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I saw Elio recently and.... AI can't possibly write worse plots than this
It makes me sad because elio was supposed to be a cute story about a queer kid learning about his place in the universe. Instead, the original director and writer got kicked, the movie was butchered and a new film was made from the corpse that had nothing to do with the original premise. Then it was released without any marketing and the animators were blamed, "the movie flopped because of bean mouth!" No, is flopped because Disney is an evil pos that only wants profit and to cause suffering to minorities in order to extricate more money for the shareholders.
Never, never ever ever trust corporations to do social change topics in a good way.
The unholy union of business and feminism still means that you now need 80h of paid work a week to keep a family afloat instead of the 40h we had before.
Disney and LGBTQ+ and other minority topics is exactly like that. They don't care about anything like that, all they care about is making money.
Sounds kinda what happened to Zootopia, with the first draft being too daring maybe.
A shame about Elio, the final product is about as bland and uninteresting as an animated movie can get.
I'm sorry but what was wrong with Zootopia? I thought that movie was quite excellent.
Zootopia is great, but its first draft was notoriously quite different and a lot darker, leaning more into the predator vs. prey theme.
It's basically where the whole predator vs. prey theme came from in the first place. Zootopia's weak plot twist exists because Disney told them they couldn't have their dark story.
Is that what the original premise was supposed to be? I saw it as some annoying kid who got rewarded handsomely for his socially inept behaviour. To me, he was so unlikable.
He was the queer kid of a Latina mother in the US who liked fashion and wanted to save the environment. Then it was focus grouped to death until the director and the main star left. Pete Docter killed the film because he hates people. "Want to make films that appeals to as many people as possible" means kill minorities representation to him. This attitude will eventually bankrupt Pixar.