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Oct. 23rd, 2019 12:01 amoh hey Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is out
now is this going to suffer from sequel suck or
(I should rewatch Maleficent soon)
now is this going to suffer from sequel suck or
(I should rewatch Maleficent soon)
tasty noms (that I didn't have to make)
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silveradept: *makes pasta carbonara*silveradept: *is not confident in cooking skills*silveradept: "Person with butterfly meme. Is this carbonara?"azurelunatic: "If someone in Ratatouille said that, I guarantee you the butterfly would turn purple and head straight for the chef."duckduckgo hates me or something
Jun. 14th, 2019 04:46 pmGabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve wrote other things than La Belle et la Bête. Wiki says. Wiki doesn't tell me anything but their titles. Wiki gives me synopses of a few of the works of Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont that aren't the abridged version of Villeneuve's best-known work, but none of them match this:
BELLE: Well it's my favorite! (BELLE swings off side of ladder, rolling down its track) Far off places, daring swordfights, magic spells, a prince in disguise!What is she reading? Like, is there a book that could plausibly historically exist in 1770s-ish France that meets this description and exists in English synopsis, at least, somewhere on the internet? Or should I just make shit up? And if the latter, where am I going to get an idea of the themes and images Belle's book could, without anachronism, have? Lang's rainbow Fairy Books?
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BELLE: Oh! Isn't this amazing! It's my favorite part because, you'll see! Here's where she meets Prince Charming But she won't discover that it's him 'til chapter three!
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Nov. 12th, 2018 01:00 am"Disney princess" is a societally acceptable way to spell "preteen [white] girl's power fantasy". Discuss.
ETA: asked the same question on FB and two WoC friends observed a problem with my initial phrasing. guess I've got more decentering-whiteness work to do...
ETA: asked the same question on FB and two WoC friends observed a problem with my initial phrasing. guess I've got more decentering-whiteness work to do...
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Aug. 31st, 2018 09:41 pm...so is the narrative midpoint of Frozen Olaf's song, the scene where Hans catches Anna's runaway horse, or the reprise of "For The First Time In Forever"?
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Apr. 25th, 2018 02:49 pmDoes anyone else find the thing where everybody's visual headcanon of certain fairytale protagonists (to say nothing of certain historical-people-or-historical-fiction-protagonists!) comes from Disney movies...distressing?
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Apr. 10th, 2018 12:56 pmDisney's Moana and its depiction of disability, particularly in the person of Gramma Tala, cane-using "village crazy lady". Discuss.
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Aug. 25th, 2017 07:49 pmEvery time I watch Disney's 1991 Beauty and the Beast, I spy a detail I missed before. This time, it's the asylum director's little giving-orders hand wave right before his minions grab Maurice.
Ran out of that, switched to Mulan. Belatedly occurs to me, the first character we meet, the wall guard who lights the signal fire? Died five seconds after Shan Yu said "Perfect."
Ran out of that, switched to Mulan. Belatedly occurs to me, the first character we meet, the wall guard who lights the signal fire? Died five seconds after Shan Yu said "Perfect."
Headcanon: Belle and Beast are both queer as fuck.
In fact that's part of the reason for the Gaston shitshow—in the animated, that is, I have only seen the live-action once and I was too busy yelling about LeFou after to think of anything like this—anyway. Belle would rather have one of the blonde triplets than Gaston, though frankly that's not much of a choice if none of the four have anything interesting-to-Belle to talk about! And Gaston kind of knows all of that! But Belle's bi, not lesbian. Beast? Also bi.
In fact that's part of the reason for the Gaston shitshow—in the animated, that is, I have only seen the live-action once and I was too busy yelling about LeFou after to think of anything like this—anyway. Belle would rather have one of the blonde triplets than Gaston, though frankly that's not much of a choice if none of the four have anything interesting-to-Belle to talk about! And Gaston kind of knows all of that! But Belle's bi, not lesbian. Beast? Also bi.
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Jun. 28th, 2017 11:31 amI watched Disney's Robin Hood last night. Things I wanted to say during the movie but didn't because the point of the exercise was Not Typing:
* If Little John is so heavy the Sheriff and his men wouldn't be able to get his neck in the noose, how did Robin Hood—a MUCH smaller than either Little John or the Sheriff—swing Little John and himself into the tree where they're having this conversation?
* Romani stereotypes, enough said. Also are those clip-ons or did Robin legit pierce his ears at some point? I doubt clip-ons, somehow...
* Helium balloons. In the reign of Richard Lionheart.
* Why do I have the feeling this movie is a lot more intensely political in the current climate? ETA: omg A POX ON THE PHONY ORANGE POTUS
* If Little John is so heavy the Sheriff and his men wouldn't be able to get his neck in the noose, how did Robin Hood—a MUCH smaller than either Little John or the Sheriff—swing Little John and himself into the tree where they're having this conversation?
* Romani stereotypes, enough said. Also are those clip-ons or did Robin legit pierce his ears at some point? I doubt clip-ons, somehow...
* Helium balloons. In the reign of Richard Lionheart.
