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Post by crowblack on Oct 2, 2018 14:36:59 GMT
Something interesting being picked up on Twitter today - a slew of negative tweets about Tom Hardy's new film 'Venom' which compare it unfavourably to Lady Gaga's new film 'A Star is Born', Tweets apparently from different people but all with the same wording. It had me wondering how often this sort of thing happens in arts and entertainment, and who does it - rival studios, fans, randomly malicious people? With newspapers and magazines firing 'old school' veteran critics, and audiences relying instead on bloggers and Twitter 'word of mouth', is this something we are going to see more of, people using these tactics to big up their 'product' and do down rivals who may be opening the same week?
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Post by kathryn on Oct 2, 2018 15:52:50 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2018 17:41:21 GMT
Following on from the above, there are people who have latched onto things from their formative years as being essential to their identity. That weakness of personality expresses itself in outrage at anything that is seen to challenge that identity. Often the anger follows the result of changes in society being reflected in those things or even just the threat of change. So some films, books, TV etc. that do the same are not challenged whereas others becomes a massive issue.
Trolls are just quick is manipulating and using this sort of thing. Russia, of course, being the past master at it. Their interests lie in causing division and chaos, whether that be politically or culturally, so groups with a fragile sense of identity are gold dust to them.
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Post by 49thand8th on Oct 2, 2018 20:56:55 GMT
www.wired.com/story/star-wars-russian-trolls-study/But what Star Wars fans—the living, breathing ones, not the bots—should do about it, is a tougher question to answer. There is, doubtless, a subset of the fandom—of fandoms beyond Star Wars'—that can be toxic, that can traffic in racism, sexism, and homophobia. There are folks, who in the words of my colleague Adam Rogers see the new, more diverse galaxy far, far away as an attack. "In their minds," he notes, "critiques of monochrome casting become criticism of people who liked those prior versions—critiques of them—landing at the exact moment they lose perceived centrality in the story the thought they owned."
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Post by kathryn on Oct 2, 2018 21:23:15 GMT
It looks like the Venom stuff is Lady Gaga fans. Though they need not worry - it looks terrible, like a bad late-90s/early 2000s comic book film - while A Star is Born is getting rave reviews.
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Post by mistressjojo on Oct 3, 2018 0:12:48 GMT
It does seem however a strange combination. I could understand this more if the two films were even in the same genre, but they're not even remotely close.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2018 5:46:57 GMT
It looks like the Venom stuff is Lady Gaga fans. . Those little monsters always protect Mother. |
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Post by kathryn on Oct 3, 2018 8:08:53 GMT
It does seem however a strange combination. I could understand this more if the two films were even in the same genre, but they're not even remotely close. No, but they are each other’s direct box office competition this week, and being No 1 in the Box office chart is a major measure of success. |
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