eabaker wrote: ↑Tue May 17, 2022 10:10 am
JAGzilla wrote: ↑Tue May 17, 2022 9:22 am
I feel like some more sensitive, kind-hearted audience members might have given a poop if Minya died on-screen, but let's be real, here: most people,
especially kids, would've given that scene a standing ovation, and the movie would be a hundred times more popular for it.
Your conception of what "most people" are like is inconsistent with my personal experience, and honestly more than a little distressing...
Okay, but remind us what your favorite part of Star Wars was as a kid. It isn't the answer the average kid would give.
I think it's easy for adult geeks to kind of forget what kids are actually like and just sneer at their immaturity. I do it every day. Today, I'm a semi-sophisticated nerd who enjoys classic and foreign film, watches shojo anime, and is interested in sports for the culture and history. When I was ten or twelve, my brothers and I spent our time chainsawing pedestrians on
Vice City , watching slasher movies for the violence, and (when we were really bored*, which was often) making up stories about Barney and Thomas the Tank Engine and Sesame Street characters being brutally murdered. We sought out the crude and rude and disgusting, and would've absolutely loved something as terrible and unexpected as Minya being killed. I always wanted Godzilla to turn around and roast the kid yelling goodbye at the end of GvH. Watching my first Godzilla movie, KKvG, with my cousin, we were rooting for Godzilla to massacre the dumb monkey, and would've cheered if it had happened. The tone of the movie and what the story wanted us to think didn't even enter our minds.
* I imagine some of the kids here might not be able to identify with that type of boredom, so I'll clarify that this was a time when the internet barely existed and having unlimited entertainment on a smart phone in your pocket at all times was unfathomable.
"Stop wars and no more accidents. I guess that's all I can ask." -Akio