなが立ち上がることで
who don't have what they want
51 percent of the population has to say.
どう反応するか見てみたいです
that teach me about people
教えてくれる映画を
that aren't perfect.
映画で観てみたいです
きっかけを与えたいです
to give a little girl
現実ではロールモデルが
she dreams of achieving.
映画を見せてあげたいです
making one industry better.
良くする話ではありません
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Naomi McDougall Jones - Actress, writer, producer, activistNaomi McDougall Jones is a vocal advocate and activist for bringing gender parity to film, both on and off screen.
Why you should listen
Naomi McDougall Jones is an award-winning actress, writer, producer and women-in film activist based in New York City.
McDougall Jones wrote, produced and starred in the 2014 indie feature film, Imagine I'm Beautiful, which took home 12 awards on the film festival circuit, including four Best Pictures and, for McDougall Jones, three Best Actress Awards and The Don Award for Best Independently Produced Screenplay of 2014. Imagine I’m Beautiful is a "haunting and empathetic" psychological drama that dissects the fine line between self-invention and destruction. The film received a 10-city theatrical and digital release and is now available on iTunes, Amazon, and GooglePlay.
McDougall Jones's second feature film, Bite Me, is currently in post-production, with an expected 2018 premiere. Bite Me is a subversive romantic comedy about the real-life subculture of people who believe that they're vampires and the IRS agent who audits them. In addition to writing the screenplay, McDougall Jones also stars in the film. She is also currently at work on her third feature screenplay, an as-yet-untitled magical realism film that explores themes of identity, legacy and gender through a modern-day seven-month pregnant woman's unexpected interaction with the brilliant, eccentric and deceased inventor John Hays Hammond, Jr.
McDougall Jones is a vocal advocate and activist for bringing gender parity to film, both on and off screen. She has teamed up with the former CFO of the City of Chicago, Lois Scott, to found The 51 Fund, a VC investment fund will finance films written, directed and produced by women. McDougall Jones is also the Founder of The Women in Film Revolution, the first and only centralized mechanism for leaders of US-based organizations working to bring parity to film to communicate, collaborate, and become a unified movement for change.
McDougall Jones is at work on a book, "The Wrong Kind of Woman: Dismantling the Gods of Hollywood," which will be published by Beacon Press in Fall 2019.
She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, Stephen. She grew up in Aspen, Colorado and attended Cornel University before graduating from The American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
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