Okay Moana livetoot starts now! Gonna thread and CW and unlist it.
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Can you tell how prestige-y a movie is by if it starts with the usual music or not?
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...Okay so Maui's the bad guy right?
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Look I can't read facial expressions all that well but I can read that one and it says "I'm the bad guy in a Disney movie"
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Aaaaa Disney(/Pixar?) makes the cutest sea turtles, still.
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Oooh I saved a stingray like that once! Did I make friends with the ocean too?
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OMG that water. O.O So pretty. O.O :ocean:
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I'm loving the lyrical density here. That's some very Lin Manuel stuff here. :D
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Interesting thing it sets up there in the opening 'I want"-ish song; they're making a compelling point for "this is a good thing" rather than "this is a crappy provincial town" or whatever.
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Oh dang some emotional depth to the authoritarian characters, right off.
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Oh whoops no THIS is the 'I wish' song.
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Tough same thing I said before goes for this song too.
This movie has some NUANCE, y'all.
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...This is pretty much how it went whenever I tried to go body-surfing, yup. Yike. O.O
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The grandmother is the best character. Also, friend to all rays, like me! ^.^
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Okay now that's just Lin singing isn't it. :D Also this coming-to-the-island set-piece is BEAUTIFUL.
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I REALLY like how they're making the ocean a character (as in, actually having it interact with Moana, etc) while only barely anthropomorphizing it (no face, etc)
(It also happens to be pretty similar to how nature-spirits appear to me)
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...birds tho
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Elanna (paraphrased): "Okay so that's either just the ocean being capricious, or being friends with the ocean doesn't mean you're friends with the weather"
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"Fish pee in you, all day!" Spirit-ally arguments. Yup.
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Okay Maui is the worst. XD
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I mean, way to fix your gendered terminology but.
The.
Worst.
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THE WORST. :D
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(The animated tattoo stuff is really cool though, I loved it when Hercules did that kinda thing too)
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I have a ton of thoughts here about Maui's tattoos acting as his conscience, and the points where the ocean chooses to intervene and also just the great trickster-comeuppance stuff that's already happening.
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...Well, that's one way to keep your magical gemstone safe.
...Sorta.
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"Have you ever defeated a lava monster?"
"Have you?" Beat me to it. XD
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Oooh yeah, that's how you get a trickster to do things. XD
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✋🌊
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Does Maui arguing with his tattoos (and losing) count as a self-own?
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I know that voice.
...That's Jemaine Clement isn't it.
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AAAAA VILLAIN SONG. :D :D :D
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I'm pretty sure they're managing to (narrowly) avoid the camp-villian thing here with Tamatoa, which I really appreciate.
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He looks REAL GOOD in glow, though. :D
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Aww, now I feel a little bad for Maui.
A little.
Well, more than a little.
Nuance. :purple_heart:
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Song + manta spirit + pretty glow = Indi gets teary-eyed. :blue_heart: