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Feminism/Sexism Rant, Ahoy

Oct 23, 2010 02:35

So, I finished my MA essay draft about five minutes ago. It is therefore a perfect time for me to write some more! ... ... Oh my life.

Anyway, this is fun in my brain writing, not academic writing and that makes all the difference in the world.

Important piece of info so I only sound slightly crazy, not psychologically disturbed: I RP Kara " ( Read more... )

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dogwoodblossom October 24 2010, 00:23:58 UTC

That sounds like a really interesting premise that I expect will not be even remotely well executed. Which makes me sad. Also, the plot synopsis coupled with that outfit sounds kinda homoerotic, and along with the 300 connection, even more so.

But I am confused because 300 was all about oily naked white guys wrestling, hugging, and fighting evil minorities.

I'm not sure how a movie about lesbian fetish pilots comes from that same mindset. Unless we're seeing the forefront of a wave of mainstream adolescent fantasy movies with a truckload of homosexual-way more than- subtext. Which sounds delightfully subversive actually, although I'm sure it's not supposed to be. I'm just waiting for the next Matrix Reloaded Orgy sequence with a blatant guy/guy/girl threesome.

...Sorry I got lost there for a minute. Something about feminism?

dramaturgca October 24 2010, 00:31:10 UTC

It's not, I don't think, about lesbian fetish pilots. It's about teenage girls escaping lobotomies in the 50s using the powers of their imaginations. Or something. It's Zach Snyder, it doesn't make sense.

dogwoodblossom October 24 2010, 00:37:06 UTC

Well clearly they are imagining that they are fetish pilots, and it's all female leads.... Without a big greasy white guy there aren't a lot of places that can go.

dogwoodblossom October 24 2010, 00:37:56 UTC

I mean, unless they made it thoughtful and interesting and decided for some reason not to play up the blatant sex appeal that is represented by that outfit. But how likely is that?

dramaturgca October 24 2010, 00:39:37 UTC

I don't know. The description and cast list include something about an asylum and a wicked stepfather who may be a minister(?) and a brothel with a choreographer and I have no fucking clue.

dogwoodblossom October 24 2010, 00:42:46 UTC

A brothel with a choreographer? It would be utterly fantastic if this terrible movie was somehow a musical about 1950's asylum patients escaping to a fantasy world where they were all lesbian fetish pilots doing crazy dance numbers/fight scenes with planes and giant robots.

But neither of those guys sounds like much of a romantic male lead.

dramaturgca October 24 2010, 00:54:50 UTC

Choreographer is a woman, she's also the nurse at the asylum, which must not pay well?

Only one of them is a pilot, I think. The others have other fantasies. Involving... other stuff? There's definitely a medieval stupid armour look and something sailor suity.

dogwoodblossom October 24 2010, 01:05:18 UTC

'Kay, so we're definitely getting a fetish nurse outfit somewhere, and everybody loves sailor suits. But armor? I'm not sure how you sexily pair that with fishnetting. Though I'm sure it's possible.

This movie is clearly much better in my head.

dramaturgca October 24 2010, 01:09:30 UTC

Dude, if YOU were making this movie, I would be right beside you, cheering you on.

http://cdn-2.androidzoom.com/screenshots/93412-2.jpg

Voila the armour. ish. thing.

dogwoodblossom October 24 2010, 01:12:15 UTC

Well clearly that's stupid. Actually, I saw the outfit and thought, "That's stupid." Then I saw that her name was Sweet Pea. And that was even stupider.

dramaturgca October 24 2010, 01:17:27 UTC

The schoolgirl sailor suit I guess it's supposed to be a samurai thing is not so good either.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lBWYz29Iw_g/TE40Qm8oknI/AAAAAAAAEHo/NzawiDp8gTc/s1600/sucker-punch-baby-doll.jpg

dogwoodblossom October 24 2010, 01:27:19 UTC

Because sailors and samurai totally go together. This thing is not going to be coherent at all. Also, how come in their escapist fantasies they're all so dead eyed?

dramaturgca October 24 2010, 01:31:14 UTC

C'mon, anime totally teaches us that Japan is all about school girls and samurai. ;)

'Cause they're actually girls in an asylum having fever dreams? I guess? The construction, as I'm getting it, is they're in the asylum getting ready to be lobotomized and they have imaginary brothel dreams (Vanessa Hudgens techno belly dance something?) that lead into imaginary fighting dragons/aliens/WWI Germans dreams. Or... I don't know.

dogwoodblossom October 24 2010, 01:35:13 UTC

Only if that's a magical sword that she pulls out of her chest in a creepy phallic way. Which it might be. I don't know. I'm not sure why this is so complicated. The premise and one shared fantasy would be interesting. This is getting to be an awful lot of material to cover in (hopefully just) an hour and a half.

dramaturgca October 24 2010, 01:39:28 UTC

I have no idea why it's so complicated except that it seems like some directors' original premises have a tendency to get over complicated because they want to see EVERYTHING.

Apparently there is singing and dancing in the brothel and then there's... all this other stuff too. So far, samurai something, dragons something, pilots something, WWI trenches something... and maybe some other stuff too.

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