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i am once again asking you to watch the 2019 shakespeare in the park production of much ado about nothing

#signor bene D I C K

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pick a movie.

keep one actor.

the rest of the cast will be Muppets.

Goody & Billy with flowers🌸

Los amo :’)

my type of otp: slowly the insults become terms of endearment

Can we talk about how not only did Red Harvest know basic English the whole time, but he literally told Sam this information.

Sam let him fuck with everyone. Why didn’t we get any shared amused smirks between them at everyone else’s expense.

I heard that in the next ST movie, Chekov will be in another ship, which is fine because seeing another actor playing him would be too sad. But the other day I started thinking that maybe there should be another character, a new one, because it would be right to do again what Roddenberry did when he added Pavel Chekov to the crew. I mean, back in the 60s, Chevov was way more than a cute kid. It was the middle of the Cold War and he was from Russia, the sworn enemy of the USA at the time. His presence at the bridge was a symbol of peace, of hope.

Since things have changed, this new Chekov never had the same meaning. So maybe they should add someone with that meaning now. I’m not American, I don’t know what country he or she should come from. Maybe from North Korea? Cuba? Iran? Whatever country America hates most now, this new character should be from there. Put an Iranian woman wearing a Starfleet approved hiyab on the bridge and don’t make a single comment about it because it’s the 23th century now and no one gives a shit about these things. Then, she’ll give us the same message that Chekov gave us in 1967: things will get better. 

I love this idea.

This panel from Tintin in Tibet is one of my favorites in the entire series. Tintin falls asleep during a chess game with Captain Haddock, and has a vivid nightmare about his friend Tchang (Chang in english) stranded in the mountains after a plane crash. He awakes from the nightmare shouting Tchang’s name, which shocks everyone in the parlor room.

This panel is hilarious, of course, but it also uses the comic book format to its fullest storytelling-potential. A wide shot like this in a film would be more challenging, since the viewer’s eye can only focus on one thing at a time, so it’d likely be cut up into a series of smaller shots. But because it’s a comic, we can capture the single moment Tintin shocks everybody. Each bystander can have a uniquely goofy reaction, and the viewer can linger as long as they want without breaking the flow of the story.

End times is such a good episode holy shit

Noomi Rapace by Driu & Tiago for The Edit Magazine, September 2014.

LOOK. 

LOOK AT THAT SMIRK.

LOOK AT THE LIFT OF HER EYEBROWS AS SHE GLANCES BACK AT HIM. THE GRIN BEFORE SHE FOCUSES ON WHERE SHE’S RUNNING TO, TO FIND WHERE TO SET HER TRAP.

Nat is running for her life - only not really - and enjoying every second of it.  There is no fear there.

She knows this game.

She knows whom she is playing with.

And now that she knows he doesn’t remember that she already knows all his moves, she can play him.  Like Happy, like Stark, like Luchkov.  Just like all men.

Do you think she’s pretty, Bucky?  Come into her web, said the spider to the fly.

No. Stop dehumanizing Nat like this. Stop putting her on this pedestal. Stop belittling Bucky’s trauma. STOP.

Yeah, she’s proud of herself for shooting him and saving Steve, but she’s also terrified out of her mind. She’s not toying with him. She’s desperate and afraid.

She doesn’t know him.

She doesn’t know his moves.

She doesn’t play him.

Her trap was pitiful.

Her attack was useless.

Her beauty means nothing to his traumatized mind.

He is not capable of that kind of thought at the moment.

He throws her off him in less than five seconds.

He shoots her, fatally without medical intervention.

He kills her if Steve didn’t come to her rescue.

Still kills her if Maria didn’t come to their rescue.

She lost this fight.

She’s human.

She’s allowed to have flaws and weaknesses.

Get over it.

This kind of nonsense isn’t empowering to her, it’s dehumanizing her by not letting her be three-dimensional. She can’t win every fight, she can’t manipulate everyone.

It’s also disgusting to even suggest that at this moment Bucky has any thoughts about her beauty or her womanhood. None of that matters to him. She’s a level six target, that’s all he cares about. His mind is too damaged and conditioned to think of anything else until Steve wakes him up.

She’s good, she manages to stay half a step ahead for a bit and even slightly injure him. But he’s still better because all he is is the kill and there’s nothing there for her to work with.

Robin Wright's Ralph Lauren custom jumpsuit for the Emmys.

Prom vs Laser Tag

As irritating as I find the “prudish old timey idiot” fanon interpretation of Steve Rogers, nothing will beat my disdain for unnecessarily angry/violent Steve Rogers. For racist/xenophobic/reminiscent-of-a-staunch-Republican-even-though-that-makes-zero-sense Steve Rogers

Because that isn’t even a strict fanon thing. That’s just the Ultimates version of Steve. The “do you think this A on my head stands for France” version of Steve that 30 year old nerds who like “gritty” comics think is super cool.

And I LOVED Cap 2 for placing Steve firmly in opposition to that idea, that we didn’t have some bullshit violent cynical superhero movie like The Dark Knight made popular. Steve Rogers isn’t even a favorite of mine in the comics, but MCU Steve being earnest and heartfelt (and sarcastic and always on the ball and very aware that beaurocratic bullshit doesn’t ever change much) is so absolutely right to me.

Less superhero movies about shitty obsessive grimdark crybabies and more superhero movies about good people pls

William Upski Wimsatt  (via ewanmcgregoring)