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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I cannot get over Scar Jo's blonde hair. Once again: "Eh, you barely act in these things, anyway. Who's gonna notice?"
My various fanfics.![]()
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I mean, the summary of her performance can basically described as "Curious head tilt and occasional smirk."
edited 30th Nov '17 10:51:27 AM by SonOfSharknado
My various fanfics.Particularly under Whedon, seems to have a thing for wooden badasses who communicate with the occasional sarcastic/quizzical remark. The Russos made far better use directing her as character/actress with a visible but distant personality.
But yeah, even so the type Scarjo's tends to be cast for is being "provocatively" blank and emotionless. IMO it makes her less than interesting as a character actress, except in the Jungle Book where it worked perfectly for Kaa.
edited 30th Nov '17 11:04:53 AM by KnownUnknown
Check these Thanos memes out XD My favorite one is the picture of somebody's thumb. https://imgur.com/gallery/oFlMb
I really think that we had enough characters fake dying in the MCU. I really don't mind the MCU not being too keen on killing characters, because that makes certain deaths even more heart-breaking, plus, I still think that death is the most boring of consequences. BUT characters dying and then being alive shortly after really p.... me off. It sometimes works (ie in the Winter Soldier) and I kind of don't mind it when Loki does it (even though he already did it twice!) since it fits his character, but do it too often and it becomes pointless. Peppers five second death is one of the reasons I dislike that third act of Ironman 3 so much.
And yes, I do think that the blonde hair is supposed to look artificial because if she would use her natural heir, that would make her red hair look even more artificial than it already does. The red is supposed to be BW natural hair colour after all.
edited 30th Nov '17 11:27:27 AM by Swanpride
Hey, she's made a surprisingly long career out of being studiously blank and remote. It may be more of a quality than a performance, but it's not nothing. There's a reason she's been hired for her voice as well as or instead of her looks.
And I think whoever said she might be going by Yelena Belova here might have a point. There's no guarantee she'll ever get her own movie, and a little background with another agent of the Red Room would at least give her some semblance of an arc on which to base a little drama.
I think the Russos' handling of her worked because they made the fact that Natasha is kind of a cipher plot-driven. The implication is as someone who has been trained from childhood to be a spy (which requires a bunch of disguises and assumed identities), she's intentionally been molded as a blank canvas that can be dressed up as something else when the situation requires it. Particularly in TWS, where she has the exchange with Steve where she asks him who he wants her to be.
There's also a very good deleted scene from Civil War where Black Panther insinuates that Natasha is so used to lying and subterfuge that she's incapable of recognizing sincerity anymore, which I really wish they'd left in the movie.
There was an idea, Whedon knows this, called the MCU Initiative. The idea was to bring together a group of of remarkable directors and comic-book characters to see if they could become something more. To see if they could work together when we needed them to, to smash the box offices that we never could.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!![]()
The MCU. It is so easy to forget what a huge risk it was initially. Marvel had to put up the TV and Movie rights for ALL the characters they had left and THAN had to organise additional money because Ironman wasn't covered by the original deal. Also, nobody ever did something like this before. And no, the Universal Monster team up don't count. They happened when original characters had become already a punch-line and the studio was looking for some quick cash grabs. The MCU is something else due to it attempting an actual continuity. It was also incredible difficult to put a team together for Ironman. A lot of directors passed because they didn't want to be associated with one of those silly comic book movies. RDJ was widely considered a washed up actor who only got the job because he was cheap AND signed a contract which made him responsible for damages if he would fall back into his drug addictions during production. And the whole thing was shot without a finished script.
There is this tendency to act as if Marvel is a big bully to poor DC because it nowadays has Disney as backup, but in reality, Marvel is the underdog who managed to knock the champion out of the limelight.
edited 30th Nov '17 12:30:38 PM by Swanpride
I saw a post from someone who joked about how he's sure someone is gonna find a way to be mad about a country of black people playing a key role in helping save the world.
Anyway, with the scene in the trailer of Tony looking distraught after seemingly having lost to Thanos on some foreign world, I wonder if it's an intentional Call-Back to his nightmare scene from Age of Ultron.
I did find at least one post pointing out the parallels
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edited 30th Nov '17 12:49:17 PM by comicwriter

Well he's not bright purple at least
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