#media Notes

I just watched a clip of the Zoro/Mihawk fight scene from the new live action show.

It felt so slow and fake, compared to the same scene in an actual cartoon.

The anime managed to convey more emotion and context in half the runtime.

Live action remakes: not for me!

I’m stuck at home with a nasty cold, but at least I have some good blogs to read!

I’m reading josh.work’s notes about watching Frozen with his 3 year old daughter, and this bit stood out to me:

“Elsa creates a sentient snow monster that tries, plausibly, to kill the other party. The whole movie could be her doing cool stuff for the entire town, as an inventor/creator/artist/advocate/engineer. Eden [the 3 year old] has me skip the snow monstor part. Also there’s a part where soldiers attack Elsa in her tower, we skip that part. Wild to make a kids movie and inject war into it.”

I feel this so hard. So much of our culture, and thus our stories, glorifies violence and competition. I’m tired of those stories.

I want the story where Elsa used her magic to make her sister smile and it was a good thing, and she goes on to make the whole town smile too.

Let’s write more of those stories.