I've been thinking a lot about the public domain, and what would be a better way to do it since 95 years is absolutely too long and 70 after the author's death can be even longer (Empire Strikes Back will be under copyright until at least 2095, probably into the next century). And I think this movie should be in the public domain. Your conversation here sealed that for me. If it is so ubiquitous that it feels as if it has always been, why should WB (who didn't make the movie, nor owns the vestiges of company that did) be profiting off it? Anyway. I'm writing something about that right now and it's very on my mind.
I saw Moana 2 in theaters with my 6 year old. It was just ok for me. The songs just didn’t hit like the songs in the first one. The story was ok but didn’t hit like the first one. Felt like they were playing a lot on the nostalgia of the characters. I did like that they progressed the mythology and it aligns with the real world Polynesian mythology by making Moana the demi goddess at the end. In the Polynesian mythology she’s the demi goddess of the Ocean, daughter of Maui, and Pua is her half brother. The only thing that really bothered me, was the previews had all show the end scene where she meets other tribes. So I went into expecting that to happen early in the movie but it was the end scene. I was expecting the movie to be more about meeting those other peoples and maybe uniting them to fight the big villain. So disappointed on that. Another wishful hope I had that I knew would materialize. I had gone into it hoping that with my expectation of it being about uniting different tribes against a big bad villain, that Disney might grow a pair and have the big bad villain be European explorers like Cortez and make their children’s movie into a commentary on the conquest of native lands. Alas Disney will never be that Brave.
I've been thinking a lot about the public domain, and what would be a better way to do it since 95 years is absolutely too long and 70 after the author's death can be even longer (Empire Strikes Back will be under copyright until at least 2095, probably into the next century). And I think this movie should be in the public domain. Your conversation here sealed that for me. If it is so ubiquitous that it feels as if it has always been, why should WB (who didn't make the movie, nor owns the vestiges of company that did) be profiting off it? Anyway. I'm writing something about that right now and it's very on my mind.
I saw Moana 2 in theaters with my 6 year old. It was just ok for me. The songs just didn’t hit like the songs in the first one. The story was ok but didn’t hit like the first one. Felt like they were playing a lot on the nostalgia of the characters.
I did like that they progressed the mythology and it aligns with the real world Polynesian mythology by making Moana the demi goddess at the end. In the Polynesian mythology she’s the demi goddess of the Ocean, daughter of Maui, and Pua is her half brother.
The only thing that really bothered me, was the previews had all show the end scene where she meets other tribes. So I went into expecting that to happen early in the movie but it was the end scene. I was expecting the movie to be more about meeting those other peoples and maybe uniting them to fight the big villain. So disappointed on that.
Another wishful hope I had that I knew would materialize. I had gone into it hoping that with my expectation of it being about uniting different tribes against a big bad villain, that Disney might grow a pair and have the big bad villain be European explorers like Cortez and make their children’s movie into a commentary on the conquest of native lands. Alas Disney will never be that Brave.