#point of the first film!

[ilovefredjones]

the frozen ii ending makes me soooooo angry like the whole POINT of frozen i was that elsa learned that she could rule arendelle with her powers and with anna by her side!!! literally in the bway musical she sings ‘i know i’ll never see that sunny day / when this trial is finally through / and it can just be me and you’ like. elsa WANTS to stay with anna

and they try and explain this somewhat in into the unknown, with the ‘who knows deep down i’m not where i’m meant to be’ but. WHY isn’t she where she’s meant to be. all of the first film was her learning that she belonged in arendelle and her powers/herself wasn’t something to be afraid of. why isn’t she meant to be with her family? with her sister who’s been desperate to reconnect with her? why doesn’t she belong where people readily love her and accept her and want the best for her?

and then, what about anna? there is no mention of her wanting/being ready to be queen in either two films. we don’t even see the offer on screen; we don’t get the sisters’ quiet, vulnerable conversation where elsa admits to wanting to live with the rest of the nature spirits and anna offers to take her place as queen. we don’t see anna begging elsa to stay in the forest because she can rule if elsa’s happier there. we never see their dialogue. it’s just so sudden. is anna once again just going along with what her sister wants? is elsa isolating herself all over again? we just don’t know. they both seem happy, but there’s barely any indication that it’ll lead up to that point.

it just makes no sense for either of their arcs, or their previous wants/needs. if they were meant to stay together, why separate them again? they just got each other back. and now they’re alone again.

#and yeah yeah neither of them are alone bc of kristoff/the other nature spirits etc etc but COME ONNNNNNN. #anna did not spend most of her life desperate to spend time with her sister just for elsa to fuck off to the mountains again! what was the+ #point of the first film! #like when did anna show ANY indication of being ok with being QUEEN???? does she even WANT to be??? #and yes elsa is now surrounded by people like her but. gah. idk it just feels so redundant #like why is that the only place she really belongs? #and i know they’re her people so ofc she wants to be with them bc she found where she belongs!! #i just think they could’ve balanced it a bit more so it’s not so out of nowhere #why didn’t we get to see anna and elsa talk it out???? sing a little duet????? #they don’t even HAVE a duet in this film what the hell #grrrr #anyway. normal i’m so normal about frozen #frozen #frozen ii #elsa of arendelle #anna of arendelle

[starbuck]

i say i like tragedies and everyone’s all like ‘why do you like sad stories? are you depressed?’ and never ‘how was the catharsis? was the catharsis fun?’

#i don’t know how to explain this to normal people 😭😭 #for the record my coworkers didn’t directly question me on this #but i think i have vastly overestimated the amount of the population who is aware of like. Films. #NOT claiming that i have seen a lot - but i’ve mentioned three *REALLY* well-known films in the past four days #and got blank stares each time #the one of them was a REALLY good reference too… someday my top-notch association skills will be recognized #my first act as Mansion Acquaintance of the [redacted] Director will be to force everyone to watch a 40s romcom i didn’t even like #i’m getting off the point #the POINT is that It’s About The Catharsis

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price as James Addison Reavis

The Baron of Arizona (1950)

#vincent price #the Baron of arizona #Baron of arizona #western #western film #okay...first of all...FUCK ME SIR #so fucking sexy its hard to breathe #omfg #SIR! #costume #costumes #his outfit is on fucking point #A FUCKING THIRST TRAP #bicon #bisexual #god #goddamn #horror #old horror movies #vintage #movie #actor #handsome #gif #gifs made by me #gif set #gifs

