Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Feat. Stephanie Williams)

2021-09-08

Come on a deep sea journey with our special guest, Stephanie Williams (@Steph_I_Will) as we try to decipher the 2001 Disney film, Atlantis: The Lost Empire. A risk in a lot of ways for Disney, Atlantis tells the story of Milo (Michael J. Fox), a white dude from the surface who somehow knows more about Atlantean culture than...actual Atlanteans. We discuss how the hell that's possible, why Milo's "nice guy energy" makes him more of an insidious white savior than others, and how to fix this movie to give ...

Come on a deep sea journey with our special guest, Stephanie Williams (@Steph_I_Will) as we try to decipher the 2001 Disney film, Atlantis: The Lost Empire.

A risk in a lot of ways for Disney, Atlantis tells the story of Milo (Michael J. Fox), a white dude from the surface who somehow knows more about Atlantean culture than...actual Atlanteans.

We discuss how the hell that's possible, why Milo's "nice guy energy" makes him more of an insidious white savior than others, and how to fix this movie to give the Atlantean people some actual autonomy.

Our movie recommendations for this week are Fast Color and Kirikou and The Sorceress.

Find more of Stephanie's work at whysteph.com and But What If Though

And be on the look out for Nubia and the Amazons available October 5th, wherever comics are sold!

Find us @white_pod on Twitter and write to us at Whitepeoplewontsaveyoupod@gmail.com

R.I.P. Michael K. Williams, your work and your spirit will live on forever.

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