While the problem of sexism in esports is an important issue, it is however necessary to tackle it properly. And if for the moment we don't know much about the film, its angle focused on comedy is already generating concerns. "1UP" is BuzzFeed Studios' first production. Scheduled for 2021, the film will notably be embodied by Ellen Page and Paris Berelc.
Synopsis: " A female gamer, Vivian Lee, quits her university's eSports team rather than suffer the sexism of her male counterparts. With her scholarship, she decides to put together a female team that can compete with the boys. With the help of an enigmatic trainer - who returns to the front of the stage after a scandal -, the young woman recruits an improbable team of outsiders..."
And inevitably, the rumors of the film directly made the main concerned cringe , as evidenced in particular by Brianna Wu, a creator of video games and American politician, on Twitter. " I really like the fact that the worst event of my life is turned into a comedy " she quips. One can imagine that she has many times during her career been confronted with this kind of received ideas.
If on the surface the project seems delicate and subject to numerous blunders, only its theatrical release will allow us to judge whether it promotes an evolution of thoughts, or whether, on the contrary, it accentuates the clichés that it should denounce.
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