Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, This Just In is a subset of the fortnightly The 250 podcast, looking at notable new arrivals on the list of the 250 (and the 100 worst) best movies of all-time, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.
This time, Tony Leondis’ The Emoji Movie: Express Yourself.
Notes:
- Recorded 11th August 2017.
- The Emoji Movie at The Internet Movie Database.
- Alex French at The New York Times discusses the creative climate where anything can be fashioned into a movie.
- Scott Meslow at GQ on how studios are working to get around bad Rotten Tomatoes scores.
- Megan Garber at The Atlantic on how The Emoji Movie fundamentally misunderstands the working of emojis.
- Selena Larson at The Daily Dot discusses how difficult it is to standardise emoji and human responses to them.
- Eric Eisenberg at CinemaBlend on the challenge of designing customised unbranded emoji for The Emoji Movie.
- Lauren Collister at The Conversation on the use of emojis as a paralanguage.
- Clive Thompson at Wired on the way that emoji have replaced netspeak.
- William Cummins at USA Today on the way that emoji has made it easier to convey tone and meaning in written communication.
- Selena Larson at The Daily Dot on the differences between how we use emoji and how we use words.
- Adrienne LaFrance at The Atlantic on the westernisation of emoji.
- Andrew McGill at The Atlantic on whether it is ever appropriate to use the white emoji.
- T.J. Miller talks with Vulture about his career.
- T.J. Miller on the feminism of The Emoji Movie.
- Arthur Chu at The Daily Beast on how pop culture has convinced men that love should work.
- Jean M. Twenge at The Atlantic on the impact of smart phones on the current generation.
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Filed under: The Bottom 100, This Just In | Tagged: communication, emojis, intelluctual property, t.j. miller, the emoji movie, the emoji movie: express yourself |
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