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drat horror queefs posted:JKR being a profoundly bigoted monster is pretty much in keeping with the tradition established by all great English children's lit authors so, I doubt Tolkien and lewis were anywhere near as bad as her
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Tolkien is measurably better because even though his content was comically racist he was also known to find it really cringey in retrospect and spent a lot of time trying to solve the “orc problem” of trying to separate the racism from his antagonists
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mastershakeman posted:I doubt Tolkien and lewis were anywhere near as bad as her Yeah but Roald Dahl was twice as bad so it all balances out, qed
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also to be fair he was just straight ripping off Norse mythology for a lot of it so most poo poo was “fair skinned” this and “lily white” that as far as the good guys went
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indigi posted:I've only seen two of them (second one and last one I think) but the kids did not remotely know how to act at first. when did they figure it out There is a marked improvement over the series. Maybe 3 or 4 they can establish some emotion. Number 1 is the best. There are a number of scenes that the kids start to laugh but it is edited out or they just catch themselves.
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:didnt brannagh play a paraplegic in a spider legged wheelchair in Wild Wild West too? wild wild west owns
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Trabisnikof posted:wild wild west owns yeah it’s awesome and I enjoy it both ironically and unironically
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DesertIslandHermit posted:I completely believe Rowling put in Dobby as a way to push hard on 'Malfoy's family is not only jerks but they're racist slave-owning assholes' but had the brilliant idea to decide later in the series that house elves love being enslaved and even gives Harry one and he doesn't even try to free him. i think he does get freed by accident and then that house-elf uses the opportunity to kill his godfather? so sometimes freeing slaves is bad
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:Tolkien is measurably better because even though his content was comically racist he was also known to find it really cringey in retrospect and spent a lot of time trying to solve the “orc problem” of trying to separate the racism from his antagonists And the Dwarf/Jew thing. It's not surprising that racism worked its way into his writing given how pervasive it was. Tolkien was a genuinely good guy though.
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Trabisnikof posted:wild wild west owns 
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WWW does indeed own. I really like this article that has some of the backstory about what a clusterfuck the production was: https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/wild-wild-west-inside-storyquote:Once the cast was assembled, a read-through took place on a horse ranch in Burbank. When Branagh arrived, he’d shaved his beard in the style of his character. He proceeded to dazzle the room with a committed Southern accent. He was “amazing,” says Sonnenfeld. He was so convincing, in fact, that Warner Bros. executive Lorenzo di Bonaventura asked Sonnenfeld if they should fire Branagh and cast whoever this guy was. Sonnenfeld told him that guy was Kenneth Branagh.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/StolenDans/status/1409599789235376130 im gonna go with cerebus because the politics arent validated by the work they work in tandem with the main characters arc to emphasize that hes a miserable piece of poo poo because his goals are selfish and terrible even between all the late screed stuff its kind of hard to miss that the feminazi empire falls more because of a resistance movement with an entirely inaccurate romantic interpretation of the cerebus image than cerebus himself and the flash forward shows the feminazis mostly won the culture war anyway because cerebus is a petty assholish boor with no meaningful social influence
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jack bauer going on all his murder sprees except for season 6 gently caress that season
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Some Guy TT posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/StolenDans/status/1409599789235376130 When you see how Cerberus becomes the author's mouthpiece, it's fitting in a way that the character ends up alone and hated.
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the best right-wing art is dostoevsky and gogol
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FFT posted:lmao "J.K. Rowling Confirms Jewish Character in ‘Harry Potter’" Honestly just glad they're a wand carrier.
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Some Guy TT posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/StolenDans/status/1409599789235376130 a good prompt. a few ideas: - tombstone - die hard 3 - the hunt for red october (arguably, this one is merely pro-military and doesn't necessarily exhibit other conservative tendencies)
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Red October is implicitly anticommunist but the movie lacks Clancy lecturing about the evils of Soviet healthcare Lord of the Rings is too easy so I'm gonna say Book of the New Sun (as a personal judgment, not as the literal best)
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Aglet56 posted:a good prompt. a few ideas: tfw you’re no daisy, you’re no daisy at all
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hwhy simply the collected works of mishima yukio
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The Screwtape Letters? Gothic cathedrals? Hmm.
