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black-is-beautiful18 · 4 months
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Y’all need to look up the meaning of satire and trope cuz this is ridiculous 😭. The American Society of Magical Negroes is a satirical film about the magical negro trope often used in media. Satire means that it will be making fun of the trope and even criticizing it. These types of movies/books usually only have one Black character and it often requires said Black character to do heavy lifting for the white character(s). It’s literally what happened in Ghost with Whoopi Goldberg. As much as we might like the movie it’s true. I also have a post about Rhapsodic by Laura Thalassa and that trope goes crazy in that book. The Black character most likely will be portrayed to be stereotypical or 50/50 wind up dying, teaching the white character some sort of lesson, and then being forgotten until it’s convenient or completely while the white MC gets some sort of power up and their arc is completed. I promise it’s not gonna hurt you to laugh at how stupid it is. I’m also pretty sure Key & Peele had a skit about this.
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Just for fun, what’s a movie you feel that was either ahead of its time or would’ve been appreciated more if it came out a few years later?
I’m asking because I just watched “Fifth Element” for the first time and I’m convinced that if the movie was released today, audiences wouldn’t be as turned off from its ‘overblown’ style. I feel that current audiences are much more accepting of movies that are extremely campy and outrageous, especially since anime and superheroes are now more accepted in the mainstream.
Another one could be “Starship Troopers”. I feel that present-day audiences would catch on the movie’s obvious satirical take of fascism much faster due to the current political climate. Maybe this is just me, but when I first saw this movie, I just thought it was soldiers shooting monsters (I was in elementary school at the time). I only learned that it was a satire afterwards when I read about the making of the movie. Nowadays, thanks to social media, I’ll hear about an upcoming movie’s supposed political stances before I even watch it. I just feel that if “Starship Troopers” was released today, it’d be review-bombed weeks before its release due to how ‘woke’ it is, as well as praised for its sharp satirical take of the military industrial complex. Which I think the director would be fine with since that’s in line with his vision of the movie in the first place.
Anyways, sorry for the long tangent. What do y’all feel were movies that were ahead of their time?
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thebiballerina · 3 months
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Some people will really say, "I support women's wrongs!" about some female character and then go on to explain that they think her actions are:
not truly women's (meaning her circumstances and/or the people around her are primarily at fault), and
not truly wrong.
...There are no remaining words in the phrase "women's wrongs"?
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You are free to think of characters however you'd like (sometimes I might even agree with you), but some of us like villainous women and aren't cowards about it. I recommend you give it a try.
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players had to form a human wall around damar hamlin so nobody would be able to see or film what was happening to him
players put their towels on their faces to sob without being filmed
these facts feel related and i wanted to put them next to each other
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sad-endings-suck · 2 years
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The Curse of the Main Character
Main characters. They’re the best, aren’t they? Except they’re not. Think of who your favourite character is from any number of pieces of entertainment media.
If you loved Lord of the Rings, it’s likely Frodo wasn’t your favourite character. No, it was probably Sam, Éowyn, Pippin, etc. Or maybe you prefer Star Wars, but let’s face it: Han and Leia were always more interesting than Luke.
Or perhaps you’re more into the MCU and side characters that never got their own solo stories like Natasha/Black Widow were your favourite, up until she got her own movie. Then she mysteriously fell into the same vat of main character blandness that Steve, Tony, etc had fallen prey to before. And now her sister Yelena was the side character stealing the show, like Natasha once was.
Hell, maybe you were a Nickelodeon kid who watched Victorious and adored Jade and Kat, but despised Tori due to the crime that she simply wasn’t as interesting or fun.
See, in any given story, (in my experience) your favourite characters are the ones that have the luxury of not being imprinted on by the author and thus are able to fully develop into more interesting beings with flaws and strengths that have nothing to do with the creator’s own personal perception of what it would look like for them specifically to be the protagonist. Or rather, how the creator(s) assumes the viewer/player/reader/etc would relate to their protagonist. Instead of just writing a character that would actually be effective within the context of the story.