[iam93percentstardust]

one of the things that really bothers me about modern franchises, and in particular over the last 5 years or so, is their refusal to commit. what i mean here when i say this is that it's not uncommon for a major franchise to make a decision, whether about the plot or the characters, that should have had huge, world-changing consequences... and then just never address that again or worse, immediately go back and undo it. and i'm gonna pick on star wars and the mcu here because those are the two big franchises i'm into at the moment (and i think they're kind of the worst at this), but i don't want you to walk away from this thinking that this is solely a disney thing. i've seen this happen with game of thrones and supernatural and plenty of other non-disney franchises. spoilers ahead, you've been warned:

in ant-man & the wasp quantumania, scott and hope make the life-altering decision to stay behind in the quantum realm and defeat kang instead of going through the portal to return to their world. this should have been a huge meta decision for the mcu, and when i first saw it in theaters, my immediate thought was wow, what is this going to mean for the mcu going forward? are we going to get a movie/miniseries about scott and hope helping to rebuild the quantum realm? how are cassie, janet, and hank going to react to the losses of their loved ones (in some cases, for the second time)? is cassie going to become the "first" young avenger because she has to take her father's place among the team lineup (and i only say first because as of this moment, none of the other young avengers introduced to the franchise are official avengers yet)? except nope, because less than 2 minutes later, cassie had fixed the portal that had broken way back at the beginning of the movie and brought scott and hope back.

and it felt like such a cheat. i was so disappointed in that theater, not as someone who was invested in these characters on a personal level (because yay, cassie gets her dad back!), but as someone who has spent years investing themselves in the story of the mcu. what was the point of wasting screentime on scott and hope accepting their new lives in the quantum realm if it was just going to immediately be undone? the entire scene could have been cut to scott and hope making it back bare seconds before the portal closed and it would have had the same emotional impact. there was nothing added by making scott and hope (and us) think that there was no way back only to rip the rug out from under us and go "gotcha! you really thought we were gonna give this movie a sad ending? haha! you're so dumb!"

and this isn't the first time the mcu has done this. one of the biggest complaints about endgame was the decision to set it five years in the future with no consideration for how that would actually change the setting of the mcu. characters were brought back to the exact place they disappeared from with no consideration for how things might have changed in the interim five years (like planes that weren't in the air anymore, buildings no longer standing, even just something as simple as a chair being unoccupied). and then the mcu didn't even really have the courage to address how this would have shaped the world other than a few jokes and making the bad guys in the falcon and the winter soldier people who cared about how the world had screwed them over during the blip.

and things like this happen over and over and over again. the accords are put into place in civil war, but by the time we get to she-hulk, they're gone with no explanation because, as best as i can tell, the writers didn't want to have to deal with the worldbuilding that went into the accords. gamora is killed in infinity war, but heaven forbid quill not have an emotional investment in a film he appears for maybe 10 minutes in so now she's back in endgame. steve got to go live in the past with his ex-girlfriend (which is in itself a refusal to commit after the mcu both gave her a different husband and had the woman herself tell him to move on) but we need to establish that messing with timelines is bad because that's what the entire next phase hinges on so actually his ending was predestined and it's only everyone else who can't change time. whoever took this entire town and also wanda hostage and forced them to live out a sitcom fantasy is bad and needs to be stopped but wait, it's actually wanda and she can't be the bad guy yet, we need her for doctor strange 2, so actually everyone's going to defend her now and say that no one else could ever possibly understand her grief. thor has decided to accept responsibility as king of asgard, but we can't use him for any more movies if he's stuck in asgard, so actually he's decided to pass it on to someone whose entire leadership capability is developed offscreen. i could list more examples but this is making me angry, so let's move on to star wars instead.

with star wars, i look at first the oft-quoted meme, "somehow palpatine has returned." yeah, i shouldn't really need to go into detail on how that counts as a refusal to commit but. the last jedi was a study in how johnson refused to commit to anything that abrams had laid down in the force awakens, but rise of skywalker was almost like abrams had looked at the franchise and said "screw you for taking it away from me, i'm going to come up with the most bullshit stuff just to spite you for doing that in the first place. and i'm going to start by undoing the most important plot point of the first trilogy: the emperor dies." and yeah, disney's kind of tried to salvage this by dropping hints into the bad batch and the mandalorian about cloning, but that only really works if you're watching the franchise chronologically and not considering that both of those series came out after rise of skywalker.

