Ryan Arey

18 Aug 2023

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Warner Brothers is now officially merged with Paramount

New VisionQuest trailer shows his new look: “teen Vision” from Young Avengers, when he initially assembled the team. The pieces are finally coming together for Wanda’s return

Gaston’s death crushed the egg economy and caused the French Revolution. Beauty and the Beast is actually about the elite exercising their dominion over the working class–truly a tale as old as time. Let me explain. 🧵

Belle won't help them--she traipsed through town singing a mean song about everyone. The town is ruled by an unelected monarch living in a castle with creatures that tried to kill them. No wonder they rebelled against the ruling elites. Poor provincial town, my ass.

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This was leading up to the French Revolution in 1789. Wealthy royal sites ignored the needs of the poor until they overthrew the aristocracy. In the film, the townspeople sack the castle to “kill the beast” of the monarchy itself.

Gaston's death collapsed their economy and placed an angry-boy prince back in power. At the celebration ball, none of the townspeople are invited! It’s just Adam, Belle, and all the people who live to serve their every whim. He is living in a bubble of wealth and luxury.

Gaston sings that he eats five dozen eggs a day–which totals 433,620 eggs in his lifetime. This means the town would need to either ship in eggs or keep 333 laying hens, with an avg lay rate of 85% lay rate (like your mom). That's 392 chickens to feed Gaston's protein appetite.

This would have necessitated a vast infrastructure, a network of coops, laying hens, feed, and farmhands. This explains the town's thriving business sector. No wonder the townspeople love him so much–he props up their economy, while the royals collect taxes and contribute nothing

Now the beast, before his transformation, was likely the prince of a cadet branch of the House of Bourbon–these were distant heirs to the throne that ruled their own mini-provinces. The prince has not been seen for years, and yet the town is flourishing.

The local economy is thriving, with a large bookshop and luxury goods like tobacco, hats, wigs, and perfume. In particular, we hear that eggs are in high demand–a woman screams for six eggs–because eggs are very high in demand. Later, we find out why:

Belle lives in a “small provincial town,” a settlement away from major urban areas or centers of power, in late 18th-century France. Louis XV levied heavy taxes to pay for the Seven Years' War, and tensions with regional provinces–like Belle’s town–were starting to fracture

At this time, France did have a parliament that was charged with enacting theking's rulings, but they could also veto his reforms that would have taxed the wealthy. This led to Louis dissolving the parliament in 1771, which turned France into an absolute monarchy.

20 July

Avengers: Doomsday trailer breakdown! What did you guys think of the trailer? youtu.be/JjT7hGTRr1E

Once a year, he thaws out when America needs him most. Updates to come! #4thJuly

5 July

“I could do this all day.”

5 July

‪“I gotta put her in the water!”‬ ‪Happy Fourth of July everyone, see you next year Cap!

Once a year, he thaws out when America needs him most. Updates to come! #4thJuly

“The price of freedom is high. But it’s a price I’m willing to pay.”

“The future is in our hands.”

Once a year, he thaws out when America needs him most. Updates to come! #4thJuly

“This one’s waited long enough.”

24 June

I disagree with Variety’s Supergirl review so much, I actually find parts of it offensive. It’s the first time I’ve never been able to finish reading a movie review because I found it so condescending and misguided.

16 May

Hey, uh…you guys know that the Odyssey is a story about a guy being punished by celestial being who don’t fucking exist, right? Like it’s not a piece of historical record—it’s about Greek Batman going on an adventure and meeting dead Superman in hell.

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Cliff Booth movie looks incredible!

All of the AI ads on the Super Bowl remind me of the 200 Super Bowl, where there was nothing but ads for tech start ups tidy didn’t exist a few months later.

27 Jan

Wonder Man is absolutely great and one of the all time best Marvel shows…so why are they dumping it in one day? I’m seriously asking, what’s the strategy?

27 Jan

Easily one of the most traumatic moments I’ve ever seen in a “kids” film. What’s yours?

Sid from Toy Story Likely Died of a Fentanyl Overdose. See, Sid was not the villain of Toy Story–remember, he was a child. Yes, we see Sid tear his toys apart, Frankenstein them together, and even blow them up–but does this make him a bad kid?

Justice for Sid.

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For his entire life, he would have been haunted by the memory of a talking toy, a toy that told him that there are people watching him everywhere. Sid would tell his parents, his teachers, doctors–but no one would believe him.

The kid is crazy, give him Meds. So this poor child would gladly accept the medication–anything to block out the sound of Tom Hanks’s voice. So, he overdosed and died young.

Unless, that is, their emotional growth is stunted by a talking psychotic toy.

Sadly, we see our final look of Sid here, in Pixar’s Coco. This is the land of the dead–and that is a skeleton wearing a skull tee shirt–implying that Sid died an early death. I think that the prescription drug use in his early years set Sid down the wrong path.

This kind of psychiatric damage was probably treated with medication–the heavy stuff that sedates a child to kill their sense of whimsy and wonder. Adult Sid makes a cameo in Toy Story 3 here–he’s a garbage man. Now there's nothing wrong with being a garbage man–it was my dream job when I was a kid.

But Sid’s type of play indicates a child with career objectives in mind–he pretends to be a doctor, and an astronaut. A study commissioned by Genius of Play concluded that 32% of adults claimed the toys they played with as children affected their career choices.

Now Sid also likes to blow stuff up…but for a reason. He wants to blow up Buzz to make him fly. Which, by the way, works–that's how Buzz and Woody fall with style to meet up with Andy on moving day.

So then Woody traumatizes this kid for life by speaking to Sid. He is freaked out–and for the rest of his life, genuinely believes that objects come alive–he believes that toys are sentient beings. Think of the long-term consequences here.

Sid does bully his little sister by taking her to the pretend operating room to perform a double bypass brain surgery. Sid is so smart, he just invented double bypass brain surgery–think what he could have achieved if Woody didn't drive him into a life of hard drugs.

See, Sid has no idea that the toys are alive–to him, they are objects, and outlets to express his creativity.

Sid doesn't have the luxury of owning all the best toys, like his well-off neighbor Andy. So, he has to get creative–he takes his toys apart and mixes them back together. He even turned this toy into a hook-er, get it? He’s got a warped, mature sense of humor.

When he finds Buzz, he’s so excited and says, “A Buzz Lightyear, no way”--because this poor kid just scored the hottest toy in America. This is the best day of his little life.