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the-badger-mole · 3 months

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The Villain and Hero Switch...🙄

On my Maleficent salt again. If anyone ever wants help understanding my hesitance to give live action remakes a shot, look no further. I honestly did want to like the movie at first, but them just taking the story and switching the villain and non-villain roles felt like a cheap cop out.

The fairies thing really pissed me off. In the first film, they were immortal magical beings who had trouble doing things the mortal way. Did that make them imperfect guardians? Sure! But they did their best successfully for just under SIXTEEN YEARS. Then the curse caught up with them, because of course it did. It had to. There wouldn't be a story otherwise. That wasn't a good enough reason to make them criminally negligent in the live action version in order to make Maleficent look like a hero by comparison. I love the fairies from the original movie. They made mistakes, yes, but all good heroes do. AND they SAVED THE DAY!!! Phillip would've frikin died without them, and so would've Aurora!

...huh...I think I'm realizing that maybe my hesitance to give remakes, live action or otherwise, of my animated faves might have a root cause...

Anyway, I do understand that adaptations should change some things in order to justify their existence. After all, a shot for shot remake is also lazy and boring. However, a lot of the time, the remakes just make lazy choices. Like Maleficent being turned into a thinly veiled date-rape allegory and switching the hero and villain roles instead of...I don't know... giving Maleficent a deeper motive for her villainy besides being snubbed for a party invite while still letting her be the fabulous villain we all love. Or instead of focusing on Maleficent at all, they could have focused on giving Aurora more of a story. Maybe showing us how out of place she felt growing up, and what finding out who her real parents are meant to her. Also expanding on her relationship with her "aunts". Have the fairies learning to be mortal a more pivotal part of their experience. Making Maleficent a hero at the expense of villainizing King Stephen, making Queen Leah even less of a character, and Flanderizing the fairies feels...well, lazy. Aurora was one of the few Disney Princesses with two loving parents. Why remove that distinction instead of expanding on their story? They had to give up their only child in order to save her life. Not only is there conflict for them as her parents, there's conflict for them as monarchs. I think a good writer could have made that a compelling story. But no...they just had to make King Stephen evil, for...reasons...

Look, it's not even like I'm against taking the villain of an original story and turning them into the hero. I just want there to be a good reason for it. For example, I love the story of Wicked. I think making Elphaba the hero worked really well, because in the original movie (I didn't actually read the books...sorry. But in my defense, I feel like most Wicked/Wizard of Oz fans probably haven't either? We're all Judy Garland trash) In the original movie the titular Wizard is enough of a morally grey character that you could argue that he could have been a villain actually, and the Wicked Witch of the West was such a one dimensional character that you could take her in so many directions and keep her recognizable (btw, I'm not saying it's bad the 3W is one dimensional. It worked for the story, but it gave the fanfics author something to build on). Also, I feel like Wicked the novel doesn't remove all the moral greyness from Elphaba's character, and it makes her interesting. There's a story to tell there! I can dig it! It's when adaptations completely switch the role of hero and villain so completely and abruptly that I get annoyed.

What they did was less a retelling than making up a completely different story altogether. Stephan and Leah were minor characters in the original story, yes. But they could've remained loving parents to Aurora, and Maleficent could've remained the villain and still been part of a great, expanded story.

Then maybe Maleficent could've still turned into a dragon instead of giving her stupid pet bird that moment.

#maleficent #pro-maleficent the evil fairly #anti-maleficent #the stupid remake #cw: date rape #just in case #date rape #is only briefly mentioned #not graphically #switching the villain and hero doesn't automatically make the story interesting #or worth telling😒

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miniimonii · 7 months

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happy september 30th the day this fucker went from this to that

it's a day we'll never forget

#i just wanted to post him that's all #leon s kennedy #leon kennedy #i'm sorry this is so stupid #resident evil #re2 remake #re4 remake

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choccy-sippy · 1 month

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@blveherb asked for new silly emotes and stickers on our server so that i did

#luis serra #re4 remake #fanart #my art #serennedy #that stupid duck luis took me 4 hours the things i do for love

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lesbiradshaw · 11 months

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some my teen wolf sexuality headcanons + my favorite canon boyfriends for pride month 🫂🏳️‍🌈

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venatori-tome · 1 year

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#resident evil 4 #resident evil 4 remake #luis serra #luis sera #RE4 #is it serra or sera?#oh well put both #this is terribly done as im at work and its slow but not slow enough for me to put effort into a stupid meme

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vulpesarctica · 1 year

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Dream Daddy-style Leon S Kennedy 👀

#my art #leon s kennedy #leon kennedy #re4 remake #resident evil #resident evil 4 #dating sim #dream daddy #wanted to share the 'sprites' separately without the bg #because i mean look at him #also #doing the lineart for all of leon's stupid sexy gear made me want to do crimes but i got there in the end

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tricksterlatte · 1 year

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Joker is the type of guy to defend his boyfriend on toxic anime boy powerpoint night, but also the type of person to do stuff like this

#Persona 5 #Akeshu #Goro Akechi #Akira Kurusu #Ren Amamiya #P5 #Persona 5 spoilers #my stuff #text post meme #I don't have a full image set this time but a blurry version of this was in my FB memories #and I wanted to remake it in higher quality #Wow over a year of these stupid posts now #I care them

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ittybittypixel · 1 month

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My friend confused, asked me how I keep taking & sending her photos, when both my hands are in the shots & I just responded with this photo, no explanation.

We can’t stop thinking about how this would be some dumb ass conversation between Zack and Sephiroth now, so I drew it. 💀

#sephiroth rebirth #ffvii sephiroth #ffviir #ffviiremake #fvii rebirth #ff7 #ff7 crisis core #zack fair fanart #stupid shit #zack final fantasy #sephiroth #ittybittypixel #zack fair #final fantasy 7 remake #finalfantasyvii #finalfantasyfanart #Idontknowwhatimdoing

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cerealbishh · 2 months

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"Like you're losing that hard edge!" "That bad?" "Not at all-I like it!" // "I guess I thought we could just pick up where we left off, like nothing had changed... but I guess I was wrong."