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Diana (2013)
Critics Consensus: Naomi Watts tries hard in the title role, but Diana buries her efforts under a shoddy script and clumsy direction.
Critics Consensus: Naomi Watts tries hard in the title role, but Diana buries her efforts under a shoddy script and clumsy direction.
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DIANA is a compelling portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales during the final two years of her life. The film stars British-born Academy Award (R) nominated actress Naomi Watts (J. EDGAR, FAIR GAME, 21 GRAMS) who assumes the leading role of the eponymous and iconic princess. Naveen Andrews, best known for his roles in THE ENGLISH PATIENT and the hit television series LOST, co-stars as Dr. Hasnat Khan. Fellow Brits Douglas Hodge, Geraldine James, Charles Edwards and Juliet Stevenson round out the … More
- Rating:
- PG-13 (for brief strong language, some sensuality and smoking)
- Genre:
- Drama
- Directed By:
- Oliver Hirschbiegel
- Written By:
- Stephen Jeffreys
- In Theaters:
- Nov 1, 2013 Limited
- On DVD:
- Feb 11, 2014
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Sets the proceedings within a misty cloud of conjecture.
Yes, Diana is the poor little rich girl, but the opulent settings, private jets, yachts, and chauffeured cars prove peculiar and distracting affectations.
This affair hardly plays as being more than the pre-Dodi Fayed footnote it still is today, much less deserving of this grand epic romance treatment given by the filmmakers.
It may not be anything all that special, but it's harmless, well-made and entertaining on its own terms.
If I didn't know John Hughes was dead I would have sworn he had written this film.
Are the micro-biopics that don't even bother to provide overviews of their famed subjects' entire lives, but instead lean on the spectacle of celebrity impersonation, the new camp?
Diana might have been flawed and scheming and love-starved, but this film doesn't help explain that. Nor does it illuminate the common touch and humanitarian side that endeared her to a global audience.
Not a lot different from whatever movie Katherine Heigl has made lately.
The film can't find the woman beneath the fa�ade, despite Watts' best efforts. Maybe she didn't exist. Or maybe there's a better movie to be made.
Hirschbeigel says she's a miracle, the screenplay leans toward monster. I wish the film was interesting enough to make a case for both possibilities.
It's ... a pity that her life is reduced to such a forgettable movie.
Anyone who cares about this stuff already knows it.
Despite its aristocratic pedigree...rather tacky.
This visually polished, Oscar-baiting docudrama chronicles her final two years, and even in death she's a subject of invasive speculation.
If you are going to make a film about the late Princess of Wales, you are obviously going to choose the guy who directed "Downfall," about the last days of Hitler, and the actress who played opposite King Kong.
the unnecessary tale of the Princess of Wales' last true love, is a vapid, banal, and superficial exercise in cheap voyeurism
The soapy biopic Diana, starring Naomi Watts as the late Princess of Wales, is more like Razzie bait than Oscar bait.
... veers into melodramatic territory with its lack of relevant context and its soap-opera script.
Diana" is one big missed opportunity
A laughably bad, better-than-it-has-a-right-to-be variation on 'Roman Holiday' that's rich in melodrama and pauper poor at getting to the heart of Diana's love-hate relationship with fame.
Audience Reviews for Diana
The only thing more incredible than the life she led was the secret she kept.
Very well made Film! The Film does not portray Diana in a bad way at all. If anything, it reiterates the absolute disgusting habits our press have had in terms of absolute disregard and disrespect for people's privacy. You feel a certain connection with Diana throughout the film, and see her for the "normal person" she was deep down. Naomi Watts' performance was spectacular, and she certainly did Diana justice. Although the film is most certainly disliked by many - i.e: the media, Islamophobes and daily mail readers... It is disliked for the mere fact that the film provides an insight into things that make certain people very uncomfortable, such as the prospect of the Princess of Wales marrying to a Pakistani Muslim, and the fact that Diana was actually a human being, with feelings, and with a difficult life.
During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana embarks on a final rite of passage: a secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan.
Super Reviewer
Mediocre drama based on the last two years of Diana Princess of Wales life. The film boasts some very good performances, unfortunately, I felt that the story was underwhelming and it didn't go in depth with her last years. The tone of the film feels preachy and tries to be something great, but the result is a film that is heavily flawed, and never reaches its potential. The subject is good, but the execution is poor. I think it's a shame because Naomi Watts was perfect for the role. However the film's script leaves a lot to be desired. Is the film as bad as everyone says? No, but it still leaves room for improvement. The aspect about the film is that it really could have been an outstanding drama, considering its subject. The film's script suffers due to a lack of underwhelming ideas, and in the end, the film just doesn't deliver. I really wanted to enjoy this film, but there's nothing of note here. Watts is a perfect choice as Diana, and if the film's script would have been better fleshed out, then maybe this would have been a much better film than what it turned out to be. Don't expect anything great with this film, as it leaves you wanting more out of the film. Considering its story, I think there could have been a much better take on Diana last few years. Unfortunately this film is mediocre at best, and is not really worth seeing if you want a vivid drama to watch. I think it's a shame because Naomi Watts really did give a good performance, unfortunately the lacking material that she has to work with just doesn't offer anything to save this film from being a letdown. Given a few rewrites, I think that this film really could have been something memorable. Instead it wastes a good cast on a poorly thought out storyline that just seems to overdo most of the time. With that being said, the definitive biopic of Diana, Princess of Wales has yet to be made.
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Naomi Watts does a good job as Diana, even in the way she walks and looks, but there is not much that she can do to save a soapy script full of horrible corny lines and which lacks insight into her character while only showing her as caricatural, immature and not very bright.
