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[jmtorres]

I'm making this vid, right? And I noticed my canonical source gives me a foothold to mount any goddamn meta message I want.

So um.

Would anyone care to suggest favorite moments in visual media (film, tv, music video) that address:
--claiming of identity (pref female, and/or possibly queer--still arguing with self about intersectionality of this vid--protagonist)
or
--objectification of women (ie they--they!--are clearly identified as Other than the protagonist)(or um, if that's too commonplace--then say, a female protagonist experiences and hopefully rejects objectification? That would be SUPER AWESOME actually)

I'm contemplating using a segment of Bad Romance; that only leaves like twelve other slots. *ponder* I'm not a huge Buffy fan, but was there a pivotal moment where she laid claim to her Slayerness? Which would be, gosh, an identity and an Otherness all wrapped up in one.

Wow, I really wish I had some footage on the Young Wizards books. HOW DO I KEEP WANTING TO VID BOOKS.

/me contemplates DVD shelf. Hmm: Serenity, Mirromask, Witchblade, Tin Man, Alice....

And. hmm. Places where identity is also tied to technology would be useful to me. Off the top of my head, things I haven't seen that you folks might have a bead on good scenes from: Sarah Connor Chronicles, Battlestar Galactica. Others?

Okay, I also really want iconic imagery that would be recognizable to people outside of fannish circles.

And um. It would actually be SUPER hilarious to hit the 80s hard, as a completely different thematic element than I've examined so far... Ooooh. Labyrinth.

The floor is open. Suggestions?

Comments

[grey_bard]

OH! There's this great scene in Batmanm yeah, the 1960's one, in the episode that introduces Batgirl that... Okay, you just need to see it for the othering. The othering is at the beginning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlxWfYnW1DE Video quality here is crap, but you can probably find the actual episode somewhere.

And then, the other thing you're looking for is in this clip too, Batgirl's transformation and first fight are awesome. The voiceover that's all "He's her idol" is stupid, but, okay, by the standards of the 60's show where all the characters are slower and dumber than real people, she's AMAZING. If you can't get ahold of it online, I have it on a homeburned dvd from a friend with TIVO

[grey_bard]

And actually, it works pretty well for your longer thing too, because it starts with Bruce Wayne meeting Barbara Gordon as a library patron and not really noticing the reference librarian at all, and the villains blowing her off and tossing her into her office, they close the door, and as soon as they're gone, she's happy as a clam because her Batgirl costume is in her office and she has an excuse why "Barbara" isn't there. And then she goes forth and kicks them in the head while Batman and Robin are still tied up.

[jmtorres]

Crap quality is really not a problem; most of what I use I'll have to make look old TV crappy anyway!