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Arie (nickname: Mimi). She/her/hers/they/them/theirs. Queer. Latina (tica/costarricense, peruana y cubana) y indígena. Spanglish speaking WoC. Bean-Town Local. Dreams of returning and living in the Land of Enchantment.Lover of black cats, elephants, and pit bulls. Purple lipstick gives me power. Attempting to do this adulting thing.
I’ve been in California for the last week for a conference and some vacation days with my sister who lives here.
I got here on Sunday and went to bed learning about the Gilroy Garlic festival. I went to a family dinner tonight and part of the conversation was about how the community was gathering together to support victims and their families because people want to help one another and it was heartwarming.
I’m trying to go to bed now to be energized for some tourist stuff tomorrow and I hear about El Paso because one of my coworkers writes me to offer support and to let me know that mi gente is in her thoughts. And I’m just so tired now and weakened.
I’ll search for hope tomorrow because I need to survive but tonight just feels just so devastating y'all.
I saw this thread on twitter yesterday, so mad. It doesn’t seem that…hard…to…market???
All you really had to tell me was that Gugu Mbatha-Raw was in it and I was sold.
Excuse me????
It looks like was released in April 2019, but it’s not showing at any of my local theaters. And this is the first I’ve even heard of it. Why even make something if you’re not going to bother promoting it?
So they can say those kind of movies dont sell and use it as an excuse to never make movies like this with black leads
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the switch from ‘a girl worth fighting for’ to coming upon the decimated village in mulan is THE MOST kick-in-the-teeth mood change IN ALL OF CINEMA
That scene shift did more for our generation’s understanding of the horror of war in ten seconds than Game of Thrones did in eight seasons, and it did it without showing us a single dead body.
OKAY BUT HOLD ON THOUGH.
I’ve spent the past… five? Let’s say five - the past five years analyzing the structure of Disney Musicals as part of the process to write my own/a parody of them, and the thing is that all the modern ones have roughly the same number of songs - except Mulan.
Mulan has about half, because after AGWFF ends with that unresolved final phrase, there are no more songs until the end credits, which isn’t even sung in-universe.
Mulan wasn’t even the REALM of fucking around - when they arrive at that village, when the true horrors of war are brought into the story, not only does it interrupt THAT song, it breaks the entire fucking mold - the movie’s damn genre changes; it is no longer a musical.
And the Huns represent this from the start - Jafar and Hades are notable for not having proper villain songs, but Jafar does get his Prince Ali refrain and Hades and his plan get sung ABOUT by the muses. No scene with the Huns has any singing, they are mentioned once in song (the second line of Man, natch), and they of all Disney Villains are probably the most serious - no jokes, no witty asides, no sassy delivery of dry humor. The Huns are an invading army who plan to straight up kill a fuckton of people, including children, and AGWFF’s sudden end is the moment when our happy go lucky MUSICAL protagonists finally come in contact with them and their work directly - and it breaks them. Because shit like the Huns cannot exist in happy go lucky musical world. They just exist in our world. The real world. And you can’t sing your problems away here.
The end of A Girl Worth Fighting For is a brilliant use of metanarrative sensibilities to convey a message. It is utterly perfect.
