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chronomally · 11 months

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I watched 1966's Gambit and found out there was a 2012 remake but honestly the only changes to the original Gambit I would want are to make Nicole actually Asian, have her fall in love with Shabhandar, and wipe clean the uncomfortable veneer of imperialism over the top of it

#please feel free to ignore this #movie review #Honestly I don't think it would be a huge stretch to spin Harry's behavior and original expectations of Shabhandar as racism #Considering that's kind of already how it comes across and almost how Shabhandar himself describes his public vs. private personas #Also I really don't get Nicole falling in love with Harry when she and Shabhandar actually like have things in common #and he like listens to her when he talks #I do miss something about the lighting and unsubtly camera work/musical stings of 1960s cinema #It's like they just figured out that was a thing they could do but the visual language hadn't been established yet #so they were trying to train audiences

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