#the actors they could have hired
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Something wild and sinister about watching a video about the Disney renaissance through the lens of Howard Ashman’s body of work and how one of the things he instilled in the creative team in the animation department was that drawing from life experiences can be super beneficial to the creative process and really helps you connect with the audience, only for the video essay’s author to say at the end how Disney admitted that they were pivoting how Pixar operates to be less based in personal stories and more about sequels in order to boost profit margins.
Idk man…that just feels so sinister on the part of the company
#don’t get me started I could and would go on#if you’re only interested in a cash grab#especially as a company that has dominated a space#largely because of heartfelt story telling#is seems so shallow by comparison#and don’t even get me started on whatever they did to Snow White#it looks so poorly rendered#and Snow White looks like she’s wearing elementary school high lighter colors#this is what happens when you don’t actually want to put money into#the people working on something#the amount of artists behind the scenes folks etc#who could make that film a masterpiece#that celebrates the legacy of this film#it could have been so good#the actors they could have hired#Aubrey smalls is RIGHT THERE
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rip walt disney, i know you would have loved using ai to eliminate jobs
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#i think this is the most interesting defunctland video yet#the way they managed to program animatronics before computers was kind of incredible#also the fact that they spent the equivalent of $5M in today's dollars to make that lincoln animatronic for the world's fair#when they could have hired one or two actors and paid them well for far less#really shows you the priorities of big business are the way they've always been#Youtube#defunctland#walt disney
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i think publication order is the best way to adapt the narnia books into movies because if you want the child actors to age at around the same rate as the characters then you start with the lion the witch and the wardrobe, then prince caspian a year later, then dawn treader another year later, then silver chair, and then in the gap between silver chair and last battle you do magician's nephew and the horse and his boy and that gives the kids time to believably age seven-ish years before the last battle.
#plus you can have the pevensie actors reprise their roles in horse and his boy instead of having to hire new actors who look like them#bc by the time last battle comes around you know pretty much what those kids look like as adults you don't want them to look#totally different in the horse and his boy#i guess you could explain it away with narnian magic or something but that doesn't feel very satisfying to me#tcon#narnia
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you’ve probably gotten a lot of asks like this, but I just haven’t seen any posted. what are your feelings on the remake, if you are watching it? more specifically, what do you think was the biggest problem with it?
i rlly havent actually! i think it's bc im really trying to Pretend I Do Not See It. rn i'm fighting TOOTH AND NAIL against the temptation to hatewatch because i do not need that in my life lmao.
the thing i cannot get over with is how Cheap it looks, it rlly smells of poor rushed workers to me, despite the astronomical budget that went into it. 15 MIL!!??? same as the late seasons of game of thrones!! now i'm not saying GoT is a pinnacle of virtue but it featured: a really good burn scar make up that took up half a character's face, a really good Notorious white hair wig with intricate hairstyles, really good costumes and heavy winter furs, really good location and fantasy beasts cgi and ummmmmmm from what i've seen of natla well. it had nothing of the sort. it's just bad gary it's uglyy
#also i've seen ppl discuss some Changes in plots & characters and uh#that sure was a Choice#again. nobody needed that. nobody wanted to see that#anyway to end on a positive note it's easier to say what i Do like about it#which is the fact that apparently aang stole zuko's dream journal#AND the fanarts i'm seeing of behind the scenes pics but with characters from the cartoon <333#ash replies#also EDIT#kinda pisseddd at how it poses itself as a pinnacle of inclusion and Yet. still no word about the whole sokka actor situation#there are whole vids about how shit the chinese writing looked when they could have hired a calligraphy expert y'kno. like atla did#POLYESTER FUR??? IN THE SWT#when they could have hired indigenous artesans etc etc ETC
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can we bring back procedurals? or at least just proper shows like how TV used to be? 5 to 15 seasons, a generous amount of episodes per season, 45 minutes: the sweet spot between too long and too short, pilot episodes that are wildly different from the rest of the show, filler episodes that overall contribute nothing but are extremely fun because that is what god intended, random musical episode, crossovers, waiting an entire week in anticipation to see what happens next, like, this was the PEAK of television, where did we go wrong
