#Hollywood sucks

[artofkhaos404]

Hobie Brown is a fantastic character.

His design, concept, uniqueness and how HOT he is make him altogether very likeable. But all these things are not why I love him so much; it's what he represents that gets me.

The symbol in modern media he is for many different types of people. For one, he's pretty awesome for people of color to enjoy. Another black hero who can get down to business is always welcome, though it's nothing new for the Spiderverse universe with Miles Morales being our main protagonist. Having a British black character makes it all the more fun, diverse and interesting!

All that being said, the thing that warms my heart about Hobie Brown is what he means for the alternative community.

Im a punk. I'm also an anarchist.

Like anyone, I look for people in media who represent me in both appearance and ideals. As a plus sized person, finding people in media who look like me and aren't part of the toxic stereotype for fat people is uncommon. Chubby characters who don't make their weight part of their personality is unheard of.

Finding characters who properly represent my beliefs and ideals is nigh impossible in my experience. Seeing a punk in modern day popular media is rare. And when I say punk, I'm talking PUNK RAWK. Musicians with colorfully laced boots and symbols painted sloppily all over themselves. Gritty political activists in homemade clothes and piercings, fighting tooth and nail for what they believe in. In truth, I don't know if I've ever seen that in popular media; not authentically.

What do we get instead? Punk coded teenagers who don't really believe in anything, pissing people off for the sake of it. That ain't us. We believe in respect, love and morals. We believe in doing whatever is necessary to achieve the perfect world, whatever each individual believes that is.

The representation is even more insulting for anarchists. Everywhere are both mature antagonists and cartoon villains parading around preaching "anarchy" and completely misusing the word. Its to the point that my political belief is now more closely related to dictatorships (the literal OPPOSITE of anarchism!) or simply death and destruction rather than the true definition: no institutions, just people.

That word has been defiled. I've had people laugh at me and ridicule me when I share my political stance with them due to this stereotype. I've had people tell me I believe what I do just because it "sounds cool."

People that were uneducated to the concept in the first place have now been reeducated by an overlord walking across a battlefield of dead bodies in some movie screaming about "anarchy." Thanks Hollywood. Really appreciate that.

But Hobie is a punk. And he's an anarchist.

He's a hero. He's intelligent. He knows what he fights for and he fights well. That alone is revolutionary for the anarchist movement.

And in a MARVEL FILM. Millions of people watch Marvel films across the globe. Across the Spider verse has pulled in 1.35 Billion dollars. This is exactly what we need.

So, as a representative of my community, thank you Sony Pictures for this gift. I hope to see more like it. And while we're at it, thank you for all the diversity in this new film between all the ethnicities shown onscreen to putting someone my size in the mask!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

(also if anyone has any recommendations for realistic punk characters in media I'd love to hear em)

[bern00sworld]

*FACTS😤*

Source: *SURVIVAL STREET RADICAL LEFT #2* don't mind me saying, these kind of crap that hollywood pulls of his ass is the biggest one that i seen recently and is the stupidest thing that i ever heard that they do now on days, it's seriously so stupid!

[yoursghouly]

come on barbie let’s get the members of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA revised contracts with the AMPTP so that they can be compensated fairly and ensured protection against any unauthorized use of their likenesses via AI which would be an enormous violation of human ethics/decency ah ah ahh yeah

[spilladabalia]

Photo by & © Ed Colver.

[wanderingmind867]

My mom never liked it when Canadian actors went to Hollywood and became (for all intents and purposes) American citizens. Just based on that alone, I think it's nice to see Hollywood getting uncomfortable. Maybe it'll encourage people to realize that there's more to films than just Hollywood. You shouldn't have to go to Hollywood or the US to become famous. It's something that should change.

[shinmothra13returns]

Gundam creator says Disney movies are BORING and SAD! Hollywood is comin...

Even the gundam creator say that disney sucks.

[iminaworldofpureimagination]

chelsea handler met epstein at a dinner party for andrew in 2010 claiming she didn know him, and is friends with bateman who is freidns with willarnett so now my brain is fried again ughhh

Chelsea Handler Recalls 'Weird' Dinner Party at Jeffrey Epstein's House (toofab.com)

she admits it here

[toshootforthestars]

From the report by Chris Lee, posted 24 June 2023:

Multiple Across the Spider-Verse crew members — ranging from artists to production executives who have worked anywhere from five to a dozen years in the animation business — describe the process of making the the $150 million Sony project as uniquely arduous, involving a relentless kind of revisionism that compelled approximately 100 artists to flee the movie before its completion. Four of these crew members agreed to speak pseudonymously about the sprint to finish the movie three years into the sequel’s development and production, a period whose franticness they attribute to Lord’s management style — in particular, his seeming inability to conceptualize 3-D animation during the early planning stages and his preference to edit fully rendered work instead.

