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edvedd Darling. from At the boutique, dear. Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
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#301: Aug 15th 2015 at 6:23:28 AM

be-fur.

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

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#302: Aug 15th 2015 at 6:24:12 AM

[up][up] You'd be surprised. My parents don't even know what anthropomorphism is.

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Mukora Uniocular from a place Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
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#303: Aug 15th 2015 at 6:25:38 AM

Fair. But not knowing the word anthropomorphism doesn't mean you aren't aware of the concept of talking animals.

edited 15th Aug '15 6:25:46 AM by Mukora

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#304: Aug 15th 2015 at 6:26:34 AM

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.

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kyun Since: Dec, 2010
#305: Aug 15th 2015 at 6:26:52 AM

.....

... "Oh! That old proposed animated film about urban animals that skews older with a gay giraffe character who makes a sex joke TOTALLY wouldn't work! But Zootopia, with a nudist club and a gazelle that's basically animal!Shakira??? THAT we can allow!"

edited 15th Aug '15 6:28:18 AM by kyun

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#306: Aug 15th 2015 at 6:28:00 AM

[up]x2 I guess I can buy that. But the voice over felt way too... sincere if that's the case.

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#308: Aug 15th 2015 at 6:32:04 AM

[up] 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

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Mukora Uniocular from a place Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
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#309: Aug 15th 2015 at 6:32:22 AM

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.

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#310: Aug 15th 2015 at 6:38:34 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.

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#311: Aug 15th 2015 at 7:21:28 AM

[up][up][up]That sounds pretty interesting. Though I can get why they can it. Kinda sounds like a premise to an adult cartoon then a kid's cartoon.

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#312: Aug 15th 2015 at 7:31:28 AM

Shakira 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.

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#313: Aug 15th 2015 at 8:54:58 AM

Eh. It's not that weird. Estelle voices Garnet on Steven Universe. And that's gotta take way more time than a movie would.

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MrMediaGuy2 Since: Jun, 2015
#314: Aug 15th 2015 at 10:27:22 AM

I'm calling it: Shakira's Gazelle character is gonna be the villain.

edited 15th Aug '15 10:55:45 AM by MrMediaGuy2

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#315: Aug 15th 2015 at 10:50:57 AM

[up][up]And now we know why Garnet doesn't talk much!

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#316: Aug 15th 2015 at 11:20:18 AM

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.

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DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#317: Aug 15th 2015 at 11:27:56 AM

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?"

Berserker88 Since: Dec, 2010
#318: Aug 15th 2015 at 1:36:33 PM

It amazes me that people still think that trailer was supposed to be a serious explanation of anthropomorphism. That could not have been more tongue-in-cheek if they tried.

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#319: Aug 15th 2015 at 1:36:57 PM

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.

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#320: Aug 15th 2015 at 1:49:13 PM

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.

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#321: Aug 15th 2015 at 3:14:12 PM

Would you like some cheese to go with your whine?

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#322: Aug 15th 2015 at 3:35:22 PM

[up]x2 I didn't even hear the smug tone, honestly.

I generally don't pick up on subtle jokes, though, so maybe I'm just an idiot for not getting it.

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spashthebandragon thebandragoness from USA Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
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#323: Aug 15th 2015 at 6:43:05 PM

[up][up]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?

[up]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

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theLibrarian Since: Jul, 2009
#324: Aug 15th 2015 at 7:23:23 PM

Hardly. It's not even really talking down to you. To be honest the narrator for the teaser made me think of CGP Grey.

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