It often seems to me like when this happens, the remakers don't entirely grok what makes the original what it is, or they have only a shallow, flanderized understanding of the social issues it's engaging with. So something that was originally at least somewhat nuanced gets flattened down to stock characters and cliched tropes, or they try to "subvert" something and end up making it more problematic because they don't understand what the original trope was doing or why it was employed or whether it actually is as much of a cliche as they assume. Or how any of it is reflected in the real world.
I think this happens less with #ownvoices stuff and more with "We should remake this famous movie to rake in the cash" edicts coming down from some old straight white dude who has no clue.
Like how else could you get from "men using women for sex and labour is bad" to "actually, it was the fault of the ball busting man-haters all along" except through some game of telephone on the theme of "it's about the war between the sexes, I guess?" Extremely shallow understanding of both the original work and of the real-world issues involved.
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Date: 2020-12-08 05:41 am (UTC)It often seems to me like when this happens, the remakers don't entirely grok what makes the original what it is, or they have only a shallow, flanderized understanding of the social issues it's engaging with. So something that was originally at least somewhat nuanced gets flattened down to stock characters and cliched tropes, or they try to "subvert" something and end up making it more problematic because they don't understand what the original trope was doing or why it was employed or whether it actually is as much of a cliche as they assume. Or how any of it is reflected in the real world.
I think this happens less with #ownvoices stuff and more with "We should remake this famous movie to rake in the cash" edicts coming down from some old straight white dude who has no clue.
Like how else could you get from "men using women for sex and labour is bad" to "actually, it was the fault of the ball busting man-haters all along" except through some game of telephone on the theme of "it's about the war between the sexes, I guess?" Extremely shallow understanding of both the original work and of the real-world issues involved.