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okay but if you ever see a male creative who had a string of great work and then everything else he did was dogshit, go to the "personal life" part of his wikipedia and look at his relationships. you'll either find a major tragedy he didn't recover from (completely understandable) or, more likely, there was a woman in his life doing uncredited shit editing his stuff or contributing generally and she's not there anymore.
I told a friend about this phenomenon in literature and he called me weeks later like, I remembered what you said about women doing uncredited work when tim burton came up. he made a string of bangers then everything else just was nowhere near as good. the timeline matches perfectly to when he was with this german visual artist (lena gieseke). he's done some good work in collaboration, but if things were dug into I suspect we would find she did a lot more than people realise.
so yeah whenever you look around like wow women didn't work in history, or, women aren't auteurs, or, there just aren't as many great female writers - societal reasons for that aside, half the time they absolutely did.
Off the top of my head:
George Lucas and his wife Marsha, who edited the first film(s) but had divorced by the time of the prequels.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife Mary, he was credited as the designer and she was merely the muse/artist 🙄
Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, who gave up her own career as a painter to support her husband who had secured the regular patronage of Peggy Guggenheim. Krasner spent most of her life after Pollock's death (in a drunk driving accident with another woman in the car), managing his career and legacy, taking decades to return to her own paintings.
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I think it's closely related to the historical trope of "that woman ruined that man's career", of the public blaming people like Yoko Ono and Courtney Love.
Speaking of Yoko, John Lennon admitted later in his life that Yoko actually wrote most of “Imagine” and that the whole idea for the song was hers in the first place. He said that he didn’t credited her because he was he was “selfish” and “macho” (his words).
“Lemme tell ya, ‘Star Wars’ always had the vibe of being in the most whitest, elite space. It’s a franchise that’s so white that a Black person existing in [it] was something,” Boyega said in the documentary. “You can always tell it’s something when some ‘Star Wars’ fans try to say, ‘Well, we had Lando Calrissian and had Samuel L. Jackson!’ It’s like telling me how many cookie chips are in the cookie dough. It’s like, they just scattered that in there, bro!”
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The production value here is off the charts but this is also literally just what it feels like to play Uno.
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What’s really killing me is the storyline here. One of the friends is delighted to absolutely eviscerate him, whereas the other one looks pained. And there is a subtle overlay of Thanos’ line, “I’m sorry, Little One.”
While one member of the game revels in the destruction of his opponent, the other regrets it.  But only for a moment. Just as quickly, he begins to smile. Was the regret mocking? Or did his mask slip…. What is their history? What are their bonds? And why is one of them so gleeful to sever them? What brought them to this moment…
Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
