ikeepforgettingmypw [comrade/them]

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Cake day: December 28th, 2021

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    jake military dad bullshit

    on my first watch I thought "man that was a weird ass direction, aren't we supposed to like this guy, this was pretty corny, etc etc"

    Just watched it again tonight. I think the military-jargon was a very deliberate choice for a few reasons. First, we don't see jake use any of that lingo until the humans return to Earth. It's almost a PTSD/stress response. It's most obvious in the first quarter of the film and falls off towards the end (but still present). Second, something I noticed was that all the military phrases he uses like "what's your poz" and shit like that gets repeated almost verbatim by the blatantly evil human military counterparts within 2 minutes of each other. Like there's a 20 minute sequence at the start of the film where it goes back and forth between Edie Falcos' General Girlboss/Quaritch and Jake using identical phrases in a way that made me think it was deliberate comparisons. Specific examples elude my high ass right now but I remember several moments in the movie where I thought "wow that bit of jargon was JUST used in an identical fashion by some human ghoul". Third, Jake gets chastised by Neytiri repeatedly throughout the film for doing this.

    I think Jake unlearning old military habits and Earth-biases is going to be a huge point going forward in the next 3 films. I have it, allegedly on good authority, hypothetically in Minecraft, from someone who might potentially a few years ago at one point have had access to the scripts for 3 and 4 in a video game, that the third film will at least partially serve as an Earth origin story. Overcoming last vestiges of attachment to Jake the Human will be a big plot point.









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