#but yeah the films have their issues but

[retellingthehobbit]

When Winter comes, the winter wild that hill and wood shall slay; When trees shall fall and starless night devour the sunless day; When wind is in the deadly East, then in the bitter rain I'll look for thee, and call to thee; I'll come to thee again!

Together we will take the road that leads into the West, And far away will find a land where both our hearts may rest.

#HAPPY HOBBIT DAY #lotr #samfro #hobbit day #sam x frodo #lord of the rings #have some Hobbit Love #i blacked out and hours later this just appeared on my canvas at 2:16 am #(it’s missing my girlfriend hours ) #frodo baggins #samwise gamgee #sam/frodo #frodo/sam #but yeah the films have their issues but #re adapting the song of the ent and the entwives #as a song about frodo and Sam’s relationship (In Dreams) was inspired #A+ choice no notes

[lollytea]

Tbh I think the Barbie movie handled its theme of existentialism better than the feminism.

#the feminism of the barbie movie is nothing new #its nothing you wouldnt have seen in a 2016 tumblr post #and in its efforts to platform the struggle of misogyny it unintentionally shrinks the issue of other forms of bigotry #like it IS about a cis conventionally attractive white woman and the prejudice that she applies to her #because shes a woman. so is not on the TOP of the privilege scale and is going to face bigotry as a result #like Greta Gerwig clearly wrote what she knew #and she didnt feel she was educated enough to touch any other topics #the mistreatment of women is a layered topic and it is a complex matter depending on the varied range of women in this world #queer women trans women women of colour #they dont all experience misogyny in the same way that Barbie does #so its definitely not a very rounded discussion #like even Gloria focuses entirely on the pressure of just women in general #like you can claim that shes speaking from her own experience but. its very mouthpiece-ish #her speech is for the purpose of whacking you over the head with the film's message #yknow i think the focus leans too heavily as ''look what we as girls have in common'' #but doesnt touch enough on ''but look how we differ too.'' a balance between those two concepts would have been nice #i feel like Sasha being like ''hell yeah white saviour barbie!'' was like a lazy acknowledgement that theyre AWARE of this issue #but like. theyre too deep into the script now #anyway yeah i was just thinking about this cuz of that gifset #Barbie feeling unsafe and being objectified in a public space #while Ken faces no issues whatsoever. even tho he is a loudly colourful flamboyantly dressed man on rollerskates #because we are going for a misogyny message here. so we need to poof homophobia out of existence for a bit okay?? #like this is basically what i mean. putting misogyny under the spotlight #and as a result quietly pretending other social disadvantages dont apply right now. bending reality to reinforce the message that we want #this isnt like. a scathing criticism on barbie btw. i dont have a film critic brain #im dumb and i love everything #also im really not the person whos qualified to talk about this #this is just some word vomit because i cant stop thinking about it #anyway i think the themes of what it means to be human and live and breathe fucked royally #i loved that stuff

[fellhellion]

hey Tunes, do you know whats happening in the Miguel tag? I'm too afraid to check it out myself so thought I'll ask you.

essentially the atsv screenplay was released two or so days ago, which you can read in its entirety here, and there has been valid crirtique regarding the language utilised to describe Miguel within said screenplay, including allusions to bloodlust and the screenplay describing him as an animal twice I believe.

#insofar as my own personal thoughts this does really make me concerned that theres a real lack of consciousness to #emphasizing miguel's anger and the nature of his being in that he's half spider as primary tenets to his character #its deeply concerning to me that regardless of whether the authorial intent was more in vein of providing direction to animators #or was an attempt at shorthand for his emotional state to emphasize his threat AS an antagonist #that this kind of language pertaining to a moc wasnt examined more closely and that it wasnt something picked up upon throughout the #creative process (because lbr Lord + Miller + Callaham are notorious for creatively echoloating their way to the final product and even the #screenplay we HAVE has elements which never made it to the film that exists right now) #its concerning that this mindset on part of the creatives (esp in contrast to Spot as others have pointed out who doesnt contain the same #kinds of language descriptors) that this is something that appears to have been integrated carelessly and without consideration as to just. #the implications of always referring to a moc within bestial terms and characterising his emotions as such. and i think thats something #which is important to point out and criticise as part of the authorial intent (which is what i read the screenplay AS yknow) #but yeah tldr theres been a lot of issue taken with the language used there and i think its a very warranted point to make critique of #and its one i personally hope the creatives HEAR and reflect on. because theyve shown they can do so in regards to characters like Peni or #elements like getting the texture of Miles' hair wrong at first #ask games #anon

[navree]

the newsroom rewatch is so exasperating for a wide variety of reasons, but currently it's that the season 3 overarching story is about how it's imperative that the news do the morally correct thing of airing a story that................an american pr firm planted a fake story in a newspaper. yes that's it.

