Long and Rambling Notes on TDW: Jessica Pontificates

Nov 12, 2013 23:20

So I'm back from basically nowhere! Mostly for you, Anne. I like you. Also I feel like you might discuss all the below stuff with me, because.

Disclaimer: I liked this movie. The first big chunk of stuff below makes it look like I hated it, but I’m just getting the bad stuff out of the way first.

when everything but the acting is a failure )

characterization is your god, opinion ahoy

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silent_lorelei November 15 2013, 19:35:08 UTC
And finally I have come around to Jane Foster Problems ( ... )

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silent_lorelei November 15 2013, 19:35:58 UTC
Where are we supposed to learn about Jane's emotional journey? When she's making out with the really hot guy she met three days ago who is from another planet? Because I have no fucking clue what's going on with her there (other than that Thor is insanely hot, so get it, girl) and her feelings for Thor are never examined in any kind of way that might tell us what she's thinking and feeling or how she relates to him. When she's dating another guy in a painful scene about her ignoring him? Because the only message for that scene is "Jane is stuck on Thor", and it doesn't touch on anything about whether she's actually trying to move on, what her life and emotions have been like while he's gone, or help us see into her instead of just past her and at Thor again. (In fact, that scene had a sad flavor of just comparing Thor to her date who obviously couldn't compete, making it a comparison of men instead of a question of a woman's heart, cutting her out of it completely except for her uncomfortable duty of having to try to let him down ( ... )

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silent_lorelei November 15 2013, 19:36:07 UTC
I hate watching a movie with a female character in it who I should love, and realizing that her scenes and dialogue are the most boring part of it. I hate seeing someone I could maybe see myself in and then seeing how much her inner journey doesn't affect what's happening on the screen. I hate seeing a character be given all these tools and facets and amazing possibilities, and then put in a corner and ignored except for when those tools might be of use to the males who are really the stars of the show. And yes, detractors will say, this movie is about Thor, not Jane, so of course things are Thor-centric, but that's not some kind of universal constant and excuse. Someone wrote this movie specifically to not be about Jane. Someone wrote it intending for her to be there but to not be too important, for her to be an accessory to Thor but not to come into her own, and that's something that was decided, not handed down by God. It's what happens to characters like Jane all the time ( ... )

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silent_lorelei November 15 2013, 20:21:59 UTC
SO I promise this is in relation to things you said, I just sort of drifted. Where I was going at the start of all this was toward Jane's god-slappin' hand ( ... )

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