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"After an unexpected hiatus (holiday season, good friend moving to LA) it was about time I got back into writing reviews. An idea one of my friends also had as she (for some reason) checks my profile for my thoughts on films. Noticing I didn't post anything for two weeks she decided to shoot me with her ray gun, take me to her spaceship, insert a bomb into my genitals, and set a timer for three hours. Telling me the only way to survive is to watch "Diana" and write a review in my limited time. Thus I did it and barely made it out alive. However, she refused to remove the bomb!". Excerpt from the biography "Based on a true story".
Diana follows the last two years of Princess Diana life secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan turning a life story into a very crummy romance film. Calling this film a biopic is the equivalent of saying the film "2012" is base on a true story. Problem number one with this film making the person of interest boring. As someone who knows nothing about the Princess of Wales this film shares no insight about her nor the people around her. Its reluctant to share anything even the most basic of understanding of who Diana is a person becomes lost to its audience. Now because of the structure of the film manipulative narrative Diana comes across as a one dimensional Gollum. Now going by written dialogue in the film Diana "Gets very excited by Hospitals", "I'm a princess and I get what I want", and wonders if "Did they publish the pictures of the kids with all their arms and legs blown off". That's some awful dialogue yes, but the rest of the writing is equally appalling. Not to forget exploitative beginning the film starting on the night of her death hammering the message that there is no return.
Earlier I said this is more of a crummy romance and I stand by that. For example, the film paints Diana was so swept off her feet that she ignored her children and her work. Doing charity work for the sake of good lips service. In any other fictional film if you have bad characters, underdeveloped elements, and sloppy narrative you simply get a bad piece of fiction. Not here as even if the events in the film did happen it feels false. In a movie that has the Dwayne Johnson Quartet (sadly Dwayne Johnson is nowhere in the film) you end up quitting finding any shred of truth that the film might share. Even its main focus on the romance is terribly written. Important events are glossed over, the romance is egotistical (ones a whiner and ones comes across as too clingy), and at no point allows us to see Diana the way the filmmaker intended us to see her. There's a line in the film that goes "You don't perform the operation, the operation performs you. And when it's over, reality is a bit flat. You're very tire.". That statement holds true to the film itself. You don't experience the film, the film attempts destroy you and your perception of Diana in reality. Hoping in the end you're too tired to search for the truth and accepts the false reality the film gives you.
Naomi Watts has little material to work from, the result being overuse of only a few mannerisms and speech characteristics. She delivers some awful, awful lines with a straight face. If anything the acting is best the thing about the film. All the performances are average, but at no point do they attempt to ham it up or go over the top with their performances. As for everything else it's unnoticeable. The direction is on autopilot with no interesting shots being stuck in limbo and the film score is forgettable to the point the closing credits remind there was actually music in the film. Also, playing Beethoven 9th Symphony during heart surgery is not romantic.
Diana is a terrible romance film that I refuse to consider biopic. A biopic should tell us, show us, or give insight on the person of interest gaining some level of understanding that person in a new way something this film does not do. Instead "Diana" chooses to do the opposite capitalizing on someone death exploiting people's feeling for the sake of cash. If that wasn't the intention of the people involved in making this were it's the feeling they get across.
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Character Assassination: Adam Malkovich
So, Adam's sitting in his booth, watching Samus talk to Madeline. He sees Samus heading to Sector Zero, but for whatever reason is unable to contact her. So he runs off to Sector Zero to stop her and enact his "plan," thus saving her from unfreezable Metroids.
Note that the above is not speculation: at the very end of the game, the game gives us a flashback of this.
He gets to Sector Zero first, and he has decided to hide and shoot Samus to stop her. OK. However, when Samus comes in, she encounters a Metroid. Adam
believes that Sector Zero Metroids cannot be frozen. So, what does he do?
He shoots Samus.
He ignores the Metroid that he's not sure he can deal with in order to make sure that Samus is stopped. Even though this
directly exposes her to attack from the Metroid
, so you can't say that this is "saving" her or doing this solely for her protection. And Adam really took his fucking time about shooting that Metroid; it's a good 15 seconds after Samus is down that he finally decides to shoot the damn thing.
What a dick!
But wait; it gets even better. Let's say Adam screwed up; he didn't see the Metroid, because maybe he was standing such that Samus was in the way. Somehow. Or maybe there was some other visual obstruction. Who knows. The point is, Adam didn't know it was there.
The Deleter is still around. Adam
about him unquestionably at this point. I can say that because of Adam's part in the Ridley scene: we see someone walk in and take a shot at him. That person could only have been one of two people: the Deleter or a particular someone else. And if it was that someone else, then there's no way Adam would escape; it therefore must have been the Deleter. So he managed to fight off the Deleter, despite that guy getting a surprise attack. From behind.
Adam knows that an assassin is walking the halls. But he still shoots Samus with his Mary Sue Cannon of Disabling +12. This knocks out her armor...
when he knows there's an assassin around.
He has just given the Deleter his best chance of taking out Samus (though if standard issue freeze pistols can one-shot Samus, it obviously wasn't that much of a problem).
Now, you might say that Adam secured the room; he knew the Deleter wasn't present.
He didn't even know there was a
in the room (or else he's the biggest asshole in the galaxy). There's no way he secured that room. All he did was paint a giant target on Samus's back. Which is redundant because there's already a target on the back of the Zero Suit. And Adam shot her there first.
Therefore, either Adam Malkovich, the "
Perfect Military Mind
," is an unutterable moron for unthinkingly disabling an ally in a potentially dangerous situation, or is a
jackass for deliberately endangering Samuss life. Which is it Other M? Asshole or retard?
Take your pick.
And then there's the decision to shoot her at all. Adam makes absolutely no effort to discuss this with Samus like two rational adults. Of course not; you only discuss things with your
. He thinks of her as a child. Granted, she thinks of
as a child (
which might explain why she turned into one
, but that's neither here nor there). So as far as Adam is concerned, there can be no discussion about this.
