5 June 2012
3 June 2012
If I had an accountant
I would be one of those people who were cheated for twenty years without realizing it, and too embarrassed to say anything even if I suspected.
2 June 2012
On the Avengers
1. Is Robert Downey Jr's Tony Stark the first postmodern superhero? By which I mean one conscious of his role as a superhero, and of his enjoyment of his - all deprecation and irony and unabashed enjoyment of celebrity and underneath it all a bedrock of noble-minded idealism, but without the angst that often accompanies it (Spiderman, Batman - at least in the newer movie incarnations).
2. Our basic idea of a spaceship hasn't really changed, has it? The thing that they were flying on - the giant floating platform thing vaguely in the shape of a flattened airplane - that's pure Star Wars (what was it, the Death Star?), with cooler guns. In fact, has our imagination moved much beyond Star Wars? The flying platform thing, the flying chariot/scooter thing that the Chitauri were riding, even the Chitauri - perhaps it was homage to Star Wars and the pioneers of sci-fi movies (if that is what they are), but it does seem that the graphics have gotten more sophisticated and the costumes more outrageous, but our imagination hasn't expanded. We're still thinking in Star Wars terms about space. Or is it that our imagination moved downwards instead, into small things, nanotechnology, wired and wireless worlds, things like that?
3. After all these years, still Loki?
4. The day Captain America is unironically played by a non-whiteblondblue-eyedman, will be the day the race and gender barriers finally fall.
5. I do love Robert Downey Jr. Also Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper.
2. Our basic idea of a spaceship hasn't really changed, has it? The thing that they were flying on - the giant floating platform thing vaguely in the shape of a flattened airplane - that's pure Star Wars (what was it, the Death Star?), with cooler guns. In fact, has our imagination moved much beyond Star Wars? The flying platform thing, the flying chariot/scooter thing that the Chitauri were riding, even the Chitauri - perhaps it was homage to Star Wars and the pioneers of sci-fi movies (if that is what they are), but it does seem that the graphics have gotten more sophisticated and the costumes more outrageous, but our imagination hasn't expanded. We're still thinking in Star Wars terms about space. Or is it that our imagination moved downwards instead, into small things, nanotechnology, wired and wireless worlds, things like that?
3. After all these years, still Loki?
4. The day Captain America is unironically played by a non-whiteblondblue-eyedman, will be the day the race and gender barriers finally fall.
5. I do love Robert Downey Jr. Also Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper.
