Why Deadpool Rocks
Jan. 21st, 2017 09:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trickykittyA while back, Lolotehe and I went to see Crispin Glover's Big Slide Show which includes a Q&A after the presentation of his movie (which included the showing of It is fine! EVERYTHING IS FINE.).
The biggest takeaway from the event was Crispin's take on movie endings and the messages movies are trying to convey. It's what started his feud with the creators of Back to the Future and now fuels his own creative juices toward making his own movies.
In Back to the Future, Marty McFly is rewarded with the girl, the awesome family, and most importantly, the truck, representing the materialistic component of the reward both for the character and the viewer. Crispin felt this sent a bad/negative message to the audience.
At the time, I had bad feelings about that scene in the movie, but I never thought too much about it nor tried to put those feelings into words. Crispin nailed it. Not only that, but it made me start paying quite a lot of attention to that aspect of movies - the endings and the message that such rewards present in the denouement.
At one point a while back Lolotehe had also lent me a book called [Strange Minds - I can't recall exact name, but she'll see this and correct me later] which included the philosophical concept that "WE" are nothing but our brains talking to one another. Our bodies are our husks, but the conversation is actually taking place with one brain talking to another brain. The outside is just the shell.
In Deadpool, there is a running tension of the good ol' fashioned Beauty and the Beast, and for once it comes from the perspective of the beast rather than the beauty, so that tension is heightened. On top of that, it's not about a beauty stumbling upon and finding a beast, but about a lover that has turned into (in his mind) a beast. It is his fear of rejection that keeps him from her after they have already gotten to know and love each other.
The tension is built up until the moment of mask-lifting truth.
And she still kisses him anyway.
And the movie resolves that it's all about what's in the brain that really matters.
And that's why Deadpool rocks.
That, and a lot of freewheeling with the sex and language. Just saying.
PS - Crispin also mentioned his involvement with the Wolf PAC, to which I'll give a shout out.
The biggest takeaway from the event was Crispin's take on movie endings and the messages movies are trying to convey. It's what started his feud with the creators of Back to the Future and now fuels his own creative juices toward making his own movies.
In Back to the Future, Marty McFly is rewarded with the girl, the awesome family, and most importantly, the truck, representing the materialistic component of the reward both for the character and the viewer. Crispin felt this sent a bad/negative message to the audience.
At the time, I had bad feelings about that scene in the movie, but I never thought too much about it nor tried to put those feelings into words. Crispin nailed it. Not only that, but it made me start paying quite a lot of attention to that aspect of movies - the endings and the message that such rewards present in the denouement.
At one point a while back Lolotehe had also lent me a book called [Strange Minds - I can't recall exact name, but she'll see this and correct me later] which included the philosophical concept that "WE" are nothing but our brains talking to one another. Our bodies are our husks, but the conversation is actually taking place with one brain talking to another brain. The outside is just the shell.
In Deadpool, there is a running tension of the good ol' fashioned Beauty and the Beast, and for once it comes from the perspective of the beast rather than the beauty, so that tension is heightened. On top of that, it's not about a beauty stumbling upon and finding a beast, but about a lover that has turned into (in his mind) a beast. It is his fear of rejection that keeps him from her after they have already gotten to know and love each other.
The tension is built up until the moment of mask-lifting truth.
And she still kisses him anyway.
And the movie resolves that it's all about what's in the brain that really matters.
And that's why Deadpool rocks.
That, and a lot of freewheeling with the sex and language. Just saying.
PS - Crispin also mentioned his involvement with the Wolf PAC, to which I'll give a shout out.
