'Cause I enjoyed Die Hard and I don't feel that I've lost my credentials as an intelligent being by snickering at the obvious jokes and impossible stunts
I don't think analyzing a movie means "judging it solely on how realistic it is, since that is what makes movies good."
I'd probably take "That was fun," as a good starting-point for conversation. Because then you start thinking about, well, what made it so much fun? Why are many similar action movies not as fun? What did it do differently? And so on.
There's plenty to analyze about Die Hard if you want to. The whole nature of structuralist critique is to provide a tool to address texts which are not just capital-A "ART!" Any cultural product is going to be informed by layers and layers of intended and unintended meanings which reflect on the biases of the culture and the creators.
To note just an obvious example,
Bewitched
can easily be read as the tensions of being gay and passing as straight in a repressive American culture. A point which is almost explicit in the show considering how incredibly gay the cast was.
Men, Women and Chainsaws
is a classic critique of slasher movies which overturned a lot of feminist thinking on the genre.
Bewitched can easily be read as the tensions of being gay and passing as straight in a repressive American culture.
I say this with all love--some people have too much time on their hands.
Still, I wouldn't say that on a website where the stated purpose is to scan popular culture to find the subtexts that explore how gayness is dealt with, especially in less tolerant eras. Hell, I might pay money to join a website that did that sort of thing. I've got a pair of Thinky Boots, too, right beside the Yay, Things Blow Up! Boots.
Both of those boots are hot!
I have told my friends that looking at Adrian Grenier was one of the first time I understood those idiots that shout stuff at women on the street. And I find myself wondering if you could(or should) describe a male actor as an "ingenue" ever.(Michael Cera, anyone? Though I don't really *want* him, it might fit him better than Grenier.)
So I suppose "VincentChaseInIceCreamTopping" could be a Sociological Image, too.
Bewitched can easily be read as the tensions of being gay and passing as straight in a repressive American culture.
I say this with all love--some people have too much time on their hands.
This sounds like we're back to the reason for Moff's law. It's not even an unusual interpretation of the show known as the "gayest show ever."
Well, I hadn't thought of it, pre- Buffista(like so many things) But it makes sense.
Also, the one I got to first, about women hiding who they are/ our power.
And now I totally want to write Bewitched/ Mad Men again...it totally doesn't help that Roger's hair makes me all "Oh. Larry Tate." despite the fact that I find him far more attractive.
Bewitched can easily be read as the tensions of being gay and passing as straight in a repressive American culture.
And also as a commentary of the changing of the power-holder in a given household as women were becoming less and less satisfied with the choices being given to them.
was it consciously making those statements or are those put on it in hindsight?
