a much more fiendish buffet value!

lindsay ellis was right when she said jessica rabbit is a complex and deeply interesting female character. i'd also combine the jessica rabbit point with something lindsay ellis said about megan fox's character in the transformers movie. where megan fox is on paper a complex character, but the way she's shot and the way she's put in the frame makes her two-dimensional. if 'my eyes are up here' was a character and you never even got to see her eyes. but jessica rabbbit is also framed by/for the male gaze, and she rules, so what gives? unlike with megan fox's character, i think the male gaze camerawork is kind of the POINT with jessica! you're made very aware of it because she's a cartoon purpose-built to titillate. you expect that jessica rabbit's majestic prow occupies the entire screen. so when her actions don't align with a two-dimensional (no pun intended) caricature, it's like, wait, what? whereas with megan fox's character there's no such "i'm leaking out around the constraints of my archetype" feeling.

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