The long-running saga of Ray Fisher and thetoxic on-set cultureof theJustice League由乔斯·惠顿（Joss Whedon）监督的重新拍摄已经结束，这是许多人担心的目的：雷·费舍尔（Ray Fisher）在DC Extended Universe中失去了当Cyborg的工作。总是有焦虑的是，在为自己和他人讲话时，费舍尔会面临工作室的惩罚性行为，情况似乎是这种情况，因为他说由于今年晚些时候，由于电影而被写出了Flash电影。（以斯拉·米勒（Ezra Miller），谁allegedly choked a woman，仍然是闪光灯。）

Many people will point out that this is the inevitable result of taking on toxicity in the workplace, that Fisher “asked for it” by being “difficult”, but Fisher tried to do what was right, got stymied by the system, and then ultimately the system did what the system always does and protected itself at the expense of the individual. It’s a crappy situation all the way around, and Fisher is right about one thing, this long ago stopped being about a few people’s sh-tty behavior on set and became about the “cover-up culture of Hollywood”. I don’t know how you can hear Fisher’s story and not think of all the women who tried to sound the alarm about predatory men in the industry only to have their careers evaporate. The only real difference is that Fisher came along at a time when social media exists, which empowered him to make his fight public. But the outcome is all the same, Fisher is out of a job and undoubtedly some people will be calling him “difficult” now.

One thing that stands out starkly is the difference between how Fisher’s outspokenness was received and John Boyega’soutspokenness关于迪士尼/卢卡斯影业的缺点。博伊加（Boyega）呼吁在卢卡斯影业（Lucasfilm）进行失败，以很好地对待他们的色彩角色，并受到了积极的接受，并且没有明显的反对行业（有毒的粉丝完全是另一回事，这与他们现在无关）。当他去年夏天谈论系统性种族不公正现象时，他是widely embraced在他的电影制作社区中，我认为Boyega直言不讳的程度根本不会减慢他的速度。但是，当雷·费舍尔（Ray Fisher）谈到同样的问题时，就没有这样的支持。杰森·莫莫亚（Jason Momoa）was supportive,Gal Gadot也证实了她惠顿有问题, but there has been no public rallying around Fisher from other filmmakers and actors to the level that Boyega saw in the wake of his own comments.

I’ve been thinking a lot about why that is, and I think it comes down to system versus individual. Boyega never made his comments about anyone specific, he said迪士尼有问题，而不是凯瑟琳·肯尼迪，JJ Abrams或Rian Johnson或任何一个人，这使系统中的人们更容易做出响应，并且据说“从内部进行修复”。但是，费舍尔（Fisher）命名了名字并召集了特定的人，最终在DC电影总统沃尔特·哈马达（Walter Hamada）上磨练。这种看法 - 这是重要的词，因为我在这里谈论光学，不一定是幕后现实 - 是费舍尔与哈马达（Hamada）打架，specifically, and, well, Walter Hamada has power. People do not want to alienate power. People do not want to risk not getting to work with Hamada in future. He’s the president of DC Films now, but who knows where he’ll be next year, or the year after that. He seems to be thriving in the tumultuous, post-AT&T landscape at Warner Brothers. Walter Hamada could be running the whole studio someday. That’s not a person most people in the industry would be willing to cross.

Again, this is not a matter of one is right, and the other is wrong, or that I think Boyega did anything “better” than Fisher did it. I’ve just been pondering why Fisher didn’t see the same level of industry support as Boyega, and the best I can come up with is no one wanted to get caught in the middle of what came to be seen as an interpersonal conflict between an actor and the president of a film studio. It’s easier to get behind notions of systemic change, it’s much harder to take sides in a personal fight. And that’s unfortunate, because Fisher was trying to make systemic change happen, but it seems the biggest outcome of his efforts is that Joss Whedonis also out of a job.

当时是DC电影的联合总统乔恩·伯格（Jon Berg）Justice LeagueFisher挺身而出，尽管他仍然继续为华纳兄弟（Warner Brothers）制作项目，但已经被降级了。杰夫·约翰斯（Geoff Johns）也已经被驳回为DC电影的联合主席，尽管他仍然在工作室里以作家和制片人的身份彻底根深蒂固，最近最近执行制作和共同创作Wonder Woman 1984, and he is heavily involved with DC’s many television projects. And Walter Hamada is the president of DC Films, with no signs he is going anywhere, unless it’s upward to an even more powerful position. Whedon is the only one—besides Fisher—who is out of the Warner Brothers system entirely (though he will still make money onThe Nevers).

This is a very unsatisfying end to this story. Ray Fisher was brave for speaking up, and he must have been onto something because the Warner Brothers publicity machine kicked in HARD to protect itself (and pretty much所有交易上了木板, publishing Warners’ talking points with very little interrogation into who was being served by this agenda). Ray Fisher will next be seen in Zack Snyder’sJustice Leaguein March, and then after that he will star in the limited seriesWomen of the Movement.我希望更多的好事来到他的方式，并找到支持他的意见和工作的支持合作者。毕竟，他的工作从未有问题。