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@DiamondMilles [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [02]: Saw how #mainstreammedia is circling the wagons on #SamElliot over his comments #powerofthedog
He has done westerns most of his career. So of course the #Woke crowd wants to #cancel him. These witch hunters will be the death of civilization as we know it. [URL redacted]
#MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseMainstreamMediaMSM
#PhenomnIdiomCirclingTheWagons [Wikipedia]
#IRLActorSamElliott [Wikipedia]
#2021_ThePowerOfTheDog [imdb]
#PhenomnCulturalFormGenreFilmWestern
#CatchcryCancelCulture
#MetaphorWitchHunt
Context #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianCatherineShoard "The actor Sam Elliott has apologised for comments he made last month about Jane Campion's western The Power of the Dog. ... Reaction to Elliott's comments was universally contemptuous, with many surprised the actor had apparently failed to realise some films are not shot in their exact settings. Campion later responded to Elliott's comments: 'I think it's really unfortunate and sad for him because he's really hit the trifecta of misogyny and xenophobia and homophobia,' she said. 'I don't like that. I think he was being a little bit of a b-i-t-c-h. Plus he's not a cowboy, he's an actor.' Cumberbatch, meanwhile, referred obliquely to Elliott's comments as a 'denial that anybody could have any other than a heteronormative existence because of what they do for a living or where they're born' as indicative of a continued 'massive intolerance within the world at large toward homosexuality'." https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/apr/11/sam-elliott-apologises-for-the-power-of-the-dog-comments #TauntPieceOfShitPOS #IRLFilmmakerJaneCampion #PhenomnSexualityHomosexuality #IRLActorBenedictCumberbatch #TheoryExnominationHeteronormativity
Context #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianCatherineShoard "The actor Sam Elliott has apologised for comments he made last month about Jane Campion's western The Power of the Dog. ... Reaction to Elliott's comments was universally contemptuous, with many surprised the actor had apparently failed to realise some films are not shot in their exact settings. Campion later responded to Elliott's comments: 'I think it's really unfortunate and sad for him because he's really hit the trifecta of misogyny and xenophobia and homophobia,' she said. 'I don't like that. I think he was being a little bit of a b-i-t-c-h. Plus he's not a cowboy, he's an actor.' Cumberbatch, meanwhile, referred obliquely to Elliott's comments as a 'denial that anybody could have any other than a heteronormative existence because of what they do for a living or where they're born' as indicative of a continued 'massive intolerance within the world at large toward homosexuality'." https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/apr/11/sam-elliott-apologises-for-the-power-of-the-dog-comments #TauntPieceOfShitPOS #IRLFilmmakerJaneCampion #PhenomnSexualityHomosexuality #IRLActorBenedictCumberbatch #TheoryExnominationHeteronormativity
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#MetaphorPeriodization1980s
#TheoryPoliticsOfEternity
#MetaphorVersusWeaknessStrength
#MetaphorWarfareHeroAction
#TheoryCodedMasculinityOverHyper
#IRLActorSylvesterStallone
#IRLActorArnoldSchwarzenegger
#IRLActorJeanClaudeVanDamme
#IRLActorDolphLundgren
#MetaphorGenerationMillennials
#IRLActorTomHolland
#IRLActorBenedictCumberbatch
#IRLActorEzraMiller e.g. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/ezra-miller-on-the-power-of-makeup
#IRLActorRobertPattinson e.g.
