The Alphyne dynamic in movies
4 years ago
We all love the Alphys and Undyne dynamic, right? But what are some of your favorite movies that explore that concept? Typically in movies, the nerd and jock characters end up as BFFs, not the OTP, but the "brain and brawn" personality dynamic is still there. Probably the most obvious example would be Scotty Smalls and Benny Rodriguez in 'The Sandlot'. Well, except that story seemed to do everything it could to deride Scotty's "Nerdular Nerdance" (to borrow a term from Strong Bad). Jocks might be the ones who use sporting equipment, but it's nerds who design it and set up the infrastructure for manufacturing it. Mathematics and engineering, yo! And I say that as someone who's more the art-and-literature "emo" type.
Anyway, there's an '80s action comedy that you might dig if you like that Alphyne dynamic. It's called 'Feds'. Janis is the Alphys and Ellie is the Undyne. They're FBI trainees who end up as BFFs, not the OTP, but that works just fine (for reasons aforementioned). And I'm not spoiling anything since most of you would have figured that anyway. Janis - the brain- grasps the academic stuff just fine, but struggles with the physical stuff. Ellie - the brawn - being a former Marine, is the opposite. Come to think of it, Ellie is also kinda like Clover (the Soul of Justice). There's a scene where she helps Janis pick out a pistol to use as a duty sidearm and it's a SIG/Sauer P226 (Swiss design, German manufacture, American pattern), a model that was used by Fox Mulder in classic '90s X-Files, starting with Season 2. 'Feds' came out in 1988 which was the year the FBI started issuing the P226. It's also the year Mulder, being skilled in psychological profiling, cracked a big case shortly after joining the Violent Crimes Unit. Btw, did I mention I'm an X-phile? I'd better shut up before I end up writing a tangential essay that would put Alphys to shame.
>w<
Note: Tangential thinking is a right-brain trait.
Anyway, there's an '80s action comedy that you might dig if you like that Alphyne dynamic. It's called 'Feds'. Janis is the Alphys and Ellie is the Undyne. They're FBI trainees who end up as BFFs, not the OTP, but that works just fine (for reasons aforementioned). And I'm not spoiling anything since most of you would have figured that anyway. Janis - the brain- grasps the academic stuff just fine, but struggles with the physical stuff. Ellie - the brawn - being a former Marine, is the opposite. Come to think of it, Ellie is also kinda like Clover (the Soul of Justice). There's a scene where she helps Janis pick out a pistol to use as a duty sidearm and it's a SIG/Sauer P226 (Swiss design, German manufacture, American pattern), a model that was used by Fox Mulder in classic '90s X-Files, starting with Season 2. 'Feds' came out in 1988 which was the year the FBI started issuing the P226. It's also the year Mulder, being skilled in psychological profiling, cracked a big case shortly after joining the Violent Crimes Unit. Btw, did I mention I'm an X-phile? I'd better shut up before I end up writing a tangential essay that would put Alphys to shame.
>w<
Note: Tangential thinking is a right-brain trait.
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