Why Dev Patel failing to jump out of a window is so cool

This era of movies tends to skirt the line of satirizing so much as to stand for nothing. The tradeoff of sincerity for meta humor is not in a ratio I recall voting for. I get wary every time a story possibly maybe makes fun of me for caring about it, and I've come to accept that I think of sincerity as a fragile thing. But fragile is not the same as meaningless.

Let's talk Monkey Man. Bobby/The Kid/Dev Patel is trying to get out of a building and leaps sideways into a window, ready to smash through it and land on the street. He clunks against it, he falls to the floor out of frame, the window remains fully unscathed, and the action music cuts out. A beat. Then he gets up, the chase keeps going, and the music kicks back in. In a lesser movie, this choice is saying, "Aren't action movies stupid? Anyways I guess here's an action movie." On the other side if nothing is ever changed, it's saying, "Aren't action movies perfect already? Anyways I guess here's more of the same." It's great when you can subvert expectations in a way that doesn't undermine everything else, so here's why this isn't undermining its premise and even enforces it.

First off, after coming back in, the music keeps playing and being a legitimately exciting beat underscoring the rest of the scene. The joke knows when it's over and gets out of the way. Second, this trope is a great target for this bit; windows are so much more reinforced than this genre ever credits. But then the magic is that the entire rest of the movie is consistently brutal. The window bit comes from a unified authorial voice that also earnestly digs into the action before and after it. A deliberate drawing attention to the difficult realities of action only works if the rest of your action does hit harder than the fare of movie you're invoking.

And Monkey Man delivers. Every henchman takes so many hits before going down, and the hits are bloodier, closer, and quieter than Hollywood action. And the last thing that makes it work is that it only happens the once. It brings up John Wick and rather explicitly claims this movie will be smarter, and it does the joke with the window to ask you to take the violence seriously. Every time a movie distances itself from its genre, it's making sincerity take so much more work every other minute. Lots of movies give up on it entirely. This movie chooses the work.

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A Murderbot/Gurathin Fanfic

Omegaverse AU | Non-traditional dynamics | Unexpected heat | Service alpha Gurathin | Omega Murderbot | Get cherished idiot

Read Chapter 4 now (or start from Chapter 1)

With him, at least I wasn’t at risk of something emotionally complicated.

Including NSFW art by @crabs-brencil

fucking behold them your honour

Murderhelion Week - Acts of Affection / Vulnerability / Watching Media Together

Murderbot watching World Hoppers with a drifting, badly damaged ART-drone, and ART watching Timestream Defenders Orion while cleaning out Murderbot’s alien infected code. @murderhelionweek

-System Collapse (Chapter 11)

-Network Effect (Chapter 20)

i do wonder if this is more about mb's perception/relationship with art rather than machine intelligences as a whole? cause like, it reads to me like mb sort of thinks of art as. above death, i guess? cause like even in ne when art had been deleted its like "there's no way its actually dead i need to get to the console(?)(poor memory augh)" all the while having all the "ahh its dead" emotions

Honestly at the end of System Collapse, i honesty expected MB to get possessive and a bit more emotional over ART-drone once it reconnected with ART-prime again and dropped out of the feed, cause like... the whole time, ART-drone has been ART in portable, physical form, something that could be held and touched and could touch back.

Then, when everyone was safe on the shuttle going back to ART-prime; ART-drone, which is still ART... was hurt, and damaged and basically dying. And even though it had some warning when the hand off happened, imagine you're next to your friend and suddenly its just not there anymore, all you have is just an inanimate empty husk beside you

i would sell so many organs to be able to use these as emotes

a bunch of shit stained brain rot

im sure this has been said before but i love how between all the societal horror and. other horror and bloodshed and stuff, tmbd is really just a comedy at heart

my shoulder blade is numb, and t the numbness is exclusive to my shoulder blade this is so weird

ratthi nation wya

nothing more omegaverse than 2010s canadian radio hits

what up my g's, in honour of having finally finished my exams, commissions are open!! please refer to my pinned post for prices and stuff :D

yk shits getting reak when heart palpitations feel nostalgic

my bones are sweating

man its rly overhsare oclock today huh

just loredropping like crazy

what am i liveblogging rn?? who knows bro im putting thises here for analysis when i can see again

science

need to be actuakly exocisted bc this synesthesia rly got me actinf up im ngl

beam of light out of every orfice before i collapse dead on the ground moment when

gonna brek my teeth how hard im clenching my jaw vro

whoa lol i can see the led insconsistencies on ny screen im ottally gonna faik my exam today

really underrated phenomenon is when some artist gets incredibly attached to like one character from a thing and you see them go from “here’s my fanart of this character! let me know what you guys think!” to creating like fucked up surrealist shit that doesn’t even have to do with ANYTHING the canon is from anymore. I don’t mean aus I mean like actual absurdist art of some fucking cartoon guy