"He grew up in their company"

She. 27. Fr. Side blog. Artemis Fowl books. AF graphic novel. AF Movie. Meta and random thoughts. Lot of Rant. Few Memes and Incorrect Quotes.

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Feel free to add more movies/TV shows/Anime that reminds you of Artemis Fowl!

I recommend:

Terminator The Judgment Day: The iconic Schwarzy movie starring a protective tough-to-kill robot, a female badass with guns and a smart kid.

Robocop 2: One of the villain is a 13yo juvenile delinquent. He is a little bit more cruel than Artemis but he has the same business mind.

Darby O'Gill and the Little People: An old Disney movie loved by Eoin Colfer himself. It’s about an Irishman and the King of Leprechaun outsmarting each other

Megamind: It’s about a super-intelligent supervillain who is slowly becoming a superhero. At some point, he lied to his love interest and regrets it

Joshua: a psychological horror about a brillant and refined 9yo boy who terrorizes his family

Avatar The Last Airbender: one of the villain has a major redemption evolution

[a-c-u-l-o-s]

Bright? BRIGHT?

I’d go for your head but you included Die Hard and Black Butler, so I’m very confused about your taste

To add

- Gotham (for young Bruce Wayne and comically silly villains!)

- Death Note (for a sociopathic genius with a God Complex)

- IT Crowd (for dumb nerds in the IT department, AKA Foaly and Friends)

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Thank you for your suggestions, I forgot about Death Note

I hesitated putting Bright 🙈 but it was Jakoby's struggles to fit in that convinced me to.

Also because Fairies and Humans are coexisting in modern settings with racial prejudice, and I haven't find any movie that has the same vibe.

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Feel free to add more movies/TV shows/Anime that reminds you of Artemis Fowl!

I recommend:

Terminator The Judgment Day: The iconic Schwarzy movie starring a protective tough-to-kill robot, a female badass with guns and a smart kid.

Robocop 2: One of the villain is a 13yo juvenile delinquent. He is a little bit more cruel than Artemis but he has the same business mind.

Darby O'Gill and the Little People: An old Disney movie loved by Eoin Colfer himself. It's about an Irishman and the King of Leprechaun outsmarting each other

Megamind: It's about a super-intelligent supervillain who is slowly becoming a superhero. At some point, he lied to his love interest and regrets it

Joshua: a psychological horror about a brillant and refined 9yo boy who terrorizes his family

Avatar The Last Airbender: one of the villain has a major redemption evolution

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I'm still not over the massive waste that is Artemis Fowl movie. I'm currently reading "The Art and Making of Artemis Fowl" and the more I'm reading, the more I want to slap Disney for their stupid decisions.

I know Disney was very unsure about Artemis Fowl and they panicked over the test screen and the first trailer reception, but they have ruined a decent movie and wasted all talents.

If it had been a stand-alone Pixar movie or a low-budget direct-to-Disney+ series, would Artemis have get more creative freedom?

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Oh look, there's an octogonal shape with gnomish all over it, it's like a callback to the Fairy Book *groans*

[lyssq]

It’s funny how at the start of the series Holly’s gone four years without the ritual and is doing just fine but after she meets Artemis she’s doing it all the freaking time

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I have few thoughts about her: at the beginning, Holly has youth impetuous and is desperate to prove herself to her male colleagues after Hamburg she accepts a dangerous mission with a critical magical condition. She never finds the right time to do the ritual until it's too late. But the troll fight and the Fowl incident teach her something: by being low on magic, she puts herself and everyone counting her in danger. She matures and she's responsible to keep people around her alive. This is why she always does the ritual: you never know when someone will need a good healing and Artemis's plotd tend to involve people getting injured.

[deeplyshalllow]

Not to mention aside from Hamburg she's had a bunch of successful missions, where she probably hasn't had to use magic all that much (I get the impression healing is the one that takes the most magic), so it's sort of slowly drained down without her really remembering our suddenly having to use it. Come Artemis and suddenly she having to heal herself every other week!

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True. Holly didn't need much of healing with successful missions and the suit can lower magic consumption for shielding.

[deeplyshalllow]

So I get it, Disney didn’t want a villain protagonist in the AF movie...

Like it’s stupid but I sort of get it, they have a brand to maintain and pearl clutching moral guardians to think of, they need a protagonist who is strong, brave, compassionate and good no matter what.

