#i’m an sge movie hater and proud

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The way that the sge movie seems to paint Sophie as a victim pisses me off to the nth degree

She is supposed to be evil and vain and looking down on everyone from the beginning. She looks down on Belle for feeding the homeless woman in the square because the woman was fat, she refuses to eat the food Honora makes for her despite her making Sophie’s favourite because she hates the woman. She makes friends with Agatha initially only as a good deed, treating Agatha as a means to her own ends and not as her own person. She feels no guilt over upsetting Radley who just wants to be her friend simply annoyance that she may not be taken to the school for good because of it. She does deeds she thinks are good such as placing a mirror in the church bathroom so people can go back to the pews looking good and she donates soap to an orphanage. Everything she does is based on the delusion that she is too beautiful and by extension good for her village. Her actions are clearly driven by her vanity and arrogance.

The movie makes Honora seem like an evil stepmother thus making Sophie’s dislike of her appear rational. The movie also changes how the girls first become friends so that it seems to be a genuine friendship on both parts. Because the girls only find out about the school that day, any “good” deeds Sophie does before this day become genuine to an audience. Visually as well, Sophie’s appearance is downplayed immensely: her dress appears to be hand made but not to the quality the original Sophie would want, the duller pinks of the dress make it seem dirty which makes Sophie appear less vain. Especially as her hair doesn’t appear to have had anything done to it nor does she appear to be wearing any makeup. This setup creates a character that is sympathetic to an audience with no vanity, no duplicity and no reason for staying in what is portrayed as a very unpleasant town.

Because of this setup, Sophie being sent to the school for evil makes no sense to an audience and even seems to merely be an admin error the staff are too scared to fix. This creates sympathy for her in an audience as this situation appears to not be her fault at all and looks horrible for her. Additionally Agatha blames Sophie’s action on Rafal and his “blood magic” (which was incredibly unnecessary) thus absolving her of any blame or responsibility for her actions.

All of this combined makes for a completely different character that appears to be a victim of circumstance instead of the original intention of her being this 100% evil girl who has been able to hide behind her beauty and the misconception that beauty makes people good

#I could talk about this forever #sge spoilers #sge sophie #sge agatha #the school for good and evil #tsfgae #I’m an sge movie hater and proud

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I DIDNT KNOW WHERE ELSE TO TALK TO YOU AND IDK HOW TO USE TUMBLR BUT HERE IT GOES.

Dear God I'm so happy to see someone else who has as much dislike for the movie as I do. 😭 I read the books religiously since it's original release and was soo dissapointed. The casting felt more like I'm gonna cast popular actors cause I can with no regard for the books? I get one or two characters but the entire cast looking randomized bothered me exponentially. Seeing that Sophie's character was reduced to shit dissapointed me even more. She was well fleshed out from the beginning. I have alot of sympathy for the people who thought Agatha and Sophie would be dating but I also have a diff perspective in context of the books. Right from the beginning of the book they can barely function AS FREINDS. She never befriended Agatha out of good will either she thought being freinds with a freak counted as a good deed and kept this same mindset. She continues to be varying levels of selfish all through the book and then gets rid of Agatha the moment she is no longer needed. The actor seems much too pretty to be Agatha idk? I know everyone saw her mirror scene as gaining confidence but I saw it more as acceptance in a sense? And the general understanding that the way she acted also drove people away from her. To hear the movie cut that out is hmm. Blood magic? Why did they remove Sader and Evelyn and merge her with Lesso. Doesn't that collapse major parts of the later books.

Getting rid of everyone on the teachers staff seems odd. Uma ,Yuba ect

The evil students look like cheap DnD cosplayer teens and not malicious

Revealing the school master thing was an idiotic move and he's just ROAMING ARROUND???

They majorly fumbled with the characters ages. I know most people would like them to be teens but I feel like them being preteens/early teens helped play into things such as tedros bad Decision making and general pettiness. Why Sophie lashes out at her father ect ect

The side characters development made up most of the books. It's never focused on as a main point but introduced in the school entrance scenes and built up during class and other past times. Making them not important also seems like a bad move. I hate Harry Potter and don't wanna use this comparison but the movies did a good job of bringing over the relationships from the books.

What was up with removing major parts of the story to replace with foolishness the movie seems like a massive jumbled mess and a far cry from the books

Epxecting everything to be exactly like the books isn't an option really but these just felt like major parts from the book and bc they were cut the movie is a jumbled mess in return. I just hope more people start to read the books before saying silly stuff 😭

Omg yea I swear tumblr seems to be the only place where people are actually criticising the movie for what it is: a total shitshow.

Half the people I’ve spoken to who’ve watched it haven’t even read the books which is so annoying because the books are just genuinely so much better. I know that movie adaptations can’t keep everything the same but it felt like they’d just been given a few names and a vague plot and I seriously doubt that anyone who made it actually read the books given that the very first line of the first book doesn’t work in the context of the movie due to their removal of a key plot point

Overall I kinda wish it just never got made into a film: it’s pretty unnecessary and barely follows the plot at all

#i’m an sge movie hater and proud #sge spoilers #sge #the school for good and evil movie #the school for good and evil #the school master #hate what they did with the school master

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Mhm good point, good point, but have you considered that umm I’m biting you rn? Hmm?

#me when ppl try to defend the sge movies #i’m an sge movie hater and proud #sge #sfgae #the school for good and evil movie #the school for good and evil #I’m petty about this okay!