1. The Minions movies, like the Lego movies & many other animated films, are rooted in American myopia about class relations.https://twitter.com/JStein_Vox/status/922642107260702720 …
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10. Disney's fantasy was running his studio like a paternalistic master artist, with his staff as grateful hardworking apprentices.
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11. Of course Disney's fantasy of himself as beloved master artist of happy workshop came to grief in bitter animator's strike of 1941.
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12. The centrality of work continues to inform post-Disney animation: Minions, Toy Story movies, Cars etc.
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13. Building on Disney thematics, Minion movies are about artisan/workers finding consolation in obedience to a master (villain).
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14. The fact that the master is a villain & Minions are goofballs of course makes Disney thematic ironic.
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15. Yet even for the poor benighted Minions there is the possibility of redemption through class struggle: https://www.facebook.com/notes/t-h-e-o-r-y-is-my-praxis/a-minion-manifesto-toward-a-leftist-recuperation-of-the-minions/1116144098497250/ …
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They were also extremely well paid, weren’t they? Akin maybe to a Silicon Valley job today.
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