ninemoons42:violent-darts:zombeesknees:#confirmed: rick o'connell will rock back and forth in a hug
ninemoons42:violent-darts:zombeesknees:#confirmed: rick o'connell will rock back and forth in a hug for comfort #her character development from 1 to 2 is my fave but what they did with rick is some nice work #taking the character from 1 who’s the guy who says ‘i dunno i was about to be hanged [kissing you] seemed like a good idea at the time’ #it would seem like the easy and hollywood way to make him all wise-cracking about his married life #like ‘oh-ho the little woman’s at it again - amirite fellas?’ eye-rolling sorts of unease with his domestic situation #or chafing at not being a free agent adventurer or something #or worse- try to create some sort of narrative from conflict between them that needs to be ‘resolved’ #but instead they’re like WHAT IF HE’S RIDE-OR-DIE DEVOTED TO EVIE EVERY MINUTE #WHAT IF THE ONLY EYE ROLLING HE DOES IS WANTING TO HAVE FIVE GD MINUTES ALONE AND QUIET WITH HIS WIFE #WHAT IF HE’S CASUALLY DECLARING HIS ‘IF ANYTHING EVER HAPPENED TO YOU’ COMMITMENT WITH EASE #WHAT IF RICK/EVIE MAINTAIN THE PUSH-PULL FRIENDLY ANTAGONISM OF MOVIE 1 BUT MAKE IT A GOOD THING #‘OH ALRIGHT WE’LL DO IT YOUR WAY’ ‘HONEY YOU’RE NOT A SUBTLE MAN’ #LIKE IT WAS PART OF THEIR ONGOING AND SUPPORTIVE DYNAMIC #AND THEY BOTH TAKE JUST ABOUT EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO MUTUALLY JUMP INTO EACH OTHERS ARMS #AND MAKE OUT JUST FOR FUNSIES #AFTER 10 YEARS AND A KID #well done chaps - good development (and one of my fave examples of the Battle Couple trope) #say it with me now: relationship development =/= ‘now add conflict’ #relationship development can also mean a myriad of other situations - like dealing with an external conflict TOGETHERIt’s totally consistent with him in movie 1, too. Like it’s so clear that his entire experience of her is “….oh wow this woman. She’s so amazing. She just gets more amazing. Oh, oh wow. Maybe like I could stay with her. How do I make her like me. I KNOW I WILL STEAL HER A SET OF ARCHEOLOGY TOOLS. SHE LOVES ARCHEOLOGY. YEAH GO RICK.”And by movie 2 it’s obvious he’s spent the past however many years living a life of “omg am married. TO EVIE. I have a wife. EVIE IS MY WIFE. OH JESUS I HAVE A KID. :D :D I HAVE A FAMILY AND A LIFE. WITH EVIE. WHO IS MY WIFE.” Interspersed with “why is my wife trying to get us killed. Why is my son trying to get us killed. Or at least himself killed. JONATHAN WHAT YOU DO. Evie no. Evie love of my life no. EVIE. ALEX!! OH FOR FUCK’S SAKE! JONATHAN!!! Why does everyone I love have the self-preservation instincts of SOMETHING THAT HAS NO SELF-PRESERVATION INSTINCTS?!” AAAAAAAAAAAA OTPPPPPPPPPP -- source link