#setting. the captain and his subordinate. captain who is actually a mole and going to betray these people who he has unintentionally formed

[arklay]

once upon a time i liked a ship for what it was and then i saw how the fandom treated it and now i have visceral hatred towards it (harsh but not far off)

#leah.txt #normal i swear #it’s like i’m just so tired of seeing it and i think it’s cause a lot of the time people mischaracterise the characters involved so often #when talking about it and i hate it. i’m being vague cause don’t want it showing up anywhere. but like in canon the concept is so good and #so juicy even though i am not really a fan of like enemies/lovers kinda tropes. slash cause it’s more lovers to enemies but were always #technically enemies but real bonds formed on accident and that always runs deep even after the fact etc etc it’s such a good ship in concep #and then you see the fandom and go ah you’ve made it insufferable to me now. it gets reduced to just like the most i mean fandomy shit #it happens so often with me now that it’s like i need to not look at tags ever actually akdjsjsksns #so so vague but the concept of falling in love and fraternising when you shouldn’t and so many elements of you are going to betray this #person when the time comes but you can’t help falling for them and the other side being i shouldn’t be falling for this guy he’s my #superior officer but it’s like no he’s actually not and he’s a mole and he’s going to kill you all off. and then running for him when he #gets injured. that’s so. even after he tells you that you what his plans were. still caring. but like. out of anger and hurt you bruised hi #ego and insulted him and that starts big revenge run of like someone who can’t take criticism or being made to feel lesser… but you have to #hunt him down even if you still hold feelings for him he is everything you stood against and were fighting and now you’re fighting him when #you loved him. irl you know i hate this shit and betrayal and lying and all that you know this i’m just talking in fiction it’s got so many #layers. having to kill the man you once loved because he became everything he was against and he developed delusions and lost his mind. IT #HURTS. then you look at the fandom and it’s like teehee they’re just soooo gay gay homosexual and it’s like. this ship has layers. it’s lik #an onion. but okay. and it’s always just like i mean the gross people come out with the really gross fics with it but like omg it’s such a #good ship in concept with lovers becoming enemies when they shouldn’t have been lovers in the first place because it was a sort of forbidde #setting. the captain and his subordinate. captain who is actually a mole and going to betray these people who he has unintentionally formed #some bonds with. actually learning they are on opposing ends. the man they saw as fair and just and cool is a liar a manipulator a scheming #bastard who is only doing things out of self interest BUT HE GOT FEELINGS. it’s so arghghhhggggg and that’s why the criticism hits deeper #cause it’s someone he cared about and it’s so aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #like there’s a reason it’s the most popular ship because i mean they are literally each others narrative foil lmaooo but like the fandom #just somehow makes it weird a lot and i’m 🧍🏼 why guys why #and what i mean by gross people and gross fics is what a lot of people do to villains doing to others even when they aren’t like that. you #guys are just nasty and gross and need to not share things like that <3 #i feel like it's a lot of just fetishising two men being together rather than focusing on their dynamics and characters

[onepiecesmosthated]

Biggest Coal Getters At Christmas In One Piece

As you know from this blog, I rag on the most hated characters in One Piece. At at this merry Christmas time, I want to show you all the biggest coal getters in this series.

12.  Stelly

With being such an arrogant, self-important, entitled, and asshole brat, Sabo’s adoptive brother, Stelly, makes the first on the list on our naughty list. One has to feel sorry for the Gao kingdom for being ruled over such a spoiled king, who even thinks he can order Garp around because he’s originally from there.

11.  Wapol

 Another king on this list, but one who also is the president of his own toy company is Wapol. Like Stelly he was quite a horrible ruler when he was ruling Drum Kingdom, especially when he left the island to fend for itself when Blackbeard invaded and horded all the doctors so he could force people to pay high prices for them. Though he is currently living high now with his new kingdom gifted by the World Nobles, Santa still is going to leave a nice lump that fits his dark heart.

10. Judge

Just like with the earlier two entries, we have another asshole ruler and this one is the father of Strawhat member, Sanji. The ruler of the Germa 66, a seafaring kingdom that is notorious for conquering islands and being paid assassins, he is a social darwanist, who caused great abuse to Sanji throughout his childhood because he turned out normal. The only reason why he wanted Sanji back into his life was to cement an alliance with Big Mom by offering him as a groom for her daughter, Pudding, which turned out to be a trap because the Yonko planned to kill him and the other Vinsmokes off to get their technology. And at the wedding when the Big Mom Pirates’ true colors are showed, all that previous super macho bravado is melted away to reveal a sniveling coward who cries when someone puts him into the situation that he put others under. And for that the Germa clones will shoveling a lot of coal for a while.

