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Sep 27, 2023 · Where TV and movies often make fat people out to be bungling and incapable, Mavis is ambitious and creative. Where fatness is usually shown as undesirable, Mavis has an abundance of love in her...
- The Misery Porn of 'The Whale'
- '3000 Years of Longing' and Its Spectacle of Fatness
- A Glimmer of Hope from 'The Banshees of Inisherin'
- Jamie Lee Curtis Makes A Stand in 'Everything, Everywhere, All at Once'
- Glass Onion Completely Failed Us
Multiple fat positive outlets and activists have spoken out advising people not to go see The Whale. The film has been described as a "body horror" and "misery porn", choosing to show the life of a fat person as a result of deep trauma as well as a slow death. The combination of up-close shots of Fraser’s fat suit moving around a small apartment, t...
On the other end of the scale, 3000 Years of Longing makes a similar spectacle of fatness as a weakness. In a small portion of the film, during one of the many offshoot stories within the plot itself, we focus on two brothers. One of them, Murad lV (Ogulcan Arman Uslu), is a focused but frightening dictator who is prone to murderous rages. His youn...
The year hasn’t all been one-note fat characters though. The Banshees of Inisherindelivered us a complex and intriguing lead with Brendan Gleeson as Colm Doherty, a musician on an island just off the coast of Ireland who decides one day to stop speaking to his best friend Pádraic (Colin Farrell). This period drama barely mentions Doherty’s weight —...
You may note that none of the actors in Everything, Everywhere, All At Once are fat. You may also be under the same misunderstanding I was before writing this article, that Jamie Lee Curtis donned a fat suit for her role as IRS manager Deidre. Actually, the opposite is true: Curtis specifically requested to be allowed to “let go” and not “conceal” ...
The films above barely make a dint in the films released this year, and every year, with no fat representation at all. While I adored seeing Glass Onionrecently, it struck me halfway through that nobody in the main cast was anything other than thin, and if they were larger, it was due to piles of muscles and not rolls of fat. Any of these character...
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Pixar vs. Fat People. Screen cap from the Wall-E trailer, since Pixar’s press photos include no images of the humans in the movie. Courtesy of Pixar. Finally, we’ve found people who don’t like...
Feb 8, 2022 · It is important to call out fatphobic ideologies for their toxic and harmful effects and look for ways that film productions and the industry can improve how they portray fat people.
May 14, 2021 · Think about your favorite fat characters in TV and film. Are they the funny best friend? Is weight or weight loss the central component of their story or character?
Feb 9, 2024 · Why are fat characters so often the butt of the joke or the focus of pity? A new documentary raises questions about the lack of complex portrayals of plus-size people on screen.
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Feb 7, 2023 · Laziness, stupidity, gluttony or having low sexual capital are some of the concepts associated with fat people, according to Jeanine Gailey, a sociology professor at Texas Christian University....
