The funny thing is Captain Marvel comes very close to straight up having this message but it gets kind of buried in the Girl Power thing it's mixed up with and disguised as
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Like look everyone brings up that final scene with Jude Law trying to berate her and get his hooks back into her and she just shuts him up by blasting him And they say it's about sexism, and patriarchy, and mansplaining And sure, it's about those things, but not ONLY those
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Like of course these are gendered roles Carol and Yon-Rogg are playing here but they're not *only* gendered It's not just patriarchy, it's *paternalism* It's how men treat women, but also how elders treat juniors, parents treat children, the elite treat the poor
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No, I don't think so, and I think this is a very lazy reading Without defending DoD partnerships with Disney movies as a whole, you have to work really hard to find anything actually pro-Air Force in this movie Like, at all
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I don't think the Air Force actually cares that the message of the movie is ultimately anti-military, but that's because they don't actually generally care ] They're not movie critics The Navy got all excited about Battleship and it was obvious that movie was a laughingstock
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I mean the sad truth is that a movie can be anti military thematically but unless someone looks at the camera and says “the Air Force does war crimes, don’t join up” all those cool shots of planes and pilots hopping out against a sunset still do their job.
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I am fine with saying that what a movie's plot and dialogue and themes say is often very different from what a movie's moment-to-moment imagery says, and that since cinema is a visual medium the latter is often more important But that doesn't negate the former
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The movie explicitly points out that in this time period women were not allowed to serve in combat positions at all, which is why she and Monica were assigned to be test pilots
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You keep asserting the point that the film is an advertisement for the USAF. Your only evidence for this is a puff piece that also asserts the same point without any actual evidence. Your point is understood, but not respected. Repeating it isn't helping.
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