#personal #like they try to tack on this 'and the fake story caused a riot and people died in the riot' but like #sorry maybe i'm an asshole but that's not necessarily on the fake story #people reacted to information violently that's what happened #it was bad information yeah but the reaction wasn't manufactured or deliberate or caused by the us #also the entire plotline is stupid because we have whistleblower protection laws there's a whole process #and the big scandal is flimsy and stupid #and aaron sorkin's politics as it relates to real world issues are fucking baffling to me #the only thing that makes this storyline marginally tolerable are don (as with most storylines on this show) #and that the whistleblower is played by clea duvall #also was dev patel filming a movie or smth because he really just got put on a plane to antarctica for this season

[badolmen]

Supermassive games made something that was almost perfect and then decided to make several much worse things before reeling it back to something decent that makes the same damn mistake the first game made without any of the first game’s charm and cleverness to make up for it. Like you’ve had the time to figure out this professional video game thing maybe you should start acting like it lol

#ra speaks #personal #sorry I’ve been in an until dawn mood lately and it’s like. gosh they were so close to making a game I could unironically say was amazing #their major flaw was the appropriation of Native American culture (like they could have been generic cannibal monsters you didn’t have to #call them that to make them scary that monster design was on point) #and then. in the quarry. which I dare to say is a decent sequel to until dawn. #MAKES THE SAME DAMN MISTAKE OF STEREOTYPING OOOO SPOOKY ROMANI TAROT MAGIC #like bruh do you. do you even call up somebody from the demographics you’re representing #and be like hey is this fucked up or nah? #like you’re a professional studio that’s a real thing you can do #and I don’t like the new cut scenes in until dawn they were PART of the story not some separate entity from it #anyways rant abt the bad stuff over gosh until dawn had such a fantastic story. the reveal and the twist are unparalleled. #literally my only issue is the monster cultural aspect like that’s such a solid game and story #and I guess the treatment of josh as a character but tbh the story of it seems fairly logical #these people got my sisters killed. I’m going to scare the hell out of them as revenge. no one will get physically hurt. #like yeah I would do that too dude. especially if I had a family background in film and practical effects. #and tbf his friends react pretty realistically for kids not knowing how to handle their friend having #a legitimate mental health crisis that stems from undiagnosed and erroneously medicated psychosis/schizophrenia #in addition to being hunted by literal monsters #the quarry was fun and campy the way until dawn was but there was no iconic bait and switch and also an antagonist uses the g slur so like #sorry it’s objectively not as good of a story

[hella1975]

update on date guy so i was supposed to go to his place sunday for lotr + wine but i fully cancelled on him 😭 i have no excuse it was my first day to myself after exams and i just wanted to be lazy like my social battery was OBLITERATED i had to put me first okay. and he was kinda mardy about it which is SO funny to me but anyway we rescheduled and im now seeing him in two hours and im being so brave about it

#im not as nervous today as i was like im kinda excited for it i think there's potential #and worst case scenario is i watch lotr in silence with free wine and free food like okay i can live with that #but omg i can feel the urge to Freak Out and i feel like im batting it away with a twig #ill be like 'i wonder how tonight will go :) *feels something creeping up behind me*' #like NO we're being POSITIVE we're trying NEW THINGS #bc that is really the crux of the issue like meeting him in a coffee shop was fine for me #so ironically i was less stressed for our FIRST date than i am the second which is so dumb #but just being at his house and the fact im actually dipping my toe into these things #is rlly scary for me personally just bc my experiences in this field are either surface level #or just absolute horror shows #like ik all my mates are kinda just like 'it's a date get over it' but it's NOT there's LAYERS there's IMPLICATIONS #im in a fistfight with three of my younger selves who are all simultaneously yelling 'NO!' give me a fucking MINUTE #but yeah i will tell you how it goes lotr is LONG too so im nervous of that but at least watching a film we dont have to make constant conv #*conversation #even tho tbh our first date we stayed until close at that coffee shop which meant we were talking for like 2.5 hours #which is almost lotr runtime #FUCK #this is going to be good this is going to be so good i am openminded and confident i CANNOT CANCEL AGAIN #hella goes to uni

