![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Feb. 23rd, 2014 09:07 amOne day, when I've got more than just a vague idea, I'm going to write something friendship based. Which sounds fluffy, but there is a serious lack of actual friendships being represented on tv or movies. I'll have to content myself with bookishness. I want something where your 'main' character isn't a self centered ass 99% of the time and you understand (maybe not immediately, but quickly enough) why they're friends.
In my head we're going to focus on female friendships but these things evolve over time. There are some articles popping up for the anniversary of the end of Sex and the City and I've watched some episodes here and there (I'd watch more but the library can only do so much) and I find myself wanting to slam Carrie in the face with a frying pan... and also wishing you saw more of the other women hanging out/doing things/existing without Carrie.
I've been watching Girlfriends and I think one of my favorite bits from the first season and a half that I've re-watched most recently has to do with Toni and Joan's friendship and how, somewhere in the first season, you see Toni being not an ass to Joan and she does it effortlessly and doesn't call attention to it and... I wish I could remember what it is. I think it's how she handles Joan's pregnancy scare. She does it in this way that you believe someone who has been your best friend for longer than you can remember would. And it's a shame they set fire to that friendship so early on because it kind of ignores that bit of the dynamic. I like that glimpse into someone's past and how it shapes them, both as a character and in their relationships.
I want something that shows how hard you fight for a relationship that you've had for eons and how you can resent it and then cycle back to loving this person even as you would gladly smack them into the middle of next week.
I want something that feels real enough that when you're reading or watching or whatever, you feel like you're with your friends, or the friends you wish you had.
I think my single biggest disappointment with a lot of the more popular book series/movies that spring from them, and a lot of television shows, is that they'll give the main character a best friend, but it's in name only. The friend appears and is there when appropriate or needed for plot, but you cannot, for the life of you, figure out why best friend would stick around for main character's BS. (This, naturally, wipes out anything where the best friend is in love with the MC.) I also take issue with the things where you can't figure out why the MC would be friends with their alleged best friend because it never seems to work. This seems to be because the thrust of the work seems to be in favor of OHNOES, It's the end of the world! or Love Triangle Consumes All.
In my head we're going to focus on female friendships but these things evolve over time. There are some articles popping up for the anniversary of the end of Sex and the City and I've watched some episodes here and there (I'd watch more but the library can only do so much) and I find myself wanting to slam Carrie in the face with a frying pan... and also wishing you saw more of the other women hanging out/doing things/existing without Carrie.
I've been watching Girlfriends and I think one of my favorite bits from the first season and a half that I've re-watched most recently has to do with Toni and Joan's friendship and how, somewhere in the first season, you see Toni being not an ass to Joan and she does it effortlessly and doesn't call attention to it and... I wish I could remember what it is. I think it's how she handles Joan's pregnancy scare. She does it in this way that you believe someone who has been your best friend for longer than you can remember would. And it's a shame they set fire to that friendship so early on because it kind of ignores that bit of the dynamic. I like that glimpse into someone's past and how it shapes them, both as a character and in their relationships.
I want something that shows how hard you fight for a relationship that you've had for eons and how you can resent it and then cycle back to loving this person even as you would gladly smack them into the middle of next week.
I want something that feels real enough that when you're reading or watching or whatever, you feel like you're with your friends, or the friends you wish you had.
I think my single biggest disappointment with a lot of the more popular book series/movies that spring from them, and a lot of television shows, is that they'll give the main character a best friend, but it's in name only. The friend appears and is there when appropriate or needed for plot, but you cannot, for the life of you, figure out why best friend would stick around for main character's BS. (This, naturally, wipes out anything where the best friend is in love with the MC.) I also take issue with the things where you can't figure out why the MC would be friends with their alleged best friend because it never seems to work. This seems to be because the thrust of the work seems to be in favor of OHNOES, It's the end of the world! or Love Triangle Consumes All.
