I feel like most of the book was the tiger in the boat, but my memories of it are tainted by the terrible ending.
Early: Where'd she go? Simon: I can't keep track of her when she's not incorporeally possessing a space ship. Don't look at me.
'Objects In Space'
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Jesse - Nov 17, 2012 3:05:37 pm PST #22781 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
§ ita § - Nov 17, 2012 3:09:22 pm PST #22782 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Can I have some whitefont details, plz?
Jesse - Nov 17, 2012 3:11:48 pm PST #22783 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I really only vaguely remember, but it ends with a scene with bureaucrats saying maybe none of the story actually happened. GEE, YOU THINK?
§ ita § - Nov 19, 2012 2:00:40 pm PST #22784 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm going to pretend, for a moment, that this person was paid to write this review of Taken 2: [link]
I could do the checking required, but I don't want my brand new shiny bubble burst.
Polter-Cow - Nov 19, 2012 2:18:23 pm PST #22785 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
That was wonderful.
le nubian - Nov 19, 2012 2:50:07 pm PST #22786 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
The footnotes were really really awesome.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 20, 2012 4:01:48 am PST #22787 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
That just made me laugh and laugh.
And I really want to see the version with Mr. Pickles.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 21, 2012 11:33:53 am PST #22788 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I was just looking at tonight's TV schedule and saw a listing for the remake, Guess Who.
I think you're undercutting the message of the original by casting Ashton Kutcher as the young man the family's daughter brings home. I mean, racists or not, who wouldn't be aghast at that?
erikaj - Nov 21, 2012 1:29:03 pm PST #22789 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
It was a better movie than I expected. Granted, I expected, like, nothing, but still.
§ ita § - Nov 24, 2012 12:20:06 pm PST #22790 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I hadn't realised it was still a thing. In an article about whitewashing Argo, Slate brings up The Hunger Games. Since the character in the book was white, doesn't it subtract a bit from their message to use this as an example when there totally are others--picking Hunger Games presumably because it did the best box office doesn't make sense if it's not a good example.
Male actors are still valued higher than female ones. They get better roles and draw higher salaries (Taylor Lautner made more than Kristen Stewart in 2010). Historically, moving behind the camera has been easier for men than women. Meanwhile, black and Latino audiences buy movie tickets at a higher rate than white viewers, but appear less frequently on screen and are rarely stationed behind the camera. And characters of color are still routinely whitewashed, from Argo to the Hunger Games.
While it is clear that the role could have been cast...less white without contradicting the text, shouldn't you better pick an example where we don't know the authorial intent?
Not to dwell on the assumed lack of intersection between white and Latino in the article--they aren't quite dealing with the fact that there are Latinos that look more "Aryan" than Affleck--just that Mendez is not one of them.