Kitten Night Farts

I love this phenomenon. I'm sure there's a better terminology for it than my ramblings, but I see it everywhere, it goes beyond foreshadowing and into things like subtext, and I don't think it's necessarily accidental.

A very common example you see in online spaces are trans folks drawing themselves as the opposite sex long before the realize years after the fact that that might mean something.

Hayao Miyazaki has the most chaotic way of making films that I've ever seen. He has no idea how the story is going to end when production starts. In Spirited Away he described the flooding at the end as a fortunate accident. He wanted the train scene to be completely barren in contrast to all the previous visual noise, and was relieved when he realized he had foreshadowed it.

There's a fun interview with spielburg about close encounters of the third kind where he's confronted with the interpretation that the movie ends with music and computer science coming together which were the respective professions of his parents, so it was a scene about him reaching out to communicate with his parents, and he laughs because he didn't realize that when he made it.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton said “Talent does what it can: Genius does what it must.” and I think that describes this perfectly. You know what a 4 act structure is in basic terms, and there's nothing particularly superhuman about recreating that formula, but there's this small but significant part of you that, unbeknownst to you, is intentionally calling shots and turning that work into something more than you intended.

You could call it accidental, but you did it. Another good quote from red letter media: "You may not have noticed, but your brain did."

ok ok so I connected the dots, stede bonnet represents everything blackbeard has dreamt of since he was young, with class and comfort while blackbeard represents everything stede has dreamt of even before her was married, with exploration and freedom in this essay-

Did anyone else notice this scene? When Nick opens the refrigerator he disregards Amy’s thoughtfully-labelled containers of healthy food (”heart-smart!!”, ”blueberries - for immunity”, “spinach - for strength”) and instead selects the unhealthy tub of ice cream; the only Amy-free option. It’s a subtle but effective detail by Fincher to indicate Nick’s contempt for Amy’s thoughtfulness and gives us an insight into the couple’s home life. Also, when Nick notices the cat watching him do this, he feeds it in order to placate the animal’s judgement (representative of Amy’s judgement) and to remedy his own guilt. He’s also bribing the cat to ‘his side’ in the war of Nick v.s. Amy (a childish to-and-fro game I like to imagine the couple played out with their pet leading up to the disappearance). Furthermore, the fact that this scene follows the [spoiler] reveal of Nick’s affair with Andie sways us to even further dislike Nick and to sympathise with Amy. From this point onwards Nick is exposed as the “oblivious and uncaring” husband he knows he is and this is exactly what Amy wants us to see.