9. Spandam

This guy is the poster child on why we should have anti-neoptism laws. A snively cowardly shit Spandam when he was head of the CP9 tortured Robin all the while she was under his captivity, while arrogantly believing his CP agents were untouchable. He also has little regard for human life when he accidentally triggered the buster call and didn’t care that his subordinates could die. He even called them needed sacrifices. He was also the reason why Tom, Iceburg and Franky’s mentor, was killed due to a frame up job he did in order to obtain the Pluton from him. It’s a bit karmic seeing him be forced to take orders from his former subordinate, Lucci, but even then the clumsy klutz should trip on his black pile of gifts he will get.

8. Hody Jones

Think Arlong, but with none of his few redeeming qualities. Although Hody can be said to be a product of his environment, he’s still a nasty racist shit, who should rot in the jail cell he was put in at the end of his starring arc. With his New Fishman Pirates, they planned on taking over the kingdom and go to Reverie where they planned to massarce everyone there. However, the worst thing he’s done is assassinate Queen Otohime, because she dared to try to aim to bring peace between humans and seafolk. If you think there can be a reason for his racism, then he would answer it himself: “nothing”. Nothing happened to him to make him hate humans personally he just grew up with the toxic belief that hating humans was justified. And for that Hody spends Christmas in a jail cell, while sharing it with the number of coals that can keep him and the other withered New Fishman Pirates company.

7. Mother Carmel

To the world (and to this day, Big Mom), Mother Carmel was a saintly figure who fostered peace between humans and giants plus opened up an orphanage for children of all races. However, underneath that facade lied a wicked slaver, who pretended to be a grandmotherly figure in order to sell children to the highest dollar. Her famed action of stopping the Elbaf crew from being executed was a staged event in order to gain the trust of the giants. Her most notable so-called prized asset was Charlotte Linlin (who would later become Big Mom), who to this day doesn’t know her foster mother never truly loved her and saw her as merchandise to be sold. Even though she’s a deceased character, she certainly deserves to have her stockings filled to the brim with stone, cold coal.

6. Blackbeard

Although he’s more of a love to hate example, we all know that Blackbeard deserves to be on this list. For one thing, if you want to know why the post-timeskip is chaotic as it is it’s thanks to this guy. He for years pretended to be a loyal member of Whitebeard’s crew and acted like one of the family knit setting. However, it’s all an at to get at the Yami Yami No Mi/Dark Dark Fruit. He killed one of his own brothers/crewmates, then went off to form his own crew where he fought Ace and got him handed over to the Marines, so that he could become a Warlord and get into Impel Down. There during the breakout he recruited level six members to his crew, then used them to kill his former captain and father figure Blackbeard. And postimeskip he has been shown to now be hunting down devil fruit users for his fellow crew. There is a reason why people say he’s the anti-Luffy and what a real non-romanticized pirate is like. So, I have a feeling Santa will be stopping by on Hive Island with some hefty packages that could fit his namesake.

5. Ceasar Clown

Although he’s shown as a butt monkey after his first appearance, the record of his misdeeds cannot be forgotten. On his island he kept children captive after a mole in the marines lied to their parents about them dying at sea, which he then proceeded to experiment on them with drugged candy which made them grow giant sized and shorten their live spans. All the while pretending he was actually curing them when he couldn’t give a shit. He also is notorious for making chemical weapons of mass destruction which is used by amoral individuals like the Beast Pirates. In other words, Santa strap this asshole to a big lump of coal and drown him.

4. Doflamingo

One of the most popular villians in the series is Donquixote Doflamingo, former Warlord, top broker, and King Of Dressrosa. Man, you could have a long list of all the shit he’s pulled throughout his career and life. On the outside he might look like a gaudy Elton John rip off, but on the inside bleeds one of the scariest and ruthless characters in the series. No wonder because he was born of the World Nobles, who are a sociopathic and psychotic bunch. From his take over to Dressrosa to funding Ceasar Clown’s research, he certainly can make you scared of the color pink. And that is why we have to heep this birds feathers with a black sheen.

