His hair is full of secrets!

May 07, 2012 11:44

Things about the Avengers movie which it occurs to me I wished to say, but missed in my previous post.

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browngirl May 7 2012, 17:33:03 UTC
On Pepper's bare feet: #4) -- Whedon has a foot fetish. No, really, he does.

I actually exclaimed at Loki's line (the one under discussin, I can't make myself type it). And cheered when Natasha turned it right around on him.

I'm pretty sure the Loki!hair is a wigweave thing. Hiddleston's natural hair is curly blonde.

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brown_betty May 7 2012, 17:37:32 UTC
Whedon has a foot fetish. No, really, he does.

So you're saying this is just the flipside of the Louboutin fetish? Fair enough.

When Loki said it, I actually jerked, and then looked around the theatre to see if other people had caught it. No one else was obviously doing the same, so maybe thy caught it or maybe they didn't.

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philstar22 May 7 2012, 18:49:37 UTC
Whedon totally has a foot fetish. River's bare feet on Firefly were front and center a whole lot. Happened to a lesser extent on Buffy and Angel too.

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philstar22 May 7 2012, 18:50:51 UTC
Also, I loved Loki's hair. While I'm still all about Thor and Iron Man and Captain America, I actually found Loki pretty damn hot in this one. Really, there was just a surplus of hotness in this movie.

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brown_betty May 8 2012, 03:08:03 UTC
His hair is fabulous, although I'm not sure one doesn't have to be Loki to pull it off.

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poisonivory May 7 2012, 22:13:09 UTC
At one point during the final battle someone - I forget who - crashes through a bus stop plastered with Jansport ads, and both times I sat there going "...Did Jansport pay for that? What an odd company to get product placement in this movie!"

Also very much in evidence in the NYC scenes: posters for Disney's The Lion King. Which is inevitable if you shoot on location in NYC - except the fight scene took place literally a block away from my office, and those ads are much more likely to be on the other side of Manhattan. So...interesting.

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stephendann May 8 2012, 02:37:34 UTC
Disney bought Marvel in 2009, so the Lion King is in house work. There's probably a hidden mickey in the film somewhere.

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poisonivory May 8 2012, 02:44:36 UTC
Oh, I know. I'm just wondering how much of those posters were coincidentally shot on location, deliberately shot on location, or added to a set and/or post-production. I know I saw other posters/ads near them, but the Lion King ones stood out to me.

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stephendann May 8 2012, 03:40:04 UTC
Nice disney icon :)

I figure that they probably covered up a set of existing non-sponsor boards with inhouse art :)

I'll try to remember to have a look

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moku_youbi May 8 2012, 00:40:26 UTC
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the masses didn't even realise what was being said, but still, both me and my gf sort of gasped in shock/horror at that line and looked at each other. No one else in the row, or indeed the packed theatre even flinched.

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brown_betty May 8 2012, 02:47:50 UTC
I don't think it's terribly obscure, but... uh, it occurs to me that I probably know more synonyms for vulva than is perhaps average?

(I was going to say "more than the average bear" but of course, bears: not known for interest in vulvas. Vulvae?)

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moku_youbi May 8 2012, 03:01:06 UTC
Well, I didn't really think it was obscure either, but I do think that people with larger vocabularies don't often realise that others don't share those vocabularies. I'm often bewildered when I use a word that to me seems commonplace, and the person to whom I'm speaking has no idea what I'm saying. It's certainly an antiquated term, though I'd think that people in the UK might be more familiar with it than people in the US.
My partner and I were discussing the efficacy of getting around the rating system when the majority of the people watching have no idea what it means. There was a poll on another lj, the readers of which are generally well-read (it's a woman who does a lot of book reviews, and not much else). She was asking if they knew what quim meant, and if not, what did they think it meant, when they heard it. Only two of fourteen (so far) knew the term. I'd imagine that's a bit skewed since they are a well-read group. The others thought it was a made up slur from Asgard, or something in a Norse language, lol

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brown_betty May 8 2012, 03:06:58 UTC
Also: do you remember where you came across that poll? I'm curious?

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stephendann May 8 2012, 02:40:15 UTC
For the product placement - http://www.brandchannel.com/home/post/2012/05/07/Brandcameo-050712-The-Avengers.aspx

A lot of the Marvel placements are done outside the film, so you have Shield Agents in mini-movie scenes that are product placement ads.

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brown_betty May 8 2012, 02:45:59 UTC
Oh, cool! I did not realize there was a semi-canonical answer to my idle ponderings, but of course the answer is that I just need to seek out the correct geeks.

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stephendann May 8 2012, 03:46:15 UTC
I'm waiting for it to get covered on http://worstproductplacement.com/ for the subtle(ish) ones :)

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