No discussion, but what about orders? Nope, he didn't even bother to just give her orders; he went straight to the gunshot. Even though Samus has shown herself to be completely loyal to him at all times in this game. Even though Samus has done everything he said. Even though Samus responded appropriately to
his death glare on their first meeting. Even though Samus
ran through an active volcano
without her Varia simply because he hadn't told her to turn it on.
Oh yeah, she seems totally like the kind of person who'd rebel.
Now, you might point out that she
in fact try to stop him, though the scene is still rather ambiguous as to what she's doing. OK, well, he has his Mary Sue Cannon of Disabling +12; if she tries to keep going, shoot her
Indeed, this is generally how the scene plays out in works that have actual writers behind them. The two characters talk about the difficulty up ahead, one of them goes to make the sacrifice, and the other physically stops them.
But not here. Adam is in control, at all times. He never gives Samus even the slightest opportunity to disobey him.
And another data point on their relationship. Samus gets shot by someone; she doesn't know who. When she wakes up next to Adam, she immediately assumes he did it. She doesn't even consider the possibility that the Deleter got to her and Adam simply made the save in the nick of time. I mean, that might have made Adam not a controlling jackass and made the Deleter plot worthwhile. And nothing is allowed to be worthwhile in this pile of crap.
The best part: Samus is 100% right about who shot her. That says something about their relationship that she knows him well enough that he'll attack her at the first excuse. Nothing particularly
, mind you, but something...
And another thing about the decision to shoot her. Let's get some choice Adam quotes about the unfreezable Metroids (with emphasis added):
Sector Zero Metroids
most likely
can't be frozen.
There's a
strong likelihood
that the Metroid's mortal weakness, the vulnerability to cold, has been overcome...
If that's true
, then there's no way you can destroy them.
is that it was because it was still in a larval stage, but
who can say
"Who can say?" Your "guess"?
You fucking shot Samus Aran in the back!
Adam Malkovich shot her based on nothing more than his
. And here's the thing: we
never find out if he's right.
There is never any definitive proof of unfreezable Metroids; nobody who actually knows the truth ever says it
And if you've played the game and think I'm wrong, check back in two chapters or re-watch the scene you're thinking of. It's
who says that; her only evidence is Adam.
. It's all just conjecture from Adam and Samus assuming he's right. The closest thing to evidence we have was that corpse in the Cyrosphere, but that body could have been moved there. Or maybe the cooling system was off when it was attacked. Who knows? There's nothing
Personally, I like the idea of Adam going into Sector Zero, shooting stuff, accidentally freezing a Metroid in the process just as the sector detaches, and realizing that he's about to die due to his own deep, personal stupidity.
But that doesn't matter. What matters is that Adam clearly doesn't
this for certain. You don't shoot people you care about over "strong likelihoods." Which again suggests that Adam sees her as something to be controlled rather than as a person. Shooting her is just another means of control.
Given the myriad of ways that Adam could have avoided shooting her, the number of reasons he had to not do it, we
assume that Adam
to shoot her. That's the only way for it to make sense considering all of the alternatives. Especially considering that half-assed apology he gave her. He's going to go die to save her, but he wants to give her a parting shot, something to remind her who's in control. And while this interpretation might, when taken on its own, be somewhat over-the-top, when taken in aggregate with all of his prior behavior, it makes
perfect sense
And then there's that Metroid report. He wrote it, which means he came to the BOTTLE SHIP
that they were conducting illegal bioweapon experiments. Hell, how exactly do you get commissioned to investigate doing something illegal anyway? So why didn't he tell anybody about that? I know he has that whole "outsider" think with Samus, but his men seemed rather unaware of the whole thing. And if you think you're going after Metroids, why would you take only a 6 man team?
Anyway, he knows that a faction in the GF is behind this stuff, right? Or was that another of his "guesses"? If he knew that there was this rogue group within the GF, Adam should have suspected that they wouldn't just let him walk off with the secrets and expose them. He should have at least checked the backgrounds of his men for an assassin.
Which means Adam got his whole team killed due to his own stupidity. Ladies and Gentlemen: The Perfect Military Mind. Also, if he knew about the illegal bioweapon research on the ship, why not, you know, contact the
They can't all be corrupt.
No, this entire Metroid report and the plot holes it creates are nothing more than a ham-fisted attempt to make you distrust Adam. Even though we already think he's dead at that point. But did you really expect coherency in this piece of shit?
Adam's last warning is
covered: "Madeline Bergman is no ally." The comment itself makes sense in context. She did just send Samus to go fight unfreezable Metroids (theoretically) without warning her. So either she's not really Madeline or she deliberately tried to get Samus killed. However, the line does strongly suggest that Adam has knowledge of things he's not sharing with Samus.
Especially since he knows about a survivor in "Room MW." See, I'll let you in on a secret: the blond woman isn't actually Madeline; the real Director Bergman is in Room MW. His dialog about these two things suggests that he knows all this but was keeping it from Samus. But you could interpret it as him having simply stumbled across info about a survivor, probably the same way he did with the blond. So yes, the statement holds up.
The confusing bit is this: as the author of the Metroid report, he ought to have at least a passing familiarity with the station and its director. Granted, it was just one report, but he could probably remember that Madeline was a redhead. And the scene where he sees Samus talking to the blond about Sector Zero suggests that he's reacting as much to her as to Sector Zero and the potentially unfreezable Metroids. So its possible to think that Adam actually knows more than he says. But there's a plausible alternate explanation for this, so the writers get to get away with one.
Character Assassination: Samus Aran
You were wrong when you were a girl, and you're wrong now.
