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wilsonsb4be · 2 years
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Xochitl Gomez, Elizabeth Olsen and Victoria Alanso
btw the MOM premiere is also tonight, and my baby looks so cute!!!
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broken00dreamed · 4 months
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Video Art Project by young activists from Pakistan, South Africa, Germany, Kenya and Italy ✨
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fandomfluffandfuck · 1 year
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the more I read abt it the more I think the firing of Victoria Alonso is a bad sign, bc she wasn't just some uninvolved suit she was working on the movies from the beginning and approving all the final visuals, so hearing her as a gay Latina talking about trying to push for better representation and publicly criticizing Disney for funding the Don't Say Gay stuff is a bit chilling, along with reading the articles that she recently conflicted with marvel over refusing to blur out pride flags in the background of the newest antman & how they got mad at her for promoting an Argentinian historical film about a dictatorship in Argentina that the US sponsored during/as part of the Cold War.
feels like her firing wasn't just a lot of the mass cost-cutting going on rn, but also part of an american boy's club culture among others in power over there that was tired of her pushing for lgbt inclusion and doing projects that promoted not just non-American politics but specifically politics that questioned the US' 20th century legacy and its heavy revisionism upheld by America's history books & propagandized media. It's like the marvel brand pushing towards a uniform US-centrism that makes little room for minorities cultures or stories that can encroach against their American corporate politics too directly without being behind a bunch of opaque metaphors or being brushed away to the background or being overwritten by newer stories that do away with opportunities for representation or inclusion of other perspectives.
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I mean, look at the how marvel in paper and cinematic mediums treated the Winter Soldier Cap plotline. It had Steve and Bucky, 2 soldiers who served their country to fight Nazis in WW2 in an integrated transnational unit, both get dragged into the 21st century to find that the Captain America image has been turned into a propaganda tool by the government and the very same government hired and funded the Nazis they fought in WW2, who then turned Bucky into a mindcontrolled slave. That had the potential to have the most direct analogy and critique of the IRL USA, but then what happens in the fallout of that movie and how do the characters and world get affected by this revelation?
Nothing much, there's no lingering distrust in the government that funded this, even among characters who were directly affected. Characters with origins in the same Nazi organization get funny dances and memes or favorable adaptations. Even though Steve dropped the shield and Cap role, this hardly turns into a long term character development of him questioning the country he serves (as an Irish immigrant in the early 20th c who would've been other-ized already) instead Steve goes back to fighting for it under a notion of legacy and symbol and the shield is characterized as so so important to him. Bucky, the one most directly affected by the US hiring the Nazis who enslaved him, just ends up meekly serving the government itself and trying to abide by its criminal laws that deemed him a perpetrator even though reasonable minds, Steve, should be demanding reparations even if there's no hope of that actually happening. There's no reckoning to how both Bucky and Steve being treated as little else than supersoldier weapons by their own government. Instead, newer stories just focus on more ways they can serve it without ever questioning the very core of their inexplicable loyalty to an entity that took part of their exploitation, which could serve as a cathartic progression and consequence of the Winter Soldier plotline and create potential for fresher stories that deal with what if the former Cap characters said "enough of this BS," but instead marvel church's out more of the cap'n murrica: [insert name of IRL war the US has heavily propagandized the shit of and now uses for patriotic media marketing]
that really shows the limitations of what marvel does with their politics, the closest thing they got to accurate historical critique of a real life event (the Western Allies hiring Nazis post-WW2) also gave birth to the most popular take on the characters in both mediums, and yet none of it comes close to actually pushing the status quo in the fictional world or to progressing the characters into something that reflects their stances on the exploitation they underwent by "their own people." The characters involved ironically almost develop amnesia to the bombshells in the Winter Soldier plotline and regress into Generic Murrican Old White Guy #1 and #2 to serve as prop pieces within US-centric status quo stories ad infinitum
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to give a more specific example: marvel's newest Captain America event thing goes by "Cold War" and is about a secret shadow government that controls the entire world (gee, wonder what kind of far rightist repeats that kind of conspiracy theory) and they are also known as... The Revolution (really tossing aside all subtlety there!) and they're conveniently responsible for every bad thing the USA and its allies did for the past 200 years (way to completely render their best Cap story meaningless)
meanwhile, the IRL Cold War had the US fund fascist movements in Africa, Asia & LatAm (literally what the 1985 Argentinian film that marvel's execs got annoyed with is about) and said movements repressed grassroots movements constituted by people at the bottom of the political hierarchies there, not a secretly powerful group known as "The Revolution."
Their newest comics completely turn the "Cold War" on its head to appeal to the reactionary anxieties that America is secretly under attack by some secret shadow group, even when the IRL power dynamic was radically different. The WS stories were the closest they ever got to pulling away from regurgitating decades-old US propaganda, and it also happens to be the most popular and humanizing in fleshing out its characters into with actual emotion and connection. And yet the franchise can't help but revert back to their roots and invalidate that entire story just so they can repeatedly pumping out Murrican stories that'd make McCarthy look up and smile.
Sorry I didn't respond to this for a while, I wanted to make sure I had the time to sit down and read and appreciate what you had to say. And as far as I'm aware of Marvel stuff, I can safely say, unfortunately, I think you're right. Right on the money.
I don't think her firing was cutting costs or anything of the sort. If they could fire anyone... it seems very targeted to fire her, and it, sadly, doesn't surprise me 🙃
I hate it here.
