FORKNI-L
Digest - 7 Mar 2016 to 8 Mar 2016 (#2016-11)
Tue, 8 Mar 2016
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Topics of the day:
1. FK rewatch on Amy R.'s journal
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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 04:38:04 -0500
From: Greer Watson <gwatson2@r.......>
Subject: Re: FK rewatch on Amy R.'s journal
If you want to read what Amy wrote about "Dance by the Light of the Moon",
you will have to go here: http://brightknightie.dreamwidth.org/223655.html
. However, this is *part* of my comment. Neither the beginning, nor the
end; I lifted it from the middle. So again, if you want to read the whole
thing....
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It is Schanke who makes explicit, in his own sexist way, the irresistible
force that is Woman, to which Man is far from immovable. This thread runs
through the entire episode. In fairness, though, one should distinguish
between sexual influence and the evil thereof. In Ann Foley, the two are
twisted inseparably. However, Sir Nicolas is seduced by *sex*. Janette
does not truly offer herself as evil: her words more truly reflect the
conflation of sex and sin. The darker temptation comes only at the end, and
from Lacroix. Whether Nick accepts vampirism because he truly understands
what is offered--well, to the end of his days (by which I suppose I must
mean "Last Knight") he denies that he ever truly knew what he was getting
himself into. It is, I think, entirely possible that what he most surely
understood was that acceding to Lacroix's offer was the only path to further
trysts with Janette.
Sex is also clearly what Ann offered *her* victims. However, in her case,
it is obvious that they were explicitly told that crime was the route to
further conjugation. I don't doubt that she would have had to lead up
gradually to murder. Few previously decent people would take *that* leap to
evil on the first request! But this, of course, explains the
anticlimactically absurd request that Nick filch a notebook for her: plot
trumping affect. (Unusual, really. Gaping plot holes all too often result
from the decision to skip continuity and go straight to shock'n'awe.)
Ann *is* just "a monster". We have no background for her that might
explicate her passion for chills and thrills. Nor does she particularly
convince in her role as former lawyer. The actress was, let's face it, cast
as stripper. Few women in any profession have such features and figure.
"Ann Foley" is *fundamentally* a temptress role, and one-sided even by the
standards of guest characters, especially when we consider the amount of
screen time she got. Indeed, the viewer's appreciation of "Ann Foley" is
heavily reliant on recognition of the mythic temptress figure--not unmingled
with the sort of social cliches offered by Schanke and the sexist
assumptions that underlie them.
Greer
gwatson2@r.......
http://www.foreverknight.org/FK4/
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