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Read After Burning posted:Yeah, that's already a Thing: Definitely predates that edit: Cythereal in 2019 Len has a new favorite as of 02:38 on Nov 8, 2023 |
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My impression of Forrest Gump is that it’s kind of conservative propaganda. What does Forrest do? He obeys authority, keeps his mouth shut, never complains, does not try to correct injustice or change the system, just does what he is told told. And his reward is inexhaustible wealth and the specific woman he wanted. Not even “a beautiful, loving wife”, he “gets” the exact specific woman he wanted. What does Jenny do? She challenges the system, tries to change it, fights injustice, protests the criminal actions of those in power. And her reward is to be betrayed, violated, impoverished, rendered sick, and completely and utterly humiliated along with her dream.
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Nov 8, 2023 02:36
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It's Boomer nostalgia bait, not a didactic cautionary tale
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Heath posted:It's Boomer nostalgia bait, not a didactic cautionary tale What's the loving difference big brain?
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Nov 8, 2023 02:47
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Nostalgia seeks to convince the viewer that they experienced it that way, caution seeks to convince the viewer that they will experience it that way.
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Nov 8, 2023 02:51
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tokin opposition posted:What's the loving difference big brain? That the person above is thinking too deeply about it and you're evidently personally offended on behalf of the movie
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Nov 8, 2023 02:56
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The real villain in Forrest Gump was the screenwriter. In the book he had a monkey.
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Dewgy posted:In the book he had a monkey. This changes everything. Edit: Forrest and the monkey go to SPACE in the book!? wash bucket has a new favorite as of 03:23 on Nov 8, 2023 |
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Heath posted:That the person above is thinking too deeply about it and you're evidently personally offended on behalf of the movie 1. analyzing media is in and of itself valuable as it tells us what its makers valued, how they saw the world, and what messages they intentionally or unintentionally wanted to send, 2. there's a long history of analyzing forest grump as a piece of conservative media so it's hardly as if Nebrilos made up the idea from whole cloth 3. I really loving hate boomers and their forest-grumpian outlook, both when younger and currently has hosed the world in innumerable ways but especially in the ways they remember amerikkkan history 4. reflexive rejection of media analysis is at best a sign of being a dipshit and 5. I've never actually seen forest grump because I'm too busy watching good media, like Pantheon (2022)
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tokin opposition posted:1. analyzing media is in and of itself valuable as it tells us what its makers valued, how they saw the world, and what messages they intentionally or unintentionally wanted to send, 2. there's a long history of analyzing forest grump as a piece of conservative media so it's hardly as if Nebrilos made up the idea from whole cloth 3. I really loving hate boomers and their forest-grumpian outlook, both when younger and currently has hosed the world in innumerable ways but especially in the ways they remember amerikkkan history 4. reflexive rejection of media analysis is at best a sign of being a dipshit and 5. I've never actually seen forest grump because I'm too busy watching good media, like Pantheon (2022) I'm not rejecting media analysis wholesale, I'm saying that reading concepts like propaganda into Forrest loving Gump is the same kind of tired surface level bullshit that people jerk themselves off over because they resent their parents and resent the movie because their parents like it. It isn't analysis, it's the same dumb poo poo conclusion every 30something came to about Forrest Gump when they caught it playing on TBS or whatever for the fortieth time and went "wait a minute, this is really unrealistic!!"
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Nov 8, 2023 03:14
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Did you know Jenny actually died of Hep C? I dunno I just thought it was a weird choice.
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In the book, he was originally a much more unlikeable character than the movie portrayed him to be I am, of course, referring to John Hammond from Jurassic Park
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Nov 8, 2023 03:22
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in the book, Forrest is actually a dinosaur
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The problem with Forrest Gump is that people love to zero in on the whole thing about Jenny to the exclusion to the rest of the movie and this precludes meaningful discussion about it’s many themes and messages it’s trying to convey. They just can’t see the Forrest from the trees
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Nov 8, 2023 03:27
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This is why the U.S. military should have continued to develop the gay bomb.
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Heath posted:I'm not rejecting media analysis wholesale, I'm saying that reading concepts like propaganda into Forrest loving Gump is the same kind of tired surface level bullshit that people jerk themselves off over because they resent their parents and resent the movie because their parents like it. It isn't analysis, it's the same dumb poo poo conclusion every 30something came to about Forrest Gump when they caught it playing on TBS or whatever for the fortieth time and went "wait a minute, this is really unrealistic!!"
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Platystemon posted:This is why the U.S. military should have continued to develop the gay bomb. Should have? Buddy what do you think the frogs drank that made them gay?
