What Measure Is a Non-Badass?: Difference between revisions

* Played with, and possibly subtly [[Deconstruction|deconstructed]] in ''[[Death Proof]]''. The initial group of women that run into Stuntman Mike are treated as annoying, [[Developing Doomed Characters|disposable types]] while the second group are the heroines we cheer for. No matter that the second group prove themselves to be irresponsible jackasses (such as abandoning one of their own to a seriously creepy possible rapist simply so they could whiz around in a car for a few hours); since they are indisputably [[Badass]], we like them more than the theoretically more sympathetic (but non-[[Badass]]) first group.

* Take any of [[Steven Seagal]]'s later movies; the most common complaint will be that he hardly does any real fighting anymore since he's gotten older and put on weight. As if the acting, writing, and production values wouldn't be terrible if he'd managed to stay as fast and fit as he was in his first few films. Though this is perhaps what inevitably happens when you build your entire early film career on the fact that you're a total badass.

 

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