43 Jupiter Ascending

This is a little bit different as an approach. I decided to record while watching Jupiter Ascending, which made for slightly odd audio, though I turned the tv down a few minutes in. But it also meant a lot of silences, so I ran truncate silence, which rendered everything like an ADHD nightmare of jumping from one thought to another. Whee! It was fun to listen to, though. Just be aware.

I really love this movie for all the good Wachowski things: gorgeous action sequences, insane constuming, wild art direction, and so on. And of course Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum and Sean Bean are worth showing up for on their own. But there’s a huge flaw in that the heroine is almost entirely passive instead of choosing and chasing her course. She gets rescued endlessly. And I mean, carried in the arms of the hero. She starts to make her own choices later on in the film but is rescued each time anyway. It’s a movie with a rescue fetish for real.

However, it’s so gorgeous and funny and sweet, and the two leads are so good together, that I can forgive a lot.

Also it made me adamant that my own heroine in the current draft needs a MUCH clearer goal. More concrete, more clearly stated. Come on! Remember how much that changed Summerlands for the better? Infinitely. So let’s do that.

I’m coming out of a massive migraine and got six vaccinations Friday so really I’m not at my best, but it’s the truncate silence effect that I wish wasn’t part of the equation. If you’ve seen the movie, this should be a lot of fun. If not, it might be baffling, but you’ll still get the points. Characters! Need! Goals!

Sacred cheese of life!