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Added 2019-09-04 22:51:01 +0000 UTCThanks for patronizing me guys!!
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I was just thinking that for the realism reboot, Mufasa should have just told Simba that lions help regulate the population sizes of herbivores so that they don't run out of grass.
K
2020-07-24 14:09:22 +0000 UTCBig Joel I know we like to “horse around” on here but your analysis is so fucking good every time.
Kirby Saxton
2019-09-06 15:16:54 +0000 UTCSo good Joel I cried.
Lynn Short
2019-09-06 04:05:22 +0000 UTCwicked video that succeeds in slapping the bod
Andrew Weir
2019-09-05 15:35:19 +0000 UTCThis is an impressive and highly entertaining video. I chortled through the first five minutes, stroked my chin thoughtfully for the next five then a combination of the two until climaxing into guffaws during the fine soulful rendition of HakMat (Matuna(?))(yes I'm stoned, so in a perfect state to watch the video then write this). I saw OG LK in my mid-teens when it came out and didn't much care for it (I'd passed the age when Disney movies still imprinted deeply) though I admit it looks ravishing and most of the songs are fun. I could never overlook the distasteful way the movie uncritically promotes and venerates the entrenched monarchy at the core of the movie, how Simba is depicted as the morally rightful heir to what is clearly an oppressive, gaslighting and zoophagic regime. (I've often aired this niggle when chatting with people who like the OG in order to be disagreeable). I'm glad that someone else felt the same ambivalence towards this movie. At least my boy Aladdin Is a working-class youngster thrusting his way up his local entrenched power hierarchy using wit, grit and a little luck (i.e. supernatural assistance). I definitely won't watch LK2.0, it sounds unnecessary and purely cash-grabby. And you're quite right, if a children's story reliant on dated narrative devices and fawning depictions of "natural" elites can't at least artfully distract and charmingly disarm us into overlooking these infelicities by being so damned entertaining then that story isn't trying hard enough (or the problem is too ingrained) and isn't worth listening to. "Beauty of power" nicely summarises these films' fatal flaw(s); I would not shy from calling this interpretation "incisive". Lots of great ideas here visually and textually and enchantingly effortlessly enrobed in a delightfully crunchy pop-culture coating that generates giggles, knowing nods and amused grins galore. Bravo, Big Joel.
H Johnson
2019-09-05 13:50:52 +0000 UTC