Character Assassination: Authorized
But that's child's play. Here, we see the actual death of Samus Aran's character. Oh, she's still got a good 40+ minutes left in theater mode, but believe me; she's
First, Samus all but freaks out at the sight of an infant Metroid. It's not as bad as the Ridley freakout, but it still flies in the face of the courage Samus has always effectively had. It's really unnecessary; all they had to do was show that Samus was reluctant to shoot it. She instantly reacts by raising her gun, but then hesitates and lowers it. Coupled with the flashback, it says everything we need to. Of course, what "we" need to is not what the makers of the game want to say, so they give her a mini-freakout complete with heavy breathing and so forth. To again make her a weaker character.
And then she gets shot. The most badass
in all of the Metroid continuity, someone who's personally killed a 30 foot dragon 6 times, who's annihilated species and entire worlds, gets taken out in one shot. Like with the PTSD thing, it doesn't matter what kind of rationalizations you give to this; it's still complete bullshit from a character perspective. It
completely destroys
her credibility as a badass. It's one thing to have a powerful hero who has vulnerabilities; it's quite another when a powerful hero is
shown to simply not be powerful
. It would be like Superman getting taken out with a regular bullet, no Kryptonite around or anything.
What's more, by doing this Adam robs Samus of all agency whatsoever. From the moment she gets shot, she becomes a non-entity in this cutscene. She's passive, weak, helpless, barely able to stand, can't even make her power armor work, and so forth. She does nothing but sit there in that skin-tight suit and pant breathlessly for 10 minutes while Adam walks off to be the hero.
Consider what you're seeing. You are watching the protagonist of a videogame, stripped of her armor, made weak, frail, and helpless, while an NPC tells her that she can't go into the final level. An NPC literally walks off with (what ought to be) the final level of the game. I can't imagine what that would feel like as a player, but from a story perspective? It completely de-balls Samus. She is no longer an active participant in her own game!
But it gets
After Adam dies, Samus gets down on her knees and gives him the most intense, vigorous, and prolonged character fellatio that I have ever seen in any work of fiction. This surpasses even James T. Kirk being promoted from Cadet to Captain in
Star Trek 2009
after assaulting security guards in an attempt to mutiny, being thrown off the ship, then upon returning verbally assaulting the captain on his own bridge until he has a psychotic breakdown that causes him to relinquish command. And don't get me started on
piece of shit.
in the sheer audacity of daring the audience to buy it. She goes ball-deep on Adam's figurative cock and verbally blows him for a
solid minute
of screen-time.
This bit of dialog is Godawful, so here are some choice lines:
"My best friend": Bullshit! Forget the heaping helpings of abuse he inflicted on you. Forget the whole shooting-you-to-save-you thing. Just look at the story: what do they ever,
do together to suggest friendship? At all?
"the person who understood me best...": Bullshit! Again, besides the game simply
declaring it to be true
, where in this game is any evidence of this?
"the closest thing to a father I had.": Bullshit! The Chozo raised you! Plus, the heapings of abuse and all that. If that's the best father you could get, you were better off raised by birds.
"Thoughts swirled through my head-": Bullshit! If you ever had a thought, it died of loneliness. You don't think; Adam tells you what to think.
"I think Adam granted me that eye-of-the-storm clarity-": Bullshit! There is no evidence of Samus being any different after this scene than before.
"There was no time for me to grieve his death.": Bullshit! What the hell do you call this verbal cock-sucking?
And we end with the verbal equivalent of bukkake with, "But there was time for me to say: Adam, thank you... leave the rest to me." It's horrible because Samus Aran will do
nothing at all from here on out.
And because she thanked Adam for stripping her of her ability to make decisions without even asking her what she would do.
And... that's not even the worst. I know
that's not actually possible,
and yet here we are. The Ian flashback.
That doesn't sound like it could be worse than this. But it is. And the quote I choose for this section explains why. But since I don't go for brevity, allow me to spell it out in meticulous detail.
It all comes down to proper narrative structure. Works of fiction in innumerable forms do this all the time. We even have a trope for it:
My Greatest Failure
. You introduce a moment into a character's backstory where they do something wrong. Where things don't go well. Where the outcome is decidedly non-optimal. And then you introduce a moment in the story that calls back to it. Obviously you don't need the explicit flashback. But either way, you have a similar situation come up. Why? It serves to either create character growth on the spot or highlight growth that has happened over the course of the work. You showed how the character failed before, and now you show how they've changed so they won't fail again.
Now, given the Ian scene, there are exactly two narrativistically appropriate outcomes in the present-day variation. These represent the two ways of interpreting how Samus failed in the original version.
Option 1
: Samus Aran willingly concedes the point. She starts to argue, she starts to beg Adam to let her go in his place, or to simply walk around him and go in his place. But she stops herself, realizing the truth of what he's saying. This signifies that her failure from before was in her childish naivety, her unwillingness to see the plainly evident fact that someone has to die, and he's the most expendable. Samus Aran
grows up and accepts reality for what it is
Option 2
: Samus Aran defies cynicism. She
slams Adam into a wall
, suits up, goes into Sector Zero, blows it straight to hell, and still manages to escape in the nick of time. Because Samus Aran is That. Damn. Good.
She's no longer the slave of reality; she makes her own reality.
Her failure from before was in listening to Adam, in not going with her instincts, in not trusting herself to be able to get the job done. She has now grown beyond the no-win scenario; Samus can turn defeat into victory by her presence, her will, and her boundless courage to see the job done.
These are the only two narrativistically appropriate things that can happen. Why? Because the protagonist gets to be
the second time around. That's how this narrative device actually works. That's why you have the flashback in there; it highlights the contrast and character growth (in either direction).
Take a look at
Pitch Black
, which has our protagonist go through something similar, just negated. The first time, she wants to dump the passengers to save herself in a moment of fear. This hurt her; the decision weighs upon her throughout the film. She realizes the wrongness (defensible though it may be) of what she wanted to do. And the next time she has the chance to cut people loose to save herself... she chooses not to.
