It's not unusual, I suppose, but: Public humiliation. To be fair this extends to TV, books, and theatre as well. It's almost ubiquitous in cinematic comedies these days, which is why I don't go to the cinema much (I also am not fond of: explosions, shakycam, or bad writing, which narrows my field basically to Pixar and after Wall-E I'm not even sure about them).
It's that moment where the hero is in front of a crowd of judgmental strangers and has just done something for which they are being Judged. It's meant, archetypally, to reinforce collective social values, but I hate the sense of comform-or-die it inflicts on me and the cringe of shame I feel on behalf of the hero.
This is also the reason that there are only about forty seconds of "Something Borrowed" that I'm willing to watch, and the reason I can't adore "Captain Jack Harkness" as much as most of my friends. Because dude just kissed a guy in the middle of a room full of HOMOPHOBIC SOLDIERS UNDER HIS COMMAND, judgmental 1940s are judgmental! And that's probably the reason he dies the next day.
Uh. You may have hit a hot-button issue with me. Disregard as Cranky Sam Hates Cinema. :D
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Date: 2009-03-30 04:11 am (UTC)It's that moment where the hero is in front of a crowd of judgmental strangers and has just done something for which they are being Judged. It's meant, archetypally, to reinforce collective social values, but I hate the sense of comform-or-die it inflicts on me and the cringe of shame I feel on behalf of the hero.
This is also the reason that there are only about forty seconds of "Something Borrowed" that I'm willing to watch, and the reason I can't adore "Captain Jack Harkness" as much as most of my friends. Because dude just kissed a guy in the middle of a room full of HOMOPHOBIC SOLDIERS UNDER HIS COMMAND, judgmental 1940s are judgmental! And that's probably the reason he dies the next day.
Uh. You may have hit a hot-button issue with me. Disregard as Cranky Sam Hates Cinema. :D