
S P I E S redux this time with bonus ~ladiez
in which they aren’t spies at all really.
Zoe Saldana plays THIEF, the extremely brilliant jewel thief who plans and executes all of the jobs and doesn’t do well with slackers. Olivia Wilde is DRIVER, the more laidback and carefree side of the team, who may just be this side of crazy based on the way she drives. Jaimie Alexander is BANK, the rich and mysterious benefactor who hires the team for heists for no other reason than pure enjoyment of the game. And Scarlett Johansson plays TECH, the computer and weaponry division of the team, who’s quirky attitude and jokes keep the team alive.
#the greatest #i’ve got red in my ledger. i’d like to wipe it clean. #she manipulates people’s gendered expectations of her to extract information#she conducts interrogations by letting people think they’ve bested her #by letting men think they’ve bested her #because she’s small and fragile and female and she is emotional and easy to snap in half #and then she tears them apart #and it’s the greatest thing and you’re the greatest thing and i love you #get your own movie
#and Agent Coulson over there #he’s probably humming the jeopardy theme to himself


#and then she tricked him into revealing his plans #ur fave could never
#except no other faves COULD ever because nearly every other names character in this film is male #and natasha operates within gender paradigms #she exploits them and inverts them and uses them to burn the best laid plans #i do think she’s actually afraid here when he says he’ll have clint kill her slowly and intimately #just because he could and my kingdom for the two of them when she has a nightmare about the hulk #but otherwise she knows exactly what she’s doing. every facial expression and body motion is purposeful #these strong powerful men with ego problems think her vulnerable because she’s armed with nothing but her body #and that body is small and breakable and doesn’t have any armor at all #but that body is far more powerful than any of those men realize and she can kill with it if she has to #and she’s got no problem with that but her main goal is extraction and you can’t extract information from the dead #so she takes those assumptions about her and turns that strength against the men who think little of her #she allows them to think they’ve gotten power over her and in so doing she crawls into their plans and burns them down from the inside #your favorites could actually never because every other avenger in this film is a man #and a man could never do this
BRIENNE : Then I am yours, my Lady. I will shield your back and give my life for yours if it comes to that. I swear it by the Old Gods and the new.
CATELYN : I vow that you shall always have a place in my home and at my table and that I shall ask no service of you that might bring you dishonor. I swear it by the Old Gods and the new.

#i always want to laugh and laugh and laugh at joffrey’s line ‘but they have the soft hearts of women’ #you know what fine say they have soft hearts #but they have fire in their veins #and winter steel lining their spines #their dignity is more than most men #and there’s grace in their words #they’re mothers of dragons and wolves and cubs #and with that comes a fierce love for their children and family #and a fury unmatched #they’re clever and enduring and brave so brave #even in the most dire of situations their strength of character does not break #you can have their tears but you won’t have their spirit #and cheekbones #they have lovely cheekbones #so let the men play their game of thrones #the women are going to be the survivors of war #with their soft hearts #re: game of thrones
Brienne the Beauty

Happy Belated International Women’s Day!