dark knight racism herpderp and frustrations
wow work is so excitingggggggggggg not
Makes me want to make posts about what I've been thinking lately.
No secret: I listen to movies. Fuck I love listening to movies, especially when working or drawing or doing stuff. See, music can get distracting; I have a very low tolerance for high BPM, and my playlist is chock full of that sort of music, and most of the time when I want to sit down and focus and something comes on I have the urge to just GET UPPA! GET ON UP and start dancing and flitting about. Movies, theater, soap operas--they're all better to listen to, because a combination of various sounds is more comforting, and lets me do actual work.
Or maybe why I like listening to movies so much is that it's usually accompanied by the sound of people talking, and it gives me the illusion that I'm not... all alone... in my basement... just kidding. Obviously.
Anyway--I've been listening to The Dark Knight lately. Aside from having very, very low sound normally with the occasional jumpout scare sounds, it's pretty good to listen to. But then there's something else.
You know there's those lines in a movie that just catch your attention and you end up thinking about them a lot more than you should?
And no, it's not the Y SO SRS LOLOLOL.
I've listened to The Dark Knight about twice lately, and every time this line just gets me. There's a variety of such lines, but check this:
"Carbon fiber, .28 Caliber, made in China... If you want to kill a public servant, Mr. Maroni, I recommend you buy American."
I... eh. I don't enjoy this at all. The Dark Knight does not present Asians well. Now, I understand that there is a great (dare I say American?) fear of the Chinese. Everybody knows that, and every day people try to combat it by belittling anything that comes from "Nip Nong Chong", as well as trying to make "them" out to be evil and filthy, what with their communism and shitty products, you know?
Heeeeere's a problem. This "Chinese products are shit, buy ours" line is the worst really. I mean, for unnecessary propaganda, it's not even hidden. It's just too fucking blatant. I don't enjoy this at all. It's just being poked in the eye with a demand that I agree and accept this wholly politic claim. It's ridiculously out of place, and it's uncomfortable. It takes me just so far away from enjoying what is otherwise a very good movie by dumping me into propaganda ocean, and the whole rest of the thing I end up looking for unnecessary racism. I end up finding it, too, everywhere, because you're making me look for it. But then--I'm not enjoying the movie anymore, I'm hating it: for example, that scene ends with Harvey flaunting, and I start to see it as the vision of the ideal, strong, proud American that the viewer should admire. Exalt!
Then there's the scene with the Batman beating the shit out of Chinese guys in Lau's company building, with the guys screaming in their moonspeak language.
There's a whole, latent feel in the movie, as with any other Hollywood movie, obviously, that America is just better. Yeah, still better. See? HEY! LOOK HERE. WE'RE STILL BETTER.
And it feels like an inferiority complex to me.
I start getting the feel of "we're better than everyone else", and all I can do is mutter the phrase oh, get over yourselves over and over again. I start looking at everything differently. The Italian crime family starts to bite, and so do the black guys. Can I find a "good" character in The Dark Knight that's not of the purest pure, whitest white Irish descent? There's the Russian, and it's like she's all looks and no brains, and obviously that's how they all are because that is how they are presented--that is how I start seeing the presentation. I'm all jaded now, I'm looking for racism everywhere! Did I want to? Fuck no.
I just wanted to enjoy my movie. I didn't want to care or look for controversial material, but that first line was rubbed so badly into my face that I have devolved into this aggravated, elitist, super sensible hipster cunt!
I start feeling that the movie wholly is all FUCK YEAH AMERICA, when in fact might not intend to be. And if it does--I start my counter-argument: what's there to be all FUCK YEAH AMERICA in Batman? Gotham is a dystopia, a crowded, oppressed, lawless shithole that nobody would want to live in. You don't FUCK YEAH Gotham. It's shit!
But then it's to be done anyway. I don't know. I think it's just Hollywood. And--thanks, Hollywood. I can't really enjoy this movie now.
Maybe I should just get the fuck over myself, but urrrrgh. Kinda odd how I'm bitter about this and not Avatar The Last Airbender, huh? I'm bitter about both in actuality, it's just that the ATLA wank really gets on my nerves, and the fans are batshit, and don't really make me want to join their batshit. Meh. Monologues.
