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ladymercury_10So there's this dude with flowing blond hair rollerblading through the streets of my neighborhood singing loudly and dramatically and generally looking like he's having a grand old time. My dad's theory is that he is trying to make his life and the lives of others as nice as possible. I think he thinks he's the prince in a Disney movie. It's fabulous, either way. I love my neighborhood.
Elementary 1.19: Elementary you are the nicest show! Clyde being the ambulance was adorable. And I was super impressed with how they handled Miss Hudson--I don't think I've ever seen a mainstream TV show treat a trans* character so respectfully/sympathetically. I hope she and Watson become buddies.
Batman: Under the Red Hood: As far as compressing a ridiculous amount of comics history into 75 minutes, I guess they did a reasonably good job. I liked it okay overall. It was frustrating though how in compressing/simplification, it seemed like a lot of the ladies got squeezed out. I mean, no mention of Jason looking for his mom, and Talia got reduced to a 30-second non-speaking role, with Ra's doing all the Lazarus Pit stuff.
Most of the ~feelings I had about it were during the flashbacks to when Jason was Robin, which were a relatively small part of the movie. This is maybe because I have a lot of ~feelings about Robins, or maybe because it is easier to relate to a kid's perspective than to Batman's or to Jason's adult perspective when he is mostly killing drug dealers and wandering around wearing what looks like a cross between a bicycle helmet and Darth Vader's mask. So. I am thinking this was not such a good substitute for those comics I haven't actually read.
Hanna: This movie was really cool, and I am sure there are a lot of really intelligent things to be said about it but I do not have any of those things to say. I just really liked it because it was like Snow White, if Snow White had been an innocent but extremely deadly teenager raised in the forest by her ex-CIA father, and the Evil Queen was his former handler who would do anything to tie up compromising loose ends, and Snow White hitchhiked through North Africa and Europe with an English family instead of going to live with the Seven Dwarfs. And it had a dubstep soundtrack. And it was directed by Joe Wright, so it was gorgeous. SO YEAH, that was pretty great.
Elementary 1.19: Elementary you are the nicest show! Clyde being the ambulance was adorable. And I was super impressed with how they handled Miss Hudson--I don't think I've ever seen a mainstream TV show treat a trans* character so respectfully/sympathetically. I hope she and Watson become buddies.
Batman: Under the Red Hood: As far as compressing a ridiculous amount of comics history into 75 minutes, I guess they did a reasonably good job. I liked it okay overall. It was frustrating though how in compressing/simplification, it seemed like a lot of the ladies got squeezed out. I mean, no mention of Jason looking for his mom, and Talia got reduced to a 30-second non-speaking role, with Ra's doing all the Lazarus Pit stuff.
Most of the ~feelings I had about it were during the flashbacks to when Jason was Robin, which were a relatively small part of the movie. This is maybe because I have a lot of ~feelings about Robins, or maybe because it is easier to relate to a kid's perspective than to Batman's or to Jason's adult perspective when he is mostly killing drug dealers and wandering around wearing what looks like a cross between a bicycle helmet and Darth Vader's mask. So. I am thinking this was not such a good substitute for those comics I haven't actually read.
Hanna: This movie was really cool, and I am sure there are a lot of really intelligent things to be said about it but I do not have any of those things to say. I just really liked it because it was like Snow White, if Snow White had been an innocent but extremely deadly teenager raised in the forest by her ex-CIA father, and the Evil Queen was his former handler who would do anything to tie up compromising loose ends, and Snow White hitchhiked through North Africa and Europe with an English family instead of going to live with the Seven Dwarfs. And it had a dubstep soundtrack. And it was directed by Joe Wright, so it was gorgeous. SO YEAH, that was pretty great.
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Date: 2013-04-06 10:45 pm (UTC)ELEMENTARY YOU ARE PERFECT DOES THIS MEAN CLYDE WILL APPEAR MORE OFTEN SAY PLEASE? Also the introduction of Ms. Hudson, particularly as a competent and intelligent character with only one tiny mention to her gender was just pretty awesome, especially in how they neatly fit her into the story.
Yeah, Hanna struck me a lot like a more realistic version of Pan's Labyrinth, without all the fantastical elements? Though I hadn't thought about it like a retelling of Snow White, but I suppose it does fit pretty well.
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Date: 2013-04-07 12:13 am (UTC)Since Ms. Hudson and Clyde should both be on the show more maybe they can hang out while she cleans and she can bring him the most special kinds of lettuce and he will get spoiled and sulk in his shell when Sherlock tries to take him out of the drawer. :P
Hmm, Pan's Labyrinth? I hadn't thought about that, but they are pretty similar, aren't they?
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Date: 2013-04-07 03:40 am (UTC)THAT WOULD BE MOST EXCELLENT, NGL :D Though I could totally see her spoiling him with lettuce and he starts to get irritated with Sherlock and not cooperating when asked to be an ambulance.
Yeah, they kind of are with the whole coming of age themes and similar ideas involved in fairy tales- though I suppose that Pan's Labyrinth couches itself a lot more in fantastical elements and kind of diverges from Hanna in that Hanna leaves for civilization, while the girl in Pan's Labyrinth doesn't?
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Date: 2013-04-07 04:06 am (UTC)Apparently Elementary fandom has anticipated the need for Ms. Hudson/Joan/Clyde bonding and already created this, how thoughtful. :)
Yeah, I guess Ofelia's magical adventure sort of starts when she withdraws from civilization because of the war, and Hanna's starts when she ventures out into civilization. They're coming from very different backgrounds, too, so different things are scary or wonderful to them.
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Date: 2013-04-07 04:20 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-04-07 12:33 am (UTC)TV does seem to be a little more comfortable with cross-dressing and even then, the examples are very few.
I was a little disappointed with Hanna. I wanted more of a resolution. Obviously, with the Kill Bill films, we end with her last kill but we also have the knowledge that not only has she exacted her revenge but she has her real prize...her daughter and the hope of a family where she can forget about her past now that it is all eliminated.
I didn't get that sort of closure with Hanna. What is she going to do now? She's still quite young.
Style-wise, I do agree. It was very visually and musically interesting. I'm not sure I could ever be sorry about watching a film with Tom Hollander and Cate Blanchett.
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Date: 2013-04-07 12:46 am (UTC)Most of the cast is white? Bell, Watson, and Alfredo are not, so I'd say it's probably around 50-50.
I agree that Hanna doesn't have a lot of closure. I was sad that her last encounter with her dad was a fight. But at the same time, beating Wiegler when she had no real weapon to speak of (a used arrow and some bungee cord vs. a gun) was almost more than she could hope for, and the last scene did tie back kind of neatly to the beginning.
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Date: 2013-04-07 12:52 am (UTC)Ahaha, this is fantastic. I think I'll go with both explanations, because they're both great.
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Date: 2013-04-07 01:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-07 09:53 am (UTC)Never had intelligent things to say about the movie myself (and I'm sure it's not totally unproblematic), just: yay, I want more movies to be so much fun and have such awesome female protagonists. Also, I read somewhere that this movie failed the reverse Bechdel test, but I did not check myself.
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Date: 2013-04-07 08:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-07 09:01 pm (UTC)Also, imo, you lose a lot from the origin story when you get rid of the part where Jason made Bruce laugh.
Aww, this sounds adorable.
I do not know how Elementary keeps being such a good show but it is very impressive. :)
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Date: 2013-04-07 11:07 pm (UTC)Ahaha those are adorable, thank you. :D
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Date: 2013-04-07 08:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-07 07:19 pm (UTC)Hee!
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Date: 2013-04-07 08:45 pm (UTC)