Now, as I look at the movie again, I have become the fallible adult.
but he still doesn’t agree with the adults on Oz not being real/“no place like home”??? this is confusing
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- Feb 2021
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The Good Witch Glinda is pretty in pink (well, prettyish, even if Dorothy is moved to call her “beautiful”)
literally no call for this
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odd stockiness, the gaucheness, that endears her to us precisely because it is half unbeautiful, jolie-laide, instead of the posturing adorableness a Shirley Temple would have brought to the role—and Temple was seriously considered for the part. The scrubbed, ever so slightly lumpy unsexiness of Garland’s playing is what makes the movie work.
HEY WHAT THE FUCK MY DUDE SHE WAS SEVENTEEN
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heroic as ever
??? really???? it was a tornado, uncle henry’s not stupid
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The Grimms’ fairy tales, it’s true, were often brutally realistic. In “The Fisherman and His Wife,” the eponymous couple live, until they meet the magic flounder, in what is tersely described as “a pisspot.” But in many children’s versions of Grimm the pisspot is bowdlerized into a “hovel” or some even gentler word.
☝︎ has never done a lick of research on the grimm brothers ☝︎
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And this is the home that “there’s no place like”? This is the lost Eden that we are asked to prefer (as Dorothy does) to Oz?I remember, or I imagine I remember, that when I first saw the film Dorothy’s place struck me as a dump. Of course, if I’d been whisked off to Oz, I reasoned, I’d naturally want to get home again, because I had plenty to come home for. But Dorothy? Maybe we should invite her over to stay; anywhere looks better than that.
oh FUCK you. Dorothy wants to get home because home has everyone she loves, like her fucking PARENTAL FIGURES, not because it’s in any way “perfect.”
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Frank Baum’s Emerald City was green only because everyone in it had to wear emerald-tinted glasses, but in the movie it really is a futuristic chlorophyll green
yeah and that was better in the book bc symbolism
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Frank Baum’s Emerald City was green only because everyone in it had to wear emerald-tinted glasses, but in the movie it really is a futuristic chlorophyll green
yeah and that was better in the book bc symbolism
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- Nov 2020
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the one who gets the grape tries to equalize the things by refusing the grape until the partner also gets one.
funny because this is actually a MORE mature response to inequity than some humans have. <br>this isn’t bc introducing society corrupted us or whatever, because these chimpanzees also have “society” on some level, in that they are a social species. <br>i think it’s probably a combination of the current attitude towards wealth (you get it if you try hard enough) and the distancing effect that a lot of money, and the power that comes with it, can bring.
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Normally, you would think that if you reward a primate or any animal for a task, that all they pay attention to is how big is the reward that I get?
goddamn the fuckin hobbesian philosophy got in again. NO. THIS IS WRONG.
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And they take a drink for her. And they return to her and spit in her mouth so that she doesn't need to walk that whole distance.
wheres your fucking social contract now hobbes?? huh???? oh theyre doing just fucking fine without it is that right??????? FUCK YEAH THEY ARE FUCK YOU HOBBES NO ONE LIKES U
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Two chimpanzees had an enormous fight in the group and I was watching that. And a couple of hours later, I saw a big commotion in the group and I saw two chimps kiss and embrace each other.
do you think that some looming authority figure made them do that??? NO they just felt bad after arguing and wanted to be friends again. if ANYTHING is going to get even CLOSE to the idea of the state of nature, it’s this. AND WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT, THEY’RE BEING KIND TO ONE ANOTHER WITHOUT AN EXTERNAL REASON BECAUSE THEY DON’T NEED ONE.
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IDEA: hobbes and social contract is stupid, primates have things like altruism and fairness, which means the biological side of things isn’t all violence and aggression etc
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But actually, the morality comes from our primal instincts.
ANYWAY KINDNESS IS INHERENT AND FUCK HOBBES
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Like, we're wired to basically - to basically be good.
AW HELL YEAH FUCK THE IDEA OF THE SOCIAL CONTRACT
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So if you live in a group, you have to do each other favors. Otherwise there's no point in living in a group.
the point of society is literally kindness. thats the whole ding dang point
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The only thing that matters is that you win or that you lose.
boooriiing
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all the studies on primate behavior - animal behavior in general - were on aggression and violence
booooooooo
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