#artemis fowl film

[little-mouse-adventures]

Artemis Fowl Muppet movie where Butler is the token human to really drive home the fact that he towers over everyone else, could easily obliterate anyone who gets in his way, and does not get paid enough to deal with this kind of nonsense.

[pottletheidiot]

oh my god i need to read the artemis fowl books again they were so fucking good aaa

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Not gonna lie, I don’t think I appreciated the School For Good And Evil having a flawed character like Sophie until the movie decided to basically make her less mean, more nice and basically had her only turn evil cause of Rafal, not because of her own accord. 

[pippastrelle]

The misogynistic pitfall of anti-misogyny morals (ATLA and Artemis Fowl)

[Note: everyone both suffers from and upholds misogyny no matter what. It's everywhere and in everyone's subconscious biases. People of all genders make the world a better when they take that effort to listen to others' experiences and recognise we're all human.]

‘Show, don’t tell’ is one of the most fundamental rules of writing because nothing takes you out of a story like battling with what you’re reading for the right interpretation. It forces you to back out of the reading experience and re-process everything.

This is where the pitfall of anti-misogyny morals lies in otherwise very well-written media like ATLA and Artemis Fowl.

In the Book 1 finale of ATLA, the protagonists arrive in the Northern Water Tribe where Katara is told she cannot learn martial Waterbending because she is a girl. Katara and the other protagonists revolt against this and the episode ends with Katara being able to join the boys’ class. Similarly, in Artemis Fowl (Book 1), Holly Short is the first female Recon officer. She revolts against surrounding male officers who tell her she should not be in Recon because she is a woman and she continues despite it.

Surely, the interpretation is meant to be “Don’t exclude or look down on people just because they’re girls/women”. However, what do they actually say about girls/women at large?

In ATLA, we don’t see any other girls discuss their inability to learn martial Waterbending, either for or against. We don’t see any other girls join Pakku’s lessons even after he acknowledges Katara as a master. When the Fire Nation invade, we don’t see the women’s healing or general Waterbending skill come in handy. The interpretation you could reasonably come to is no girl or woman in the Northern Water Tribe wants to learn martial Waterbending or has anything to contribute with their Waterbending.

In Artemis Fowl, we learn of one other female officer in the LEP: Lili Frond. But Short balks at the idea of her being in Recon because she’s a “bimbo”. In other words, Frond cannot be Recon because she is unintelligent in a specifically feminine way. Of course, this could reveal Short’s biases. She’s been so degraded for being a woman, she’s internalised that femininity is not appropriate for her profession. However, Frond only ever appears in reference to her rising ranks because she’s an attractive woman riding her family’s coattails. We never hear of other female officers trying to follow Short’s lead or involve any other female fairy. The other prominent female characters in the book are Juliette Butler, who’s a distractable teenage maid that Short mind-controls, and Angeline Fowl, who spends the book catatonic in grief over her husband’s disappearance. Minor roles. The interpretation you could reasonably come to is no woman advances in the LEP on her own skill or has anything to contribute in the central kidnapping plot.

When you set up an anti-misogyny plot in a piece of media that doesn’t lend much agency or interest to other girls/women, it becomes an issue of ‘telling’ not ‘showing’. “Girls can do anything” becomes “Well, Katara and Holly Short can do anything”.

[stagefoureddiediaz]

To all those complaining and saying that red white and royal blue is a terrible adapation of the book, go read Artemis fowl then watch the movie and then tell me rwrb is a bad adapation because y’all clearly don’t know what a great book to bad movie pipeline looks like!!!

[vsthepomegranate]

The Magus (1968)

by Guy Green

[altschmerzes]

this movie is specifically and actively bullying me, a person who loved those books and had them as a formative piece of my childhood and engagement with media and the way i still write now. there is no way to so resoundingly miss the point without being deliberately obtuse. i'm gonna physically get a copy of this movie just so i can beat it with a stick until it's in like fifteen pieces.

[amor-est-potestas]

Just watched the Artemis Fowl film...

It was okay, I guess... but the characterisation wasn't great, the plot wasn't what I expected...

I think the actors did the best with what they had, and Josh Gad did a great Mulch Diggums... but Artemis wasn't clever enough, everyone kept calling Butler "Dom" without it being earned, there wasn't enough time to set up the plot points that were there and even those were so different from the book it just felt wrong.

A bit of a shame, because I loved the books so much and I was hoping for a more in-keeping adaptation to film.

If I was a film reviewer, I think it would get 5/10.

[heartsdefine]

i also take issue with the film casting a child to play holly. like she's supposed to be an adult whose species grows to be about the same size of a human child, not an actual child. and these are just my petty grievances with the movie, i'm actually way more mad about holly being whitewashed and artemis's entire characterization being erased.

