Blossom: "Are you sad because you keep thinking about your place in society, as the eyes
of everyone looking to you for guidance begins to weigh heavily on your young soul?
Only to realize you were just one of the many leaves bending to the will of the wind?
in a never ending race with cruel mistress that is time,
an illusionistic prison created by man shackling us all to this dream we call life?"
Bubbles: "Nah, that's not it"
so i got this request to style powerpuff girls uh there's gonna be a remake it's gonna be
you know a live action again, and it's going to be on cw, and it's going to be of course a dark
reimagination. There's a lot of challenges with making a show like that, which the first thing that
i'm going to address here is a list of challenges that this remake would present to the creators. And
the fact of the matter is... the suggestion to make a restyling of powerpuff girls came from my previous
video about winx and restyling winx, and the thing is, winx lends itself a lot better to styling
and to restyling, and to making a live action show . Even though both have the element of magic, you
know, or superpowers or whatever and they're kind of similar in the sense that it's girls who are
fighting evil, they're actually very different in terms of remaking it and in terms of
reimagining it and i basically rewatched episodes, i'm compiling a new idea of what it could be
from the perspective of the '98 cartoon, the 2016 version of it as well, and the anime version. First
of all, we have to talk about the fact that styling is not a thing on its own as much as it's part of
the entirety of the art direction of the show and oftentimes shows and movies that are made about
superheroes are extremely ugly, it's kind of like a joke at this point, that for example all of
the marvel movies and some of the dc movies are very ugly. The one that kind of stands apart from
it is the dc dark knight and stuff like that because at least it works together in terms of
what it's trying to do, but most of the time they don't quite work visually because they are not
done as a cohesive whole. I don't know what they're doing, i don't know who their art directors are,
i have a feeling that movie productions and tv shows are not really allowing for much
input, besides the i don't know the set building or something like that
when it comes to these things it's clear that they don't have a cohesive direction
most of the time the costumes are doing one thing, the set design does another thing, the writing is
going for a third thing... it's all over the place, basically. With this type of show... so we'll
let's look at them as in terms of the characters and the way that they are drawn
so first and foremost i think that a lot of people are forgetting that canonically
these characters are not quite human. It's kind of like a running joke in the show as well that
their hands don't have fingers, they're kind of just like little nubs and their feet are very
round to compare to other characters in the show. So let's compare them all of these kids they're
from their universe, they're from their class and stuff like that, all the other kids definitely look
quite different from them. If you would compare that to winx, in Winx everyone
is kind of a human, um yeah, they're fairies, but they look quite human and they all look
similar to each other, so the art style is not changed for them
but we have this anime to also look at, which kind of suggests that they're just like
human because... We can let go of that part for the live action, you know, it's not that big
of a deal, because canonically it's also like they have been drawn as humans(in the anime version) so it's fine. There is
another really big difference between this show and winx and why winx is more suitable for
live action than powerpuff girls, and that reason is the setting.
so in winx we get a completely different setting, it's a magical world, a magical realm, you can do
whatever the hell you want, so the costuming is not restricted to the world that we know
and in powerpuff girls they are living in an average american city. It's quite large but
the architecture and everything is very north american, very new. If you have watched
any cw shows that are superhero shows or if you've seen marvel movies or dc movies... No matter
how good the character looks on their own, if you put them in a matching setting they will look
ridiculous to compare to everybody else in just a regular city. To pull this off you would have to
change the surroundings a lot, and i don't mean just the architecture and stuff like that, you can
get away with architecture sometimes because of just colour grading and other things like that
to like you know get the right mood or whatever. I mean the costumes of everybody else in the frame
and then it would kind of make this world very difficult to define because it's not technically
a completely different world, so you can't change all the rules in it without having to explain
everything about why it's changed. So basically, the setting is just not ideal for changing it
in a way that would stay true to the original. The thing is, you also have to have like a reason as to
why you're remaking something. If you're remaking it in a way that changes a lot about the original,
you still have to question your decisions. i think that they can do whatever they want,
but if you stray away so far that it's not even powerpuff girls anymore, then it seems like it seems
very strange that you even called it that. You could have just created a new show with new names
they didn't have to be powerpuff girls. I also looked up their versions that are teen versions
there was an episode where they have like kind of a vision of themselves in the future where they
as teenagers gave up on being powerpuff girls and being superheroes. The premise of this show, of the
live action right now, is the a dark version of it (of course as it always is) and as you know,
if you've seen my previous video i like colour um and i like excitement, and i like glitter, and other
things like that, so of course that's not really up my alley. But, i can still understand it if you do
it well. A lot of people were saying that oh it's not canonically true that they would like give
up fighting or whatever and i wouldn't say that it's true or untrue, there is a thing
that they could point to which is that episode where they see themselves as teenagers who gave
up on fighting crime. And in that episode they look like this; so we kind of have a little bit
of an idea of what kind of changes would happen with them. There's another one i have right here ;
the only reason why i do have hope for this reincarnation, (i don't think it's gonna be
faithful to the original or anything like that) but it might gonna be a good show on its own
only because of Diablo Cody. It's the screenplay writer of Jennifer's Body. That's the creator of
the show, the person who wrote she wrote Jennifer's Body. And it's a really good time for her to have a
big project in the works right now because the public opinion on Jennifer's Body has changed
because people re-examined it outside of the lens of the media and the critics that were talking
about it back when it got released. There's a lot of different types of essays online you can watch
on it, it's a pretty good movie that got a really bad roll out uh that affected it in many ways and
the biggest reason as to why i didn't do as well as it should have done in terms of even critically
it's because of misogyny, unfortunately. But in any case, this is the creator, so i was kind of...