[mirai-desu]

Eliza and William Moments » Series 3, Episode 2

“Good day.” “Ah! What brings you here this fine afternoon?” “Cake! Made with my own two hands.” “Wow! That, uh, that actually looks rather good. Perhaps there's a homemaker in you yet.” “No, thank you. I could think of nothing worse. That is the extent of my domestic effort, so make the most of it.” “But surely one day you hope to have family of your own to look after?” “You're teasing me, William, I won't rise to it.”

#miss scarlet and the duke #my edit: miss scarlet and the duke #my edit #msatd spoilers #I've decided to keep the latter lines for full context BUT #what she says is the 'worst' is being a homemaker #her issue is that she doesn't see how she can keep her career and also be a wife/mother #Ivy's Third Way is springing to mind tho I See The Vision even if Eliza cannot at this point #he might have been teasing at first but he's not at the end there... #I do still think we needed more than just this bit to get him to give up on Eliza (at this point) #but what's done is done and I've grown to just accept this obstacle #(plus COVID messed with filming the next two episodes ahem) #but yeah she still baked him a cake!!! #I hope she bakes him another cake that he actually gets to try (although I don't blame her for taking it away when Arabella swans in)

[deerlisteners]

do u ever think abt how 3houses/hopes position dimitri’s relationships w his friends in relation to his relationship w the goddess & feel rlly rlly normal or is that just me

#head in hands………. #few3h #it’s about the thing he says to byleth ‘we lack the means to reach out and grasp it’ and then everybody continuously reaching out to him #again and again over and over forever #ESPECIALLY in the king awakens cutscene. felix & dedue reaching out & dedue being the one to physically take dimitri’s hand #it’s like yeah faerghus worships an absent goddess and you’re SUPPOSED to believe in her and trust her and be good for her etc #and dimitri just can’t do it until it’s for his friends #and the scene in the rain after gronder in houses too obv #obviously it’s more blatant too considering the byleth sothis situation but ykwim it’s not sothis doing the reaching out there #like #we can talk abt glory and honour etc all we want but is that a truer motivator than the ppl u love??? #for dimitri it isn’t bc he disagrees w all that honour anyway esp after duscur where he saw it fall apart w Glenn’s death (ingie support) #honour and glory are what get his friends killled for him but if he resolves to make the world a better place FOR them #that’s much easier to stomach #(and. the church being intertwined w the knighthood honour thing etc.) lol #idk if this makes sense im having SO MANY issues rendering a film in maya rn lol im slamming my head thru the wall #feposting #fe3h #deertalking #im being very brave not derailing my initial point to just talk abt dmlx here i hope u know that #i love him so much. mimi relationship w faith b like ‘true personal connection is inherently as impossible as seeing the goddess herself’ #(teacher proceeds to become the goddess 2 prove him wrong) #im gonna come back and talk abt this before bc its my fav dimitri topic my brain just isn’t working rn o7

[lizzibennet]

are you going to watch the new bridgerton queen charlotte series? i’m kind of intrigued but also the fact that they’re playing fictionalised versions of real people whom i know too much (negative things) about slightly gets me. i’d love to know your thoughts!

i’m going to eventually, i just have not had time - i really like too many of the characters already not to. i personally engage with bridgerton as total historical fantasy. it is a bit irksome that they use the names of real monarchs to me too but i guess they thought it would be weird to set a story in 19th century england and ignore the actual history of the fact. queen charlotte’s existence in the show is warranted, i think, because of the “explanation” that her marriage to george incited social change (that in itself is criticizable but the point is that she has a reason to exist as she is). because the tone of the show is clearly meant to be less serious and more or less just use the historical aspect of it as a backdrop to the romance - which is the focus - and that aspect is actually often neglected in favor of Artistic Choices i personally see it as pretty harmless, but i also totally understand why people would not want to engage w it

#it’s always a bit complicated to portray people of color in period dramas because you have to deal with colonialism in some way #either you ignore it and just blindcast or you come up with an explanation to do away with racism - like bridgerton did #both approaches have their pros and cons and both have people that are vehemently for and against it #honestly because bton is so unserious and focused on the romance as i said i really think they could’ve gone without the social explanation #and the implications that came with it #i don’t think it’s a show that is ready/willing to offer much worthwhile commentary on that kind of issue #they drop the ball on a lot of things #i do think it’s important that they try tho? it’s 2023 all white period pieces are just unacceptable #there’s not one way to move forward w them but yeah fictionalizing actual historical figures always comes with some weirdness #it all comes down to the kind of show/film it is personally for me but then again. it’s totally understandable to be turned off by it #elegantlyloquacious #what is my ask tag again

[lilydvoratrelundar]

the thing about loki 2021 is that its really fuckin good but not in any of the ways that the loki comics are really fuckin good. and the loki comics are better. go read the loki comics.

