that post i reblogged on main about rian johnson sidelining finnpoe and creating reylo is so 🥴 to me because the notes are half on point (calling out just how racist, homophobic, and misogynistic TLJ) was while the other half are like “yeah he fucked up TLJ but he’s still so good at detective films” and like maybe it’s cause i just saw glass onion without knives out
but like a. no amount of great white gay detective films can really balance out how he saw one of the biggest franchises in the world start to give a black man rep as a LEAD and went out his way to make sure he was silenced… and lectured about how slavery is bad
and b. no he rly didn’t create a good detective film 😭 y’all just haven’t… actually engaged with much detective content so his constant rehashing of tropes and caricature felt like ~self aware wit and not just laziness. and don’t feed me the “it’s anti capitalist!!” line like… yeah in a very surface level well it has found a way to vilify the uber rich but a. benoit is literally wealthy 😭 and b. eat the rich is trendy and they still never actually let the poor and sidelined… eat the rich. the movie was “let the upper middle class get revenge on the billionaire that fumbled their bags”
like… no film could balance out the practically malicious harm he did with TLJ… but if there were a film or film series that couldndo that… it wouldn’t be the benoit films
you are just doing what everyone did with sherlock s1. remember what happened with sherlock s1. where everyone thought it was so smart and subversive and then people kept watching sherlock and realized it was always bad? yeah
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