My possibly unpopular opinion; I've been genuinely curious about the Cruella film and wanna see what exactly they do with it, just given how incredibly impossible it seems to sympathize her, of all villains.
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Replying to @dreamingnoctis
there was a parody musical named Twisted (about Jafar) where during the title number a bunch of Disney villains show up with their sympathetic motivations and Cruella bursts in with "I only wanted to have a coat made of puppies!", causing everyone else to kick her off stage
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Replying to @life_minutiae @dreamingnoctis
Do they give all the other ones new motivations or something? Because I’m having a hard time thinking of a positive spin on Jafar’s villainy…
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Replying to @TheWeaseKing @dreamingnoctis
It's a Wicked-style reimagining of a modified version of Aladdin told from Jafar's perspective, so they add too much plot and characterization for it to be a direct commentary on the original work, but part of it is that a bunch of royal guards are killed in One Jump Ahead
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The creators did come at it from a mildly socially conservative place, like one of them said it bothered him since he was a kid that no one ever questions that Aladdin really has no better options than petty theft for earning a living
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Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and
And that just casually justifying breaking the law like this is kind of messed up for a Disney movie (and justifying it by saying it's a "barbaric land" is kind of racist) An opinion shared by many concerned parents at the time in the 90s
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Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and
Which was, in fact, a big change made to Aladdin during the writing process by Jeffrey Katzenberg, who cut out Howard Ashman's song "Proud of Your Boy" where Aladdin is deeply ashamed of being a criminal and wants to become respectable to make his mother proud
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But anyway The Lang Brothers have radicalized politically a lot since 2014, in their more recent musicals they've outright jumped into how capitalism will destroy the world and the true thieves in our society are the corporations etc
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Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and
This is like that galaxy brain meme
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Replying to @beetlefella101 @arthur_affect and
Galaxy brain is who else ended up listening to "Proud Of Your Boy"
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