This is actually such a relief.

i know i’m cute but you can remind me

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- Hannah B, on Quasimodo ‘not getting the girl’ in Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame (via merina2)

Yeah, no. 

Phoebus makes a face and doesn’t seem to be 100% on board with Frollo’s genocidal agenda (AKA he extermination of the Parisian Romani population) but he follows Frollo’s orders for 95% of the film. If you enable a racist no matter how reluctant you are, you are racist too and don’t care about the oppressed group (which Esmeralda is proudly part of).  

I will give credit where credit is due. Esmeralda really falls for Phoebus after he rebels against Frollo and refuses to burn down a house with civilians in it. He’s an official “good guy” but… What took him so long? He worked for a genocidal figure who, I imagine, ordered his guards to terrorise/intimidate/threaten equally innocent Romani people. That was fine but burning down a white family’s house is too much?? 

Now let’s talk about love interests for Esmeralda. Her own community is made of unattractive and dishonest characters with beaky noses, beady eyes, and unkempt bodies, just look at the “Court of Miracles” song. So that rules out her own people. 

Then we have Quasimodo, our easily impressionable hero. Esmeralda quickly sees his lacking self-confidence and how ignorant he is of the world, as seen with the palm reading scene. He’s more of a little brother/ younger friend to Esmeralda. So that rules him out too.

Finally we get Phoebus, the mediocre white guy. He doesn’t care about the struggles she endures at the hand of him and the rest of Paris. Yet he somehow “sees her as Esmeralda”? No way.  It’s like me saying I don’t hate islanders (random example), actively oppress them, work for a boss who wants them dead and I somehow genuinely care for only one islander in particular. It’s hypocritical with a dash of fetishisation. 

But I guess the bar is so low for Esmeralda, that Phoebus is the best thing for her. 

(via coppercogsworth)

shoutout to me for still not having my driver’s license

He’s correct and he should say it.

I’ve been trying to ignore the comments on this post for days, but we’re going on 10k notes, now, and I’ve had a bit too much MCU Stans Being Willfully Ignorant And Purposely Misinterpreting Quotes this morning, so let’s take a crack at this.

First of all, it’s not an attack on genre films, generally. It’s not even an attack on a genre of film, specifically. He didn’t speak about “superhero movies” as a whole, like Ridley Scott or James Cameron have in the recent past (although, let’s face it, the genre is synonymous with Marvel at the moment, anyway). He expressly targeted Marvel films; the MCU in particular. Gee, I wonder why.

He also didn’t say that they were “bad”, he called them theme parks. You read that superficially and assumed that he meant, “Things that are fun” but what he actually meant was, “Things that are built with the soul purpose of funneling people into seats to be optimally profitable.” 

It’s very amusing to me that you folks will log on Tumblr to hem and haw about late stage capitalism, but then leap at the chance to defend your favorite Mickey Mouse production from the scary old man who’s been trying his best to make good films for 50yrs. What good, respectable consumers!

Lastly, he refers to cinema as “human beings trying to convey emotional, and psychological experiences to other human beings,” and you guys all either went, 1) “Cinema just means it’s a movie played in a theater, hurr hurr hurr,” 2) “Thor almost cried one time when he planet blow up,” or 3) “That’s pretentious! Everything is art! My cheerios are art!” and again this is missing the point. 

When you watch a Marvel film, a writer didn’t decide that he had something interesting to say about Frog Man and pen a script, and then a director didn’t get to take said script and produce a work through their own artistic lens. A boardroom full of people in suits sat around and decided which licensed properties they already owned the rights to would be most profitable, and how it would fit into the conveyor belt of content they’d already pre-designed, and then they controlled every single aspect of that production, down to tone and color grading. And if you don’t believe that, ask Edgar Wright.

Martin Scorsese gave you guys an incredibly milquetoast, obvious criticism of movies you slurp down, and it made you all fume, but what you should be mad about is that you’re forced to consume fast food art when you could, just as easily, be getting filet mignon with the same genre and character roster.

Everyone likes to bring up Black Panther, but can you imagine a world where the incredibly talented Ryan Coogler hadn’t been handcuffed by a corporation. Can you imagine the movie that could have been? 

If you’re in the notes talking about Scorsese being "old school white Hollywood", or implying in any way that your favorite Mickey Mouse comic-book production is lesser of sin, you must be punch drunk on the Kool-Aid.