#2008_Twilight
#TheoryDeclinism
#TheoryModelBinaryDualityManichean #MetaphorVersusImpotenceVirulence
Supplementary #MagazineUKFilmStoriesAJBlack "Perhaps a reason why comic-book heroism took hold across the 2010s was not just about how Marvel married traditional comic-book movie structures with must-see episodic television, but also our own growing awareness that the structures said heroes have long protected are decaying in western society. Captain America learns that HYDRA has corrupted SHIELD, that bastions of American freedom have been infiltrated by fascist extremists. Thanos seeks ultimate population control as a means of balancing resources. So many of these films speak not just to disrupters with arch plans but how they expose the frailty of government or democratic systems in their disruption, sometimes even working within them. This also could explain the 'lone hero' trope that has taken hold in recent years to a more intense degree. McClane, John Matrix, John Rambo were all lone heroes, but as an audience, you never doubted they would prevail. They existed within a cathartic, controlled and safe geopolitical sandbox either during the end of the Cold War or the unipolar security of the United States. After 9/11, it all started to change. Jason Bourne realised his own government, with its mass surveillance, was an Orwellian nightmare. James Bond returned to a complex world where CIA agents worked with brokers to help dictators as part of a scheme to control the supply of a natural resource (as we saw in Quantum Of Solace as an example). And Ethan Hunt steadily became, even within his own storytelling, 'a living manifestation of destiny' as one character describes him" (28 November 2024). https://filmstories.co.uk/features/what-exactly-is-the-modern-cinematic-hero-fighting-for/ #PleaAWorldOfSimpleStableFixedOperations #BrandMarvel #BrandMarvelCinematicUniverseMCUCaptainAmerica #BrandMarvelHydra [Wikipedia] #BrandMarvelSHIELD [Wikipedia]. #BrandMarvelCinematicUniverseMCUThanos #FictionalCharacterJohnMcClane of #1988_DieHard etc. #FictionalCharacterJohnRambo #FictionalCharacterJohnMatrix of #1985_Commando #TheoryPsychologyPsychologicalPurgationCatharsis [Wikipedia] #PhenomnIdeologicallyMotivatedViolentExtremismIMVE #PoliticsCommunismColdWar #2001_September11Attacks911 #2016_JasonBourne #IRLAuthorGeorgeOrwell #FictionalCharacter007JamesBond #OrgUSFedCIA #2008_QuantumOfSolace #FictionalCharacterEthanHunt
Addendum #TheoryHauntology i.e. #IRLAuthorMarkFisher "the sense of yearning for a future that we feel cheated out of" (Fisher, 2012, p.16). Fisher, Mark. 'What Is Hauntology?' Film Quarterly, vol. 66, no. 1, 2012, pp. 16-24. JSTOR, [academic source]. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
Supplementary #MagazineUKFilmStoriesAJBlack "Perhaps a reason why comic-book heroism took hold across the 2010s was not just about how Marvel married traditional comic-book movie structures with must-see episodic television, but also our own growing awareness that the structures said heroes have long protected are decaying in western society. Captain America learns that HYDRA has corrupted SHIELD, that bastions of American freedom have been infiltrated by fascist extremists. Thanos seeks ultimate population control as a means of balancing resources. So many of these films speak not just to disrupters with arch plans but how they expose the frailty of government or democratic systems in their disruption, sometimes even working within them. This also could explain the 'lone hero' trope that has taken hold in recent years to a more intense degree. McClane, John Matrix, John Rambo were all lone heroes, but as an audience, you never doubted they would prevail. They existed within a cathartic, controlled and safe geopolitical sandbox either during the end of the Cold War or the unipolar security of the United States. After 9/11, it all started to change. Jason Bourne realised his own government, with its mass surveillance, was an Orwellian nightmare. James Bond returned to a complex world where CIA agents worked with brokers to help dictators as part of a scheme to control the supply of a natural resource (as we saw in Quantum Of Solace as an example). And Ethan Hunt steadily became, even within his own storytelling, 'a living manifestation of destiny' as one character describes him" (28 November 2024). https://filmstories.co.uk/features/what-exactly-is-the-modern-cinematic-hero-fighting-for/ #PleaAWorldOfSimpleStableFixedOperations #BrandMarvel #BrandMarvelCinematicUniverseMCUCaptainAmerica #BrandMarvelHydra [Wikipedia] #BrandMarvelSHIELD [Wikipedia]. #BrandMarvelCinematicUniverseMCUThanos #FictionalCharacterJohnMcClane of #1988_DieHard etc. #FictionalCharacterJohnRambo #FictionalCharacterJohnMatrix of #1985_Commando #TheoryPsychologyPsychologicalPurgationCatharsis [Wikipedia] #PhenomnIdeologicallyMotivatedViolentExtremismIMVE #PoliticsCommunismColdWar #2001_September11Attacks911 #2016_JasonBourne #IRLAuthorGeorgeOrwell #FictionalCharacter007JamesBond #OrgUSFedCIA #2008_QuantumOfSolace #FictionalCharacterEthanHunt
Addendum #TheoryHauntology i.e. #IRLAuthorMarkFisher "the sense of yearning for a future that we feel cheated out of" (Fisher, 2012, p.16). Fisher, Mark. 'What Is Hauntology?' Film Quarterly, vol. 66, no. 1, 2012, pp. 16-24. JSTOR, [academic source]. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
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