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Bright: Netflix exclusive Will Smith urban fantasy movie

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tankdrop24 said:
You know, the thought accord that if they were so dead set on the idea of fantasy races in the real world, why not just have it be a District 9 scenario where the fantasy races arrived only a decade or two ago.
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That's the route Shadowrun went, with people spontaneously turning into fantasy races when the magic came back, or waking up from hibernation from the last high magic era.
 


So Lindsey Ellis just released this video on Bright. I haven't watched it, will probably save it for a rainy day, but hey I'm sure it's insightful as always.
 
Hykal94 said:


So Lindsey Ellis just released this video on Bright. I haven't watched it, will probably save it for a rainy day, but hey I'm sure it's insightful as always.
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Apparently, part of this was from a scrapped Zootopia episode on the use and treatment of non-Human characters. If I had to guess why she ultimately went with Bright, I Think there are tree reasons:

1. Zootopia doesn't have the same structural issues that plague Bright. While Zootopia is nothing ground breaking in terms of story structure, it is a competently made buddy cop film.

2. Zootopia is set in a constructed world, has at least some thought put into it (though not flawless, the most obvious headscracher being "If there is such a bias against small animals as cops, who patrols Little Rodentia?"), and even the most blatant references to real world items are at least changed to fit the setting.

3. And probably most importantly, Zootopia does at least to try address systemic bigotry, and shows bigotry as something fundamentally irrational.
 
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Hykal94 said:
The idea of fantasy world meets urban settings has been done and done well. It's called American Dragon: Jake Long.

You think I kid but I'm not. American Dragon was fucking great. It mixes the supernatural with traditional Chinese myths and the hardships of urban living. It's not the most deep example nor the most serious one but it achieves the goal of telling the hardships of a half-white/Chinese teen in New York while balancing the stress of being a student. You can see the same thing with Danny Phantom but replace the fantasy with ghosts.

It also launched the voice acting of Dante Brasco and the world is better for his talent.

Let's use another hypothetical example: Muslim characters and Islamic theology plus mythos in sci-fi and fantasy. Just because there's a lack of it doesn't mean it can't be done well either.
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I'm doing this, but it revolves around alienation and the protagonist is non-neuronormative. Also, it takes place in an alternate WW2 timeline where Hitler was assassinated by deities, creating a strange cyberpunk fantasy future where people live in covered cities to protect themselves from nasty shit outside of them (like severe levels of nuclear radiation) and where most forms of flora and fauna, including humans, have been genetically altered to an extent, including humanity, and where the internet is now more literally a mass consensual hallucination accessible as a form of virtual reality enabled through portable devices called decks that people either wear on their wrists or embed in their skins etc.
 
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