Posts tagged storytelling
When you just want to eat your steak in peace but you have responsibilities
When you just want to eat your steak in peace but you have responsibilities

Wherein a film review of "Independence Day: Resurgence" becomes a reflection on lazy storytelling and treatment of indigenous communities in film, and I segueway into the Matrix.

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MCT ReflectionsPlural Possessivediversity, film, ignorance is bliss, independence day: resurgence, indigeneity, indigenous, indigenous communities, indigenous culture, indigenous storytelling, narratives, popular culture, postcolonialism, power dynamics, representation, storytelling, the matrixComment
Dragons and demigods -- your stories are not my stories
Dragons and demigods -- your stories are not my stories

Wait. If I tell you this… am I going to see a poor man’s rendition of this coming through in your work? Are you going to be the Christopher Paolini to our Tolkiens and so blatantly borrow to render our heroes, journeys and signature moments as your own? No offence to Paolini, we all show our love for stories and their elements in different ways, experimental play is necessary to growth, and we all have to start somewhere.

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MCT Reflections, Teine LalolagiPlural Possessivecreative writing, cultural appropriation, cultural misappropriation, culture, fagogo, folk tales, indigenous culture, measina, myths and legends, samoa, storytelling, tala o le vavau, tell your storiesComment