While speaking with Variety, Daley and Goldstein discussed how Michelle Rodriguez's Holga the Barbarian and Sophia Lillis' Doric the Druid tend to engage in the frontlines of battle compared to their male party members. "That was not an attempt at wokeness on our part," Goldstein said. Daley elaborated, saying, "Swear to God, it wasn't. We liked that Holga is the bruiser that does the dirty work for Edgin, and he doesn't like to get his hands dirty. We also love emasculating leading men."
It’s not woke. It’s just everything you associate with woke.
Regardless of the part each member of the DnD adventuring party plays, actor Hugh Grant, who plays the rogue Forge Fitzwilliam in the film, noted that none of the main characters are particularly good at what they do. "I think maybe what I responded to most in their script was that it's about losers. This little band of comrades, they're all a bit crap. You are not great at being a bard," Grant said. "And the magician, played by Justice [Smith], is really bad. What do they call magicians in Dungeons & Dragons?... Sorcerer. He's not much good.
Yeah, the male characters are made to look inept and stupid. Not woke at all.
These studios need to go under. It’s the only solution.
It’s amazing to me that these writers don’t understand how a refusal to give female characters legitimate flaws also prevents them from having meaningful arcs.
While they did not name names, they noted that they'd had experiences with a couple of male actors in the past who refused to look weak or vulnerable in a film
I'm willing to bet that they refused to look like retarded whiny pusses. You just think that this and looking 'weak or vulnerable' are the same thing.
Then again, you liken yourself to Monty Pythons, so you obviously do not live in anything resembling reality.
Seeing as every single DnD person I've seen so far is either a hideous female or a wimpy dork, I think emasculating the males will resonate with the targeted demographic.
Still can't understand after all these years how capeshit has such a strong grasp on people.
I mean... magic or sci-fi or super-hero ... it's all capeshit, but you can't be on 100% of the time. You will lose your mind. And it's fun living vicariously with few limits but your imagination. I'm a crafter of stories and a singer of songs. This appeals to my creative muse.
Please explain to me how this isn't capeshit? Because this is no different than the superhero marvel bullshit, don't pretend that the audiences don't overlap by a majority percentage. Capeshit itself is also fantasy so I don't see how DnD is somehow magically different, other than the fact that you probably do it yourself hence why you're defensive.
It’s not woke. It’s just everything you associate with woke.
Yeah, the male characters are made to look inept and stupid. Not woke at all.
These studios need to go under. It’s the only solution.
Willing to bet that only the males are bad, the women will have flaws like it is hard being so strong and perfect all the time
It’s amazing to me that these writers don’t understand how a refusal to give female characters legitimate flaws also prevents them from having meaningful arcs.
Or being in any way relatable or even likeable.
GOLDSTEIN? R U 4 REEEEEAAL???
stahp noticing!
I'm willing to bet that they refused to look like retarded whiny pusses. You just think that this and looking 'weak or vulnerable' are the same thing.
Then again, you liken yourself to Monty Pythons, so you obviously do not live in anything resembling reality.
(((John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein)))
Seeing as every single DnD person I've seen so far is either a hideous female or a wimpy dork, I think emasculating the males will resonate with the targeted demographic.
Still can't understand after all these years how capeshit has such a strong grasp on people.
This is just capeshit with a "modern audience" fantasy skin on it.
I mean... magic or sci-fi or super-hero ... it's all capeshit, but you can't be on 100% of the time. You will lose your mind. And it's fun living vicariously with few limits but your imagination. I'm a crafter of stories and a singer of songs. This appeals to my creative muse.
Please explain to me how this isn't capeshit? Because this is no different than the superhero marvel bullshit, don't pretend that the audiences don't overlap by a majority percentage. Capeshit itself is also fantasy so I don't see how DnD is somehow magically different, other than the fact that you probably do it yourself hence why you're defensive.
Good for you, but you still didn't elaborate on how DnD isn't capeshit.
That makes even less sense then because my initial comment specifically points out DnD.
Already been posted.
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