and then there's the mandalorian, my sweet summer child, who is, in my opinion, the worst at backtracking their plot points. i'm not entirely convinced that any of the higher ups for this show really knew what they were doing when they started working on it and i'm not convinced that they know what they're doing now. yeah, there's the tie-in to the last season of clone wars, but the mandalorian has managed to walk back pretty much every single major plot point it's had. din is this legendary warrior who can't be beat, but no one will watch this show if he defeats everyone too early, so he's constantly getting beat up (tbf, sometimes some of the fights he loses makes sense like the krayt dragon and the mudhorn, but a lot of them don't. at all). moff gideon is dead, no wait no he's not, now he's imprisoned, no wait no he's not, now he's definitely dead, you can totally believe us this time guys. grogu can use the force and must be placed with the jedi, but wait, the only person still actively teaching the way of the jedi is luke and all of his students will be brutally murdered ten years from now, and we can't have that, everyone will be mad at us for killing off such a cute character and no one will buy baby yoda dolls (and also we have to set up luke's character degradation from hopeful, believes-in-love cinnamon roll to "i'm going to kill my nephew") so in between seasons let's have grogu decide to go back to din (and don't even get me started on how frustrating it is that a casual mandalorian watcher also had to watch book of boba fett to understand why grogu is back). din has the darksaber now which makes him king of mandalore, that's totally going to be important and what the entire series has been building up to, right? wrong! he might have spent the first two seasons making connections, learning about the world outside his sheltered upbringing, and demonstrating the various qualities that would make for a good leader, but the entire third season will be about din realizing that actually he's super unworthy and the darksaber should actually go to someone who... saw an animal in the water.

and it's really, really frustrating as a viewer! because how am i supposed to get invested in any of these plot decisions when they almost always get reversed? why should i care that mj and ned have forgotten peter when ant-man 3 has shown me that they'll remember him the next time they're all on screen together? why should i care that tech is dead when half of the last season of clone wars was about how echo was actually alive? if none of these decisions have any permanence, then where are the emotional stakes? why should i watch your movie if all you're going to tell me is that nothing matters?

#and also i want to make a point that the early mcu did permanent stakes really well #iron man 1 ends with tony announcing that he's iron man and that's something that still resonated years later #the entire second film hinged on that one moment #loki falling into the bifrost is what leads him to the chitauri which is what kickstarted the avengers #steve is woken from the ice and the first organization who presents themselves as someone to trust is shield #which sets up the betrayal he feels in the winter soldier #these moments resonate throughout the first two stages and the decisions the characters made MATTERED #so you can't help but get invested because what if it's the wrong decision??? #anyway i'm frustrated with the state of franchises #alle talks #long post

[empirearchives]

I’m just glad that someone told him about the age problem lol

#Ridley Scott #Napoleon #joaquin phoenix #napoleon bonaparte #Napoleon film #Napoleon (2023) #napoleonic era #napoleonic #Napoleon movie #first french empire #movies #film #le point

[anna-scribbles]

h-how do you ever finish any of your work? genuine question because you seem to be productive despite your agreste syndrome and I need to learn your ways. but also how do you ever finish any of your work

unclear. last night i stayed up and finished a report worth 25% of my grade at about 5am, arrived on time for my 9am lecture, and spent about half of it zoned out while thinking about seventeen year old emilie agreste. and i was one of the most active participants in the class discussion

