"Little nifties from the fifties, innocent and sweet Sexy ladies from the eighties, who are indiscreet They're side by side, they're glorified Where the underworld can meet the elite 42nd street."
I'm trying to think of the right word for the -- democracy, maybe? -- of a geeky scientist with an anger management problem who gets to punch, without reprisal, an ancient God in the middle of a big fight.
I like the mention of 42nd Street's sadness -- the continual reference to old-fashionedness of heroes in our cynical age reflects the "yes we're amazed and awed by these symbols of hope / no they don't change anything at all" ambivalence to fictional superheroics. And just in general, I love the idea of Fury and Loki as competing directors (Loki, falling in from another universe, is a plant from another studio perhaps, making damned sure that every star twists their ankle and that the show gets ruined).
We share a lot of flist-space, but do you mind if I link this anyway?
plays with repeated watching. I think Joss said once that while he admired the Dark Knight and the Watchmen movies and their deconstruction of super heroics, it felt like no-one had made the golden age superhero movie for them to deconstruct yet. And now I suppose he has but while it has all the genre's fun and uplift, the seeds of its own destruction are also there hidden in plain sight.
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"Little nifties from the fifties, innocent and sweet
Sexy ladies from the eighties, who are indiscreet
They're side by side, they're glorified
Where the underworld can meet the elite
42nd street."
I'm trying to think of the right word for the -- democracy, maybe? -- of a geeky scientist with an anger management problem who gets to punch, without reprisal, an ancient God in the middle of a big fight.
I like the mention of 42nd Street's sadness -- the continual reference to old-fashionedness of heroes in our cynical age reflects the "yes we're amazed and awed by these symbols of hope / no they don't change anything at all" ambivalence to fictional superheroics. And just in general, I love the idea of Fury and Loki as competing directors (Loki, falling in from another universe, is a plant from another studio perhaps, making damned sure that every star twists their ankle and that the show gets ruined).
We share a lot of flist-space, but do you mind if I link this anyway?
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