#you make peace with the idea that they're gonna have culture you aren't apart of

[netscapenavigator-official]

I always find it funny that Gen Z uses "rizz" as an example of how Gen Alpha is "brain rotted."

Like... I understand what "rizz" means. Maybe the problem isn't the slang, but you getting older and feeling entitled to the youth of those younger than you. Ever think about that?

[snowleopardsaregettingmytoes]

the obi wan show is really boring. and the opening was awful. and the music is really generic. and nothing about "its all just done in a computer but pretends to be real by using a lot of polygons and shading" cinematic is impressive. lemme know when you make another star wars with model ships and actors who aren't auditioning for a bible movie with a fascist-wannabe director treating the set like his own personal riech. (that's hyperbole for the acting is stiff and made so much more boring by the faux stoic exposition prattling. but if you watched movies that aren't like this thing, you'd know that.)

this is why i watch old movies. and you know? i cracked the code because i was willing to sit with it. what people keep calling racism and sexism is actually a form of communication & visual metaphor. notice how the white guy is like "hey i'm you", and the black guy is too, but he's like, there to represent a different motive/approach. and depending on the story and message the white guy either makes peace/friends with him or defeats him. this can go other ways too, like different hairstyles and styles of clothing. watch enough movies from the same era and you notice patterns.

these are backed up by the pretentious filmschool people's peacocking (but they only seem to grasp these concepts at a surface level.) Mirrors, reflections. symbolism. themes. what they're talking about are actually true and very important....they just talk about it really annoyingly, as does anybody saying stuff out loud to get it stuck in their own heads. its once these concepts are truly understood and their implementation perfected that we begin to not realize they're even there, woven so tightly into the fabric of cellulose that they simply ARE.

fun fact: in the 20th century when us queers weren't as open about ourselves, we tended to find each other by proxy. we'd mention something queer and observe those who heard. if they reacted like they knew or were interested, we had just found each other. but to be safe around the shitty bible shitheads, we didn't directly say its what we wanted.

"i am a man and i want to kiss another man" vs "heh i was at a bar and just saw two guys kiss what's the deal with that?"

same idea in movies. there's a joke about or related to queer culture/activities and any queers in the audience could find each other by seeing who reacted and how. i mean, c'mon. the entire industry was queer. of course they're gonna help their anytown usa counterparts find eachother.

it also made creating a mood so much easier and more effective because in the 20th century everything looked like stuff. the cars looked like cars and they all had different "faces" amd the houses and buildings were like that too. and so much variety. its sort of easier to just observe by being surrounded by it (i refuse to buy new stuff for the majority of what i own, so its literally what i surround myself with, including cars) than it is to explain it. try watching a movie that has a lot of scenes on the road and pick out specific cars, notice the colors and shapes and if you know makes & models check that too. or similarly, when there's a lot of buildings, make a conscious effort to determine which building might have what inside it. (home, apartments, offices, municipal, different kinds of stores and restaurants, garages vs gas stations, etc) clothes (ask yourself what kind of attitude must come with choosing an outfit such as that, then compare it with the character. avoid generalizations such as "only lawyers wear suits" and "wow she's wearing such a frumpy dress she must be stuck up", and instead use more bite-size feelings you might consider while getting dressed.

okay so you've watched a 20th century movie for that stuff. now try watching an avengers movie, or a similar-to-the-genre-studied film circa 2009-present. 9 times out of ten all that stuff falls apart because the new shit is so samey and forgettable. it relies on you either only caring about a concept ("there's a car chase happening" vs "this car chase is important because of what's riding on it, and these characters represent x,y,z and the cars represent these feelings and motivations, etc") its all very vauge, likely on purpose because if you can do that and give the bare minimum to make somebody who doesn't care much about movies pay attention so they have something to talk about in their boring little life to sound interesting and fit in (probably because the awesome hobby they could have been participating in got driven out of production and replaced in their life with a posting on reddit addiction), well you just made a lump of shit that grossed an obscene amount of money at the box office.

my solution is we behead all the capitalists, destroy the stranglehold of mediocre "smart" technology, paint our goddamn houses purple, learn some skills and hobbies and get goddamn fistfulls of grass and then when we're done with all that we meet up at the predetermined location and make a cobbled together sci-fi epic based on one of you's vintage fanfic, just like the original star wars. and we remember what we learned from the 21st century and never let that shit happen again.