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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 01:06:04 2018 No.101879489 View Reply Original Report

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Why do people hate this movie or treat it as their weakest film? It's definitely better than Kubo.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 02:01:56 No.101880869 Report

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>>101879489
Kubo had fewer white people. #diversity #representation #blm #fucktrump

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ttg.mov Mon 23 Jul 2018 02:19:09 No.101881300 Report

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>>101879489
Caroline is always canon my frie

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 02:29:02 No.101881521 Report

Quoted By: >>101881629 >>101882813

I think Paranorman is their worst story wise.
Box Trolls has a lot of ugly characters, and most of them aren't the trolls. I really liked it though.
Kubo is fucking great though, story and character wise.
Coraline does show age just because of how much they've improved over the years, but is still a great watch as well.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 02:33:37 No.101881629 Report

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>>101881521
>Paranorman being the weakest

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 02:55:49 No.101882276 Report

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>>101881629
I like it the least of them. It's less the story and more the characters. It's mean spirited, which is the point but it starts out super fucking mean, when this kid should of been on talk shows and bringing in money and shit. Not a whole town hating him, instead "the freak kid brought all these people to town and we've made a ton of money off him" is how it could of been shown

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 02:57:44 No.101882329 Report

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>>101882276
Someone never grew up in a little town.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 03:00:35 No.101882414 Report

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>>101879489
I think the story was just a bit of a mess, and not all too interesting, I did enjoy the protagonists and the setting, but no one else was of much interest, especially the antagonists.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 03:08:25 No.101882617 Report

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>>101879489
Dude I like Boxtrolls and that's just nonsense.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 03:11:49 No.101882697 Report

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>>101879489
Boxtrolls didn’t have anything for it
As far as impressive animation, it is still behind a bunch of other laika films, the robot was intricate and complex but not nearly as much as Kubo did
The story was dull and so were the character designs
It just doesn’t beat any other movie in any real regard or category for comparison

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 03:16:26 No.101882813 Report

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>>101881521
>I think Paranorman is their worst story wise.
>Box Trolls has a lot of ugly characters, and most of them aren't the trolls.

The ugly characters is the appeal of the design. It isn't exactly a soft cute uwu story. Hell, their primary diet is cheese.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 03:30:57 No.101883161 Report

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>>101879489
>Don't Eat Shit You're Allergic To: The Movie

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 05:06:55 No.101885091 Report

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 05:08:21 No.101885113 Report

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nah

>Coraline>Paranorman>kubo>boxtrolls

boxtrolls was just a generic family movie. Kubo at least tried to do something out of the ordinary and didn't quite hit the mark

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 05:08:34 No.101885122 Report

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>>101882697
It did have a fun Ben Kingsley performance.

But yeah, it's definitely their weakest.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 05:09:54 No.101885146 Report

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>>101885091
Fucking magical.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 05:11:03 No.101885165 Report

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I've never seen the Boxtrolls movie, and I feel like I'm committing a sin to myself by not doing so

However, I DID read the book ("Here Be Monsters!"), and considering the fact that at the basic form of knowledge, the movie is nothing like the book, I dunno if I can find myself liking it as much.

I don't know if anyone here has read that book, but it sets the standard pretty damn high imo. It's a really funny but nice story with equally humorous and appealing characters and setting.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 05:43:58 No.101885707 Report

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>>101879489
There wasn't any THICC characters or none that I can remember and also a ugly ass crossdresser.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 05:49:01 No.101885787 Report

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>>101885091
>ATATATATATATATATATATATATATATA

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 05:52:01 No.101885846 Report

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Paranorman > Coraline > Boxtrolls > Trailer for Kubo > Kubo

Kubo just doesn't fucking work for me. The whole movie is set up so fucking by the numbers and generic that it makes you think it'll do something interesting or subvert the genre. Then it just doesn't. It just wallows in a generic story with a couple almost-interesting characters, and then it has a terrible letdown of an ending.
Problem is, the visuals are fucking heart stopping. Talking about this movie in real life is infuriating. Do I want to watch it? Absolutely, but I want to complain about the story while I do it.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 06:13:05 No.101886193 Report

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I really like Elle Fanning as the pampered masochistic princess girl
Also the movie is alright

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 06:24:01 No.101886379 Report

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>>101879489
All Laika movies are their weakest movie except maybe Coraline since it's based on solid source material. Really, what's the point of having basically infinite resources and no pressure to create mass-appeal tentative franchise crap if you're going to go for either too bland or simply quirky for the sake of quirky stuff?

