Posted on 04/22/2024 11:48:40 AM PDT by Angelino97
Taking up a discourse of idealised whiteness in conjunction with star theory, Sean Redmond frames white female stardom as a privileged yet restrictive state.
Locating Johansson within such a construction of stardom, Redmond looks to how her idealised white star image as resolved through her roles in Her, Under the Skin and Ghost in the Shell is simultaneously recognisable and alienating within these texts. As idealised white star, Johansson traverses the cinematic universe, moving with privileged access into roles, spaces and intimacies laid open for her. Yet as an unobtainable and non-reproductive idol, Johansson is also alienating, an embodiment of the loneliness, fragmentation and isolation that plagues contemporary (white) social existence...
In science fiction film one can see how the whitely markers of Heaven and Angel are transposed to the impressive vastness of utopian Space, and the figure of the Alien Messiah who descends to earth and is given symbolic transformative powers, such as the ability to heal, resurrect and, if wronged, seek vengeance. The Alien Messiah confuses and upsets binary reproductive structures, and is implicated in the non-reproductive framework of idealised whiteness since they are beyond reproduction and see it as a lesser form of evolution.
In Arrival, the Heptapods communicate in circular cryptograms which render time and space anti-chrononormative: they are beyond reproduction but allow Louise Banks, the whitely linguist in the film, to give birth again to the daughter that has already died...
Elizabeth Ellsworth calls this essential paradox the “double binds of whiteness,” whereby rationalised purity necessarily brings privileged white people closer to their own negation since they lack empathy and deny the sex drive that in the end would result in the eradication of the species.
In a great many science fiction films, the figure of the hyper-white scientist is presented as dangerous...
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They’re either trying to hide what they are saying or have nothing to say.
And hide both in gobelygook.
A article they says “I am jealous of ScarJo because she is so hot and good at her job, so I’ll claim she’s a movie star because she’s white because picking on white is always a safe bet” doesn’t quite fill the page.
I think it's something like "I'm not smart enough to handle the hard sciences, so I'll write things that look as impenetrable to me as the papers in Physical Review or Science."
>> They have no idea what they’re trying to say.
The “Whiteness Is BAD” theme made it through loud and clear... give credit where credit is due!
Just the 2c of a rage-normative ultramaga rural Christian Nationalist of pallor.
Perry is apparently only 5 years older.
When it comes to the Home, Social Gatherings, Politics, or her job in Acting, Scarlette Johansson has Great T*ts!!
Or Cher for that matter.
Katy Perry is cute and has a decent voice.
So does Swift. But Swift shines when she is on stage.
It is sort of like Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe. Both of them beautiful blonds. Both of them with talent. Both died tragically. But Marilyn is the one remembered because she had star quality.
It is not something you can teach. It comes from within.
“They string together a lot of long, smart sounding words and have no idea what they mean.”
The individuals engage in the concatenation of copious polysyllabic lexemes, presenting an illusion of erudition, albeit lacking substantive comprehension thereof.
The Tribe does have its share of attractive people.
Eva Green
Lilly Collins
Mila Kunis
Isla Fischer
Rachel Weisz
Nobody beats Lauren Bacall, if only for her sultry voice.
I don’t know about the rest, but Scarlett is half Danish, Eva Green is half Swedish.
Don’t forget Gal Gadot.
WTF??? I feel dumber having read these few paragraphs
Oh, they know what they are trying to say: white people suck
Could never be made today.
All that matters is mom. There is no such thing as half Jewish. You are either born of a Jewish mother or convert.
Gal Gadot also comes to mind.
The question is, why are either of them popular?
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