(The fact that B:TDKSA's plot bears more than a passing resemblance to a Chaykin/David Tischman Elseworlds of a year or so earlier doesn't help its case, it must be said.)
I can accept work that has mediocre dialogue if it's got something going for it. Certainly, no one is about to give David Lynch any prizes for snappy, naturalistic dialogue, but given the weird dream logic of his oeuvre, that's not really the point.
To a point, I can accept that there are certain generic tropes that aren't exactly positive in their treatment of women -- femmes fatales are seldom feminist archetypes -- but there's a limit, and that limit falls well short of literally and explicitly categorizing all the female characters as virgins or whores.
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Date: 2011-07-05 08:50 pm (UTC)I can accept work that has mediocre dialogue if it's got something going for it. Certainly, no one is about to give David Lynch any prizes for snappy, naturalistic dialogue, but given the weird dream logic of his oeuvre, that's not really the point.
To a point, I can accept that there are certain generic tropes that aren't exactly positive in their treatment of women -- femmes fatales are seldom feminist archetypes -- but there's a limit, and that limit falls well short of literally and explicitly categorizing all the female characters as virgins or whores.