Accountability in Entertainment • Page 193

Don’t think this was posted here per a search but Thomas Middleditch accused of sexual abuse/harassment last month via a TikTok. Doesn’t seem like it gained much traction though.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeFgAAnd/

 

God damn.

 

Not that surprising unfortunately, considering how he treated his ex wife

 

I didn’t realize she divorced him. Good for her.

 

this is also apparently him

it looks like the caption changed but he pressured her to get them and kept making comments about how much he liked other women's bodies

 

Yeah he’s a big fuckin creep

 

He pressured his then wife to become swingers just so he could fuck other women

 

We were so close to winning over the far right!

 

Had no idea about Middleditch. Jesus

 

Fuck Middleditch.

 

I gotta watch that for sure

 

Love to see HBO air the documentary but then do this, real nice...

 

The amount of cynicism here makes me want to scream. You can't convince me AT ALL they're doing this for any reason other than they know the doc will bump his works for awhile and they want to profit from that.

 

Bad take!

 

I want to make it clear that I am not defending Roman Polanski here AT ALL, but I think the reason people feel less uncomfortable watching some of his movies compared to Allen is because Polanski’s crime isn’t baked into basically everything he ever made, whereas Woody is dating or obsessed with a ridiculously young woman in like 85% of his filmography.

 

Also Woody Allen was absolutely the person who got me into filmmaking and I had no problem tossing him away. There are plenty of filmmakers (Gerwig, Baumbach, Hong Sang-Soo, Stillman, Linklater, etc.) doing Woody Allen better than Woody Allen in 2021, anyway.

 

Uh pretty sure people treat Roman the same way

 

I also feel like, and correct me if I’m wrong, that people think of Woody Allen movies as WOODY ALLEN movies. People think of Roman Polanski movies as Rosemary’s Baby, Chinatown, etc.

 

I personally won't see any Polanski movie even though they're "classics"

 

To support this a little, I somehow never knew Chinatown as a Polanski film. Rosemary’s Baby and The Pianist are the only films I know as “Polanski films” where as Woody Allen films are very visibly his.

 

According to Letterboxd, I’ve seen 0% of Polanski’s movies, and only 1% of Woody Allen’s. And it turns out the only movie I’ve seen connected to Woody Allen is Antz...