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Re: Recent Reading
D. - I'm guessing you're referring to Russell's "F*** you too!" in response to the Thing's angry howl? Personally, I really enjoy that bit, and have never thought of it as 'macho' at all. Now, if it had been said to a human villain, I would agree, and think it would lose its impact, becoming just another generic '80's action movie quip a la Schwarzenegger and co. It is the context of the scene, I believe, that makes it effective; a man is facing off against something completely alien and completely inimical to life on earth, aware that his actions may be futile and result in a quick death or at best slowly freezing later on, and, confronted by the hungry maw of cosmic horror, cusses it out. It's such a *human* reaction, that perfectly captures both defiance and resignation, taking a potentially cheesy bit and imbuing it with a stirring stoicism, as well as black humor.
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