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Post by Hucklebubba on Oct 9, 2003 22:34:44 GMT -5
Here be a place to list character archetypes you'd like to see more of in movies. (Or, in some cases, any of at all.) Here's my three:
1. Fat people who get to aspire to something greater than cowardice or incompetence.
2. An Irish bad guy who isn't affiliated with the IRA.
3. Capable heroines who are content with their prowess, and don't feel the need to be ball-busters as well. (Or, as an alternate means of balancing the scales, a male hero who self-righteously despises women.)
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Post by Lissa on Oct 10, 2003 4:51:04 GMT -5
Quickly-
The only one I desperately want to see is women who are larger than a size zero playing serious characters.
Honestly, a 14 won't kill a box office. Look at Bridget Jones! If it's a good movie, people will go, regardless of the main female character's waist line.
Liss
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Post by Hucklebubba on Oct 10, 2003 11:49:13 GMT -5
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Post by HeyCreepy on Oct 10, 2003 11:58:51 GMT -5
The only one I desperately want to see is women who are larger than a size zero playing serious characters. Honestly, a 14 won't kill a box office. Look at Bridget Jones! If it's a good movie, people will go, regardless of the main female character's waist line. Agreed. Well put. How about a preist or religious leader not questioning his faith or doing something criminal? The Catholic Church gets a bad rap in most movies. Every faith has a history and a few bad apples, but that doesn't mean that is the norm. |
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Post by Der Germ on Oct 10, 2003 14:33:21 GMT -5
I'd like to see a gay-based movie where there's no mention of the main character:
A) Having AIDS or HIV
B) Getting gay-bashed
C) Stereotyping themselves/others
or D) Having a bad relationship with their parents
That's tired and overused. Bring on the gay gorey action movies with lot's of blood and sex, of the *alternative* sort.
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Never feeling more stupid in his life, in the *alternative* way.
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Post by druidGirl on Oct 10, 2003 14:56:00 GMT -5
Ooh! If we're going off on gay movies, I'd like to see a gay film that has either:
a) Straight people that aren't total homophobes. They ARE out there. But not in gay cinema apparently. Every straight person people run into hates all the gays. And want to kill them.
or
b) Straight people. That's it. Just some straight people. I mean, you guys do make up about 90% of the population. But I've seen gay movies where people live in Magic Happy Gay Land! Not a heterosexual in site! Thank God! Hello? Even if you live in the gay part of town, in a gay neighborhood, in a gay apartment building (and where are these places? apparently, places I've never been), you'd have to run into a straight person somewhere.
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Post by Der Germ on Oct 10, 2003 20:11:48 GMT -5
You mean straight people really DO exist? ...Wow, I just don't know what to think of the world anymore...
Here's another one:
The geek who really doesn't know everything! I mean, come on, not ALL geeks can seperate Star WARS from Star TREK in their minds, never the less give you the specs of each ship, their crew, and when the captain last went dookie. Or the geeks who seem to know how to hack into anything from anywhere.
Frightened person: Oh no, the Pentegon is going to blow up the world!
Geek: Do you have a computer? I can over ride their system!
Person: No, we don't!
Geek: Lap top?
Person: No.
Geek: Cash Register?!
Person: Not for miles!
Geek: Damnit, we don't have TIME for travel! Where's my gameboy?!
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Post by Kitsune on Oct 12, 2003 11:45:10 GMT -5
No more movies in which the bigger the boobs or the blonder the hair, the smaller the IQ. Like in Legally Blonde 2. Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider doesn't count.  ... um. No more uber-perverts that only dream of getting laid? I'm one, but at least I look for a relationship first. Aheh. *shuts up* |
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Post by Genetic Mishap on Oct 12, 2003 12:24:14 GMT -5
I'd like to see more geeky characters portrayed by people who actually look like geeks. As in, even if they take off their glasses and let down their hair, they're not even remotely babe-licious.
I'd like to see an atheist/agnostic whatever character who doesn't "see the light". Or doesn't become an example of the "no atheists in a foxhole" bit. Or doesn't become an atheist just because of a life trauma of some sort.
And, I second Lissa's "size zero" bit.
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Post by artificial_person on Oct 12, 2003 12:56:00 GMT -5
The best example of the atheist character you just described is Joan Allen as Laine Hanson in The Contender, which, I might add, is a great movie.
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Post by Head Mutant on Oct 12, 2003 15:13:06 GMT -5
Wha... great? Even decent? No, my friend, The Contender sucked. And sucked hard. It was one of those films whose every scene seemed to exist just to make the audience like it less. Every character was mean, cold, and just plain unlikable. I know, my opinion, but... great?
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Post by artificial_person on Oct 12, 2003 22:47:26 GMT -5
Nope, you can't make me back down because... I've got Roger Ebert on my side this time. He may give you hives, but he gave The Contender four stars, and as everyone knows, The Ebertmeister is never wrong: www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/2000/10/101306.html. Yep, count 'em, four oh-so-shiny stars. And while it's not great as in hey-I've-got-to-see-that-movie-again-right-now-and-tell-all-my-friends-about-it great, I did think it was a good movie and worthy of my viewing time. It wasn't afraid to take sides and say what it thought (which, yes, basically means it was a propaganda piece for the liberals/democrats). Anyway, everyone who hasn't seen it, go rent The Contender right now. Go on, go! a_p |
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Post by BDC on Oct 13, 2003 1:19:26 GMT -5
He hath invoked the name of Ebert!
BACK, BACK FOUL DEMON~!
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Post by artificial_person on Oct 13, 2003 16:53:09 GMT -5
Be please sure your sarcasm detectors are on when you read my last post, especially at the invocation of the name of Ebert.
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Post by DarthToad on Oct 13, 2003 17:03:57 GMT -5
(which, yes, basically means it was a propaganda piece for the liberals/democrats). grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... Well, my opinion has changed though. Now I think the media is liberal when it comes to social policies because that feeds sensationalism, but conservitive when it comes to foreign policy and economic policy, because they don't want to shoot themselves in the foot by saying "hey, let's actually pay some of the money we get in taxes." The media is taxed just as any company would be. And foreign policy, they don't want to say "hey, let's stop having foriegn sweatshops do all the work for us." But...ugh, this isn't a good thread for that type of rant. Oh, for rare archetypes in movies, how about a feminist that isn't either A) A b**** or B) old, ugly, etc. *notices he's a guy and runs away* |
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