One notable flaw in the analysis is that it blindly examines Cob from Tales of Earthsea in the context of Ghibli instead of in context of Ursula K. Le Guin (the author).
Le Guin’s Left Hand of Darkness features a nonbinary race and was published in 1969. A good chunk of her work includes critique of gender and queer themes.
So it’s inane as hell to complain that “It’s unfortunate then that one of Ghibli’s very few unquestionably evil roles is also one of their only transfeminine characters” when Cob is transfeminine in virtue of Le Guin’s original material and decidedly not the only trans* character in her body of work.
However, a valid critique is that Ghibli never goes beyond allusion to queerness with the exception of an adaptation of another’s work. Yeah, Japanese culture/media yadda yadda but someone needs to have some nerve and practice prefigurative politics already.
Oppenheimer at number 2?? In what world? It was decent, but does not deserve to be listed over so many others. Sometimes the Nolan hype train confounds me.
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Pretty amazing. I was fascinated by the look the whole time. To me, it had a look similar to B&W photos that had been colorized. Which really gave it this sense of the time period. It definitely looked like it was filmed in the 20s/30s.
Musk is a piece of shit and detriment to society, Heard is a run of the mill rich cunt, and Aquaman is a dumb superhero so I was never going to watch anyhow.
Fuck that musk asshole. He’s clearly a complete moron and can’t manage anything right (and he’s never doing his job) so why would anyone care what he thinks?? Why do we keep giving this fucking loser oxygen??
This is one of those “wut?” moments. I wouldn’t be surprised if WB just said f it and kept her in because this movie will bookend the current iteration DCEU franchise so it hardly matters one way or the other.
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