She wants to; she
wants to. The offer is so tempting, and you can really see the anguish in the character (thanks to acting). But she cannot, she
will not
do it again. No matter how frightened she is, she has the
to do the right thing this time. And she's willing to die, to even fight Riddick, to see it done.
In Other M, that doesn't happen here; there's no contrast, no character growth. So why the flashback; why have the Ian scene at all? Well, consider what the flashback does here: it emphasizes the
of character growth. It says, in as strong and certain a way as possible, "You were wrong when you were a girl, and you're wrong now." And that's
absolutely devastating
to do to the protagonist of the work. You
do not
have a flashback to remind us of previous failures just to highlight that the protagonist has failed yet again and has therefore learned nothing from their prior experience.
It completely undermines any credibility that they have as an active agent of the narrative. When you have a character fail in their youth, then go through experiences in a story's plot, and then fail again in
the same way, you have a character nobody wants to see. You have a character that cannot be trusted to do things, that's clearly too weak, too childish, too foolish to credibly be relied upon to make decisions. You don't write stories about people who repeatedly make the same mistakes. Not as the protagonist. The protagonist gets to be right because they
to be right or they lose any right to call themselves the protagonist.
And that's the thing that makes this the worst part of the entire game, somehow managing to be
worse than the Ridley scene
: the protagonist
right. Because Samus is not the protagonist; she's just the viewpoint character. The true protagonist of
Metroid: Other M
is Adam Malkovich.
General Adam MarySuovich
From the Deleter's point of view, Adam would represent the largest threat.
Samus Aran
Really, isn't that all the proof you need that Adam Malkovich is a Goddamn
Mary Sue
? When a writer shoves a line like
down the "protagonist's" throat, it's pretty obvious what we're dealing with. He is a classic
Original Character
Mary Sue. Yes, Fusion talked about him, and he guest starred as the computer to an extent. But the details could have been anything; he was never particularly fleshed out there. That's prime fodder for crappy fanfic authors; I'm sure that there were many fics pre-Other M written with Adam self-insert Mary Sues.
But first, some definitions. Allow me to
quote myself
A Mary Sue, to my mind, is an audience reaction to a series of occurrences that do not otherwise make sense. It is an out-of-universe explanation for a specific and consistent pattern of
contrived circumstances
personal idiocy
out-of-character behavior
, and other things in a story that
don't make logical sense
. The particular pattern that indicates a Mary Sue is that the unexplained phenomenon all happen to aid some facet of a particular character.
No single incident, no matter how incredible or outrageous, can damn a character as a Mary Sue. It must be a consistent pattern, and to have a pattern, you need more than one incident.
And that is what we have here: a consistent pattern, found throughout the work.
First, there's the
praises from Samus. She just goes on and on about how much Adam means to her and how close they are and so forth. Sure, Samus talked Adam up in Fusion, but he barely appeared in that game; she had to do that in order to describe him to us. Indeed, his appearance was a plot twist. Plus, nothing she ever said rose to the level of considering Adam a bigger threat to the Deleter than herself.
Even more indicative of the problem is that her praises are not backed up by what actually happens in-story. She says that they're friends, but they do nothing even remotely friend-like with one another. Indeed, his abusive behavior towards her, both mentally and physically, suggests something quite different. She says that he knows her best, but again there is precious little evidence to back that up.
Then, there are the action elements. The Deleter gets the drop on him and at least one shot is fired. Yet Adam is still alive. Adam managed to survive a fight with a man who caught him unawares and likely got the first shot off from a range of about 7-10 feet. And do we even need to mention his Mary Sue Cannon of Disabling +12?
But it is his behavior towards Samus that is most indicative of the problem. Samus is completely de-protagonized in this story, all so that Adam can be the game's real hero. The abusive, controlling relationship that Adam has with Samus is the most powerful evidence of a Mary Sue infestation. Every independent thought that Samus has is systematically ground down.
This happens from the first moment Adam exists to his very last action. In their first meeting, Samus uses her missiles, and all it takes is one look from the "hero" to stop her. In the last, she wants to go into Sector Zero, so out comes the Mary Sue gun. Oh, but all to save her life; because the only thing better than shooting the main character is shooting her and getting thanked for the trouble.
Adam does nothing less than steal Samus's agency, and all she can do is thank him for it. Samus is reduced to a bit player in her own story. Even after Adam is dead, the story cannot help but shove more words of praise into Samus's mouth about him.
Words that are, again, not backed up in story.
The man who shot her without even
to talk to her is someone that the viewpoint character thinks of as her best friend. In the end, none of Adam's dickishness is ever acknowledged.
That's text-book Mary Sueism.
Of course, this is the worst kind of Mary Sue: the
one. A-Sue-la was written into that episode by a well-meaning mistake: the writers wanted her to be a tough opponent and simply took things too far. Adam? Adam was very deliberate, and it's hard to argue that point. It's something we'll talk about more at the end, but it's clear that the writers meant to write him this way.
So, let's get a final tally on the ways in which this scene has shat upon the Metroid franchise.
Shitting on Metroid
: For having every Metroid enemy and villain outdone by a guy with a regulation GF pistol. They all tried their best to take out Samus, but what it really took was a Mary Sue wielding an ice gun.
: For de-protagonizing the main character of the series, turning her from a badass bounty hunter into a
fan-service girl in a skin-tight outfit
sits on the sidelines
(when she isn't being forcibly benched) and
doesn't actually accomplish anything during the story
: For completely annihilating the very idea of Adam Malkovich as presented in Fusion, reducing him from a stolid, heroic figure into an abusive, scene-stealing Mary Sue who literally walks off with the final level of the game.