3. Orochi

While Doffy is pretty to look at and is flamboyantly fun, Orochi just embodies “hate sink” stereotypes. He’s just made to be obvious that this guy is not going to be a good person. Spoilers ahead: I know he was influenced into becoming an asshole but he is still an asshole who sold out his country for his own benefit. Not to mention currently it was shown he was heavily implied to be the one who killed Suriyaki and lied to everyone about being named a successor with the help of that strange woman. His 20 years of terror have caused nothing but hurt to everyone under his rule as he causes a famine due to the occupying forces of the Beast Pirates. All of his because he believed he was entitled like his grandfather to be Shogun. He also wastes food, as his country is starving and feeds a whole village of hungry people failed “Smiles” so that they can quit crying about their dead loved ones. I know Santa would know of a way to get into this closed off country, so that he can deliver this shistain a coal that is as big as a mountain.

2. Kaido

Here is the man of thousand beasts and leader of the Beast pirates. Even though Blackbeard himself is no saint, he doesn’t seem to want to destroy the world like Kaido does. An unstoppable juggernaut, he sees suicide as a way to kill boredom and is often on his ass drunk. He’s ruled over Wano through Orochi for 2 decades, as he has decimated it into a famine wide place except the capitol where the rich and his toadie lives. He uses the land to function his own war effort and has caused many of the Wano people to go through great periods of grief. Like with Blackbeard, he’s an unromanticed version of what a pirate is really like. So, Kaido be prepared for Onigashima to reign coal like it’s no tomorrow.

1. World Nobles (Celestial Dragons)

By default, you know these shitty bastards would top the list. The biggest reason because of the fact that they are above the law and are allowed to do anything they like because they are so-called “gods”. They treat the general population like crap, while blatantly owning slaves when it was supposed to have been illegalized 2 centuries ago. They are also supported by a thing called heavenly tribute which country of the world government has to give continuously, lest they get kicked out and have no way of defending themselves from pirates or slave traffickers. So I can say the biggest coal getters go to these fat pigs in their towers. Better yet they should coal statues made in (dis)honor of them.

#hate sinks #assholes at christmas

[djinmer4]

Transfer (Ultimate AU)

Kitty looked down at the letter in her hand.  This was the opportunity she’d been waiting for.  Now she just had to be brave enough to take it.

“-can’t say I blame them.  They don’t have good memories of this place and if they feel safer with you, they’re free to go with my blessing.”  Scott turned from Emma Frost to Kitty as she entered the room.  “You’re late.”

“I’m sorry,” she tucked her hair behind her ears.  “I got a letter that may affect our discussion here.  Excalibur, the superhero team in Europe, has invited me to join their organization.  I’m taking them up on the offer.”

“Congratulations,” said the White Queen.

“I can’t say I’m happy to lose you,” replied Summers.  “Is there nothing I can do to make you stay?”

“I’m sorry, Scott, but I’ve thought about this for a long time.  Balancing missions, my education, training the newbies and being the PR spokeswoman for the X-Men, it’s too much.  I’m afraid I’m going to have a nervous breakdown before I even reach twenty.”

“Most of that won’t go away if you join Excalibur.”

“But some of it will.  They’re not expecting me to train entire classes of newly expressed mutants for one.  And it’ll take some of the celebrity pressure off too.  There I’ll only be one out of a crowd with Captain Britain and Capitan Espana and whoever they get to fill France and Germany’s places.  And just by being in Europe, people are less likely to care.”

“It’s your decision.  Will you be going by yourself or can you take some students with you?”

Kitty sat down.  “They’ve given me almost complete carte blanche.  They did say I shouldn’t bring Piotr though.  Interpol wants to charge him for what he did when he was part of the Mafiya.  If he comes with me, Excalibur will turn him over to them.”

“He can’t cut a deal?” asked Cyclops.

“He was only an avtoritet, whatever that means.  Not high enough to have any information they’re willing to deal for.”

“I guess that’s fine.  He was willing to stay with the school anyway so that doesn’t change anything.”  The ruby-eyed man set a stack of profiles on the table.  “Let’s get started.  Firestar.”

“She can stay with you,” stated Emma.  “The Academy may not differentiate between mutants and humans but we do have standards.  Miss Allen has shown she has the improper attitude to join our school.”

“On to the next one then,” he picked up the next profile.  “Jimmy says he hasn’t decided.  Is there anyone who doesn’t want him?”

“He’s welcome to join the Academy at any time.”

