To be fair, it's a deconstruction of a certain type of unbearable movie where the trailer has to look more like an example of the cliche than a deconstruction of it, because to do otherwise would spoil the ending.

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I think this is where the parallels to racism end, though. (At least to current-day racism—they're basically still living under the muggle/wizard equivalent of Jim Crow even after Voldemort is gone.) The muggle world and the wizard world are still entirely separate at the end of the books, it's not like Harry's going…

The best part about this is how much Wallace Shawn seems to love everything about the movie.

They're the worst, but they're not bad—they're just gratingly faithful to the books. Which they kind of had to be in order not to alienate the fan base in the early stages. It was specifically because Columbus established that early trust with the base that other directors were allowed to take more chances and allow…

Yeah, I feel like Archie's main appeal is its campy retro-ness. This looks lovely, but it doesn't look campy or retro, and the demand for other romance-focused/soapy/high school comics hasn't been high, has it? It'd be awesome if it did succeed, because it might pave the way for more of that on the shelf, and I'd love…

My quote is from here, so it looks like the same guy/same day or thereabouts—probably not a different investigation, then. It's weird that they would say "We don't make competency decisions" and then . . . go on to make what sounds suspiciously like a competency decision.

It's generally considered a classic of young-adult literature, and is probably almost as ubiquitous in the American high school curriculum as TKAM, but it doesn't belong to the broader American lit canon the way TKAM does.

It was later co-opted as a young-adult-ish book—not a children's book; no publisher in their right mind would publish a children's book that revolves around a rape trial, then or now (but especially then!)—but it wasn't originally intended as one.

Yeah, it seems like a lot of people have based their understanding of the situation on the media construction of Harper Lee—that she's a hermit, that she hates the media for misrepresenting her, that she never wanted to publish again—without fully grasping the fact that the media construction of Lee is, uh, a creation…

I said this above, but given the autobiographical nature of these books, the fact that Atticus was based off of Lee's real-life father, and that her family didn't respond well to even to TKAM and its super-flattering version of the character . . . it's not a stretch to think that she never intended to publish this…

Atticus is heavily based on Harper Lee's real father, Amasa Coleman Lee. He once defended two black men unfairly accused of killing a white one, but he was also pretty racist—he later served as a state representative who was pro-segregation. I wouldn't be surprised if Harper Lee's writing of the first draft was a way…

Speaking as somebody who went to a high school where they did encourage teachers to stray substantially from the canon . . . for the most part, I wish they hadn't. Ninety percent of the non-canon books we read were utterly forgettable, and the ten percent that I remember were only memorable because they were so awful.…

The best part about Gatsby, for me, is that you can re-read it every five or ten years and get something new out of it every time. I've re-read it three times since high school and every time it's like reading a completely new book.

My understanding is that the investigation did involve digging into whether or not Lee was competent enough to give consent to publication. The quote from the agency's director is this:

It wouldn't even necessarily require a change of mind—Scout is very clearly intended to be an unreliable narrator in TKAM (and maybe still is intended to be in GSAW, I don't know). Maybe he hasn't changed—maybe she did.

Like an earlier poster already said, Battle Royale is more interested in the relationships that the characters develop with each other as a result of being thrust into this scenario. The society that caused it is almost completely ignored; we get very little information as to why these kids are being set up to kill…

Nah, comparing two movies which, while they share a similar surface-level concept, are very clearly nothing alike in execution and have completely disparate inspirations and intentions . . . not to mention that one of them has, at this point, evolved far beyond the original concept of "Wouldn't it be crazy to watch a…

Is this still a thing we're doing?

I have a lot of nostalgic affection for Maniac Magee (the first fictional character I ever had a crush on!), but I think the days where you could release a movie where reverse racism plays an actual serious plot point are long past.