Cade Yeager: A Man Who's Not Smart in "Age of Extinction"

Alright let’s talk about “Transformers: Age of Extinction” The most stupidest movie of all. It has lazy writing, lazy film-making, and probably many ways of errors. But since this site is about the treatment and portrayals of boys (and men) in the media, I’m only g
oing to be talking about Cade Yeager and Shane Dyson

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Let’s talk about Mark Wahlberg’s character, Cade Yeager. He is a struggling inventor from Texas….who doesn’t take a piss from people who wanted to buy his house…(For some reason, the screenwriter, Ehren Kruger, obviously doesn't know that the retailer didn't put the leaser’s house for sale until the leaser is unable to pay the rent)…who often gets in trouble.

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Obviously, Ehren Kruger (once again the screenwriter) wants Cade Yeager to do be a jerk a**.

Actually while he wrote the screenplay, it wasn't Kruger’s idea of a father-and-daughter story. It was stupid director Michael Bay’s idea because for some reason he wanted Mark Wahlberg to join in a new Transformers movie.

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While Cade Yeager (once again Mark Wahlberg’s character) might be a weapon guy shooting the aliens, Ehren Kruger the writer obviously doesn't want him to be a good man. For some reason, Kruger wants Cade to be annoying. Like in the battle scene in Chicago where Cade angrily opens a Bud Light bear at a glasses-wearing man

As Jeremy from CinemaSins said as he goes through the sins of the 2-part video, Cade Yeager “is a total asshole” and “MORE USELESS THAN SAM WitWicky”

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Look at the picture above, I believe Cade can’t do crap. His house is latter destroyed by Lockdown and now he has to travel with his daughter Tessa and her boyfriend Shane. And Ehren Kruger the screenwriter wants Cade to engage in arguments with Shane, mainly over her daughter. (More on that on my next post)

In the first Optimus Prime vs. Lockdown fight scene, Cade fails to rescue her daughter (He told her to run to the field instead of toward him) so that the movie can center him and Shane as heroes so that the movie can attract teenage boys and young men as part of a broad appeal. Because well. *pause* it’s the media. The media inaccurately knows what boys want to see. (And when I say inaccurately, I mean the media executives and the produces use research that I believe it’s dated) The media uses the “Dismiss in Distress” trope (which I first heard this year since I never heard of those tropes before until I started to discover more of tvtropes.org.).

Oh, when he tries to apologize to Optimus Prime, he makes the laziest speech ever of him turning Optimus Prime for the money, which he said it’s a mistake.

From Jermey (CinemaSins):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHZHSt1CSgo#t=300

So there you have it: Cade Yeager is a stupid man created by Michael Bay and Ehren Kruger.

I’m going to be talking about Shane Dyson, Jack’s Reynor’s character in another post.