#i would gladly pay for cable and cut streaming for this#better yet make procedurals on streaming#if you can make 5 seasons of a show over the span of literally 10 years on a budget that could take someone to space#you can make low budget procedurals with good plot and new actors because THAT IS WHAT THE MASSES WANT#the ratio of people rewatching older shows to watching the new ones are insane#shows releasing one episode per week is what kept it relevant that long#and shows used to have more je nais se quais yk#shows today feel soulless like cash grabs#not all of them ofc there are amazing shows that i am glad to have seen#but procedurals and proper tv dramas used to and continue to be a genre that never misses if done right#sure i like umbrella academy (season 3 and 4 are erased from my memory) but with the budget for that show#if you'd hired a bunch of new actors and one popular and respected actor that everyone knows#give some new writer a chance#make a procedural#throw in some angst and found family#a bit of subtext even#and released 20 episodes over the span of 20 weeks#tell me who wouldn't have loved it#i miss procedurals man#psych#white collar#the mentalist#house md#monk#law and order#criminal minds#i do know some of them still exist but the point is that this genre deserves so much more#good writers#better producers#the rookie is doing great
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i started playing max payne 2 and was immediately so put off by how he no longer has sam lake's face that i decided to put together a collection of some of the max payne 1 panels that i really liked. enjoy <3
#max payne#max payne 1#remedy entertainment#sam lake#remedyverse#idk depending on how well-designed they are maybe i'll make a post of my favorite max payne 2 panels also#but like. i know literally they had 0 money when making the first game which is why sam lake just used his own face#(also he got his parents to model as woden and horne which is so incredibly funny/based of him to do)#and then for the sequel they could hire actual professional models/actors#but like c'mon. max payne 2 looks like a generic middle-aged dad protagonist of a 2000s action blockbuster#by comparison sam lake has such an interesting face (which if anything fits the raymond chandler film noir vibes even better)#i have very high hopes for the remake(s) that remedy is handling but in a way i hope they keep at least some of the unpolished aspects#anyway sorry y'all the remedy brainworms have gotten me there's no escaping this
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every time jun has gone back to China for activities I become more and more done with XCSS (Pledis China)... it's so clear they're incompetent and don't understand how the Chinese entertainment industry works 🙃
#either that and/or theyre deliberately sabatoging jun#which like... i do abide by the whole 'dont attribute to malice what you could attribute to incompetence' thing#but also at this point its ridiculous...#a very summarized version is that in china its very common practice for companies to collaborate directly with official fanbases#so fanbases can organize events and provide promotion and support etc.#like its hard to explain but fanbases are more official organizations that are an important part of the entertainment industry#its basically a job for some people#but xcss/pledis has not been properly communicating with juns fanbases (jfortepiano and jun bar)#and its been causing a lot of issues#theyre also not following certain social media conventions for events apparently#all of which is hurting the promotion of juns acting activities#its also not a good look when every other actor has this fan support and jun either doesnt have any or has last minute stuff put together#bc the fanbases were not given proper notice/communication from the company#also im saying this as someone who has actually defended pledis (korea) for many things so like#yall know i wouldnt be complaining about this if it was just a small thing or there was some other explanation for it#the best explanation is that theyre incompetent and are treating c-ent like its k-ent when its not#but after all these years shouldnt they have learned by now and hired people who know what theyre doing??#might delete this but i needed to rant#its also frustrating when so called carats insult jun for doing solo activities and act like he thinks hes above svt#when hes not even getting proper support for his solo activities from the company 🙃#like no babes i promise this is not easier for him 😭#also i have to wonder what the xcss employees even do most of the time...#as far as i know they dont have any artists that promote solely in korea so jun and minghao should be their main priotities right???#but they seem to do jack shit whether chinaline is in korea or back in china to promote stuff#like not even the bare minimum half the time#ugh anyway#melia.txt
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movieposting continued: unfortunately tfone wasn't as good as I was hoping it would be based on tf mutuals posting about it. some design aspects were cool but the dialogue writing made me want to throw up in my mouth a little bit. kind of a "he's right behind me isn't he" deal all the way through where everything feels very canned and characters are saying exactly what they mean constantly
#lab notes#also liberal ass plotline#ALSO I HATED THE VOICE ACTING. GODDDD#please please Please please stop hiring regular fucking actors for voice acting roles it sucks so bad#do you have any idea how sad I was hearing starscream's voice. they took his gayness away.#the way their faces are animated is also a design pet peeve... I dislike what they did with the eyes....#also also also. I feel like you could Really fucking get into it with the whole 'not stooping to his level' thing and the racialized aspect#of megatron being played by a black actor#but whatever. I digress.#it's a reoccurring problem in transformers media's plot that the decepticon ideology is literally correct but framed in the most#90s mccarthyism 'COMMUNISTS ARE BABY-KILLING WAR MONGERERS' sense imaginable#anyway one of the only parts I thought was cool was when megatron ripped that guy in half. yay!