: For making it hard to play Fusion again without thinking of Samus and Adam's reunion at the end as
the horrific reuniting of an abuse victim with her abuser
On the plus side, the game doesn't get worse. On the minus side, the rest is still pants-on-head retarded.
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Consider what you're seeing. You are watching the protagonist of a videogame, stripped of her armor, made weak, frail, and helpless, while an NPC tells her that she can't go into the final level. An NPC literally walks off with (what ought to be) the final level of the game. I can't imagine what that would feel like as a player, but from a story perspective? It completely de-balls Samus. She is no longer an active participant in her own game!
Not only that, but it carries over that insult to the player, who gets robbed of the chance to go to Sector 0, the big area, the one that's been hyped up! Nah you bitch. You can't handle it. The PERFECT MILITARY MIND Adam Malkovich will take care of it for you. As a person who is taking classes on Games Development, this is insulting on countless levels from that perspective ALONE.
#11: For making it hard to play Fusion again without thinking of Samus and Adam's reunion at the end as the horrific reuniting of an abuse victim with her abuser.
No, see this is my theory, one that I made to stop me losing faith in the Metriod Series. When Samus brought up Adam Malkovich to the AI, he looked through the Dossier on him, went through reports, and gathered footage from the Bottle Ship to see who this man was. The sheer paradox of Samus' praise being give to such an inept, useless, condescending, dickhead was so volatile, that the AI spontaneously gained emotions through said Paradox alone. It was then that the AI decided that if he was to be given the identity of Adam Malkovich, he would do everything in his power to defy his legacy, by being a genuinely insightful, respectful an intelligent commander, to steer Samus in the right path, to become the person she was truly meant to be (Let's still assume this is Other M's take on Cannon, and not the one where Samus is an independent, strong character). It's kind of a psudo-semi Martin Guerre situation when you think about it.
Emperordaein 26th May 12
Personally, I prefer the theory that Other M is an in-universe propaganda film created by the GF to discredit Samus Aran after the Fusion incident.
It has fewer plot holes than thinking that Other M is actually canon.
Korval 29th May 12
No, see this is my theory, one that I made to stop me losing faith in the Metriod Series. When Samus brought up Adam Malkovich to the AI, he looked through the Dossier on him, went through reports, and gathered footage from the Bottle Ship to see who this man was. The sheer paradox of Samus' praise being give to such an inept, useless, condescending, dickhead was so volatile, that the AI spontaneously gained emotions through said Paradox alone. It was then that the AI decided that if he was to be given the identity of Adam Malkovich, he would do everything in his power to defy his legacy, by being a genuinely insightful, respectful an intelligent commander, to steer Samus in the right path, to become the person she was truly meant to be (Let's still assume this is Other M's take on Cannon, and not the one where Samus is an independent, strong character). It's kind of a psudo-semi Martin Guerre situation when you think about it.
You know what? If Other M has to be canon, this is the only fan theory that can make me enjoy Fusion.
So thank God for that AI Adam; he's certainly preferable to the real version.
Scardoll 30th May 12
Jeez, I always thought Adam was bad, but by the end of this page, my jaw was on the floor as I was exposed to the truth of Adams character. I'm stuck with this one thought in my head:
thefavs 12th Jul 12
What if Adam Malkovich was a woman instead of a man and did all these things to Samus? Would Fem!Adam still be considered a total jerkwad for stealing the spotlight and taking the final glory and all that?
Nettacki 17th Apr 13
What if Adam Malkovich was a woman instead of a man and did all these things to Samus? Would Fem!Adam still be considered a total jerkwad for stealing the spotlight and taking the final glory and all that?
Yes. It wouldn't have the misogynistic tones it does now, but Fem!Adam would still be just as much of an over-controlling Mary Sue Jackass as Male!Adam.
The character
steals the last level of the game.
Male or female, that's not kosher in a videogame.
Kind of a sad attempt at playing gender politics though.
Korval 22nd Apr 13 (edited by: Korval)
Sector Zero Metroids being freezable makes sense, actually. Samus' cutscene thoughts were confirmed as being hypotheticals ever since we saw the "military blows up the Bottle Ship" scenario. Just because Adam
would invent weapons with no weak spot doesn't mean others wouldn't. Besides, guns that shoot ice should be pretty rare to find unless they were fighting a bunch of ice beings like Noxus. In
, Adam says that the GF had made the Ice Missiles because they saw that trying to give Samus her Ice Beam back would clash with her part-Metroid DNA, and would either cause the power-up to be rejected by her immune aystem, or just kill her. It should be seventeen times harder to do the same with actual Metroids.
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Welcome to Catch of the...Day
Perhaps this section of our new blog would more aptly be named Catch of the Week, but as we intend to submit tidbits on international noshables whenever the mood strikes (which, around here, is more like daily), we're going with Catch of the Day. Check here--definitely Thursdays, maybe every other day--for updates on all things epicurean, from Boston to Belgrave. Today, we're following in Slow Food's footsteps by starting local.
A couple of weeks ago, I stopped through one of our favorite New York drink joints (and 2008 Hot Lister), the golden-era throwback PDT, where I found Don Lee manning the bar. Computer scientist by day, cocktailian by night, he mixed me and my date some Staggeracs (George T. Stagg bourbon, Angostura and Peychaud's bitters and Absinthe Edouard) and demonstrated an impressive array of pocket square folds. The night finally ended with a Mt. Vernon (Clear Creek Kirschwasser, Gran Duque d'Alba Brandy de Jerez, Toro Albala 1979 PX Sherry, Cherry Heering, and grapefruit juice) and a fuzzy cab ride home.
