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Fuck off Hollywood - Film "1UP" set in the world of eSports with a Gamergate backdrop

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Start date Oct 31, 2020

Kinsei

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www.hollywoodreporter.com

Ellen Page, Paris Berelc Starring in Video Game Comedy ‘1UP’ (Exclusive)

Ellen Page and Paris Berelc are starring in ‘1UP,’ an underdog comedy set in the world of gaming that Kyle Newman will direct for BuzzFeed Studios.

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Ellen Page and Paris Berelc are starring in 1UP, an underdog comedy set in the world of gaming that Kyle Newman will direct for BuzzFeed Studios.

Julia Yorks wrote the script that has been described as being in the vein of Pitch Perfect but set in the world of eSports with a Gamergate backdrop.

The story centers on a female gamer named Vivian Lee who quits her college eSports team rather than put up with sexism from her male counterparts. But with her scholarship on the line, she is forced to assemble a Varsity caliber, all-women's team that can compete with the boys. With the help of an enigmatic coach who returns to the spotlight after her own GamerGate scandal, the young woman recruits an unlikely crew of unskilled misfits to kick some serious gamer butt.

1UP is the first feature from BuzzFeed Studios and falls in line with its mission to develop and produce what it sees are socially relevant and high-concept feature films for global millennial and Gen Z audiences.

Exploiting the trauma of an event half a decade ago which we're still feeling the aftereffects of to this day.

And of fucking course they named the main character Vivian.

Edit

A twitter thread from Zoe Quinn, the first target of Gamergate, that you should read.

Last edited: Oct 31, 2020

makonero

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exMage

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If you’re gonna copy Zoe Quinn's tweets you may as well post them too

zoggy

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whats the significance of "vivian"?

Pyro

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I don't understand the importance of the main character being named Vivian but it's pretty gross to use the still ongoing hate campaign that is Gamergate like that.

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Kinsei

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Daytak said:
If you’re gonna copy Zoe Quinn's tweets you may as well post them too

I actually saw a different tweet then read the article. I'll add those tweets to the OP. Thanks for posting them.

Nanashrew

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zoggy said:
whats the significance of "vivian"?

Gamergate's mascot.

AaronMT

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Gross. Also, BuzzFeed Studios? Really. That’s a thing?

Rocco

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Script written by a woman, starring an actress who understands female empowerment. A female director would have been nice, but I'm fine with this. Certainly far from feeling its "too soon". It happened, it can be depicted and have value.

exMage

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Kinsei said:
I actually saw a different tweet then read the article. I'll add those tweets to the OP. Thanks for posting them.

Oh my bad lol, your last line read really close to the tweet

Strings

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From the writer of Enter the Anime.

Something like this could be an interesting angle for a movie, but iunno if this the one to get it right. Divorced from all the other stuff, representing an esport match in a dramatic and visually compelling way is something I haven't seen done.

Dice

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Nanashrew

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If people want to know who Vivian is.

www.vice.com

Meet the Female Gamer Mascot Born of Anti-Feminist Internet Drama

She’s a regular person who wears jeans and spends too much time on the Internet. And she was created out of spite by the historically anti-feminist gamers of 4chan. This perplexing new symbol for (a form of) female empowerment is intended to fix gaming...

www.vice.com

sphagnum

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zoggy said:
whats the significance of "vivian"?

Vivian James is the gamergate mascot.

NightShift

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What esports games have 1-ups? I know, asking the important questions here.

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Rocco said:
Script written by a woman, starring an actress who understands female empowerment. A female director would have been nice, but I'm fine with this. Certainly far from feeling its "too soon". It happened, it can be depicted and have value.

It's set to be a comedy... A comedy centering on a mass harassment campaign that made death threats.

I think you're expecting far too much from this.

RestEerie

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Kolx

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comedy? really? also BuzzFeed Studios? the fuck?!

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Zips said:
It's set to be a comedy... A comedy centering on a mass harassment campaign that made death threats.

I think you're expecting far too much from this.

I assume the all girls team would win at the end and all those misogynist and harrasment campaign get their come uppance in the end though?

You don't make a supposedly fun comedy movie with these premise and ends with the girls admit they're wrong and quits...

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Nanashrew said:
If people want to know who Vivian is.

Meet the Female Gamer Mascot Born of Anti-Feminist Internet Drama

She’s a regular person who wears jeans and spends too much time on the Internet. And she was created out of spite by the historically anti-feminist gamers of 4chan. This perplexing new symbol for (a form of) female empowerment is intended to fix gaming...

www.vice.com

Thanks for posting this. I never fully understood Gamergate at the time. I was just aware that Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian seemed to make a small but vocal group of incels very angry for no apparent reason.

Chaos2Frozen

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this seems like a very bad idea

Or at the very least I have no faith in it

Mars

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Rocco said:
Script written by a woman, starring an actress who understands female empowerment. A female director would have been nice, but I'm fine with this. Certainly far from feeling its "too soon". It happened, it can be depicted and have value.

Could have said the same thing about the Live Action Mulan™ and look how tone deaf that film turned out...

