Naomi McDougall Jones: What it's like to be a woman in Hollywood
娜歐蜜·麥克杜格爾·瓊斯: 在好萊塢身為女性是什麼感覺?
Naomi McDougall Jones is a vocal advocate and activist for bringing gender parity to film, both on and off screen. Full bio
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故事是這樣的。
I could feel the magic of storytelling
我就能感受到說故事的魔力,
Academy of Dramatic Arts
and ready to take my rightful place
準備要理所當然地成為
that you understand
是你們要知道,
and obsessed with "The Sound of Music,"
"I am 16 going on 17,"
for a very serious conversation
和她進行了場很嚴肅的對談,
that you can't sing that song,
I do need you to understand
gender construct that it reinforces."
even occurred to me
from doing anything in my life
and I get work, slowly.
that the parts available for women
complicated, interesting
female characters, right?
gorgeous, talented women
to stand on a balcony,
inside the house.
she is the ideal girl and Brian's prize
是個理想的女孩,整部片從頭到尾
who is making peace with the fact
她在試著接受一個事實:
is to tend to her husband."
就是照料她先生。」
with a tastefully shot gang rape,
拍一個集體強暴的高雅鏡頭,
to my agent one day,
提了這件事,
going in for parts
what to do with you.
for women in their 20s,
火辣的角色,所以我想
to be the hot one,
you were kind of, like,
你就有點算是開始
20-year-olds' mothers."
二十多歲角色的媽媽。」
with an actress friend of mine,
how insane this is.
知道怎樣嗎?沒問題。
about two complex female characters.
我會寫兩個複雜的女性角色。
an all-female production team:
製作團隊全是女性:
we're sitting in the office
you are going to have to hire
你們得要僱用
will trust you with their money."
want to see films about women,
關於兩個女人的電影,
making something else.
and we win a lot of awards
我們贏得了好多獎,
just keep rubbing at me.
screenings of the film,
and talk at conferences.
並在會議上演說。
is that, to begin with,
coming up in the film industry,
What do we do about this?"
我們要怎麼做?」
提名過的人告訴我:
with everything you're saying.
在什麼場合說這些話。」
about where you say it."
to play the woman card.
sexism continues on in 2016, right?
在 2016 年繼續延續下去的,對嗎?
are just trying to get along
the way that the world "just is."
世界的現實「就是如此」。
something about it,
significant problems in the world
if I can't get a job,
"Transformer 17," right?
"sharks" among their top 10 major fears.
他們的前十大恐懼當中。
three million dollars
詹姆士龐德系列電影三百萬美元,
from driving an Aston Martin
再開奧斯頓馬丁的車,
to go out and buy that car,
in pre-sales alone.
兩億四千萬美元。
and "Hunger Games" came out,
和《飢餓遊戲》推出的那年,
went up 105 percent.
don't just affect your hobbies,
your emotions, your sense of identity,
你的情緒、你的身份認同感、
even your marital status.
甚至你的婚姻狀況。
mostly American movies in your lifetime,
you have ever seen
of all of the leading characters
the last five years,
that you have seen a woman in a movie,
有 55% 的可能性
how much it affects us,
它對我們的影響有多大,
are just modern stories --
through which we process
我們透過這機制
that we understand the world
different than our own.
和我們有不同經歷的人。
is being funneled at us
過濾之後才呈現給我們。
if all of the stories were told?
世界會有多麼不同?
a lot of you are hearing about this,
have spent years --
已經花了數年時間——
a lot longer than I have --
and writing articles
to do a better job about this.
要把這件事處理得更好些。
recently released their slates,
發佈了它們的預定片單,
between now and 2017,
它們要推出的 47 部電影當中,
will be directed by a woman.
to grow a conscience
ruling class of people
一小群有支配權的人,
and power and resources,
金錢、權力、資源時,
about giving it up.
不能只是請求他們,
I promise you, here, now, today,
plan for the revolution --
所做的四要點計畫之前——
and important news for you.
重要消息要告訴你們。
do -- 50 percent.
to the micro-budget film,
微型預算的電影時,
美金之間的獨立製片,
to the studio system,
five percent of movies.
will look at this
just aren't as good at directing movies."
the film industry is a meritocracy, right?
是精英領導的,對吧?
five percent as talented as men,
that there are serious systemic issues
這體系有著嚴重的問題,
from here to there.
of untapped potential over here.
and this is really good news:
和關於女性的電影比較賺錢。
recently released a study
一項研究顯示,
make 23 cents more on every dollar
主打女性的電影每一塊錢成本
commissioned a study
委外做了一項研究,
made over the last five years
1,700 部電影,
returns on investment --
filled each of the following roles:
由男性或女性擔任的差別:
screenwriter and lead actor.
if it's a woman.
投資報酬率就會比較高。
of all movie tickets.
51% 是女性買的。
和關於女性的電影比較賺錢。
some portion of the male population
並不是只給女性看的。
18 percent of all of their films
is a giant underserved audience
被服務不足的觀眾
且我們有故事要說。
you want to see them.
你們想要看這些故事。
let's call it "Hollywood" --
我們就叫它「好萊塢」吧——
people in Hollywood --
from getting to you.
無法接觸到你們。
for the revolution,
做的四要點計畫,
in this room or anywhere in the world --
在這裡或在世界各地——
the revolution together.
who watches movies.
會看電影的人談談。
by a female filmmaker per month?
一個月看一部女性製片的電影?
moviesbyher.com。
of films by women.
且很容易搜尋。
to the female characters.
to emotionally support the men?
情緒支持角色?
you're not going to be able to unsee it.
就無法不再看見。
it's going to shift your viewing habits.
你們的觀影習慣就會有所轉變。
is going to continue to grow.
還會繼續成長。
the female filmmakers out there:
constantly telling you
要去拍這些電影。
range -- that is on us to fix.
要靠我們來修正。
they are not going to.
now, today, features, not shorts.
且是拍主流電影,不是短片。
and they want and need to see them.
他們想要也需要看這些電影。
we need to stop wasting so much energy
我們需要停止浪費這麼多精力
and invest in cultivating them.
投資在培養他們上面。
how to make our movies
to the audiences that want them,
想看它們的觀眾面前,
quite so important.
that you want to see.
25 dollars in a crowdfunding campaign,
群眾募資活動中貢獻出 $25,
million-dollar hurdle,
必要百萬美元的障礙,
the other half of the story.
to all of the businesspeople
very often in the world,
significant social change
你可以促成重要的社會改變,
and distribution are crumbling --
and produced by women
製片的電影,幫它們取得
of female filmmakers
to the audiences who want them.
but it is actually so doable.
但實際上是很可行的。
because you ask the people in charge,
你叫負責的人改變就會改變,
who don't have what they want
得不到想要的東西的人
51 percent of the population has to say.
人口有什麼想說的。
that teach me about people
that aren't perfect.
並沒有完美的胴體。
to give a little girl
she dreams of achieving.
在做她所夢想的事。
making one industry better.
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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