[jackattack20writes]

Ok turned out I lied about that last post being the last Percy Jackson post but I’ve managed to fall down a rabbit hole and I’ve been reminded of just how many different characters I shipped Percy with and it’s just baffling. Like I thought I had a lot of Ruby ships or Izuku ships but no Percy Jackson out here being shipped by kid me with half the freaking cast. Honestly if I started writing fanfic a decade ago, maybe even five years ago it probably would’ve just been piles of different Percy ships…

Which is weird to think about. So like don’t be surprised if at some point Percy Jackson fic starts showing up, as I have both the attention span and self control of a Border Collie puppy.

[shadowthejedi]

All the books I read this year

[sasa-chan]

Day 15:

Artemis Fowl (2020)

[tangents-within-tangents]

Just some things I think deserve a super accurate movie/show adaption in a beautiful 2D animation style:

The How to Train Your Dragon series

Gregor the Overlander

Artemis Fowl

The Adventure Zone

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (fr so much was left out of the 1939 film!)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

The actual Little Mermaid story (there are a ton of adaptations I haven't seen yet so maybe it exists somewhere but we all know Disney’s didn’t even come close)

[kedreeva]

outside preening and train displays for breeding season do peafowl show affection and bond with each other in any ways unique to them? do they ever engage in play or other activities?

They actually don't do a lot of preening each other, most of it is preening themselves in the same location. They inspect each others faces, and parasite pick (or sometimes pick loose feathers), but they don't do allopreening like parrots or some other birds do.

They don't have a lot of bonding activities, beyond just... hanging out. They loaf together, they walk around together, they talk to each other. Hens, even when they don't have babies, will sometimes pick up a "treat" and do the "good treat!!!!" call while holding it near the ground, until one of the other hens comes to get it.

The coolest thing they do for bonding is what I call playing chase. They have a stance where their chest comes down, butt comes up (but not "display" up, just raised), and their wings fold out slightly. It looks remarkably like a dog slapping their paws down into "play with me" stance, and it's much the same message- "Let's play!" They will hop/flutter in this stance, and then go bouncing and hopping around, and anyone nearby may join in chasing them or being chased. This tends to happen more when they're young, before sexual maturity, but the older hens do it when they have a close friend or two. I still see Eris and Artemis and Stella and Aris and Arcana, and OCCASIONALLY Stan doing it, just not as often/readily as the babies will do it (they do it almost every morning when I let them out of the coops and they are overcome with excitement about it).

I got a quick free-range game of it on film once!

That's Corona up front... she never plays. She's the most Serious bird I own. But you can see how they are bouncing and have their wings out and loose, and their brother comes RACING over to join them, and they both bounce up really high and dramatically when they see him, but they aren't flying away, they're circling around to him.

And here's the difference in another gif- when Stella's sister (right side, brown lady) comes running over, Stella thinks she's instigating play, so she starts bouncing and running to her brother, but he doesn't want to play right now, so he doesn't engage.

here's baby artemis engaged in chase with me, coming to chase me lol

I have a few videos somewhere of my hand-raised babies playing chase with me. I want to get more videos of the outdoors ones playing, but it's so random and I don't have time to get my camera out, so it's like... if they do it while I already have my camera out and running in video. But it's my favorite thing they do, they look so silly.

They also will pick up and drop/throw around shed feathers, but I'm not sure if that's "play" behavior so much as "food testing" behavior. But, Beep had a bunch of cat toys, some of which she probably COULD have eaten (like her bluejay), but she would just pick them up and shake them/throw them, which is much the same as they do with feathers or small sticks.

Again, I don't know that I would classify it as play, and it may not be unique to them, but it is an interesting activity.

Last one I can think of off the top of my head is climbing things. They love jumping up and around on things. Games of chase that can include Being High Up are the best games. Corona, as serious as she is, still gets very happy to jump up and down on stuff. I think if I installed a fowl swing in her enclosure, she'd use it.

I'm sure there are others neat behaviors, but those are the first few I thought of.

[cantheykillmacbeth]

Artemis fowl, post book 8 could totally kill macbeth right?

Well... from what I can tell, what happens is that Artemis dies, has a clone made of his body, and his soul is magically transferred into that new body, which normally we would say does not count towards the Unconventional Birth Clause, but... he also lost his memories, which very much complicates things.

I couldn't find any information on how Artemis views himself after this; if he still considers himself to be Artemis Fowl II, just not remembering the events of the story, then he's definitely disqualified, but if he remembers NOTHING and considers himself a whole new person (like with Mollymauk Tealeaf, whom we've covered before), then he would qualify for the UBC.

Artemis doesn't seem to fit the criteria for the other Clauses, either, so I'm going to put a pin in this one for now. If someone who knows these books (specifically the BOOKS, not the film adaptation) better than I do could shed some light on this situation and disambiguate this for us, I would greatly appreciate it.

Sorry! Thank you for your submission!