I Watched Help! For The First Time Recently, It Was A Lot Of Fun, But My Feelings Are Kinda Mixed On

I watched Help! For the first time recently, it was a lot of fun, but my feelings are kinda mixed on it, considering how they used Hinduism in the film, and played into a lot of racist tropes towards Indians :/

yeah. they didn't even attempt to hide it. old media (and current media if we’re being honest, but they've just gotten better at hiding it) mocked/insulted cultures/races so much. they wouldn't even hide it. it was in kids cartoons, commercials, everything. even the monkees show had bits against mexicans, asians, and indians too with racist stereotypes. racist stereotypes have been around forever and it just keeps carrying over to other generations. sigh.

it’s just ignorance on the film makers part. i don't think the beatles were really involved in the making of the plot (not that i know of, at least), and they were stoned for basically the whole movie so they didn't give a shit. and to be honest, even if they were involved and sober i still don't think they'd see anything wrong with the film at the time. because it wouldn't affect them or hurt them/their culture. because a lot of people are ignorant to these racist tropes that they've deemed normal because they've seen it/heard it all their lives from media and their peers. 

help! is a decent movie (except ringo’s hair deserves jail time) and it’s a good laugh. it’s a fun movie. it’s okay to enjoy it but it’s important to understand the undertones it kind of had. and to acknowledge it. 

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[PAUL: It’s like… we have to get back, we’re on our way home.

JOHN: Yeah.

PAUL: There’s a story…there’s another one  “don’t let me down”  “Oh!darling, I’ll never let you down” Like we’re…..

JOHN: It’s like we’re lovers

PAUL:  Yeah

JOHN: we’ll just have to camp it up for those two]

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1. Paul admitting that ‘two of us’ ‘don’t let me down’ and ‘oh darling’ is about them.

2. John confirming it and adding how the songs make them look like lovers.

OH!DARLING

TWO OF US

DON’T LET ME DOWN

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remain polyamorous even when they’re dating only one person or nobody, in the same way a bi/pan person is still bi/pan when they’re not dating someone of the same gender

are often socially ostracized and suffer discrimination and aggression, including things like being fired or kicked out of their parents’ house for being polyam

don’t have marriage rights or many other legal protections anywhere in virtually the entire world

are inherently queer. They aren’t just sometimes also queer in addition to being polyamorous - polyamory is queer

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this whole discussion about a Mulan life-action baffles me. Like… I love the fun with Mushu and all but? Why do we need a Disney remake of the movie when there is

a pretty much epic

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beautiful

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actually Chinese version

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with great characters

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and Mulan’s more accurate story

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readily available??? 

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Since 2009??

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