#Wise blood

[marella-moon]

drawing I did while watching Wise Blood (1979)

#sorry i cant stop draawing brad dourif #hes not even my usual kinda guy like... #theres no stopping me tho the trains rolling #brad dourif #wise blood #film #artists on tumblr

[exdeputysonso]

Brad Dourif as Hazel Motes | Wise Blood (1979)

#brad dourif #hazel motes #wise blood #wise blood 1979 #filmedit #film #john huston #myedit #braddourif* #everycharacter* #wiseblood* #love this movie love this character #he is very special to me

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... Nothing outside you can give you any place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.” ― Flannery O'Connor , Wise Blood

#Flannery O'Connor #Wise Blood #southern gothic #quotes #words and writing

[grapefruitgreenteaa]

This is so true fr

#brad dourif #i love brad dourif #billy bibbit #one flew over the cuckoo's nest #ragtime #Blue velvet #Wise blood #eyes of laura mars #bro is stunning #child’s play #charles lee ray

[apicturespeaks]

Wise Blood, John Huston

#wise blood #john huston #1979 #1970s #70s #brad dourif #movie #film #cinema #cinematography #screencaps #stills

[quotessentially]

From Flannery O'Connor’s Wise Blood

#quote #quotes #Flannery O'Connor #Wise Blood #words #books #literature

[dimrememberedstory]

SOUTHERN GOTHIC CINEMA

“The Southern Gothic style employs macabre, ironic events to examine the values of the American South. Thus unlike its parent genre, it uses the Gothic tools not solely for the sake of suspense, but to explore social issues and reveal the cultural character of the American South – Gothic elements often taking place in a magic realist context rather than a strictly fantastical one. . . .  Many characteristics in Southern Gothic literature relate to its parent genre of American gothic and even to European gothic. However, the setting of these works is distinctly Southern. Some of these characteristics include exploring madness, decay and despair, continuing pressures of the past upon the present, particularly with the lost ideals of a dispossessed Southern aristocracy, and continued racial hostilities.”

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) // The Night of the Hunter (1955) // The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) // Wise Blood (1979) // Interview with the Vampire (1994) // Eve’s Bayou (1997) // Winter’s Bone (2010) // The Beguiled (2017)

#southern gothic #gothic #a streetcar named desire #the night of the hunter #the texas chainsaw massacre #wise blood #interview with the vampire #eve's bayou #winter's bone #the beguiled #horror #gothic film #gothic literature #gothicism

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Trigun - Inspired by the movie "Wise blood"?

(maybe the book too but havent read it)

Anyways, first I thought it would just be funny to point out some surface visual references of charachters which prolly are too generic to be proof of anything.

I mean ehh thats generic enough-

Well that too-

Well the hat and crazy eyes are there

Well the last more recalls Vash's own injurys

(think there is a scene in his Eriks disguise that match more)

But ok, one could say that this is as arbitrary as any other of my posts that dont deserve to be posted - Until I saw the full movie and got that there may be a deeper and more interessting connection

So trigun is know to have atleast Christian-adjasent themes and the author, even if never or not anymore Christian, seems to have a familiarity and interest with it that goes beyond the usuall japanese "wow cool crossess" and pop kabalah stuff (like NGE and shit or persona having all those occcult demon shit)

So what does it have to do with the movie? Well it is one exploring a theme that seems to be simmilar, even if Wise Blood presents it in a more macabre, black-humor, less sentimental and uplifting way

A world without God - or better said Christ/Love/Forgivness

Triguns whole point about Vash not killing anybody IS in the end an expression of the want of the world to be able to heal, to get better, to people to connect in a true way, of going beyond tricks and self serving rational scientfic interests

Thats why Knifes is kinda a representation of cold, uncarring survival of the fittest, of evolution, of the rule of superior beings by force and cold calculation and deception.

To make a parralel to the movie, it shows a man who cant see Christ, the power of redemption of something beyond himself and his own interests and striving - even if he feels justified by partly believing the things he rejects.

