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The fuckinghshgshahahha life jacket

Okay so, in the movie, when Simon is going through the emergency supplies, he finds the life jacket, kinda stares at it for a second, and tosses it to the side. It's a quick, simple visual joke because given the context the fact that there is a life jacket it comical because what the fuck is that gonna accomplish, and the tossing it aside is just a simple way of communicating that that's both funny and effective

And then, when the electricity fails and Simon needs a light, the life jacket is actually useful for this purpose, it's the only source of light and while Simon may have been able to fix the power without it, the life jacket did save his life in the moment

And then, we get to the end of the movie, Simon is able to save the black box and all the data and float it to the top of the ocean because of the life jacket. People are able to get what is probably the literal most important information in the universe and gives humanity hope for the first time in ages because of Simon and the way he got the info to them was the life jacket that he tossed aside because it was completely useless

Like the life jacket goes from comically useless, to useful for Simon, to being the only way that the last hope for humanity can be reached

Using prosthetics on an able bodied conventionally attractive actor would not only just be incredibly disrespectful and removing an opportunity for an actor who actually has those traits, it would also just be the most blatant misunderstanding of the original movie possible.

However, recently, I was watching a recording of Gaten Matarazzo performing Pirelli's Miracle Elixir when he was in the Sweeney Todd revival on Broadway, and one of the comments was saying that he has the perfect voice to theoretically play a live action Quasimodo and I'm afraid I have to concede, he really would be perfect. He's an amazing actor, a talented singer with the perfect voice, he's actually physically disabled, and while he doesn't have any facial irregularities, one could argue that he did at some point, or at least had a similar experience due to missing some teeth for a long time.