In The Road to El Dorado there is only really one inexplicable thing within the plot. Miguel and Tulio plausibly bluff their way through or slip out of most situations. However, I’d never figured out why the volcano actually stops erupting when Tulio commands it.
The conclusion I finally came up with is that the actual gods were watching their big entrance go down, and thought “oh, this’ll be hilarious”
The actual reason for this was that the armadillo seen following them was intended to be AN ACTUAL GOD in the original script, but it was scratched during production. You can see during the eruption that the volcano stops erupting the same second the armadillo stops playing and starts paying attention to it. So in summary, armadillo is God, producers decide to not change the plot and leave all the godly armadillo things instead without actually saying that the armadillo is behind it.
Even funnier thing to imagine: resurrecting Diogenes too and telling him that “Platonic” relationships means not fucking, he’d probably laugh himself back to death.
So I actually know the origin of this term because it came up when I studied Plato in my classes. Basically, in ancient Greece it was a super common practice for teachers to fuck their students. Like all the time. It was considered a way for the student to “pay” the teacher. Plato thought this was bullshit. He felt that a student could not properly learn from someone who was truly only interested in having sex with them. He didn’t fuck his students and derided those who did. Other teachers who refused to fuck their students were said to have “platonic” teaching relationships with them – so named because they were following Plato’s example. So the reason it’s called a Platonic relationship is because Plato was heavily anti-teachers-fucking-their-students and it’s one of the few things he was ever even remotely correct about.
Mark Knight could’ve easily drawn Serena Williams as a toddler, as a baby throwing a tantrum, but he went the “hulking brute” route, as if Serena is so much larger than all of her competitors/“victims.”
“I don’t know how you draw an African-American person by not making them look like an African-American person.” - CBS News
Yet he drew the “victim” – who is half Black/half Japanese – as a faceless blonde white woman. Just say “angry Black women are animals” and go.
Angry Black people are always larger than life to white people. Every cop shooting of an unarmed Black man talks about how huge the victim was, how they had superhuman strength running through a hail of bullets like Michael Brown. 12-year-old Tamir Rice was a grown man to the cops who shot him.
Maria Sharapova’s autobiography repeatedly tried to paint her as a victim to Serena’s ENORMOUSLY SCARY BODY.
In reality, this is what Serena Williams looks like next to Naomi Osaka.
Yes, she’s bigger and stronger…the way a Camry is bigger than a Geo Metro, not the way a semi-truck is bigger than a 2-door coupe.
“The black woman of the white imagination is not the black woman of reality. Over and over folks have jumped in my timeline telling this cartoon was justified because Serena is SO MUCH bigger, huge, gargantuan. She is not. It’s your bigotry that’s gigantic, not her.” – Nikole Hannah Jones
He literally said “how do you draw an African American person without making them look like an African American person”
He actually thinks that’s how we look. When people are literally proclaiming their racism from the mountain top and at the same time telling us they’re not racist and their actions were not racist..
It’s the ultimate gaslight.
“I don’t know how you draw an African-American person by not making them look like an African-American person.” - CBS News
As a white male cartoonist…. I am sickened and ashamed by this whole… everything.
My entry for the #SidekicksCollab being curated by CalMoray on Twitter !
{ Treasure Planet is a deeply meaningful and important movie to me, and B.E.N. still holds up as one of my fave characters in it, I felt like animating him would better capture his frantic energy }
