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my thoughts on TRON2:
-Sam Flynn should have been a female character. (and trans female would have been best ever.) I started headcanoning this from about five minutes in, going yeah yeah yeah this role would be way more fun if someone like, say, Goodevening had it. At this point in the history of the action movie, daughters have way more storytelling potential than sons. M and me talked about this afterwards, and he thinks it wouldn't work because it would be derailed by the normative idea that daughters need to be protected. From what? Fast motorbikes, latex and and clumsy attempts at heroism? In terms of how action movies portray women, the only way that even works is if some women are daughters and others are inexplicably not; Quorra is a daughter, Gem is not, and they are both the less for this distinction.
-the above thought in mind, the line "He's probably either dead or chilling in Costa Rica, or both" had a massively inappropriate effect on my Peace Walker-ridden head. Peace Walker was emotionally interesting because it was an action story about a son and his mother.
-I encounter way more gender in movies than I do IRL. Waaaaaaaaay more. Partly because fake gender is a binary and real gender isn't. It's Dworkin's shift between gender defined as sex differences and gender defined as sex similarities.
-in retrospect it's surprising how absorbing it was given that the only character I found interesting was the girl!Sam in my head. Light and music, I guess.
-I thought Clu might take the disc and thereby end up embracing imperfection, but that would have been too much The Matrix Revolutions. His definition of perfection eluded me. Castor, however, was The Merovingian. I've seen the comparison - Legacy as Reloaded - made in a few places, and it might work if Reloaded had its brain removed and if Trinity were virginalised.
-the virginity element was creepifying. Clu's unsubtle rape threat was creepifying. The idea of het framing in that movie wasn't just creepy but nonsensical - why does Quorra even have a gender, and what's female about it? What does it signify - is it just so that Clu can threaten her with rape? Why are there single-gender groups of programs? (What's with the shoes?) What's the gender binary for? These things weren't intended to be answered or even asked - just to hang there and hope to be unnoticed. Did I mention I encounter gender way more in movies than irl?
(There's a Doylean answer, and it's TO SELL TOYS. M and me decided that sex was an element introduced intrinsically by the film's need for an audience. le sigh.)
-the above thought in mind, the line "He's probably either dead or chilling in Costa Rica, or both" had a massively inappropriate effect on my Peace Walker-ridden head. Peace Walker was emotionally interesting because it was an action story about a son and his mother.
-I encounter way more gender in movies than I do IRL. Waaaaaaaaay more. Partly because fake gender is a binary and real gender isn't. It's Dworkin's shift between gender defined as sex differences and gender defined as sex similarities.
-in retrospect it's surprising how absorbing it was given that the only character I found interesting was the girl!Sam in my head. Light and music, I guess.
-I thought Clu might take the disc and thereby end up embracing imperfection, but that would have been too much The Matrix Revolutions. His definition of perfection eluded me. Castor, however, was The Merovingian. I've seen the comparison - Legacy as Reloaded - made in a few places, and it might work if Reloaded had its brain removed and if Trinity were virginalised.
-the virginity element was creepifying. Clu's unsubtle rape threat was creepifying. The idea of het framing in that movie wasn't just creepy but nonsensical - why does Quorra even have a gender, and what's female about it? What does it signify - is it just so that Clu can threaten her with rape? Why are there single-gender groups of programs? (What's with the shoes?) What's the gender binary for? These things weren't intended to be answered or even asked - just to hang there and hope to be unnoticed. Did I mention I encounter gender way more in movies than irl?
(There's a Doylean answer, and it's TO SELL TOYS. M and me decided that sex was an element introduced intrinsically by the film's need for an audience. le sigh.)