I looked it up for you. That is Chuckesmee, the animatronic doll they wanted to use in the movie. Until they realised it was a total abomination so they used compuer graphics for Renesmee.
Everytime I type Renesmee the name looks sillier.
I looked it up for you. That is Chuckesmee, the animatronic doll they wanted to use in the movie. Until they realised it was a total abomination so they used compuer graphics for Renesmee.
Everytime I type Renesmee the name looks sillier.
Like I get that they weren't that diverse, but at least give SOME credit that half the good guys are native Americans, probably the least represented minorities we got.
Outside of that, the director seemed open to changing it up but was hindered by a shit bag. I'm not gonna hate on her or the actors and from everything I've seen I'm glad he's gonna be our new Batman.
If you haven't yet, it's worth watching the whole series with Rifftrax. Holy hell.
so good
I cant get past the halfway mark in the second movie, the first one was terribly entertaining throughout, but then it starts to get realllllll boring and then even quality riffs cant keep you awake
Ironically he plays a Mormon on House.
I still find it amazing that Utah is over 50% Mormon, the fact that over half of a state can belong to a single sect is just baffling.
Just Blade or the series?
But it was only the promised land when they got run the fuck out if Missouri. Because Missouri was Zion. But then it wasn't. Because that's how prophecies work.The followers of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young felt that the state of Utah was their promised land and they were the only ones who decided to settle that state. And as Mormon persecution raged across the country at the time, they all came to seek refuge there.
Same reason why Maryland was overwhelmingly Catholic for a period of time.
Why does the title say "Stephanie Meyer didn't want black characters" when the example given was that the director wanted Alice to be Japanese and she ended up being white?
But it was only the promised land when they got run the fuck out if Missouri. Because Missouri was Zion. But then it wasn't. Because that's how prophecies work.
The title and the quote seem to connote different things.
Title: "Stephanie Meyers hates black people"
Blurb: "The characters are based on people I know, who are also white."
and then, to make it more sinister:
"and then she allowed us to make one of the evil characters black... of course"
I don't want to defend Twilight, since it is bottom-of-the-barrel garbage, even for YA Fiction, but this is a movie which depicts native americans in a pretty noble light, and is based in some small town in Washington, which in reality would probably be 95%+ white.
The author had her "head canon" which was based on how she wrote the characters and sounds like she didn't want that changed for the movie. I don't think there is anything sinister about it.
This is how it plays in my head.
I think Denver was only settled because people saw the mountains and said "Fuck that noise, we stop here."
The Mormons probably felt the same way, but early Coloradans were like, "We start the fine tradition of being dicks to anyone who comes after us because they aren't as native as we are. No, not real Natives...we're going to genocide them. Mormons, you gotta leave."
And then after they crossed the mountains, they were wandering through the desert and decided "Fuck this, we're tired. This is the land of milk and honey. Go milk an animal and Ezra and Jeb will set up the beehive."
But it was only the promised land when they got run the fuck out if Missouri. Because Missouri was Zion. But then it wasn't. Because that's how prophecies work.
You don't actually have this right, here.
Zion is still in Missouri. In a place Mormons call "Adam-ondi-Ahman." They believe that is where Jesus will go during the second coming. Zion is also in Utah, since that is where the church is headquartered. Zion is also pretty much everywhere, since it just means (to Mormons, at least) "The pure in heart." Wherever you see saints gathered together anywhere in the world, that's Zion to Mormons.
So, it could be underground in the future where they hold cave raves?
This is how it plays in my head.
I think Denver was only settled because people saw the mountains and said "Fuck that noise, we stop here."
The Mormons probably felt the same way, but early Coloradans were like, "We start the fine tradition of being dicks to anyone who comes after us because they aren't as native as we are. No, not real Natives...we're going to genocide them. Mormons, you gotta leave."
And then after they crossed the mountains, they were wandering through the desert and decided "Fuck this, we're tired. This is the land of milk and honey. Go milk an animal and Ezra and Jeb will set up the beehive."
I try and forget there's a trilogy
Did you miss the part where she only allowed a black person to portray the evil scary vampires while reciting that she wrote vampires have white, pale, glistening skin?
Why is her head canon only changeable for black villains then?The author had her "head canon" which was based on how she wrote the characters and sounds like she didn't want that changed for the movie. I don't think there is anything sinister about it.
Why is her head canon only changeable for black villains then?
I don't want to defend Twilight, since it is bottom-of-the-barrel garbage, even for YA Fiction, but this is a movie which depicts native americans in a pretty noble light
Edit: I also realize we give J.K. Rowling shit for doing the opposite of this...where she had like a whole white cast of characters but then goes back and tries to be fake woke and say oh, they have always been diverse! this snake was black! this person was always gay! Meyer seemed to not care to pretend.
Up until 1978, the Mormon church forbade black men from becoming priests and disallowed black men and women from entering their temples.
The Book of Mormon musical mentioned the stupidity of it in one of their songs (at about 3:21):
50 Shades is a Twilight fanfic.Was it ever true that Twilight was just a tidied up version of a really crappy Harry Potter fan fiction? Somehow that question just came back into my head.
I think the issue with JK Rowling is that her changes don't feel earnest or genuine.No idea if Rowling is fake or real woke, but I can't be mad about people trying to undo unintentional harms, or evolve, or change. I'm an old-ass man and grew up with so many unchallenged assumptions and I evolved on every one of them (except the Belgians, obviously) simply by being exposed to the victims of my biases and assumptions. I am extremely lucky to have grown up with friends of color in the small, monolithically white place I'm originally from, because otherwise I wouldn't have questioned shit till I was too far gone to think about empathy.
Oh, that was it yeah. 50 shades. And other way round. :P