Can't wait for Disney's 20th first gay character...

i genuinely love the idea of a reversed indiana jones/tomb raider franchise about reclaiming stolen artefacts and whatnot. you could basically set it in any time period and have it be a globe-trotting adventure; perhaps throw in some heist elements by breaking into the british museum, perhaps there's some fiendishly aristocratic collector to track down. EDIT: tomb restorer!

I can't believe that you would actually put your podcast on KZfaq like that's really cool.

This was a small aside in this video, but you mentioned the inexperienced person getting dragged into an adventure they didn't ask for and are totally unprepared to handle, and the main character is sort of dismissive and rolls his eyes because of how useless they are, and I just thought: wouldn't a lot of people really relate to the first character, though? Someone who's been thrown headlong into a crisis not of their making by someone with years of experience, experience gotten ostensibly in much more favorable circumstances, who is now just rolling their eyes at you for not knowing how to do anything. I mean. How cool would it be to have a movie sort of following that general formula, veteran adventurer and reluctant tagalong and all, but maybe with some subtle hints that the sidekick is actually a pretty tough, competent person who's just _way_ out of his/her depth. Then, you can have the reveal where the character you've been dismissing the whole time suddenly busts out a whole skill set and saves the day, and when the veteran expresses some surprise they they can be useful they unload this pent-up, "Yeah, I can do this! I've been doing hard physical work since I was sixteen to help support myself and my family, then working my way through medical school while living in a crummy old van I have to keep fixing myself with parts I scavenge from a scrapyard. Of course I know how to fix a car! Of course I'm not physically weak! Of course I can do field medicine! What, did you think just because I know less than nothing about werewolf vampires I don't know anything?!? AND WHY WOULD YOU EXPECT ME TO KNOW HOW TO HANDLE MYSELF AROUND WEREWOLF VAMPIRES?!? WHAT ON EARTH MAKES THAT A REASONABLE EXPECTATION?!?!?!?" You'd have to really clearly set up the payoff, but in this case the trope is well-defined enough that I suspect you could get away with being pretty clear and on-the-nose about it without too many people seeing it coming. And then the audience has a collective flashback to all the times the character shrugged off something painful or difficult, or tried to help with something, but got shut down because they're less cartoonishly levelheaded about everything or asked a stupid question because they don't understand anything that's going on because OF COURSE THEY DON'T. Done right, I think that would be a really cool twist. That is all. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

omg, I had no idea of the existence of this podcasts. Thanks for posting them here

This movie was supposed to be set in Brazil, as they say in the beginning they are in Porto Velho, a Brazilian city. And as a Brazilian, this was such a huge disappointment. The entire movie has one (1) line in our language (Portuguese), and everything else is incredibly Spanish centric. If they think that the Portuguese, actual European people, aren't worthy of Disney, there is no hope for Disney to even consider doing good representation for the indigenous people. The whole "these indigenous people are good, they make us money and give us information" is awful. And it seemed like they were trying to make fun of misrepresentation, but that doesn't matter when you aren't showing any real representation. At first the natives were aggressive and stereotyped, and when they are revealed to "be good" they are wearing clothes that made it seem like they were children playing dress up in the colonizer's closet and they act like the "civilized" people. Why couldn't they show that traditional native communities are just as capable and wise as the colonizers? Also the part with the "ancient language" was so stupid because there is no register of indigenous Brazilian people having a writing system. But still, their languages were/are very complex and unlike a lot of languages form other regions even in South America. There is a native Brazilian language based on whistling, why couldn't they do something interesting with that? Like, idk, have the tree place open up only when a certain series of whistles is made. And the part of invading the forest to steal a natural resource is so insensitive considering that right now there are a lot of foreign people in the amazon forest doing that exact same thing. Not only is it bad for the economy as they are stealing potentially valuable things, but it has a huge impact on the ecosystem. They polute the rivers that the local people and animals need to survive, steal rare animals and cut down the trees that quite literally keep the country from becoming a desert. (And I know that there are Brazilians who do that too, but that doesn't excuse what the foreigners do). And as someone studying to do research in the medical field, it infuriates me that there isn't a single Brazilian researcher in this movie. As if our medical system didn't have to adapt (mostly on our own) to a lot of tropical diseases that most Americans and Europeans don't even know of. As if latin american researchers weren't already looked down upon enough. Speaking of tropical diseases, they reference dengue in this movie, which could come of as a similar brand of racist as "Africa = ebola", but comes of as dumb, since dengue didn't even exist here in the time the movie was set. This movie also loves anachronisms, because they talk about a currency that was created in 1994. That just smells of "we couldn't bother to hire a consultant", because if they hired one, they would probably be familiar with at least one previous currency. Anyways, sorry for the long rant on a 3 month old video.

