i know, i know, getting mad at reddit for being racist is like getting mad at rain for being wet. but....... jesus fucking christ. and they fucking LOOOVE this shit. little fucking hogs clapping their sticky little hands. and it looks so fucking trash.
I think my favorite bit is when reactionaries try and use leftwing language to justify their resentments; not that corporate lib appropriation of identity language isnt also hilariously gross. Like they don't seem to understand that there is a power dyaminc involved in the argument. So saying something like "it's nice to see diversity come to wakanda!" doesn't work because it is ignoring the fundamental underlying power dynamics that the language is superficially trying to address. Like I doubt anyone here needs to see me say this, but it just always makes me laught/cry at how childishly literal and superficial reactionaries are as thinkers. Like you read their shit and have to think you are missing something, there must be some depth hidden here, but no its a fucking 1mm deep puddle a kilometer wide.
It's this very weird kind of Revenge Fantasy that pretends
HyberniaHyperborea tropes haven't been a thing in media for centuries.Like watching the latest Creed movie and saying how we should make one about a white boxer.
It's so spiteful. Like the folks who started complaining about the stage show of The Wiz and saying they would never make an all-white version. Like bitch, you don't know who Judy Garland was?
They are just racist. It's that simple.
The scene from The Wiz from inside Emerald City gets me every time. It screams 70s with every fiber of its being.
Well I guess we know what Disney is going to do now to get it released in China. Plus no longer will they have to push main characters to the background based on their "pesky" skin color.
One fuxking poster out of the dozens they made for the film has stayed rent free in the minds of all the conservative shit heads who are just going to remain proudly crowing that “China are the real racists!” until the end of time despite the central conceit being easily disproven with a single google search.
It’s shit like this which is pushing me to agree with that redsails article called Elites, Masses and Rebels (or at least in regards to the “middle class” and petit bourgeois)
Well I guess we know what Disney is going to do now to get it released in China.
According to Wikipedia:
Black Panther opened in China ($66.5 million) with the fourth-highest MCU and superhero opening ever in the country. This included the biggest opening day and opening weekend ($7.3 million) of March for IMAX in China.
That alternate poster being blamed on China is extremely frustrating myth, because you can literally find both Chinese versions of the other posters and other-language posters of the one that minimized Boyega with a simple google search.
I'm also pretty sure China didn't edit out the scene of the two women kissing that everyone just preemptively assumed would get edited out by them. Saudi Arabia did, though.
Honestly I thought LGBT scenes being removed has more to do with conservative audiences than governments, cuz a lot of people here in Indonesia complain about LGBT characters in Disney movies simply existing (not even a kiss scene).
The funniest thing is that alternative poster for black panther was only used in Hong Kong but saying that Hong Kong is full of racists doesn’t fit “muh evil CCP” narrative as well
one pretty gross version i saw was a mod that made one of the gym leaders in pokemon sword/shield white (and maybe blonde? i cant remember), Nessa
How about this, we keep all the actors from Hamilton but replace the play itself with Toussaint Louverture.
It just replaced the guy on the right with the guy from The Boys.
And the girl on the left's hair looks really bad, like we're seeing it from a different angle than the rest of her head.
And the girl in the middle is just extremely generic.
Its bad for all the obvious reasons but holy shit worst of all this looks like the most generic movie poster I've seen in the past 10 years. You have to be completely lobotomized in order to think this is in any way a better let alone good version of it lol.
The white guy is literaly [generic hollywood actor #5325].
You know what, maybe this is perfect actualy, just how well AI captures real life huh. :galaxy-brain:
