Right Back Where We Started

CANDYMAN — 1992 dir. Bernard Rose

I'm rewatching Howl's Moving Castle after so many hears I forgot how much I love this film so much 😭💜💜💜

IM SO MAD AND SO SAD ON SOPHIE'S BEHALF WTF IM HAVING SO MANY EMOTIONS ISTG THIS IS LIKE WATCHIMG FOR THE FIRST TIME

I'm so fond of Sophie so much I wanna be called a good turnip too 😭😭💜💜

I'm rewatching Howl's Moving Castle after so many hears I forgot how much I love this film so much 😭💜💜💜

IM SO MAD AND SO SAD ON SOPHIE'S BEHALF WTF IM HAVING SO MANY EMOTIONS ISTG THIS IS LIKE WATCHIMG FOR THE FIRST TIME

Salt of the Earth (1954), dir. Herbert J. Biberman

Damn, son.

EVERYONE SHOULD WATCH SALT OF THE EARTH

Salt of the Earth actually has a crazy interesting history- OP already said it was made in 1954, but that was in the middle of the Red Scare (communism scary cold war hysteria)

Congress’s anti-communism target fell hard on Hollywood, and those in the industry who were suspected of communism at all were blacklisted from all jobs, because studio’s didn’t want to face backlash from Congress

Salt of the Earth was made nearly 100% with blacklisted crew members from Hollywood, and had such difficulty finding actors that they hired local citizens and miners from the actual strike the plot is based on. There were only 5 trained actors involved, and one of them (Rosaura Revueltas, the woman in the gif) was deported to Mexico before they finished filming on accusations of communism, with no proof and no substance. The filming was plagued with police harassment and threats (according to my professor they were shot at more than once), and the local union hall was burned down.

The movie itself not only covers a real 1950′s labor strike demanding safer and more equal labor conditions for Mexican-American employees, but after the miners were facing arrest, their wives and children took up the strike in their place. The movie’s combination of blacklisted crew, civil rights and feminist message, and pro-union plot (during the red scare) got the movie blacklisted and only 12 theaters in the entire United States would show the movie- it was successful in Europe, but didn’t actually achieve viewership in the US until the 60′s

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/mar/10/salt-of-the-earth-labour-workers-blacklisted-filmmakers

Venom (2018) is a Romcom, and here’s why

(or ”in this essay I will” joke gone very very wrong)

So, as most of us already noticed, Venom (2018) sure feels like a romantic comedy disguised as a superhero (well, antihero technically) movie. But is it truly? The short answer is yes, but I didn’t just spend my afternoon hunting proof to leave you with a short answer.

Now, I must note that Venom is really not the first superhero movie to mix another genre in. Off the top of my head, and perhaps most obvious, Ant-Man is mixing superheroics with a heist movie. Black Panther has the political thriller going. Thor: Ragnarok is a full blown cocktail, adding at least three more genres to the original one. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that someone thought to mix in romcoms, and I for one am grateful that our first example of it has alien slime falling in love with a guy.

Because that’s what happened, despite certain people bending over backwards just to not acknowledge it. But I promised you proof, so let’s get to it.

How do you determine if something is a romantic comedy or not? “That’s just the vibe I got” is really not going to cut it in a debate. But what is a vibe if not our subconsciousness recognizing a certain pattern? In this case, the pattern was the plot structure. Not being a huge fan of romcoms in general, though, I wasn’t sure how to put it into words. Thankfully, I didn’t need to: with a bit of googling, I found out that most articles have referred to the same source when it came to the romcom plot structure: a book “Writing the Romantic Comedy” by Billy Mernit. According to him, all romantic comedies can be broken down into seven story beats. How many of those would you guess does Venom follow? Hint: it’s all of them.

The rest under cut. Careful, spoilers start here!

Afficher davantage

Gonna read this later.

