And of course the game even has him killing all his enemies at the film's end, and going on to basically become the Badass King of All Crime.
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Replying to @MockWooloo @carolynmichelle
The problem, see, is that people are fundamentally misunderstanding these movies. For example, you say that at the end of SCARFACE, Tony Montana kills all his enemies and goes "on to basically become the Badass King of All Crime." Here's how SCARFACE actually ends.pic.twitter.com/BJdlShWnj5
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Oh, I agree. I just think it's a reality that people will misunderstand these films, will be far more moved by images of excitement and glorification during a film than any consequences characters may ultimately face as a result of their actions.
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And so *if* a film wants to function as a critique in terms of its cultural impact (which it's under no moral obligation to do), then the filmmakers need to understand and account for this about humans and how we collectively respond to images and narratives.
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Replying to @faceyouhate
By not inadvertently glorifying the behaviors they actively intend to critique. But that's hypothetical. Scorsese makes movies because he wants to tell certain kinds stories, not because he wants to actively critique or actively glorify certain kinds of masculinity.
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Replying to @carolynmichelle
I think that's an extreme reduction of what Scorsese does. Do you really not see GOODFELLAS as a critique of those characters?
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Replying to @faceyouhate
I absolutely do. As an individual. Do I think it worked that way in terms of its cultural impact, that by and large patriarchal men left the film feeling a little uncomfortable, a little disrupted, a little challenged in their worldview? No. I sure don't.
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Replying to @carolynmichelle
This is, of course, impossible to know, even with the hazy "by and large" qualifier. But either way you think Scorsese should "account" for this "by not inadvertently glorifying the behaviors they actively intend to critique." Which is asking him to be a worse artist.
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Replying to @faceyouhate @carolynmichelle
It is, essentially, asking him to signal his critique more blatantly, which is, again, essentially what the Hays Code demanded filmmakers of the era do when making movies like this.
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No, I want Scorsese to make the movies he wants to make. Again, I just get frustrated when I feel the distinction between what a work does on its own terms and that work's larger impact in our patriarchal, misogynistic world are lost. Critiques are not calls for censorship.
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Replying to @carolynmichelle
You used the phrase "need to account for." That's a loaded phrase.
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