But in the end without them, it becomes a self fullfiling prophecy - his "Church without Christ" - without healing of the blind and resurection, without redemption - it condems him to that, making him blind and dead, and his atempts at repenting for killing some guy for a petty reason futile - not even being able to recupareta the love he gets from a landlady.

The theme of a fake preacher is then what is reflected in Wolfwood in Trigun, who is also just a killer, trained by another one, who can in the end find redemption in death and doing the right thing, even if it has a tragedy to it.

And in a way that illuminates Vash's whole journey more, why he couldnt give up and why it was important for him to find love and not become a more suffisticated monkey in a zoo who's hand only his brother would want to shake...

And thats why Vash not killing is actually cool and good and not stupid - cause of a random movie that butchered a book that prolly was tottally different.

But why the self.depreciation? Isnt apreciating the world and creation, "art", not a dialog, a call and response of unlikely meetings?

If not: Yeah...Sorry

#trigun #wise blood #wiseblood #christianity #analysis #comparison #thematic comparison #dialectical materialism #yeah...sorry #didnt read the book so sorry if that would make more sense #anyways interesting movie #for a moment you think its gonna be a corny oh bad people help each other movie but nah lol #also funny but also sad #and shows how many old gems there are I and most others havent seen #also yeah I wanna quit social media as I said but this was too interesting to not share even if I alone care lol #but trying again even if I fail after two days like allways lol pray for me post-ironically

[charismat1c-megafauna]

Hey Brad Dourif tumblr girlies (affectionate), I collected every Brad Dourif movie I could find on youtube and put it into a playlist.

If you find one that isn't on the list, let me know, and I'll add it.

Edit: ok, looks like I'm gonna be spending real earth dollars to purchase Impure Thoughts (1986), rip it, and upload it perhaps to google drive or something but y'all gotta promise to behave about it and keep it on the downlow.

#brad dourif #spontaneous combustion #the exorcist iii #the exorcist 3 #childs play #chucky #horror #wise blood #istanbul

[lisamarie-vee]

#ned beatty #brad dourif #actors #film #wise blood #hatshop #1970s

[exdeputysonso]

Brad Dourif and John Huston on the set of Wise Blood (1979)

#my scans #brad dourif #john huston #wise blood #wise blood 1979 #again i love the behind the scenes and extra vintage stuff #my fave acquisition so far

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Psalter World Map, c 1265 Considered one of the great medieval world maps. No other surviving mappa appears in a psalter. Probably a copy of the map that adorned King Henry III's Painted Chamber at Westminster that was destroyed in 1263. British Library, London, Add. MS 28681

[Robert Scott Horton]

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Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place […] Nothing outside you can give you any place […] In yourself right now is all the place you’ve got.

— Flannery O’Connor, from Wise Blood (Harcourt, Brace, & Co., 1952)

[alive on all channels]

#maps #world map #Psalter World Map #Flannery O'Connor #Wise Blood #alive on all channels #quotes

[urouro-utsuro]

I liked the man from Wise Blood so much that I read the original work with ulterior motives, but even though I'm a slow reader, I read it at a rapid pace. And I fell in love with Hazel Moats even more.

I like people like Hazel Moats, whose inner world has become bigger than the outer world for some reason.

He has been in the paradox for so long that he doesn't seem to feel lonely at all, which is beautiful.

By becoming completely blind, he was able to see the inner world even more clearly.

Like something tangible that you can touch.

This seems like a story of salvation and paradox.

A story about returning to the origins of faith.

I'm not a Christian, but there were many parts that touched my heart.

He's like a rock star.

The original author and he both passed away very quickly.

I also became interested in Flannery O'Connor, so I bought a collection of short stories.

#brad dourif #Wise Blood #flannery o'connor #everyone loves you

[quotespile]

Free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.

Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

#literature #quotes #Flannery O'Connor #Wise Blood #quote #books #lit

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Wise Blood (1979)

#Wise Blood #John Huston

[batrachised]

"His face looked like it had a shout closed up in it."

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

#flannery o'connor #wise blood #this single line has stuck with me for so long