No work to do. Time to write.
Makes me want to make posts about what I've been thinking lately.
No secret: I listen to movies. Fuck I love listening to movies, especially when working or drawing or doing stuff. See, music can get distracting; I have a very low tolerance for high BPM, and my playlist is chock full of that sort of music, and most of the time when I want to sit down and focus and something comes on I have the urge to just GET UPPA! GET ON UP and start dancing and flitting about. Movies, theater, soap operas--they're all better to listen to, because a combination of various sounds is more comforting, and lets me do actual work.
Or maybe why I like listening to movies so much is that it's usually accompanied by the sound of people talking, and it gives me the illusion that I'm not... all alone... in my basement... just kidding. Obviously.
Anyway--I've been listening to The Dark Knight lately. Aside from having very, very low sound normally with the occasional jumpout scare sounds, it's pretty good to listen to. But then there's something else.
You know there's those lines in a movie that just catch your attention and you end up thinking about them a lot more than you should?
And no, it's not the Y SO SRS LOLOLOL.
I've listened to The Dark Knight about twice lately, and every time this line just gets me. There's a variety of such lines, but check this:
"Carbon fiber, .28 Caliber, made in China... If you want to kill a public servant, Mr. Maroni, I recommend you buy American."
I... eh. I don't enjoy this at all. The Dark Knight does not present Asians well. Now, I understand that there is a great (dare I say American?) fear of the Chinese. Everybody knows that, and every day people try to combat it by belittling anything that comes from "Nip Nong Chong", as well as trying to make "them" out to be evil and filthy, what with their communism and shitty products, you know?
Heeeeere's a problem. This "Chinese products are shit, buy ours" line is the worst really. I mean, for unnecessary propaganda, it's not even hidden. It's just too fucking blatant. I don't enjoy this at all. It's just being poked in the eye with a demand that I agree and accept this wholly politic claim. It's ridiculously out of place, and it's uncomfortable. It takes me just so far away from enjoying what is otherwise a very good movie by dumping me into propaganda ocean, and the whole rest of the thing I end up looking for unnecessary racism. I end up finding it, too, everywhere, because you're making me look for it. But then--I'm not enjoying the movie anymore, I'm hating it: for example, that scene ends with Harvey flaunting, and I start to see it as the vision of the ideal, strong, proud American that the viewer should admire. Exalt!
Then there's the scene with the Batman beating the shit out of Chinese guys in Lau's company building, with the guys screaming in their moonspeak language.
There's a whole, latent feel in the movie, as with any other Hollywood movie, obviously, that America is just better. Yeah, still better. See? HEY! LOOK HERE. WE'RE STILL BETTER.
And it feels like an inferiority complex to me.
I start getting the feel of "we're better than everyone else", and all I can do is mutter the phrase oh, get over yourselves over and over again. I start looking at everything differently. The Italian crime family starts to bite, and so do the black guys. Can I find a "good" character in The Dark Knight that's not of the purest pure, whitest white Irish descent? There's the Russian, and it's like she's all looks and no brains, and obviously that's how they all are because that is how they are presented--that is how I start seeing the presentation. I'm all jaded now, I'm looking for racism everywhere! Did I want to? Fuck no.
I just wanted to enjoy my movie. I didn't want to care or look for controversial material, but that first line was rubbed so badly into my face that I have devolved into this aggravated, elitist, super sensible hipster cunt!
I start feeling that the movie wholly is all FUCK YEAH AMERICA, when in fact might not intend to be. And if it does--I start my counter-argument: what's there to be all FUCK YEAH AMERICA in Batman? Gotham is a dystopia, a crowded, oppressed, lawless shithole that nobody would want to live in. You don't FUCK YEAH Gotham. It's shit!
But then it's to be done anyway. I don't know. I think it's just Hollywood. And--thanks, Hollywood. I can't really enjoy this movie now.
Maybe I should just get the fuck over myself, but urrrrgh. Kinda odd how I'm bitter about this and not Avatar The Last Airbender, huh? I'm bitter about both in actuality, it's just that the ATLA wank really gets on my nerves, and the fans are batshit, and don't really make me want to join their batshit. Meh. Monologues.
No work to do. Time to write.