NazoNazoXLR

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That sounds about what I'd expect from a movie made by Buzzfeed, yes

Not to say that you can't make a comedic movie about this kind of thing, but it'd need to be more Blazing Saddles and less Ben Stiller's Dodgeball

KillLaCam

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I like how literally no one wants this to exist lol

Cess007

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Nanashrew said:
If people want to know who Vivian is.

Meet the Female Gamer Mascot Born of Anti-Feminist Internet Drama

She’s a regular person who wears jeans and spends too much time on the Internet. And she was created out of spite by the historically anti-feminist gamers of 4chan. This perplexing new symbol for (a form of) female empowerment is intended to fix gaming...

www.vice.com

I can only summarize my reaction to all this by using a quote of this article: "my brain said, “So long, world, it’s been fun,” and leaped to its own death"

Saucycarpdog

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1UP is the first feature from BuzzFeed Studios and falls in line with its mission to develop and produce what it sees are socially relevant and high-concept feature films for global millennial and Gen Z audiences.

cyrix

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#27

wow... just fucking gross. no words man, fuck this shit.

SapphiCine

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#28

Everyone that greenlit this needs a smack on the head, bare minimum.

At this point, I think Ellen Page goes out of her way to pick bad projects.

ZanderEzekial

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#29

Oh dear...

laser

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WTF

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Rocco said:
Script written by a woman, starring an actress who understands female empowerment. A female director would have been nice, but I'm fine with this. Certainly far from feeling its "too soon". It happened, it can be depicted and have value.

The framing of this issue as “the girls will beat the boys in the game competition and everything will be solved” is insipidly banal and stupid. If you want to depict this shit then actually show what it was like, which is tons of harassment, death threats, and hate campaigns launched against women in the industry. Not this bullshit.

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ClickyCal'

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SapphiCine

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Lord of Ostia said:
The framing of this issue as “the girls will beat the boys in the game competition and everything will be solved” is insipidly banal and stupid. If you want to depict this shit then actually show what it was like, which is tons of harassment, death threats, and hate campaigns launched against women in the industry. Not this bullshit.

Nothing short of a proper documentary can do the whole ordeal justice, but even then victims like Zoë Quinn are still waiting for this to truly be in the past.

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SapphiCine said:
Nothing short of a proper documentary can do the whole ordeal justice, but even then victims like Zoë Quinn are still waiting for this to truly be in the past.

True, and something like that should only be pursued when victims of the hate movement are ready to do so. Would also need to illustrate how it morphed into the alt-right.

Xterrian

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Sounds like it'll be cringe as hell.

That's not even getting into how it makes light of a targeted harassment campaign. You don't need to have the baggage of that backdrop to have an empowering movie; doubly so if it also happens to be a comedy.

On a final note: Unsolved is the only good part of Buzzfeed.

GamerJM

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#37

This is an astounding cavalcade of bad ideas. Maybe this is just me being optimistic, though, but it also sounds like the kind of thing that doesn't actually end up getting made. I can hope at least.

LoadRunner

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Oh Buzzfeed with your feminine ways, I love you, a movie though...and this movie dough?

Hard to see this ending well, but I’ll watch it like an onlooker of a car crash.

RedOnePunch

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With the help of an enigmatic coach who returns to the spotlight after her own GamerGate scandal, the young woman recruits an unlikely crew of unskilled misfits to kick some serious gamer butt.

What an original idea

Rats

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#40

who is this for

Evildeadhead

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You’ll never believe what the tech journo from breitbart is saying on twitter.

Arm Van Dam

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#42

This is just a bad, bad idea

Bulebule

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Evildeadhead said:
You’ll never believe what the tech journo from breitbart is saying on twitter.

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Account frozen. What did the tweet say?

On topic, why they even considered doing this in the first place, not to mention label as comedy. So stupid.

T002 Tyrant

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Hollywood: This Halloween we resurrect the Gamersgate movement!

Evildeadhead

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Bulebule said:
Lmao, account frozen. What did the tweet say?

It’s an old joke.

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#46

Out of all of this I'm most surprised by Ellen Page who has been pretty outspoken about her experiences with David Cage. What is she doing? Surely there's some research done with a script before signing onto this shit?

TheMadTitan

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So it's every goddamn teen movie from the early 2000s, but with video games.

Those were shit, this will be shit.

Connecting to the Gamergate dots that I didn't know about until this thread will make it extra shit.

RedLangley

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#48

This sounds like a terrible idea, especially after reading that Zoe Quinn thread.

Kind of surprised Ellen Page is involved because she tends to be a really sensible person although she has a history of choosing bad projects.

noinspiration

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Yay! Let's all have a good laugh at the birth of the alt-right!

Dragon Puncher

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#50

While this sounds terrible, is it really worth getting offended by, especially when they are at least clearly trying to tell a story of empowerment?

Are people here that feel this way as outraged by comedies like The Interview, Death of Stalin, In Bruges, The Cable Guy and hell even Dr. Strangelove, that all take on as dark if not darker subject matters than this one?

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