The series "Women of the Never", which aired on yes, HOT and Cellcom TV, is a work by director Joss Whedon, who made "Buffy", a rabbi with Gal Gadot and holds a distorted view of feminism
Vision of strong and beautiful women.
"Women of the Never"
For more than a decade Joss Whedon has not made television.
He owes his breakthrough to "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," the fantasy series he created in the 1990s and was crowned a breakthrough and breaks conventions thanks to a leading feminist narrative and a powerful female star.
An entire generation grew up on Buffy and Widon.
Young women eagerly absorbed the empowering, sensitive, and belligerent messages of his supernatural daughters in their war against evil.
Yesterday, yes, HOT and Cellcom TV aired Wydon's new series - which he created, produced, wrote and directed, and was finally thrown out of it a moment after the filming.
"Women of the Never" takes place in Victorian London at the end of the 19th century and features women with superpowers, who are called "infected" by the rest of the characters and wage a war of existence against dark forces.
Most of all, however, they are infected with juices and vidios and therefore fight with their bare hands in the poisoned male environment of society.
Widon's world, from "Buffy", through "Angel" to "The Avengers", is built on strong and beautiful women, with supernatural powers and an inner responsibility to save the world from the evil that rules it.
But Widon, it was recently revealed, is not a particularly nice person.
His work environment on the set turned out to be a dangerous jungle, with actors (and especially actresses) telling of his shocking attitude over the years.
One of them, for example, was called fat by him and fired when she became pregnant;
Also, during the filming of "Buffy" a certain procedure was followed in the production to make sure that Widon would not be left alone in a room with a 14-year-old actress, following several incidents between them.
And if the name Widon sounds familiar to you, it's probably because you've heard that he also got involved with Gal Gadot and threatened to ruin her career.
Meanwhile, Widon's career is on hold, but the prestigious production he created on HBO continues without him, and his vision screams from it in every aspect.
Whether in the design of the villain characters, through the beautiful superheroes to the spaceship that sails in the sky in the premiere episode.
Widon is currently a persona non grata in the TV industry, and although he directed three episodes and abandoned the project just before the public blackout wave, it is important to remember that others got into his shoes and he only completed half the work.
Would Widon's series have been better if they hadn't removed him in the middle?
Of course it is.
But the bigger question is whether and how should we separate the creator of the douche and creep from his work?
And how can the separation even be made?
After all, in Woody Allen's most successful films he has relationships with young girls, and Erez Driggs has based himself on the male characters of "Rehearsals," and you may have forgotten how funny Louis C.K.'s jokes were about obscene acts before we found out he implements them indoors.
Same with Widon's feminism, which is dependent on a point of view.
His feminist vision is often shaped by a masculine conception of what it means to be a forceful woman, or in other words: Widon presents sexy and powerful women who are empowered just as they appear in the male fantasy.
You could call it "amplifying feminism," and Gal Gadot could attest to that in the first person.
The inscription is always on the wall.
So why are we, the viewers, shocked that behind every ingenious, scratched and unusual work stands a genius, scratched and unusual creator?
And perhaps what scares us so much is just the extreme gap in emotions it produces in us - love and admiration that turn into hatred and disgust as soon as we realize from what dark place in the artist's psyche the work was created.
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