I think it’s very telling how much fanboys loved Harley Quinn when she was a ‘fun, quirky psycho’ and thought of her as one of the sexiest female comic characters while she was stuck in a toxic relationship where she was abused constantly but still loved and defended her abuser, but now that she’s away from the Joker and no longer loves him, and is making important relationships with other women, she’s been ‘ruined’.
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"Harley Quinn is so ugly in Birds Of Prey" You fool... you absolute imbecile,,,,, bold of you to assume Harley Quinn going completely feral and beating the living shit out of gross men isnt sexy as fuck
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My thoughts about Harley in The Suicide Squad
First off, I’d like to say that I really enjoyed the movie and the characters, but Harley is the only one I know well enough to make that kind of post about!
I’d also like to say that I know James Gunn didn’t watch Birds Of Prey (which was really unprofessional of him) but I’ll make a few connections between those movies because I think it still makes sense
I’d like to start with positive remarks with her character in the movie!
Her costume design/outfits were great and were comic book-y, and fitted very well with her character. They weren’t chosen to please the male gaze, they were chosen because that’s what made sense for her to wear
I really liked the touch in the scene where she escapes from her captors, because you can see she’s obviously pissed off. Unlike in BOP where she’s making snarky comments and having fun while attacking the police station, in TSS she barely smiles and doesn’t talk. She’s very focused and angry because they tortured her and she’s fighting to survive, whereas in BOP she was fighting to find someone (and to survive, but the situation was very different). I like that the movie made us see a more serious part of her, a scarier one even (when she looks at the torturer while she’s still tied to the ceiling and when she screams her heart out later). She’s obviously not there by choice and we understand that clearly by the way she fights
The way they introduced her was just… perfect. It’s rare we see a woman eat normally on the big screen, even rarer to see one even talk about going to the bathroom/having basic human needs, but the first time we see her in TSS she just casually announces that she took a shit. It made sense for her character, it was funny and it wasn’t for the male-gaze, contrarily to her introduction in the first Suicide Squad
She wasn’t once portrayed or referred to as Joker’s sidekick. She was her own woman, just like in BOP, and everyone saw her as that
The ‘sex’ scene wasn’t made to show off her body and excite men. We didn’t see her in her underwear, we didn’t have a close up on her moaning or other stuff like that, we just saw them making out and then the dude without his boxers after. We didn’t need to see her naked to understand they had sex, they didn’t even sexualized her one bit in the only scene it would’ve made sense
Now for the more negative remarks:
It is well known that Harley adores all animals , and the fact that she barely interacted with Cleo and Nanaue was a big mistake on the writers’ part. She should’ve at least shook Sebastian’s hand and made a comment about how Nanaue was adorable or something, and the fact that they didn’t even do that kinda hints that they didn’t really know her character a lot beyond being a funny clown
Honestly that’s pretty much it for the negative, I didn’t really had issues other than the writers forgetting about a big part of her personality
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Dinah ‘Black Canary’ Lance, Helena ‘Huntress’ Bertinelli, and Harleen ‘Harley Quinn’ Quinzel from Birds of Prey: and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn are Polyamorous
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a movie that leaves me awestruck at its sheer craft. a movie about power and what you do with it. a movie about control of your things, of other people's attention, of power, of respect, of your own narrative, of your own fate, and of your own life. a movie about finding community in the most unlikely places, and of trying to be a better person in a cruel world that constantly tries to bring you down to its level. about as perfect as these movies get.
My ★★★★★ review of Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) on Letterboxd
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not to be dramatic but Harley offering Dinah a hair tie during a fight scene was one of the most cathartic moments I’ve ever experienced in a superhero movie
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Must Birds of Prey be “good?” Is it not enough to sit in the dark for two hours and watch Margot Robbie interact with multiple women?
Edit: Birds of Prey is “Good!!”
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