Lucy Liu & JLM (sci-fi)
brandi maxxxx is a supportive, genuine, generous, positive person that is so endearingly, sincerely proud of herself, her profession, and women in positions of power but is still not respected by some characters (especially leslie, which makes no sense and is a huge wasted opportunity)
“i guess some people object to powerful depictions of awesome ladies.”
but brandi maxxxx is just as awesome a lady as leslie/the others, just in a different way, so can p&r give her the powerful depiction that she deserves?
the ladies of Tarantino’s films
“There’s a beast in every man, and it stirs when you put a sword in his hand.”
—Luca Brasi held a gun to his head, and my father assured him that either his brains or his signature would be on the contract.That’s a true story. … That’s my family, Kay, it’s not me.
—I was born with a stain. A mark. Like the mark of Cain. But it is the mark of my father, my family. The mark of Borgia. I have tried to be other than I am, and I have failed.
Human beings have dreams. Even dogs have dreams. But not you, you are just a machine. An imitation of life.
No guys, I need to stop and talk about something in this movie and how fucking revolutionary it was; something that I haven’t seen in a movie before or since.
This is a movie about a kid who leaves her birth family.
Not a kid who find that they have a secret lineage or something that allows them to find their ‘true family’ - this is a movie about a kid whose true birth family is made up of bad people. So she gets out. And that is played as the right thing to do. She isn’t punished for it or made to feel bad about ‘abandoning her family’. There isn’t an underlying ‘but they’re your family and you have to love them’ or ‘they’re your family and they love you even if they don’t show it well or do hurtful things’ message of the kind that I see OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER in media. Matilda gets out and lives happily ever after because of it.
We need a million more movies like this to counter the metric shit ton of movies that directly counter this message.
#sometimes the family you start with isn’t a good one #but you can find your own #family is not absolute #blood is not absolute