#except vote loki u can pretend that one doesnt exist #and also pretend that god who fell to earth went on as long as it should have (i.e. more than five FUCKING issues) #lily dot tee ex tee #marvel #loki #thor #<- oh also the thor comics are just better than the films that one's much simpler #the only way i can think of loki 2021 being similar to stuff like aoa or jim is ideas about free will but it approaches that whole thing #from a completely different angle. its not a story about stories its a story about choics #which is also fascinating and i wanna watch it again at some point but i have no TIME #but also yeah the best thing that loki 2021 did was convince me to finally read loki aoa (which sparked my thor comics phase which i have #still not left) #also sylki was good actually. fuck you <3 #the only bad things loki 2021 did was not make sylvie CANON trans and use kid loki and original loki as costumes #without any respect for the characters themselves #which makes sense because the mcu would not be able to speedrun the entire 2007-2015 character arc in one series #which proves my point that yall should read agent of asgard. now. #616 #mcu

[thesaucemanstrikesback]

Today was the first Christmas without my dad

I asked my mom to rip off the tags on his presents to me, but I could still tell which was his

The curiosity on my mom's face as I opened it and the unrecognized wrapping paper gave it away

And of course, the gifts.

I could tell it was from him because it didn't feel like it was for me. They didn't feel thoughtful, they weren't anything I could have been interested in.

Even if they were, they've been soiled by my father's inability to care.

Every gift from my mother felt like her noticing something I wanted or needed and getting for me.

Every gift from my father felt like him desperately trying to rekindle our "bond" by grasping onto and shopping for a vague memory of me.

But, thanks for the pepperoni sticks, Dada.

I guess you forgot I didn't like them.

#vent post #tw vent #abuse implied #father issues #child abuse #i'm so happy that i didn't have to spend Christmas with him after fifteen fucking years #he got me fucking socks too #i like fun socks yeah but is that all you remember about me? you got me science socks. #and a science journal. and a mental health journal. #and some fucking film festival shirt that looks nothing like the type of stuff that i wear #that has fucking nothing to do with anything i actually like. did you pay attention for fifteen goddamn years to anything i was saying? #those goddamned pepperoni sticks.

[dykesynthezoid]

It’s like we really cannot stress enough how much this whole “sex scenes shouldn’t exist” thing has nothing to do with people being ace or sex repulsed or anything else, like as a (non-ace) person who was previously sex repulsed due to trauma, I wasn’t throwing a fucking fit about sex scenes existing??? That’s not to say I didn’t ever stumble upon scenes that upset me; of course I did! I just didn’t think the media I was watching was somehow morally degenerate because of my own discomfort.

#and the way they equate being surprised by a sex scene to being VIOLATED #you have some shit you need to process and heal from dude. that’s your own issue. you need to address that. #they often lump regular sex scenes in with scenes of SA; like one is traumatizing so aren’t they all or whatever #which like. newsflash. my opinions on SA scenes would shock those people ig #‘SA scenes shouldn’t exist’ so we’re just hiding a traumatic experience that happens to billions of people now? #‘ok maybe SA scenes need to exist sometimes but they should never be graphic’ sometimes you need to be confronted with the reality of how #awful that violation is actually #‘ok well SA scenes shouldn’t be directed by men’ I mean tell that to Patricia Arquette talking about how respectful and reassuring and #understanding David Lynch was when they were filming difficult scenes for lost highway #and also. as if a female director could never be exploitative #like yeah a lot of SA scenes have been exploitative or only existed for titillation in the past and a lot of them still are that way #but idk what that has to do with deciding they just shouldn’t exist?? #I’m someone who watched Paul Verhoeven’s Elle and loved it though so. whatever #it’s all just exhausting

