2018 Grinch has no edge. He’s got no bite. He’s not even that much of an asshole. He’s just a sassy gay furry with unusually nice teeth despite his famous theme song declaring otherwise.
1966 Grinch? Now that was a mean, scary bastard. He was a crusty old fuck who hated society so much that he only came off his shitty frozen mountain to commit crimes and terrorism out of spite.
Bennyhoo Cumberland Grinch comes down from his mountain to buy groceries.
You can round the edges off a character to make them more “relatable” or whatever, but you also run the risk of losing what defined them in the first place. The end result is bland and generic.
2018 Grinch is a reflection of modern society’s rejection of real character flaws in the interest of being “unproblematic” and in this essay i will
What was your opinion on the Jim Carrey grinch?
In my opinion it’s more valid than ever now.
Jim Carey Grinch was a gross-ass smelly goblin who broke stuff, carjacked, stole from an entire village and abused his dog. That guy was a bastard and the movie wasn’t afraid to show it. It made Cindy Lou Who and Martha May still being able to see the good in him all the more meaningful because that shit was HARD.
It also made his change of heart more meaningful because it was such a big change for a character to go from that to caring about other people. (If memory serves me right, he saves Cindy from falling to her death from falling off a cliff along with all the presents he stole. He saved her, in part, because he appreciated that she wasn’t a jerk to him and reached out to him.)
Bendystraw Cumberland Grinch has a tragic backstory that makes him sassy and gives him panic attacks. Carey Grinch ALSO has a tragic backstory but he doesn’t handle it in “cute” or “acceptable” ways. He dealt with bullying and bigotry from the Whos and it made him into an asshole who lashed out at people. To take away the genuinely nasty and ugly parts of the Grinch and sanitize him so he’s more “acceptable” and less “problematic” lessens the impact of how much he changed as a person.
Overdressed & Underappreciated 