Monday MMR October 16 2023: Hate.
Oct 16, 2023 19:14:13 GMT -5
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Post by forgottenlord on Oct 16, 2023 19:14:13 GMT -5
Actually, thinking about it a bit more: Selma is the only woman who is treated with a remote amount of respect* by the writers in the movie. There's 4 women in the entire movie. There's the woman on the villain team who, while undeniably badass, is the only one of the three henchmen to not get an introduction - I don't even recall her being named, though it's strongly implied that she's the lover of the main villain even though (spoilers if you give a fuck) it's later revealed that the villain has never moved on from loving Selma's character for like the last decade or something. I'm not sure she's even got a single line in the entire movie. Then there's the Interpol team where you've got a Boston cop (male) whose boss is a woman who's a total obstructive bureaucrat who does everything wrong, gets in his way and he's constantly trying to undermine and a partner who I think has 6 lines, half of them being just a way for him to insult her Scottish accent. I think the only line she has that isn't about him just turning her into a glorified secretary that he hates is her telling their boss in private that he has the right idea on how to conduct the operation.
*It's worth noting that Selma's character is a half-psychotic lunatic with severe anger management issues whose personal arc is how she's having trouble getting pregnant and how she's worried about whether she'd be a good mother - which Ryan Reynold's character is quietly trying not to admit his answer is "you're too psychotic to be a good mother" but is too terrified of her to say it out loud. And she botches a deal because someone implies she's too old to be hot because "30s, but not late 30s". I mean, there's a few moments where she's allowed to kick ass including freeing herself and kicking ass requiring only a distraction to reduce the guard count (which the two men needed earlier as well) and a miniarc of "who is she conning" (not that there was ever a question if you spent more than a second thinking about it) which required legitimate agency for her to even set up. And her arc actually goes somewhere unlike Jackson's character which is fun but has had zero depth across two movies now.
*It's worth noting that Selma's character is a half-psychotic lunatic with severe anger management issues whose personal arc is how she's having trouble getting pregnant and how she's worried about whether she'd be a good mother - which Ryan Reynold's character is quietly trying not to admit his answer is "you're too psychotic to be a good mother" but is too terrified of her to say it out loud. And she botches a deal because someone implies she's too old to be hot because "30s, but not late 30s". I mean, there's a few moments where she's allowed to kick ass including freeing herself and kicking ass requiring only a distraction to reduce the guard count (which the two men needed earlier as well) and a miniarc of "who is she conning" (not that there was ever a question if you spent more than a second thinking about it) which required legitimate agency for her to even set up. And her arc actually goes somewhere unlike Jackson's character which is fun but has had zero depth across two movies now.
