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shadowkat1.Indiana Jones reviews by a millenial, actually more like a Gen Z, the horror, the horror
Commercial Sci-Fi Novelist John Scalzi's daughter is busy reviewing all the old Indiana Jones on his blog. Nothing like an outraged politically correct review of Raiders of the Lost Ark by someone who wasn't born when it hit theaters, and never saw it until now. (I now understand how my parents felt when I was critiquing Westerns in college. Although I was taught how and being graded, so the outrage was kind of squelched. Also 1980s.)
They are amateurish reviews - like most reviews on the internet. Most people haven't been trained in the art of critique - which granted doesn't require a great amount of training. But it does require a little - enough to know how to critique a film or work of art based on its merits, what is attempting to do, who its target demographic is, and whether it effectively comments on the morals of its time period. The period it is about, and the period in which it is made. Art for the most part is a reflection and commentary of the world around us - someone is showing us what they are seeing, and commenting on that. While there is art that attempts to show a better world than the actuality - that's not true of all art.
She focuses on the moral incorrectness or flaws in the film. Indiana Jones comes across as a misogynistic jerk and possibly pedophile, because he had an affair with a fifteen year old when he was clearly in his early twenties. (This amused me, because I'm not sure if she knows that in reality, Harrison Ford had an affair with Carrie Fisher, when he was in his early thirties and Fisher was around 19. The filmmakers probably knew it. And Marion's line could well have been Fisher's. It was also the 1970s-1990s, this happened a lot. I mean come on, Luke and Laura was the most popular romantic couple back then. Heck Buffy/Angel anyone? So a sly joke on the part of the filmmakers. )
He's disrespectful of antiquities - and insists on taking things from countries for his own country's museum. (Well, the film does take place in the 1930s, before the US entered WWII. Where the idea of getting stuff away from the Nazis, and putting it in a museum was kind of the moral view of the day. It was kind of that way in the 1980s as well. It's not really been until recently that this view has changed. But a 20 year old, who's not studied history, wouldn't know that.) It's a sly joke by filmmakers, who are aware that at this point in time this is considered honorable, while they are questioning it.
What's interesting to me about reviews that get rather sanctimonious about various immoral bits, is they don't have any issues with the graphic violence, torture and mayhem. She does mention the hot poker scene but barely. I don't understand this. Are we all so desensitized to these items that we fail to note them in art?
Let's face it - The Indiana Jones films are creatures of their time. They were meant to be 1930s, forties and fifties cliff-hanger serials. Or a homage to them. Created by filmmakers who came of age in the 1950s. A completely different time period. And the films themselves aired between 1980 or thereabouts to 1991 (or thereabouts). This wasn't the most politically correct time period on the planet. While we can critique them for not living up to today's moral standards, I'm not sure we can say they don't date well or stand the test of time, exactly.
I haven't re-watched recently, but I remember enjoying the films at the time. I saw them in movie theaters in the 1980s and 90s. Time has admittedly smoothed off the rough edges a bit.
2. Got up early to do laundry, and keep nodding off as a result. I had turned off the alarm, but woke up anyhow...did not sleep well the night before. I woke up at 2:20 am, hot and sweaty.
Wales asked if I was feeling better today. Yes, and no, unfortunately. I'd hoped to do something with her this weekend. Or something period - besides, same old same old. But alas, I'm not feeling well. Sleep deprived, and having issues with hot flashes and sweats, which apparently aren't associated with well anything outside of menopause.
Endocrinologist couldn't help. If this keeps up into August, I may request anti-depressants as an option.
I got maybe four-five hours of sleep last night - and it was interrupted sleep, so two hours, and two - three hours, if that.
As a result, I'm sluggish today, and want to do...nothing. I think the only day of my four day weekend that I took a walk outside was Sunday. I may try to do it again today around 4 pm.
Goal is to get to bed early tonight.
Oh well, the weekend wasn't a complete loss...got bed made up clean, vacuumed, went grocery shopping, cleaned part of kitchen and bathroom, bought new toilet seat, set up lab work for the fall. Finished revising another chapter of my novel, finished a drawing and a water color. And saved more items to Squidgeworld and Wordpress.
The hot flashes make me dizzy. And it's hard to think when they come on.
It's like burning up on the inside, then sweating, and feeling clammy. Kind of like when you are sick and have a fever? But then it passes and I perfectly fine. I will state it's not as bad as the vertigo headaches that I got about two-three years ago, constantly - those were the worst. Nothing is as bad as vertigo. My father had to deal with that.
3. Taking a break from Burn it Down - I was getting annoyed. She goes into depth on what happened behind the scenes on the Muppets after Disney took over, and the folks behind the Goldbergs. Neither is pretty. Muppets is mainly white men, and Goldbergs? Had sexual harassment claims. It was a hostile work environment. Muppets? Misogynistic post the Disney buyout.