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Gaygent orange is that anything?
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tokin opposition posted:Buddy what do you think the frogs drank that made them gay? Absinthe, soya, and seed oils, in that order.
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tokin opposition posted:Should have? Fortified carbohydrate beverage and Rip Its
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oldpainless posted:In the book, he was originally a much more unlikeable character than the movie portrayed him to be Yeah. I'm pretty sure book Forrest both hosed and said "gently caress". FFT posted:What if you also look at the erasure of African-American agency in Back to the Future from the same director? I watched part of this one for the first time a few years ago, and was hella disturbed at the entire ending involving a prom sexual assault scene that's treated like a silly little inconvenience, let's keep dancing!!! 
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Read After Burning posted:As a more light-hearted
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, I found multiple instances of people asking what the "Crip cheat code" for San Andreas is. 
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oldpainless posted:In the book, he was originally a much more unlikeable character than the movie portrayed him to be
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Tiggum posted:What does that mean? My guess is that there was some kind of rumor of a cheat code that would replace the games fictional gangs (Grove Street in green and Ballaz in purple) with the actual Los Angeles street gangs, Bloods and Crips (in red and blue, naturally). I just realized that to someone not from the US, that may have looked like I was just throwing slurs around, ha. Sorry about that!
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FFT posted:What if you also look at the erasure of African-American agency in Back to the Future from the same director? We can't allow anyone to tarnish the legacy of child sex trafficker Chuck Berry.
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Read After Burning posted:Yeah. I'm pretty sure book Forrest both hosed and said "gently caress". Hey that's not fair. It was Marty's plan to fake attempting to assault his mom that backfired because she was down that was played as a joke. Biff's attempted rape was a moment of actual menace. There's a bunch of stuff that aged poorly, but I think people sometimes skip just how loving weird and bleak the film's intentional stuff is and tonal whiplash like that sexual peril to romantic dance moment, or the way the Libyans go from stone cold killers to goofy slapstick in the course of a chase. The town is lovely and rundown before Marty goes to the past and it's still lovely when he gets back, but at least his family is rich and now can bully their tormentor because George kicked his rear end in high school. Lorraine loving George because she could take care of him left the family miserable, but him beating people for her makes them happy and allows them to fulfill their dreams. But going back to what this thread is actually about :  Luckily Quora has a baked in chat gpt bot to answer questions like this, which conveniently gets displayed before human answers   Thomas F. Wilson was not the guy under the Crispin Glover prosthetics, he played Biff.
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Desert Bus posted:I once was straight, but now I'm queer I know this is a joke, but this wording is actually great. Everyone can benefit from realizing that gender and sexual preference are fluid.
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fermun posted:it's from an israeli sketch comedy show and the characters are named wordle and keley. it's painfully bad. give it a watch!
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Mushika posted:I know this is a joke, but this wording is actually great. Everyone can benefit from realizing that gender and sexual preference are fluid. i have some pamphlets on the CERF movement you might want to take a look at
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wash bucket posted:This changes everything. You should see the sequel.
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tokin opposition posted:i have some pamphlets on the CERF movement you might want to take a look at I have a feeling that I'm missing something here. I'm sorry, I'm a big idiot.
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Mushika posted:I have a feeling that I'm missing something here. I'm sorry, I'm a big idiot. Cis‐Exclusi Platystemon has a new favorite as of 08:11 on Nov 8, 2023 |
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Fighting the stereotype that Jews are funny.
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Platystemon posted:Cis‐Exclusive Radical Feminism See, I thought it might mean Cis-exclusionary Radical Feminism. I'd be all about that (and step away, obviously). But I am a huge dumbass, so please take that with a giant grain of salt.
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Mushika posted:See, I thought it might mean Cis-exclusionary Radical Feminism. I'd be all about that (and step away, obviously). My bad. I was going to look up “TERF” but Wikipedia’s article on it is currently in the stage of the edit war where it is whitewashed as “gender‐critical feminism”.
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"pregnancy inevitably results if you're having lots of sex" Yes. There is no other way. Please ignore every gay, lesbian, infertile or smart enough to use protection person on the planet. You either have no sex at all, or you have sex and get abortions so you can have more sex. There is no other way.
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big mean giraffe posted:Or you know a thumb drive you can then do whatever you want with. Pretty sure it used to support facebook too Yeah okay grandpa. Lemme train my homing pigeon to do that next
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I like abortion.
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Cloacamazing! posted:"pregnancy inevitably results if you're having lots of sex" Also sex is not fun. Not at all. Nobody ever has actually enjoyed sex, they've just been brainwashed into thinking they did.
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