Happy to read you express what I feel about the mv so well! I don't hear a lot of fandom talk about it and don't think it's especially well received for the exact reasons you mention. It's very safe, far from an orgy, but still misogynistic as hell...disjointed, too. Personally I love 'hammy Harry' a lot more than 'suffering artist' Harry and would love to have him like this all the time. Although next time he can be in underwear among fully dressed women!!!
Thanks anon - I always like to hear that what I've written resonates with people. Most of what I've seen has been about how people relate Late Night Talking to what they think of Harry. Which is an interesting question, but hardly the only question going on.
In general, I agree that hammy Harry is better than serious artist Harry in a music video. But I do think in this particular case Hammy Harry is not in the rest of the music video.
For example, in the scene in the very big bed with lots of people. It's true that it's very safe and far from an orgy. But the actors who look most feminine (and very noticeably only the actors who look most feminine) are still being required to perform 'sexy' in a way that is completely incongruous with what Harry is doing. They're having to perform sexuality and desireability for the camera - and Harry's hammy reaction (and the much more neutral reaction of people who are less feminine looking) makes it clear that everything is a performance and this is for the camera.
I do want to go into a little more detail, to really emphasise that choices were made in how that scene was directed and edited that led to the result that we saw.
The two most obvious examples of this are the difference in performance of the person on the left of Harry (obviously having to perform for the male gaze) and the person on the right (at the beginning of the sequence. And then the very last shot the people who look most feminine people are all having to perform for the male gaze (and they've changed out the person on Harry's right - which means it's a more feminine looking person touching him and looking at the camera) and it ends on a man asleep (and it was cute to learn he was actually asleep, but that doesn't change the performing and editing decisions).
The pillow fight scene is much more basic - it's a really boring and cliched version of the male gaze and the decisions about it were quite mundane - just the activity, the costumes and the casting. Where as with that first bed scene with lots of people there were a lot of really intentional decisions made that ensured that the video didn't present women as people with views and inner lives, but instead emphasied them as objects for the male gaze.
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I'm barely to the massacre and I can already tell I'm going to be screaming at every this-makes-no-sense decision made by the writers (your temple is under violent attack, and you evacuate the kids... to a barely enclosed corner in a prominent temple room? Instead of to the hundreds of sky bison that were highlighted as flying in earlier? Why?) (And Aang left to clear his head and think instead of to run from his duties? That's such a less compelling plot arc?) (And the show had him briefly monologue about being a goofy kid who loves pies and his friends instead of using the extended temple scene to show any of that? Didn't want to pay more child actors, did you, Netflix?)
Yeah I'm just. Going to be screaming at the screen instead of enjoying this. Different decisions aren't necessarily bad, but when those decisions seem to be in the direction of "show a man burning alive before we even get to the on-screen massacre" this is just... not the show for me.
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Loki the God of Stories - 02x06
This is now my favourite scene in the entire MCU, and you can't convince me otherwise.
He has literal tears in his eyes; he had no idea if he would make it, but he still took the risk just to save his friends, and look at him now! An actual selfless hero and one of, if not the most powerful being in the entire MCU! Frigga would be so proud ♡♡♡
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I really like that scene in mob psycho 100 where those random guys try to bully mob, but then, before mob can even do anything, dimple makes the guy disrobe and ritsu tries to kill him and the body improvement club just kinda circles up and squishes him between their pecs until the guys beg for mercy and leave. because it's a very stupid scene. kinda the epitome of the show's goofy weird slapstick humor. and so when you're watching it the first time you assume that's the purpose of the scene--to be dumb slapstick humor. because it succeeds at that, so it would be perfectly functional if that's all it was.
but THEN it turns out that it's actually setup for two episodes later when mogami traps him in a mind dimension to try and turn him evil and he's standing in the SAME PLACE and he sees ritsu on the bridge but ritsu doesn't acknowledge him. and he gets bullied. and not only is he powerless to defend himself, he has no one who cares. the scene plays out an evil mirrored version of itself where it's straightforward. it's harsh. it's empty. mob gets beaten up, and he is alone.
and that would've been a good scene on its own, too. but to me the fact that you see the silly ridiculous version of it FIRST (the one that culminates in the body improvement club suffocating a guy with their man boobs) is really important to me. because then, later, you feel how much more it hurts for mob to be alone when you've already seen what it could be, what it is. and then on a rewatch when you see the goofy version of the scene you can't help but feel an undercurrent of dread and a sense of how dangerously close the absurd is to tipping over into something way too real and visceral. which is a feeling that runs throughout the entire show.
anyway.
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Been wanting to draw some fanart for Poor George MAP since it's my favorite one, and because it was its anniversary recently, I finally did it :>
ID: A digital drawing in two panels with characters from Warriors. In the panel above, there's Yellowfang watching Brokenkit play with a moss ball, she looks endearingly at the little kit; they're in a green environment and plants surround them. In the panel below, Yellowfang is in the same possition, looking down at an adult Brokenstar at her feet, already dead, she looks sorrowful. Fireheart is by her side, looking at her with compassion. They're at ThunderClan's medicine den.
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Thinking about how, at the end of the day, at the fatal moment, the sunset of the Republic, it wasn’t Yoda, or Obi-Wan, or even the Chosen One himself standing in the way of Palpatine. It was Mace Windu.
Mace Windu, the inventor of Vaapad and Master of Form VII, the Jedi's strongest duelist, the only person to ever defeat Palpatine in combat. Mace Windu, Master of the Jedi Council and the youngest Master ever appointed to it, the revered leader of the Order. Mace Windu, who forgave even those who tried to kill him, who risked his life over and over again for his troops, who, after 3 years of desperate war, tried to negotiate with battle droids. Mace Windu, who knew the clones were created by the Sith and chose to trust them, who saw every Shatterpoint in the Republic, and loved it still, and fought for it until his last breath, until he was betrayed by Anakin, who he believed in and trusted despite everything.
Mace Windu, High General and hero of the Republic, the embodiment of the Light, the last and greatest champion of the Order, the best Jedi to ever live.
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