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I've seen a few feminist critiques of "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and they seem to have seen a very different, more sexist film to me. After some thought I get the nasty feeling that what they saw is closer to the creators vision.
See for example Forgetting Sarah Marshall: Superemosogynisticexpialadocious. If You Make a Film of It, It's Really Quite Atrocious! (Via Hoyden About Town)
See I liked the Sarah Marshall character. She didn't break up with the protagonist because she was a bad person, they just didn't suit each other. As she explains later, he just wasn't very much fun for her to go out with, and from the looks of things he didn't have much fun with her. Sure, she cheated on him, but tv stars are messed up like that. He's better off outside that world, and her in it. I sympathised with her career and boyfriend woes.
Yet the article is right: horrible things happen to her at the "happy" end of the film, and he does call her "the devil". I think I might have invented the non-2D aspects to the love interest as well, in both cases based on the charisma of the actresses. Though I did like that they both got some amusing zingers at other people's expense.
Keep in mind that most romantic comedies aimed at guys do annoy me. OMG do not get me started on "Knocked Up".
I feel like one of those people who was reading the Harry Potter books waiting for Snape and Harry to save the day and run off together and were Very Dissapointed when this didn't happen. I know, I know, the author is dead and I can still watch the movie my way but it's different when you know it's against the grain.
So what do other grumpy feminist types think? What about everyone else? What film did you see? (Within the comments policy people, there's a reason this was posted here)
I was going to wait until the 30th before posting anything here but eh, it's not like this is a deep and interesting post my lj friends will be deeply hurt to have missed out on. (I hope. If so, sorry guys. Get an OpenID account and you can comment if you want!)
See for example Forgetting Sarah Marshall: Superemosogynisticexpialadocious. If You Make a Film of It, It's Really Quite Atrocious! (Via Hoyden About Town)
See I liked the Sarah Marshall character. She didn't break up with the protagonist because she was a bad person, they just didn't suit each other. As she explains later, he just wasn't very much fun for her to go out with, and from the looks of things he didn't have much fun with her. Sure, she cheated on him, but tv stars are messed up like that. He's better off outside that world, and her in it. I sympathised with her career and boyfriend woes.
Yet the article is right: horrible things happen to her at the "happy" end of the film, and he does call her "the devil". I think I might have invented the non-2D aspects to the love interest as well, in both cases based on the charisma of the actresses. Though I did like that they both got some amusing zingers at other people's expense.
Keep in mind that most romantic comedies aimed at guys do annoy me. OMG do not get me started on "Knocked Up".
I feel like one of those people who was reading the Harry Potter books waiting for Snape and Harry to save the day and run off together and were Very Dissapointed when this didn't happen. I know, I know, the author is dead and I can still watch the movie my way but it's different when you know it's against the grain.
So what do other grumpy feminist types think? What about everyone else? What film did you see? (Within the comments policy people, there's a reason this was posted here)
I was going to wait until the 30th before posting anything here but eh, it's not like this is a deep and interesting post my lj friends will be deeply hurt to have missed out on. (I hope. If so, sorry guys. Get an OpenID account and you can comment if you want!)
