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DC Movies - To Infinity and Beyond
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Preferring one type of art over another is bigotry now, lol.Wow.
Oh, look, the very next video from the Superman Homepage referrences both live-action and animation.
Disappointing.
No, they showed depictions of Clark's first time experiencing flight. This was not seen in the Kirk Alyn serials, or any other film or TV show, neither live-action nor animation, before Superman: The Movie. That's also why neither the Superboy TV series, nor Lois & Clark were included, they didn't have such a scene.But they only did 1978 to 2023.
By arbitrarily starting with Superman The Movie you exclude Kirk Alyn, who was both live action and animation!
Live action tends to be a lot higher profile than animation, so when it comes to these kind of things, it's always going to get more attention.
That’s as may be, but to call it “bigotry” is needlessly excessive (and, to be frank, a bit absurd when set against actual bigotry).
I winked at the end because it was a joke.
There are lots of countries where animation is viewed as mainly kids' stuff. Even in Japan this was the mindset until the mid-70s shows like Space Battleship Yamato and Mobile Suit Gundam gained large adult followings. Yes, there were adult animated films before then, most notably the Animerama trilogy by Osamu Tezuka and Eiichi Yamamoto, but aside from A Thousand and One Nights, they were massive critical and financial failures, with Belladonna of Sadness bringing its animation studio to bankruptcy.
And this video feels like it's tailor-made for @The Realist , as it is the live-action portrayals of Supergirl:
Live-action and animation?
As an animation bigot, I have to say this is political correctness gone mad.
And yet, even though there's been plenty of US animation worthy of adult followings, we cling to the dismissal of animation as an inferior or ghettoized genre. The fact that a prejudice is widely shared does NOT make it right. It just makes it more wrong and more important to object to it.
FWIW, I'm mostly just messing with Christopher at this point. I certainly don't hate or categorically dismiss animation as a medium, and was in fact a big anime fan at one point. Noir was my gateway drug, and I remember it was an eye-opening revelation at the time that an animated series could indeed be as exciting, involving, and affecting as a great live-action show.
But it's true that the Japanese approach animation very differently than the US, and that I haven't personally found the same level of interest in Western cartoons. And it's also true that, in my Superman fandom, I'm not much into the animated stuff, despite having watched most of it. I still say it's entirely legitimate to make a video limited to live-action adaptations, if that's the focus one chooses. (There's a reason we have terms to distinguish "live-action" and "animation," because they are not the same, and talking about one creates no obligation to discuss the other.) But if one loves animation and would prefer it to be included, that's perfectly legit, too.
But it's true that the Japanese approach animation very differently than the US, and that I haven't personally found the same level of interest in Western cartoons. And it's also true that, in my Superman fandom, I'm not much into the animated stuff, despite having watched most of it. I still say it's entirely legitimate to make a video limited to live-action adaptations, if that's the focus one chooses. (There's a reason we have terms to distinguish "live-action" and "animation," because they are not the same, and talking about one creates no obligation to discuss the other.) But if one loves animation and would prefer it to be included, that's perfectly legit, too.
I'm just waiting for the new Superman cartoon to be called too gentrified.
I know, it’s hardly The Long Walk to Freedom, is it?