Apparently the head show-runner of the Goldbergs is in charge of the new Muppets movie - it's his dream job. But there are a lot of allegations against him for harassment at The Goldbergs, so many that he responded to all of the authors queries through his legal team.
Damn.
4. Marvelous Mrs Maisel is in some respects a satire, and it does go after the male run industry - of standup comedy, and television showrunning, specifically late night. Gordon Ford feels like he could have been a stand-in for Johnny Carson. And Midge Wiseman Maisel is based loosely on Joan Rivers. Rivers struggled to get the late-night show host gigs or hosting gigs. Women do.
In episode 8 of S5,Midge's father, Abe tells his working buddies after having a couple of glasses of wine, as they complain that everything is changing so fast, that there's things he didn't notice. That maybe nothing has changed at all? He focused on the wrong things and wrong people. His daughter bought their apartment, not him. And his daughter got dumped by her husband - but she redefined herself, she didn't crumble and is successful. He was too busy focusing on his son - to truly see her and her abilities, which he also sees now in his granddaughter. He was so busy in hunting it in a male heir, it never occurred to him to see it in a female one. That men run everything and maybe they shouldn't? How could he be so blind.
I hear the writer's voice here - but Tony Shalob who plays Abe Wiseman convinces me these are his words, and thoughts, in a perfect example of how an actor sells the story and the lines within it. It's often why television or film work better than novels, in that if one falls short, the other collaborators pick up the slack.
5. Sad news. Learned from Twitter that horror/dark fantasy novelist Ursula Vernon, aka T Kingfisher, has cancer. I think it's breast cancer.
Damn. So many people are contracting cancer. Shannon Dougherty of 90210 and Charmed has metasized breast cancer that has moved to her brain (as does an acquaintance from church). One of my co-workers is fighting Prostate Cancer, another recently fought off Pancreatic Cancer. My mother's younger sister fought off Breast Cancer.
You know somethings wrong with our environment - if so many people are contracting cancer.
I'm probably poisoning myself with plastic. I don't know. I may read more TKingfisher. "The Twisted Ones" is the only book I've read in the last year that actually held my attention and I sped through. I hope she fights and survives cancer - I'm rooting for her. She's one of the more interesting writers that I've found on Twitter.
She has ignored me - but I mainly post on Soap Twitter and Spuffy Twitter, which occasional forays into Book Twitter, Romance Twitter, Television Writer Twitter, Comic Book Twitter and Music Twitter.
Commercial Sci-Fi Novelist John Scalzi's daughter is busy reviewing all the old Indiana Jones on his blog. Nothing like an outraged politically correct review of Raiders of the Lost Ark by someone who wasn't born when it hit theaters, and never saw it until now. (I now understand how my parents felt when I was critiquing Westerns in college. Although I was taught how and being graded, so the outrage was kind of squelched. Also 1980s.)
They are amateurish reviews - like most reviews on the internet. Most people haven't been trained in the art of critique - which granted doesn't require a great amount of training. But it does require a little - enough to know how to critique a film or work of art based on its merits, what is attempting to do, who its target demographic is, and whether it effectively comments on the morals of its time period. The period it is about, and the period in which it is made. Art for the most part is a reflection and commentary of the world around us - someone is showing us what they are seeing, and commenting on that. While there is art that attempts to show a better world than the actuality - that's not true of all art.
She focuses on the moral incorrectness or flaws in the film. Indiana Jones comes across as a misogynistic jerk and possibly pedophile, because he had an affair with a fifteen year old when he was clearly in his early twenties. (This amused me, because I'm not sure if she knows that in reality, Harrison Ford had an affair with Carrie Fisher, when he was in his early thirties and Fisher was around 19. The filmmakers probably knew it. And Marion's line could well have been Fisher's. It was also the 1970s-1990s, this happened a lot. I mean come on, Luke and Laura was the most popular romantic couple back then. Heck Buffy/Angel anyone? So a sly joke on the part of the filmmakers. )
He's disrespectful of antiquities - and insists on taking things from countries for his own country's museum. (Well, the film does take place in the 1930s, before the US entered WWII. Where the idea of getting stuff away from the Nazis, and putting it in a museum was kind of the moral view of the day. It was kind of that way in the 1980s as well. It's not really been until recently that this view has changed. But a 20 year old, who's not studied history, wouldn't know that.) It's a sly joke by filmmakers, who are aware that at this point in time this is considered honorable, while they are questioning it.
What's interesting to me about reviews that get rather sanctimonious about various immoral bits, is they don't have any issues with the graphic violence, torture and mayhem. She does mention the hot poker scene but barely. I don't understand this. Are we all so desensitized to these items that we fail to note them in art?
