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the_old_guard.
I am currently writing a detailed transcription of the movie. Netflix has a dialogue transcription, but no descriptions of actions, reactions, etc. I'm adding all that. And yes, I'll announce it and make it available to fandom when I'm finished.
But that means I am studying this film line by line, sometimes word by word. (Such a hardship. </snark>) As such, I'm seeing a LOT more than I did in my previous three watchings -- and transcribing it gives me time to think around the words themselves, you know?
I've just reached Booker telling Nile, "You'll always and forever be the young woman right there..." and it made me think.
Cannon tells us (I think, may be misremembering) that Nile is 27, but to my eyes, she doesn't look it. And that can have advantages and disadvantages.
I was regularly taken as a teen until I was almost 30 -- and there is a difference in the ways adults react to other adults versus someone they think is just barely (or not quite) out of teen-hood. As an adult, it could sometimes be quite aggravating. OTOH, I could get away with freer, "more juvenile" behavior without someone reacting as if they wanted to tell me "act your age" because they didn't know I was 25 or 27.
So Nile may be able to slip into places or do things because observers dismiss her as "just a kid". And/or she may have to push harder to get others (the mundanes who don't know her) to treat her as a competent adult.
Just my two cents. I'll be interested to see your thoughts, but don't expect a response very soon -- I'm busy transcribing.
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I am currently writing a detailed transcription of the movie. Netflix has a dialogue transcription, but no descriptions of actions, reactions, etc. I'm adding all that. And yes, I'll announce it and make it available to fandom when I'm finished.
But that means I am studying this film line by line, sometimes word by word. (Such a hardship. </snark>) As such, I'm seeing a LOT more than I did in my previous three watchings -- and transcribing it gives me time to think around the words themselves, you know?
I've just reached Booker telling Nile, "You'll always and forever be the young woman right there..." and it made me think.
Cannon tells us (I think, may be misremembering) that Nile is 27, but to my eyes, she doesn't look it. And that can have advantages and disadvantages.
I was regularly taken as a teen until I was almost 30 -- and there is a difference in the ways adults react to other adults versus someone they think is just barely (or not quite) out of teen-hood. As an adult, it could sometimes be quite aggravating. OTOH, I could get away with freer, "more juvenile" behavior without someone reacting as if they wanted to tell me "act your age" because they didn't know I was 25 or 27.
So Nile may be able to slip into places or do things because observers dismiss her as "just a kid". And/or she may have to push harder to get others (the mundanes who don't know her) to treat her as a competent adult.
Just my two cents. I'll be interested to see your thoughts, but don't expect a response very soon -- I'm busy transcribing.
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