rant · moment 21 of 33
Woody Allen, Dylan Farrow, and the MeToo Island Proposal
from #285 - Tim Dillon VS Substack | The Tim Dillon Show · #285
3 min
Tim wrestles with the Woody Allen allegations, proposes turning Little St. James into a "MeToo Island" where disgraced talents like Cosby, Louis CK, and Woody could keep making art in captivity, and argues for separating art from artist.
- Separating art from the artist means taking away Woody Allen's movies, which punishes us, not him.
- Tim proposes converting Epstein Island into a MeToo island where accused artists live in exile but continue making work streamed to audiences.
- The MeToo island comedy tour lineup: Cosby closing, Louis C.K. performing, D'Elia opening—a full bill of accused comedians.
- They're white-collar criminals on a tropical island jail where they need cantaloupe to preserve their creativity.
- Removing all people who've said wrong things, had bad relationships, or been addicts leaves you with homogenous, boring art nobody likes.
- Bad art comes from bureaucrats and office politics types trying to be comedians and filmmakers—people who don't understand the human condition.
- A disclaimer before the movie stating it's made by a pedophile could solve the problem while letting audiences decide whether to watch.
- Imagining a Marvel movie with an on-screen disclaimer: 'This movie's made by a pedophile'—testing whether audiences actually leave theaters.
- Someone in the theater would yell back at the screen about separating the art from the artist rather than walk out.
- James Gunn made a Galaxy movie despite having old tweets and jokes—but removing him would be a genuine loss.
Woody AllenLouis C.K.Bill CosbyEpstein IslandChris D'EliaJames GunnJoe List