“Kitty?  If you want, I’ll tell him you never want to see him again.”

“No, it’s fine.  I’m over it.  If he wants to join Excalibur, he can come with me.”

“Are you sure?  He did dump you in a pretty awful manner.”

“Yeah, but that turned out to be Jean manipulating him.  I’m not going to jump back into a relationship with him just like that, but I’m not angry at him anymore.”

“You should tell him that.  He’s been really broken up about it.”

She hesitated.  “I’ll text him later.  Who’s next?”

“Pyro.”  Scott quickly took the folder off the table.  “Nope, I’m keeping him.  He’s a good recruiter, a good trainer and hopefully, he’ll stick around after he graduates.  I need all the good teachers I can get.”  The two women just laughed.

“Next is Bishop.  Still in jail.  Not likely to be released anytime soon.  Moving on.”

“Dazzler and Angel have stated they want to stay with the X-Men but would also accept being moved to the Academy.  Emma, what are your thoughts?”

“Dazzler is fine, but Angel’s already played mole at my Academy once before.  He’s not welcome to return.”

“They’ll stay with me then.”  Another profile.  “Rogue.  She’s specifically stated she doesn’t want to be anywhere near you, Kitty.”

The Jewish girl made a frustrated hissing sound.  “I don’t even like Bobby and I certainly don’t encourage him.  It’s not my fault he can’t take a hint.  And I’m not taking him either.”

“Emma, he might do better with his attitude at the Academy.”

“If you like I can test and interview both of them.  But based at least on what I’ve seen of Bobby, he doesn’t meet our academic standards.”

“If they fail out of your program, they’ll stay with the X-Men then.”  There were only four profiles left.  “Beast and Ororo both want to leave-”  Emma grabbed the two folders.  “Accepted with pleasure!”

“Oookaaayyy then.  Now for Jean.  She’s definitely not staying with the X-Men.  Wolverine’s already tried to kill me and I’m not interested in working with the woman who cheated on me when we were engaged.”

“I’m not taking her either,” announced Kitty.  “I don’t even know why she hates me but I’m not putting up with her hostility or bullying.”

Emma just looked thoughtful.  “Do you think I should-”

“No!”  Both Kitty and Scott exclaimed.  Scott continued, “I’ll just fire both of them.  They’re very high profile, they can fend for themselves.”

“It’s kind of you,” Kitty reassured the older woman.  “But Jean has a history of undermining authority figures and she’s not any less dangerous for losing her attack dog.  Your diamond form gives you some protection from Jean’s telepathy but you can’t be like that all the time.  It’s better to just be rid of them completely.”

Scott started a new pile for just those two.  “Last one.  Kitty, I’m sorry, but I’m going to have to order you to take this guy, especially since Angel, Colossus, and Dazzler will be staying with me.”

Weapon XVII flinched when someone sat down across from him.  Ever since his breakdown, kidnapping Dazzler, going off on Piotr then abusing the Banshee drug, everyone had been avoiding him.  If someone was actually going out of their way to seek him out . . . either it was someone else who wanted to chastise him for his actions or Scott had finally made up his mind to kick him out of the X-Men.  Still, there was no point in running away.  He looked up.

Oh God no, it was Kitty.  They’d been friends once before he’d gone and alienated everyone.  There had been a time when he even had a crush on her and hoped to become more than friends.  Then she and Peter fell in love, he kidnapped Dazzler and Kitty rescued her from him.  Kitty hadn’t spoken a word to him after that fiasco.  “Katherine.  What can I do for you?”  He kept his voice as neutral as possible.

“Oh, so you can speak English.”  She sat down across from him.

“I’ve been practicing ever since the disaster with Banshee.  I’m pretty sure Scott’s had it up to here with Logan and Jean, and if Jean leaves, so does the translation function in my brain.”

“Have you heard the rumors about the team disbanding?”

He swallowed.  “Yes, I have.”  The possibility of the X-Men dissolving had been preying on his mind lately, making it difficult to sleep at night.  With Professor Xavier dead, he didn’t know who would be the leader now or where the funding would come from or if they all were allowed to stay here.  Nightcrawler had nowhere to go other than the X-Men.  He couldn’t even begin to figure out where the circus he had originally been from was or hope to find the little German town he’d grown up in.  And the US was definitely growing more and more unsafe for visible mutants like him.  Maybe Emma Frost could use another bodyguard?

