listen I know I can’t stop talking about The Shining but I’m really stuck on the fact that if a modern remake were made (and it didn’t take place in the 60s or 80s) “here’s Johnny” would be a pretty irrelevant line unless it were purely referential to the predecessor and it would either have to be cut altogether or a new irreverent pop culture reference would have to be made
My anthro professor has three forbidden words for his essays: problematic, interesting, and large. Point being they’re all filler words, he wants you to just skip straight to why it’s interesting or why it’s problematic. But anyway, any time I disagree with him in class I say to him “mm, interesting, but largely problematic.”