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I just saw a post about a new Netflix animated movie that's an interpretation of Cinderella's step sisters and all of the comments were not being kind to it saying stuff along the lines of "it's not original, we want original stories not different versions of existing ones" and this gave me a lot to think about.
There are great stories that come from someone finding and existing one and wanting to add their own spin to it, like Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio and Frankenstein. Sometimes you don't need to create a whole new world and characters and theme, just find something to resonate with and add your own spin and interpetration to it and make it entirely your own.
But the comment section was treating this form as lesser than other forms of storytelling if it's not entirely original, a Cinderella reinterpretation isn't worth anything for them. You could say that it doesn't match the same quality as Del Toro's interpretrations but I believe that not all art or stories need to match the best to be worth existing, not everythig needs to be perfect and flawless to have a right to exist and to be expressed.
Of course this is more of a response of stories that were adapted by Disney being so endlessly re-adapted by a lot of other studios hoping to get a fraction of that attention often at the detriment of the artists not letting them have time or freedom to put their own spin to it. Or because the trailer said it would be a story to try to make the villains missunderstood and we also saw a lot of those the past decades but also.
So what? Just because a story has been adapted many times it can't be adapted one more time? Just because you've seen a lot of stories about misunderstood villains you can't see another one? This by itself is a way to restrict artists and storytellers too. I even saw comments saying that "Cinderella only makes sense if the sisters are evil" and I can't agree with that, of course the stepsisters doing bad things are a big part of Cinderella's plight in many versions of it but they don't need to be evil for that, and I think adding depth to it instead of making them black and white can also do a lot for a theme and moral of a story like that.
I'm probably overthinking it, maybe there's merit for the criticism since I haven't seen the trailers but the arguments made me a bit ick.
tldr: A rambly discussion of the merit of interpetrations, what makes one worth it and what makes one shunned
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getting a bit obsessed with a new musical i found.
if the words "doomed catholic yaoi" interest you look up bare: a pop opera. the songs are so gooood.
it reminds me a lot of heathers the musical too, even having a big fun song
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idk who else would need it but this is by far the best video explanation i've seen on how windmills work for grains, it took a few reads and videos till i found such a succinct explanation like this. my only question now is where the wheat would go...
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shoutout to 10 year old blogger blogs that happen to have articles on articles exactly about what you were looking for.
Specially in this world where AI poisons any culture related search with pointless AI articles that all regurgitate the same basic info while claiming to be websites to make "culture accessible" and making posts and blogs made by actual natives harder to find!
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planning to leave discord but was struggling to find somewhere to rp like tupperbox could... stoat has titan but it's too unstable for now. hopefully i can convince my friends to come try here!
That's it for today...
But see you tomorrow!