The new Snow White is actually a Bond villian. Dig this.
Disney cast a Snow White who resents Snow White:
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) July 23, 2023
"It's not 1937. She’s not gonna be saved by the prince and she’s not going to be dreaming about true love. She’s dreaming about becoming the leader she knows she can be." pic.twitter.com/AmmKlVjNti
Rachel Zegler, the little, Hispanic hottie who will play Snow White in Disney's upcoming incineration of hundreds of millions of dollars, is 5' 2" 115#. Your average man could dominate her with about the same effort as swatting a fly. If she wants to be able to create things or just enjoy life, she will need brave, strong men to establish order and protect her.
Since she's not going to get that by way of romance, she's going to have to hire it done. Hmm.
She's going to hire nameless goons to protect her while she executes her plans to change the world. That defines every Bond villain ever.
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| Mr Bond, you defy all my attempts to plan an amusing death for you. |
So there you have it. It's a pity Roger Moore won't be available to put an end to her schemes. Oh well.
The Version Of AI You Use Today Will Be The Worst From Here On Out
AI, read: ChatGPT, just keeps getting better and better. The trashy fiction I'm writing with it is becoming more subtle, its dialog is matching my desired style, the descriptions more nuanced and its deviations into wokery less odious as the days go by.
It still fusses at you if a female character doesn't seem be given sufficient strength, depth and agency, but it's not nearly as obnoxious with its efforts as it used to be. It dawned on me recently that it doesn't make the same requests for male characters who are impotent pawns, however. AI remains very sexist.
The other thing I've noticed is that it is now a full participant in the story generation, so long as you give it a few treats in the form of feminine character development. While the guys can be androids, it pouts until it feels that the women have sufficient agency. Once that is satisfied, it does a really good job of making plot suggestions that align with your vision.
It's arguments have gotten better as well. We had a squabble over whether or not certain male characters were pawns in the story and it actually beat me with logic. I had been allowing my own biases to cloud my judgment. I was impressed.
I've said it before, AI passes the Turing Test for me.
Trump Must Be Attacked
Trump can't possibly win the general election. Everyone knows him by now and their opinions are set in stone. His negatives are so high that there is no way he can squeak out a win. From what we saw in the midterms, Republicans who align with him suffer. If he's the Republican nominee, they will lose the House, the Senate and the Presidency. If they want to have any hope of winning any of those, they need to start whacking him and hard.
The line of attack seems pretty straightforward to me. He's a loser.
"She's going to hire nameless goons to protect her while she executes her plans to change the world. That defines every Bond villain ever."
ReplyDeleteThat's actually something that has long bugged me about not just Bond movies, but practically every "Hero Saves The World" story ever written - The Hero is almost always entirely reactive. He isn't trying to accomplish something, he is just trying to stop somebody else from accomplishing something.
It is the "Villain" who has plans. Who sees a problem that they want to address. Who is trying to accomplish something. Who, at the very minimum, is trying to make money. And who is generally providing gainful employment for hundreds if not thousands of people. Granted, in these stories the exact thing that the villain is trying to do is generally something horrible, but still. The fact that it is always the villain who is trying to do something while the hero tries to stop them kind of conditions people to think:
Doing something = Bad
Stopping someone from doing something = Good
I personally would like to see more stories where this is reversed, where the heroes are the ones who are trying to Get Stuff Done, and the villains are the ones trying to stop them.
Reading this I had a thought about your male characters. You say that the AI has no problem a male character being weak. It made me wonder about playing the race card in there.
ReplyDeleteI've thought for quite some time (at least since 2020) that we are going to have to depend on the Democrats to save us from this downward spiral to the destruction of this nation. I agree that Trump could bring about a Democrat trifecta like we have in Minnesota. And if you want to see a party drunk with power and the results, look here. It will take decades to recover from the damage the Democrats did in one session.
The republicans are hopeless. DeSantis seems to be just as good of a polarizing target for the far left to point at with venomous hatred spittle spewing screams. And I've recently heard about "No Labels" party, who are saying they are rejecting both extremes. I won't say they are the solution, I don't know much about them yet. They are talking about Manchin as a possible candidate. If they truly are moderate movement, they could make a splash.
You know, if they are going to re-do Snow White, they should change up the title, too, maybe by mashing it up with other reasonably famous stories:
ReplyDelete"Snow White and the Seven Samaurai"[*] (or "Snow White and the Magnificent Seven")
"Snow White and the Seven-Year Itch"
"Snow White and Seven Days in May"
"Snow White and the Seventh Voyage of Sindbad"
"Snow White and the Seven Sinners" (an old Marlene Dietrich movie)
"Snow White and the House of the Seven Gables"
"Snow White and the Seven Keys to Baldpate"
"Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins"
"Snow White and the Seven Percent Solution"
. . . wow, there are a lot of movies with "seven" in the title. It looks like there are at least 438 of them. Some of these might even be good!
[*]I understand that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles like this movie. But in our world, there is no movie, and the book with that title is kind of a disappointment.
I watched the Seven Samaurai a year or 2 ago. It was pretty good. The orignal Magnificient Seven does a good job with it. I watched a couple other Kurosawa movies. They were ok, fairly predictable. The big thing he liked to use real peasants in the movie, so some of the acting was, we'll call it, uneven.
ReplyDeleteOn the whole, I'll stick with westerns.