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Post by Rey Kahuka on Jul 27, 2021 16:30:37 GMT
No, it didn't. That's not how storytelling works. Imagine I was talking to you beefeater aliens high wire roadkill that cloud looks like a hamburger giraffes. There are rules to an established narrative, you don't throw in non sequiturs to try to prove how clever you are. The point of a story, even a thriller with a twist ending, isn't to make sure nobody on the Earth could ever guess what happens next. You're writing a cohesive story that, while not everyone will feel the same way about it (that's the point of art), people will appreciate the journey they took to get there. The pieces of the puzzle should all fit together even if you don't like the picture in the end. Yeah, your spot on with Glass (that's not the only problem with that movie by a long shot), but something like that can work. I remember people complaining similarly about No Country for Old Men when that had come out. The idea that the main character is killed off screen, unceremoniously was called bad writing by the people that weren't on board, but of course that solidifies the thing that the story is all about. Those who into that movie because they thought the violence and suspense were cool and didn't really understand what the Coens and by extension Cormac McCarthy were going for didn't see that it was thematically imperative for it to happen that way. Now that was set up, but the idea of the harshness and randomness of violence in the universe comes back later in a truly random moment when Anton is hit by the car. His character walks away from that, but if McCarthy had killed him off by some random occurrence I think it would still have been in line with what the story was communicating.... Sorry for derailing things here... just was reminded of previous arguments i've had. It totally works in NCFOM because as you pointed out, that's an underlying theme in the narrative. Taking an established character from a 'superhero' franchise (even a grounded, more dramatic one) and having him killed in a borderline comical fashion by a completely random set of characters is a kick in the nuts to the audience. It would've been a downer, but if we were introduced to this group in the first or even second film (shit, at the beginning of this one! Not tacked on to the story at the last minute), it would be easier to swallow. There are plenty of great movies where the protagonist dies and/or the 'bad guys' win. And it isn't always a glorious death. But Glass was just trying way too hard to 'subvert expectations.'
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