the epilogue for the quarry should have been a video on emma’s youtube channel titled “STORYTIME: WE WERE ALMOST KILLED BY WEREWOLVES (NOT CLICKBAIT!!!!!! EVIDENCE INCLUDED!!!!!!!)”
guinea pig instagram accounts are so funny cause the captions will be like "uh oh! pumpkiwumpkin is being extra sassy today!" and the picture is literally just
look i hate disney as much as the next guy, but cruella 2021 kinda slaps ngl
i think the most important thing to know is that this isn’t a bunch of people being like “let’s make a direct prequel for 101 dalmatians to explain why cruella likes skinning dalmatians and why she’s hashtag misunderstood”
it’s much more like “hey remember the crazy lady with the weird hair from that movie you watched twice as a kid? let’s do a batshit heist/devil wears prada movie vaguely inspired by her with a few goofy dalmatian references and some shared characters and basically nothing else to do with the original”
like do the dalmatians chase the mom off a cliff? yes
does this motivate cruella to hate dalmatians? no.
does this motivate her to want to kill them, skin them, or blame them for her mother’s death? no.
in fact, she blames herself, then the baroness, and ends up adopting the dalmatians with no intention of skinning them or any other dogs
is it still a goofy writing decision? absolutely. but it’s a goofy decision in a fun, goofy movie from a group of filmmakers about a thousand times more creative and interesting than those behind any of the other live action disney movies that i’ve seen
tbh i’d rather see a wacky batshit off-the-rails reimagining that at least makes SOME interesting decisions than a shot-by-shot remake like lion king 2019
So, I just watched Cruella (I'm not going to lie; I just really missed going to movie theaters) and I cannot stress how much this movie did not need to be 'Cruella'. Meaning it did not need to be about a character named Cruella de Vil. Meaning there was actually a damn good heist movie about the privileged elite and the punk rock movement of 1970s London, told by showing the rivalry between two fabulously dramatic fashionistas, using some great cinematography, and a fantastic soundtrack...and then every 10 minutes or so, you'd be like, "What's up with the dalmatians? Oh, yeah!" (Also, there were 3 of them, which is about 98 less than the original source material.)
It could/should have been its own thing is what I'm getting at.
Ura-Acca, a sympathetic character, recoils in disgust when Himari suggests she looks like her mom and he is ‘waiting’ for her to become an adult. I don’t even think he liked Asuza. Yeah he might have created an artificial girl who was never allowed to have freedoms and set her on fire later and created this game just roping more girls into it but he draws the line at pedophilia.
Meanwhile Sawaki last episode straight up suggested that Ai is going to look like her mom when she grows up and painted her with flowers that meant “waiting” and “romantic love”.
You can also just compare Ai sitting at the table with Ura-Acca listening to him and how she’s fine with it versus any time the teacher is on screen it being really weird. He was treating her like his lost daughter and poured her a glass of water and told her what was going on so she was aware.
Anyway weird men please stop trying to tell me the teacher is ‘actually good’.
this is your yearly reminder that dispite the fact that it is an essential part of filmmaking and people literally die doing it, there is no oscar for stunts.