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iverna · 8 months
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Not to be all "back in the day everything was better" but I watched Spaceballs yesterday and it struck me that something like the opening scene of that movie just... wouldn't be done now. Right? A visual gag that goes on for one and a half minutes? Way too long. I'm pretty sure the worry would be that nobody's got the patience for that, people would give up and watch something else.
And it's the opening scene. The first thing you see after the opening crawl is this dumb gag that takes one and a half minutes - and the fact that it takes so long is part of the joke.
It's something I've noticed with a lot of movies over the past few years, that they just don't take time for anything. Everything's moving and changing constantly. It struck me in the last GotG movie. Characters are having emotional important conversations while doing action-heavy things because we don't want the audience getting bored. There aren't any "filler" episodes in TV shows either.
I've seen people talk about the impact of this on character development etc but I think it's more than that. It makes the whole movie less memorable to me because I never have a moment to process what I just saw, because we're right into the next bit of action already. Sometimes I end up missing half the movie because I just zone out. Sometimes I stop watching it because it's too much, I stop caring because I can't care that much that fast.
The opening scene of Spaceballs has you watch, get impatient, realise what's happening, laugh, realise we're not done yet, laugh again, and then finish with a final little joke. The scene doesn't need to be that long, they could have easily sped it up, but the fact that it takes so long is part of the joke. Monty Python did a similar thing with the opening credits of Holy Grail. But it does require some patience from the audience and I don't know if we don't have that anymore, or we're worried that we don't have it anymore.
There generally seems to be less trust in the audience though. Everything has to be spelled out. And plenty of people expect things to be spelled out. There's this idea that if it's not explicitly shown or pointed out, then it doesn't count. And I think maybe the audience and the film/show makers reinforce each other's attitudes there, because there's less trust in the audience, but there's less trust in film/show makers too after the many examples recently of perfectly good franchises being run into the ground.
It's become this weird back-and-forth of "gotcha" and mistrust and lack of patience and goodwill, and it just becomes really obvious when you go back and watch older stuff. Which isn't to say that older stuff is always better or that all the new stuff is terrible. It just feels like a different dynamic between storyteller and audience.
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bregee13 · 3 months
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Happy New Year Everybody
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whyiswingdingsafont · 4 months
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Why aren’t there more Papyrus’s with paper based names?
I feel like it’d be fun to just like “oh yeah this is Parchment” “over there’s Post-it note” “this is my brother Cardstock” yk
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Get got
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lalaland-e · 5 months
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have you ever known someone so used to your crap that they don't even bat an eye when you walk into a room an loudly exclaim
"Everything in here could kill you, but I can do it most effectively"
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I always find it weird when they advertise fruit. Our grocery store usually only has one single brand of strawberries so it's not like I have selection. Maybe in Korea there are multiple brands? Or they just want people to buy strawberries over grapes?
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They do look delicious though!
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s1lly-gh02tz · 11 days
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I love spamton in a way that a lesbian loves a South Park character
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loki-hargreeves · 1 year
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why does it look like Marc is wielding a purple lightsaber here?
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novapark · 2 months
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Rosie and her boys.
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jenfoundabug · 26 days
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….. huh?
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the-whistle · 9 months
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Shoutout to Dolly Parton for being the voice of Revolution for Moclus
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the-sword-lesbian · 1 year
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That “slicing a bullet with a sword in slowmo” trope but the wielder is dumb and slices it horizontally causing the bullet to hit them in the head AND chest.
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desertfangs · 2 months
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We need a big VC discord server or something to discuss these whacky things. I've thought of making a Devil's Minion server but I don't know if I have the bandwith to moderate it.
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whereismyhat5678 · 2 months
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Seeing people draw the FNaF animatronics like squishy cartoony cuties make me want to do it too-
Now that I think I can do it Imma try- ✊✊
(They still might look weird but I’m gonna try my best 😭😭)
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iverna · 1 month
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This isn't me whining so please don't take it that way, but that post I just made? A few years ago, people would've been reblogging that, adding to it, we might've gone back and forth a few times with silly ideas or comments or just laughed in the tags or whatever. Now? It's almost all likes.
I genuinely don't care in this instance, it's just a dumb post, it could get 0 notes and I wouldn't care because it was just a dumb random thought I had. I didn't post it hoping someone would add to it or anything. It'll be forgotten by tomorrow, including by me, and that's fine. I'm not AT ALL calling out people for liking it, I'm glad if you like it! I'd be a hypocrite if I was calling anyone out, because I reblog WAY less stuff than I used to. There's way less stuff on my dash for me to reblog, too. I might need to change that.
It just struck me that a few years ago, the reaction would've been different. And that's the point: that people who are talking about the lack of reblogs and interactivity on this site are 100% correct. Fandom is not what it was even 5 years ago. I really don't know why this shift from interactive to passive consumption happened, but it definitely happened, and... I don't know. It's a different vibe, isn't it? It doesn't feel like fandom used to feel, does it? Or is that just me?
And... why did we stop doing that stuff? Making up silly AUs together or just bantering about our favourite idiots? I've stopped too and I don't really know why. Or is it still happening and I'm just not seeing it?
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lalaland-e · 3 months
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I was talking to my friend and she told that I'm pretty and have nice hair and that men should be catcalling me on the street.
So as Christian Arabic woman, I said "What, do want me to like put on a hijab?"
So, she told me I need therapy.
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