Currently downloading a pirated copy as we speak. Yo-ho yo-ho like hell I'm going to wait for the dvd. :D
I knew JJ Abrams can be a bit of a sexist fuck, and Uhura had a gratitous underwear shot in the first movie, but at least that made a bit more sense in the scene, it was sexist but not like this one, that came completely out of nowhere. Considering Carol isn't even the token sexy female that sleeps with Jim and doesn't even get a name, she's smart and competent and saves Bones and fights her father to save the Enterprise, what the hell. Besides, what was the point in her changing clothes in that scene, given that Bones had to change his uniform too, it just doesn't make any sense.
Another thing I love about Benedict is that every character is completely unique even when he's acting the same emotions. Like, when he beats the crap out of Tom Hardy in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, it's still completely different from when he does the same thing as Khan, as if I'm watching another actor. Holy shit indeed. And I loved how they kept the camera on him when he first tells us about his crew and his past and it's all one uninterrupted shot and it's absolutely mindblowing.
I think this could be considered the anti-Joker. As in, Heath Ledger's Joker set the bar for every villain that came after, rightly so. And Benedict's Khan is on the same level, but on the other side of the spectrum, everything that the Joker isn't: he is order, and strength, and intelligence. He loves his crew fiercely, and even his actions in the past were driven by his belief that he and his family were superior to everyone else. While the Joker is chaos, cheerful madness, childish joy that comes from destruction. The Joker is that feeling of satisfaction kids get when they kill an ant with a magnifying glass and a ray of sunshine. Pointless and cruel and pure. Khan instead is reason and fierce love that annihilates everything else.
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Date: 2013-06-21 07:37 pm (UTC)I knew JJ Abrams can be a bit of a sexist fuck, and Uhura had a gratitous underwear shot in the first movie, but at least that made a bit more sense in the scene, it was sexist but not like this one, that came completely out of nowhere. Considering Carol isn't even the token sexy female that sleeps with Jim and doesn't even get a name, she's smart and competent and saves Bones and fights her father to save the Enterprise, what the hell. Besides, what was the point in her changing clothes in that scene, given that Bones had to change his uniform too, it just doesn't make any sense.
Another thing I love about Benedict is that every character is completely unique even when he's acting the same emotions. Like, when he beats the crap out of Tom Hardy in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, it's still completely different from when he does the same thing as Khan, as if I'm watching another actor. Holy shit indeed. And I loved how they kept the camera on him when he first tells us about his crew and his past and it's all one uninterrupted shot and it's absolutely mindblowing.
I think this could be considered the anti-Joker. As in, Heath Ledger's Joker set the bar for every villain that came after, rightly so. And Benedict's Khan is on the same level, but on the other side of the spectrum, everything that the Joker isn't: he is order, and strength, and intelligence. He loves his crew fiercely, and even his actions in the past were driven by his belief that he and his family were superior to everyone else. While the Joker is chaos, cheerful madness, childish joy that comes from destruction. The Joker is that feeling of satisfaction kids get when they kill an ant with a magnifying glass and a ray of sunshine. Pointless and cruel and pure. Khan instead is reason and fierce love that annihilates everything else.
I need a Khan icon. :D