Gatekeeping is a real battle within Hollywood. But It’s not from Tarantino or Scorsese.
One of the buzzwords that gets everyone talking is “gatekeeping.” It’s the idea that someone is controlling access to something. In Hollywood, it’s often used to refer to the people who hold up access to those breaking into the industry.
Gatekeeping in Hollywood can have lots of other connotations, including sexism, racism, and classism, which are all over this town. It’s a huge problem that needs to be fixed.
But a lot of times, this word gets tossed around to incite a feeling without actually sussing out if the action of “gatekeeping” is really happening.
Today, this discussion reared its head when actor Simu Liu tweeted in response to a Tarantino quote.
We wrote this morning about Tarantino talking about the metaphorical death of the Hollywood movie star, saying Marvel and other superhero movies killed them off.
On his stop on Tom Segura’s podcast, 2 Bears, 1 Cave, Mediaite reported that Tarantino said:
Author: Jason Hellerman
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
