I hate when every company wants you to upload a resume but also separately wants you to upload all the information on the resume into their resume questionnaire.
Considering “bring your guns to subway to intimidate people out of mildly inconveniencing you” is the reality we live with now I was kind of anticipating a lionization of this kind of behaviour, but it turns out all the middle aged white conservative dads who love this movie just missed the point.
He just wants a burger! So he can go stalk his ex on a full stomach.
I’d never actually seen it before, but I had seen the whole genre of “everyone in the world except me is stupid and it’s my birthright to commit violence against them” stories it spawned in its wake, so I was bracing for that kind of thing when they kept downplaying his violent tantrums.
If i hadn't seen falling down first I think Boondock Saints would have made me hate it. I love the ramp up of michael douglas going from a """""""normal"""""" guy to a guy who is indistinguishable from a nazi
Entire genres and eras of art could be reduced to plagiarism by the specious reasoning of "if you put two pieces of art next to each other, without any context, people will see similarities." weird hill to die on because of an annoying fandom
Not to mention, most sketches he does in this style are not part of the actual manga but used to break the actual story up when printed into a book. This is akin to claiming plagiarism for someone doodling in the margins
I think its quite overzealous to say Araki "just change(s) the face" I don't need to change your opinion on the subject, but to malign his clear inspiration as simple theft is absurd. To develop that opinion at a brief glance, I understand, but further analysis of the artist and art is required.
And I've realized, oh fuck, they might not know. They may have genuinely only been exposed to the internet in its most boring form: condensed to only three mega-sites that all push algorithmically chosen lifestyle gurus, vlogs, drama videos, and let's plays.
I think this one interaction I saw summarized it well, where one guy was like “HP Lovecraft, the man without fear” and another guy replied “what the fuck are you talking about, Lovecraft was afraid of everything. Space, the ocean, women, immigrants, black people, octopus, the dark, Italians-“