Look at this! Look at this fucking thing! This was done in 1986, and used absolutely no CGI whatsoever. It was ALL practical, and ALL done through puppetry. Look at the last gif. Over a dozen vines are moving at once along with its head, lips, and tongue! In interviews Rick Moranis has stated he often forgot he was working with a puppet, as opposed to a really ugly guy. Even today it looks so real. Audrey ii is nothing short of miraculous
The thing that really irritates me about all of this bullshit with J.K. Rowling is that I see broke, stressed out college students writing fics for $0 who are painstakingly seeking out sensitivity readers to beta stories that only a small subset of a fandom will ever read, whereas Rowling, who has all the goddamn money in the world, is basically just looking up world mythology stubs on wikipedia and calling it a fucking day.
She could literally afford have a university’s entire critical diversity studies faculty on retainer just for kicks if she wanted, but won’t make even the slightest effort to do better.
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