Harrison Ford is usually looks like he does not want to be in the movie, no matter what movie it is. It makes me feel badly for him, like, honestly, bro, if you hate acting this much, just, like, stop. You’ve got enough money.
In some rare instances, it works for the character–Blade Runner, Force Awakens.
The times where he does seem to be enjoying himself, he is fun to watch (Solo, Jones), but for most of his action star runs (Witness, Patriot Games, the one where he’s president on a plane), he is just entirely miserable.
Harrison Ford is almost unique here. The only other time I remember an actor palpably not wanting to be there was Halle Berry’s Storm in the first X-Men.
What’s the appeal?
Yes, I think I misremembered Carrie’s age at the time. It’s not a big deal, but it is a little bit of a red flag in my book.
If you re-watch the first Indiana Jones movie, the backstory with him and Marion is that she was the daughter of professor when they met and fell in love. I think she even includes the line “I was underage” when they’re reminsicing at the bar. So Indy slept with a minor, singular.
I agree Mathilda’s romantic interest in Léon 100% makes sense with her character (PTSD/RAD), but it’s also a common pedo fantasy to be seduced by a child. Besson was trying to get Reno to be more receptive to Mathilda’s approaches, and that’s what Reno was pushing back against, even making the character a little simple (child-like) to make the connection more real while at the same time fully understanding that it was horribly wrong.
There is Mathilda’s corruption in terms of being involved in Léon’s jobs, but that’s completely cut out of the original (US?) version.
It’s pretty damn fascinating to watch.
And, yes, Marcia Lucas did finally get her credit in the very watched YouTube Video titled something like: “Star Wars: Saved in the Edit”, but he also got a lot of feedback from other directors. I think everyone agrees the prequels very obviously suffered from not having anyone willing to tell Lucas his dialogue was shit.
Women are often the unsung heroes behind great men. Shymalan’s work turning from great to mediocore coincided with a break up; CG Jung’s wife was responsible for a lot of his ideas; the list is sadly endless. James Cameron is demonstrably free of that problem, at least.
Ohh… damn.
Shit, and they seemed similarly-aged in the first movie.
Actually this is one of the many reasons I appreciate so many French films, because it usually wouldn’t just be an incidental like that, that doofuses like me could casually miss. Nah, it would be more of an inflection point, methinks.
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Oof, and… fascinating. Phew, and good for you, Reno.
Oh dear, it’s times like these in which I sometimes comfort myself via The Rockford Files eps. It’s an hilarious formula to me-- the aging PI (private investigator) bad boy, still attractive to various ladies, who sometimes brilliantly and sometimes bumblingly solves cases, with various results, but the result is usually steeped in irony. XD Yet I really like the agency of the women characters portrayed overall in those eps, which I try to do a good job of focusing in on via the many subs I post to, starting with my own.
Huh! Do you know if there are any online sources to watch?
Oh, for sure. That’s something that has endless scholarly foundation IMO.
Indeed, something happened to me a couple months back when I was reading “Sapiens,” and it was mainly the transfixing idea that with the general dawn of the Neolithic / Agricultural Revolutions, which happened ~12Kyo ago, the very first casualties were arguably women. I.e., the ones who were typically expected to ‘hold things together on the home front.’ Or something like that.
One of my major fascination points is the Bonobos, or “dwarf chimps,” our very close cousins. They are absolutely matriarchal in order, not unlike meerkats, and there’s even a fascinating series about them. (Meerkat Manor)