Salt!
I'm having some difficulties with motivation today for a variety of reasons. I haven't heard anything new on the LJ front, so while I'm trying to muster up the ability to do what I want/need, here's some quick thoughts on Salt, which I saw last night.
(Squee Level 1: HATERS TO THE LEFT.)
Why oh why did this movie come out a week after Inception? I loved Salt a ridiculous amount, in a completely different way than Inception. I feel like Inception was a really great thinking movie, with huge potential for character development in a fandom setting, whereas Salt had the basics for a brainless action movie, with a lot of really interesting character insights in the movie. I found myself loving how unconventional it felt, even as it followed some strong conventions of the genre, and even though Evelyn was strongly driven by the search for her husband, his death didn't finish her or keep her from saving the country. There was no hand-wringing about death in general, since it was a fact of her life, but she also made very sure her dog was taken care of. Seriously, beautiful.
But of course, what I really cared about? HOW MUCH I SHIPPED SALT/WINTER. And the reasons I shipped them were the clues the movie put in about Winter being a spy as well: he kept noticing her from a distance or when she looked unconventional, which I chalked up to his caring for her, but it was probably part of his spy training! And the end was Angst-O-Rama, with their confrontation! Unf, I loved it. (And it speaks to the kind of stuff I'm into that I loved it just as much that Salt killed him all badass.)
The entire experience for me was like reading really good gender play fic (
kink_bingo or otherwise). I kept wondering how the movie would've read if Tom Cruise had been Salt. Would the crossdressing part (UNF FOR DAYS, by the way - the movie hit all my buttons in that respect! Especially when she was running around in the uniform with her short hair afterward!) have been intact, or would a disguise have kept his male identity intact? Would I have shipped Salt/Winter as much, or would I have been more into Salt/Peabody? Did Tom Cruise back out because of a general queer sentiment in the movie, which is why I loved it so much? I don't know, but mulling was a ridiculous amount of fun.
So yes. If anyone has any Salt/Winter recs, NEED IT NOW. And if they don't, I just may have to write some. I already want an icon of Salt with the really short hair, so I'm sure I'll make one of those in the near future.
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(Squee Level 1: HATERS TO THE LEFT.)
Why oh why did this movie come out a week after Inception? I loved Salt a ridiculous amount, in a completely different way than Inception. I feel like Inception was a really great thinking movie, with huge potential for character development in a fandom setting, whereas Salt had the basics for a brainless action movie, with a lot of really interesting character insights in the movie. I found myself loving how unconventional it felt, even as it followed some strong conventions of the genre, and even though Evelyn was strongly driven by the search for her husband, his death didn't finish her or keep her from saving the country. There was no hand-wringing about death in general, since it was a fact of her life, but she also made very sure her dog was taken care of. Seriously, beautiful.
But of course, what I really cared about? HOW MUCH I SHIPPED SALT/WINTER. And the reasons I shipped them were the clues the movie put in about Winter being a spy as well: he kept noticing her from a distance or when she looked unconventional, which I chalked up to his caring for her, but it was probably part of his spy training! And the end was Angst-O-Rama, with their confrontation! Unf, I loved it. (And it speaks to the kind of stuff I'm into that I loved it just as much that Salt killed him all badass.)
The entire experience for me was like reading really good gender play fic (
kink_bingo or otherwise). I kept wondering how the movie would've read if Tom Cruise had been Salt. Would the crossdressing part (UNF FOR DAYS, by the way - the movie hit all my buttons in that respect! Especially when she was running around in the uniform with her short hair afterward!) have been intact, or would a disguise have kept his male identity intact? Would I have shipped Salt/Winter as much, or would I have been more into Salt/Peabody? Did Tom Cruise back out because of a general queer sentiment in the movie, which is why I loved it so much? I don't know, but mulling was a ridiculous amount of fun.
So yes. If anyone has any Salt/Winter recs, NEED IT NOW. And if they don't, I just may have to write some. I already want an icon of Salt with the really short hair, so I'm sure I'll make one of those in the near future.
Also posted on Dreamwidth (
comment[s]). Feel free to comment on either entry.