[ SECRET POST #3029 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3029 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Peep Show]


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03.
[Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis]


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04.
[Alexis Denisof]


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05.
[Guardians of the Galaxy]



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08.
[John Green]


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09.
[Outlander]


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10.
[Selfie]


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11.
[Emilio Estevez]


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12.
[His Dark Materials]


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13.
[Star Wars, Twilight]


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14.
[Faux Pas]


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15.
[Mass Effect]


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16.
[The Black Lillies]










Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't understand this. I thought the movie was pretty BLATANT in acknowledging that Anakin and Padmé getting together was a bad idea. Anakin literally (and quite melodramatically) says "It would destroy us." I guess I'm wondering in what way you think the film fails to acknowledge that this is a really unhealthy and ill-advised situation?

[cushlamochree]

Erm, to be clear, I would say my point is less that the movie thinks it's good, and more that I don't think the movie really has a very good understanding of why it's not good and what that actually, practically means.

Like, yeah, there's a certain amount of focus Anakin being a screwed up person (which, in itself, I don't think is that well presented, but it's definitely there). But there's also a lot of murky confusing stuff about how, you know, it's FORBIDDEN by laws of the Jedi order because ALL EMOTION IS BAD and THE THREAT OF THE DARK SIDE and stuff. And I don't think that really fits in with the idea that it's portraying a relationship that's basically dysfunctional because of the characters involved. To me, anyway!

[(Anonymous)]

"And I don't think that really fits in with the idea that it's portraying a relationship that's basically dysfunctional because of the characters involved."

I guess that's fair enough.

I suppose, for me, that final shot is just so...it's so powerful.

As Padmé's getting married, she literally looks like she's choosing death. There's this real undercurrent throughout Attack of the Clones that really pushes this perspective, of how they're not going to have a happy ending. The fireplace scene too has so, so much of this running through it.

[cushlamochree]

Yeah, I definitely respect that! I think I've said it before but I kind of wish I could see the movies the way you see them, because your readings of them are really interesting. It's just... not what I see on screen.

[(Anonymous)]

Attack of the Clones doesn't have to "push this perspective." There's no "undercurrent." There's nothing "running through" anything. It's an overcurrent, an explicit, obvious, taken-for-granted moot point because He's Darth. Vader. Everyone watching the movie knew he was Darth Vader. The movie assumes that everyone watching it knows he's Darth Vader. Obviously it will not turn out well. It's like watching a movie set on the Titanic in 1912 and going "gee, I wonder what's going to happen to these characters?"