So why did they not use the fucking protagonist they already had that fit all those traits? Holly is the epitome of badass girl power that Disney has been playing towards recently, not only is she tough but when it comes down to it she is so compassionate that she saves the lives of her kidnappers and ultimately turns them good.

And like really, what changes would they have had to have made to make Holly the main character? They could have still done a sinister prologue with Artemis planning to kidnap her (make him scary enough to justify naming the film after him), they then could have cut to her and her problems (you know, exactly like they do in the book) interspersed with Artemis uncovering the fairy secrets. And then, once she’s been kidnapped, it becomes even easier once their plots merge - you could basically follow the book scenes, with fairies trying to save Holly and being thwarted. You’d want to up the audience’s compassion for Artemis by making sure you keep a scene with Artemis and his mother in, add a scene with Foaly doing research into him and discovering how his father’s been missing and he’s spent most of the family fortune trying to find him and add a scene where Juliet gives Holly some details about Angeline (again a little more compassion for him needs to be built up from this angle), and then bam troll Holly saving everyone etc.

The only big change might need to be the ending, as it feels weird to have our protagonist lose half the gold. I think you could make it work by having Holly make a fuss about how she wants Root to be proud of her at the beginning and mention that he is at the end, but if they want something more, like I don’t actually think it changes that much by having Artemis give all the gold for his mother’s sanity? We could see the conversation they have, have him play it as “social services are going to take me away otherwise,” so Holly is still uncertain how selfish he is (as well as the fact he still kidnapped her) for the sequel, but ultimately he still gets a lot of what he wants.

Bam! Happy ending for Holly, happyish ending for our villain with potential for a redemption in the sequel, almost everything sticks to the book and no pearl clutching.

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I agree, they should have switched the narrative to make Holly the true heroine of this story. She has all heroic qualities, has a perfect storyline on her own and it would be cool to have a female non-Human leading character in a big franchise.

But why haven’t they done that? That’s simply because Disney’s exececutive, producters, director, and whoever make the decision are obsessed with pulling a Harry Potter story which has Hollywood favorite tropes: a regular male Human character who is thrust into a fantastical adventures (as the Chosen One to save the world).

Instead of being respectful of E.Colfer’s work and smartly using the etablished characters, they made heavy alterations on Artemis to make him a more conventionnal. And Artemis is everything but conventionnal.

[lyssq]

It’s funny how at the start of the series Holly’s gone four years without the ritual and is doing just fine but after she meets Artemis she’s doing it all the freaking time

[golden--spark]

I have few thoughts about her: at the beginning, Holly has youth impetuous and is desperate to prove herself to her male colleagues after Hamburg she accepts a dangerous mission with a critical magical condition. She never finds the right time to do the ritual until it's too late. But the troll fight and the Fowl incident teach her something: by being low on magic, she puts herself and everyone counting her in danger. She matures and she's responsible to keep people around her alive. This is why she always does the ritual: you never know when someone will need a good healing and Artemis's plotd tend to involve people getting injured.

[julesblackthorns]

this…… made so much sense……

[rayghosts]

when i think about it, the artemis fowl movie sounds like a perfect dream version of the books. artemis is good at sports, has friends his age, and has a good relationship with his dad. it all sounds like things the real artemis--who grew up alienated and lonely, with complicated feelings toward both parents, and whom it took several books to befriend the fairies before he spent the rest of the series feeling so guilty about his past actions that it drove him delusional--would wish for.

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As if I need another reason to hate this movie 😭

[julesblackthorns]

‘brief encounters with’ is still really fucking funny

[disney15ish]

Book Adapted Pictures from “A Fowl Adventure” book that wasn’t in the final film

Put under a “Read More” link because it’s a lot of photos

Afficher davantage

[bananonbinary]

another great thing about artemis fowl is the purposeful deconstruction of the Antisocial Genius trope. in lesser media, the Hero is an absolute asshole to everyone around him, but he gets away with it because he’s smart and Gets Results™. Your Sherlocks, your Houses, etc. The clear message is intelligence is more important than humanity.

Artemis, on the other hand, clearly buys into this idea in the first book or two. He believes that his intellect will be able to get him out of every jam, and who cares who he hurts along the way. But every time, things go wrong. People get hurt. People die. Even when they don’t, Artemis starts to realize that living his life this way makes it harder to form genuine connections. He learns and grows, and starts letting himself apply his intellect to altruistic things. He apologizes for the monster he was at the beginning, and does everything in his power to make up for past transgressions. It’s one of my favorite redemption arcs.