[vulpinesaint]

in other news i get two weeks of summer break!!! :D i thought my summer classes were going to just lead me straight into school again but i do actually get some breathing room before it all starts up once more :D

#can't WAIT to be back in french class i'm gonna have so much fun #and like! ten thousand english classes!!!! everybody say yayyyyyy!!!! #gonna see what i'm taking rn actually. chronicle it #taking literary theory + criticism ; us literature 1 ; folklore and mythology ; sacred texts ; nd emerging lit in global context #on the waitlist for the emerging lit one. but i am first on the waitlist so. it's practically my class already #absolutely no doubt that someone will drop if i'm not just allowed to crash #even if i don't get it it's no big deal though honestly! it would be my only tuesday/thursday class so i wouldn't have to be on campus... #spending five days a week on campus is pretty silly. i got through it last semester but it'd be nice not to have that #nd i'm at 18 units with that class so if i don't take it i'll be back down to 15 which is totally reasonable #bracken's favorite hobby is actually being completely insane with his school + work schedule #18 units and i'm still like 'yeah i wanna work 20 hours though' #you have clinical issues. shut up. #anyway hopefully i'll be able to work 20 hours a week on top of this sdkfjghdsf #if monica gives me morning shifts! i can do that easy peasy (afternoon shifts are 5 hours instead of 3 and a half now. kiss kiss) #so two + a half afternoon shifts a week and a couple morning shifts... we're so set #'bracken when will you have time to do homework' that's a problem for me to solve by just not having free time <3 #one of my classes is asynchronous so. ha. haha. i'm sure i'll have appropriate amounts of time to do work. #mondays + wednesdays i have class straight from 1:30 to 7 but it's FINE! it's FINE! #i'm sure i will be very reasonable about it #i got through my three hour 5-8 film lecture last semester. so i can do anything #would i prefer morning classes? oh absolutely. but having the morning for homework will still be good for me #so excited to be back in school i love school so much #( <— has been in school this whole time w/ summer classes ) #OH MY GOD I WAS GONNA SAY THOUGH. I'M SO FUCKING EXCITED TO TAKE FOLKLORE AND MYTHOLOGY #anyway #valentine notes

[unproduciblesmackdown]

meanwhile, some quotes about the material:

The "musical within a musical" is about a ramshackle theater troupe haphazardly putting on a show destined for Broadway in exchange for doing chores around the farm. People fall in and out of love throughout the process, all while the city folk comically struggle with the country life. Emmy-winning writer Cheri Steinkellner was given one mandate, however: "No tractor," she laughed on the phone just weeks before the show was set to begin previews. "They were adamant about that. And there's a tractor in the movie. There's a tractor in almost every scene. It's in many ways about a tractor. But I was told absolutely no tractor." [...] "We're all working on this like we're on an actual summer stock schedule. Art imitates life imitates art. It's just go, go, go. And I couldn't be prouder of our cast, and our Jane and Joe," Steinkellner, who is also a Golden Globe winner, said. Her writing partner also happens to be her husband Bill. "Our 'Summer Stock' is more 'inspired by' than adaptation. There are four songs included from the original film that you can't not do. But the new songs are the best of the old songs. The secret sauce was the great American Songbook." She said "It Had To Be You" is one of the classics audiences can expect.  

[source: ‘High School Musical’s’ Corbin Bleu makes his Goodspeed debut in ‘Summer Stock’]

