tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post79171164317534060..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Frozen Revisited, With An Autism TwistAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-52448169380700878122014-07-09T02:18:36.284-04:002014-07-09T02:18:36.284-04:00Autism is part of the price for having savant leve...Autism is part of the price for having savant level abilities but incredibly heavy weaknesses as well.<br /><br />Thus autistics can only ever appear "normal" to society if they can somehow normalize their talents, using their genius level abilities to bridge, overcome, or bypass their weak points.<br /><br />Since few humans have genius, let alone savant level abilities, people usually have no clue what is going on in the mind of the autistics and treat them as vegetables or village idiots. Which, in due time, they become, for a genius trapped in a body that cannot communicate or experiment, slowly degrades and becomes insane.<br /><br />Train autistics have made superior martial artists as well as interrogators, since they can detect lies more accurately than a machine can. But it depends on the talent circle of the individuals involved. A math prodigy would do little good being trained to use his non existence talent at perceiving human facial signals or to improve his non existent motor control skills at martial arts or sports. A math prodigy would be better set using his mathematical calculations to improve his sports logick and human interface protocols.<br /><br />Humans for the most part, aren't consciously aware of why society is the way it is, why the rules are the way it is. It just "is". To a genius, that kind of explanation is worse than no explanation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-883824743277256382014-07-09T02:10:23.990-04:002014-07-09T02:10:23.990-04:00Disney had large eyes, but they were exaggerations...Disney had large eyes, but they were exaggerations for animal characters. Put a mouse with rat eyes, and it's not Mickey.<br /><br />Anime has always begun with the focus on human facial signals for animated characters.<br /><br />Large eyes on humanoid characters that are clearly supposed to be humans giving off human signals, is a parallel construction from Disney's stand point. But it's not Japanese in culture or theme.<br /><br />The Japanese have far better love triangle solutions than Disney or Hollywood movies can imagine.<br /><br />My fav part of Frozen was the subdued color palette I saw, instead of the brighter purple and blue I saw used elsewhere. The older Princesses' Dwarf Fortress moment, was my favorite scene. Leave the village of human society, go do Minecraft and build your own Dwarf Fortress, safe from humanity and also safe to humanity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-54088470079679615352014-07-06T09:28:48.013-04:002014-07-06T09:28:48.013-04:00The eyes do remind me of Japanese anime... but now...The eyes do remind me of Japanese anime... but now I'm wondering whether large eyes in Disney animations preceded the anime phenomenon (or at least its popularity in the US).<br /><br />Large eyes is a broadly attractive feature. Neotenous, I think - babies (and baby animals) have eyes that are disproportionately large for their faces compared to adults.jaedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03328666344764784829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-57256921533061414182014-07-05T15:45:08.319-04:002014-07-05T15:45:08.319-04:00I had the same reaction to the sudden "change...I had the same reaction to the sudden "change" in Hans' character. A bit more foreshadowing would have helped. <br /><br />What I think happened is that they tried to fit a large story into too small a time frame. It is a good enough story that 30 or more minutes to flesh out some of the relationships would have worked well. <br /><br />I didn't have quite the same problem with Kristoff and the trolls, as I was quite willing to accept him as a "worthy" orphan adopted by them. Though I do see your point. <br /><br />One thing I'd like to point out is the reaction of boys, say age 2-5, to the movie. And that of fathers of daughters. <br /><br />There's a lot in Frozen for males to relate to which is missing in some (most?) of the other Disney movies, especially those about princesses of some sort. <br /><br />It was my 3 year old grandson standing in front of the TV chanting "Frozen, Frozen, Frozen" and threatening all of us with an impending meltdown when his slightly older female cousins selected "Despicable Me" for the evening's entertainment that got me thinking about how my sons-in-law were treating this movie a bit differently. <br /><br />The eyes... you are right. It's a Japanese inspired phenomenon, I think. <br /><br />Donna B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16771075314473811594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-61027191630378521602014-07-01T02:26:04.543-04:002014-07-01T02:26:04.543-04:00Very interesting. Somewhat familiar, too.
BTW, M...Very interesting. Somewhat familiar, too.<br /><br />BTW, My Little Pony seems to serve the same function.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.com