Female gladiators!
Apr. 19th, 2012 10:53 pmAt least according to this statuette. Kickass women in history seem to have been more real than we give the ancients credit for.
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essayel for the link!
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essayel for the link!
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essayel pointed me to this
Jan. 7th, 2010 01:04 amAsgarda -- organisation of armed women in the Ukraine.
It sounds a bit iffy, if not fascistoid: - but not if you know that they're doing it to defend themselves and their friends from being sold into forced prostitution in western Europe...
It sounds a bit iffy, if not fascistoid: - but not if you know that they're doing it to defend themselves and their friends from being sold into forced prostitution in western Europe...
The Nazgul and I watched Disney's 'Atlantis' last night, and as I thought, she was pleasantly astonished that I had it and really wanted to see it (again, as she'd seen it in the cinema when it was new).
I was pleasantly surprised at how it all worked, without cutesy animals and no songs-and-dances, just a straight over-the-top Steampunk adventure romp, much like 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen', 'Van Helsing', 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow' and so on. Just animated -- and that, very well! The degree of stylised abstraction I had liked in the llama movie was very much in evidence again. Oh, and all the cool Steampunk gadgets, yay!!
And then I saw the end credits.
Joss Whedon.
Treatment by Joss Whedon.
Joss Whedon. In a Disney movie!! Now it all became clear: why people like it, and why it was as good as it was. I had thought, a propos the engineer chick (Audrey, I think the name was?), 'OMG they stole Kaylee Frye from 'Firefly', just without the sex!' and now it wasn't so much as 'stole' but a recurrenct character archetype of Joss Whedon's. But really -- the turnabout at about two thirds of the movie, the way the hero is a geek that wins with brains not brawns, the fact that Kida first meets the expedition from the surface as a warrior, the way all the team have backstory that gives them depth despite their Steampunky grotesqueness, the fact that there is a team and not just the hero -- all so totally Joss Whedon!
So that is why I had so much unexpected fun with it!
I was pleasantly surprised at how it all worked, without cutesy animals and no songs-and-dances, just a straight over-the-top Steampunk adventure romp, much like 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen', 'Van Helsing', 'Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow' and so on. Just animated -- and that, very well! The degree of stylised abstraction I had liked in the llama movie was very much in evidence again. Oh, and all the cool Steampunk gadgets, yay!!
And then I saw the end credits.
Joss Whedon.
Treatment by Joss Whedon.
Joss Whedon. In a Disney movie!! Now it all became clear: why people like it, and why it was as good as it was. I had thought, a propos the engineer chick (Audrey, I think the name was?), 'OMG they stole Kaylee Frye from 'Firefly', just without the sex!' and now it wasn't so much as 'stole' but a recurrenct character archetype of Joss Whedon's. But really -- the turnabout at about two thirds of the movie, the way the hero is a geek that wins with brains not brawns, the fact that Kida first meets the expedition from the surface as a warrior, the way all the team have backstory that gives them depth despite their Steampunky grotesqueness, the fact that there is a team and not just the hero -- all so totally Joss Whedon!
So that is why I had so much unexpected fun with it!
