FFT posted:

my problem with Wakanda Forever so far is Namor introduces himself as "Namor" rhyming with the Spanish "amor" (because Spanish is how you communicate that this is an ancient South American-coded culture, you see) but afterwards everyone is still pronouncing it "nay-more" because that's how the name was always pronounced before his MCU appearance

if you're gonna change the pronunciation at the very least the first people to hear that pronunciation should be pronouncing it that way! gently caress!

Ghost Leviathan posted:

It's because Whedon is just enough of a dumb piece of poo poo to play on the supposed archetypes without any thought about the implications

See also the Reavers being for all intents and purposes Savage Indians

Tankbuster posted:

yanks wrote the comics

Koirhor posted:

Firefly is a much better live action Cowboy Bebop than whatever it was we got

quote:

“For the new Netflix live-action adaptation, they sent me a video to review and check. It started with a scene in a casino, which made it very tough for me to continue. I stopped there and so only saw that opening scene. It was clearly not Cowboy Bebop and I realized at that point that if I wasn’t involved, it would not be Cowboy Bebop. I felt that maybe I should have done this. Although the value of the original anime is somehow far higher now.”

McCloud posted:

They should learn to pronounce the names of the poo poo they wrote then

FFT posted:

my problem with Wakanda Forever so far is Namor introduces himself as "Namor" rhyming with the Spanish "amor" (because Spanish is how you communicate that this is an ancient South American-coded culture, you see) but afterwards everyone is still pronouncing it "nay-more" because that's how the name was always pronounced before his MCU appearance

if you're gonna change the pronunciation at the very least the first people to hear that pronunciation should be pronouncing it that way! gently caress!

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

anyway silver lining, i saw this bitchin bumper sticker in the parking lot, Sorcerer is incredible

McCloud posted:

What the hell, nay-more? No one should be pronouncing it that way. It's obviously supposed to be Nah-mor. This is like pronouncing Magneto as Mag-netto instead of Mag-Neat-oh. Get a grip, yanks

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

FFT posted:

it was always nay-mor

also in the movie it's made explicit that he took the name from the words of a spanish priest cursing him and therefore should rhyme with the spanish "amor"

and literally no one but him and his people pronounce it as anything but nay-mor throughout the entire movie

lol

McCloud posted:

Reminder that Whedon wrote an episode where the sex worker gets kidnapped by the reavers and when the gang track her down to rescue her they find her on a ship surrounded by dead reavers, and it's heavily implied they died from raping her because she took a potion that made her vagina toxic.

Frosted Flake posted:

Is Firefly sort of Confederate apologia because it’s cribbing from a lot of classic westerns, so it’s an aesthetic / genre convention or is it ideological?

The “States Rights” the Independent Planets are asking for are just defined in terms of Lost Cause romanticism from the 1890’s on, frontier individualism etc. which again makes sense as a homage to classic westerns, but doesn’t really hold up in the case of the CSA (South Carolina was explicit about slavery being the critical right).

I realize Firefly is passé and belongs to an older Nerd Culture, but it’s funny that it could go either way: homage to the genre or belief in moonlight and magnolias trodden on by Yankee tyrants.

Antonymous posted:

My buddy has a netflix show and he told me something like they request that all the interesting stuff happen in the first 8.5 minutes because once people make it that far in they usually commit. so they want him to frontload every episode with his best plot beats. he said all the people at the top are business people with no film making /writing experience but they give notes on every show stuff like "this character speaks chinese, could they speak english?" but they already filmed it

Antonymous posted:

yeah. It makes sense. it's just the opposite of 3000 years of western dramatic theory

Antonymous posted:

tbh movies are partly bad now cause writer/directors want to buck that format. Like Barbarian's midpoint reversal is there's a woman under the house or w/e but that doesn't really change the character's trajectory its just pilling on more bullshit to deal with.

Midpoint of silence of the lambs is when Starling starts to trust Lector and they do the quid pro quo. In the book I think this is the start of a romantic feeling between them. It's horrifying because it changes everything... Lector changes from antagonist to ally

Hereditary and Psycho both kill the 'main character' in the midpoint which is so disorienting but both do a great job of the corpse mother in the attic somehow paying it off

Mantis42 posted:

At the 100 minute mark most movies should be over!!

Mantis42 posted:

At the 100 minute mark most movies should be over!!

Mantis42 posted:

At the 100 minute mark most movies should be over!!