I’m dubbing this phenom the Main Character Curse. It applies to so many different forms of media. Think of your favourite romance novel series such as Immortals After Dark or even Addicted/Calloway Sisters, in which every instalment is a standalone story in the same world and each book focuses on a new couple. Now, which book in that series is your favourite? Because I can almost guarantee it’s not the first book.
The first book that focuses so heavily on the couple that was clearly meant to be the magnum opus of greatness but fell short compared to almost every other book/couple in the series. Due to the fact that other characters in the series had to earn their stories. The couple from the first book didn’t need to be interesting or even particularly likeable. They just needed to be two people the author could fantasize about.
Whereas all of those other side characters in the first book had to earn their right to sequels and spin-offs by being the funniest, meanest, smartest, most fun, etc. They needed to prove themselves to the reader, when the protagonist did not.
Main characters don’t have to do anything (as of the writing of the story) to be worthy of being protagonists of said story. However, side characters have to earn their place in the story by actually serving the plot or developing in a meaningful way themselves.
The protagonist just needs to be a vessel for the consumer, no matter how dull or bland that vessel may be. Any other character in that same story has to be important or impactful in some way. Thus, they have the ability to develop, grow, shrink, or change drastically without it affecting the story to the point that it shifts away from the original plot-line completely.
Because even if that character dies or changes completely, the story will go on. The same cannot be said of the main character. Who has to be relatively stable and grounded enough throughout the whole story to remain the conduit for the reader/viewer/player/etc.
The side character has the luxury of being untethered to expectation and thus their journey is only limited to whatever the plot can throw at them.
So, why is the main character that way to begin with? The simple answer: the author can’t help but want to be the main character themselves, so they put too much of themselves into that character. Which limits what that protagonist experiences to what the writer themselves can relate to.
Which then immediately restricts the protagonist to a rigid box of typical self-insert godliness, or worse: boringness. Which is also likely why so many heroes/heroines seem too similar to cringy fanfic Y/N for comfort.
I know when I was around twelve years old I got the Divergent trilogy boxed set, and I noticed something a little odd. In the first book, the heroine Tris has long hair, and lo and behold; the author in the photo at the back of the book had the exact same hair style. Then, in the second book the heroine cuts her hair short, and oh! The author so happened to now have the exact same haircut in her updated author photo at the end of the book. The heroine’s hair changes a little bit again by book three, and (shocker) so does the author’s hair.
It’s almost like the creator was projecting onto the protagonist and accidentally constructed and ultimately hindered her main character in the process.
Are there circumstances where this doesn’t happen? Absolutely, but they are few and far between. Protagonists such as Percy Jackson and Aelin Galathynius prove that the main character of a story can be the best character in that same story.
However, these protagonists are few and far between, and we definitely need more of them. Though as stated above, this is complicated and difficult for a multitude of reasons.
Perhaps a temporary goal is to feature multiple main characters at once with no clear outlier, such as the Umbrella Academy. That remedies the issue of the protagonist being a typical hero/heroine by making every main character weird, strange, and fully fleshed out.
Or the Legend of Vox Machina. Which also has no definitive main character, because it has the unique luxury of originating from a tabletop RPG campaign in which every character was role-played by a different individual who was trying to be the main character in their own distinct and original way.
A different twist on the multiple protagonist approach involves something like what The Boys tv show does. Which highlights Billy, Hughie and Homelander as main characters, but gives plenty of other characters the main character spotlight during various different story arcs and episodes.
Regardless, sometimes I just want a story that has a single definitive protagonist. And every once in a while I’ll stumble upon an absolute treasure of a story, like Ted Lasso. In which the main character is amazingly written and portrayed, but all the secondary and tertiary characters are every bit as likeable and riveting.
Because it is so rewarding when stories can fully deliver on every bit of their potential instead of leaving you wishing they fulfilled what they teased.
All in all, I want less writers to live vicariously through their protagonists, and more writers to consider writing more bravely, oddly and complexly. Even if that means their protagonist isn’t the most beautiful or powerful or special.
Because no matter what, I’ll take a character that is the most likeable or interesting over the character that is the most special, any day. What about you? Let me know your thoughts!
