Predatory romance in Hollywood movies

[Graham Kennedy]

I did a thread about this a while back in the Star Wars forum, but I stumbled across this video recently. It retreads the same ground, but goes on to demonstrate that Harrison Ford characters actually do this quite a bit. As do plenty of other male characters.

It's an interesting perspective, given what's going on in the entertainment industry right now.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Yeah. It unsettlingly reminds me of, "Write what you know."

[Graham Kennedy]

Lest it be unclear, I don't think Harrison really enjoys playing these scenes or endorses this viewpoint. Rather, I think this is how a large part of Hollywood views sexuality, and Harrison just happens to have played several of the most iconic "Macho Alpha Male" characters in cinema history.

[Nutso]

The Blade Runner one was bad. Deckard hates Replicants and views them as machines but, that music is blurring the issue because that is not a romantic/seductive scene at all. It's fucking scary. If the point of the movie is that Deckard is a piece of shit towards the Replicants' until Roy Batty saves his life and gives that speech, whereby Deckard realizes he is less human than the machines he hunts and kills for a living, the music in that "seduction" scene betrays it.