tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250975110371077460.post5037634599795029110..comments2023-07-12T11:10:10.865-04:00Comments on Why We Need Obama: Palin = Fargo's Marge Gunderson - VideoMetavirushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18399799638759096551noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250975110371077460.post-36535773602191633272008-10-05T14:23:00.000-04:002008-10-05T14:23:00.000-04:00I think Rob Dreher is absolutely right in the Pali...I think Rob Dreher is absolutely right in the Palin/Gunderson comparison, but he missed the point of <I>Fargo</I>. I couldn't possibly put it better than Thomas Pope from his book <I>Good Scripts, Bad Scripts</I>. On the folksy language used by both Jerry and Marge: "...the inability to articulate can lead to an inability to feel; that the blandness of speech that Jerry and Marge employ indicates a deeper blandness of thought and emotions; that we are, to a greater degree than we'd like to admit, the words we speak." That inability to feel was most clearly revealed when Palin was unable to muster even feigned sympathy after Joe Biden choked up when talking about late wife in daughter in the debate.<BR/><BR/>Also, Marge may be the protagonist, but hers is not the typical movie "hero's journey." As Pope says "Marge will forever believe in happy endings and smiling faces, living a life in which , in the words of Arthur Jensen in <I>Network</I>, 'all necessities [are] provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused." <BR/><BR/>Yes, Sarah Palin is Marge Gunderson in a much deeper way than a sprinkling of "doggone's" and "you betcha's" might initially suggest.snooznhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14590595010149763431noreply@blogger.com