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So I watched the Migration movie today and I was enjoying it up until I met this Jamaican bird named Delroy.
The issue isn’t that he’s Jamaican, bc I’m Jamaican American and I love to see representation of my culture. But it was the voice actor that completly ruined the rest of the movie for me.
His accent was off. And for those of you who don’t know Patois and the Jamaican accent in general, it may be hard even realize, but it sucked.
My issue is that they casted an American who did it. Not even a Jamaican American who was raised with Jamaican family. I’m sure there are so many Jamaican actors and actresses that could have embodied the role so much better.
I don’t only want to see proper POC representation in live actions. I want it in animation too. And that includes language, dialects, and accents.
#migration 2023 movie#if a character has a soecific accent let’s hire people who have those accents#i hate to burst some bubbles but dialect coaches arent always gonna help you nail an accent#im sick of casing directors hiring from the same boring tired ass pool of hollywood actors#they should have just hired a jamaican to do the part#this is funnily a similar reason why A LOT of Jamaican’s hated the One Love Bob Marley movie#and even worse bc it was produced by his son#they had plenty of ppl on the island that could have played the parts of all the Jamaicans…#but searched and hired from everywhere but Jamaica…#i’d rather you just laugh in my face instead😒
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I am seeing comments about the Barbie movie and oh god, are you telling me internet’s beauty standards went so high that now not even Ryan Gosling meets them?
#granted i never been a big fan of his#like once i dreamed he was hired to clean my house and everything i could think was how could i profit on it#BUT#i am pretty sure he was like this conventionally attractive person#or what is he too old now?#aren’t people getting anything that’s not a live AI generated human?#also have you considered he got hired because he was the best for the role?#LIKE A FREAKING ACTOR?#barbie movie#ryan gosling
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if this becomes like 20% seiyuu blog im sorry. it is murase ayumu's fault.
#not fandom#when he's well-directed he is one of the best voice actors in the game right now. like im being completely sincere.#but when his roles are bad they make me wonder if i imagined him being a good voice actor.#there are people who hire femboy murase ayumu and there are people who hire voice actor murase ayumu#and you can tell which is which straight off the bat#he COULD carry his entire career off of having a cute voice and phoning it in but his work is really fucking good#disclaimer: if he is a horrible person i am unaware of this.
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lit history class so bad it drives you to madness
edit oh my god i confused mercutio with horatio. i promise i know who both of those people are they just have similar names
#this isnt even good casting it was just my first instinct#ive posted about 30 rock 2x recently it might lead people to believe i endorse tina fey i do not#i would say i strongly dislike tina fey at best#actually i change my mind kenneth would be laertes#maybe it could be one of those limited cast thing where the same actors play multiple characters and theres like a thematic meaning#which is good bc i was also conflicted abt jack donaghy polonius or claudius#which tbh i think would be kind of cool double casting like the juxtaposition of their two characters. its probably been done before#like if the production could only afford to hire one old man. have him play the ghost too who cares#this is 30 rock characters btw not actors. to be clear. i am envisioning a riverdale musical episode#and if you were in this evil class. you would be too
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some more thoughts about Andromeda's conservatorship:
their conservator has legal ownership of them and everything they represent. it started off as them becoming their guardian when they were itty bitty, but after a bad episode that was unfortunately public, they were coaxed into the conservatorship they're currently in. it wasn't a huge change honestly though because they were already used to being so restricted in everything they do. they're EXTRAORDINARILY sheltered, and not just in a "you haven't had to experience bad things" way.
