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God I love this movie

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(Waves this around in executives faces) wow it's almost like profitable art happens without exploiting workers. Wow. Imagine that

Also it's good. The movie is good. It's nice to see something where you can tell the people working on it didn't just love the movie, but had fun working on it. Let film making be fun instead of detrimental to a person's physical and mental health

I’m gonna puke this makes me so happy to read. Idk. I just want more good news from the industry i’m going into

Well okay, also studios, guess which movie I’m gonna go watch and support SOLELY FOR THIS REASON???

He was tall as a young tree, lithe, immensely strong, able swiftly to draw a great war-bow and shoot down a Nazgûl, endowed with the tremendous vitality of Elvish bodies, so hard and resistant to hurt that he went only in light shoes over rock or through snow, the most tireless of all the Fellowship.

THE LORD OF THE RINGS (2001 - 2003)

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Alina is Complicit: A Genya Analysis

I’m having these feelings of intense rage over Alina’s character and needed to write about them: 

Marie and Nadia

Isilel left a brilliant comment articulating a point I couldn’t put into words:

The idea that you need to tear down other women and view them all as competitors except for a select few “good ones” is an extremely harmful outlook that is continually reinforced in this book and I do not like it.

(Under the cut: tw for assault)

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Oh my god, I remember first reading that line where Nadia and Marie are gleefully mocking Genya and King and I was so thrown off by the tone of it that I was convinced they think the relationship between the King and Genya is consensual and Marie and Nadia were partaking in just another early 2010s YA book trope of slut shaming. Because I really cannot imagine anyone in real life acting that way otherwise???

I think the real kicker for me, is later when Genya says

And I knew she meant Marie and Nadia.

But what convinced me that Marie and Nadia knew it wasn’t consensual was that Alina is able to tell so easily. Alina who is extremely unobservant and blank internally knows that Genya isn’t the king’s mistress. She never seems to have any doubts over whether it’s actually consensual.

And Marie and Nadia have the benefit of context and living in the Little Palace for years. They’re framed as gossips, always knowing everything about everyone.

It stands to reason that they’re far more well informed than Alina.

So, when Genya bears her “shame” with such despair and with the acknowledgement that “everyone knows.” I took it to mean she meant them, the people who would hurt her most if it was widely known, her age group of Grisha who she’s never felt accepted in before.

So, I was utterly enraged. And nearly unable to continue reading when, after Genya confesses this to Alina, she walks into the Winter Fete with Nadia and Marie at her side mere moments later.

There’s not a thought of anger or guilt in her head. Not a drop of shame or regret.

Although, I could be convinced it’s just bad writing on LB’s part. But this isn’t just dropping the ball, it’s like she dropped the ball, tripped over it, face planted, and broke her nose.

So I went to megacon back in 2019 and something that I think is absolutely crazy that I never thought about posting before is how filmmakers are slowly trying to slowly push Peter Cullen and Frank Welker out of the business. The main thing that came up out of this were that they are:

So the SAG is a union that, in short, protects their acting rights so that they are paid and treated fairly. A lot of people filmmakers tend to try and avoid hiring actors who work under the SAG and other acting unions because it will require them to have to put more money into their budget to keep these actors on amongst other things.

Now during megacon there was a panel for Peter and Frank where them being apart fo the SAG was discussed but then somebody asked a question that I can’t quite remember but was asking about the Bumblebee movie. Peter basically said that he hated it, not the movie, but the process of doing his lines. He explained that since he is apart of the SAG and having him in the studio to record his lines would cost the filmmakers more than what they were willing to play, they had somebody else come in to record and calibrate and sync the cgi lip movements of Optimus Prime. They then had him come in later to do the voiceover which required him to change the way he spoke when doing Optimus to match the lip movements of the person who came in before him. He was only in the studio for that one day which was more cost efficient for the filmmakers. This was just crazy to me. I get it, you’re on a budget and have to cut some corners to get your film done and on time. Sure you kept the same voice actor but not without ruining the experience for said actor who has been doing this level of cgi voice acting for years. It goes so much farther beyond money though. You’d rather under pay some actor and treat them however, taking advantage of their rights than have an actor who knows their rights and is not so easily taken advantage of.

Another thing I found interesting and quite funny was that Peter Cullen is definitely not a fan of Michael Bay. He roasted him like 5 times during the panel it was hilarious. He spoke on how when he went to audition for Optimus Prime for the first time for the first transformers film (Transformers 2007) and he did his lines, Michael Bay told him he didn’t do the voice right. Michael Bay told The Peter Cullen he didn’t do the voice right. To which Peter responded with something along the lines of “I didn’t do it right? I can do Optimus Prime and Ironhide! Let me show you…” and proceeded to have a conversation back and forth with himself as both Optimus and Ironhide from G1. Peter said “I was convinced Bay hadn’t ever seen a single episode of the original television show. He knew nothing about anything and it drove me crazy.”

But besides that Frank and Peter are literally the sweetest old guys you’ll ever meet. They are literally so genuine and do not deserve the mistreatment that the film industry is starting to show them. I started crying when I met them in person and Peter held my hand and said “don’t cry, if it weren’t for people like you we wouldn’t love what we do.”

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