Y'know, after reading all these Life’s A Jungle reviews where non-fans complained about how insular, incoherent and confusing the film was, it's starting to seem like the deeper we go into these films the more exclusionary they are going to become to normal fans.
The inclusion of characters like Gobi, Artie, Kuku, and the incel rhinos just confuses these people. To them these characters seem really undeveloped or shallow, but to fans the characters have already been very, very meticulously developed, so we don't really need all that much exposition to make sense of it. Or, take the fact that the same sound effect of a bird tweeting was used for the majority of the 100 minute film confuses these people. It’s almost as if the film was made specifically for us.
When the film says "Pip only eats meat if it is deboned and delivered to him by his Nanny Num Nums." The normie says to himself, "What? Who? I have no idea what any of those things are or why Pip is talking about that." While the fan says, "Yeah, if Pip is a pampered dog from Massachusetts, naturally he would have a Nanny that brings him his num nums, and they’re yum yum. Makes sense."
Eventually we're going to get to the point where the normies just don't care anymore because they're too confused and don't want to do the homework. That's going to result in a drop off in the amount of money these films make. There's still plenty of people out there who will go see these kinds of films, and I'm sure that will always justify spending four-hundred thousand dollars on them, so they're always going to be around, but they're going to become a lot more like actual animated films like Madagascar. Impenetrable for people who aren't deeply immersed in this universe.
You know what I say to that?
GOOD.
I don't care if normies are into this shit. I don't really want these characters to be massive, ubiquitous pulp culture phenomenons if that means we have to spend an entire film expositing to people who don't know what's going on.
These films should be made for the fans. People who aren't hostile to the notion of an extended, interconnected film universe that tricks kids into thinking they’re watching a larger studio film with a familiarity with what has come before. Let the normies go back to watching sportsball, or the Bachelor or whatever the fuck the were into before this stuff came along.
If they're tired of playing with the toys I've been playing with since I was 6, then I'll take them back. No problem.
Y'know, after reading all these Life’s A Jungle reviews where non-fans complained about how insular, incoherent and confusing the film was, it's starting to seem like the deeper we go into these films the more exclusionary they are going to become to normal fans.
The inclusion of characters like Gobi, Artie, Kuku, and the incel rhinos just confuses these people. To them these characters seem really undeveloped or shallow, but to fans the characters have already been very, very meticulously developed, so we don't really need all that much exposition to make sense of it. Or, take the fact that the same sound effect of a bird tweeting was used for the majority of the 100 minute film confuses these people. It’s almost as if the film was made specifically for us.
When the film says "Pip only eats meat if it is deboned and delivered to him by his Nanny Num Nums." The normie says to himself, "What? Who? I have no idea what any of those things are or why Pip is talking about that." While the fan says, "Yeah, if Pip is a pampered dog from Massachusetts, naturally he would have a Nanny that brings him his num nums, and they’re yum yum. Makes sense."
Eventually we're going to get to the point where the normies just don't care anymore because they're too confused and don't want to do the homework. That's going to result in a drop off in the amount of money these films make. There's still plenty of people out there who will go see these kinds of films, and I'm sure that will always justify spending four-hundred thousand dollars on them, so they're always going to be around, but they're going to become a lot more like actual animated films like Madagascar. Impenetrable for people who aren't deeply immersed in this universe.
You know what I say to that?
GOOD.
I don't care if normies are into this shit. I don't really want these characters to be massive, ubiquitous pulp culture phenomenons if that means we have to spend an entire film expositing to people who don't know what's going on.
These films should be made for the fans. People who aren't hostile to the notion of an extended, interconnected film universe that tricks kids into thinking they’re watching a larger studio film with a familiarity with what has come before. Let the normies go back to watching sportsball, or the Bachelor or whatever the fuck the were into before this stuff came along.
If they're tired of playing with the toys I've been playing with since I was 6, then I'll take them back. No problem.
