Comments by "Rogerborg" (@rogerborg) on "The Critical Drinker"
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@dustinrausch5008 Sure, I just mean her very initial scenes in E1 of the live action. I mean, she's a sassy, cocky, independent, stick-twirling scavenger who smacks groups of Stormtroo- I mean, Marines all over the place. Coming in without any knowledge of the story, it gave me big Reyey-Sue vibes. However, the twist, backstory, fleshing out and breaking down of her character, and the emotional payoff at the end of E7 is just phenomenal. Having just re-watched it, I'm absolutely choked up at that fabulous performance.
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It's better the less you think about it.
Strong Female Comanche is a Norwegian-Spanish-Chinese girl in "redface". She's as native as Elizabeth Warren. They wash off the war paint half way though, at which point you're supposed to have already accepted that, sure, she's whatever you say she is, film. I'm genuinely baffled as to how that's any better than blacking Zoe Saldana up to play Nina Simone, or all the roundeyes who played Charlie Chan or Fu Manchu.
Pay too much attention and you'll notice that: Strong Female Comanche's sum total contribution of gathering or hunting is a few flower petals; that multiple times she's given the opportunity to help the Patriarchal Male Comanches but freezes, lets them die, then runs away (because the plot needs her to); and that she figures out how laser targeting systems work before being in a position to see the laser. The audience sees it, she doesn't, but the movie thinks we're too dumb to notice. Sadly, it's probably right.
Then Strong Female Comanche understands how to operate a firearm from one set of partial verbal instructions delivered in a language with no words for half the concepts. And, wow, instantly grasps thermal vision by inferring that the Predator couldn't see a cold body, rather than the much simpler and more reasonable assumption that he was simply ignoring it because it didn't look like a threat - despite having just figured out and explained that to the audience. I mean, to her brother.
Doggo Ex Machina appears and disappears exactly as needed, just like a D&D familiar who only exists when you remember about it.
And apart from her magical medicine powers, Strong Female Comanche is a petulant, selfish, incompetent liability for 2/3rd of the film, before the plot switch gets flipped and she suddenly turns into Mulan - the new one, with chi superpowers. And there's no montage or particular inflection point: she just goes from incompetent to girlboss because that's that the film needs to happen.
Sure, there's a lot to like. Enjoy the visuals, the score, and the tight plot and runtime - but keep your brain suitably dulled.
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