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
ok I haven't seen the movie, but as someone who grew up in the competitive dance world, the poster looks unremarkable to me, and I could find kids who could dance well enough to be believable in like 10 seconds just by calling up my former dance teachers
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Well I mean it was doing a big cattlecall audition of dancers because she wanted them to be believable *and* to be able to act well enough to carry the movie, which means you start with an audition pool of kids in the dance world rather than the more normal process
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I mean idk what the deal is in France, but like...in the US, those kind of costumes and that kind of dancing were de rigeur when I was that age 20 years ago, and no one auditioning from the dance world would be shocked
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I think the problem is that Cuties "makes subtext text", like it directly connects the dance world with overt sexualization Joining the Cuties leads to the main character starting to post anonymous nudes online, watch hardcore porn, at one point trying to seduce an adult man
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