Hela Yes, I Want To Be A Goddess of Death!
I think I literally squealed watching this preview. The trailer for Thor: Ragnorak is *so* good.
Yes, we want more Loki–and look! It’s Jeff Goldblum! I’m add it to the pile of movies that I’m impatiently waiting for **cough** #WeWantAquaManNow **cough**
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Hela Rad! Guess what we’re all going as for Halloween this year?
And then…she appeared. Kate Blanchet plays Hela: Goddess of Death. It’s always the sign of a great actress if she can carry off wearing antlers. Just sayin’. Also, Blanchette looks GREAT with dark hair. (I always wanted dark hair).
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Action figure anyone? Kate goes Goth. LURV!!!!
And mostly, you know, watching this I just am so massively, suddenly into the whole goddess of death thing.
I do love a great villain, I really do. I’ve talked about Circe Lannister before –as well as the actress who plays her, Lena Headey but now I have to confess: I just love powerful female characters. Show me a powerful, complex, intelligent leading female character and frankly, I don’t really frickin’ much care if she’s evil.
It’s not about being evil. It’s just that I want to relish a female character who walks around without excuses or apologies.
Let me amend that–
A woman of power who walks around without excuses or apologies –and that’s okay. It’s okay with her — and with those around her. I confess I still inwardly roll my eyes at the otherwise wonderful Wonder Woman movie when at one point WW squeals: “Oooh! A baby!” I mean, it makes sense because she’d never seen a baby before, but I was relieved that she never seems to engage with one again. (Whew!)
Yes to these new powerful heroines and villains — Bring on the child free. Bring on the kick-ass. Bring on the women who aren’t trying to please, who don’t live for others, who live in their own skin and never cringe about it.
To sum up: I predict Hela turns a thousand little girls kinda gay.
While I have to wait all the way until November to see the new Thor movie (sob!) tonight is going to be a whole different kind of fun: my sweetie and I are going to see ATOMIC BLONDE.
Quotes: from Evan Narcisse of i09:
“What’s stuck with me after seeing Atomic Blonde is the portrait it paints of the emotional decay that happens to espionage agents.”
Excellent! I LURV emotional decay! It’s my favorite kind of decay ever.
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Yes please! McAvoy is an awesome actor, and makes every scene he’s in wiggle with life. You want to crawl up on the screen and hang out with him. This is a perfect role for him. And while I love watching a powerful woman, what I love even more is watching a powerful woman when she has a hot guy side-kick giving her support–of whatever kind. (Wink wink. Nudge nudge.)[image error]
“From the first, Broughton comes across as icily aloof, even as it’s shown that she had a romantic past with a murdered colleague.”
Or…um, maybe she’s just really into her job? Like Bond? You don’t see him needing an excuse to cold blood-edly kill—he’s just really really good at it.[image error]
Thank GOD she’s not another of those movie characters who we have to watch being beaten and raped. Or someone who wants vengeance for some crazy form of abuse. I have great empathy for damaged, traumatized, broken women–I really do. But there are plenty of other excellent reasons to go out and kick ass–we don’t all have to be victims first. Enough broken women in movies – enough!
Talking of a female Bond – that franchise is so dead and old it’s mouldering in the grave, now that they’ve passed on Idris playing Bond. I’m going to look forward to more movies like ATOMIC BLONDE instead– especially if they’re written and directed by women too.
Speaking of women who are the boss of you….
I absolutely loved this interview Alexa Day did Tuesday. Having read her short story “Passing Through” I advise you to hop on this new novella on Friday, July 28. The whole fem-dom thing is hotting up, people. Catch the rising wave:
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Click to follow Alexa Day on Amazon…so you’ll know the instant this bad boy drops.
Look — a blurb!
The summer’s brought two surprises to bar owner Gigi Dean: the former Army Ranger she hired is the perfect barback, and he pleases her in bed as much as he does at work. Gigi swore long ago never to let a man come between her and her business, so allowing herself to succumb to her intense attraction to her employee for more than one night is a definite no-no. But for how long can she resist the desire to seduce this powerful alpha male?
Right at the start, Noah Monroe told his boss that he is just passing through on the way to a more permanent job. He hasn’t told her that his hunger for her keeps him awake at night. He won’t have more than this summer with the gorgeous woman who is his perfect match. Can he coax her into his arms for a summer fling? Or will acting on instinct cost him everything he’s begun to love?
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Madeline Iva writes fantasy and paranormal romance. Her fantasy romance, WICKED APPRENTICE, featuring a magic geek heroine, is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and through iTunes. Sign up for Madeline Iva news & give aways.
