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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Replying to @arthur_affect @Herostratus356
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @Herostratus356
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @Herostratus356
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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Replying to @laureneoneal @Herostratus356
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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Replying to @arthur_affect
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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Replying to @laureneoneal
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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Replying to @laureneoneal
That's kind of the thing, that from the synopses I've seen, Doucouré is actually coming at this topic from a fairly conservative, negative standpoint -- and her attempt at true-crime-fascination-style satire just made her more open for attack from people who *share her views*
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I'm not accusing Doucouré of actually literally believing this, but her movie creates this narrative where being into skimpy outfits and suggestive dance moves is a "gateway drug" that has Amy watching porn and fantasizing about losing her virginity to an adult and so on
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Replying to @arthur_affect @laureneoneal
So ironically, whatever merit this narrative has as a reflection of real events... means it makes perfect sense for other people to turn on *her* movie and say "How is this not a gateway drug for some rando who stumbles on it in their Netflix queue"
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