Sean Patrick
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Hello, my name is Sean Patrick He/Him, and I am a film critic and podcast host for the I Hate Critics Movie Review Podcast I am a voting member of the Critics Choice Association, the group behind the annual Critics Choice Awards.
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The Reckoning of 'Mr. McMahon' Vince Told Us Who He Was Years Ago, We Didn't Listen
“When someone tells you who they are, believe them.” - Maya Angelou. While I am sorry to bring Maya Angelou into a conversation about Vince McMahon, the vile, loathsome, egotistical founder of the WWE, her quote is too perfect not to mention in relation to a man who wants to disconnect his personal and professional personas but has done a remarkably poor job of that. For many, many years, Vince McMahon appeared on his nationally broadcast television programs and told us exactly who he was, a greedy, misogynistic, creep who rode a wave of depravity to the top of his particular industry.
By Sean Patrickabout a year ago in Geeks
Spoiler Alert-Writing Challenge: How Speak No Evil Uses Recontextualization
Taking a thing with an established meaning and giving it a new and different meaning is to recontextualize that thing. For instance, in a general context the sun is contextualized as daylight and warmth. But in the universe of the legendary vampire, Dracula, the sun means danger and death. Media about vampire characters has successfully recontextualized the sun. Characters in a vampire movie seek the sun not merely for its actual context but as a way of defeating or, at the very least, delaying the monster seeking to destroy them.
By Sean Patrickabout a year ago in Writers