* Why do I have the feeling this movie is a lot more intensely political in the current climate? ETA: omg A POX ON THE PHONY ORANGE POTUS
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Apr. 30th, 2017 05:23 pmHave you ever noticed how aware of her environment Belle is in her titular song?
The wolves appear twice: once to chase Maurice into the castle and once to threaten Belle such that Beast must save her and Belle care for him. Recalling how very precisely timed the fall of the last petal is with Belle's declaration of love and the subsequent pretty transformation lights: I wonder if they're enchanted wolves.
...Nearly halfway through the movie, Belle violates a stated boundary big-time. To wit: "stay out of the west wing" and she does not so much as attempt to respect this boundary because its existence means she's curious. In the argument after the second wolves scene, they're both in the wrong. I'd never noticed that before.
"coarse and unrefined" might describe flour as well as earlier-in-the-movie Beast. Fascinating, that, considering how much women's labor typically (before industrialization, certainly) went into making flour finer!
The wolves appear twice: once to chase Maurice into the castle and once to threaten Belle such that Beast must save her and Belle care for him. Recalling how very precisely timed the fall of the last petal is with Belle's declaration of love and the subsequent pretty transformation lights: I wonder if they're enchanted wolves.
...Nearly halfway through the movie, Belle violates a stated boundary big-time. To wit: "stay out of the west wing" and she does not so much as attempt to respect this boundary because its existence means she's curious. In the argument after the second wolves scene, they're both in the wrong. I'd never noticed that before.
"coarse and unrefined" might describe flour as well as earlier-in-the-movie Beast. Fascinating, that, considering how much women's labor typically (before industrialization, certainly) went into making flour finer!
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Mar. 25th, 2017 11:51 amHypothesis: when Maui in Moana says "I'm just an ordinary demiguy," he means he's nonbinary.
...yes, I know that's not what Disney meant. :(
...yes, I know that's not what Disney meant. :(
Fandango has, or anyway had, a special going where anyone preordering tickets to Disney's Beauty and the Beast (2017) would get a song from the soundtrack as a bonus. I do not know if the special is still going; I know it was supposed to end before opening weekend March 17. (I can't find the special now, so I suspect it's closed.)
Fandango is not permitting me to order tickets for my local theater more than a few days in advance.
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It's March 5. Moana is supposed to hit stores in multiple disc formats March 7. Amazon, where the fuck is my preorder button?
Fandango is not permitting me to order tickets for my local theater more than a few days in advance.
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It's March 5. Moana is supposed to hit stores in multiple disc formats March 7. Amazon, where the fuck is my preorder button?
REALLY, DISNEY? FUCK YOU!
Mar. 1st, 2017 04:39 pmThere is a spoiler on Facebook for Disney's Beauty and the Beast (2017). To wit: ( spoiler and commentary )
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Jan. 29th, 2017 05:22 pmHypothesis: Gaston isn't actually that well liked in Belle's little village; Belle's a lot more popular, however odd. Some of the young women adore Gaston's pretty face, and of course LeFou has eyes for no one but Gaston (in a patently No Homo way, because anything else would get in the way of Gaston's oh-so-fragile toxic masculinity), but the rest of the village puts up with him because he owns the pub.
The "Thank you all for coming to my wedding, but first I should go propose to the girl" scene? An excuse to laugh at him, because they all know how Belle's likely to react, and how Gaston's likely to react to that!
You'll notice how in the first town scene, Gaston proclaims his desire to marry Belle and half the town gets between him and her.
And yes, there's Gaston's eponymous song, but, you know, it's in the pub. Everybody singing is a little sauced!
The "Thank you all for coming to my wedding, but first I should go propose to the girl" scene? An excuse to laugh at him, because they all know how Belle's likely to react, and how Gaston's likely to react to that!
You'll notice how in the first town scene, Gaston proclaims his desire to marry Belle and half the town gets between him and her.
And yes, there's Gaston's eponymous song, but, you know, it's in the pub. Everybody singing is a little sauced!
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Oct. 15th, 2016 09:59 amI'll be king undisputed, respected, saluted, and seen for the wonder I am!
I'm pretty sure that line's verbatim the same in "Be Prepared" in The Lion King the animated film and The Lion King the Broadway show. A thing that makes the Broadway version better: it addresses the dissonance between Scar's self-image before murdering Mufasa and the pride et al's actual opinions of Scar well after.
I mean, it does so in a kinda ableist way, and the song that addresses that dissonance—"The Madness of King Scar"—is also the one that gets rapey (which more clearly explains why Nala skipped town), so you may want to stick with the film over the musical.
I'm pretty sure that line's verbatim the same in "Be Prepared" in The Lion King the animated film and The Lion King the Broadway show. A thing that makes the Broadway version better: it addresses the dissonance between Scar's self-image before murdering Mufasa and the pride et al's actual opinions of Scar well after.
I mean, it does so in a kinda ableist way, and the song that addresses that dissonance—"The Madness of King Scar"—is also the one that gets rapey (which more clearly explains why Nala skipped town), so you may want to stick with the film over the musical.
