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Saw "Late Night" yesterday, and enjoyed it quite a bit. It centers on the relationship between an aging and tyrannical "Tonight" show host (Emma Thompson) and her newest writer (Mindy Kaling, who wrote the script). Kaling's character Molly is explicitly and obviously a diversity hire (she's in mid-interview when the interviewer gets a phone call, on speaker, saying "Have you hired a woman yet? No? Well, get on with it!" whereupon he hangs up and says "You're hired!"), and the otherwise all-white-male writing staff openly refer to her that way. Her challenge is to make herself useful and necessary and shake things up. No earth-shaking messages, but fun.
On the way home from the movie,![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
shalmestere and I discussed the "shoe" leitmotif that runs throughout the movie. If I were to watch the movie again, I think I would keep a list of every time a character specifically refers to shoes or the camera focuses on shoes or a character does something specifically involving shoes. I think they all mean something, but I'm not sure what.
On the way home from the movie,
shalmestere and I discussed the "shoe" leitmotif that runs throughout the movie. If I were to watch the movie again, I think I would keep a list of every time a character specifically refers to shoes or the camera focuses on shoes or a character does something specifically involving shoes. I think they all mean something, but I'm not sure what.