Friday 16 July 2021

Black Widow

I have seen Black Widow.

I may have teared up a little at the Marvel Studios intro.

The film itself could have mostly been done around the time it was set, though the time since Captain America: The Winter Soldier probably helped with how much of a sequel to it this is.

Malia J’s sad elegiac cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit over the more Bourne than Bond stake-setting titles, interesting choice. (Captain Marvel used Come As You Are around the end of act two.) Here we are now, entertain us.

The grim conspiratorial title sequence it scores (after a pre-credits riff on the same story that inspired The Americans) suggested the film would be more on the Bourne than Bond style of superspying, which of course it wasn’t in tone but actually kind of was in terms of plot. (And Rachel Weisz was involved in the superspy program in Jeremy Renner vehicle The Bourne Legacy too!)

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