As if the vast majority of Marvel Studios filmography, over 20 movies since 2009, haven’t been predominantly about white men and their white male drama. As if Isaac Perlmutter, who was in charge of Marvel Studios until very recently, hadn’t refused to pay Terrence Howard comparably to Robert Downey Jr., and then simply recast him with Don Cheadle for Iron Man 2 because “all black people look alike.” As if they didn’t choose to adapt a character steeped in orientalism and yet refused to cast more than one Asian actor who played second fiddle to the white hero. As if it didn’t take them nearly 10yrs to produce a movie with a black protagonist who wasn’t a white man's sidekick, let alone a black woman with more than one scene or two speaking lines. As if, after buying your fervent loyalty off the labor of Ryan Coogler and his cast, they didn’t immediately relegate Wakanda to cannon fodder in two separate alien attack setpieces. Marvel is suddenly the epitome of diversity, now?

This is new school white Hollywood, folks.

Meanwhile, how many of you are out here writing Moonlight fan fiction? Where were you when A Wrinkle In Time came out? How many of you watched Fast Color, or saw BlacKkKlansman or The Last Black Man In San Francisco? What’s your favorite Ryan Coogler film that doesn’t have an ugly CGI fight scene at the end? How often do you post headcanons about Jordan Peele’s work?

Hell, are any of you even watching Raising Dion on Netflix, which is essentially offered to you for free? On that note, did you support The Get Down, or did you contribute to its cancellation by watching Stranger Things instead?

I know the answers to these questions. I’ve been in the tags. Let’s not even talk about works by artists of other ethnic backgrounds. You’ll only watch Guillermo Del Toro’s movies if Tom Hiddleston is in it, or someone has sex with a fish.

You don’t want diverse media, what you want is your cape and to eat it, too. But you’ll gladly prop up the multitrillion dollar entertainment monopoly for doing the barest of minimums if the morality pageantry bolsters your false wokeness.

Coppola was wrong; Marvel films aren’t despicable. Its fans are.

This was an eloquent read

Also, one more thing.

In 2007, aka since before the MCU existed, Martin Scorsese founded the world cinema project. Details are here, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Cinema_Project but essentially the project aims to provide restoration and distribution to films from countries that can’t necessarily do it themselves. A lot of filmmakers of colour have been on the Project. More than the one Marvel has helped.

Imagine being loved the way you love

“But how can you KNOOOOOW you don’t like the food if you’ve never TRIIIIIIIIEEEEEEED it?????”

are you FUCKING kidding me. They’re doing this to prevent people from starting a 30 day trial and canceling it as soon as they’re finished binge-watching their favorite tv shows. They’re doing it for even more money.

maybe i’m stating the obvious here but what the fuck is the point of having an on demand streaming service if content is still going to be realized weekly like it would be on TV

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you can tell a lot about a person by their opinions on sansa stark

(Specifically the Sansa from the books + the first four seasons. Sansa in every season after that felt like a different character to me and her writing in season 8 was garbage, but I’ll always love her.)

But men who hate on Sansa for being “useless” and “boring” in the first few seasons? Don’t trust them. 

And female fans, specifically ones who claim to be feminists and “love House Stark” but hate Sansa

“I hate Sansa for being petty towards Dany and being not as smart as she thinks she is” = Yeah!

“I hate Sansa because she’s a distressed damsel who doesn’t kick ass like Arya and Brienne” = Unyeah! 

No. These are both “unyeah!” moments. Sansa wanting to maintain self-determination and putting her own interests (and those of her people) ahead of Daenerys’ ambitions is not “petty” at all. That you would try to frame it that way is just as “unyeah” as all the rest.

Sansa doesn’t owe Daenerys loyalty, allegiance, friendship, kindness, compassion or her freedom. And neither does any other character—this “obligation” narrative that suggests anyone not giving Daenerys exactly what Daenerys wants is somehow “petty” is just as toxic as the faux misogyny y’all are only just now suddenly seeing around every corner. It’s not “petty” just because she failed some “obligation” test you lot want her to meet. I didn’t see Daenerys making any of the concessions to the North (or anyone) y’all so desperately deride Sansa (and literally every other character—man or woman) for not making.

Describing the battle for the right for humanity (and that’s everyone, not just the North) to exist as “Jon’s war” is petty.

Muttering veiled threats about a man’s sister to his face (“If she can’t respect me…”) is petty.

Trying to isolate the man you supposedly love by demanding he lie to his family about who he is in a bid to maintain a claim that isn’t really even yours is petty. Also, abusive.

Killing a man and then trying to say that someone else is somehow just as much to blame for their death as you, even though they had nothing to do with your decision to commit murder, is petty.

Committing mass murder because your feeling are hurt and just because you can is petty.