Let's face it - The Indiana Jones films are creatures of their time. They were meant to be 1930s, forties and fifties cliff-hanger serials. Or a homage to them. Created by filmmakers who came of age in the 1950s. A completely different time period. And the films themselves aired between 1980 or thereabouts to 1991 (or thereabouts). This wasn't the most politically correct time period on the planet. While we can critique them for not living up to today's moral standards, I'm not sure we can say they don't date well or stand the test of time, exactly.
I haven't re-watched recently, but I remember enjoying the films at the time. I saw them in movie theaters in the 1980s and 90s. Time has admittedly smoothed off the rough edges a bit.
2. Got up early to do laundry, and keep nodding off as a result. I had turned off the alarm, but woke up anyhow...did not sleep well the night before. I woke up at 2:20 am, hot and sweaty.
Wales asked if I was feeling better today. Yes, and no, unfortunately. I'd hoped to do something with her this weekend. Or something period - besides, same old same old. But alas, I'm not feeling well. Sleep deprived, and having issues with hot flashes and sweats, which apparently aren't associated with well anything outside of menopause.
Endocrinologist couldn't help. If this keeps up into August, I may request anti-depressants as an option.
I got maybe four-five hours of sleep last night - and it was interrupted sleep, so two hours, and two - three hours, if that.
As a result, I'm sluggish today, and want to do...nothing. I think the only day of my four day weekend that I took a walk outside was Sunday. I may try to do it again today around 4 pm.
Goal is to get to bed early tonight.
Oh well, the weekend wasn't a complete loss...got bed made up clean, vacuumed, went grocery shopping, cleaned part of kitchen and bathroom, bought new toilet seat, set up lab work for the fall. Finished revising another chapter of my novel, finished a drawing and a water color. And saved more items to Squidgeworld and Wordpress.
The hot flashes make me dizzy. And it's hard to think when they come on.
It's like burning up on the inside, then sweating, and feeling clammy. Kind of like when you are sick and have a fever? But then it passes and I perfectly fine. I will state it's not as bad as the vertigo headaches that I got about two-three years ago, constantly - those were the worst. Nothing is as bad as vertigo. My father had to deal with that.
3. Taking a break from Burn it Down - I was getting annoyed. She goes into depth on what happened behind the scenes on the Muppets after Disney took over, and the folks behind the Goldbergs. Neither is pretty. Muppets is mainly white men, and Goldbergs? Had sexual harassment claims. It was a hostile work environment. Muppets? Misogynistic post the Disney buyout.
Apparently the head show-runner of the Goldbergs is in charge of the new Muppets movie - it's his dream job. But there are a lot of allegations against him for harassment at The Goldbergs, so many that he responded to all of the authors queries through his legal team.
Damn.
4. Marvelous Mrs Maisel is in some respects a satire, and it does go after the male run industry - of standup comedy, and television showrunning, specifically late night. Gordon Ford feels like he could have been a stand-in for Johnny Carson. And Midge Wiseman Maisel is based loosely on Joan Rivers. Rivers struggled to get the late-night show host gigs or hosting gigs. Women do.
In episode 8 of S5,Midge's father, Abe tells his working buddies after having a couple of glasses of wine, as they complain that everything is changing so fast, that there's things he didn't notice. That maybe nothing has changed at all? He focused on the wrong things and wrong people. His daughter bought their apartment, not him. And his daughter got dumped by her husband - but she redefined herself, she didn't crumble and is successful. He was too busy focusing on his son - to truly see her and her abilities, which he also sees now in his granddaughter. He was so busy in hunting it in a male heir, it never occurred to him to see it in a female one. That men run everything and maybe they shouldn't? How could he be so blind.
I hear the writer's voice here - but Tony Shalob who plays Abe Wiseman convinces me these are his words, and thoughts, in a perfect example of how an actor sells the story and the lines within it. It's often why television or film work better than novels, in that if one falls short, the other collaborators pick up the slack.
5. Sad news. Learned from Twitter that horror/dark fantasy novelist Ursula Vernon, aka T Kingfisher, has cancer. I think it's breast cancer.
Damn. So many people are contracting cancer. Shannon Dougherty of 90210 and Charmed has metasized breast cancer that has moved to her brain (as does an acquaintance from church). One of my co-workers is fighting Prostate Cancer, another recently fought off Pancreatic Cancer. My mother's younger sister fought off Breast Cancer.
You know somethings wrong with our environment - if so many people are contracting cancer.
I'm probably poisoning myself with plastic. I don't know. I may read more TKingfisher. "The Twisted Ones" is the only book I've read in the last year that actually held my attention and I sped through. I hope she fights and survives cancer - I'm rooting for her. She's one of the more interesting writers that I've found on Twitter.
She has ignored me - but I mainly post on Soap Twitter and Spuffy Twitter, which occasional forays into Book Twitter, Romance Twitter, Television Writer Twitter, Comic Book Twitter and Music Twitter.