What about media which questions our notions of "good" and "bad" and allows us to see nuance and dimensionality in characters, even if we find some of their actions repugnant?https://twitter.com/h2theannah/status/1353809464881766402 …
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Replying to @ChristieSmythe
If we lived in a vacuum where I just popped into existence today and everything we discussed was hypothetical, then sure. I'm sure that could be pulled off very well. Unfortunately, that's not the case. Who usually benefits from pleas for nuance and understanding in our society?
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Replying to @h2theannah @ChristieSmythe
Mob movies definitely glorify bad people. But they do so by focusing on good qualities: loyalty, risk-taking, strategic thinking, for example. It should also be remembered that drama and real life are different. If one only wrote about normal life, that would be pretty boring.
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Yes, and William Edward Hickman had no such qualities The qualities Rand found admirable in him - an overpowering sense of himself as special and set apart from the masses, a willingness to defy social norms because other people meant nothing to him - were 100% malign
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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
It would've been better had he been part of a gang or an organized crime syndicate It would've meant he was capable of giving a shit about other people and working in some kind of team, at the very least
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Crazy. You are defending murderous mobsters because they believe in cooperation. You don’t see anything wrong here? Any contradictions? Remember, you just did this publicly while AR was spot-balling in her private journal.
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You yourself just said that ordinary people like mob movies because they portray admirable qualities in people who are overall contemptible and force them to wrestle with the contradiction I'm saying Hickman's story has none of that shit
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Tony Soprano is a giant piece of shit but at *least* he cares about his friends and his family Many of his murders are killing for profit and killing for cruelty but he would ALSO take a life and lay down his own life to save someone he loves That's at least more than nothing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
Even when they wrote Natural Born Killers they had to make it a Bonnie and Clyde couple to make the movie be about something and give you something to care about Mickey and Mallory value EACH OTHER'S lives even if they value no one else in the world
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