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  • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    The final movie in the "fantastic beasts" series will have the protagonists actively trying to cause the holocaust and support Hitler because the villain in the movie is a camp trans character who opposes him. This will be demanded by Rowling herself.

        • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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          1 year ago

          Spoilers not that anyone should give a fuck

          These movies take place shortly after the end of WW1. The second movie ends with Grindelwald, the big bad, holding an evil rally trying to convince the other wizards that they should reveal themselves and take over humanity, and he shows a vision of the future that will come if they don’t; Another war. He shows visions of tanks, of the Blitz, of Nazi victims in concentration camps, and finally a nuclear explosion, and says “we can prevent this.”

          This could work if it took place in the modern day, or even if it took place after WW2 and he showed visions of nuclear Armageddon. But the villain of the movie showed visions of the second world war which we know does in fact happen and says “We should prevent this” and the audience is supposed to go “No that’s bad actually.” And yes, preventing WW2 is just a fig leaf for his actual goal of world domination, but ultimately it still means you wrote a story where the bad guy is the one going “we should stop WW2”

          The scene in question. CW: Johnny Depp

          • CrushKillDestroySwag
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            1 year ago

            Rowling has a reccurring hangup with changing the past. In the late sequel screenplay thing that stars Harry's kid, the plot is that they want to go back in time to save Cedric Diggory's life, and succeed - but somehow this makes Cedric himself become a Death Eater and causes the bad guys to win the wizard war, so they end up having to make sure Cedric dies as originally planned.

            It's "we live in the best possible reality".

          • AsLeftAsTheyCome [they/them, any]
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            1 year ago

            It’s even more nonsensical, the character that attempted to prevent the holocaust (Grindelwald) is also implied to be roughly equivalent to wizard Hitler.

            One of the side characters confronts some students who are vandalizing something with Grindelwald's insignia. It’s basically framed as a swastika until we learn its actually okay because its an ancient wizard symbol called the deathly hallows and Rowling starts putting them all over her merch.

            Grindelwald was also defeated in 1945, which is definitely intentional considering how much of a hack Rowling is.

            • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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              1 year ago

              Oh man if they thought the second movie was a mess I want to know what they thought of the third one because holy shit that was the worst and most confusing film I’ve ever seen

            • macerated_baby_presidents [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              This isn’t the first time Rowling has fallen into a trap like this. As many have noticed, her goblins are big-nosed greedy bankers. (By the way, just contemplate the sheer brass neck of her accusing Corbyn and the Labour left of antisemitism when she repackaged and sold the hoary antisemitic stereotypes of old to a generation of kids…) But that aside, fewer people have noticed that the goblins are also communistic in their inability to comprehend ‘human’ notions such as private property. They believe – horror of horrors! – that a person owns a thing because they made it. They reject the idea that Gryffindor ‘owns’ the sword they made just because he paid for it. They reject as intuitively wrong the entire concept of the commodity. So they are not just an antisemitic stereotype; they’re specifically a Nazi antisemitic stereotype of the Jews as both capitalists and communists.

              Good article, thanks for sharing

      • UlyssesT
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        17 days ago

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    • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      because the villain in the movie is a camp trans character who opposes him

      She'll be trans witch Stalin and she'll be cool as shit