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Storytelling, that's how. Which doesn't exist. What you'll notice is that in better storytelling, there will be an explanation of why the hobbit can beat the g
by zpeti 4y ago
Storytelling, that's how. Which doesn't exist.
What you'll notice is that in better storytelling, there will be an explanation of why the hobbit can beat the giant spider. Outsmarting it, being invisible with a ring, whatever. Good storytelling means you make the impossible seem possible.
Now, all we have is token women who we all know are there because they are women, beating up men in ridiculously impossible ways, with no explanation of how. It's just that the writers want you to know that women are strong grrrrr. Because feminism. Well, it makes for terrible cinema.
- hef19898 4y agoWe see a ton of bad story telling, agreed. How women are protrayed is not among the reasons. Disclaimer: I have been handled pretty easily by women in BJJ and kickboxing / boxing drspite being 20 kg heavier and a head taller. And I am not un-trained. Get over it, competent and strong women do exist. Edit (because I have to get of my chest): The latest Dr. Strange is propably the best example of bad story telling I've seen in a long time. I quit the MCU after Black Widow (I like the character and Scarlett Johansson) and swore to maybe watch the next Thor, max. Until I saw Dr. Strange was already free on Disney+, and I needed some distraction. All that bad film did was making me not watch any MCU film ever again...
- b112 4y agoSo many have said that film was bad, but I just watched it. I've seen a lot worse. Didn't seem bad here.
- treis 4y ago> there will be an explanation of why the hobbit can beat the giant spider Please give me a timestamp in this scene when that happens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfJirrzRQ60&ab_channel=TheLotrTV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfJirrzRQ60&ab_channel=TheLo...
- thaumasiotes 4y agoSam is using a magic item. Compare the summary from the LOTR wiki: > Using the Phial of Galadriel, they managed to at first fend her off. The light of Eärendil's Star shone from the Phial, causing unbearable stabbing pain to Shelob's darkened senses, but she returned to attack Frodo, poisoning him with her stinger in a surprise attack just as they reached the exit of the cave on the Mordor side. Her venom paralyzed Frodo, and she then wrapped him in her web. > Sam then assaulted the creature using Sting and the Phial of Galadriel in order to rescue his master. In a pitched battle, Sam managed to stab one of her eyes and injure her leg, but she held the upper hand. However, when she tried to use her stinger to inject Sam with venom, he dodged at the last moment and was able to stab her in the abdomen with Sting. This wounded her enough that Sam forced her to retreat using the Phial of Galadriel.
- notahacker 4y agotbf Tolkien himself tries to explain it as a mixture of desperation and loyalty to Frodo, a super elven sword and the spider impaling herself in an ill-fated attacking move. Doesn't really come across in the film. :) I'm not sure where good storytelling comes into men in films dodging bullets and beating up dozens of assailants or why the stylised violence suddenly becomes less believable because the person winning against improbable odds is female though. Or where the Tolkein original plotline involving a woman with a broken arm defeating a Nazgûl lord so strong it's prophecied no man can kill him in a swordfight fits into woke propaganda trends :D