Just watched the movie. And I’m in total agreement with this lol

The ‘break up’ scene really clinched it for me, like they already have a chemistry before that with Venom being weirdly possessive and then that compromise where they were a team and aww, but then that thing in the hospital happened and seriously, eddie was emotionally in turmoil and vulnerable in that moment. And Venom’s acting like that boyfriend who seriously messed up like lmao

Also, this is the first time I’ve ever had an OT3 (Eddie/Venom/Anne).Heck an OT4 (Eddie/Venom/Anne/Dan) even! First time I found polyamory attractive lol

Venom (2018) is a Romcom, and here’s why

(or ”in this essay I will” joke gone very very wrong)

So, as most of us already noticed, Venom (2018) sure feels like a romantic comedy disguised as a superhero (well, antihero technically) movie. But is it truly? The short answer is yes, but I didn’t just spend my afternoon hunting proof to leave you with a short answer.

Now, I must note that Venom is really not the first superhero movie to mix another genre in. Off the top of my head, and perhaps most obvious, Ant-Man is mixing superheroics with a heist movie. Black Panther has the political thriller going. Thor: Ragnarok is a full blown cocktail, adding at least three more genres to the original one. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that someone thought to mix in romcoms, and I for one am grateful that our first example of it has alien slime falling in love with a guy.

Because that’s what happened, despite certain people bending over backwards just to not acknowledge it. But I promised you proof, so let’s get to it.

How do you determine if something is a romantic comedy or not? “That’s just the vibe I got” is really not going to cut it in a debate. But what is a vibe if not our subconsciousness recognizing a certain pattern? In this case, the pattern was the plot structure. Not being a huge fan of romcoms in general, though, I wasn’t sure how to put it into words. Thankfully, I didn’t need to: with a bit of googling, I found out that most articles have referred to the same source when it came to the romcom plot structure: a book “Writing the Romantic Comedy” by Billy Mernit. According to him, all romantic comedies can be broken down into seven story beats. How many of those would you guess does Venom follow? Hint: it’s all of them.

The rest under cut. Careful, spoilers start here!

Afficher davantage

Gonna read this later.

I rarely go to the movies but when I do, it’s for historical-based ones haha

I wanna watch this so baaaad...

Here’s the story behind that amazing Google doodle from Thursday

If you think Walt Disney was the first person to create a feature length animated film you’re wrong. The first person to do it was a woman – Lotte Reiniger. See more about how her silhouette stop motion worked.

Gifs: Nat and Lo

I’ve already reblogged this but I’m going to again because ever since I found out about Reiniger I’ve been horrified and pissed off that she was NEVER ONCE mentioned in my history of animation class. And neither were any of the other women animators I’ve learned about since.

Animation majors of all people should be taught about this, but no the only figures deemed worthy were all men

PREACH!

Some gifs I made from Erik Wernquist’s brilliant short film, Wanderers. All the locations depicted are digital recreations of actual locations in our solar system. If you haven’t seen it, drop what you’re doing and watch it now. It even features narration by Carl Sagan. [2/2]

I am so ready for Guillermo del Toro’s critically acclaimed monster boyfriend movie

that’s it. that’s the whole movie.

I liked the movie, tbh. Some of the parts I couldn't take seriously (AU Light's scream lol 😅😂😂) -like at all. It just made me laugh. NDN (Netflix Death Note) can never replace the original so I never thought of it as a replacement. Just think of it as a fanfic au on-screen guys, and chill out.

I didn't like how they portray Ryuk tho. Too much sentiment of 'for d evulzz' and less about 'boredom is literally worse than death. Entertain me.' that I was looking for (and it would've made sense, y'know). Awesome voice acting tho.

I love their L and Watari. Their relationship and characters were the ones that moved me from indifferent amusement to actually liking the film. It was just... so sweet, y'know. And heartbreaking. I almost shed a tear.

The two Kiras (Light and Mia) simultaneously amused and pissed me off. James was meh, and used as a plot device.

All in all, it wasn't bad, but it wasn't the best either.

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Wanna remind y'all that Bea Arthur actually opened a homeless shelter for LGBT+ youth in NYC