• jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    12 hours ago

    I hate it when child versions of a character have the exact same hairstyle.

    • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com
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      11 hours ago

      It’s cinematography shorthand to help the audience understand they’re the same person without exposition.

      Otherwise half the theater would be whispering to the other half, “Who was that kid they kept showing earlier?”

      Remember that half of the population is below 100 IQ and producers want them to buy tickets.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        8 hours ago

        Remember that half of the population is below 100 IQ

        That’s not a sensible reading of a bell curve. Roughly 70% of the population should be within one standard deviation of 100 IQ, putting them roughly on par with one another

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          6 hours ago

          Both of our statements are true. Yours focuses on the fact that most people are average ish.

          If you want to fence about it though, my point is that most people are too dumb to not be force fed auch tropes.

          Call me elitist if you’d like. I don’t dislike people like that. I just understand that producers need to cater to them.

          • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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            5 hours ago

            most people are too dumb to not be force fed auch tropes.

            It has nothing to do with intelligence. We all eat from the trough of propaganda and we all have our biases. Even (perhaps especially) those of us who think we’re above it.

            Call me elitist if you’d like.

            I’d call you naive. At some point, we have the information we’re given and we can only make decisions based on that much.

            Garbage in, garage out, no matter how clever you are.