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Another thread about the flag at end (but wait, hear me out...)

posted 9 years ago by BakedEel
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I get that they wanted to show the flag flying over the broken bridge to represent America triumphing against adversity, I don't really have a problem with that (even if the idea has been absolutely flogged to death in Hollywood movies), but I thought of a way to improve the image: have a rainbow flag flying over the broken bridge instead. That represents the gay community for which SF is famous and their own history of struggling against adversity, and is iconic and representative of the history and culture of the CITY, not just the country in general, so would have been more appropriate, would it not?
Am I right or wrong?

Now I know if they had gone with that, there would be the usual noises made from irate rightwingers about not being pandered to/being subjected to ideas they don't care for, shock horror, but c'mon... the circumstances of this film are unusual (disaster/action movies set in SF) so it would be a rare chance to show what I'm describing: the solidarity of SF culture.

Thoughts, please.

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[–] coutterhill 9 years ago

No.

[–] BakedEel 9 years ago

No you're not going to share your thoughts, or no you don't want to see the rainbow flag instead of the stars-and-stripes at the end of the film?

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[–] averyfamily91 9 years ago

Not much to discuss. They didn't do it. Leave it at that.

[–] BakedEel 9 years ago

Not much to discuss. They didn't do it. Leave it at that.

But should they have done it? That is the question.

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[–] BakedEel 9 years ago

Every Hollywood movie has a big American flag right at the most emotional point or by the climax. What's new here?

Yeah, I definitely remember that bit in Pulp Fiction, The Godfather, The Matrix, Enter the Dragon, Star Wars, and all of the Lord of the Rings movies. What else? The end of The Dark Knight of course, when Batman rides off on his batpod and suddenly Rush Limbaughs' gurning sexface fills the screen with the stars and stripes boxer shorts on his head and a fluctuating klaxon wailing. Love that film.

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[–] Makeagoodmovie 9 years ago

What if they had put up some type of Christian symbol to show that everyone still had faith in God? There would be an outrage. Left wingers would be screaming about having morality pushed on them. Leave it the way it is.

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[–] BakedEel 9 years ago

San Francicso (despite its name) is not especially historically associated with Christianity the way it is with gay rights and liberation, which is the reason for my suggestion. Also, since this is a film about real seismic activity in a scientific sense, a cross at the end would likely lead people to think it meant the earthquake was a punishment from God (who, in popular perception, loves to do things like that). Most left-wingers and sane people in my experience, myself included, don't need to have morality pushed on them, we possess it already, though mainly the conventionally moral variety, not the biblical variety.

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[–] poit57 9 years ago

The main characters that we are following throughout the entire movie are from Los Angeles - a US military veteran and his heterosexual family. A symbol representing the LGBT community of San Francisco just because the story ended there would be completely out of place.

San Francisco, while having the highest percentage of LGBT population, is still only at 6.2% according to recent polls. You've admitted yourself that you get why they ended with the American flag image, but very few people would understand the logic behind representing a single city with a symbol based on a stereotype, especially when the destruction affected a large portion of a very large state and was said that the effects would be felt all the way to the east coast of the United States.

[–] brent-302 8 years ago

No. A pride flag would just give fundamentalist homophobes a reason to claim that God had destroyed San Fransisco because of homosexuality. Where I live those types blame the gays every time it rains enough to flood a street.