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Socially valuable screaming
Jul. 13th, 2012 11:51 amSo far today I have watched Spider-Man and Spider-man 2. 3 is in the machine doing the annoying DVD menu thing.
I am not much enthralled by Peter Parker's dilemmas. ( Read more... )
On the other hand in both movies there are moments that I really, really like, specifically the ones where Peter is not the only hero. The rest of the city is dealing with the same stuff, right alongside him. The firemen and police are responding, just his webs get him there faster or give him an edge against the stranger sorts. And there's the moments, like on the bridge with the cable car in the first movie or on the train in the second one, where the crowd just steps up and says you mess with him, you mess with all of us, or you want him, you go through us. And, yeah, the bad guy demonstrates the ability to go through all of them, but those ordinary people are right there trying. It doesn't make him uniquely heroic. And then Aunt May has a speech about how there's a hero in all of us. So that's solid, that's right, that's people working together and the only difference about this one guy is he's got more of a chance.
Back to things that irritate me: of all those background people, it's always guys having those moments. ( Read more... )
Screaming is annoying me lately. Not that women in movies do it, but that only women do it, and that it never, ever turns out well. ( Read more... ) There's a function and purpose to screaming, and it's not just about the one woman in danger doing the screaming. A scream is both a call for help and an alert system, an alarm. Social groups of animals have individuals who hang out around the edges and watch for bad things and then make a big noise. Valuable role, allows everyone else to react appropriately. But in humans the ones making the big noise are somehow inappropriate, even though it is clearly good for the survival of others if they notice if a supervillain is about to do their thing. It is never considered valuable to alert others, to call for help, to get in multiple witnesses, to avoid handling it yourself in the dark. The loner who ends up with his word against a dead guys on why someone died? That's a hero. The screamer who would have had all actions known to a group? Well that's just a damsel in distress. It's stupid, it's not functioning correctly, it's a wrong way to value things. Kicking all the arse might be the fun part, but people who make all the judgements alone are scary. So it should be of the good to make a big noise and get a crowd to react appropriately, be that run toward or run away.
( Read more... )
I know I forgot the story on the 3rd one after last time I watched it, and these characters don't live in my head between viewings. But they're okay films.
So now I'm trying to fit them all together with Avengers movies, even though I know they're slightly different 'verses. ( Read more... )
Next I shall watch all the X Men films. Except for First Class because the shop didn't have it.
Or possibly I shall sleep.
I am not much enthralled by Peter Parker's dilemmas. ( Read more... )
On the other hand in both movies there are moments that I really, really like, specifically the ones where Peter is not the only hero. The rest of the city is dealing with the same stuff, right alongside him. The firemen and police are responding, just his webs get him there faster or give him an edge against the stranger sorts. And there's the moments, like on the bridge with the cable car in the first movie or on the train in the second one, where the crowd just steps up and says you mess with him, you mess with all of us, or you want him, you go through us. And, yeah, the bad guy demonstrates the ability to go through all of them, but those ordinary people are right there trying. It doesn't make him uniquely heroic. And then Aunt May has a speech about how there's a hero in all of us. So that's solid, that's right, that's people working together and the only difference about this one guy is he's got more of a chance.
Back to things that irritate me: of all those background people, it's always guys having those moments. ( Read more... )
Screaming is annoying me lately. Not that women in movies do it, but that only women do it, and that it never, ever turns out well. ( Read more... ) There's a function and purpose to screaming, and it's not just about the one woman in danger doing the screaming. A scream is both a call for help and an alert system, an alarm. Social groups of animals have individuals who hang out around the edges and watch for bad things and then make a big noise. Valuable role, allows everyone else to react appropriately. But in humans the ones making the big noise are somehow inappropriate, even though it is clearly good for the survival of others if they notice if a supervillain is about to do their thing. It is never considered valuable to alert others, to call for help, to get in multiple witnesses, to avoid handling it yourself in the dark. The loner who ends up with his word against a dead guys on why someone died? That's a hero. The screamer who would have had all actions known to a group? Well that's just a damsel in distress. It's stupid, it's not functioning correctly, it's a wrong way to value things. Kicking all the arse might be the fun part, but people who make all the judgements alone are scary. So it should be of the good to make a big noise and get a crowd to react appropriately, be that run toward or run away.
( Read more... )
I know I forgot the story on the 3rd one after last time I watched it, and these characters don't live in my head between viewings. But they're okay films.
So now I'm trying to fit them all together with Avengers movies, even though I know they're slightly different 'verses. ( Read more... )
Next I shall watch all the X Men films. Except for First Class because the shop didn't have it.
Or possibly I shall sleep.