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[–] [email protected] 90 points 8 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Spaceballs!!!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

That’s all that came to mind when I saw this yesterday, I’m glad you brought dot matrix up

[–] [email protected] 50 points 8 months ago (4 children)

To be honest I think it looks cool! Why not? Bring back the armor, capes and/or swords!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

I imagine plate armor is uncomfortable as fuck... Capes are dope though, but I can imagine them getting caught in various things causing fatal accidents (escalators, revolving doors, moving trains, etc.)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Its not difficult to engineer a bit of safety into a cape. The clasps holding the cape around your neck/on your body can be designed to have a low breakaway strength to prevent strangulation(150N is a typical force). This is a feature designed into most safety helmets. Its secure enough to never fall off unintentionally, but weak enough that it removes the risk of strangulation.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Zendaya switched to a dress after the red carpet walk, so you are probably right about the comfortability

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Exceedingly cool.

She's the upgraded model of protocol droid and I dug it!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Could it be some kind of sexbot?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I for one would like to dress in 80s coat and suit

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I feel like that photo really doesn’t capture the oddity of that get-up, though it does feel “Dune-ish”:

zendaya'd

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

More David Lynch Dune than Denis Villeneuve Dune.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Yeah, it looks better from the other angle but more Dune-ish from this one IMO

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

... they can't even design the boob-plate properly anymore. smh...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Alright this side looks even better. Damn she is gorgeous and this looks cool too!

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (3 children)

To be fair, it could be the Metropolis gal too.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

That's exactly what the outfit was modeled on

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes, both Zendaya's dress and C3PO were designed to look like Maria, the robot in Metropolis.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

For those too lazy to click the wiki link

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Leave her alone. She just wanted to feel closer to her idol Swen Vincke.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

As far as idols go, the head of what seems to be the only ethical major developer/publisher of video games left isn't the WORST choice 🤷

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm just annoyed at the caption "break the internet".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Im annoyed at using a screenshot of a tiktok at all rather than just looking up a picture of her in the suit

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I think it's more of a metropolis vibe

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

Yeah, both Zendaya's costume and C3PO (and many other robots in sci-fi) have the Metropolis aesthetic.

Just that Star Wars being as popular as it is means C3PO is iconic on his own, and no one thinks a lot about why the stylistic choices were made when they designed the C3PO costume in the 70s.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Urgh, I hate when brands use the phrase "Break the internet!" ... It just sounds so braindead to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's entirely brain dead: they're literally copying it from whoever used it years ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I think I first saw it with Kim Kardashian. And did it "break" anything? Maybe some coomer's wrist, but nothing else lol

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

More like see-THRU-PO, amirite?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Just imagine something itching and you can't stratch it. The horror

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Both are inspired by the 1927 Film Metropolis.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think that Zendaya's version was also inspired by Hajime Soroyama.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

It’s not a dress.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Did zendaya actually wear that ?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

Yes, on the Dune part two premiere. I do think it fits the occasion.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Everyone do an image search for Hajime Sorayama (potentially NSFW).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

See-thru-po

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Who wore it best? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

How is this a meme? It’s a classic art piece designed by Theirry Muglier and was originally seen in George Michael’s Too Funky music video. And yes it’s inspired by robots like C3PO and Maria/Maschinenmensch from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

These Disney chicks have become so NSFW nowadays. Miley Cyrus, Bella Thorne, Zendaya, Demi Lovato, etc.

How ironical!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There was a south park episode about exactly this

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

As I understand it, it's to get out of Disneys iron clad contracts.

Disney values it's family friendly image very much. And it's the only way to get out of what is close to a slave contract.

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