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Sausage Party
2016 · Film · 89 min
Directed by Greg Tiernan, Conrad Vernon
AdventureAnimationComedyFantasy
Hot dog Frank leads a group of supermarket products on a quest to discover the truth about their existence and what really happens when they're chosen to leave the grocery store.
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Made me want to sing that classic song from the animated movie "sausage party"
"Just the tip"
I feel pretty confident that Captain Marvel, Emilia Perez, Spy Kids, Sausage Party, The Last Jedi, and Ghostbusters 2016 aren't at much risk of going over the heads of audiences, but you're entitled to your opinion if you think they count as avant garde cinema
"Sausage Party", the 2016 movie, imagines supernatural spirits in a grocery store.
Aesthetic preferences are not universal, it's interesting how much discussion ends up being about how a given set should be preferred, rather than simply expressing that they happen to be preferred by a given individual.
I didn't know that Sausage Party was a movie :
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage_Party
the Working Conditions section covers the controversy over pay and conditions.
edit the article you refer to without any Google AMP nonsense (sorry for not catching that before) https://variety.com/2016/film/news/sausage-party-animators-unpaid-overtime-1201838425/
It’s not the norm, but this type of stuff happens more in this industry (labor of love) than in other industries.
Read up on the sausage party scandal
https://variety.com/2016/film/news/sausage-party-animators-unpaid- overtime-1201838425/amp/
The animators were even reluctant to raise objections over fears of being blacklisted.
company chants?
and here I was thinking that the intro to "Sausage Party" (the movie) was just playing on disney clichés 0_o
That was because being in US was considered a status symbol until recently. Parents used to feel proud to tell their friends and relatives that my son/daughter is in US, even though deep down they are afraid of ending up alone. I see an Indian eagerly waiting to be picked for the H1B visa similar to the Sausage Party movie where they all wait eagerly at the supermarket thinking outside the door is heaven or something. I agree some of the things (especially pay) are better than in India, but they are loosing a lot. And India is only going to get better (probably in another 10-15 years, lot of things in India will be comparable to what US has currently).
Coming back to the parents, now with all the negative coverage of H1B in Indian media, people have a negative perception of being in US. My visa expired and is in process of renewal. I didn't go to office one day. My dad thought I wasn't going because I was hiding from the authorities since my visa expired. They have been asking me to come back for a while now.
600K Indians out of 1 billion is nothing. Huge number of Indians don't want to leave India. I hope you know that. It becomes more evident once you are in the marriage market. Lot of them are downright reject proposals from people who work in US. Also, I never heard of Canada immigration until 1 year back. Now, a lot of my friends/colleagues are talking about or in the process of applying for the Canadian visa.
And a good number of those who apply for green card don't do it because they want to become a citizen. Its because once you complete a certain stage of green card (I-140), you can continue working in the country. Otherwise, you have to leave once you complete 6 years. They plan to work for 10-20 years, and come back to India and retire nicely with all the money they made in US.
Your choice of articles says more about you than the quality of the articles. Also, a number of these articles were published pursuant to mandatory thesis requirements. They weren't intended to expand the frontiers of human knowledge; they were intended to show that the degree-earner is capable of deep analysis in their respective PhD program.
The otter article, for example, appears to be a well-researched analysis of otter populations in Alaskan waters correlated with human settlement and economic activities. The pumpkin latte article looks into the correlation of light colors and whiteness and advertising in the US, an issue which frequently pops up in marketing gaffes (including one as recently as last week for a beer commercial). The queer organizing article looks at diversity in organizations, analyzed using sociological framework (i.e., "norms") rather than the business management framework. The Sausage Party article is an academic analysis of the movie, which is a surprisingly deep commentary of race, gender, and ethnicity in the U.S.
The video game industry is the new movie industry -- except nobody is unionized. The film industry is notorious for this crap as well; look at the Sausage Party controversy for a recent example. Honestly, a programmer on a video game is not much different than a camera operator, a film editor or a VFX engineer. Sure, you need quality work in those areas to have a good product, but great work in these areas can still be submarined by a terrible concept (ahem ScarJo's Ghost in the Shell).
And really, can you blame them? Revenues are largely based on the work of the producer (marketing / promotion), the director (overall tone / quality) and the acting talent (big names = box office draws); the folks behind the scenes get screwed over (or they would if they didn't have unions ensuring some long-term consequences for producers acting in bad faith).