So, how different is the musical Summer Stock from the movie? It feels like a whole new animal, even though we’ve borrowed some elements from the movie. It is still, first and foremost, a love letter to the theater; it’s about this group of players who come to a farm to put on a show. So many numbers are how they get into farming through performance! We also still focus on how Joe and his partner Phil [played by Gilbert L. Bailey II] fight to get the show on its feet, and how Joe helps his eventual love interest Jane [played by Danielle Wade] find her inner performer. But a lot has changed from the film, including some of the relationships. We have a brilliant new writer, Cheri Steinkellner, who has dropped in a lot of nods to why we love musical theater. We have Veanne Cox as Orville’s mother, who is the new “villain” of the piece. And we’ve added a lot of music, such as “It Had to Be You” and “It’s Only a Paper Moon,” and we’ve switched around who’s singing some of the film’s songs, such as “Dig, Dig, Dig” and “Happy Harvest.” But the most important thing is that while we’re still in the late 1940s, there are two Black actors playing the male leads – me and Gilbert Bailey as Phil – and it is definitely not color-blind casting; it’s color-conscious. That means we’re dealing with an interracial love affair, for instance. The racial element is an additional driving force, which I think is necessary, but the main story isn’t about the struggle for racial equality. In the end, it’s still a feel-good MGM-like affair. You’ve previously stepped into the figurative shoes of Gene Kelly, who originated the role of Joe in the movie, as well as Fred Astaire. How does that feel? I am always aware these golden age icons from MGM have such a specific style and that they make what they do look easy. Of course, I want to bring that to Joe. But in the tap dance sequence, for instance, we also have a bit of Gregory Hines, even though I’m no Gregory Hines. And at the end of the day, it’s me on stage, and I work hardest on finding my own characterization of these roles. This is your first time working with Donna Feore, who is one of Canada’s leading directors and choreographers. Tell me about your experience with her? Donna is wonderful to work with, both as director and choreographer. I think the best thing about her handling both roles is we don’t have to get everyone on the same page, because she is the same page. She’s also really hands-on with the music; she fought to have a drummer in the room during rehearsals so we could find those beats while we created the choreography, not just insert them later. As she directs, she considers the movement of every scene, but also the story that we’re telling through that movement! It’s not movement for movement’s sake, and I appreciate that! Goodspeed isn’t the easiest place to do a dance-oriented show, is it? Yes, we’re dealing with the confines of a very small stage, it’s like dancing on a Chiclet. I am so impressed how vibrantly our cast can move on this stage. We’re on top of each other!  I think we’d look great on a bigger stage, which is just one reason why everyone is focused on moving this show to New York.

[source: Interview: Corbin Bleu Talks About the New Musical Summer Stock and the Fourth Season of HSMTMTS]

“Summer Stock” is right in Corbin Bleu’s wheelhouse. “I feel at home on the stage,” he said. An actor, singer and dancer his whole life, Bleu is appearing in the upcoming stage adaptation of the Hollywood musical beginning July 7 at the Goodspeed Opera House. “I established myself in this particular genre, doing shows associated with Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire,” he said. “I am a bit of an old soul. This is what my voice naturally goes to.” The “High School Musical” star is playing Joe Ross, one of a troupe of actors that descends on a small farming town to turn an old barn into a theater. It appears he was born to play the role originated by Kelly on the big screen. “I grew up as a theater kid,” Bleu said. “I grew up watching old MGM movies. I was a theater nerd and a musical theater fan. My dad kept a storage unit of stuff from our childhood, and he found an old school paper from when I was in elementary school where I’m dreaming of performing in musicals.” [...] Of the four shows, “Holiday Inn” is most similar to “Summer Stock,” which was also adapted from a movie . “Holiday Inn” was a fairly close reworking of the film, but “Summer Stock” takes a few more liberties. “It’s not the exact same story,” Bleu said. “When I watch the movie, I think it could definitely use some updates.” Those updates include a multi-racial cast. “Let’s not skirt the obvious,” Bleu said. “I’m a Black guy doing characters traditionally played by white men, doing things Black men weren’t traditionally able to do easily at the time these shows take place.” [...] “Some parts of the book are still in process,” Bleu said. “Cheri is in the room with us at rehearsals. We want this to feel modern, but we don’t want to shoehorn anything in. “I was also part of the workshop we did in New York a month and a half ago,” he added. “I’m loving seeing it and I’m loving being a part of it. We know this genre. It’s a feel-good musical comedy, a big song and dance show.” Though there is a lot that has been rethought when reshaping “Summer Stock” for the 21st-century stage, those who know it as a Gene Kelly movie will have plenty to latch onto. “We are completely paying our homage to Gene,” Bleu said. “I am not Gene, but I do have a natural tendency to lean into that style. Gregory Hines is also a big inspiration. There’s tap dancing in this. There’s a whole Lindy Hop number. There are a lot of very large dance numbers.”