“Well, let me put some of those fears to rest.  The X-Men will be continuing.  Scott has stepped up to be the leader of both the team and the school.  We’re getting a grant from the government, plus most of our backers have returned.  And Professor X put the Estate in a Trust to run the school so everything will continue, albeit with fewer teachers sleeping with the students hopefully.”

The Weapon let out a sigh of relief.  The Sword of Damocles had been lifted away.  Then he tensed up again.  Just because the X-Men were still around, didn’t mean he was wanted.  “Scott’s going to announce the good news tomorrow.  However, there’s some bad news as well.  There’s going to be a lot of reorganization.  Logan and Jean were fired.  Hank and Ororo are transferring to the Academy of Tomorrow.”  She looked him straight in the eye.  “I’m leaving for Excalibur at the end of the month.  You’re coming with me.”

It took him a few minutes to process.  “Vas?”

“I said that you’ll be accompanying me to Excalibur.  Angel, Colossus, and Dazzler, they all expressed a desire not to work with you.  So you’ll be coming with me and some of the students to join the European Union superhero team.”

“Ah, um, danke.”

She leaned forward.  “Make no mistake.  This is your last chance.  If you fuck this up, Excalibur will hand you over to Interpol or the CIA or even Department K without any hesitation.  And you will be watched very carefully to see if you’ve recovered from your instability earlier.”

It was still better than being locked in a cage or thrown out on the street.  “I understand.”

Kitty returned to her meal.  “I suggest you start packing and making any arrangements soon because we’ve got less than two weeks before Excalibur comes to pick us up.  Officially, the X-Men will be sending some students to study abroad with Shroud and Nightcrawler as the course leaders.  In reality, you’ll be my subordinate.  Can you handle that?”

“Yes.  You’re a good leader.  And it’s Kurt.”

“What’s Kurt?”

“My name.”

She stared at him.  “You remember your name now?”

“Well no.  But you can’t keep calling me Weapon-XVII or Nightcrawler all the time.  Or Legolas, no matter what I’d prefer.  So Kurt.  It’s a common German name so it won’t stand out, it’s easy to remember and short too.  What’s not to like about it?”

“Hmm, fair enough.”  She thought about it for a second.  “You might as well choose a last name too.  Make things easier for Jamie when he does the paperwork.”

“In that case . . . Wagner.  Spelled with a W.  You can call me Kurt Wagner.”

She arched an eyebrow at him.  “Pronounced like a V and spelled with a W.  Less easy.”

“But also very common.  Perhaps not as common as Muller or Schmidt or Schneider.  But Kurt Wagner sounds real enough without being an obvious alias like John Doe.”

“Very well then.  I’ll see you later, Kurt Wagner.”

The last of the students had boarded the Blackbird and there was just her and Kurt on the tarmac when Kitty heard someone shouting, “Wait!  Wait!”  She turned and there was Jimmy Hudson running up.  He had a suitcase, duffle, backpack and was clearly ready to go with them.  Kurt stepped between them.  Kitty had said things were fine with Logan’s son but Kurt was taking no chances.

“Jimmy?  I thought you weren’t going to come with us.”

“I-I,” he took a moment to catch his breath.  “I procrastinated on my decision until the last minute.  But I don’t want to stay here.  I’d trust Mr. Summers with my life, but it can’t be easy teaching the son of the guy who tried to kill you.  Not to mention Jean cheated on him with me.  Even if I was mind-controlled, the whole situation’s just awkward.”  He smiled up at her boyishly.  “Can I come with you?”

Kurt half-hoped she would say no.  But Kitty just waved her hand at the blonde and let him board.  “You’re going to have to sort out the paperwork with Jamie when we get there.”

“My fault for being such a slug about it.”

#ultimate au

[swampfilmanalysis-fa17]

Discussion Leader Presentation: Infernal Affairs and The Departed

Linda Williams’ “Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess” takes an interesting approach to the different ways film can invoke a response upon the viewer. She breaks up these “sensations” into three categories; sex, violence, and emotion, stating “gratuitous sex, gratuitous violence and terror, gratuitous emotion are frequent epitaphs hurled at the phenomenon of the ‘sensational’ in pornography, horror, and melodrama”. Examining in detail the three genres, the author delves deeper into the intended audience of each, and how these excesses have taken root in film. She connects these “ecstasies” back to gender, referencing how despite the large variety of intended audiences in gender and age, the female body is almost always at the center, experiencing the onscreen gratuities. Williams’ states “in each of these genres the bodies of women figured on the screen have functioned traditionally as the primary embodiments of pleasure, fear, and pain”. Her overall analysis as it relates to Infernal Affairs is that “the success of these genres seems a self-evident matter of measuring bodily responses”, meaning within these three genres, the success of a film is largely dependent on the audiences “mimicry” of these “sensations”, as she puts it.

