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You'd be surprised. My parents don't even know what anthropomorphism is.
the trailer was tongue-in-cheek. remember, the "nothing you've seen be-fur" tagline is coming from Disney. Disney's empire is founded on anthropomorphic animals.
All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.@kyun: i have no idea what you're talking about.
edited 15th Aug '15 6:30:29 AM by crimsonstorm15
All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
It's a reference to a scrapped Disney film called Nightlife. The plot was something about a nightclub hiring a zoo elephant as an entertainer, but it was canned due to concerns of mature content.
edited 15th Aug '15 6:33:47 AM by Spinosegnosaurus77
Peace is the only battle worth waging.I dunno. It didn't feel tongue-in-cheek to me. Like, I can get the logic of it being so, and I would believe it if they said it was, but the whole thing felt very "Yeah, no one knows what talking animals are about we need to explain it to them!" "Uh... this is Disney, you do know that's half of our brand, right?" "EXPLAIN IT!"
Though, again, I'm sure this conversation has been done to death so I'll just shut up now and laugh quietly at gazelle Shakira.
"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."Trust me, debating the concept of anthropomorphism from a not particularly interesting teaser trailer is what passes for good discussion here in the absence of the inevitably better actual trailer.
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau ProjectShakira is voicing a character? Color me surprised. Singers are either recording their newest album, touring for promos, or lounging in Cancun. They rarely have time to sit around in a sound booth reading dialog for cartoons. Shakira is likely to fire off an "I Want" Song in-story, probably a title track, and maybe a closing credits song. I doubt this Gazelle will have many lines.
Oooh, idea: what if Gazelle is the "missing mammal?" She sings her song, wows the crowd, then *poof* she's gone. Panic ensues, "where's our favorite chanteuse?" That way, Shakira doesn't need much dialog, since she's a kidnap victim.
Eh. It's not that weird. Estelle
voices Garnet on Steven Universe. And that's gotta take way more time than a movie would.
RE: Anthropomorphism being explained in the trailer: Remember, one of Disney's target audiences with their animated movies is children. Young children especially might not get the concept, so explaining it makes sense. For a lot of people, Disney animated movies are literally the first movie they ever see in theaters (apparently, Toy Story was mine, or The Lion King, one of those two). So while it might have seemed too sincere to be tongue-in-cheek and seemed unnecessary to you...well, you're not a little kid, so it wasn't really meant for you.
Insert witty 'n clever quip here.The Kung Fu Panda movies didn't need to explain it, and they're still ongoing. Nor did even Chicken Little, Robin Hood or any media featuring Mickey Mouse and the other classic characters, or... really, any media using funny animals I've ever seen.
The fact that they're so hung-up on the concept of anthropomorphic animals is making me rather less interested in this movie, though not quite for those reasons. It's just that the single-minded focus on this basic concept in the trailer and even in the title is making it look like the movie has no real conceptual hook except "What if the world was populated by intelligent animals?"
I remember watching the teaser before Inside Out and my sister first thought it was a promo for a TV show. It does feel like one, what with them explaining the basic premise of their world and all that.
I'm sorry, how was this teaser trailer even the slightest bit tongue-and-cheek? Was it just because the narrator explained things in a sort of smug tone of voice? That doesn't make it tongue-in-cheek. It was still just a totally straightforward explanation of anthropomorphism followed up some incredibly unfunny slapstick.
I've got fanfics for Frozen, Spectacular Spider-Man, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro the Dragon.![]()
So instead of trying to explain why I'm wrong and the trailer is tongue-in-cheek in some way I don't understand or something, you're just going to resort to petty name-calling by calling me whiny?
Well, it sounds really smug to me. I can practically hear the narrator making the DreamWorks Face at me.
edited 15th Aug '15 6:50:17 PM by spashthebandragon
I've got fanfics for Frozen, Spectacular Spider-Man, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro the Dragon.Hardly. It's not even really talking down to you. To be honest the narrator for the teaser made me think of CGP Grey.

be-fur.
I'm pretty sure they were just leading up to that pun.
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