Innerspace Inspiring Minor Details in Writing Size Fic

[rscholar]

I had considered making these 2 points separate questions, but then I realized they both came from the movie Innerspace so I figured why not roll them together?

1) How important is establishing sexiness ahead of time? Margeret is obviously gorgeous (Fiona Lewis did a brief bit for Playboy), but I still often conflate her being shrunk to her earlier intro when she's in bed in lingerie with wine and grapes and Mr. Igoe pulls out his "alternate hand" which makes her smirk. In less than a minute, we get she's sexually active and enjoys being kinky.



If that scene and anything else alluding to her sexuality didn't exist, would her getting shrunk later have lost something in its appeal? God knows it would be fun picturing the bedroom scene but now she's 3 feet tall and still waiting to be pleasured.

Do you have novel or interesting ways in establishing a woman's sexual appeal before she shrinks? I usually see stuff like describing her body and clothes which is fine, but what about something like showing she's sexually active or at least subtly alluring? Maybe a unique quirk or fetish that might make her receptive (or not) to becoming small, like she thinks sex isn't fun without a little danger?


2) Does "ironic" dialogue help or hurt? During the big car chase where tiny Victor and Margaret ambush Martin Short and Meg Ryan, Victor grabs Martin and tries to strangle him while saying "You little pipsqueak, I'm in charge here!" in his squeaky helium voice (then Martin throws him over his shoulder like a ragdoll which always cracked me up. Sorry I couldn't find the clip). Of course, with the example from Innerspace, there's an element of defiance that could help, but it depends on if the dialogue is based on personality or prior knowledge, but what if a woman says obviously ridiculous things that happen to be size-related unironically, which itself becomes ironic? Like, a businesswoman making a presentation begins to unknowingly shrink but her speech is full size puns? "As we can see on the chart, we're heading in a downward trajectory. If business continues to dwindle, our profit margins will contract and our quarterly reports will come up short." Does that make things more fun or is it too on the nose and come off as annoying?

[Sdk3]

Its been so long since I seen Innerspace, I totally forgot that scene. But, yes, I think that sort of backstory makes shrinking hotter.

Speaking of her fate, am I right to assume that Meg Ryan and Martin Short intended to microsize them? Without the ship Quaid had, that's pretty much a death sentence.

[Aussie_Lurker]

Its been so long since I seen Innerspace, I totally forgot that scene. But, yes, I think that sort of backstory makes shrinking hotter.

Speaking of her fate, am I right to assume that Meg Ryan and Martin Short intended to microsize them? Without the ship Quaid had, that's pretty much a death sentence.

From my recollection, the shrinking of the villains was an accidental by-product of Ryan's and Short's ham-fisted efforts to retrieve the chip from the machine. Last we see the two villains, they're hiding inside Quaid and Ryan's luggage as they head off to their honeymoon. I assume they plan to try and get the chips back so they can get back to normal size.