In the movie Hook some of the Lost Boys were black and I don’t remember anyone complaining but they understood that Lost Boys were boys. Clearly the director hasn’t read the book because there was a specific reason they were called lost boys. Of course whenever I say you should respect the source material I’m told that’s a white supremacist dog whistle. Similar to the response you get if you want game journalists to talk about games.
I don’t doubt that part of it is simple smugness, in that some unknown little journalist from some minor outlet no one reads in 2023 can feel like they’re superior to the long-dead famous author of the beloved work that’s being “updated for modern audiences.” Same again with the directors and actors of the updates. You can also sense that what they really want to say is “we made this better!”
And I feel like they are so deep into the cause that they are honestly surprised and think you are a bad person if you want to see a more faithful adaptation. Also they are honestly shocked when all those things fail
The only thing I got out of Hook as a kid was an absolute obsession with eating frosting for dinner. Oh, and that big ass statue that "ate" Hook gave me nightmares. There was something incredibly unnerving about how it made him just vanish from existence, like some kind of fucking SCP.
The point was that they were feral, and Wendy was a civilizing influence on them. You can still have ferals with girls, but the point about never growing up suffers.
In the movie Hook some of the Lost Boys were black and I don’t remember anyone complaining but they understood that Lost Boys were boys. Clearly the director hasn’t read the book because there was a specific reason they were called lost boys. Of course whenever I say you should respect the source material I’m told that’s a white supremacist dog whistle. Similar to the response you get if you want game journalists to talk about games.
We live in a time where knowing the source material is considered "problematic"
I know! Add to that the shill media with articles like “this show craps all over the source material and that’s a good thing”
I don’t doubt that part of it is simple smugness, in that some unknown little journalist from some minor outlet no one reads in 2023 can feel like they’re superior to the long-dead famous author of the beloved work that’s being “updated for modern audiences.” Same again with the directors and actors of the updates. You can also sense that what they really want to say is “we made this better!”
And I feel like they are so deep into the cause that they are honestly surprised and think you are a bad person if you want to see a more faithful adaptation. Also they are honestly shocked when all those things fail
the point isn't just that it's "source material from a prior era" but that the source material actually made sense. this doesn't.
The only thing I got out of Hook as a kid was an absolute obsession with eating frosting for dinner. Oh, and that big ass statue that "ate" Hook gave me nightmares. There was something incredibly unnerving about how it made him just vanish from existence, like some kind of fucking SCP.
The point was that they were feral, and Wendy was a civilizing influence on them. You can still have ferals with girls, but the point about never growing up suffers.
Agreed. Also I guess I’m just tired of the mindset that you need to inject women into everything. Wendy is already an important character