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Misplaced accents and sometimes-high-school-Spanish-class-skit-level Spanish in a work otherwise intended to be well-acclaimed? Have we not learned anything from Breaking Bad?
I’m generally not a fan of musicals either, especially if there's a focus in something other than the music. If there's an additional focus beyond the music and there aren't multiple tracks that are bangers, the story can be better served by a different medium. I don’t watch musicals for the plot or characterization just as I don’t watch porn for the plot or characterization.
I can’t take musicals seriously. The target market is generally women and children, so it’s unsurprising that many men would often find them silly and juvenile.
I do enjoy the odd musical here or there, and I find quite interesting YouTube videos that breakdown what does and doesn’t work in musicals such as Cats, Les Mis, Beauty and the Beast. However, speaking of Les Mis (and thus Hugh Jackman), imagine if for example, Prisoners were done in musical form. It just wouldn’t have the same gravitas and emotional weight, although I’d watch the shit out of it as a tribute or parody work:
Hugh: "Not YOUUUUUUU"*Two drum hits in unison with Hugh and Jake*—
Hugh: *thumps chest*, *thumps chest*
Jake: *blinks hard*, *blinks hard*
Hugh: "Not YOUUUUUUU"
*Two drum hits in unison with Hugh and Jake*—
Hugh: *thumps chest*, *thumps chest*
Jake: *blinks hard*, *blinks hard*
Hugh: "But MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
*orchestral bridge*
Hugh: "Every, every, every, EVERY… e-verrrr-RY-DAY"
*single, simultaneous drum and cymbal hits to end the song*
That being said, I’m rooting for Emilia Perez to win each and every award due to the seething about its depiction of Mexico and alleged transgender (mis)representation. Also, because I first heard of the film due to Redditors ree’ing and pearl-clutching over Gascon’s tweets. And it did not go unnoticed that Gascon’s name sounds similar to a certain hero from the aforementioned Beauty and the Beast (“no… one… tweets like Gascon”). But then again:
Yes, yes, yes, yes, no. its_all_so_tiresome.png
And yeah, what topics or cultures are sacred is just the usual Who? Whom?
You can mock and do impressions of the Sopranos-type Italian American accent in a way you can’t the stereotypical Mexican or black American accent. The modal white or Asian Westerner can make fun of the Germans or Japanese for being stereotypically punctual, make fun of or be annoyed with Mediterraneans for being stereotypically late, but not make fun of or be annoyed with Mexicans for doing the same. One can criticize East Asian cultures as being soulless, no fun, try-hard; one cannot criticize black cultures as low-IQ, impulsive, crime-ridden. It’s open season to shit on and dunk on Christians; criticizing Muslims is verboten and you had it coming if you get mostly peacefully fatwa’d.
It’s all just in good fun to mock men for being vidya-obsessed, athlete-worshipping, thirst-trap and porn-addicted perverts; only incels, misogynists, and pick-mes with internalized misogyny would mock women for being makeup-obsessed, celebrity-worshipping, thirst-trap and being-a-sex-object loving attention whores. #TechBros and finance bros are constant targets of scorn and derision; #WomenInTech and #WomenInFinance are to be coddled and celebrated as Strong, Independent #BossBabes: You fucking donkey vs. oh dear, oh dear, gorgeous.
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