White Christmas and Love Actually
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osprey_archerI’ve been on a Christmas movie binge: first White Christmas, lovelier than ever. Betty and Bob are still ridiculous - really, Betty, if you just told someone your suspicions about Bob’s evil schemes, it could have all been cleared up in a heartbeat! Also, if Bob really was an evil schemer, I’m sure Judy would have been more than happy to help you foil him.
Judy = my favorite. I love how she’s so winsomely scheming: she does have an angle, as Bob says, but the movie never punishes her for it. She and Phil are an excellent match (their dance on the deck behind the Flamingo is probably my favorite scene in the movie): who knows what messes they’ll get the four of them into next?
Then I watched Love Actually last night, which did not hold up nearly as well. I’d forgotten (if indeed I noticed the first time I saw it) by being really gratuitously fatphobic all over the place. It’s not just background radiation, it’s positively a theme, so pervasive that it rather spoiled the movie for me.
Aurelia’s sister is a joke because she’s fat; Billy Mack makes fat jokes about his manager constantly, and remarks with horror that it turns out that the person he loves most in the world is a “chubby employee”; and there’s a constant drumbeat about how Natalie, the prime minister’s eventual paramour, is plump.
Natalie is apparently the movie’s attempt to tell us that “Fat people can be loved, too!” I submit that this would be far more heart-warming were Natalie actually overweight, rather than a buxom and well-proportioned young woman.
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In other news, would anyone like to beta read my Yuletide fic, a fractured fairy-talish thing in a fandom with which you are likely unfamiliar? *puppy dog eyes* I don't quite have a draft yet, but I'm hoping to change that tomorrow.
Judy = my favorite. I love how she’s so winsomely scheming: she does have an angle, as Bob says, but the movie never punishes her for it. She and Phil are an excellent match (their dance on the deck behind the Flamingo is probably my favorite scene in the movie): who knows what messes they’ll get the four of them into next?
Then I watched Love Actually last night, which did not hold up nearly as well. I’d forgotten (if indeed I noticed the first time I saw it) by being really gratuitously fatphobic all over the place. It’s not just background radiation, it’s positively a theme, so pervasive that it rather spoiled the movie for me.
Aurelia’s sister is a joke because she’s fat; Billy Mack makes fat jokes about his manager constantly, and remarks with horror that it turns out that the person he loves most in the world is a “chubby employee”; and there’s a constant drumbeat about how Natalie, the prime minister’s eventual paramour, is plump.
Natalie is apparently the movie’s attempt to tell us that “Fat people can be loved, too!” I submit that this would be far more heart-warming were Natalie actually overweight, rather than a buxom and well-proportioned young woman.
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In other news, would anyone like to beta read my Yuletide fic, a fractured fairy-talish thing in a fandom with which you are likely unfamiliar? *puppy dog eyes* I don't quite have a draft yet, but I'm hoping to change that tomorrow.
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Date: 2012-12-13 06:48 pm (UTC)