Fucking christ, do you know what this would have done? What this would have meant to SO MANY people?? The truth of this is devastating. And to think it almost found it’s way into a DISNEY film??
The inclusion of this scene alone would have made it the greatest animated feature the company ever produced. Easily. And if you think that’s hyperbolic clearly you don’t understand.
No, really, if anyone knows why this was cut PLEASE let me know.
oh man WHY WOULD they cut this, this is so great, holy MOLY
It was clearly something the crew was very reluctant to get rid of if it made it all the way to rough-clean (and in a few scenes clean!), fully inbetweened animation. That is like, thousands and thousands of dollars and weeks (months?!) of labour. Maybe a reluctant producer decided they would alienate their white middle-class American audiences by making them feel “too guilty” and pressed them to drop it? It’s unfortunate, it’s one of the most honest accounts of racism in a Disney movie (which is why it’s believable that someone got uncomfortable and made a case to get it chopped)
Designing entertainment by committee for maximum marketability is probably the most heartbreaking process in Hollywood.
I’ve been seeing this around my dash and think it deserves some more recognition!
I’m gonna throw out there that it was probably removed for not adding anything to the story. It doesn’t help build any relationships between characters. You don’t see Nani and Lilo talking about it, so it doesn’t build that sisterhood that is so important to the movie. And you don’t see her really interacting with Stitch, so it doesn’t build that relationship either.
I’m gonna make an example now.
This is a deleted scene from Treasure Planet. In it, Jim is shown working on his solar surfer. The scene is about him taking a more fatherly mentor role and trying to help others (Showing his compassion) and in showing how resentful he is towards “father figures” since he never really had one.
This was removed, as the audio commentary from the DVD explains, because it didn’t add anything they weren’t doing better in other scenes.
What I’m getting at here, is Disney writers and story tellers trim a lot of ‘fat’ out of their stories. Find the best stuff, that makes the best characterization, and focus on that.
It’s likely that when making Lilo and Stitch, it was decided by the crew that while they may like the scene with Lilo tricking the tourists, and how that added a little to her character, they decided that wasn’t enough, or just wasn’t as strong as some of the other scenes they where placing against it.
Also, it sticks out like a sore thumb when compared to the rest of them movie, and I don’t know where they might have fit it in. (Maybe it was originally going to replace the scene where Lilo introduces Stitch to her ‘friends.’)
[Image text: “#autismawareness How would you feel if your parents were raising money to research how to make sure nobody ever has a child like you?”]
Cancerwareness: How would you feel if your parents were raising money to make sure nobody ever has a child like you?
Cysticfibrosisawareness: How would you feel if your parents were raising money to make sure nobody ever has a child like you?
Taysachsawareness: How would you feel if your parents were raising money to make sure nobody ever has a child like you?
Do you realize how ridiculous this sounds?
Maybe your fucking parents care about the troubles and issues you’ve suffered and hope another child doesn’t have to suffer you absolute morons.
You’re making a common but very dangerous mistake by comparing autism to cancer and chronic illnesses. Unlike cancer, autism is a fundamental part of how our brains are built, which means that autism cannot be separated from who we are as people. Autism isn’t an illness, it’s a neurotype - it’s something we are, not something separate like cancer that is happening to us and which is inherently negative. When you want to remove or cure our autism, you’re saying that you want to cure or remove a central part of who we are, a defining part of our personalities and how we experience the world, and that’s a very dangerous sentiment to have towards your child.
The suffering associated with cancer is caused by cancer.
The suffering associated with autism is not caused by autism, but by how society treats autistic people.
Stop comparing them.
If you don’t want an autistic person to suffer, just stop making them suffer.
Looks like MCU is going to be my sanctuary here. Good. I’m /glad/ Chris has weighed in on this and Kevin is supporting it.
I’m turning my back on the comics entirely for at least a long while right now. Ill express my anger, my frustration, and feelings of fucking betrayal because even if this is “fixed” - they still did it. It’s still a tarnish. It’s not MY Cap.
the number one surefire way to make people remember something is to annoy them so here’s an annoying announcement that some of the douchebags i keep seeing are gonna get mad at and then remember because it made them mad
[sidenote: gay/bi/pan/etc, trans, and ace are not mutually exclusive identities and this comic does not imply that. just in case anyone tries to get picky. you can be het-ace-trans and acephobic/biphobic, aro-gay-trans and homophobic, etc etc. endless possibilities exist for being a shitty person.]
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