Everything Everywhere All At Once’s Daniel Kwan has the perfect response to toxic fandom
by Sean Hollister from The Verge - All Posts on (#66NC1)
Acknowledge, empathize, redirect. | Image via Daniel Kwan (Twitter) Famous people will often stand by - or worse, dogwhistle - as armies of fans wage war on their behalf. Whether you're a pop star or a tech bro, it's part of the playbook. But when Everything Everywhere All At Once co-director Daniel Kwan got wind his fans were raging against critics who snubbed the film in Best Movie lists, he decided he wasn't going to stand for that.
His response is practically pitch-perfect:
The algorithm pushed this onto my timeline, and as one of the people who made the film, this aggression will not stand, man. pic.twitter.com/VQBsZG2Kjr
- Daniel Kwan (@dunkwun) December 8, 2022
Hi, I'm Dan Kwan, one of the directors of EEAAO. I appreciate your love of the film, but maybe next time you can try to cool...