Nolan fans ripping apart someone with insane credentials and expertise and making her out to be a deranged fan is pissing me off and taking me out. Put your blinders to the side for a bit. Please, I beg of you.
@corduroycleric Was the tone nice? No, definitely not, she was extremely harsh with her opinions, but I do believe she’s shown appreciation for what Nolan tried and in her opinion did not succeed to create. IDK
@corduroycleric There‘s also a bunch of bad faith arguments against her going around and I do think a lot of the criticism against her review are not fair, considering what people with less stake in the material (he even said that he read her translation of it) have been getting away with
This is insane. Actually insane. I am left speechless. They don't even pretend to know the actual story anymore. If yall bothered with reading even the synopsis, you'd know how absolutely wrong this is and how vital and diverse the women of the Odyssey are.
NGE has many strokes of genius that get lost in the shuffle, but the creeping horror of slowly revealing that the giant robots are actually living creatures mutilated and encased in armour is one of my favourites
People say your English degree is useless but today I have to discuss a book I haven’t read in our book club and where would I be if I hadn’t had four years training to do just that
O que mais me irrita no visual desse filme não é a falta de fidelidade histórica. É o fato de ter a liberdade de quebrar a fidelidade histórica e decidir ser BREGA, BÁSICA E SEM GRAÇA
Literally just talked about this in a seminar on reception of ancient history/mythology in modern media & the sheer amount of modern self-insert-esque mythology rewrites, which a lot of the time get reduced to the gender aspect but not concepts of ”othering“ and ”otherness“