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My main problem with Syndrome is Brad Bird's voice. Which I hate. (I mean, I hate the man's natural voice. I know he can't help it.)
My main problem with The Incredibles is the gender and family stereotyping. I liked it the least of all the Pixar films. But the short on the DVD, Boundin', is pure gold.
My main problem with Syndrome is Brad Bird's voice. Which I hate.
Err, wasn't Jason Lee the voice of Syndrome? I thought Brad Bird only did the costume designer.
Oh, really? Syndrome sounds just like Bird when he talks in the extras. I just assumed. Damn, am I misplacing my hate?
Pink? Pink?
What's wrong with pink?
You've got a
Pink kink in your think.
Doesn't matter what color
No, that gets a 'nope,"
Be it pink, purple, or heliotrope.
at the same time, it can be read as an indictment of politics of exclusion (superheroes are marginalized minorities)-- like The Iron Giant.
Well, there is "I am different and you exclude me, that isn't right" and then there is "I am Superior and you don't acknowedge that, that isn't right." The first, you'll get school assemblies about in the sixth grade. The second, you'll write papers about while studying Nietszche.
(As a side note, one of the most irritating things I've seen in college classroom discussions about minority/race/advantage/disadvantage is the people who trot out "I had freckles, and all the kids laughed at me!" as a form of discrimination. Mostly, it's a matter of people who grew up with no diversity around them, and thus totally unaware of any experience other than their own, but it makes my eyes roll like shades pulled too hard.)
Well, there is "I am different and you exclude me, that isn't right" and then there is "I am Superior and you don't acknowedge that, that isn't right." The first, you'll get school assemblies about in the sixth grade. The second, you'll write papers about while studying Nietszche.
Can you explain your second example?
But since the Incredible family's powers are special, they all turn out just great, even though their dad's an elitist prick.
Mr Incredible NEVER EVER said, "You can't be here, you aren't SPECIAL." He said, "Go home, you are a child and it's dangerous. This is my JOB." How is that being elitist? IIRC.
Err, wasn't Jason Lee the voice of Syndrome?
Yes, he is.
That kid totally needed to be shut down. Maybe Mr. Incredible didn't do it in the smoothest way possible (if he had, and Syndrome hadn't had the craxxy brewing, where would the story be), but he did do the right thing.