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celluloidbroomcloset · 3 months

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I want to talk about Taika Waititi the artist, because I've been thinking about Boy for two days. (Fucking hate this caveat, but any hate earns an instant block and I will turn off anon if I have to.)

Almost every one of his films is about the power of love to heal. What makes his work more profound is that this is not a naive "love conquers all/love saves the day" narrative. People die. People are hurt. Generational trauma warps. Homes and nations can be broken by their past and their people's unwillingness to face it. Fascism can't be overcome by love alone. Parents can't protect their children from darkness. Children can't escape from what the adult world forces on them. Love is not going to fix all the problems and make all the bad shit go away.

But love can make the world better and survivable. The past can't be undone and the future can be uncertain, but loving others, and yourself, can make life worth living even in the midst of deep sorrow. Some of it is in forgiveness—forgiving previous generations for the harm they've caused (Boy, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Thor: Ragnarok, and Jojo Rabbit all deal with this)—but it is also forgiveness without excuses. It's never "it's not that bad," but "yeah, it is that bad, but we have to survive beyond it and maybe laugh about it if we can."

Boy in particular is a fucking primal scream of a movie that still manages to be very funny and very forgiving. Jojo Rabbit is similar but on a broader scale, encompassing an entire nation. The nuance of it lies in the films absolutely believing simultaneously that love can make things better and that love will not fix everything.

I think it's really valuable to have that kind of work in the world.

#taika waititi #jojo rabbit #thor: ragnarok #boy 2010 #ofmd #our flag means death

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bizarrelittlemew · 9 days

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*slaps roof of movie*

#boy 2010 #boy (2010)#taika waititi #ida.stuff #watch this movie. then watch it again with director's commentary to witness a whole new dimension of daddy issues #it's incredible i promise #happy taika tuesday i guess

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blakbonnet · 3 months

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Boy (2010) Behind the Scenes

#boy 2010 #boy 2010 bts #taika waititi #James rolleston

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captain-flint · 1 year

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Taika 🥺 Waititi

#taika waititi #our flag means death #ofmd #ofmdedit #boy #boyedit #boy 2010 #free guy #freeguyedit #edward teach #blackbeard ofmd #alamein #antwan #i rewatched boy again and the graveyard scene took me tf out. again #had to do a small compilation of his face doing That #there are so many scenes to choose from but these are probably my favourites #HOW is he so good at having eyes 😩#the way they catch light #my stuff

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usersukuna · 9 months

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TAIKA WAITITI as ALAMEIN in BOY (2010) dir. Taika Waititi

#taika waititi #taikawaititiedit #filmedit #movieedit #boyedit #boy 2010 #moviegifs #dailyflicks #cinemapix #filmgifs #motionpicturesource #userstream #userbbelcher #chewieblog #mine #gif #his eyes man look at his fukcing eyes look at those ey

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stedesparasol · 11 months

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our mother has been absent ever since we founded rome, but there's gonna be a party when the wolf comes home

#boy 2010 #boy (2010)#taika waititi #the mountain goats

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eaion · 1 year

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#yeah that's the whole post :)#you get the theme :D #taika waititi #taikawaititiedit #our flag means death #boy 2010 #what we do in the shadows #wwdits #ofmd #ofmdedit #viago #edward teach #my gif #twaititiedit #the phoenix foundation #that two are my favs :D

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evelynhenare1 · 11 months

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It makes me so incredibly mad that Thor Love and Thunder being kinda bad has made the internet think Taika Waititi is a terrible director or refer to the various corny lines that plague thr mcu as "taika lines" when like, Taika is genuinely such a fucking amazing director snd you only have to see his other movies to know that.

Like yeah Jojo Rabbit was fantastic, it was nominated for best picture for a reason but i think his earlier, more kiwi stuff is really his peak.

What we do in the shadows (the og movie) is probably one of the funniest films ive ever seen, its really well done.

Hunt for the wilderpeople is a fsntastic mix of funny and sad.

But my favorite will forever and always be Boy (2010), a movie that will never fail to make me genuinely weep. It's probably my favorite movie of all time, such a painful ride but also such a joyus one. He also plays a main character in this and gives imo his best performance by far.

Like look, besides love and thunder, all of his other films have been hits, so dont act like hes a shit director just because he had one miss.

(Also dont act like yall didnt love ragnarok, yall fucking loved ragnarok because it was great)

#taika waititi #thor #thor love and thunder #thor ragnorak #jojo rabbit #boy 2010 #hunt for the wilderpeople #what we do in the shadows #its like 4am when im writing this but i keep seeing tweets/ tiktoks about him and i csnt handle this slander #this isnt even a fandom or stan thing i just think hes a genuinely solid director #im also biased as a fellow māori and new zealander but still

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trans-luis-serra · 3 months

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Deer skulls being used as symbolism for father/son relationships and lost father figures in general……….

*incoherent wailing*

#if I had a nickel for everytime a story about a poc boy being inadvertadly betrayed by their father figure so they create a life of their #own from their own hands and form their own family while letting go of that bitterness and anger through the act of storytelling made me cry #I’d have two nickels. which isn’t a lot. but it’s weird that it happened twice right #luisposting #luis serra #luis sera #luis serra navarro #luis sera navarro #re4r luis #boy 2010

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meluli · 16 days

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Taika Waititi as Alamein Boy (2010)

#this part is always so funny to me #taika tuesday #♡#taika waititi #taika waititi gif #boy movie #boy 2010

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gnnosis · 11 months

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on acceptance

[ people we meet on vacation, emily henry / ted lasso 3x10 / east of eden, john steinbeck / boy (2010) / “growing sideways,” noah kahan / the west wing 2x15 / greywaren, maggie stiefvater ]

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celluloidbroomcloset · 2 months

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So, since folks expressed some interest: We talked about Taika's films on the podcast this week, focusing mostly on Boy, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, and Next Goal Wins, as well as his public persona and the backlash against him.

This was a really fun episode to record (not least because my co-host has apparently been wanting to do this one for a while and didn't tell me!). I think we did his work justice.

(BTW, we do have a Patreon here. We're a little podcast, so money just goes to maintaining our website and hosting fees, and you do get fun things like bonus episodes and little treats!)

#taika waititi #podcast #next goal wins #hunt for the wilderpeople #boy 2010 #rhys darby #taika tuesday #on wednesday #karen yelling at me “WHAT CHANGED LAUREN” was my favorite part #also that is his voice right at the end of our intro introducing karen #she met him a while back and he was kind enough to do a sound byte for her

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spelacchiotto · 2 years

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