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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8196658" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I dunno what to tell you. It's not a generic fantasyland. It's highly culturally specific. As for the FR, there's an obvious problem with your claim, that being that literally every period in human history has been ripped off at some point or another by the Forgotten Realms. There is no past-set Disney movie where you're not going to be able to find some FR illustrate that doesn't have a totally superficial resemblance. The example exactly you show is incredibly superficial - the Arrendale example shows dresses and jackets that are clearly a modern take on Regency era stuff, with a sort of hint of the US South and just incredibly horrible boots on the dude. I'm practically puke. That's violence against good taste man.</p><p></p><p>But point is, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Hercules (yeah, even that, thanks to Chessenta), Mulan, Princess and the Frog, Pocohontas, The Emperor's New Groove (yup), Hunchback, probably a bunch of others, you can find at least the same level of similarity or higher.</p><p></p><p>What you're showing is that the Forgotten Realm is ultra-cheesy ultra-generic fantasy magpie that will steal any look from any historical period if it feels like. That's it.</p><p></p><p>As for "the most D&D movie in current circulation", I think <strong>Onward</strong> would like to have a word with you. A movie literally inspired by D&D. Frozen 2 isn't even the most D&D Disney movie released in the last couple of years... Onward is and it's not even a fight. And Raya looks set to be way more "D&D" than Frozen 2, but with again, not "Generic Fantasyland", replete with swordfighting, magic powrs, ancient tombs full of traps and puzzles, magical monsters, dragons, and so on.</p><p></p><p>Tangled is Generic Fantasyland, note, and I don't think that helped it at all. It's not a hook. It's non-hook. It's active avoidance of an obvious way to get the audience interested in favour of what, pleasing a few aging grogs?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8196658, member: 18"] I dunno what to tell you. It's not a generic fantasyland. It's highly culturally specific. As for the FR, there's an obvious problem with your claim, that being that literally every period in human history has been ripped off at some point or another by the Forgotten Realms. There is no past-set Disney movie where you're not going to be able to find some FR illustrate that doesn't have a totally superficial resemblance. The example exactly you show is incredibly superficial - the Arrendale example shows dresses and jackets that are clearly a modern take on Regency era stuff, with a sort of hint of the US South and just incredibly horrible boots on the dude. I'm practically puke. That's violence against good taste man. But point is, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Hercules (yeah, even that, thanks to Chessenta), Mulan, Princess and the Frog, Pocohontas, The Emperor's New Groove (yup), Hunchback, probably a bunch of others, you can find at least the same level of similarity or higher. What you're showing is that the Forgotten Realm is ultra-cheesy ultra-generic fantasy magpie that will steal any look from any historical period if it feels like. That's it. As for "the most D&D movie in current circulation", I think [B]Onward[/B] would like to have a word with you. A movie literally inspired by D&D. Frozen 2 isn't even the most D&D Disney movie released in the last couple of years... Onward is and it's not even a fight. And Raya looks set to be way more "D&D" than Frozen 2, but with again, not "Generic Fantasyland", replete with swordfighting, magic powrs, ancient tombs full of traps and puzzles, magical monsters, dragons, and so on. Tangled is Generic Fantasyland, note, and I don't think that helped it at all. It's not a hook. It's non-hook. It's active avoidance of an obvious way to get the audience interested in favour of what, pleasing a few aging grogs? [/QUOTE]
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