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Sony executives dispute these claims about Lord’s management style, including his alleged insistence on approving every sequence in the film, describing feature animation as a generally “iterative process.” According to Amy Pascal, the former Sony Pictures Entertainment chairperson who produced the three most recent live-action Spider-Man movies as well as both Into and Across the Spider-Verse, “over a thousand” artists and techs worked on Across the Spider-Verse alone, tasked with scripting, storyboarding, animating, editing, and visually enhancing the film. So it’s unsurprising, she says, that as many as 100 of the Across the Spider-Verse film crew would choose to depart the grueling project, which Pascal admits involved major overhauls to both the narrative and visuals, along the way. Michelle Grady, the executive vice-president and general manager of Sony Pictures Imageworks, agrees, claiming that Lord is not to blame for the delays. He, as the main messenger for editorial changes coming from the three co-directors, executive producers, Miller, and the studio, is instead a convenient target for worker ire. “It really does happen on every film,” she says of the revisions. “Truly, honestly, it can be a little bit frustrating, but we always try to explain that this is the process.” “One of the things about animation that makes it such a wonderful thing to work on is that you get to keep going until the story is right,” adds Pascal. “If the story isn’t right, you have to keep going until it is.” To the workers who felt demoralized by having to revise final renders five times in a row, the Spider-Verse producer says, “I guess, Welcome to making a movie.” Grady says the sources who spoke to Vulture are not representative of the majority of crew on Spider-Verse 2, who she says found the production process difficult yet “extraordinarily rewarding.” But our sources’ concerns amplify those of the Animation Guild, a 6,000-member branch of Hollywood’s below-the-line union IATSE, established in 1952 to ensure equitable employment practices within a once-sleepy industry that has become a multibillion-dollar powerhouse since the animation explosion of the 1990s. A half-century ago, there were around 1,000 animators working in Hollywood, around half of them just for Disney. In 2023, no data exists for the number of artists, digital compositors, and effects specialists working across the globe, but their ranks have grown exponentially to meet the metastasizing demand for animated fare. Like organizers within the VFX and gaming worlds (which often overlap with each other and with animation), TAG hopes to formally obtain a seat at the bargaining table of an industry that is increasingly reliant on animation talent but that has historically treated its artists and technicians as gig workers, According to TAG, the guild recently renegotiated an agreement with Sony Pictures Animation and achieved increases to minimum wages for pre-production staff. However, Sony Pictures Imageworks, which despite its corporate affiliation is an independent vendor contracted by Sony Pictures Animation to do the physical animation on Across the Spider-Verse, remains a non-union studio. “Having spent time in the lower ranks of the visual effects industry,” says Steve Kaplan, business representative for TAG, “I am intimately familiar with how different those workplaces can be."

[krsonmar]

I have a pipe dream to share with you all. While I know very little about how animators are treated except that it's horrible, Hollywood actors getting to have just basic labor laws respected would be off the hook. Let people sleep adequately and at reasonable times. Let people eat healthy diets. Get people ADA accommodations who need them. Set limits on working hours in a given day and better define what counts as hours worked for them. Most HR protections in America are pretty bare-bones but I'd love these people to be able to expect that if a director bullies them or a producer sexually assaults someone that they have a basic modicum of recourse.

And I want to see actors have their bodies respected better. No more working out until they faint, starving themselves, getting plastic surgery to remain "marketable", quit giving people uppers or anything other than rest when their bodies or minds start breaking down from constant work.

A lot of this isn't something you can get in union policies or labor laws, but just like you get better work out of any other workers when you take basic care of them, Hollywood could be so much less neurotic--and maybe even create better-quality content--if everyone were treated better.

Actors and Animators should go on strike next tbh. Especially cgi animators. Put the fear back into Hollywood

[willdoanythingfortacos]

hollywood! walk the walk or just shut up... you cant have it both ways...

[sadboimusic69]

Hollywood Sucks// - KennyHoopla & Travis Barker

Song 85

[moregaythanyourealized]

Personal grievance: Why was emma stone always casted as a teenager??? I never thought she looked like one and my guess is so hollywood could go on sexualizing teen girls while using a grown woman to portray them.

[nerdylizard5]

I didn’t think I could love Terry Pratchett more. Good for you, sir, we need more people like you.

the whole Terry Pratchett vs Adaptations section of the book is brilliant, but nothing stands out as the whole ordeal between Terry, Tiffany Aching, and, I kid you not, Sam Raimi.

I cannot emphasize the psyche damage I took from that last sentence, I was completely unprepared:

he wasn't pleased with the script at all:

and you know shit just got real:

and its inevitable end:

all this put into perspective, however, an earlier quote in the chapter:

[shinmothra13returns]

Hollywood will LOSE another BILLION dollars in 2024! Woke movies have SH...

Hollywood deserves this because of their failures.

[divorced50yroldsecretsissyfag]

Being a sissy faggot in public is Hot...🩷💦

[kaeya-senpai]

„A million clues, yet i still can’t find you“