#no one understands these movies

[dearinglovebot]

few things bother me quite as much as claire being called owen’s love interest. it’s degrading. claire is clearly the main character of the trilogy, which is clear with any amount of analysis of the story’s structure. owen is HER love interest.

jurassic world opens up with her. it’s her family teasing her introduction, then it’s us following her day to day life. owen’s introduced through her. “I know who he is” she says with clear animosity. then, after we learn who he is, owen is brought into the story through her. she asks him to inspect the paddock with her. had this not happened, he would be irrelevant to the story until the third act. claire would not, because we’re following her perspective.

owen then leaves the story again when claire refuses to evacuate. he’s brought back into it again when claire decides she wants his help saving her nephews. claire is the driving force of the plotline ergo the main character. she is the one with an arc because the plot is her story of regaining humanity with love for the dinosaurs and her family. owen is there to back up this message by adding romantic love. his narrative is an extension of her overarching story being told.

in fallen kingdom, who’s perspective are we following? claire’s. owen is brought back into the story once again as a partner for her mission. zia and franklin are HER team. the dinosaurs are HER redemption. eli is HER betrayer. it all revolves around her as the main character of this story. without her influence, he wouldn’t be on the island. but we’d still be following her mission there.

which dynamic is more focused on in dominion? claire and maisie’s. because again, it’s her story. but this time it’s her and maisie’s shared story. it’s ultimately maisie taking the torch from her mother and starting a new narrative from the closure of claire’s. owen’s story is an extension of theirs as a co-parent of maisie and romantic partner of claire. it’s claire and maisie’s world and he’s playing their narrative backup.

the different between claire being his love interest vs owen being her love interest is the dichotomy of something every action movie does and something more fresh and interesting (no matter how questionably it can be handled by things like marketing or merchandise) for the genre. which baffles me to why you’d want to assume it’s something more boring than it textually is

[chloesimaginationthings]

The FNAF Mikes talk about their extended family..

[egophiliac]

So you know of other fairytale-theme school medias?

oh yeah, there's a few! the one I was thinking of specifically was Ever After High; I was mostly into the dolls, but I also really liked the webseries and the Shannon Hale novels! Apple was my definitely my favorite. 🍎

[zan0tix]

Need more callieroxy in the world.. (withering away) their yuri powers unmatched

[turtleblogatlast]

I think a lot about Leo standing up for his brothers in the things that really matter to them.

Like- Leo is the one who immediately pushes Mikey and Donnie into finding Raph the second it’s clear that their oldest brother is missing because he knows Raph can’t handle being separated like that.

Leo is the one who stands up for Mikey when Mikey wants to go on a solo mission, actively vouching for him and being the one to convince Raph into letting Mikey go, because being independent and proving himself just as capable of standing on his own two feet as everyone else means so much to Mikey.

And Leo defends Donnie’s honor in particular when his brothers’ intelligence is insulted because Leo is well aware of how important Donnie’s smarts are to him - and how important having those smarts valued and acknowledged is as well.

All this goes right into just how well Leo knows his brothers. For as much as he’ll tease or fight with them, he knows them, and he loves them.

[inhabited-by-something]

He's the only one I've seen outside of fnaf fans who gets it

[stil-lindigo]

image i made for a powerpoint night with friends

[therabbitthatpostthings]

Anyone else come to some wildly different conclusion on Ghibli movies with age?

Kiki's Delivery Service: Kid: Being a witch is so cool! Adult: Growing up and growing apart from the life you had before is a natural progression of life. You aren't losing the old parts of yourself, just finding new pieces that were there all along. Life is about changing, you'll never stay stagnant.

Ponyo: Kid: She's such a cute fish, you should always follow your dreams! Adult: Leaving home will not take you away from your family. Even when you're miles away and you feel like you're in different worlds your family will still be there, encouraging you. Parents are meant to let go of their kids at some point.

Howl's Moving Castle: Kid: Sophie's a big sister like me! I want to a princess in a magic castle. Adult (I've also read the book): Sometimes you don't find your place in this world, you make one. The people that come along with you will see you through every ugly part of yourself and you would do the same for them. Chase after that shooting star.

Spirited Away: Kid: What just happened... Adult: SHIT HAPPENS! And it sucks, life sucks but you keep going. You can cry along the way. You are being so fucking brave for even going on this hellish journey we call life. It's okay. You're okay.

[linusbenjamin]

Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. For this he was chained to a rock and tortured for eternity. Oppenheimer (2023) dir. Christopher Nolan

[yorshie]

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF game Vanessa is starting to control Glitchtrap,,

[eerna]

me explaining why Will/Elizabeth/Jack love triangle was a perfect little one-movie arc that wasn't present in the final movie because it was never about choosing and instead just about dynamics and character development so they all outgrew it by then

[deeva-arud]

Thought you've seen the last of Cateeva? I hope not! because at some point in my hiatus I thought about them in their first year

[turtleblogatlast]

One of the earliest examples of Leo’s “I’ll do my own thing to accomplish our goal without discussing it with my team first” is in episode one. It’s super, super quick, and ultimately inconsequential, but it subtly sets up a great precedent that I think is very interesting.

When the boys need to grab the medallion from Splinter without Splinter noticing, Raph, Mikey, and Donnie huddle together with Raph taking the lead in trying to devise a plan to get the mystic device. Meanwhile, Leo slinks away and grabs the device by clocking the situation (by knowing his father well enough to predict his actions - something he does with each family member multiple times in the series) and making a move on his own.

It works out perfectly fine, and is ultimately the best move, and it’s honestly okay that he didn’t consult everyone for something so small when it’s such a non issue to get it, but it nicely sets up how this tends to go in the series, including how it goes in the movie.

To be honest episode one is actually really good at setting up a lot of things for each character in the long run, this is just one example that caught my attention, as small and unassuming as it is.

[rustedhills]

Disney, releasing Wish: "so it's all about legacy--the new generation surpassing the old, overcoming the evils perpetuated by them, relinquishing singular power... and there's an old man in a tower, uh... animal sidekick, i guess..., ah... magic...?

Miyazaki, just out of frame, sledgehammer raised:

[loverrrrrr17]

Can we talk about how America Ferrera delivered this insanely beautiful and impactful monologue about the hardships of being a woman. One of which is the fact that women have to be accountable for men’s actions which she says herself is insane.

And yet.

Here we are. Having to explain to men that the Barbie movie is not anti-men or sexist or meant to make men hate themselves.

We have to, yet again, be accountable for what men feel, and explain that, oh no we don’t hate you! We didn’t mean to upset you! Because the whole point was lost on them.

And now instead of my dash being filled with the magnificence of Barbie and the discoveries she’s made or even just the fact that Ken starts taking control of his life, I am instead somehow subjected to discourse after discourse of people needing to break down the movie so men will stop complaining about it.

I just. Wow. Being a woman. It always comes back to this, doesn’t it. And I hate it. Because we deserve more honestly.