Notice how I don’t have to dishonestly erase and ignore the actual context of Finn and Rey’s interactions in order to make these? That’s because these are the beats of an actual meet-cute and not disingenuous distortions of canon. I am critical of how violently Finn was struck in the face and how it was played comedically, but it is part of a common pattern with these stories.
Yes, the Rey and Kyle visuals could look similar if you took their scenes out of all context while disregarding the characters and stories–and that’s the point. These shitty “parallel” posts are attempts to sanitize the context of the originals, as though kidnap, torture, and manipulation constitute a normal meet-cute.
Also isn’t it interesting how these posts disregard an actual “Reylow” parallel where the Light Fury is trapped and terrified, then appears to be borne away against her will? For all that shippers insist the abduction was romantic as hell, it seems they don’t like actually acknowledging Rey’s pain and fear…
…or the fact that this means Kyle’s actual parallel in HTTYD 3 is this wavy-haired douche dressed in black.
Also saying “they’re kid’s movies” to discourage critique is an ass move. Do you think children are immune to issues like abuse and violence in real life? You don’t think children, like the rest of us, use stories to understand and cope with their lives? I know I relied on fiction as a child to deal with things I couldn’t tell people and didn’t even have the vocabulary to express. If anything children’s media need to be scrutinized more, not less, for the ways they’re framing these and other issues.
You’re also a raging hypocrite if you’re fine with kidnap, torture, and manipulation being disguised as a cute and harmless romance and being deliberately put in the tags for a children’s movie (especially when many of the shippers openly admit the ship is a kink for them), but think the people who criticize that practice need to “chill a little.” Fuck. Off.
Holy shit! This is off-topic, but that was some damn fine editing. How did you edit those clips together? Adobe premiere? Editing nerd 🤓.
Star Wars is marked to all ages. That’s why we can have cute scenes like this
And disturbing scenes like this:
Star Wars has murder, suicide, genocide, torture, mind probes that the writers have literally made metaphors to rape, Family members killing each other, war, self-sacrifice, child abandonment, kidnapping, child kidnapping, terrorism, anarchy, nihilism and fascism.
Star Wars might have elements that can be marketed towards a younger audience, but it is also one of the darkest franchise in the cinema history.
Awww thank you! The final editing was done in Photoshop with gifs edited to the same frame count being pasted alongside each other, but I used Premiere to make the TFA gifs by exporting the DVD-extracted clips as 15 FPS animation and importing them into Photoshop. I did a gif capture of the HTTYD 3 trailer on YouTube, but if I’d had an HD version of the trailer I could have exported the animations the same way I did with TFA footage.
Yeah, Star Wars movies are rated PG-13 for very good reasons. They’re not exclusively children’s movies, and have been subjects of political and other real-world commentary for decades. I hate the kind of disingenuous deflection anon and TLJ stans have been doing.
If you were not so stubborn, you would make a great queen. I would make a great queen because I am so stubborn. Ah! See, you admit it! If that’s what I wanted.
“K-2?” Cassian grimaced, looking from the manipulator controls to the comm. “What’s going on out there?” The comm growled with indecipherable static. Jyn saw something new flash across Cassian’s expression. He was afraid—not intellectually afraid, not afraid of failing the mission, but afraid for K-2. Afraid for his friend.
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