i'm curious! i'm curious, because you know, it could be very interesting. I don't know where they would
go with it, but could be going somewhere very exciting with it. I am going to say that in terms
of the story i'm not here for all of those "oh they're disillusioned 20 year olds whatever 20
something year olds", i'm tired of disillusioned stuff, i'm very tired of like our reality
in general, so i don't know why they decided to go for another dark reboot nowadays at this time
but they're doing what they're doing, and we're gonna work within those constraints. Let's get
into the styling! I'm going to explain my reasoning as we go along. We're gonna start with Bubbles. I
think that the show is kind of leaning towards the whole idea of them giving up on it and not really
wanting to be superheroes, maybe they're gonna go back to it in the show which probably something's
gonna happen, but i think that because they're in their 20s (i don't know when exactly i don't know
if it's early or late 20s) in any case i'm going to give them like a career path or at least something
that they're working towards, and with bubbles i was thinking that she would be a flower shop owner
or a vet, depending on age maybe she's going to be pursuing a degree in veterinary school or
something like that, as well as i think she would probably have like a like a side tiktok account.
there's this japanese girl who just posts like her morning routines or something like that and
it's very quiet and she just does her thing with her clothes and it's very cutesy
and i feel like she would have something like that just something very... something that she would
be doing on the side, not as much as her main thing. Based on her personality and how she was, how
caring and lovely she was, I don't think that she would be too into the numbers of the social media as much as
she would be just into communicating through social media. This is the type of style that
i have picked out for her, so this types of skirts kind of came to mind When I was thinking about her.
low rise with a little like tank top or something like that, slightly hippy-ish, but not quite.
that would be just like... a few times she would be wearing that kind of outfit, it's not her main
style, or her signature look or anything like that. Of course there needs to be some baby doll dresses,
because it's Bubbles, and even if she's more in a darker reincarnation or whatever i still think
that she would be very cute. That's something that's just very constant about her character
in the cartoon. This this type of lace thing on bodycon dresses kind of came back in the last
year or two, i think it would be something that she would be wearing casually. Of course really cute
nails, the short nails were all seeing all over the place. Short nails with some graphics on the nails
and those you know really big chunky plastic rings and stuff like that, i think that she would be
the one who would be wearing something like that. Then i put a bunch of examples of something that
i think would be her signature silhouette of her neckline, i think that this type of neckline looks
like it accentuates people's delicate features, so i think that she would be wearing something
like this where it's a square neckline... it has wide straps, not necessarily wide but i think
that the wide strap... Usually the way that it kind of supports the material (and i and i love when
it's a very silky kind of material) it supports this material better, to look more like a square
neckline rather than a cowl neckline, because it's very easy to kind of slip into that different
neckline when you're working with materials that are this flowy. I Think that it would just make her
look very... delicate! delicate is the word that i'm looking for. And i also have this one as an example
as well, all of them kind of have the same neckline and the same kind of straps i just think that it
would suit her a lot and i think that she should be wearing that a lot. It would immediately give
whichever outfit she's wearing (doesn't matter what kind of outfit) this type of neckline with
this type of material and this type of straps would give her a look that's very recognizable
and very subtly recognizable. You would never be able to be like oh, like i know exactly
what makes Bubbles Bubbles, but whenever you would see an outfit you'd be like oh i feel like
Bubbles from this show would wear this. And then this last dress that i have, i feel like she would
wear something like that if she was going out or something. Again, similar neckline, it's a little
bit different because of the way that it's... -"pika you got me so scared" - even though the dress is
cinched in a little bit, it's still reminiscent of a baby doll dress right in the way that
it's like draped and everything. So, we're on to Blossom. So, with Blossom i see that if she's not
going to be fighting crime, she's going to try and build a career, a very successful career, in high
in a highly competitive field. So i'm seeing her as maybe a lawyer in a big city like new
york or something like that, or trying to be become a lawyer. So she's going to law school, so i've got
a few looks for her... so i think that she would be wearing a lot of brands that are very well known
and high-end brands. First of all, i think that powerpuff girls are quite loaded. Their dad's
house, their professor's house, is pretty big. it's modern. He definitely has the money to have a lab
in his goddamn house and all of that stuff... so i think that they're actually going to be
coming from money. Even if they're quitting crime fighting or whatever. so i think that she would be
able to afford all of that, even though she would be a student or a new lawyer in the big city, you
know? So i put a few Chanel looks that are kind of 90s Chanel with a lot of high-waisted skirts and
cropped suit jackets and stuff like that. She would wear mary janes, of course, but the ones that have
like a nice heel with a little bit of a platform. These types of suits. She would be
into basic things like gucci as well. She's after the brands for the sake of the status that they
present to people, because she's trying to fit in in a very competitive field with a lot of
rich kids that are becoming young professionals, so she's trying to fit in that kind of group of
people, so she would be thinking about more like you know chanel suits... something that's very basic.