[source: ‘High School Musical’ star Corbin Bleu is rethinking ‘Summer Stock’ at the Goodspeed Opera House]

#already able to guess abt the ''inspired by'' more than [trying for a peak one to one adaptation] and gilbert as phil (as herb in the film) #and vienna as margaret wingate as orville's mother.... #doing the like look up & kinda combine nodding and a head tilt abt [moving the show to new york] didn't occur to me but like oh yeah ig #hand on my shoulder like even in looking through one actor's relatively recent oeuvre you See the productions' iterations travel.... #hand back on my own shoulder like counterpoint i don't know or much notice or extrapolate shit lol. unless? when i do #you gotta love the meta show bound for nyc within a show about what it takes putting on a show etc etc what all & have you #summer stock #implicitly: #will roland #explicitly a lot re: #corbin bleu #for everyone keeping up with the corbinews / corbin bleuws. got htm:tm:ts in that lol didn't know he was Fictional Corbin in there... #this is just like when corbin bleu went to see the show ft. will roland on bway with a show within its show mentioning going to bway fr... #oh i'd also thought about the tractor issue and figured that truly might be a bit much for a stage production #there's a lot you can move around / evolve / excise / add in the film's material. including the parts about the tractor i'm very sure #even though that's the main character's big Actually Nice moment lmao. i assume an inspired change is that he's Overall actually nice #remembering that fun fact of bmc's bway stage actually being shallower than its off-bway dimensions

[therevengeoffrankenstein]

film list about one of my favorite dynamics/tropes, the toxic older man/younger man dynamic

#i feel like this trope can definitely perpetuate stereotypes about gay men (especially older gay men) being predatory and corrupting #and like. yeah! that sucks. some of these films do fall into that to an extent. but not every time. #myevilposts #it resonates a lot with me because i have abandonment/parent/trust issues like hell. #also bc this has happened to me multiple times in my life. lmao!

[problemswithbooks]

the fact that spinner doesn’t care more about his fellow mutants like why tf would you even introduce this plot

Yeah, I really don't get why Hori wrote this sub plot like this.

Like I see people mad at Shoji, saying that he's not listening to Spinner and his grievances, but he literally hasn't said shit about the mutant discrimination stuff. Spinner can barely talk as it is, or think and only screams about getting Kurogiri back. Shoji isn't shutting down his or really any of the mutants issues, he's just pointing out that they're being stupid and violent for zero reason.

Getting Kurogiri back has nothing to do with their cause and will not help them what-so-ever. The only one it helps is AfO--a guy who has never shown any care for mutant discrimination and has not promised these people anything. Spinner hasn't promised to help them either--they just latched onto him because...idk, they like his face, I guess.

It's honestly a little insulting to write this sub-plot this way because it presents the oppressed people as stupid and looking for excuses to be overly violent. Their arguments for standing with Spinner are weak or even non-existent and they literally have no reason to storm the hospital the way they are.

I get what Hori was going for, but it's so clear he's out of his depth and didn't put in the work to research how to write this storyline. He put it in because X-Men did it and because it added to his worldbuilding, yet he didn't put in the time to actually have it be more then surface deep.

And I think that's why some of the takes on this chapter bug me because it's just people gushing about how good it is and how it makes the villains so deep and the kids/Heroes horrible people, yet it's written so poorly. Hell, Hori putting Rock Lock of all his Heroes in this part of the story is by itself questionable. Having you're stand in racial allegory tell an actual black character that he doesn't get their pain is ridiculous and if Hori had spent any time researching for this story he would have realized that was a bad idea.

I get that people want a story that takes the system to task and has this sweeping narrative about oppression, but BNHA, if that is it's end goal, is still terribly written. Yet, I don't see anyone who thinks this chapter is good admitting Hori has made mistakes with this plot point. They're just to focused on how it could make their favs look better and owning the Heroes, rather then if the story makes sense.

#ask #thanks for the ask!! #bnha spoliers #bnha critical #idk it just feels weird to me that no one who loved this chapter because it shows how bad the mutants have it #bothered to mention how tone def it was to have Rock Lock be be treated as if he didn't understand violent racism #like they really seem way more concerned in squealing over their favs #and insulting the Heroes #and pretending the story is prefect to do so #rather then admitting it has issues #because yeah maybe Hori is trying to make a statement about oppression #but that doesn't automatically make it good #or his writing choices perfect #it happened with the Nagant chapter too #she was held up as great and really sticking it to the Heroes and their corrupt society #but totally glossed over the fact none of the shit she'd talked about was foreshadowed or set up #he even admitted he added her because he watched a movie and jammed her in because he liked that films main character #but sure I totally believe she and the HPSC assassinating innocent people was planned from the very beginning #people throw a fit about Hori changing Enji #but are fine when he does the same thing of other plot points #retcons are bad unless they personally support my favs and interpretation of the work #seems to be how they view this stuff