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Fast forward to the release of Conde Nast Traveler's May Hot List issue. Another of our favorite guys behind blurry cab rides: Tailor's Eben Freeman. A man after our own hearts, Freeman is quite the globe-trotter. This February, he was in London to carbonate, vaporize--create--the Mojito of the Future. For a little while, he's sticking around Tailor, playing with beet sangria and huitalacoche mescal. But Freeman's next trip will roll around soon enough, when he's off to New Orleans for Tales of the Cocktail, where it seems like everyone in the spirits world will be mixing, lecturing, and sipping. Freeman will lead a seminar on molecular mixology, during which Tales-goers can munch on his Ramos Gin Fizz marshmallows. Cocktail in a bite; why not?
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That's how some families who lost loved ones in December's massacre at a Connecticut elementary school view the Senate's defeat earlier this week of the most far-reaching gun control legislation in two decades, as they pledged to keep fighting for measures to prevent gun violence.
Neil Heslin, Erica Lafferty and Carlee Soto were among the Newtown, Conn., family members who spent a week on Capitol Hill describing how their loved ones died at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14. But their stories of horror and heroism were no match for the National Rifle Association and concern from Republicans and a small band of rural-state Democrats.
Lafferty, whose mother, school principal Dawn Hochsprung, lunged unarmed at the gunman to stop him from firing, said she was "honestly disgusted that there were so many senators that are doing nothing about the fact that my mom was gunned down in her elementary school, along with five other educators and 20 6- and 7-year-old children."
The Senate rejected on Wednesday a series of gun control bills that would have tightened background checks for buyers, banned assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, and loosened restrictions on carrying concealed weapons across state lines, the last measure backed by the NRA.
Within hours of the votes, former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords accused senators who opposed the new regulations of "cowardice" in a piece published in the New York Times' op-ed page. Giffords was among 13 people wounded two years ago when a lone gunman opened fire as she met with constituents in a Tucson, Ariz., shopping mall, killing six others. She and her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, had lobbied for the bills' passage.
On CBS' "Face the Nation," moderator Bob Schieffer asked Heslin, Lafferty and Soto Sunday whether the words "cowardice" and "cowards" were appropriate to describe Wednesday's vote.
"I do," said Heslin, who's 6-year-old son Neil Lewis died at Sandy Hook. "I feel they're not standing up for what they should be."
Carlee Soto, recounted her sister Victoria's courage to try to save her students, Neil Lewis among them.
"My sister wasn't a coward that day. My sister pushed the kids up against the wall, out of sight," she said.
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What you see here is presumed to be a picture of a picture of a Samsung Galaxy S5 mini. This seems to have been snapped from the company's UK web page. Being the curious individuals that we are, we tried punching in the URL into our browser, but to no avail – it sent us to the site's main page. The address may be no longer valid, or perhaps the picture has been taken by someone authorized to access it.
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But to move upward you will need the religious mind. The scientific mind will not be enough.
The scientific mind can go more towards things. And this is how you are going to move towards things: from the conscious mind you have to come to the cosmic unconscious mind. Perhaps things have a cosmic unconscious mind, absolutely dormant, but it must be there. Otherwise how is it possible that you eat food, which is dead, which is a "thing," but it feeds your brain, your mind, and keeps them functioning. Somewhere, some part of the things you eat is releasing some consciousness, some mind quality to you. Otherwise from where do you get your mind?
They say if you don't breathe for six minutes, and oxygen does not reach the brain, the brain starts deteriorating. Its cells are so delicate that at the most they can survive without oxygen only six minutes.
It happened in the Second World War that a few people had heart attacks, just a psychological heart attack: a bomb fell just in front of them, exploded and killed many people. When you see so many people dying - suddenly an explosion and so many people dying - it is possible to have a psychological heart attack. You may fall dead. You are not dead, but amongst so many dead how can you stand alive? You can't be an exception. You are not the only begotten son of God; you are just an ordinary human being, and when everybody is dying what are you doing here? Just the shock may stop your breathing.
They revived many people like this in Russia in the Second World War. If the person was revived after six minutes had passed, he became alive, but he never became conscious. He remained in a coma because already the brain had broken, but the whole body came back; everything else started functioning.
I have seen one woman who had been for nine months in a coma, with everything functioning. She was breathing, her pulse was normal, everything was good, just somehow her brain had gone into nonfunctioning. The doctors said she could live years. If you went on supporting, helping, feeding her, she could live for years, but there was no hope that her brain could be restored. And we don't yet have banks for brains, to put somebody else's brain in your skull.
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I have recently been on a NYX kick. I really like this gloss. Dont go by names when picking out colors. Beige is not beige it is actually a light pink color. I like it because it is neutral with no glitter. Goes on nicely and stays on. The price is the best 5.99. I could buy two lipglosses for what I would spent on one MAC. The only downside is the smell. It reminds me of a cherry coughdrop. Luckily it disappears within a few minutes.
I absolutely love this color. Its a nude pink that doesnt look too cool or too warm, but a perfect shade of light pink thats appropriate staple for everyday. I like this better than nyx natural and nyx perfect.
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I LOVE THIS LIPGLOSS! The name is so off but it dosen't bother me. It's such a nice pink that I think would work with every skin tone. It's pigmented enough to be worn alone or on top of a lipstick. I'm an NC42 and this dosen't look crazy on me. As far as texture goes it's very creamy, and has no shimmer or glitter. For $5 this is amazing and you can't go wrong. I would recommened everyone give it a try! (:
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Like most people i have no idea why this is called beige... I wouldnt call it barbie pink but a medium pink (no real pruple/blue undertones) it has no shimmer, which i prefer and the shine isnt too overwhelming.
I LOVE the smell but i understand some people might not like the cherry/fruity scent. I am very conscious of the color of my teeth so i tend to avoid pink lipgloss/lipstick but this a gorgeos color and not too light for my nc20 nc25 skin.
The formula is not sticky but lasts a substantial time which impresses me and feels quite moisturising.