Things like... i don't really see her wearing something like Peter Do or something
like that, something more modern, you know? i do see her however in the suits like this as well
but it still has the same kind of vibe and when she's not wearing
like one of those suits or something like that um... actually, i'm going to show you another suit it's
this is more 80s, but i kind of feel like she would be wearing very bright and very
monochromatic looks. Like the entire look is monochromatic, shoulder pads as well. And i see
her, when she's wearing something else rather than like a suit, i think she would be wearing a lot of
shirts that are very... have a very straight line, and oftentimes off the shoulder but very tight...
basically, this shirt is the perfect example of what i mean. And her hair, i'm kind of imagining
that she would have a very long straight hair, and she would just wear it in like a ponytail or
something like that when she's in court or she's working or something. Then we've got Buttercup.
So with buttercup i kind of tried to mix some things together. I don't want her to be too goth,
or too punk... even though that would be a very obvious decision to do to do that kind of look. I don't
want her to be boring either, you know? so what i've come up with is like a mix of things. I think what
i want is a few crosses here and there that are very 90s, but not a bunch of them like they used to
be worn by gothic kind of people who are leaning into that. Think of the Craft from the 90s,
that uh movie, but tone it down quite a bit to make it a little bit more modern and a little bit less
about the gothic nature of it, and think more about a person who's influenced by a bunch of things
that kind of create this look. So i was thinking that she would be definitely the type of person
who would wear really big, really big pants, like jeans and stuff like that; really long ones, really
straight or baggy, with a very big graphic t-shirt. This kind of look or this one. like i feel like she
would have a graphic tee or a graphic shirt of whichever shirt it is, it needs
to be really big and graphic, and really big baggy pants. this literally says "spicy girl" which she is
the spice part of the recipe, so it makes sense. I would say that maybe some hoops?
kind of mix american street style with a little bit of gothic influences, a little bit of 90s
mix them together, make them a little bit more homebody, kind of relaxed, because she's kind of
a troublemaker but in a funny way, like she's a little bit mischievous and she wants
things to be entertaining, rather than trying to hurt people per se. I'm thinking about these
kind of things where it's very... it's very chill, and it could be a low rise jean
kind of throwing it back to 2007, you know? i also think that the entirety of the brand of
m.y.o.b., i don't know if you're familiar with it, but i will bring up these pants, i think it's fire
firefighter pants, love these pants and will love them until the day i die. i really like pants that have
that are split and have weird embellishments connecting them back together. This look is very
much that, and i think that she would be wearing big pants that have a lot of interesting
things going on on them. Heavy, oversized jackets; not straight jackets, but more puffy in terms of the
the silhouette of it, not necessarily like a puff jacket you know. so there's an example of
another pair. i think that this look would be very much her, like very big graphic t-shirts
very big pants. they're quite disheveled, you know? but in obviously in like a fashionable way. i
think her hair would literally mimic her cartoon hair, where she would have short hair like a bob
with hair styled to curl upwards and outwards. i think this type of hairstyle would suit her
a lot and would be so similar to what she has in the actual cartoon. she can have some
bangs like this, or i really love the necklace. I would also want to show this one this image
this type of makeup, just a little bit of a smokey eye, maybe less intense than this because i think
that she would be a little bit more laid back rather than trying to be very punk and goth and
whatever you know. I think it would look very interesting on her. I kind of see her as like
trying to just figure her life out, she would have less direction than the other two girls i think.
she would be having a little bit more of a difficult time adjusting to living as
someone who's not a superhero, you know, someone who doesn't fight for a living basically. she is more
of a person who fits that kind of lifestyle and i think that that would be a point of difficulty for
her. So there we have it! this is my version of what i think powerpuff girls could be in this new live
action. i had to tone it down quite a bit because, well, the setting and the show itself doesn't
lend itself well to adaptations like that, but i'm hopeful, just because of the creator of
the show being the creator of jennifer's body. let's see how it goes, and maybe when it comes
out i'll come back and do like a little bit of a review of the show and if it lived up to any
of the expectations, or if it did any justice to the show, and if it stands on its own and if
it offers anything new and anything exciting to us. Thank you for watching! you can suggest
anything else if you want to. let me know if you want me to talk about anything, because chances
are (based on who's commenting and what people are commenting), we kind of have the same interests
so if you want me to talk about something, i probably have something to say about it. See you!