I'm being salty about her getting this opportunity mostly because the finished product is so offensive But, you know, that's allowed
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Yeah if what came out looked singular and unique and not twee and offensive whimsy all would be forgiven.
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I think a lot of people who complain about Twitter mobs cancelling a game/movie/whatever don’t want to admit that there’s a lot of good grace to be earned by making the actual product in question good regardless of anything else
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Replying to @Cybren @BradMichaelElm1 and
Undeserved good grace even! But it’s there!
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I have nothing against Maddie Ziegler as a person (well, I didn't before she agreed to do this movie) but even before I understood why an abled actor playing this kind of role was problematic I would not have recommended her for this role
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
She's a dancer, not an actor Her first big test of her acting ability should not be this wildly risky version of "becoming" someone else in a way that already offended a ton of people before they even saw it and is very likely to offend everyone else afterwards
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
By today's standards they shouldn't have made Forrest Gump at all but I mean even in 1994 they knew this was a dicey thing to do and they cast Tom Hanks because he was a veteran actor they trusted to make it seem like a sensitive performance
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And Forest Gump, at least, is not actually handicapped in a way that is diagnosable, it's more a fairytail construct/device to make him a superhero absolved of greed, ambition, or malice. I mean still not great, but y'know.
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They don't say out loud what "Music's" disability is in the movie either but yeah this time it's very very obvious it maps onto autism I can't believe her name is literally "Music"
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I still can’t get over “maybe you’re just not a good actor” after casting her long time collaborator who has no acting experience
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Lol it's literally just trying to make lightning strike twice, casting the same person who was in the original viral music video that started all this
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