movies used to be rated R and make so much fucking money man what happened
like. look at this. we used to consistently get multiple R rated movies in the top ten highest grossing films of the year. the last year that had more than one R rated movie in the ten highest grossing films of the year was 2004.
i don’t have definitive proof but i think it’s safe to place the blame for this development at disney’s feet. disney’s rewriting of copyright laws in the 90s coupled with their intentional acquisition of independent film studios (like miramax) and then choking out their fellow established studios and forcing mergers which allowed them to saturate the market with IP that would choke the competition and allow them to gobble up more and more and more of the market share. and then there’s touchstone.
under the walt disney studios umbrella they used to have their distribution under a separate brand name called buena vista. this allowed for some cognitive dissonance with the public which let disney distribute films that did not necessarily match their family friendly branding. touchstone pictures was a subsidiary of buena vista that specifically handled films targeted for adults. which is why there are R rated movies listed above, like pretty woman and cocktail, that were distributed by buena vista and are technically disney movies. but as disney became more and more of a monopoly they began to phase out the use of touchstone and buena vista altogether (both are now defunct). there is no separation of church and state. there is only disney. and disney has an image to maintain. they cannot be distributing films that feature sex work and promiscuity and suicide and foul language and war and addiction and hot people who are possibly bisexual. and since disney now controls the lion’s share of the industry they set the tone. and the tone is a sensitized version of humanity where any grittiness, any real flaws and fuck ups, don’t make it in front of enough eyeballs for it to matter all that much.
in the last decade, only in 2014 and 2020 was the highest grossing movie of that year from a studio that wasn’t disney. in 2019, seven of the top ten were disney movies. that kind of market monopoly only hurts creative diversity. hollywood, like all industries, is only concerned with whether or not something can make money — whether something worth the financial risk of production, ad campaigns, a wide theatrical release, and a home video campaign. it’s always been a short list of people and ideas that they considered worth that risk. and while more people are getting the opportunity to have their chance to succeed in hollywood, the list of people and ideas that are considered worth the risks of a full ad campaign and wide theatrical release has shrunk significantly. we aren’t making and advertising R rated movies like we used to because studios don’t think there’s a market for them. disney created a market that choked out anything that would once have done well in a theater. now they go straight to streaming. we have so few stars because disney has created a culture where intellectual property is the star. not the actor. if need be an actor can be replaced. an actor can be deepfaked, cgi’ed, in. they know you’re not there to see an actor. you’re there to see the IP. you know people aren’t stars anymore because their names aren’t going on a card in the middle of the trailer advertising the movie. you don’t need to know that so-and-so is playing x superhero because the actor doesn’t matter. disney has made sure of it.
“A neo-fascist, in all his Italian virility, begins to insult some women participating in Bologna Pride. This until, frightened by other protesters covered with glitter and by a bear far more virile than he, to devote himself to what the Fascists do best: escape.”
EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR. I’M SOBBING
La fuga, pursued by bear in glitter 🤣🤣🤣
“to devote himself to what the Fascists do best: escape.” ROAST HIS ASS
the Strength, the Solidarity, and the Shade here is examplary
A cursed thought just occured to me and I decided to make you all suffer to
So in Tolkien lore elves are immortal right? After a certain point they don’t age and will just keep living, save for the intervention of accidents, illness/poison, or very pointy objects. This leads to a whole laundry list of questions on biology but there’s one in particular I want to bite into today(pun much intended).
Teeth.
How do elf teeth work? Because the main issue with teeth over time is that they wear down with use. This is not as much of a problem in modern times, we are spoiled with a lot of very soft easy to chew food, but it’s still a thing and historicaly you wore down your teeth alot over the course of your life. Things like smoking a pipe can carve a grove in your teeth where you hold the pipe stem.
And this means that if you’re immortan and alive long enough, your teeth will wear down to nothing because elves do need to eat. But obviously Galadriel and Elrond aren’t looking like grandmas who forgot their dentures, so elves must have something to solve this.
I therefor present my 3 running theories for how elves keep their teeth:
- The OP Teeth Of Steel Theory
Elf teeth are simply to strong to wear down. A bit boring if you ask me.
- The Elves Are Rodents Theory
Rodent front teeth grow continiously their entire life, it’s realy cool. It’s also why they’re always chewing on things, because if they don’t their teeth will grow so long it stops them from eating. This theory proposes elf teeth also just grow forever(this could lead to a extremely annoying habit of elves to grind their teeth to keep them down, but oh well).
- The Elves Are Sharks Theory
Sharks tackle the problem of teeth by simply?
Growing more teeth?
Like they just keep loosing teeth and growing new ones. For elves this could mean that when a tooth gets to worn it simply falls out and a new one grown in, like human milk teeth but their entire life.
This was all writen in about 10min while getting ready for bed, so please enjoy these lovely cursed thoughts while I escape to dreamland :)
@greetings-inferiors okay but now I’m picturing them using them as a crafting material too. And the faces that humans would make when they figure out what “elvish ivory” actually is XD