Infernal Affairs is a foreign film produced in Hong Kong and directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak. It tells the story of Chan Wing-Yan and Lau Kin Ming, both young recruits on opposite sides of the law. Chan works for the police department, and is put undercover in the criminal group known as the Triads. At the same time Lau is put into the police cadet program in order to become a long term mole for the Triads. Both respectively rise through the ranks of the organizations, and the films action begins with Triad leader Hon going through with a cocaine deal. Chan, who is the police mole in the criminal group, informs police chief Wong, who is the only one who knows about his undercover assignment. As the police are on their way to arrest Hon, his own mole Lau tells him to dump the coke and no hard evidence can be found against the Triad crime boss. At this point each respective leader realizes the other has a mole planted, and both of our main characters are tasked with finding out who it is.

When things become too dangerous Wong tries to pull Chan from his work with the Triads, but Lau, with the help of his subordinate Inspector B, track him. Lau relays Wong’s location to Hon. He sends triads to kill him, and they end up successfully pushing him off the roof. A shoot out between sides ensues, and a triad drives Chan away from the scene, but later dies from a gunshot wound. Hon assumes he was the mole and that Chan killed him to protect the organization.

Back at police headquarters, Chan soon realizes that Lau is actually the mole and leaves. They decide to meet on the same rooftop where Wong was killed, and Lau begs Chan to allow him to remain as a cop. Chan holds him at gunpoint, and as they take the lift down, he is killed by Inspector B, who is revealed to be a second mole within the police force. Lau then panics, not wanting to give up the life he’s become accustomed to, and kills B, ending the mole hunt and finally becoming a “good guy” cop. The movie ends with Lau discovering months later that Chan really was part of the police force, and saluting his coffin at his funeral.

The film fits into what Williams’ was describing in her article as melodrama, where the characters and acting are excessive in their emotions in an attempt to get the audience to feel the same thing. During moments of emotion, a lot of close ups of the face are used, and black and white filters are brought in to amplify the drama of the scenes.

This is clearly shown in the last action sequence of the movie. Upon Chan’s death, we see alternating close ups of Lau’s and Chan’s face, along with emotional flashbacks to pivotal moments in Lau’s transition to being a “good guy”. These edits are coupled with sad slow music and black and white filters. All of this would most likely be considered excessive by Williams’ standards.

The other movie I looked at was The Departed. Directed by Martin Scorsese, the film is the american remake of Infernal Affairs. The plots are pretty similar, following the same double undercover agent set up. Irish mob boss Frank Costello introduces Colin Sullivan into the Massachusetts police force as a mole, where he eventually gets accepted into the special investigations unit focusing on organized crime. At the same time police force captain Queenan recruits Billy Costigan to go undercover as a member of the irish mob.

Although the films are similar, the american version takes a more naturalistic approach, focusing on action scenes without the use of dramatic close ups and slow motion. However it still fits into Williams’ theology in a similar sense, focusing more so on the character’s love interest, police psychiatrist Madolyn Madden. She plays a pivotal role in having insight into each respective character’s personality and motivations, as they are both engaged in romantic relationships with her. She even has a substantial role in the ending scene, where Sullivan tries to speak with her at Costigan’s funeral and she ignores him.

This scene shows how The Departed can still be considered a melodrama by Williams’ standards, as it plays into the gratuitous emotion and mimicry of sympathy from the audience. She states “even when the pleasure of viewing has typically been constructed for masculine spectators… it is the female body… that has offered the most sensational sight”. The american version also succumbs to more gore than the Hong Kong version, playing into Williams’ description of excess violence.

1. Based on Williams’ definition of excess in genre, do you believe that modern film plays into this idea of sensationalism in the form of excessive sex, violence, and emotion?

2.Do you think Williams’ was correct in her analysis that pornography, horror, and melodrama contain the most excess of sensation in film genre?

3.What other films use this idea of gratuitous displays of sensation to capitalize on an audience’s mimicry and do well in the box office?

#discussionleader #swampfilmanalysis