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 06:27:33 No.101886441 Report

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>>101886379
Paranorman was great, but I definitely avoided it at first because iirc it came out around the time frankenweenie did and I definitely didn’t want to see that so I accidentally correlated the two
But Paranorman is their best original work. I don’t know if Paranorman was original, but it certainly wasn’t as well known as coralline.

Coraline is in a league of its own and it’s one of the few adaptations that surpassed the source material

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 09:09:44 No.101888293 Report

Quoted By: >>101888315 >>101888374 >>101888989

>>101885091
>>101885146

Name a single advantage of Stop Motion over CG

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 09:12:20 No.101888315 Report

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>>101888293
soul

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 09:18:52 No.101888374 Report

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>>101888293
it's more expensive to have this level of realism in CG

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 09:24:15 No.101888422 Report

Quoted By: >>101888429 >>101888610 >>101888634 >>101888779

>>101879489
Not better than Kubo, but definitely a close second. I really love Boxtrolls, I just find the designs and charaters so charming and lovable.
Paranorman is on the bottom for me, I was bored sitting through the whole movie and almost fell asleep two times, didn't like any of the characters personality and barley remember the movie after it ended. But this seems to be an unpopular opinion since everyone I know love Paranorman and get's offended when I mention my dislike for it.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 09:25:20 No.101888429 Report

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>>101888422
They just really like the witchfu and the thicc sister

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 09:39:17 No.101888588 Report

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>>101888374
> tons of sets
> tons of characters and armatures
> crazy 3D printing usage
> animated on motherfucking 1's because Laika
> can't even tweak shots, it's do or die straight ahead animation
> on top of it all, it does use compositing and CG as well

Really difficult to believe this is cheaper than state-of-the-art CG

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 09:41:24 No.101888610 Report

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>>101888422
I watched it about a month or so after my grandma died. So I'm pretty biased for the simple fact that there's a ghost grandma in there.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 09:42:45 No.101888634 Report

Quoted By: >>101888779

>>101888422
>Paranorman is on the bottom for me, I was bored sitting through the whole movie and almost fell asleep two times

You're an idiot.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 09:56:09 No.101888779 Report

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>>101888422
>>101888634
I didn't find Paranorman boring, but the story does feel thin and spread on too much running time.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 10:00:38 No.101888830 Report

Quoted By: >>101894281

>>101886379
>too bland or simply quirky for the sake of quirky stuff?
Kubo was neither of these. I expect big things from Travis Knight.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 10:11:53 No.101888937 Report

Quoted By: >>101888990

I think Boxtrolls was the funniest one and definitely a 10/10 in character design
the other three all have this weird gloomy halloween vibe

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 10:17:03 No.101888989 Report

Quoted By: >>101889003

>>101888293
Cost. Box Trolls had a budget of $60 million, which is about half the budget of an average CGI flick. Picking some at random.

>Home: 135 million
>Shrek 3: 160 million
>HtTyD 2: 145 million

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 10:17:22 No.101888990 Report

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>>101888937
I liked the zany, Terry Gilliamesque vibe of it, but I remember literally nothing memorable of the story or characters. I'm a fan of Graham Annable though, I wish they gave him the chance of doing something more personal, like a Twin Peaks/Fargo type story in the style of Puzzle Agent.

The problem with Laika is that they're too focused on generic adventure stories; I would have loved one of these years ago, but I don't think they work that well with adult audiences

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 10:18:24 No.101889003 Report

Quoted By: >>101889267

>>101888989
Damn, considering this >>101888588 that's surprising. Maybe it's the celebrity casts of modern CG blockbusters?

