Sunday, April 15, 2018

More Thoughts from the Car Ride Home

Jumanji is Swahili for many effects. Captain America: Civil War has direct effect on the plot of every non-cosmic MCU entry that comes after it. Civil War is a Jumanji event. Death is just as important as birth, but are all other points in life equally important?

Shows set in the '50s, the props department populating the set with actual magazines and artifacts from that era, but you can practically smell the mildew when they're reading that magazine and acting like it's a current issue. I feel like they should acknowledge this sometime, be all, what's up with that? And maybe the audience thinks it's a one-off fourth wall gag, but then it turns out, no, one of the characters is a forger, artificially ageing documents, who'd practiced on all the magazines in the house, and this subplot about this painting becomes very important because the painting is a forgery, too. Or, like, a document out something, like this old will from a century ago, the main plot was about that, but that was totally a forgery.

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