Mufasa: The Lion King debuted at 55% on Rotten tomatoes.
yt film twitter wanted it to flop & wanted Barry Jenkins to fail.
Mufasa ended up getting an A- cinemascore & Black audiences made it go viral at the box office. It has had strong legs ever since. congrats Barry Jenkins!
i don’t think people talk enough about how pleasing they are to look at. they’re literally so visually satisfying together. the colors, the contrast, the visual harmony… it scratches my brain just right
That professional artist that said you have to make a character as dark as possible in the early pitching/concepting phase because they'll get paler and paler with every phase of production
Fascists like art that is simple, literal, and usually from a time period that mirrors our current overarching fascist sentiments. They are trapped in a state of arrested development, stuck with the understanding and critical thinking of a twelve year old.
Now that she’s a solo hero, she needs to build her own lane. Her own personal villains, lore specific to her as Phoenix, her own setting (whether the WHR or a solar system far away) etc. We need new and fresh ideas cs it’s getting repetitive and i’m lowkey story fatigued 🫤
The way I describe is that horror is about the content as much as the impact. Sinners being a survive-the-night scenario with vampirism causing people to each other and turning them into vampires is still horror/scary movie even if it didn't scare you.