Do you think Universal saw the writing on the wall for For Good?
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Do you think Universal saw the writing on the wall for For Good?

With the discussion surrounding Supergirl‘s underwhelming box office and how a lot of people just didn’t know it was out in theaters yet it reminded me of For Good’s marketing strategy of flooding the market with licensed merch and tie-in ads but with very few standalone trailers and tv spots/ and a smaller promo tour compared to the first. Test screenings and focus groups reactions play a huge part of how in how a movie is marketed and I know they got feed back which had them do reshoots in late spring/early summer last year that were “necessary for the movie to make sense” that sounds a lot like a last ditch “fix it” for reactions that were less than stellar…or maybe gave people tonal whiplash that were unfamiliar with the second act and were expecting an upbeat sequel.

u/Chained_Wanderlust — 8 days ago
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How Elphaba changed every character…

…and the two that actually worked out for the better.

u/Chained_Wanderlust — 12 days ago

Followup to that ETSY variety box post from a few days ago…

Original post can be found Here

boredom and curiosity had me trying it out to see what I got, and honestly?…. Not bad. I ordered 24 they gave me 29-30 some have almost no stems and zero roots, some have no stems but have roots, some have roots and long stems, the majority will need some care in a cutting/seed Tray before you pot them a few over cups of water and saran wrap to grow them out before any kind of soil. These are an incredible value IF you know how to grow them from cuttings if you are just starting out I’d recommending skipping this.

u/Chained_Wanderlust — 1 month ago
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Cynthia’s relationship with Wicked played out exactly like Elphaba’s…

She deserved so much better. It’s depressing her last few months before moving on from Wicked echoed her characters arc to the point she was done with it before Oscar campaign season even began. That should NOT have been the experience she had playing this role.

u/Chained_Wanderlust — 1 month ago

How Cynthia Erivo Survived ‘Wicked’ — and Thrived: ‘People Thought I Was Being Myself, Even Though I Was Green’

Regarding the backlash she received from the press tour and the fallout online in For Good’s aftermath:

>“I think that we haven’t really come to terms with the insidious nature of how we view Black women. And I’m sure people will read this and think, ‘Oh, for goodness’ sake, it’s not about that.’ But it is,” Erivo says. “Because that’s what was being made fun of. It was my physique; it was my shape; it was the fact that I was bald; it was about what I looked like. And because of that, there was this assumption that I was bigger than my co-star and so I had to be controlling or protecting, and that was my role. I would hazard a guess that it would not have been the same had it been the other way around.”

>By the time awards season rolled around again, Erivo was done. Did the reverberations from Singapore put her off campaigning for an Oscar? “I think maybe in a way it did, actually,” she says. “I just felt like my humanity had been bastardized. I felt like something I did instinctively had been made to be something that it simply was not because of the way people see women who look like me, and because of the assumptions that are made, and I just didn’t want to be a part of that, really and truly. I didn’t want to put myself through it. I didn’t feel like I deserved it.” It didn’t help, she adds, that “it felt like there was already a sort of upturned nose at the second installment, even though we all knew there was a second film coming and we were just doing our jobs.” 

variety.com
u/Chained_Wanderlust — 1 month ago
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Fiyero’s eye color and “theories”

You know, I’m not one to judge other fans ships or headcannons… you do you. But since it has seemingly escaped into the fandom wild, this IS a joke right? 

Like that’s just Jonathan’s natural eye color when he took the contacts out…Its not some Galindafied Fiyercrow conspiracy…

u/Chained_Wanderlust — 2 months ago

Why do people say they have no chemistry?

I get people not being into them, or preferring the other ship, but the things people say about them… Are just so mean sometimes lol. To me they are the quintessential hurt/comfort couple that can see each others mess for what it is and love and accept each other more for revealing it. I just find that so beautiful.

u/Chained_Wanderlust — 2 months ago
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(If in good faith) It has nothing to do the actors, their performances, the reasons why it is liked or what it made people feel. They did an amazing job with what they were given, and it was ideas like the closet door ‘I love you’s’ that came from Ariana and Cynthia and other choices that saved the film IMO.

It had everything to do with the issue shown above: creative execution and directional choices. How it went the complete opposite way of the first movie by adapting moments from the musical and somehow making them less cinematic, less sensical, less emotional by taking things away from the actors (Glinda facing the crowd, Elphaba “mourning” ect). Above are shot for shot the same scenes.

u/Chained_Wanderlust — 2 months ago