I'm suffering through the opening narration for Mirror, Mirror. God, Keanu Reeves would be better.
Kaylee: Can I? Zoe: Sure. He's out, though. Kaylee: He did this for me, once.
'Safe'
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Juliebird - Jul 07, 2012 8:27:24 am PDT #21509 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Sean K - Jul 07, 2012 8:51:32 am PDT #21510 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
It seemed literal to me. I was left wondering what the point of the movie was.
Except everything else he saw seemed pretty literal too. Like all the furniture suspended in midair because gravity stopped working. That was shot to seem pretty literal. And when his wife saw the storm at the end, she got rained on by the orange stuff he'd been seeing too. So I'm not convinced it was cut and dry that the ending was literal. Actually, as my roommate pointed out, interpreting it metaphorically actually makes the ending kind of a happy ending ( the wife and daughter accept that dad is crazy and begin to deal with that. The wife begins to understand the size of the problem, and even faced with something that catastrophic, her response is "Okay." ). My roommate first took it as literal as well, until I pointed out that there's a strong case to be made that it's not literal. I mean, we're given no cause for the final storm. Particularly the giant tsunami. If it's supposed to be literal, that's the end of the freakin' world right there.
Sean K - Jul 07, 2012 8:52:56 am PDT #21511 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
If it's literal then it still works (for me), it's just much more depressing, because it's just a retelling of the Cassandra tale.
Connie Neil - Jul 07, 2012 9:15:00 am PDT #21512 of 30000
brillig
How much of modern American animation is done in Korea, though?
Tom Scola - Jul 07, 2012 10:45:20 am PDT #21513 of 30000
hwæt
Some of the really low-end animation is done in-house using Adobe Flash, but virtually all of the animation has been done in Korea and Japan for at least the past 40 years.
Connie Neil - Jul 07, 2012 11:27:29 am PDT #21514 of 30000
brillig
So the stories are American, but the art is Asian?
Polter-Cow - Jul 07, 2012 11:31:03 am PDT #21515 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Well, not entirely. Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra were animated in Korea, but the art and storyboarding and such is done stateside, I believe.
Connie Neil - Jul 07, 2012 12:24:23 pm PDT #21516 of 30000
brillig
Ah,OK. Thanks for explaining.
le nubian - Jul 07, 2012 2:26:00 pm PDT #21517 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
someone in my twitter feed loves "Magic Mike" because he sees it as a tale of how the optimism of youth gets corrupted by financial markets.
does this sound remotely plausible?
Jessica - Jul 07, 2012 2:29:58 pm PDT #21518 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
That's more or less the Slate Culture Gabfest's take on it as well.