It's so much easier, isn't it, to paint Morgan le Fey as a scheming temptress than as a powerful, angry, hurting antihero whose mother was deceived and raped and denied justice; to see her trickery of Arthur as a purposeful mirror held up to Uther's actions.
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It's so much easier to see Guinevere as a faithless adulteress than to examine the ingrained misogyny that forbade her from choosing her husband in the first place, because you can't make Arthur the king of a golden age while admitting he was purposefully sexist.
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It's so much easier to write Nimue as a jealous, treacherous student who used her wiles against Merlin than to engage with their differences in age and power, Merlin's facilitation of the rape of Igrain; to grapple with a society that feared female power & denied them teaching.
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The 1998 TV adaptation is far from perfect, but it's the most compelling Arthurian version around precisely because it tries, so hard, to care about the women and to examine how their treatment doesn't fit with the narrative of a perfect golden age.
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And this is why Zack Snyder's version will be garbage: he does not write women. He very, very aggressively writes Male Stories: any Snyder-esque take on Arthur is doomed to failure before it starts, because I can already see him picturing Morgan le Fay in a sexy backless dress.
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Low Poly Boy 🦖 Retweeted Into The Snyderverse
Foz Meadows (whoever that is
): zAcK SnYdEr AgGrEsSiVeLy wRiTeS MaLe sToRiEs
Actual women who watches Snyder movies:
(but of course their opinion will be ignored by this self proclaimed femminist)https://twitter.com/IntoSnyderverse/status/1351337617825144836 …Low Poly Boy 🦖 added,
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I've seen his movies and I still don't like them. women are not a hivemind, dude.
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Seeing his movies and not liking them is totally fine, just a matter of taste. But saying that he "aggressively writes male stories" is totally wrong and unfair. He put Wonder Woman in BVS against WB desires, co-wrote Wonder Woman and there's a movie called Sucker Punch also.
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suckerpunch is a gross rapefest that he himself said he wrote for men
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Bro, you totally missed the point of Sucker Punch. Is not a rapefest at all. It's a film that occurs mostly in a brothel but yet it has 0 sex scenes and 0 nudity. You. Are. So. Lost.https://twitter.com/IntoSnyderverse/status/1350644431255465989 …
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it's set in an ASYLUM, not a brothel; the bordello world is a layer of delusion. there is an attempted rape scene and the implication of constant rape in the background. seriously.
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Sucker Punch occurs in 3 different layers of reality and most of the time is set in the brothel. But don't take my opinion. Jut maybe, consider the opinion of the girls who like Sucker Punch. Maybe they who have dove deeper than a hater understand the film better?
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I have seen the film. I have reviewed the film. I do not like the film. The fact that some other women like it does not obligate me to do likewise. People can like and dislike things for different reasons.https://fozmeadows.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/sucker-punch/ …
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