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**haldane4** · August 4th, 2009, 05:41 PM

I think it's long been acknowledged that Hollywood's version of reality has long since departed from the old devices and unities which made drama work. Even the dullest domestic drama now has a superhero coda where the oppressed spouse is psychoanalysed into becoming a world-beater.

And witness films like The War of the Worlds, where the idiot and annoying son turns up alive at the end, despite running to his certain death earlier in the film. Or in M Night Shitehawk's The Happening when the happening stops happening just as it's about to happen to our 'heroes'. We are led to believe they have some superhuman quality because they survived - and if they're survived because they are the stars, then it follows that stars are superheroes.

I'm sure it's all terribly post-modern, but it's also bollocks. Compare and contrast with Scoundrel's noir thread where our heroes are most definitely human and meet their fate on account of their flaws, not their fee.

August 4th, 2009, 05:41 PM	#16
haldane4 Vintage Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: 1977 Posts: 598 Thanks: 3,187 Thanked 7,055 Times in 592 Posts	I think it's long been acknowledged that Hollywood's version of reality has long since departed from the old devices and unities which made drama work. Even the dullest domestic drama now has a superhero coda where the oppressed spouse is psychoanalysed into becoming a world-beater. And witness films like The War of the Worlds, where the idiot and annoying son turns up alive at the end, despite running to his certain death earlier in the film. Or in M Night Shitehawk's The Happening when the happening stops happening just as it's about to happen to our 'heroes'. We are led to believe they have some superhuman quality because they survived - and if they're survived because they are the stars, then it follows that stars are superheroes. I'm sure it's all terribly post-modern, but it's also bollocks. Compare and contrast with Scoundrel's noir thread where our heroes are most definitely human and meet their fate on account of their flaws, not their fee.