#in some ways it IS the move to go to grad school right out of undergrad #because your body can still sort of operate like a college kid #i’m on about 3ish hours of sleep rn and this morning it felt SO over but now i’ve eaten something and we’re so back #i also don’t really do caffeine. except sometimes i’ll go get one of those panera death lemonades #i might be able to snag a short nap before work #but anyway about seventeen year old emilie. i was thinking abt how she was in that movie solitude and adrien said she was seventeen #WAIT. NO. HE SAID SHE WAS SEVENTEEN IN THAT PHOTO ON HIS DESKTOP NOT IN THE MOVIE #well. okay whatever i’m gonna tell you what i was thinking about anyway #OKAY i’m back i just checked the wikipedia page and then i watched the end of gorizilla. to make sure i’m not lying. because i’m normal. #anyway i was thinking about the solitude film and how it’s super rare and old and obscure and whatever. and how apparently #emilie wrote it herself and andre produced it #and i’m thinking about how gabe was discovered by audrey and that’s how he got his start in the fashion industry #so now i’m like?? did gabe and emilie first meet on the set of solitude? because gabe was designing costumes or whatever? #and that’s how audrey found him? have people already thought about this?? #also i just checked and it doesn’t say emilie’s last name in the credits and also it’s ‘graham films’ with the twin rings logo m #so i’m assuming she’s still emilie graham de vanily at that point #anyway it comes back to seventeen year old emilie because i started imagining seventeen year old runaway emilie having her new life in pari #after escaping her british nobility life #and the first thing she does is write and star in an original movie. of course. #and she meets this repressed bisexual punk upstart costume designer who is so the opposite of everyone she’s ever known #and he’s immediately so unhealthily obsessed with her. which she appreciates. #and then they proceed to have the most toxic doomed evil relationship of all time #also she gets cheated because once gabe gets money he represses himself SO hard that he is now exactly like all the people emilie grew up w #but at least he’s still obsessed with her #this is what i was thinking about during class today. i don’t know how i get anything done either. #ml #anna rambles #asks

[creekbed-burial]

Gloomy Days in Chicago

Pictures are of the Lyric Opera House and the view of the Chicago skyline from the Shedd Aquarium

#mine #my photography #illinois #chicago #the first pic convinced me to get a bigger camera than my point and shoot cause i wish i just got the sign #its still a cool pic tho but damn i wish i just got the sign #also shoutout to this day in the city bc i got horrible blisters from walking so much in not walking shoes #urban landscape #urban photography #cityscape #city skyline #analog photography #film photography #kodak portra 400 #35mm diary #35mm film #filmisnotdead #urban gothic #regional gothic #35mm photography #photography #35mmclub #american gothic #gothic americana #midwest gothic #midwestern usa #midwestern gothic #midwest america

[iwasbored777]

The amount of self-control that Spiderverse writers showed by planning to make Gwen and Miles a couple by the end of the first movie and deciding to leave it for the second one, then deciding to split the second one in two parts and that of course meant postponing them again... They're not just torturing us they're torturing themselves (but the ones that are actually being tortured here are Miles and Gwen), they want that ship just as much as we do.

#if we don't get them making out in the third one as a payback for waiting so long what's the point #also what do you mean you toned it down for the first film they were already adorable as fuk #it was so cute #didn't have to make it so angsty in the sequel tho #i don't like crying #spider man across the spiderverse #gwen stacy #miles morales #Gwiles #ghostflower #across the spiderverse #spiderverse #spider man into the spider verse #into the spiderverse

[zivazivc]

I could imagine Poppy moving in with branch and having her own spot while jd floyd and clay have one

Hmm maybe, tho I imagine Branch moving in with Poppy before the other way around. The bunker would just be his storage or something when/if that happens. I don't think JD would ever live live there because he has Rhonda. And i think Clay continues to live with the put put trolls and Viva after the movie.

@sapphireskeletons told me such a good fucked up headcanon where Branch moves out to go live with Poppy, and JD eventually gets antsy and starts traveling the Hinterlands with Rhonda again. And Floyd ends up all alone in the bunker, feeling stuck there because he had encouraged his baby bro to build it for him and he doesn't have a good enough reason to leave (even though he does not want to live there) and just feeling trapped like 🧍 ... Reap what you sow, bitch. (Sorry, but we are both a bit of Floyd haters and think he deserves to get yelled at by Branch)

