Sticking with Charlie as a source text, I'd like to see a film that faces the book's colonialism head on.
part of that could be tackling the white supremacist rewriting of history later, as in charlie when the narration asserts that they were hungry and wonka saved them from that hunger by kidnapping them. the whole disgusting "but at least slaves were given food and shelter" lie, which is, horrifically, something people in the u.s. still say.
This misgendering is something Trunchbull has suffered from all her life
i'm sitting on my hands not to bring in the tim minchin's musical, which always casts a man to play her.
[to nobody's shock, i have a matilda icon handy...]
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Date: 2023-11-29 07:45 am (UTC)part of that could be tackling the white supremacist rewriting of history later, as in charlie when the narration asserts that they were hungry and wonka saved them from that hunger by kidnapping them. the whole disgusting "but at least slaves were given food and shelter" lie, which is, horrifically, something people in the u.s. still say.
This misgendering is something Trunchbull has suffered from all her life
i'm sitting on my hands not to bring in the tim minchin's musical, which always casts a man to play her.
[to nobody's shock, i have a matilda icon handy...]