Disney

[Thewritersunion]

This video is just profound. If you want to build or go into media watch this.

[Vladz0r]

"Late Stage Disney movies contain deeply disingenuous themes and a pale imitation of post-modernism that only jokingly mocks its own canon and deconstructs not to criticize but to defend itself from criticism of its own place in late stage capitalism."

The stuff about capitalism is pretty true. It's an inevitable result of capitalism and companies basically becoming sellouts. Look at any video game company that got big for example. Nintendo continues to drop more of its intellectual properties and reduce the complexity of its games. AAA Video game companies favor graphics over gameplay and fail to innovate. Quality is never really the focus of mainstream media at this point. Movies and games used to have to be good AND market themselves well in order to become popular. Now the kids just play Fortnite and Call of Duty, and watch pumped out Marvel movies that are dumbed down and funded by the Chinese. There was really a time where deeper games got deep or thought-provoking, full of interesting culture and storytelling. 

Second wave feminism in the west is also kind of a joke, but I don't want to get into that. Just watch ShoeOnHead on youtube for that argument against the mainstream goofy western idea of feminism.

Wait, do people think Disney is woke? 

Ok, the friendly millionaire thing is actually pretty wild, I have to say. I didn't notice that theme in the few late stage Disney movies I've seen.

Edited March 9, 2020 by Vladz0r

[tenta]

You said you were gonna start time angel, what is that?

29 minutes ago, Vladz0r said:

AAA Video game companies favor graphics over gameplay and fail to innovate. 

Graphics have gotten worse too, and companies are virtue signalling with "diverse" characters, pandering to china, and forgoing playing their own games and making them better

 

[outlandish]

That was really interesting and well presented. I love how he peels back the layers and uses Disney as a case study in what's going on more widely in media and capitalism.

I actually really loved the Lion King remake as a technical spectacle. But it bothered me how it presented the outsiders/underprivileged as a threatening and nasty tribe. It seemed particularly distasteful in this time when the coals of racism and xenophobia are being stoked. They could have spun a unifying tale that leads minds to a compassionate and harmonious vision for how we can come together on this planet. Anyways, this video explores these topics with far more insight and eloquence than I can come up with, check it out.

[RareGodzilla]