You touch upon something I've been struggling with - is this film intended for the "broad-strokes" introductory audience or more experienced filmheads?
His interviews always seem to imply he wants it both ways. Praise his films on anything remotely artistic and profound and he'll readily take credit. Critique and it's "a technical film", that can only be enjoyed in IMAX.
I want to love this film (I did find it entertaining and worth a watch) but felt nothing. Brother, this all could have been avoided if you just got someone else to write instead of your ego.
To me it seems like it's up to what you prioritize. If you prioritize convenience, nothing can beat one thing to keep track of – especially if it's the one thing you spend all your time on (easy to track, and less likely to lose because you spend too much time on it).
I'm from that small slice between proper millennial and gen Z (94-98), where we experienced the social media and smart technology boom during our teenage years. I directly experienced the rapid shifts and pressure to use all the trendiest social medias, smart appliances and the accompanying apps, cheap streaming services, easy shopping, every device using the same usb standard, dynamic smartphone designs, touch payment etc. During that time and uni, I would've jumped at the chance to coalesce everything onto one device, but couldn't because the infrastructure wasn't there. We were technologically "naive", thinking technology would only become increasingly more convenient without having any trade-offs.
But now, we are all aware of the negative consequences, politics, and burdens of being reliant on these services and infrastructure from the technological monopolies. Half the conversations with my friends of this age group end up being about what trade-offs we're willing to put up with for convenience while losing privacy, security, and autonomy. Gen Z grew up with this infrastructure in place and are readily entrapped in it (to no fault of their own). Of course they're going to notice a wallet when they use a more convenient option, because the alternative isn't something they personally experienced nor needed.
Unfortunately, this leaves them vulnerable to the whims of the private companies who control the infrastructure and social media – surcharges on touch payments, increasing costs of streaming, not owning media (games, movies), subscriptions everywhere, social media and smartphone addiction. We're seeing a trend of people choosing away from the convenient option towards privacy and autonomy. . Unless it's an open standard and I have a readily available alternative, I don't use it on my smartphone – hence the wallet.
When it comes to foreign concepts (subjects that aren't part of my day-to-day and dont have a personal understanding with), I think about the inspirations, media, and sources that inspired myself to write/think about them.
I ask broad questions of why am I writing about it. Realistically, how much do I know about it. Don't be shy or evasive about it. It can be as simple as "I like that movie..." and "It looks cool" etc.
The key goal is to dissect your perspective and target the gaps and maybe tropes you've unwittingly taken as truth. Tropes aren't necessary bad on their own, but they are audience-shorthand (I.e. stereotypes) rather than creative/interesting writing expressions.
Here you decide whether you just need shorthand (so do a little research to keep it accurate so it doesn't take the audience out) or want to explore the concept deeply and perhaps even subvert it - which can only be done by deepening your understanding of the foreign concept (more movies, articles, first person accounts etc). What core idea is most interesting to me and how do I respectfully write it.
Think about shows in one genre/setting (e.g. The Good Doctor, Scrubs, House M.D) Clearly each had done different levels of research and uses tropes for the different goals. TGD uses the general population's stereotypes of autism as shorthand to drive the protagonist's characterisation despite being inaccurate whereas Scrubs is painstakingly accurate despite it being a comedy to drive the real medical troubles they face.
I personally don't know how to write about the cartel but I know my exposure is limited (Fast Five, Sicario, Better Call Saul, friend's family anecdotes) so I'd go out of my way to read their history and why I'd want to write it.
If animals are aware of the apex predator and their habits, it's not that far of a stretch to have "celebrity" status.
Like distinguishing between "they're hyper-aggressive" and "they're chill if you leave them alone" is straight forward.
Forgive me for anthromorphising(?) but pushing it to "holy shit, watch out for that guy I've seem him take out a crocodiles regularly" and "he's been around longer than ANY of us - like how??" is just an elevated version of that. I can't imagine "forgetting" who's who is an effective trait in any ecosystem.
The closest thing I can recall is bears and komodo dragons within a species
Side tangent but I felt like this one scene drastically (albeit not clear at the time) shifted the tone/direction for the rest of the MCU going forth - just for essentially a light chuckle and mild worldbuilding (illustrating the insignificance of the world/timelines ikik).
Looking back and seeing what's been (barely) done, I wonder if those writers would've gone with that same direction?
They asked me what my favourite cocktails were. I was midway talking about gin and tonic varietals (shiraz gin is sublime) and blacked out. I have no idea what I revealed afterwards and it still haunts me to this day
I never really thought of it as "low-demand" but that's a surpisingly practical way to phrase it, framing your decisions, lifestyle, and personal living spaces to be less mentally taxing and "economic" in that sense.
Broadly, it's resembles minimalism but a significant balance with practicality rather than aesthetics (it's a bonus). As other's have said "less decisions and a readily achieved default state". Some examples:
Limited number of clothes that mix and match with one another. If I get new clothes, I'll alway donate an equal amount to keep it limited.
Schedule in general to reduced decisions but most helpful was meals and meal prepping.
Bedroom and office have minimal furnishing/clutter so it's easy to clean up and incredibly easy to return to that default state and peace of mind.
Laundry, cleaning, and errands become less demanding (less clothes, easy to clean) in that sense which leaves mental room to explore new ideas one at a time.
You touch upon something I've been struggling with - is this film intended for the "broad-strokes" introductory audience or more experienced filmheads?
