Salhi

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[aaminah is no longer in Cannes @aaminahinfilm]

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[𝑰 𝑵 𝑺 𝑺 @inss_mk]

Princesse Mononoké en plein air c’est juste magique

[melon lord 𐚁☀️💋 AVATAR AANG SPOILERS!! @scarletsilverr]

one of the greatest designs the avatar franchise has ever seen. welcome avatar sonam

[Makalaurë @Elvish_Harper]

This is because the showrunners don't really know the difference between right and wrong, and can't reason through how someone fighting for evil might defect to good.

In the original, none of the good people who influence Zuko try to do so by convincing him that he and his people are evil. They influence him by cultivating and appealing to his better nature. Obviously Iroh is the most significant, and in his years of mentoring Zuko he never once tries to even sow the seed of the idea that the Fire Nation might be in the wrong. Instead he just teaches Zuko to be honorable, brave, and kind. Kind doesn't take very well, but honorable does.

Over the course of the story, these principles he has been inculcated with come more and more into conflict with his loyalties, eventually forcing a confrontation. Even that confrontation is not "honor vs blood" - that's too simplistic. His crisis is the realization it is no longer possible to be loyal to his entire family. His father's dishonor has already divided the clan.

The new Zuko isn't honorable at all, because the showrunners don't understand how a "badguy" could have great moral qualities (and even be more moral than many of the "goodguys" in certain ways) that would ultimately lead him to become a hero. That is, Zuko in AtLA is already a "hero" before switching sides, in that his behavior is heroic. He's a brave warrior who fights for his family's honor and the success of his people. At least, he thinks that's what he's fighting for. In reality what he's doing isn't best for his people. That's the crisis. That's the change.

What they want new-Zuko to do is totally reject his own identity, rather than finding its real core. The Fire Nation feels a bit too much like "white colonizers." The original's idea that the Fire Nation was a truly great people who became misguided is no longer acceptable, so all virtue has to be stripped out of it. Note that Zhao, who was fearless in the face of death originally, is made a sniveling coward in the live-action. Examining the difference between courage and stubbornness is a bit too complicated for this "more mature" adaptation aimed at "adults." The badguys are all just thieving weasels now. Zuko suffers the worst because he was the best.

[Mark @TotallyNotMark]

I’ll take a trilogy please. 🙏

[Iris @orishale]

Such a nice read.

[Salhi @iamsalhi]

Which is also what I was thinking about today whilst watching this

[Salhi @iamsalhi]

When I was at school, a good friend gifted me a very short introduction on beauty, and one idea I often think about is how our ability to see beautiful things in the world is part of how we know we belong in it

[Salhi @iamsalhi]

Today I walked 6.3km in the Peak District for the first time!

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

the entire point of life is to be silly, kind, and really weird, btw.

[s. 🐥 @sabrinaahmed]

matt damon who once said, “i don't care if helen of troy walks in the room, that's game six!" is now odysseus 🥲

[˙.✮⋆˚࿔ @pillowspiee]

andromède et saturne hier soir! (andromede c'est la tâche un peu floue au milieu en haut et saturne c'est le point super brillant en bas à droite)

[Salhi @iamsalhi]

Kore-eda in joint 3 makes me very happy, my goat fr

[Christopher Nolan Archives @NolanAnalyst]

Christopher Nolan joins Letterboxd’s top 10 greatest directors of all time.

[martha @mxmsworld]

Great filmmaking makes me feel alive and life worth living. This isn’t a hyperbole.

[Mike_Sauce @M_Sawce]

Shot of the year

[♡ fae ♡ @lavenderfae7]

yesterday i took a polaroid that was accidentally too pointed at the sun and the sun just looks like astrophage

[m @bigllittlelies]

THIS IS KILLING MEEENFBFJ they’re so enthusiastic about the whole process like yeah it is that serious

[nick @The24thFrame]

I don’t really begrudge her, she lives so close to the text. But, I think this is viewing the work of film adaptation as an act of “translation”, and not as a new work. Nolan’s The Odyssey isn’t Homer’s Odyssey. It’s a new work, in conversation with the original.

[worm (extra wormy) @wormymcwormersn]

i know a moltres when i see one

[Haus of Decline @hausofdecline]

My general rule for feeling mentally well is understanding that the more I judge others negatively, the more I anticipate negative judgement from others. Practicing kindness and leniency and forgiveness has no guarantee of reciprocation, but it puts you in a better state of mind.