Great observation on GoT with which I agree; though I too see that the slave-emanicpating dragon queen is being put into a position that her Utopian ideal of unity, equality and forgetting of past merely instills conflicts and such views will be her potential destruction. And I like how, especially in the last episodes of the last season, how an Xtian-like religion takes over control over all past greatness, the Aristocracy and anything noble through masses of sickly converts and lower-ends of society and the top is being devoured by the drecks.
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2. "The Noble Hart | my name, and I go A motherless man abroad; Father I had not, | as others have, And lonely ever I live."
I'm more of a movie goer than a series show trender. There are simply far too many shows out there for me to keep up with. They churn them out like canned food. It staggers me to think who has the time in their schedules to devote to watching three or four different shows. Breaking Bad was the one show that really intrigued me due to its complex portrayal of the dysfunctional yet poignant modern masculine psychology in extremes. It had more worthwhile depth. I wrote an analysis on it in the Adyton.
I'm more of a movie goer than a series show trender. There are simply far too many shows out there for me to keep up with. They churn them out like canned food. It staggers me to think who has the time in their schedules to devote to watching three or four different shows. Breaking Bad was the one show that really intrigued me due to its complex portrayal of the dysfunctional yet poignant modern masculine psychology in extremes. It had more worthwhile depth. I wrote an analysis on it in the Adyton.
I can't seem to find it, is it still up?
Oh, I remember seeing it, although I didn't read it yet. Right on the first page:
Game of Thrones has to be the most obvious example of feminist/emasculation propaganda of TV. They lured males in with the prospect of an epic battle between Kingslayer and Ned Stark. Then they proceeded to undermine and destroy every representation of masculine order. Stark beheaded. Kingslayer loses a hand. Lannister dies on the toilet. The hound beaten in a swordfight by a woman and left begging to be killed by a little girl. The only permitted male heroes are the crippled boy, the bastard child of Stark and the dwarf. All representations of disorder. Meanwhile all of the movers and shakers are women. Khaleesi and her dragons, the mysterious red women who gave birth to smoke, little Arya the tomboy killer and her magic friends. I stopped watching it a while back because it became too predictable.
I just upset my friends yesterday and few times earlier when I told them your analysis, they have almost as same views as I, they keep exposing and complaining about feminism all the time, but yet they told me that this is "over-analysing it".....When it comes to games, movies or series, they blame me for "hating" everything and that I only watch movies or series to complain about them...This is very hypocritical, don't you think?...
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Game of Thrones has to be the most obvious example of feminist/emasculation propaganda of TV. They lured males in with the prospect of an epic battle between Kingslayer and Ned Stark. Then they proceeded to undermine and destroy every representation of masculine order. Stark beheaded. Kingslayer loses a hand. Lannister dies on the toilet. The hound beaten in a swordfight by a woman and left begging to be killed by a little girl. The only permitted male heroes are the crippled boy, the bastard child of Stark and the dwarf. All representations of disorder. Meanwhile all of the movers and shakers are women. Khaleesi and her dragons, the mysterious red women who gave birth to smoke, little Arya the tomboy killer and her magic friends. I stopped watching it a while back because it became too predictable.
I just upset my friends yesterday and few times earlier when I told them your analysis, they have almost as same views as I, they keep exposing and complaining about feminism all the time, but yet they told me that this is "over-analysing it".....When it comes to games, movies or series, they blame me for "hating" everything and that I only watch movies or series to complain about them...This is very hypocritical, don't you think?...
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I just upset my friends yesterday and few times earlier when I told them your analysis, they have almost as same views as I, they keep exposing and complaining about feminism all the time, but yet they told me that this is "over-analysing it".....When it comes to games, movies or series, they blame me for "hating" everything and that I only watch movies or series to complain about them...This is very hypocritical, don't you think?...
Most people have their sacred cows unfortunately, or would prefer their tastes and likes to be beyond scrutiny. To tell the truth, it doesn't mean you can't enjoy it, perhaps you can enjoy it even more so, knowing the intricate social messages being weaved into its storylines. As an example I like watching sporting events when I get the time. All at once I can enjoy it and yet recognize it for what it is (a means to distract, to replace tribe, to experience catharsis ), if your follow me. Moderation.
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Sure, I also call them guilty pleasures. Sometimes the overtones are too much for me. For example GoT, if I watched it I would expect it to be harsh, faithful to medieval times, but instead everyone acts like modern people so that ruins it for me completely, false portrayal.
I just wanted them to see these overtones and not be hypocritical, for me criticism doesn't ruin everything.
Jarno
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I watched Spectre (2015) and had a difficult time following the story. Things happen and either I missed some exposition as to why some of the people do what they do or it was not in the movie. I liked Casino Royale, it's the best Daniel Craig Bond movie. Quantum of Solace, I'd actually like quite a bit if it wasn't for the bad (way too choppy) editing of the action scenes. Skyfall I liked for the first half but after they captured the villain it lost its charm for me.
I don't know, maybe the old Bond movies were simpler and or with more exposition but I don't follow some of the newer Bond movies and newer movies in general. I mean that the details are missing or too subtle for me and I often don't get why the characters do what they do.
This movie is potentially affecting.... Especially to an unexposed mind. Never seen the kind of psychedelic sequences shows. Exhilarating the first time around.
Cult_Leader reminded me of adding an online vid. of Anderson's cinematic masterpiece already mentioned here, The Master (2012).
The film's a brilliant work of art, because I think, it is metaphorical on another level of our own bicameral minds, the right and left brain, the master and its emissary...
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"All that exists is just and unjust and equally justified in both." [Aeschylus, Prometheus]
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First time I've seen this beauty. The director Fritz Lang, knew exactly what modern wage slavery was before it became the viral disease it is now, and the complex relationship of communism with capitalism, at a time when Germany was against both. There is also a very strong Christian message in it as well. The "devil" of the industrial machine (Babylon) Vs the "goodness" of God to bring about a messiah to save the downtrodden wage slaves from thier spiritual captivity. The message unfortunately is distinctly Christian: reconciliation between enemies.
Funny, I couldn't stop thinking to myself the whole time, if I was a cinematographer, those visual semiotics he used would be precisely how i would depict what economic slavery is in its essence. Great minds.