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spacieacademic · 2 years
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Say what you want about queerbaiting. It's harmful, queer people deserve stronger representation...I agree. But it is just so genuinely funny to watch StraightPeople™ discuss something that's so obviously gay but they genuinely have no idea?? You fools? Do you not feel the pure homosexuality bleeding out of this piece of media??
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I honestly truly will never understand all of these huge, worth over billions upon billions of dollars entertainment companies and these damn greedy executives that seriously be acting like paying their writers and employees also giving them actual good liveable wages will kill them or make them bankrupt. For real, it shouldn't be that hard or difficult to give people better living and working conditions.
All this mess going on within the industry, I feel, is just of cumulation of issues that's been building up for a long awhile now. Honestly with the way these companies and execs are treating the very people that makes up the industry with not valuing them at all or not treating said employees like human beings.
It's really makes me wish that Hollywood would just collapse in on itself and just start over from scratch.
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toddbarrowcountry · 3 days
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Let’s Rock!!!🎸🎶🤘
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fluffycakesistainted · 4 months
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The past year gave us films like Triangle of Sadness, Glass Onion, and The Menu, along with HBO's miniseries The White Lotus, all of which follow the same formula: A group of oblivious and self-centered rich people find themselves trapped together in some remote location... Before long, things dissolve into manic, unbridled chaos. Almost every “eat the rich” project of the past year features what is essentially an ensemble of heightened caricatures. There's the Instagram influencer. The billionaire tech or finance bro. The actor, the model, the socialite. [...] After seeing just how awful they all are, we sit back gleefully to watch their collective downfall.  [...] Yet the more I see of the "eat the rich" trope, the more uneasy it makes me feel. By all means, we should question and interrogate the nature of wealth—but should we keep on mindlessly eating those who have it? After all, the trope relies on the clear separation of the “wealthy people” and the “ordinary people”—but this distinction isn't always so clear cut in the world.  [...] Increasingly, each iteration of “eat the rich” in the past year has felt a little more like that person at a cocktail party, the one who, while wafting their hands vaguely in the air, launches into a rant “against capitalism.” While these storylines aim to tackle what is a complex and multifaceted social issue, they have a tendency to feel shallow and just a little self-congratulatory. Rarely do these films or shows, for example, give us much of the world that exists outside of the habitat of the elite; the world where the rest of us live. As a result, we are rarely left with any concrete sense of the real impact that their way of life has on the world and people around them. 
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toad-wizard · 1 year
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Internalized Homophobia
I feel like a lot of internalized homophobia comes from the fact that most of us have grown up surrounded by many straight people and influences. Don't get me wrong, there were (and still are) gay people and media, but we weren't really exposed to it. Let's Take Barbie and Ken for example, or the Disney Princesses, or pretty much any TV show you would watch growing up. It's all "Mr. and Mrs. Duck..." or "Prince meets Princess". When has there ever been "Prince meets Prince" or "Princess meets Princess" or "Prince wants to be a beautiful princess". So, when we start questioning gender and sexuality, you start to question whether or not it is okay to be gay/trans, and it can be terrifying coming out or realizing you can't be yourself in certain spaces or even within your own families.
If y'all want to, share your experiences with internalized homophobia and/or the kind media and people you grew up with.
Also, we need more gay movies and more accurate ones.
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culturefit · 8 months
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thebiballerina · 3 months
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I've seen quite a few people here criticize the use of the words "consume" and "content" in reference to various media and art forms. I understand why this might be; it has some very commercialized implications.
However, please, I beg of you: Understand that some of us are trying not to be specific about medium. I refuse to write something like "read/watch/listen to/play/view/etc." every time I want to be more general.
Either someone suggests a better way to phrase this, or you are consuming content and you're going to have to deal with it.
If it helps, you can always think of it in an erotic cannibalism way. People are into that, right?
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Not only do they make your content accessible to everyone, regardless of hearing ability, but they also increase engagement and reach 📈 by engaging a wider audience.🌍
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sad-endings-suck · 11 months
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nothing is more annoying than people that think media literacy just means applying real life moral values to fictional characters
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