Okay also I'll say this I'm a theatre geek There was a time in my life when reading new plays was my hobby I've read a LOT of artsy fartsy MFA writer workshop shit It's *not actually better* than schlock commercialized Save the Cat shit It's just *different*https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1366225476662882307 …
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The thing being, if you've done it a couple times, the trick to hide the sentiment is as obvious as the sentiment itself The ways people try to avoid the cliché become the new cliché There is no escaping the trap of self-consciousness over emotional vulnerability
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And the ability to sneak past someone's defenses and get them to care anyway even though "Ugh, I've been hearing that it's okay to cry at funerals since I saw it on Sesame Street when I was five, LAME" is a subtle thing for which words themselves are often not the best tool
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A big, big part of what makes this scene work is that in context it's about Vision being disarmingly sincere and guileless, that he is a being without insecurity over his own vulnerability and therefore without irony
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Which is part of Wanda's whole shtick, that she bounces back and forth between arch irony and aching earnestness just like the sitcoms she loves
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That Vision, for one thing, has a completely different energy and communication style than Pietro, who constantly hid his emotions behind his need to be an asshole at all times (which, because it was so consistent, Wanda could always see through)
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(Which was the whole deal with Fake Pietro He was trying to play this aspect of her real brother but he fucked up because he never drew a line around it because he isn't faking, he *really is* just an asshole Kind of a commentary on 2000s comedy falling down the irony hole)
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But anyway It is an intrinsic part of Wanda's character that she loves the old mawkish sentimentality of 1950s b/w sitcoms for start they are That's the whole premise Of course the man she fell in love with would be a guy who says Hallmark platitudes *and really means them*
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It all feels a close cousin to the dislike for Spielberg's "sentimentality".
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I'm actually kind of interested, where would one learn the tricks for how to do this? All my brain does is regurgitate synonym swapped garbage.
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Well if you have a lot of money and time to spend you learn this kind of thing doing playwriting workshops
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