I've always found it very interesting that, even though Chihiro largely begins the film as very sheltered and inexperienced, the fact stands that if her parents had listened to her they wouldn't have been turned into pigs.
I always interpreted her initial hesitancy to enter the tunnel, and then her refusal to eat the food, as very instinctual, and I think it's often overlooked that she's right. The abandoned station was creepy! The spirits were mad that her parents ate the food! Children often occupy this weird space where they're still learning about social rules and consequences, and in this case Chihiro's observance of those rules (don't enter weird abandoned buildings, don't just eat random food you find lying around) is objectively correct. Obviously if her parents had followed those rules the movie wouldn't have happened, but I've always found those moments a very interesting portrayal of how children vs adults navigate the world, and how the rules we (adults) often enforce on children we ourselves ignore whenever we find them inconvenient.
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Someone who's watching star trek strange new worlds... i hear kirk has shown up
Do the kirk and spock interactions feel in character?
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Re-listening to the Coco soundtrack and all I can think about is that the moment that Imelda realized that Miguel was in this situation all because he was so sure that his great-great-grandfather was Ernesto de la cruz she was probably all like "Aw no not this fucking bitch again-" lol
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One thing I really don’t like about the pjo show is they are very tell not show about EVERYTHING. One thing I loved from the books is them teasing who the monster or god they were meeting was and getting the chance to pull from prior Greek mythology knowledge and figure it out myself. It was like a game and, yeah, most of the time it was someone new and I couldn’t guess but it was still fun having a tease up until a reveal and THEN they would share the story for those who didn’t know. The show just keeps straight up telling the audience who everyone is and instead of unknowingly walking into a trap and building suspense they go in expecting something to happen and then have a less exciting trap happen later (Medusa and the Lotus Hotel being the main ones). It’s like they both want to cut the teasing because the book readers already know and want to explain things simply to show watchers who probably aren’t well versed in Greek mythology but it takes all the whimsy away. One part I loved in the Lotus scenes in the book was Percy figuring out that they were in a time warp because he meets the kid from the 1970s and realizes what’s going on but in the show he notices cuz it’s…dark outside? Like yeah okay it works but going “it’s dark outside even tho it feels like it’s been 20 minutes and that means we are in a time warp and oh yeah the flowers are in the air even tho I’ve given no reason prior to have figured that out” is not NEARLY as compelling as “I lost track of time cuz I was having fun but huh this guy I’m playing with talks weird and dresses weird and oh boy he’s from the 1970s and now that I’m pulled out enough to look around I see that everyone here is wearing period clothes and this is trouble”. I know the extras were wearing period clothes but it never cuts to them long enough to make it seem like it’s anything but a costume that would be typical in a Vegas casino. You can argue that the Hermes scene wasn’t pointless but aside from Grover’s scenes to an extent it just wasn’t compelling and not just in an inaccurate adaptation way
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phir bhi dil hai hindustani has bloopers during the credits! lovely!
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I really can't believe tumblr is sleeping on Gunpowder Milkshake. It's got everything: assassin chicks who are constantly covered in blood
cool underground crime syndicates a-la John Wick
bisexual lighting
and librarians (yes they are also part of the underground crime syndicate)
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if you hit an animal with your car (and its safe to do so) there is absolutely zero reason you shouldn’t pull over and, A) make sure it’s really dead. B) move it off the road so other animals who come for a snack dont get run over too
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