Random CAPTAIN MARVEL thoughts! -Larson works tirelessly to make so many random moments work -finally these movies let sam jackson have fun! -they also let mendelsohn have fun! -once it gets going, the story actually has good perspective shifts Still...
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-good granola should carol and maria's story have been made text, like, oof -my god are there are two bad needle drops -One big story thing. Whenever I end up working on something, we spend forever talking about the first 17 pages...
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Not because you're trying to wow the audience or "grab their attention," but because they're so important in terms of what you communicate to the audience in terms of setting up the rest of the film. CM (and a lot of other marvel movies) understands implicitly that...
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they need to give audience the certain information. But they've never have any idea how to really dramatize it, and create compelling immediate motivations, nor get into the real psychology of a character (something phase one movies were actually quite good at).
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They just sort of present parameters that are simply meant to be filled in. I'd be more specific, but I don't want to spoil. But once one thing happens in this film it's like the movie finally "starts."
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But it could be so easily avoided if they just understood how to start from the start. -all hail goose
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK
I really like Captain Marvel, but I understand the amnesiac first half isn't working for everyone (a lot of the characterization feels implied). It does feel like they tried not to do conventional origin story
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Also a question, do you know movies that uses amnesiatic protagonist well?
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Momento buries every aspect of it into the construction, ethos, and ultimate point.
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