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Do Not Mess with Scarlett Johansson

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I don't understand why Johansson's movies would make it obvious you're not supposed to mess with her.

> I repeat. Do not mess with Scarlett Johansson.

> You would think her movies, and her suit against Disney, would make this obvious.

What are the movies supposed to show? Is it a joke, or does the author not understand the difference between the actor and the role? Johansson is not actually Black Widow. Or what am I not understanding?

Of course the other points stand on their own, like successfully suing Disney. Just nitpicking.

The impression I get, broadly, is that she's smart enough to consistently star in well regarded movies, know her worth, power, and how to control a narrative. Disney, a notoriously hard-assed company, for all intents and purposes caved to her in a few months.

Similar things could be said about Taylor Swift.

The point being made, as I understand it, is that Scarlett Johansson is as formidable in real life as the characters she plays are in her films.

It's obviously made in jest

Looks like they had the voice actress already and only later asked Johansson if she wanted the part, which she declined.

https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1793788636946743705

and so I no longer watch ScarJo movies because she took Sky from us.

OTOH, Sky sounded more like Rashida Jones.

On Altman: "It’s increasingly clear that the board fired him for the reasons they gave at the time: he is not honest or trustworthy, and that’s not an acceptable trait for a CEO!"

My experience, with one personal exception, is that deception and lies are the the hallmarks of a good CEO - good in the business sense. There is something about the kind of person that wants to be a CEO that attracts sociopaths. But I would argue for most businesses a sociopath is what you need to operate in a market environment predicated on preying on the pocketbooks of the populace.

> But I would argue for most businesses a sociopath is what you need to operate in a market environment predicated on preying on the pocketbooks of the populace.

Allowing such a market to arise is a societal problem. Thankfully the future can still be changed, if we want to badly enough

It's the nature of things. One word: evolution!

Let's imagine a society where power grabs are checked. Then we have an unstable equilibrium. Lucky and shrewd persons can become able to evade the checks. It's a bit like immunity of bugs to poisons. Bugs that die off don't reproduce so the system is self-selecting to immune bugs.

It's a pity.

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