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wolven7I feel like I'm one of like... 5 people in the world who really appreciated 'Hancock.'
Here was a superhero movie in which the writer, Vince Gilligan, had obviously read some Jung, some Campbell, and some Eliade, and had sought to integrate those readings of the Eternal Return and the Archetypal Hero into a new mould.
Yeah 3rd act had a scale problem, but it was trying to undergird the relational complications between the three main characters. It was a bit problematic, on a race-and-ethnicity-in-Hollywood reading (the black man and the white woman never end up together, on screen, even if it's known that they had been, in the past), but they didn't actively shy away from the complexity of three people who all loved each other, in some way, having to navigate what that really means.
My feelings for the film can really be summed up in the interaction between Hancock and Angel, in the kitchen and the trailer, and in the line from Ray, which I used as that subject of this post: "We can save The World. Someone's just gotta go First."
Here was a superhero movie in which the writer, Vince Gilligan, had obviously read some Jung, some Campbell, and some Eliade, and had sought to integrate those readings of the Eternal Return and the Archetypal Hero into a new mould.
Yeah 3rd act had a scale problem, but it was trying to undergird the relational complications between the three main characters. It was a bit problematic, on a race-and-ethnicity-in-Hollywood reading (the black man and the white woman never end up together, on screen, even if it's known that they had been, in the past), but they didn't actively shy away from the complexity of three people who all loved each other, in some way, having to navigate what that really means.
My feelings for the film can really be summed up in the interaction between Hancock and Angel, in the kitchen and the trailer, and in the line from Ray, which I used as that subject of this post: "We can save The World. Someone's just gotta go First."
