What is Right Now, You Like Me?

I started Right Now, You Like Me because I love movies, I love talking about movies, and I for one am tired of film discussions being so serious and pompous and gatekeepy all the time. Movies are fun, and we should have fun talking about them!

The name comes from Sally Field’s iconic yet often misquoted Oscar acceptance speech after winning Best Actress for Places in the Heart in 1985. I find it so interesting that our collective memory had long ago decided what Sally Field said and we just ran with it, never correcting ourselves. In an interview with Variety, Sally Field said this about the misquote:

In my mind, I pictured the struggle of how it was for me to get out of the whole “Gidget,” “Flying Nun” world that I had to like claw my way out of because they wouldn’t let me in a door. And it just made me work and work and work and do things maybe I would not have done before.

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Sometimes I want to punch them in the nose, but mostly because they don’t ever say the context of what I said before. When I’m there talking about it, I say I haven’t had an orthodox career, that this has been a struggle for me, but for this one moment in time, I have to allow myself to know and feel that you like me.

In the interview, Sally goes on to talk a bit about her experiences with misogyny in her career. Of course, these issues in Hollywood are nothing new, and it’s well-worn territory in the realm of film criticism and discussion, too. Women’s voices in this space, when they aren’t drowned out completely by elitist men, are often mocked, misunderstood, or dismissed. I don’t expect to make waves or anything with my silly little newsletter here, but I figure it couldn’t hurt to add my perspective to the growing pool of beautiful lady cinephiles.

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Look, I don’t have any impressive credentials or anything, but I did study film at a state school and I used to write articles and movie reviews for the teen section of my hometown newspaper so I’m no slouch when it comes to this stuff, okay?

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