{"id":8277,"date":"2016-12-08T11:13:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T16:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=8277"},"modified":"2018-12-20T18:56:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T23:56:51","slug":"the-sort-of-film-criticism-i-can-get-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2016\/12\/08\/the-sort-of-film-criticism-i-can-get-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"The sort of film criticism I can get behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After recently taking a swipe at straight white cis bourgeois dude <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2016\/11\/28\/slant-strikes-again-with-gratuitous-obfuscatory-bloviation\/\">off-gassing<\/a> disguised as movie reviews, I&#8217;m happy to report that I&#8217;ve found someone whose film crit I can indeed endorse: Kaye Toal. Specifically, Toal&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theestablishment.co\/2016\/12\/06\/the-toxic-masculinity-destroying-magic-movie-we-need-right-now\/\">commentary<\/a> on toxic masculinity in <del datetime=\"2016-12-08T15:40:43+00:00\"><em>Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them<\/em><\/del> <em>Harry Potter, the Prequel, Part 1 of N, Where N is an Exhaustingly Large Number<\/em> cheers me up with its down-to-earth tone, intersectional considerations of masculinity, misogyny, and race, and its overall good writing.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, who am I kidding? I was prompted to write this entry because the author describes the antagonist Grindewald as &#8220;played by longtime alleged domestic abuser Johnny Depp in styling and makeup that looks like somebody\u2019s high school OC from a bad Harry Potter Livejournal roleplaying community.&#8221; That&#8217;s the most perfect burn on an overacted, self-consciously theatrical weirdo that I&#8217;m still chuckling. Since there was another movie review, which I can&#8217;t find a link to, sadly, that compared Depp&#8217;s portrayal to David Bowie for some reason, I assume there&#8217;s heavy face painting, dramatic intonation, and general scenery chewing involved. Too bad I can&#8217;t stand Rowling, Depp, and the entire Harry Potter media juggernaut, or else I might actually watch the movie for said scenery chewing.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: Ah, here we go. Jeffrey Bloomer, in an article about gay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/browbeat\/2016\/11\/28\/fantastic_beasts_has_a_gay_subtext_its_sequels_should_make_it_text.html\">not-so-subtexts<\/a> in the movie, writes [emphasis added], &#8220;Alas, the end of Fantastic Beasts will not put an end to the speculation about Grindelwald\u2019s sexuality. When the real man is finally revealed, he\u2019s played by a snarling Johnny Depp, his hair dyed platinum and his manner suggesting a deeply alarming cross of <em>David Bowie and Milo Yiannopoulos.<\/em> We get only a few moments of his giddy Aryan flamboyance, but the performance so far certainly seems \u2026 suggestive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Okay, never mind. Given that Milo Yiannopoulos&#8217; insufferable smugness provokes violent rage inside me, I think I&#8217;ll pass on investigating the scenery chewing further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After recently taking a swipe at straight white cis bourgeois dude off-gassing disguised as movie reviews, I&#8217;m happy to report that I&#8217;ve found someone whose film crit I can indeed endorse: Kaye Toal. Specifically, Toal&#8217;s commentary on toxic masculinity in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Harry Potter, the Prequel, Part 1 of N,&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2016\/12\/08\/the-sort-of-film-criticism-i-can-get-behind\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The sort of film criticism I can get behind<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[672,696,791],"class_list":["post-8277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books-i-actually-like","tag-books-that-piss-me-off","tag-house-rainbow-barf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8277"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8281,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8277\/revisions\/8281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}