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FFT posted:lmao "J.K. Rowling Confirms Jewish Character in ‘Harry Potter’" Guess what the black wizards name is Shacklebolt
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Some Guy TT posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/StolenDans/status/1409599789235376130 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLJBfGdej7g
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Fried Watermelon posted:Guess what the black wizards name is hahaha that's a hell of a joke there's no way she actually named him shacklebolt *googles it* holy poo poo rowling
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FFT posted:lmao "J.K. Rowling Confirms Jewish Character in ‘Harry Potter’" Before clicking the link: my guess is Castie Goldstein After clicking the link: lol; rofl
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lol how the gently caress did this series grab the literary consciousness of an entire generation glad i was always too old to get into these
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Laterite posted:lol how the gently caress did this series grab the literary consciousness of an entire generation hell if I know. A Series of Unfortunate Events is better imo
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Laterite posted:lol how the gently caress did this series grab the literary consciousness of an entire generation people are desperate for escapism and the whole setup for this is a kid who has a lovely life escaping to a magical world
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Laterite posted:lol how the gently caress did this series grab the literary consciousness of an entire generation Cant believe kids liked a book about magic schools, how dare they
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SatansOnion posted:hell if I know. A Series of Unfortunate Events is better imo this is truth tho, these books knew the world sucked and didnt care to delude children Same thing with animorphs
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most of the absolute nonsense is later additions by rowling, or weirdness once you can hold the whole series in perspective
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Judakel posted:people are desperate for escapism and the whole setup for this is a kid who has a lovely life escaping to a magical world I think the particularly appealing part is that he doesn’t have to do any work. one day he wakes up and just is a wizard with magic powers now. sure he goes to wizard school but they don’t actually do any work there it’s just constant playtime
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mandatory lesbian posted:this is truth tho, these books knew the world sucked and didnt care to delude children Animorphs was real interesting for being a children's action book series that really did not shy away at all from pointing out that war is traumatizing and even the "good guys" end up doing some awful poo poo sometimes.
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The best part of Harry Potter, at least in the movies, is the global holocaust the death eaters are committing. This is all ignored when voldemort is killed because he was making everyone do the bad things!
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indigi posted:I think the particularly appealing part is that he doesn’t have to do any work. one day he wakes up and just is a wizard with magic powers now. sure he goes to wizard school but they don’t actually do any work there it’s just constant playtime They do have homework and studying, even though they heavily crib from Hermione, but they don't really depict them doing it, because why would you.
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Mr Hootington posted:The best part of Harry Potter, at least in the movies, is the global holocaust the death eaters are committing. This is all ignored when voldemort is killed because he was making everyone do the bad things! wait what? i havent seen the movies
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Mr Hootington posted:The best part of Harry Potter, at least in the movies, is the global holocaust the death eaters are committing. This is all ignored when voldemort is killed because he was making everyone do the bad things! harry potter needs a sequel where there's a bad group of wizards who want to bring magic to the muggles and harry has to race around europe collecting all the best deatheaters so the bad wizards who want to share magic dont make a deal with them. then they can build a magick artifack with such power that the bad wizards relent and promise not to tell muggles about magic. then in the next sequel the bad group of wizards make their own magick artifack and hide it in hogsmeade which is only noticed because harry (now PM of magic) has ordered broom overflights with magick artifack detecting spells, which leads to a standoff where the bad group of wizards threaten to tell muggles about magic and detonate the magick artifack if harry execorsizes his legal rights as pm of magic to inspect hogsmeade. so harry puts together a team of the best, ron is back, harrimonie is back, etc. and the have long meetings and eventually decide to publicly say theyre getting rid of their magick artifack in exchange for the bad wizards doing the same, and everyone is like "drat harry got owned" but really he's secretly got a better magick artifack no one knows about yet. so harry gets to be brave and get owned in public even though the audience knows hes right. maybe this one can be a 2 parter. then in the next sequel harry gets killed by a magical assassin using long range spells, so ron has to run for PM of magic but then he gets killed too.
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mastershakeman posted:wait what? i havent seen the movies Oh yeah the subtext is there that the death eaters are killing thousands of "mudbloods" and muggles in Britain alone. Then you can remember that the death eaters supposedly have global reach with thousands of members that have paralyzed the entire wizardry and muggle worlds. Harry does become a cop and you joke, but the OG upper command of the death eaters almost all get away with their original crimes because they say voldemort mind controlled them and you can't prove they are lying. Mr Hootington has issued a correction as of 19:52 on Jun 29, 2021 |
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