Overcome his troubled past to save the day. To his own cockiness (the death of his brother), and a maverick who must Is actually a combination of two tropes: a hero who suffers loss thanks Yet cocky maverick hero, and the gruff mentor/authority figure. We see time and time again in the action/adventure genre: the damaged Raleigh Becket and Stacker Pentecost both follow character arcs that Stacker Pentecost and Raleigh Becket, she gets her own (beautifullyĬliched) action/adventure hero character arc. Mako Mori is neither a damsel, nor a sex fantasy. Love-interest, helpless damsel, or ass-kicking sex fantasy. Or female characters being relegated to the role of For example, shitty tropes like America Saving Also, he conveniently ignored all the shittyĪction/adventure tropes that regularly make Hollywood blockbusters into a Tropes and gleefully combined them in a cheesy yet incredibly effective
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Guillermo del Toro took a bunch of classic action/adventure movie Suits fighting giant Kaiju monsters in an epic battle to save Planet Which is how we ended up with a movie about people in giant mecha Nerd, sat down and thought, “what cliches are awesome?" Movie where Guillermo del Toro, an acclaimed filmmaker and all-round This isn’t a blockbuster movie where some faceless production companyįocus-grouped a selection of generic Hollywood movie cliches andĬombined them to create the new Avatar or Transformers. Pacific Rim is positively roiling in cliches. Still, it’s a wrong opinion, and here’s why:įirst of all, let’s talk about cliche. Made me go "!!?!!" in blank incomprehension, and b) brought it to myĪttention that people who aren’t random internet misogynists do indeed have this opinion. Professional film reviewer) thought Mako was too “emotional", which a) In fact a good friend of mine (who is a woman and So, it’s come to my attention that there are a bunch of people who think Mako Mori is a “weak" female character, because of course. (Crossposted from Tumblr, because it was so goddamn long.)
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