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This

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I watched the movie last night. I have so many thoughts but it's painfully obvious they have done panic reshoots.

The story is a patchwork of plots from various books and none of this make sense. No wonder critics and audience hate this movie.

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AF movie: some positive expectations

After ranting for days, let’s spread some positive thoughts for once? I truly can’t wait for the first image, first trailer, first interview.

Artemis plotting and Butler brawling

And Holly being brave, and jumping in to save Humans lives.

Butler and Juliet badass and heart-warming moments

Foaly explaining his gadgets, having smartass interaction with his colleagues, being scared of losing one of his few friends

Mulch punchlines and performance

Root. Just Root. I missed this guy so much. I’m curious to see if the actress will smoke horrible cigars, have a red face and keep shouting.

Ireland and Europe scenery

Full screen of Haven-Ville with ten thousand Fairies from different species

Holly flying both with a shuttle and wings. Using her magic and appreaciating the surface and its beauty

Did I mention the soundtrack? Some electro gangster tune mixing with Irish/Celtic sound

Characters themes

Trailer, characters posters, disney toys, funko pop, MTV song from pop artist, soundtracts

Archetype characters being nuanced and having incredible growth

A stunning movie mixing fantasy and science fiction, thriller and action, comedy and drama. Die Hard with Fairies. James Bond with a juvenile crime mastermind and an elf captain with strong moral compass. A Mission Impossible to prevent a cross-species conflict.

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Rebloging it for the movie release tomorrow

[bundibird]

90% of the appeal of Artemis Fowl as a character is that he's a bad guy. Not in a "ooh how subversive" or even "bad guys are hot" kinda way (obligatory reminder that artemis fowl is a CHILD, before anyone starts getting Ideas), but in a "motivations and character development" way.

He's a bad guy, yeah. He's a little shit - spoiled and arrogant and far too willing to extort others for his own benefit.

But he loves his mother. He's a genius child who engages in high end criminal activity and he loves his mother. A lot. Its, like, his only redeeming feature, at one point.

Plus - the character development. We have a spoiled, self-centred little asshole of a child who will step on the faces of almost anyone in order to get what he wants..... and he learns the value of friendship. He develops protective feelings for people he cares about. Heck, the fact that he learns to care about others at all is a Big Deal.

The Artemis Fowl he is by the end of the series is a completely different one to the kid he is at the start. Heck -- older!Artemis comes face to face with child!Artemis in one of the later stories, and we see the differences in them laid out starkly.

We didn't start off the series with a kid with a heart of gold who only grew to new highs of moral goodness. We started with a kid with almost pure ice in his heart, and he learned how to be a better person. He made friends, he found his moral centre, and he cultivated it. Against his will, 90% of the time (mostly he was Disgusted by these feelings, if I remember correctly), but reluctant character growth is still character growth. And that's why he was such a good character. Because he started out as such an asshole and he slowly became someone worth knowing.

And that's why I think it's disappointing that Disney has given him a Good Guy Makeover before the story even begins. Like. Its fine I guess. The movie still looks like it's gonna be cool. But Artemis Fowl: Child Genius, Criminal Mastermind And All Around Asshole is a character I loved, and Artemis Fowl, Concerned Son, Child Genius, Surprised By His Fathers Criminal Activities just..... has a little bit less oomph than his evil book counterpart.

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Artemis Fowl : The Last Guardian

And then the fear dropped on him like a tonne weight, pinning him to the office chair. He felt a block of lead solidify in his stomach and suddenly his limbs seemed grafted on and out of his control. Artemis took several deep breaths just to stop himself throwing up, and gradually his calm returned. I had always imagined that there would be time for goodbyes. A moment for meaningful words with those I love. There was no time. No time for anything but action. The fear had passed and Artemis was still set on his course. I can do it, he realized. I can think with my heart.

Colfer, Eoin. Artemis Fowl: Books 5-8. Penguin Books Ltd.

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Artemis Fowl : The Atlantis Complex

“So, Artemis is not cured?” Artemis was suddenly glad that there were five other people in the shuttle. A good omen for success. “No. I am not cured yet.” Omens? It begins again. Artemis actually wrung his hands, a physical sign of his determination. I will not be beaten by this so soon. And, to prove it, he deliberately composed a sentence with four words. “I will be fine.”

Colfer, Eoin. Artemis Fowl: Books 5-8. Penguin Books Ltd.