Anyway, thank you for taking the time to write all this down because yes--you're so right, and I don't actually have much of anything to add because you explained it so well. You're being critical, and it's good. Recognizing what is happening is the first step to changing what is happening.
It's beyond shitty that huge corporations like Marvel can't be representative and diverse and kill so, so much of the actually interesting parts of their content in favor of saving face for more conservative views and people.
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marvelloussynergy · 1 year
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magnificent-nerd · 1 year
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Marvel Studios Veteran Victoria Alonso Exits
She has served as executive producer on its titles since the first 'Avengers' movie.
The reasons for the exit are unclear but she parted ways with Marvel Friday, sources say.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Alonso was President of Physical, Post Production, VFX and Animation at the studio.
Fans are speculating already about a post Phase 4 shakeup at Marvel Studios, with Alonso taking the first fall due to poor reception for visual effects.
My question is, will Marvel Studios be hiring more women into executive roles going forward, or will Alonso have been the only woman executive at their company?
It's worth noting she was also a vocal supporter for LGBT+ at Disney, which couldn't have gone down well given Disney's ongoing homophobia and conservative leanings.
Alonso herself is LGBT.
Something to keep an eye on.
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silveragelovechild · 1 year
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howardshum · 1 year
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Watch footage I shot of Pedro Pascal interviewing filmmaker Santiago Mitre and producers Axel Kuschevatzky, Agustina Llambi Campbell, and Victoria Alonso
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comicbookclub · 1 year
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MarvelVision News Update: Victoria Alonso, Thunderbolts And More
Victoria Alonso, one of the key players since the beginning of the #MCU, is out at #Marvel. Plus Florence Pugh on #Thunderbolts and more Marvel news on our podcast:
Powered by RedCircle Victoria Alonso, one of the key players since the beginning of the MCU, is out at Marvel. On this week’s Marvel news update, we discuss the ramifications of what this means for the future of Marvel, and try to untangle what is actually going on behind the scenes. Plus, Florence Pugh comments on Thunderbolts, Kingpin is spotted with hair, and more Marvel news! Episode…
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punknatch · 1 year
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What is happening to Victoria Alonso is the same shit that happened with Scarlet Johansson. Disney trying to misguide the public with rumors and media
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agentem · 1 year
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More details about Victoria Alonso's firing from Marvel Studios.
While the cause of Alonso’s termination is unclear, the sources said, the decision was made by a consortium including human resources, Disney’s legal department and multiple executives including Disney Entertainment co-chairman Alan Bergman (to whom all of Marvel Studios reports). Alonso’s longtime boss and Marvel chief creative officer Kevin Feige felt mired in an impossible situation and, ultimately, did not intervene, one source added. Alonso was blindsided, another insider added.
It rubs me the wrong way that Feige did nothing, for some reason. He should've at least been the one to tell her. She's been with the company since before Iron Man.
The article goes on to say she is openly "LGBTQ", which I didn't know, (I assume L?) along with being a woman and a person of color.
Basically the VFX problems are why she was fired. Apparently Marvel would ask VFX houses to do something but not give specific instructions as to what to do, so the house would do something and then Marvel would come back and say "we don't like it, do it again." (IMO, they should pay again then.) Another site I read said this specifically referred to Ms Marvel where they DIDN'T KNOW what her powers were going to look like. (!!!)
I don't mean to defend Marvel's awful way of treating VFX artists. But it seems to me if they didn't know what they wanted the effects to look like, that's not an executive problem (she's there to make sure everything gets done as cheaply as possible and on time) it's a creative issue.
Someone needs to know what they want. Ideally it's chief creative officer--Feige. Or the "Marvel Parliament." Or at least the directors. But then I think about how "Black Widow" was pitched to directors as "go get to do your thing and then in the end we'll have a CGI fight that is already storyboarded, you don't have to do that." (Which I also thing was clearly the case for Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and the pre-ordained CGI fight was the worst part. I'd rather have let Cretton do the whole thing!)
I certainly hope this helps things get better for VFX studios. But it seems to me Marve needs someone who knows visual arts as well as what is possible with CGI and how it's evolving, who can be involved in the process from the beginning.
Like, for She-Hulk the writers wrote some fun gags. And the animators just had to animate it. But what if there was more of a dialogue about what they could do, and then they could pick which gag is funniest--not just in the writing but in the visual execution, you know? It's a part of the storytelling, not an afterthought.
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myfashiongoodlooks · 1 year
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Victoria Alonso. Oscars 2023.
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sofia-falcon · 1 year
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Victoria Alonso has been cited as creating a toxic environment to Marvel's VFX crew sooooo I believe that's why she got fired
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eternalssource · 2 years
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@chloezhao: So proud of our #Eternals family! Thank you @glaad for this wonderful award and for the courageous and important work you do everyday to make our industry and our world a better place. #glaadawards 🌈💫💛🙏
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thereiscode · 3 months
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I'm so happy because Victoria Alonso is not anymore in MCU
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cultfaction · 8 months
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I am Groot Season 2 trailer released
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mxdwn · 11 months
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Via mxdwn MOVIES: Former Marvel Studios Executive Victoria Alonso And Disney Settle Dispute
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https://movies.mxdwn.com/news/former-marvel-studios-executive-victoria-alonso-and-disney-settle-dispute/
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