The Jungle Book (2016)

[Governor Megachris%Participant 3584]

There’s a live action movie on The Jungle Book coming out next year, and I’ve been honestly looking forward to it. I love the original cartoon, and thought the trailer looked pretty awesome…there’s one slight problem, though.

You hear a woman talking throughout the trailer, and I thought it was just some voiceover or something. Turns out, it’s Kaa! Apparently, they gender-swapped one of my favorite characters in the film to a female!! WHY WAS THAT NECESSARY? I don’t give a frag that it’s Scarlett Johansson voicing “her.” Do we REALLY need to gender-swap for the sake of inclusion?? I don’t recall anyone EVER complaining about there being “too many males” in the original cartoon.

Still looking forward to Keymast–I mean Bill Murray voicing Baloo, though.

[Dark KenshiParticipant 2132]

Actually, Kaa is the only role that I think would be PERFECT for a woman.

I mean, Kaa is THE role model of a “modern woman”, don’t you think?

A snake, a betrayer, an evil, yet cunning person, who only “fights” with “venom” (call that “venom” ‘shaming and nagging’ and we have a real woman), who does nothing than to try to f~~~ with the man’s life…

Yep, if that is not the perfect depict of a “modern independent & strong woman”, then I don’t know what else would be…

"Young was I once, I walked alone, and bewildered seemed in the way; then I found me another and rich I thought me, for man is the joy of man." Odin, Hàvamàl, stanza 47.

[Governor Megachris%Participant 3584]

Or, since she’s playing a (non-venomous) boa constrictor, we could say she’s like a woman…because they SQUEEZE THE LIFE RIGHT OUT OF YA.
(Still loving your venomous snake analogy regardless!!!)

[The Moth Attracted to the FlameParticipant 2982]

How many f~~~ing remakes of classic animated films are we going to have just to get that extra cash? Originality is just so lost…

[uchibenkeiParticipant 7965]

my issue with this is that it strays too far from the original authors vision. authors don’t take lightly the decision to make a character male or female. many and sometimes all of the characters have bits and pieces of the author in them or pieces of characters the author knows personally. making changes to characters like this is like adding brush strokes to the Mona Lisa. There’s nothing wrong with female based stories or female main characters, obviously, but writers need to write some rather than just steal them. Ironically, female authors aren’t writing many stories with female main characters and the ones that are being written are heavily romantic in nature with love triangles (2 men fighting for her).

I bathe in the tears of single moms.

[Dark KenshiParticipant 2132]

uchibenkei wrote:

my issue with this is that it strays too far from the original authors vision. authors don’t take lightly the decision to make a character male or female. many and sometimes all of the characters have bits and pieces of the author in them or pieces of characters the author knows personally. making changes to characters like this is like adding brush strokes to the Mona Lisa. There’s nothing wrong with female based stories or female main characters, obviously, but writers need to write some rather than just steal them. Ironically, female authors aren’t writing many stories with female main characters and the ones that are being written are heavily romantic in nature with love triangles (2 men fighting for her).

You are right, brother. But I thought about one thing:

Probably, yes, Rudyard Kipling inspired himself in someone to write Kaa, no doubt about it. But think on the character only, here.

Kaa as Megachris said, is a boa constrictor, a serpent that the only one wish is to “squeeze the life out” and eat Mowgli. Now, if you take an example, from today’s life, who in your eyes would fit this character’s as a glove? Who has a behavior that is really like this character’s behaviour?

Women, right? Think of this as a small, a really small dose of a massive red pill, who will be given to anyone who watch this movie…

Sure, a lot of people will ignore it, they will just laugh, they will get “the joke”, but will not agree. And yet, there will be a few souls out there who WILL take the joke seriously, who will look at his side and see the world (and women , of course) for what it really is…

This movie will be like all Chuck Palahniuk movies… It will be like a giant Morpheus showing you both hands with the blue and red pills. And like in The Matrix movies, many will still take the blue one, but a few souls will take the red one. And that, my friend, is how MGTOW will be (massively) spread…

That is the same way that feminism was spreaded in the last fifty years… Sub-consciously, stealthily.

A small dose, here and then, and many more men out there will wake up…

"Young was I once, I walked alone, and bewildered seemed in the way; then I found me another and rich I thought me, for man is the joy of man." Odin, Hàvamàl, stanza 47.

[MaxParticipant 887]

Dark Kenshi wrote:

Actually, Kaa is the only role that I think would be PERFECT for a woman.
I mean, Kaa is THE role model of a “modern woman”, don’t you think?
A snake, a betrayer, an evil, yet cunning person, who only “fights” with “venom” (call that “venom” ‘shaming and nagging’ and we have a real woman), who does nothing than to try to f~~~ with the man’s life…
Yep, if that is not the perfect depict of a “modern independent & strong woman”, then I don’t know what else would be…

Actually in the original story, Kaa was Mowgli mentor and friend, just like Baloo and Bagheera.

I became a MGTOW because this was the only logical solution for a man survive in a world replete of gynocentrism and biased against men!

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