His interviews always seem to imply he wants it both ways. Praise his films on anything remotely artistic and profound and he'll readily take credit. Critique and it's "a technical film", that can only be enjoyed in IMAX.
I want to love this film (I did find it entertaining and worth a watch) but felt nothing. Brother, this all could have been avoided if you just got someone else to write instead of your ego.
To me it seems like it's up to what you prioritize. If you prioritize convenience, nothing can beat one thing to keep track of – especially if it's the one thing you spend all your time on (easy to track, and less likely to lose because you spend too much time on it).
I'm from that small slice between proper millennial and gen Z (94-98), where we experienced the social media and smart technology boom during our teenage years. I directly experienced the rapid shifts and pressure to use all the trendiest social medias, smart appliances and the accompanying apps, cheap streaming services, easy shopping, every device using the same usb standard, dynamic smartphone designs, touch payment etc. During that time and uni, I would've jumped at the chance to coalesce everything onto one device, but couldn't because the infrastructure wasn't there. We were technologically "naive", thinking technology would only become increasingly more convenient without having any trade-offs.
But now, we are all aware of the negative consequences, politics, and burdens of being reliant on these services and infrastructure from the technological monopolies. Half the conversations with my friends of this age group end up being about what trade-offs we're willing to put up with for convenience while losing privacy, security, and autonomy. Gen Z grew up with this infrastructure in place and are readily entrapped in it (to no fault of their own). Of course they're going to notice a wallet when they use a more convenient option, because the alternative isn't something they personally experienced nor needed.
Unfortunately, this leaves them vulnerable to the whims of the private companies who control the infrastructure and social media – surcharges on touch payments, increasing costs of streaming, not owning media (games, movies), subscriptions everywhere, social media and smartphone addiction. We're seeing a trend of people choosing away from the convenient option towards privacy and autonomy. . Unless it's an open standard and I have a readily available alternative, I don't use it on my smartphone – hence the wallet.
did not know Costco sold exclusively non-luxo glasses - interest piqued
When it comes to foreign concepts (subjects that aren't part of my day-to-day and dont have a personal understanding with), I think about the inspirations, media, and sources that inspired myself to write/think about them.
I ask broad questions of why am I writing about it. Realistically, how much do I know about it. Don't be shy or evasive about it. It can be as simple as "I like that movie..." and "It looks cool" etc.
The key goal is to dissect your perspective and target the gaps and maybe tropes you've unwittingly taken as truth. Tropes aren't necessary bad on their own, but they are audience-shorthand (I.e. stereotypes) rather than creative/interesting writing expressions.
Here you decide whether you just need shorthand (so do a little research to keep it accurate so it doesn't take the audience out) or want to explore the concept deeply and perhaps even subvert it - which can only be done by deepening your understanding of the foreign concept (more movies, articles, first person accounts etc). What core idea is most interesting to me and how do I respectfully write it.
Think about shows in one genre/setting (e.g. The Good Doctor, Scrubs, House M.D) Clearly each had done different levels of research and uses tropes for the different goals. TGD uses the general population's stereotypes of autism as shorthand to drive the protagonist's characterisation despite being inaccurate whereas Scrubs is painstakingly accurate despite it being a comedy to drive the real medical troubles they face.
I personally don't know how to write about the cartel but I know my exposure is limited (Fast Five, Sicario, Better Call Saul, friend's family anecdotes) so I'd go out of my way to read their history and why I'd want to write it.
It's tragic the level of immediate relief I feel every time I shutdown on Linux after years on Windows.
I mean yeah - my original save is on the PS4
If animals are aware of the apex predator and their habits, it's not that far of a stretch to have "celebrity" status.
Like distinguishing between "they're hyper-aggressive" and "they're chill if you leave them alone" is straight forward.
Forgive me for anthromorphising(?) but pushing it to "holy shit, watch out for that guy I've seem him take out a crocodiles regularly" and "he's been around longer than ANY of us - like how??" is just an elevated version of that. I can't imagine "forgetting" who's who is an effective trait in any ecosystem.
The closest thing I can recall is bears and komodo dragons within a species
Tragic
Save that name for a primary fork/different project - it's too good
English was due for it tbh. Do I like that it's emojis – not particularly.
But it does fill that ambiguity gap, especially when it comes to written humour.
Side tangent but I felt like this one scene drastically (albeit not clear at the time) shifted the tone/direction for the rest of the MCU going forth - just for essentially a light chuckle and mild worldbuilding (illustrating the insignificance of the world/timelines ikik).
Looking back and seeing what's been (barely) done, I wonder if those writers would've gone with that same direction?
oh dip, is that why pomegranates are considered the fruit of the greek underworld?
web developers were furious when they found out Tinder was already taken.
ZorinOS is Zen.
The elation the crafter must've felt when firing this bad boi up
They asked me what my favourite cocktails were. I was midway talking about gin and tonic varietals (shiraz gin is sublime) and blacked out. I have no idea what I revealed afterwards and it still haunts me to this day
most profitable evolutionary u-turn ever
I never really thought of it as "low-demand" but that's a surpisingly practical way to phrase it, framing your decisions, lifestyle, and personal living spaces to be less mentally taxing and "economic" in that sense.
Broadly, it's resembles minimalism but a significant balance with practicality rather than aesthetics (it's a bonus). As other's have said "less decisions and a readily achieved default state". Some examples:
Laundry, cleaning, and errands become less demanding (less clothes, easy to clean) in that sense which leaves mental room to explore new ideas one at a time.
"hold your blesses, I'm going for a record"
I always miss this 😭