Good!
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Thursday, 11 July 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
cousin-punching is praxis
― A man offers an inverted bottle of water to the Techno Viking. (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 11 July 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
They talk, yes, which makes them likely to set up a fascistic dictatorship (the dictator dictates, i.e. speaks) but the fact that these are animals is not irrelevant to the tale. Aesop, La Fontaine and their ilk are least interesting when read as allegorical anthropomorphists.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 11 July 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
i have shot mine arrow o'er the house,and punched my cousin
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 11 July 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
Comedy of Errors: "A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but windAy, and break it in your face, so he break it not behind."
Othello: "CLOWN: Are these, I pray you, wind instruments?FIRST MUSICIAN: Ay marry are they, sir.CLOWN: O, thereby hangs a tail.FIRST MUSICIAN: Whereby hangs a tail, sir?CLOWN: Marry, sir, by many a wind instrument that I know."
And many more!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 July 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
dlh otm, maybe you should write a wapo editorial about this movie
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 July 2019 18:38 (four years ago) link
…and apply for an assistant professorship in Media Studies at the University of Utrecht.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 11 July 2019 18:46 (four years ago) link
*"The Aristocrats!" tone of voice* "The Lion King!"
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 July 2019 18:53 (four years ago) link
"The Aristocrats!" also would have worked at the end of Midsommer.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 July 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
They're deepfake-action remaking The Aristocats now too?
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Thursday, 11 July 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
Yep! And Mulan!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 July 2019 19:05 (four years ago) link
And Little Mermaid!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 11 July 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
They talk, yes, which makes them likely to set up a fascistic dictatorship (the dictator dictates, i.e. speaks) but the fact that these are animals is not irrelevant to the tale.
well it cuts both ways right cuz its preshishely becaushh they are animals that the natural order of predation can be so explicitly defended (just as human fascism must wrap itself in darwinian rhetoric). and since they not only talk but all talk the same language-- and since, ed aside, they are all fully sapient (made with such large discourse, looking before and after)-- it is hard for me to read the movie as glimpse into alien landscape. intrigued tho
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 11 July 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
in fairness the hyenas are shunned due to their overconsumption - which when allowed to continue unchecked under scar destroys the ecosystem - and thus are not really analogous to subaltern populations in our world - who consume much less than the rich and powerful
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 11 July 2019 19:12 (four years ago) link
counterpoint: that characteristic slots neatly into caricatures of "welfare queens", "lazy" black people etc.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 July 2019 19:17 (four years ago) link
or Jews as rapacious parasites etc
Oh right, Jon Favreau directed it!
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Thursday, 11 July 2019 19:18 (four years ago) link
xp
It does cut both ways, no question about it, but speaking on behalf of kid pomenitul, exposure to fable-like narratives was primarily a means of encountering an otherness and strangeness beyond human ken rather than a mere mirror of adult mores. Denying their pedagogical, domesticating function would be silly, but allegories are always more (or less) than just allegories: there is an inevitable opaqueness to them that thwarts authorial and hence moral intent. Utterly transparent allegories (or symbols, for that matter) are a pipe dream and child me was mostly glad to catch a glimpse of the animal 'kingdom', irrespective of its presumed social/hierarchical structures, which I found less interesting than the individual characters on display, as well as the art and voice acting that brings them to life.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 11 July 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
oh for sure, to be clear i watched this movie on vhs more or less daily 1995-1996 and had a crush on nala
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 11 July 2019 19:33 (four years ago) link
Review: 'The Lion King' looks so realistic it makes the music sound fake | Datebook https://t.co/kJeLySJEcB— Mick LaSalle (@MickLaSalle) July 17, 2019
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link
Which just goes to prove ...
Lion King reviews are camp.— Kyle Stevens (@cinementalist) July 11, 2019
watching this on TV now, how on earth did they manage to fuck it up this badly? every character looks like it's been killed, stuffed and had its lips animated with the wombo app
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 18:03 (four months ago) link
i saw two seconds of it, channel-hopping, and it looks even stupider than i imagined
― emishi sun hack (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 18:04 (four months ago) link
their rules are baffling - their realism accepts lions talking and singing and believing in the divine right of kings but not dancing or emoting or being gay (disney won't rest until they've reimagined all their great villains as straight)
― Left, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 20:23 (four months ago) link