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5 Examples of Male Gaze Movies That infamous scene of Megan Fox leaning over the hood of a car? That’s the most male gaze thing, like, ever. A hot girl that knows mechanics? That’ll have both Shia LaBeouf and the male audiences gawping, as was director Michael Bay’s intention. Her body is placed right in the center eyeline of the camera, where her crop top leaves little to the imagination. She’s made the object of the camera and the audience....

16. Popping Out Veins A crucifix-like symbol appearing on (or above) a character’s head depicts their anger or annoyance with whomever they’re talking to. The larger the symbol (or more of the symbol) to appear, the higher their anger or annoyance—which is often followed by a comical uppercut that sends someone flying, or at least with a giant welt on their head. It’s derived from the image of a forehead vein popping out when someone is angry or strained....

Superhero Movies Before the MCU These days, superhero movies do pretty well at the box office. Doesn’t matter if we’re talking about MCU, DC, or whatever other universe—they’re expected to do well. But it wasn’t all that long ago when superhero movies often bombed at the box office, and audiences rolled their eyes when another superhero movie was announced. Except for a few rare winners—Tim Burton’s 1989Batman(1989) was good, as was the follow-upBatman Returns(1992), and some of the earlierSupermanmovies were solid enough—most were forgettable at best, cringe-worthy at worst....

Metagaming and Min-Maxing, Defined Metagamingis when you incorporate knowledge fromoutsidethe confines and rules of a game to inform the decisions you makeinsidethe game. For example, if you know your opponent inDota 2likes to jungle a certain way, you might rush ahead and lay down wards, or even try to gank him before the game starts. Or more commonly, knowing that a certain item build is the current trend for a certain character, so you intentionally pursue an unusual item build that can counter it....

Moby Dick’s Scale Is Deceptively Epic Moby Dickstarts with the character of Ishmael on his way to Nantucket. From there, he only visits one other place: The Pequod. Between these two locations, it may not seem like this book could feel very expansive in scale… …but few other novels have managed to feel as broad and vast as this one. As each word is offered to the reader,Moby Dickbecomes more grand, more weighted, and more wonderfully wide in its narrative....