I think their conservator/guardian is a normal dude when they're not working with Andro. they have a husband and some fur babies, nieces and nephews they love very much, and are all-around seen as a charitable, good person by the media, although as reclusive as Andromeda themself is. they've compartmentalized their mistreatment of Andromeda. Andromeda is a brand, a thing, they aren't a person to them anymore- maybe they were in the beginning, but certainly not now. they make their job "easier" by thinking of Andromeda less as someone with needs and more of a checklist minimum of things they have to accomplish in order to maintain the brand by keeping the icon compliant.
#i think they TRIED to be more of a parent. but they weren't ready for it#so after raising andromeda for a little while they shuffled all of their child-rearing responsibilities on to hired hands#who could take care of the dangerously powerful baby reaper#and then turn around and allow the conservator to use andromeda like a prop#they're both a child musician and child actor and they kinda had this disney moment where they grew up and tried to resist the ways they'd-#-been groomed to behave. but they could only do so much at the time#which lead to their first 'rebirthing' of their pop identity they have going on when they meet felix. undertones of sad#and they finally get to shed all of those layers AFTER their guardian mysteriously disappears#oc: andromeda#oc ramblings#oc#my oc#whoops! accidentally attached my oc to your oc universe (silly intent)
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Well the french in the last episode of iwtv was certainly something
#I think I needed the subtitles almost as much as someone who does not speak french. Had to re listen to some of the lines like 2 or 3 times#WHILE reading the subs to know wtf they were saying. Or am I stupid ? I'll ask friends what they think#(Not all the lines but some were hard to get for me)#Like i understand the main actors are not fluent. Not sure they even speak french cause sometimes it sounds like they dont know what the#fuck they're saying themselves. But would it kill them to hire at least french actors for background characters who have 2 lines. So that#at least the environement is believable. Like it was okay in the 1st season cause there werent big sentences in french but here..nope#also when Sam Reid speaks english with the french accent it's okay. It works honestly. I mean I think. And at least it's funny.#But in s2 having them act those big sentences wasn't a good idea. Really you can see they dont know where to put what little tonic accent w#have in french. And so it sounds fake. I mean ''ça sonne faux'' but i dont know how to translate that exactly in english. But yeah makes th#lines sound unsincere and meaningless. So the acting is downgraded. And I can see they're putting a lot of effort into it but it does#Make them sound like they're struggling hard. And we go back to the line not feeling right. Like they dont know what they're saying you kno#*I meant intonation rather that tonic accent (maybe ?) french doesnt have a lot of tonic accent(s). but both probably apply to this case)#Im only this bitchy about it cause it's a rather big production. Im pretty sure they have the resources to do better.#I know it most likely the same for any other language that was represented in the show. Or other shows for that matter. It's just that#I dont have expertise on other languages. Tho i dont remember what show i was watching where the actors spoke spanish and even i could tell#they were neither spanish nor from any latin america country. For the record i am not very good at spanish.#iwtv
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the conservative reactionary vibe of all of kul tiras i will not explain
#Actually I will.#the unironic use of screeching saggy witches as the most common villain#the fact that they added a fat woman playable model but the only instance of that model w a double chin is lady ashvane#YET ANOTHER default european human kingdom with all white leadership#military style leadership#'we could have lived in peace if only the native drust weren't so violent and backwards!'#also being placed in opposition to zandalar. where they actually bothered to hire voice actors of color for once#instead of Jim 'The Caricature' Cummings
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I'm so tired of seeing [big company] is hiring for [AI-related job] that pays [a lot of money].
#ive been looking for jobs under the generic term of 'writing' too and i keep seeing ai-related jobs#a lot of ones where they want a writer to TRAIN the ai#if youre hiring a writer why not just have the writer write everything themself#because the end goal is to get rid of the writer i would assume#i dont think writing will ever be ''all ai'' but there is already more and more#when i was job searching *last* summer i didnt see anything for ai#makes me wonder what kind of precedent the outcome of the actors/writers strikes could set#flythepost
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