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[Feb. 23rd, 2005|11:13 pm] |
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| | Fixin' for a fight | ] |
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| | Jackie - Scott Walker | ] |
Shaun of the Dead is really quite a good movie, actually.
HOWEVER...
I would really like to know why it is that if I spot a character in a movie, hollywood or indie, whom I find attractive, and the things s/he says are intelligent and seem reasonable responses to the situation at hand, and s/he has more than a three-minute bit part*, then it is virtually a sure bet that a.) all the other characters will hate him/her and gang up on him/her, and b.) s/he will be humiliated and dismissed throughout the movie, culminating in the point where c.) s/he dies, usually a messier, more on-screen death than the other characters will get treated to.
(Please note that it does not follow that all the characters who get humiliated and die onscreen win my sympathy. I hate the comic relief just as much as you do.)
Sometime I ought to smite all mankind, in vengeance for this obscure cultural trend. Besides, it'd probably be a lark, smiting.
*I love you, Howard, Chemist |
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From: (Anonymous)
2005-02-25 07:09 am (UTC)
Yes, smiting is good and all | (Link)
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You've got to take this from a different viewpoint. You can't kill off the really really good looking leading actressand or actor because you've paid them the most, and they are the reason the masses go to see them in the first place. You also cannot kill off the funny guy/girl, minority guy/girl or the he,she,it that knows to much right away for very obvious reasons. That leaves us the unfunny, mildly attractive person (very few truely ugly people make it into movies...the exception being Vin Diesel who looks increasingly like a giant thumb) who makes comments that only a very few of us get. This person must die in such a manner that will tide us over long enough to let the other actors play out their parts. And yes, smiting is fun.
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