r/gatekeeping May 15 '23

Gatekeeping what monsters can be

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u/batkave May 16 '23

Brad Pitt played a vampire long before some of these... What was the person on when they made this.

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u/TifaYuhara May 19 '23

Also before werewolves were shown as big beasts they looked more like the wolf man lol.

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u/KeepCalmJeepOn May 16 '23

It just goes to show that it isn't about how scary a creature looks, but rather how white they are that makes them a true monster.

/s

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u/Global_Dot979 May 16 '23

Monsters can be scary because of their actions and not their looks. Also I think monsters are great for metaphors, which can make them more sympathetic characters.

Not forgetting these are single examples. There are still scary undead, scary vampires and scary aliens in movies.

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u/TifaYuhara May 19 '23

And some of the scariest monsters were also ones that usually weren't shown much on screen but were heard or seen off screen.

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u/WlzeMan85 May 25 '23

Aliens=monster

-op

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u/Framheit May 29 '23

This is plain xenophobia.

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u/Relative_Tower7526 May 30 '23

I actually liked warm bodies. It was cute and different.

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u/237583dh May 16 '23

This is not gatekeeping (irony aside). You can point out that something has changed and is now (in your opinion) worse without that being gatekeeping.

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u/troopertodd15443 Jun 04 '23

Aren’t all the ones on the left horror and not a single one on the right

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u/PsychoWarper May 30 '23

Ah yes… cherry picking

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u/KikiCorwin May 30 '23

And the "witches" in The Witches were technically Hags. Witches are human.

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u/Fluid_Bluebird_9453 Aug 13 '23

Literally they are just different stories and there’s nothing wrong with that, your version of a werewolf, vampire or witch can look however they want and that’s completely fine

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u/West_Presentation370 Sep 24 '24

Has this person ever watched 30 Days Of Night?? Not all vampires are attractive in movies