I don't even think the critics are entirely wrong "That was taken out of context" is less and less of a defense of any content in the online era Of *course* clips from the movie will be taken out of context, that's how the fucking Internet works
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The *vast* majority of all the movies I've seen some part of nowadays -- which is orders of magnitude higher than the number I would've seen in a pre-digital era -- I've seen only as clips on YouTube to highlight a joke or make some kind of point
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And so the whole "You can't make a movie critiquing the thing without actually doing the thing and appealing to the audience for the thing" argument -- Truffaut's Maxim -- is truer than ever Any violent gun scene will appeal to violent gun fans Any nudity will appeal to pervs
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I'm reminded of what Lindsay Ellis once said: "Framing and aesthetics supersede the rest of the text. Always, always, always."
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Framing and aesthetics matter a lot more than what the script says, yes, and Maïmouna Doucouré's decision to play the dance scenes in Cuties "straight", to actively shoot them as sexy as possible, is playing a huge role in the backlash
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Like the obvious comparison is to Little Miss Sunshine, but the final dance scene in Little Miss Sunshine is deliberately as awkward and cringey as possible (with the very clear reaction shots of shock and disgust playing a huge role in this)
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Like part of the joke of the scene is Abigail Breslin actually isn't dancing very well and the family has to "rescue" her It's deliberately not meant to appeal to the kind of person this kind of thing appeals to irl, it's trolling that kind of person
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Richard Kelly, when directing the Sparkle Motion scenes in Donnie Darko, said the part he hated most about doing it was having to audition "credible" dancers and make sure the choreography was actually good, so the story would "make sense" It made him feel hypocritical
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And so yeah, I'm not really chill over Doucouré having to audition hundreds of actors to find kids who could actually dance well enough to be "believable", it's a pretty big problem with the whole concept of doing this movie
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Herostratus356
That said Even framing and aesthetics can't save you Scarlett Johansson talked about doing full nudity for Under the Skin and how the movie was shot to be as creepy and unsexy as possible but it didn't matter
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Like she had to balance the artistic goals she wanted to accomplish by doing the movie with the knowledge that the nude frames of the movie were going to just end up on the Internet in a folder titled "ScarJo does full frontal" and become someone's desktop background
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Herostratus356
I mean... I haven’t seen it, but I think part of the problem is fully committing to unappealing framing and aesthetics. If you’ve got nude ScarJo in your movie, both she and you at some level are going to want an appealing frame or two in there for marketing herself and the film.
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Well, also, Under the Skin is meant to be horror and not genuinely pornographic or erotic, and yet, like what I just said about Donnie Darko, the story *doesn't make sense* if the character isn't sexy, that's the whole point, she's seducing men to their deaths
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