#movies and animation

[fruitsofhell]

re. nimona: first of all great thoughts, really appreciate your perspective! second - i believe ambrosius is coded as asian in the movie? he's at least voiced by a korean actor. idk if that changes anything about your analysis (esp since he's light-skinned) but i wanted to point out that the queen & ballister aren't the only poc there!

Ty ^_^, when I scrolled a bit through the tags and reblogs the opinion seemed missing, and as much as I love this movie it's just itched me.

And about Ambrosius. NGL, I only realized that might be so after I posted those and read a bit farther down the rb's lmao.

If Ambrosius is meant to be asian-coded, I think that's epic, but a bit weird cause he's meant to be related to the big white knight of yore and like... if we're going to talk about racism maybe that should have been brought up? Like maybe it could have been cool if he had to deal with being the blood relative of this figure yet not the same race/not fitting her image, and that could have been part of why he was so sympathetic towards Ballsiter. That could be why his hair is dyed and not natural blonde actually! But the world doesn't seem to be explicit in its race relations, so that isn't brought up or explored in a way that would have made Ambrosius the sort of explicit rep it would have been nice to see. Which is ironic with how blatant this is on the surface with Ballister and the queen.

I saw some people saying he's cool model minority rep, but kinda every poc in the film is, which is my problem. It just rubs me a little wrong how one-sided and un-dynamic Ballister, the Queen, and now even kinda Ambrosius are in their feelings towards the institution internally. Outside of being framed, on the verge of witnessing a war crime, or sympathizing with Nimona, they show little animosity or complicated feelings towards the institution; they have very clean and pure opinions.

I would have liked to see something like Ballister taping into some internal pent up frustration with being a token when he decided to bring down the institution, or him and Ambrosius explicitly bonding over not fitting molds as POC. Or... anything to work with about the queen. Maybe her fretting over Ballister, or showing some awareness and exhaustion beforehand. IDK. I watched the movie once a few weeks ago so if I'm missing details my bad. And on that note, thanks for bringing that up.

[antennatoheaven]

[riddlerosehearts]

animation being treated like a genre instead of a medium is something that actually makes me go insane. beauty and the beast is a romance. the emperor's new groove is a buddy comedy. big hero 6 is a superhero movie. moana is an adventure film. the lion king is a drama. treasure planet is sci-fi. if i was talking to someone who hadn't seen these movies before, and they weren't specifically interested in animation as a medium, then i wouldn't necessarily assume they'd enjoy all of these. and that's just disney movies! try telling an anime fan that fruits basket and fullmetal alchemist are the same genre and see how they react!

[fruitsofhell]

Personal take here (dw, I'm a professional black person), the racism and classism felt very on the nose to the point of being distracting to me. Cause it can do all that very obvious stuff all it wants, but then it still just typecasts the only two important characters of color as victims, and then heavily centers the story of a white-coded character's oppression. Not to mention that in its bid to do so it still ends up killing off its one important black character after a few lines of dialogue.

From what my friend intimately familiar with the source material has told me, that whole racism/classicm problem is completely new as well, with the original knight academy having nothing to do with bloodlines and the old white knight of yore barely being brought up. Like it just feels like they wanted to add on these explicit extra layers of bigotry, but they did not at all flow as naturally into the narrative as the queerness. I think the story still works best when it's about Nimona's queerness, and in a way I think the metaphor of her experiences works well enough as a broad allegory for any kind of bigotry. WITHOUT adding in a black woman who exists to be killed, and a brown man who now only exists to be bullied by his white peers. If they'd stopped at the latter and just diversified the cast a bit more it would be less glaring to me atleast.

There's still merit in a story just being that blatantly and obviously about racism, but it's a bit patronizing too. Like I said when the story is still mostly about a white-coded character.

EDIT: Ambrosius is Asian and I didn't realize upon first watch because I assumed he was still white like in the source material - oops! So there are 3 important characters of color, and Ambrosius' place in the narrative about model minorities and colorism is rather cool. But my main problem is still that the characters of color are not as internally and emotionally dynamic as Nimona is as a queer person. In a way, while Nimona feels like a very fully fleshed out allegory for an oppressed person and feelings of antagonism, betrayal, and despair, Ambrosius, Ballister, and the queen kinda just feels like pawns being moved around to create a story about institutional racism. Once again a story that I'm happy to see, but I think lacks a bit of depth.

seeing analyses of nimona is fun because they have really good insights and are analysing every inch of this movie but in virtually all of them there is a gaping hole where the very obvious messages and metaphors in regards to race and racism in this film lay.

Like tell me, do you believe the story of a brown man, brought in by a black woman in an attempt to fix the systemic issues in a system where ancestry is valued over merit, is framed for the murder of said black woman by a white woman who is fueled by paranoia that a black woman’s efforts might upend the system, the supposed threat this brown man and of dangers that don’t exist and a desparation to fulfill the legacy of a white woman who is a literal metaphor for the way bigotry is taught (in particular homophobia/transphobia). And thus the brown man is villanised for something he didn’t do and is forced to find support and companionship in another victim of the system, with this story ending with the white woman willing to destroy everything than let the brown gay man and a trans girl change the system/her mind, has absolutely no racial implications or messages surrounding race.

[daily-spooky]

[rei-does-stuff]

The Glassworker - Mano Animation Studios

Directed by - Usman Riaz

Pakistan’s First Ever 2D Hand Drawn Animated Film

Currently in Pakistani Theaters as of July 26 International release is coming soon <3

English Trailer || Urdu Trailer

[calam1typann3]

First trailer for Dreamworks' ‘THE WILD ROBOT' and HOLY FUCK ITS GORGEOUS???????

[fullanimationfilmartist]

Have you ever put ice cubes on your shoes? It would change your life!

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[maru046]

Excited for the movie ✨

[rosered-schneeweisschens-sis]

i never knew there were men in the room for this, “that was tough” oh man they were not prepared XD

[southpauz]

DO YOU BLEED?

[chaos-smoothie]

we did it once we can do it again we did it once we can do it again WE DID IT ONCE-

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Horror icons

[amequeer]

I just have a thing for "robot overcoming what they were made for" trope I guess