So I’m having the rare weekend of total, reliably uninterrupted privacy. 48 glorious pants-optional hours. SO GOOD. To celebrate, I had a big old fear-fest yesterday. I watched Bowling for Columbine, and then The Crucible which is still my favorite, and capped off this perfect day by finally renting Cabin in the Woods. It was legitimately a Dark
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I know you've mentioned it before but have you talked more about the Helo/Sharon Paul/Mellie thing? But it is awesome, guy gets raped by an agent for the enemy and gets her killed with his Heroism is...really awesome.
Dollhouse > everything (well, when I read you I am convinced).
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And oh - Joss. I still wish I managed to watch at least one whole series/work of his before going to see him at an award presentation a few years back. It was still before the BSG finale, and someone had asked him about BSG and he was thoroughly fangirly about it. (^_^)
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That's awesome that you got to hear him speak, regardless! I hope it was fun. <3
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It was! I was up in the balcony, and didn't really manage to get his autograph on anything significant, but it was interesting to here him talk. (He was receiving the humanist award.)
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I love the 'beauty standard' thing. And that the transgressions include curiosity. The transgressions include anything that takes them away from carefully controlled society - but they instead act according to a different set of narratives! Which also goes to show that we are basically running out if narratives: the cast 'chooses' to trade one constricting narrative for another, but both are suffocating any life out of them. Hence the cliche of let's go off the grid - there is no such thing in CitW without DEATH.
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Though I also don't know that it's saying it's the "right" decision, because it's clearly not. Ultimately, the Director is the only reliable voice in the film. "You can die with them, or you can die for them." Marty has nothing to lose or gain for himself.
The transgressions include anything that takes them away from carefully controlled society - but they instead act according to a different set of narratives! Which also goes to show that we are basically running out if narrativesmm. I'd go the other way? I think it's about how new narratives are very few and far between, and the vast majority of stories are and always have been variations on a few themes. It's been happening since the dawn of time, it changes from culture to culture. But that's not the bad thing at all. It's the ( ... )
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I would very much have liked to see a version of Cabin in the Woods in which Marty and Dana are the villains - or even the monsters - but that really doesn't seem like the story Whedon and Goddard were interested in
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I would very much have liked to see a version of Cabin in the Woods in which Marty and Dana are the villains - or even the monsters - but that really doesn't seem like the story Whedon and Goddard were interested in telling.I do think Marty becoming arguably one of the monsters was a part of the story. Marty's ( ... )
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