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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 1 year ago

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the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies”#serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited...#i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest.#it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!'#'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members...#..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)'#anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language?#maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value”#and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs)#happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills)#and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on...#...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works?#beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

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scurviesdisneyblog · 2 months ago

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Visual development for Atlantis: The Lost Empire by Ricardo Delgado

#disney #atlantis: the lost empire #disney concept art #visual development #concept art #disney animation #animation #animation art #art #artwork #illustration #disney atlantis #ricardo delgado

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avendell · 2 months ago

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Kida and Milo 💙

#disney atlantis #atlantis the lost empire #kida and milo #milo thatch #my art #digital art #kida atlantis #avendell

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binariesuns · 1 month ago

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@pscentral event 33: underrated tv & film ↳ ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE (2001) dir. Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise

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ayeforscotland · 6 months ago

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Remember when films were good?

#ayeforscotland #atlantis the lost empire

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foxwithadarkside · 4 months ago

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@techwrecker I don't know what exactly you wanted, but I did this. When you said about Milo and Tech, that's just the first image that popped into my mind. Atlantis x tbb: 1 2 3 4

#the bad batch #star wars #the bad batch fanart #tbb tech #tbb hunter #tbb crosshair #atlantis the lost empire #Crosshair is by no means Rourke. He's 1000% Mrs. Packard #But this scene is just #Wrecker is Dr. Sweet and Vinny both #Omega is Audrey #Hemlock is Rourke #Nala Se is Helga #I don't know who Hunter is #I love Atlantis #you just don't know #the badlantis batch

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snaky1ello · 2 months ago

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dramatic Jornoth save meeee

(I wanted it to be like someone curious of the darkness, trying to shed light onto a darkened patch)

also I live for scared Xornoth, I want them to look like they just got mauled by a bear and is only just recovering.

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alexstewart · 1 year ago

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You think it's some kind of a diamond. I thought it was some kind of a battery, but we're both wrong. It's their life-force. That crystal is the only thing keeping these people alive. You take that away, and they'll die. Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) Dir. Gary Trousdale And Kirk Wise

#Atlantis: The Lost Empire #Atlantis #Atlantisedit #Disney #Disneyedit #Animation #Animationedit #Animationsource #Animationsdaily #Movie-gifs #Filmgifs #Dailyflicks #*gifs #*

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niko-oramiratsinatrenchcoat · 7 months ago

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#disney #meet the robinsons #atlantis the lost empire #treasure planet

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reallyhardy · 3 months ago

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continuing from my anti-live-action-remake post... i CONSISTENTLY see people say "exceptions are treasure planet and atlantis" but this is also incorrect. a live action remake of either of these films would not result in these movies getting their flowers, it simply would not. a huge part of the appeal of both films is the visual language, the highly stylised characters and worlds, and you just KNOW if these were realised in "live action" especially by the disney corp of the present day, would just result in visually dark (as in hard to see) flat, uninspired CGI scenery, and equally bland and uninspired costuming for the live action characters, PLUS the flat, unexpressive performance of many 3D, hyper realistic, unstylised, boring as all hell alien characters in the case of treasure planet. you can cry "exceptions" all you like but the result would be as insipid and valueless as any other "live action remake" and that is a PROMISE!!!

#loren talks #live action remakes #treasure planet #atlantis: the lost empire

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stars-bean · 2 years ago

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