Stop The Hate

June 30, 2016 8:33 AM

49 Celebrities Honor 49 Victims of Orlando Tragedy Hollywood Reporter provides extensive background and photos: Anger and grief were palpable during production on the video, filmed primarily over two days on the 20th Century Fox Studios lot where [Ryan] Murphy produces his substantial roster of shows
posted by hippybear (10 comments total)

I felt like this was nice, but not nearly as good as Anderson Cooper's tribute.
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 8:35 AM on June 30, 2016 [1 favorite]

I watched all of this yesterday and it was awful and I cried alone in my living room. It went on for so long, I kept thinking it had to end soon. It didn't.
posted by hepta at 9:55 AM on June 30, 2016 [2 favorites]

Can you list who they are? I didn't recognise many (not US person)
posted by A189Nut at 11:10 AM on June 30, 2016

Many are named in the article, but also the article notes, "the well-known faces that give voice to the project (none of which are ever noted by name out of deference to the victims they honor), reflect a wide and inclusive demographic to make sure it's shared with as wide of an audience as possible." [emphasis mine]
posted by hippybear at 11:14 AM on June 30, 2016 [4 favorites]

Can I admit to finding this bathetic, and on the edge of not v self aware camp.
posted by PinkMoose at 11:19 AM on June 30, 2016

I find this really effective. It humanizes the individuals who are described. I wonder if it could be an interesting technique if used locally, for living people, somehow.
posted by amtho at 11:32 AM on June 30, 2016

This post on the Human Rights Campaign site lists both the memorialized and the memorializers (and has the good taste to list the victims _first_).
posted by amtho at 11:36 AM on June 30, 2016

Again. Don't read the youtube comments if you want to not scream at random internet people.
posted by synthetik at 12:29 PM on June 30, 2016 [1 favorite]

Can I admit to finding this bathetic, and on the edge of not v self aware camp.

Sure, but I think with something like this, it's not really the best move to judge it by its value as "art." This isn't art, it's activism, and that ok.

The difference is that the metric here isn't whether or not it's good, but whether it's seen by a large number of people and a significant number of those people find it moving enough to shift something in their mind or heart. If you don't, that's fine, but you're also then probably not the target audience.
posted by lunasol at 3:11 PM on June 30, 2016 [1 favorite]

Thank you for posting this, hippybear.
posted by mochapickle at 6:35 PM on June 30, 2016