I hate Disney lately as they seem to be ashamed of things that made them who they are today. I hate how their latest animation movies don't have fun villains anymore.
I think the genetic origin is that Mamet influenced well, nearly everyone who wrote dialogue, but it went through Aaron Sorkin, who adopted this general dialogical theme to television, and then Whedon picked it up from there. He wasn't actually bad at it, and I think he unfairly gets a lot of blame for the whole vapid snarky dialogue that now dominates pop culture, but he sort of was the source of it at least in low level pop culture, especially with Buffy. I never really shared the enthusiasm many people seemed to have for that, but it wasn't actually bad.
I don't know, any time I can talk about what absolute shit, what stingy thieves, Disney are, is fine with me. I didn't do it this time, but seriously, they stole that shit. It should be brought up at every available opportunity.
I think you have to read between the lines when you read a japanese business statement. When his son days he doesn't want to sully his father's legacy with such accusations, it is a very polite way of saying that there is something to these accusations. The guy's father is known as the japanese disney. They have little to gain from a mudflinging contest.
Yeah this is especially annoying. Disney just seems to go out of their way to make every villain boring whether it's remakes of their good movies or their new movies where they try hard to subvert the audience's expectations by always making some rando the main villain in the last act.
You can easily look at the two products and see one was stolen from the other. Japanese reticence can't contradict what is obvious to the sight. The fact they didn't pick a fight about it makes it no less obvious. It's embarrassing and Disney should at the very least have apologized for it.
Hell Soul didn't even have a villain. I really hope that doesn't start becoming normal
I mean that movie worked without one and didn't really need one
The animation was nice. But it wasn't my cup of tea saddly. I just wish Disney would make more villains that are fun to watch like Hades or Jafar
Seems like disney is mostly interested in trying to rehabilitate villain types. Doesn't seem to work all that well.
Considering it was part of my rant on why subversions of expectations is a poor way to make something memorable, it was thematically the right choice to bring up kimba.
I wonder if this is because they got so much flak for their fun or interesting villains being "queer-coded".
Disney is ashamed to be Disney in a way that feels completely ingenuine. Reminds me of those narcissists who are ex-edgelords and now woke who swear up and down that they have repented and are on the morally good path now. Except outsiders can see all they're doing is jerking themselves off about how good they are now and fishing for praise.
Hades was entirely James Woods being
It's wokeness (and the Jews) of course. Aladdin is about PoC, Lion King is set in Wakanda and has a Nazi villain, Beauty and the Beast already had a "strong female lead" and a toxic male villain, so in those cases straightforward remakes are acceptable. Sleeping Beauty is about a knight in shining armour saving a passive female protagonist from an evil female antagonist with a nonconsensual kiss. Not much you can do with that, other than turn the whole thing upside down: the knight is basically useless, and Maleficent only became edgy and goth because a Nice Guy metaphorically raped her. Notwithstanding the word "maleficent" being a real word that basically means "evil"; what were her parents thinking?
Started with Wicked, I think.
I don't mind having villains as protagonists. What I despise is people trying to retcon the villains into retroactive victims of the big meanie world. And I'm not saying there aren't villains that have valid excuses to do what they do, but when the backstory changes and and the new narrative contradicts everything already established (Silly Aurora, turns out the evil fae that cursed you to sleep forever is just misunderstood and really, really loves you as a mother... really!) they aren't adding anything new, they just want to break down the original and put their fanfic as the "troo and honest" story.
Speak for yourself, I 100% want a movie of Mufasa bullying the shit out of Scar.
The funniest part about that whole shit to me is that somehow was the justification to Eren that the future was set in stone despite the fact he literally did jack shit to change his own fate. Apparently changing your own fate is too much effort but guess Eren really is the CWC of Shounen protagonists
