A tiny correction, which I only bring up because it has implications for where finding Booker fits in the timeline - Achilles fought in the American Revolutionary War, not the U.S. Civil War.
Also (two cents, grain of salt, mileage may vary) but the changes regarding Andy's sex scenes didn't strike me as solely about undoing 'sexualization' or shifting out of the male gaze, and I found it to be an interesting piece of how Andy's arc changed in translation. The first volume of the comic was intended to be a standalone, and while elements from the second got brought into the movie to set it up for a longer run, Andy's arc in the first volume is less about feeling she hasn't done any net good in the world and more about no longer feeling alive. Picking up a stranger every night is presented as part of her futile attempt to pass time and feel something, and it's used to then inform future (or future/past) moments with Achilles, Noriko, and her team.
Dropping this from the movie makes complete sense because it would have been gratuitous in light of the changed arc. The element about the team's influence on the world is brought in at an earlier point, and the changes to Andy's immortal status would have muddled the message if not made it downright unfortunate (on top of the extra issues around filming a bunch of one-night stands as opposed to just drawing them). But I feel like the shift happened primarily because an arc about numbness works a lot better in a comic where all the internal monologue is Andy's as opposed to a more team-focused movie with only one brief voiceover.
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Date: 2020-07-21 08:54 pm (UTC)A tiny correction, which I only bring up because it has implications for where finding Booker fits in the timeline - Achilles fought in the American Revolutionary War, not the U.S. Civil War.
Also (two cents, grain of salt, mileage may vary) but the changes regarding Andy's sex scenes didn't strike me as solely about undoing 'sexualization' or shifting out of the male gaze, and I found it to be an interesting piece of how Andy's arc changed in translation. The first volume of the comic was intended to be a standalone, and while elements from the second got brought into the movie to set it up for a longer run, Andy's arc in the first volume is less about feeling she hasn't done any net good in the world and more about no longer feeling alive. Picking up a stranger every night is presented as part of her futile attempt to pass time and feel something, and it's used to then inform future (or future/past) moments with Achilles, Noriko, and her team.
Dropping this from the movie makes complete sense because it would have been gratuitous in light of the changed arc. The element about the team's influence on the world is brought in at an earlier point, and the changes to Andy's immortal status would have muddled the message if not made it downright unfortunate (on top of the extra issues around filming a bunch of one-night stands as opposed to just drawing them). But I feel like the shift happened primarily because an arc about numbness works a lot better in a comic where all the internal monologue is Andy's as opposed to a more team-focused movie with only one brief voiceover.