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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
The conversation was also happening in Hawkeye and his family's house, and the point of the scene was that they were talking about running away together and quitting the Avengers. It's not "women are mothers", it's "look at how great having a family is".
edited 6th Apr '18 10:41:07 PM by PushoverMediaCritic
No question, Winter Soldier is, so far, the best movie for Natasha having character development and an actual arc. With Joss Whedon, as with pretty much every time he's written the Avengers, she's more of a cliche detached from any compelling personality, only she also very much comes across as "the one girl, so she has to be sexy/want kids/be sad about not having kids", which...doesn't help.
edited 6th Apr '18 10:42:20 PM by unexplainedEnemy
they're gonna find intelligent life up there on the moon/and the canterbury tales will shoot up to the top of the best-seller listShe did. I liked the first volume of that series (second had some questionable racism :/). It would make a decent movie for Widow of her traveling the world, taking missions for cash to repay her old sins.
edited 6th Apr '18 10:41:47 PM by Tuckerscreator
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I just finished watching the movie. The context begins about children, but she literally says that being sterile makes killing easier. The acting doesn’t add any nuance; Ruffalo and Scar Jo are pretty wooden in their shared scenes. Also, someone pointed out that all the women in the film are associated with childbirth. Wanda helps birth Ultron, Cho helps birth his new body, Hawkeye‘s wife is pregnant, and then we have Natasha.
edited 6th Apr '18 10:48:15 PM by wisewillow
The overall context for the scene (that it's part of Banner's ongoing character arc in which he has to accept he's going to be a monster, and Widow's attempts to romance him) rather overshadows the immediate context (that it's going on inside someone's family house), which in comparison is rather superficial. This is especially evident because very little about the scenes draws attention to the latter, in favor of building the former.
It doesn't help that the full context of this scene is, also, an array of scenes within the Barton home where the characters can't get past their own arcs and get settled in the happy surroundings. Widow isn't lamenting her apparent monstrosity because of the comparison to Clint's family, she's doing so in spite of it.
edited 6th Apr '18 10:50:21 PM by KnownUnknown
Keep in mind that this scene is one of several that's there to set up Banner and Widow trying to have a (failed) romantic relationship. Thus the "love" connection will, in that context, pretty much always be taken romantically.
edited 6th Apr '18 10:51:47 PM by KnownUnknown
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No. The line is literally that being sterile makes killing easier. That a baby is the “one” thing that might matter more than a mission. It might not have been deliberately sexist in intent (most writing isn’t), but it is spectacularly sexist in execution.
There is nothing about romantic love in the line. The line is about babies.
edited 6th Apr '18 10:53:08 PM by wisewillow
Said relationship by the way is one of the most disgusting parts of the movie and drags it down considerably for me. It comes out of nowhere. Banner and Nat in the first Avengers didn't have anything resembling romance together and their relationship's extent was him almost killing her as the Hulk.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?Saying Wanda births Ultron and Cho helps birth his latest body is a bit shaky logic.
But it does remind me that Vision has four dads. Tony, Bruce, Thor, Ultron
Forever liveblogging the AvengersHonestly, my main issue with the scene is that TIH established that Banner can't have sex because he would hulk out. So just because Natasha has been sterilized (and I wouldn't have gone for this particular plot point either, especially not as a side plot), she doesn't have the right for hot, fulfilling sex?
Also, Bruce is nearly old enough to be her father and nearly killed her just one movie earlier. I still think that one of the male Avengers should have gotten the job of calming the Hulk down. It feels like Natasha only got it because she is the only woman around.
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I agree. The age difference is gross and I hated that they went with a beauty calms the beast angle. The lullaby is stupid. Also, Nat gets damseled in the third act for no good reason. She can’t break out of a basic cell??? Bruce has to break her out??? What????
No, you did not, you essentially told me my analysis was wrong, then condescended about how I needed to try to see your point of view. However, let’s move on.
Guardians has a fantastic score. Not just the oldies, but the orchestral score is really great. I teared up when Peter nearly died for Gamora in space, and when Groot lit up the dark spaceship, and when Groot sacrificed himself.
edited 6th Apr '18 10:59:01 PM by wisewillow
The MCU is only use TIH in broad strokes anyway.
Also as Thor Ragnarok proved, Thor should have been on calming duty.
Here's the proof: him and Thor are both like fire, Thor can survive being smacked if the calming doesn't work, they have so much in common and can get into friendly conversations
And I'm super hype for Captain Marvel. Read a Ms Marvel trade today and could only think 'wow most writers just don't know what to do with Carol'
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I think she actually did adopt a cat in the Black Widow comic that focused hard on the red ledger stuff.
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