It seems too deliberate to be a blooper: the shot clearly shows the contrast between the blue gas flame and the green Pando-powered heat of the toaster. I assume it's meant to show that a certain reliance on older forms of energy inevitably persists even after the the discovery/cultivation of newer forms of energy (which is the case in our own world also).
Certainly they are. A male character dressing as a female is considered humorous, which is undoubtedly why Pleakley put on the wig. It was done for laughs, not to make a statement. By the way, Jumba wanted to try the wig on too. Is he gay?
They’re not.
There are also strings of lightbulbs powered by wind in that scene.
Was the gas... Ethane?
Yup, the coffee maker used pando, the plane used pando, I think the cars used pando. It looks like they moved everything to pando except their stove..
Well, the voice actor was.
Oh, gas made from pando. Ok that squares it
They were growing plants that were alien to the turtle and was killing it. I was thinking it was more of an anti-pesticide allegory. The chemicals we put in the ground sterilize the ground make it difficult to grow plants. With no plant roots, the ground soil blows away affectively killing the ground. On the other hand, they did use the plants to run their machines so I guess that works too.
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Somehow, I never saw Enchanted until a few days ago, and I realized I missed seeing a Disney movie that featured a completely evil villain acting purely out of selfish motives. Not someone with conflicting loyalties, not someone misguidedly thinking they were helping the greater good, just a completely irredeemable jerk doing bad things without any moral qualms (we are living in the age of Putin, after all).Interesting. I agree Strange World didn’t need a villain as such, but I hope we seem real baddies in the next few Disney films.
‘Strange World’ Director Don Hall & Producer Roy Conli On Using “Generational Conflicts” Rather Than The Traditional Villain
Director Don Hall and producer Roy Conli discuss using generational relationships as points of conflict in 'Strange World'.
The crab in Moana is also villainous, though he isn’t in the film for very long.
Meh, he's basically doing what any animal would do if you dropped into his lair uninvited. Especially given that Moana and Maui explicitly came to steal something he regarded as his property.
That it has a lower score than the abysmal Chicken Little tells me that review bombing is a large part of what’s going on. As this thread has proven time and again, some people are so bent out of shape by the very idea of Strange World that they’ll find any opportunity to lash out at it online, despite having never seen it.
I’ve never called it a success, resounding or otherwise. On the contrary, I’ve acknowledged its failure at the box office multiple times in this thread.
How much longer are you going to be gloating about this? At this point, it is getting extremely tired.
We passed that point when it was still 2022.