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Beige is pink. Just happens to be a very nice pink that looks like a universal color that could be worn by anyone. I love the NYX lip glosses ~ they are a great value and great products. Based on the price, if you don't like it, you don't feel like you wasted a ton of money, if you can't wear it. DH has me on a budget, so no new lip gloss purchases for awhile...
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First of all, clearly this isn't beige...lol. It's a pretty barbie pink and I got mine at ulta for 5.99 (give or take a few cents). It's beautifully pigmented, the pink brings out the true color of the gloss. You can wear this alone or you can top a lipstick with this to make your lips brighter if you wanted but with my full lips, I wear it alone. This lipgloss smells like starbursts candy... haha at first, I thought it was just awkward smelling but then I realized it's a little fruity. It's not too bad... the gloss itself isn't sticky. It glides on smoothly and I feel like it'll easily rub off though so I usually reapply. I prefer sticky glosses as opposed to non-sticky because the color stays put on my lips. This is probably my only con with this gloss but I do love it. Would recc. if you're looking for an opaque bright pink gloss without too much obvious shimmers.
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I read a lot of reviews about this so i went to the mall and got it right away. The first time i tried it on i really liked it. It is a soft rose color which enough sheer. It's not very sticky either and smells very nice. However, after a few tries, i dont think im a big fan of pink glosses anymore. It does not go too well wirh dark eye liners on nc25-35 skin tones. I am okay with this product but will not purchase it again
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This is a pretty natural pink color. I love the shine, and it's quite lasting. I'm ok with the smell - although it's yucky, it doesn't last long (basically only when applying it).
My first NYX lip product - and I wasn't disappointed! This is an absolutely beautiful medium pink color that goes with pretty much everything. I've been wearing it all the time since i bought it yesterday at Ulta. The price can't be beat and this gloss is fab; it smells kind of like cherry popsicles and has a beautiful velvety texture. Great color payoff as well. I find that the wear is generally a few hours, but I don't mind reapplying lip products so that's no big deal to me. The doe foot appliator is kind of weirdly shaped, it's longer and skinnier than most and seems "furrier" or something. One dip from the tube isn't really enough to apply the amount of gloss I'd like, but two dips is too much, and the packaging makes it difficult to wipe off excess back down into the tube. But I will live with that because it's otherwise so wonderful. As other reviewers have said, this is definitely comparable to more high end glosses and I prefer the texture of this to the MAC lipglasses. It feels more plush and less sticky. Definitely a winner!
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This past Spring, we set out to gain 1,000 followers per week on Twitter. It was hard work, but we were successful. We used a political account that was active in the online community. We followed 1,300 people per week and in return – a thousand people weekly followed the account back. We targeted people that were extremely active on Twitter and for six consecutive weeks, we had six-thousand followers, or a thousand people per week.
We then tested this website's twitter account – @RightWingIt – same thing happened. For one week, we were able to get a thousand conservative patriots to follow us back. We don't know to many people out there that can actually get near this many followers in a seven day period. This was easier getting our brand of conservative news out.
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CHARLESTON – A Ranson resident and another transgender woman say they were ordered to take off their makeup, jewelry and wigs at two local West Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles offices or else they wouldn't get new driver's license photos.
In the process, the women say they were belittled and referred to as "it" rather than "she."
"The manager told the agent I was working with, 'It' needs to remove 'its' makeup and false eyelashes,'" said Kristen Skinner, who lives in Ranson.
Skinner, 45, left the Division of Motor Vehicles office in Charles Town in January with a license featuring her new female name and a headshot she says looks nothing like her.
Trudy Kitzmiller, 52, described a similar experience in May at the Martinsburg office. Downtrodden, she left without a new license and kept her old one with the wrong name and an inaccurate photo.
"They dehumanized me," said Kitzmiller, who lives in Mount Storm in Grant County.
Late last month, an official from the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund based in New York wrote the state Division of Motor Vehicles to ask for new photos for the two women. The letter said denying them of that would violate constitutional free speech rights.
Under West Virginia law, the two women will need to see a judge first, according to the division's acting commissioner, Steven Dale.
Like several other states, West Virginia requires a circuit court order for someone to change gender on a driver's license. A judge has to acknowledge the person completed gender change procedures.
Skinner and Kitzmiller are both still undergoing medical treatment for their gender switches.
Otherwise, wearing makeup as a man could be construed as an attempt to conceal or disguise one's identity. It is akin to a face-covering scarf or a hat, though the decision about what someone can wear can vary case by case, Dale said.
"Until these two drivers take the steps necessary to change their gender to the satisfaction of a Circuit Court Judge, their photographs must reflect their identities as males," Dale said.
Dale said he is still sorting through what happened during the visits. He said division employees undergo sensitivity training to ensure everyone is treated with respect.
"If that was not accomplished in these cases, I will apologize," Dale said.
The process has been particularly problematic for Kitzmiller. She's an out-of-work heavy equipment operator, and employers won't consider her because her outdated ID doesn't match up.
Skinner, an information technology employee for the federal government, said she had no problem getting her federal work badge photo switched, makeup and all.
Such issues aren't uncommon for transgender people, said Michael Silverman, executive director of the Transgender Fund.
In March, a 16-year-old boy in South Carolina who dresses like a girl was denied having his driver's license photo retaken wearing makeup.
Not every state is as stringent as West Virginia about changing gender on a driver's license, either.
In Florida, for example, a doctor needs to confirm a person is in the process of changing genders. Completed surgery isn't a requirement.
Silverman said that's not the main issue. He said officials are wrongly making judgment calls on gender appearance.
"It's not the job of the DMV to decide women and men need to look a certain way to meet DMV expectations about gender presentation," Silverman said.


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How to say Chorus in ˈkɔr əs, ˈkoʊr-
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