It’s not just Disney coming up with the politics of these movies; often, there are government resources flowing to Hollywood (Marvel is a big example) to create storylines propping up the military, imperialism and colonialism as virtuous enterprises.

Just stumbled upon this! Didn't know you have a podcast. I've been DYING for content from you! Your channel is amazing and the work you do is so fulfilling for me. Thank you for doing this!

Glad y'all brought up the African Queen, b/c without knowing anything about this movie, I had assumed it was a remake.

"They've turned the racism down from 11.." to about 7? lol Nostalgia is about rehabilitating colonialism (in this example). You can't be progressive and nostalgic at the same time, the cognitive dissonance is too great! Or (metaphor time) in trying to move forwards and look backwards you just walk off a cliff.

The thing that bothers me the most is that this movie could've been so good. Or at the very least, better, and not terribly offense. As a setting for your Disney movie, the jungle is top-notch, they can make it beautiful and magical, and play on the inherent mysteriousness of a place that is so difficult to navigate even with the aid of modern technology. All they had to do was make the native people the main characters. That's it. Racism solved. (Ok I'm being cheeky with that last point but it's a step in the right direction)

Listening to this while playing paradox games is quite a oxymoron

Thank you for the posting podcasts :D Your videos easily make my top 3 when it comes to my favorite content on KZfaq.

This channel never disappoints. 10/10, as usual

I want so much for u to post ur podcast Audio about the falcon and the winter soldier here. I loved it so much. You made so many valid points especially with Isaiah story and the fan service

this was absolutely fascinating! Thank you for uploading!

Thank you so much for this. I could not put into words what was wrong with this movie and you guys did it wonderfully. Thank you.

I love these audio ones. Let's me listen in my car or at work. I love how anti imperial these critiques are.

didn't knew about the podcast, so cool! Amazing talk. Just would like to make a small observation to take care to not create an anti-chinese sentiment when you talk on hollywood/different markets - although I understand the importance of discuss the problems. I believe you notice during the discuss but is always good to point out in case you didn't.

The jokes about McGreggor when they were pulling out the swords flew completely over my head, and I'm kinda gay. Maybe because the Spanish version modified, I don't remember the lines well

During the section about the ridiculing of the effeminate gay character and the girl boss character, it popped into my brain that much of that could be said about the Mummy movies too

Frankly not surprised about the failures with representation. They failed with the Princess Frog, Mulan, Soul...

Haven't seen it but I'm going to guess that's the brother in the background, and he does something villainous. He's wearing a PINK (gasp!) jacket, and looks dishevelled and sweaty. The other two: perfectly made up.

I wasn’t even going to see this movie but this podcast made me feel bad for even the possibility that I might like it if I did.

Omg someone please make Museum Raider, that's such a good pitch!

One thing I felt about the movie while watching it was that it could have been written years ago, from the girlboss feminism to the softening of colonialism to the barely disguised gay jokes. Not great.

Love that Museum Raider idea at the end

Hasn't that always been with kids movies, that sexual innuendos and adult references are thrown in to keep the adults awake while hoping the kids miss it, so the parents won't complain they posed awkward questions on the drive home.

I know that's Jack Whitehall in the pink jacket, but who the hell does he remind me of?

i love the podcast, i love the channel, and I'm really sorry for this but it's my pet peeve: its AGUIRRE (with the strong R pronunciation)

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