See, I actually haven't had any film studies background AT ALL, even though now everyone assumes I have, just because I was basically forced into doing this film series due to my one question of what, exactly, it involved... and then no one else showed any interest at all, which meant the Honors Coordinator essentially guilted me into doing it. So now I have all these professors going, "Oh, you might be interested in this, given your great knowledge of films--" and I am just like, "I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT FILMS. PLEASE STOP REFERENCING RANDOM ARTISTIC FILMS THAT YOU LIKE, BECAUSE I WILL NOT HAVE SEEN THEM." Oh well, what can you do.
I know it looks hideous, but I did rather like the realism of Kick-Ass's outfit, since that's something that has always really bothered me with most super heroes - like, for example, Spider-Man. His outfit in the movies looks freaking bomb. Obviously, no teenage boy (ASIDE FROM THE AWESOME ONE IN YOUR ICON) has the sewing skills (and web-shaped plastic molds just lying around?) to pull that off.
I'd actually forgotten about the realism in the viral video scene, even though that scene's probably my favorite in the whole film. I think the reason it's my favorite is actually because of it's realism, though, now that you bring it up. I mean, I love the hallway scene with Hit Girl and it's five kinds of awesome, but I feel like the viral video scene is just really quite thought provoking. I mean, I would certainly call the police if I saw a bunch of guys beating someone up, but I don't think I would ever be brave enough to actually stand up to them myself, even though it is the right thing to do. It really shows how we consider the vigilante justice of superheroes in fictional worlds to be a good and admirable thing, but at the same time consider it a totally insane thing to do in real life. (So there are also some interesting connections between Kick-Ass and Watchmen, I think.)
See, my personal shocker so far as the swearing was concerned was the word "cock" (which is male oriented), so... maybe it's a personal consideration of what language you think is strongest? I've never used either word, I think, not even mentally (I usually just stick to the good ol' basics when it comes to swearing), but for some reason "cunts" didn't phase me as much, not sure why.
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Date: 2010-11-12 10:43 pm (UTC)I know it looks hideous, but I did rather like the realism of Kick-Ass's outfit, since that's something that has always really bothered me with most super heroes - like, for example, Spider-Man. His outfit in the movies looks freaking bomb. Obviously, no teenage boy (ASIDE FROM THE AWESOME ONE IN YOUR ICON) has the sewing skills (and web-shaped plastic molds just lying around?) to pull that off.
I'd actually forgotten about the realism in the viral video scene, even though that scene's probably my favorite in the whole film. I think the reason it's my favorite is actually because of it's realism, though, now that you bring it up. I mean, I love the hallway scene with Hit Girl and it's five kinds of awesome, but I feel like the viral video scene is just really quite thought provoking. I mean, I would certainly call the police if I saw a bunch of guys beating someone up, but I don't think I would ever be brave enough to actually stand up to them myself, even though it is the right thing to do. It really shows how we consider the vigilante justice of superheroes in fictional worlds to be a good and admirable thing, but at the same time consider it a totally insane thing to do in real life. (So there are also some interesting connections between Kick-Ass and Watchmen, I think.)
See, my personal shocker so far as the swearing was concerned was the word "cock" (which is male oriented), so... maybe it's a personal consideration of what language you think is strongest? I've never used either word, I think, not even mentally (I usually just stick to the good ol' basics when it comes to swearing), but for some reason "cunts" didn't phase me as much, not sure why.