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THE WILD ROBOT (2024) dir. Chris Sanders

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I know you in another life 🩷

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The Wild Robot is obviously fucking incredible but what i dont see a lot of people talking about is the parallel of Roz and Brightbill finding out about their families. Brightbill's siblings were killed in their eggs before they could hatch, Roz's identical models were destroyed before they could turn on. both families torn apart by pure coincidence, leaving one sole survivor, with no knowledge of what their species is meant to do or how they're supposed to act. completely isolated

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One of the things I loved about The Wild Robot from a writing/world-building perspective was that it was clearly set in a post-apocalyptic world, but the details were very vague, and you don't even know until about an hour in:

"Beautiful shot," you think, and then it hits you that the whales are swimming over the Golden Gate Bridge.

Abandoned, crumbling satellites and a sunken city. And then when we do see the human city, they freak out at the sight of geese:

Animal-derived plague? Global warming? We don't know. We only know that something has happened. But like the general theme, whatever bad has occurred, the natural world is thriving. An unexpected positive from a history of tragedy.

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Mom Roz 🦋💙

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i miss her when she sleeps, too

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this movie has been the only thing on my mind for a month and i finally had time to draw them after seeing it for the third time

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Watched the wild robot twice in theaters I’m going insane I love this movie so much I NEED TO REWATCH IT AGAIN GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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Everyone should go see this movie right now

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[id: a message from shadow the hedgehog saying "I need your credit card information to Chaos Control" /end id]

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"...so someone new can learn the trade."

Happy Unofficial-but-Official Birthday, Hunter~

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What was the specific moment that made you lose hope and realise that "oh no, this is not a phase, S2 is terrible ?"

For me it was in act one when we get that ridiculous flashback of Ambessa revealing that she is behind the attack at the memorial. Not only was it a stupid plan, it was so badly written that I thought "nope, S1 would have never done that".

It's cheap, makes no sense when you think about it for more than 2 seconds, it disrupts the flow of the story, the dialogue is bad, it has 0 subtelty, and just felt like a poor attempt by the writers to justify bad narrative choices.

(Strong contender was Caitlyn walking into the room and declaring that she is a decorated officer.)

(Also, retrospectively I can see that S2 was cursed in the first second, since Jayce fusing Viktor and the Hexcore was the beginning of the writers' efforts to delete conflicts and replace them with magic.)

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ASAB (all shadows are beautiful)

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Thinking about it now

They really had Vi gas the ARCADE

The place she and her siblings used to play in and have fun , one of her core childhood memories.

the place they literally ran away from enforcers after they threw a man through the window and decided to search them.

And Vi has no feelings shown regarding that matter, no flashbacks, nothing.

That’s the first time she goes back there after prison and she goes as an enforcer with the grey

And we got zero conflict or emotions shown.

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can someone please explain to me why ppl (who are racist as shit mind you) love to bring up the fact that cait is mixed to shut down criticism while also shifting all the blame for her actions onto a black woman and turning her into a 1 dimensional scapegoat? (because ambessa had no goals outside of just being cartoonishly evil ig)

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i think we all as a collective need to put down irony, satire, and subversion in media for a lil while bc imo………a lot of times it’s not done right 😭

& the main problem with this is bc most creatives never really go into detail about what exactly their politics are and don’t affirm the subversion they’re stating in their art so a huge part of their politics/the subversive message tends to be whatever their audience project onto them/it.

this becomes an issue bc the original theme/message becomes construed & highly dependent on audience’s interpretation (that is colored by each individual’s perspective and nuance they’ve lived & also internal biases) instead of the intention of the original material. so it ends with the audience agreeing with the ironic, subversive narrative instead of what the narrative is trying to highlight &/or “call out” with those literary devices. so now instead of it being subversive it looks like the artist/message is endorsing potentially harmful rhetoric & being seen as a representative/mouthpiece of those ideals.

for example: Arcane writer, Amanda Overton & others and their character Mel Medarda:

In explaining her characterization of Mel Medarda, Amanda states that Mel is supposed to be a subversive spin on the common femme fatale trope, which usually depicts a woman who embodies beauty, mystery, seduction, and danger, using her looks to manipulate people where she wants them mostly with ill intent. Amanda says that she subverts this trope from Mel because as the series goes on the audience is met with Mel's nuances, trauma, emotional turmoil, vulnerability, and compassion that are used to distinguish her away from the trope and subverts it. So the affirmation of the subversion or the switch of Mel not being the trope anymore was when we saw her become vulnerable with her love interest, Jayce, & with her mother about her being exiled from her homeland & learning she became a councilor to prove to her family that she can be powerful/successful outside of their ridged expectations of power/success.

But this subversion failed because Amanda & the other arcane writers ignored how depicting a Black female character as a manipulative, seductress reinforces the jezebel caricature rather than challenging the femme fatale trope as they initially intended. They also highly underestimated the audience’s (comprised of mostly white/non-Black people) unwillingness to unlearn their internal biases of villainizing a Black female character to acknowledge the subversion/switch in the narrative. both leading to the misinterpretation and mischaracterizing of Mel as representation of the harmful stereotype rather than a subversion of it. this shows how the consequences of not explicitly affirming subversive messaging can result in the messages being misconstrued instead of understood, because without this clarity, the artist's intent is overshadowed by the audience's perception, ultimately leading to the reinforcement of the very narratives that were meant to be challenged/critiqued.

(it’s also important to note Amanda has done this to numerous Black female characters she has written & every time she fails to do the subversion, she claims to put in the narrative correctly)