The 2012 version of my
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Thursday, April 19, 2012 21:11
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"Someone has to speak for these people."
Geeze, Mal needed to believe, and he found a cause. On the ragged edge, and he found a way out of himself & his worries.
Was he just lookin' to get killed in his new quest, or did he really FEEL for those folk? Did he THINK he could make a difference (and live to tell the tale)?
THAT'S why I love this movie above all other SF flicks- so many layers in the signal....
Thoughts?
The Mal-like Chrisisall
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Also, early in the film Mal shoots to kill. Luckily for the Operative (and Mal, it turns out), he's wearing full body armour. But later, Mal doesn't kill him when he has the easy opportunity. I love the character growth. Luke needed THREE films to grow that much!
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When he first decided to fly to Miranda, he was just trying to survive. He'd been just trying to survive up to then, and him drawing his gun on the crew was the breaking point of that.
But then the Operative waved, and said that he kills women and children. And Mal got to Miranda. All those women and children. Mal's a hard guy, but women and children in trouble is his weak spot (see him taking River back in after her monkey shit scene).
After that, survival didn't matter anymore to Mal. But doing right by the victims did, up to and including doing something so awful as goading Reavers into attacking the Alliance fleet just to get by them.
When the Operative called him on it, realizing how much death he'd also caused, in the ensuing fight Mal decided to also stop the cycle of destruction that the Operative enabled.
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Nice analysis Byte.
The thing that gets me about the movie is that at some point Mal embraced belief more than survival. And THAT'S what enabled him to survive!
It just hits a nerve with me I suspect.
The Mal-like Chrisisall
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So, only Byte & I like this movie...?
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You know that is not the case, Chris. I love Serenity, just not as much as you, and not as much as I love Firefly. It's not even in my Top 10 Best Movies, although it is #3 for SF movies.
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Quote:That is pretty high up there!
Originally posted by ecgordon:
it is #3 for SF movies.
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I have to say I really don't like the character portrayals in Serenity, especially Kaylee. She looks like crap, and throughout the movie she says really stupid things. The rest of the crew are equally annoying and totally out-of-character. I just watched it again recently, and said to myself at the end that at least Joss and gang remembered Wash's dinosaurs from Firefly. Sorry.
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Don't incur my wrath here, Jong. You wouldn't like me when I'm hungry.
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