Well, IRC originally Matilda supposed to be older and yes, eventually she and Leon would fall in love and have sex. However, Portman was so good at the casting that they decided to take her, but since she was 13 at the time they had to change the script accordingly. IMO it only made movie better.
To be fair, the author hasn't helped that much. I see the film held up as prophetic regarding wokeshit, which iirc the author leaned into, but just because the term "snowflake" is used once doesn't mean it predicted the rise of woke.
Supposedly there was a sequel at some point, but I don't know anyone who's actually read it.
Doesn't matter. Heinlein wrote "Stranger in a strange land" which became hippie's Bible and he absolutely hated them.
There IS a sequel in a form of a comic book, but it is more like Palaniuk basically telling people "this is what you retards did not understand", because he is present in a comic itself and openly mocks fans who started dressing like Tyler and even beating each other up like in the book. It ends with Tyler blowing Palaniuk's brains out before he is able to finish Fight Club 2.
My understanding was that Nabokov was extremely upset that people constantly romanticized the story. As you said, it is intended to show how fucked up and evil the narrator is.
yeah i read lolita for a class assignment in high school. its well written and i felt very uncomfortable reading it. its not explicit at all, theres no sexualized descriptions of anything as far as i remember, which makes it all the more creepy how hes able to extract some fucked up pleasure from a little childs behavior. theres one scene where he pretty much makes himself cum just thinking about her, its never stated outright that thats whats happening but you just know. it gave me the most visceral feeling of disgust ive ever had in response to any book which is the whole point. id call it a psychological drama.
The original Tarzan novel is a trip to read in modern times. Extremely violent, and Tarzan literally hangs nigger to death for fun. He's an english nobleman's son and he lynches african tribesmen for amusement. Could you imagine trying to publish that shit today?
I feel that. I'm a fan of 80s and 90s anime. Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Appleseed, Ninja Scroll, that kind of thing. But more than once I've seen people assume "anime" is "moeblob paedo bait".
I've never heard that, but it does explain a lot. I wondered why when Netflix (or whoever it was) finally gave a budget to a lovecraft adaptation, they made it all about black people experiencing racism.
Written by Matt Ruff, who was best known for Sewer, Gas, & Electric, a parody of Ayn Rand's novels. Good book, though not as a parody, which you'd never guess it was if nobody told you. He may never have read her. Funny story though, like a weirdly well-written novelization of a '90s comic book. Popular then, totally forgotten now.
Bioshock, a game often cited as the ultimate take down of rand, supposedly never read it either.
I'm noticing a pattern.
I think it's sort of darkly humorous that Rand was at her literary best when describing beautiful natural landscapes.
I don't recall Spoony doing that, tho he did say things I thought were kinda iffy.
It's also at odds with Gary Gygax's own statements and his own recommended reading lists in early editions.
I remember when the original Teen Titans cartoon premiered, and it was constantly doing "anime" things like chibification, the facial expressions.. thing is, at the time I had seen a lot of anime, and only one I saw--a two-episode thing called Dragon Half--did any of that stuff, and Dragon Half was an intentional parody. So the show came off to me like these creators had seen Dragon Half and nothing else.
I don't think it was really meant as parody. More an homage. And not even just to anime, but to stuff like Thundercats and He-Man. The Japanese influence was largely just Voltron and Sentai/Power Rangers. Twenty years on I still remember the words to the theme song.
Skooboo! Zug zug! They're destroying our city!
Maybe. It's just that the show's style, and the "Hyperforce Go!" part felt like it was meant to riff on anime and how some occasionally just put weird terms in the name.
I have as well, but most people who assume that are likely just trolling or else people involved in western-made comics or animation that are mad more people like Japanese stuff.
much to my chagrin
mein kampf isnt even a good NS manifesto. it was written by and for german ww1 veterans. a better work to actually understand the ideology is
it was meant to be that. it is much more apparent in the original script. but its fair to say the final cut was not
the closest i have come is the pre disney star wars eu, and warhammer 40k shit
oh that is perfect for this thread. the entire bioshock series is about jews and their relationship to the goyim. theres much more to it than this but to make a long story short andrew ryan is a jew and fontaine is a goy and the PC is a jew golem.
I didn't know gygax had a reading list, although I know Appendix n.
And even 40k moved away from that? Granted, I've not read a warhammer novel since 2006, but the concept of "bolter porn" seems to be derided, especially on the internet. Unless it's the Night Lords Trilogy. That seems to get away with it for some reason.
The YouTube link is blank, and the article is just some paragraphs then links to a Kotaku article.