*Finishes watching the new Wreck It Ralph 2 trailer with the princesses*
*Takes deep breath*
Okay…
Do you know what set Enchanted apart from every other parody of Disney? Enchanted wasn’t a parody at all. Enchanted was a pastiche. (A pastiche of Disney done by Disney with Disney. I’ll get to that last part in a minute.)
See, a parody mocks something. A pastiche may poke fun at it but its ultimate goal is to always, always, celebrate it.
And the people behind Enchanted went so hard. Every single scene was filled with nothing less than pure respect and devotion to Disney, even as they were making jokes about the overused tropes that previous Disney films used.
So yes, you have wonderfully cheesy jokes like this:
While also having genuine, heartfelt, nonironic, moments like this:
That whole dance sequence was phenomenal. They didn’t have to go that hard but they did because they wanted to immerse you in the feeling of Disney!
I mean, look at this, right here:
It’s obviously a pastiche of this shot from Beauty and the Beast:
A pastiche, not a parody, because they weren’t mocking it. They were saying, “Hey, remember that beautiful scene that blew you away, yeah, it blew us away too, we’re going to make an homage to it because we loved it so much.”
And that’s just one of the hundreds of references and easter eggs in the film.
Like we all know the scene in the park where they burst into sing and Robert’s just standing there like:
Classic!
A hilarious parody but it’s not a parody, it’s a pastiche, because when they’re bursting into song, it’s done to genuinely celebrate old Disney songs and not just mock them. Hey, fun fact, you know these dancers:
They’re the Chimney Sweepers (the actors who played them in Mary Poppins)!
They loved the Chimney Sweepers so they brought back the actors to do a three-second cameo in the film! There are hundreds of references and callbacks like that throughout the movie, all done to not only have a laugh at how cheesy Disney is but to celebrate that cheesiness with Disney, by Disney, with Disney (i/e: the references). It was the perfect homage!
That’s why Kristoff loudly scoffing about marrying a boy you just met falls flat; it’s meant to mock and not celebrate.
That’s why the new trailer with the princesses being reduced to one-dimensional archetypes while Vanellope looks scared for their wellbeing doesn’t work for me.
The jokes are funny, the animation was pretty, but there was no heart behind it.
Hell, even Shrek (and Shrek 2) of all things knew how to be a pastiche instead of an outright parody. That’s how you got genuinely epic moments like this:
Where they realized that yes, these tropes make for comedy gold, but there’s still something about them to be celebrated.
When Shrek celebrates Disney more than Disney’s celebrating Disney, there’s something wrong!
And I really hope that this new meta “haha we’re not like the other Disney films, we’re edgy, we’re mocking the old tropes” trend doesn’t stick around. Because these tropes may be sappy af, they may be overused, and there may be better ones out there, but they still deserve a happily ever after.
If you refuse to provide someone with the medication that a DOCTOR prescribed them, you should not become a pharmacist because that is the job description.
These goes for those people who claim “moral” reasons to refuse to fill hormone therapy drugs for transgender people, those who refuse to fill birth control prescriptions, and emergency contraception meds.
This.
I am SO GLAD that CVS fired the worthless bigoted little cishet twat that refused to do her fucking job and sell this woman her hormones
Hope she doesn’t have an “Moral objections” to the unemployment line because that’s where she’s going
These moments of progress are why cis people are mad. Once upon a time they could treat trans people as subhuman and they NEVER faced any repruccusions. There was no social consciousness about trans people as a vulnerable minority. We were just perceived as freaks and perverts. Now, the slightest progress is being made where a headline about someone losing their job bc of transphobia is about a bigoted cis person, not a trans person being discriminated against. That’s what cis people are so opposed to: having to respect trans people’s basic human rights.
i hope everybody who reblogged this wacky hilarious text post fails all their classes and finds themselves stuck in a dead-end minimum wage job for the rest of their life
i’m so very glad tumblr is popularizing poor work ethic and laziness. what a great thing. i guess that means more income for people who actually take their lives seriously
To everyone going “oh no! Adam thinks Shiro’s probably dead”
Are you ACTUALLY trying to tell me that Sam Holt, after kissing his wife and explaining where their children are, did not PROMPTLY run to the Garrison to be like “oooohhhhh shit you nerds are not gonna believe this”, and NOT stop by Adam’s office?
You don’t think he crashed in there like:
“HeyHEYhey guess who’s alive bitch?! ME! But also your man! He’s leading a rebellion with your adopted son, got a sick ass robot arm and oh…Adam, oh boy…. *deep inhale* he be looking fiiiiiiiine~”
“Oh! Oh… actually…We broke up”
“Well you’re gonna un-fuck that when you see his bobbies”
voltron making shiro gay in canon is such a good thing because now i can say “shiro is canonically a gay icon” and literally no one can argue with me. anyway shiro is canonically a gay icon
Motherfucking Cowboy Meowchow 