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 10:32:35 No.101889142 Report

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>>101879489
Word

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 10:40:43 No.101889234 Report

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>>101888990
Literally the most underrated youtube animator; his animated shorts are legit hysterical

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 10:42:34 No.101889253 Report

Quoted By: >>101889313 >>101894123 >>101894678

>>101880869
It was still whitewashing tho because they had a white boi voice kubo

I will never not be mad about that

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 10:42:42 No.101889256 Report

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>>101879489
Kubo has more passion. Boxtrolls was more fun. I prefer Kubo cause it had me in tears

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 10:43:36 No.101889267 Report

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>>101889003

That probably has something to do with it but not nearly everything. There are some fully CG movies with bottom of the barrel costs but a well animated CG movie takes tons of time and tons of resources. Not only do you need to pay a team of people with specialty skills, you've got to pay out the ass for hardware. Every machine they work on costs upwards of 20,000 dollars and you need dozens if not hundreds of them. You've also got to upgrade that shit constantly to stay relevant. Those costs add up fast.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 10:47:38 No.101889300 Report

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>>101889256
It definitely needed a counterpoint for all the drama and general grandeur. The sentimentality didn't feel genuine because there was too much of an obvious focus on it

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 10:48:20 No.101889310 Report

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>>101879489
Snatcher was a great villian. His VA did a tremendous job.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 10:48:36 No.101889313 Report

Quoted By: >>101889322 >>101895219

>>101889253
kys

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 10:49:24 No.101889322 Report

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>>101889313
irl even

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 13:45:30 No.101891391 Report

Quoted By: >>101893417

How would you fix laika boiz?
(Also what movie would you make)

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 15:51:48 No.101893358 Report

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>>101879489
It is the weakest in visual ideas.
I mean the other three are: a children horror movie about a fantasy world with a dark truth; a ghost seeing kid dealing with zombies and a witch's curse on the town; a mystic storytelling boy's quest to gather the armor pieces needed to save the humans for godlike moonpeople.
Compared to those, a story of a boy and trolls fighting cheese and hat obsessed authority ain't as impressive sounding.

Now Box Trolls IS great and I like it. A definite should watch. But it's like a B+ next to three As on a report card. It's still technically the lowest score.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 15:56:05 No.101893417 Report

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>>101891391
See if Nike could bribe the Oscar judges with free sneakers to not vote for Disney/DreamWorks for once.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 16:07:26 No.101893605 Report

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>>101880869
But Hollywood and western society in general doesn't care about Asians when it comes to diversity. Only blacks.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 16:33:16 No.101893976 Report

Quoted By: >>101895416

>>101879489
Coraline > Boxtrolls > Kubo > Shit > Paranorman

fucking hated paranorman. the third act was cringey as shit. literally deviantart tier

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 16:41:22 No.101894123 Report

Quoted By: >>101895219

>>101889253
Can we just take all the people with the same mindset as you and put you guys on your own Island were you all can be offended togheter cut off from the rest off the world where we never again have to hear about your existense.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 16:45:44 No.101894199 Report

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>>101879489
The Boxtrolls is genuinely my favorite Laika film. I found the main character in Paranorman to be extremely dull and unlikeable, and the forced humor in Kubo really turned me off of the movie. The Boxtrolls was entertaining from beginning to end and I still think it's the most impressive visually.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 16:52:09 No.101894281 Report

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>>101888830
Kubo was bland and by-the-numbers as hell, though.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 17:11:39 No.101894600 Report

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>>101879489
Coraline > Kubo > Boxtrolls > Paranorman

I'm not saying Paranorman was terrible but in terms of my favorites it's the one I probably wouldn't rewatch anytime soon. It's still good but not as great to me.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 17:15:21 No.101894678 Report

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>>101889253
>boi
Cringe

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 17:39:41 No.101895183 Report

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I feel as though Box Trolls was better than Paranorman. I enjoyed Paranorman, but I never really got the hype that surrounded it.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 17:41:06 No.101895206 Report

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>>101879489
Because it's a shit brown movie. I ain't watching a poop-colored movie.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 17:41:50 No.101895219 Report

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>>101894123
>>101889313
No guys i meant i am mad that it is considered white washing
Kubo is still an asian kid so i dont think it should fucking matter who voiced him

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 17:52:28 No.101895416 Report

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>>101893976
How so?

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Anonymous Mon 23 Jul 2018 17:55:12 No.101895480 Report

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Norman > Caroline Boy > Kubo > Eggsy

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