#sapphire you constantly point out my depressing headcanons but this one by you fucked me up #so we're not so different you and i jsdbhdbvh #answered #trolls #i know i'm obsessed with floyd #but he is literally the least likable of the brothers in my opinion #i really hated him when i first watched the film #he felt so condescending and “nice” and kinda a smartass #(and now look at me lmao. obsessed with him bc of these exact reasons)

[white-weasel]

Before I watched Saw IV and V, all I knew about Hoffstrahm was that they had a bit of an antagonistic relationship to each other (that caused people to ship them) and there was a scene where they’re in a Saw trap together and one of them gets into a glass coffin to survive while the other subsequently dies

All this to say: I thought the whole glass coffin scene was supposed to be Strahm sacrificing himself by shoving Hoffman into the box and Hoffman watching in horror, trying to open the coffin but being unable to… and in hindsight I could not have been more wrong about any of the context of the scene lol

#me: omg it’s gonna be so sad when jigsaw traps them in a room and only one of them can survive :((( #kinda like a parallel to the bathroom trap in the first movie except this time it will end with a selfless choice :((( #saw v: … anyways here’s Hoffman tricking Strahm into meeting him in a death trap room and making sure that no matter what choice he makes #he’s gone bite it. just one way much more violent than the other #and this is by no means meant to imply that I don’t love the actual film because I do #just funny to point out expectations vs reality for me lol #saw v #mark Hoffman #saw series #saw franchise #Peter Strahm #Hoffstrahm #coffinshipping #white weasel talks #I scream about saw

[khaotunq]

happy birthday to the most subtle actor on the planet, first kanaphan / happy one of my favourite little eclipse details day

#the eclipse the series #the eclipse #theeclipseedit #first kanaphan #userjamiec #tuserrowan #mushiemaradame #my edits #my gifs #mine: the eclipse #mine: first kanaphan #i made this 6 months ago then remade it yesterday because i fucked one of them up and didn't notice #thank fuck my queue's empty so i noticed it lmao #hhhhhhhhhhanyway #i'm a normal person noticing normal things #scheduling for midnight uk time on the 3rd because i can #don't usually do birthday posts but this little detail murders me #did first think he was being clever #did he just insist on flipping the calendar mid filming #because it's definitely set at 00 at one point #these are 3 episodes apart #it's likely just to do with blocking so they were filmed at the same time #(mannequin doesn't move) #(kt's hair is the same length in both scenes) #but it's still funny

[starrysharks]

nobody tells you about the absolute FEAR you feel when walking past anyone aged under 25 in an alternative/"emo" outfit

#my absolute first time wearing anything actually alternative (not even that much so) TO THE GAS STATION NO LESS and i was terrified #i would show pix but i already took the outfit off + i don't have a full length mirror #maybe i'll draw an oc in the outfit to convey it to you all but anyway #WHY ARE SO MANY 12 YR OLDS OUT ON A RANDOM SUNDAY AFTERNOON??? #i swear a kid pointed at me MY HEART FELL OUT OF MY ASS #but at least i didn't get shouted at or filmed apparently that happens a lot #well i'm gonna start dressing that more often so its only a matter of time °u°;; #zeno in alt fashions vs. the entirety of bumfuck nowhere england

[royalsealy]

Redo of my coord for the kei con swap meet! I had finished putting together my review of this dress months ago, all that was missing was a little snip of what the dress looks like when worn.

Im thinking the video should release next week, followed by a video of my experience at Kei Con!

Thanks for reading!

🌹Royalsealy

#moi meme moitie #lolita fashion #egl #im going to be filming my wardrobe video soon too #and 1 additional video is on the way #rosy alley #rosyalley #elegant gothic lolita #i guess disclaimer that this is a pretty basic coord but as my first legit venture into gothic lolita as a sweet lolita im looking forward #to it as a jumping off point! #i have a few atelier pierrot pieces im looking at and i got a lot of stuff at kei con that would work for this piece #happy friday! #this post is serving more as a check in point :p #ghost band #fallen petals

[dragons-in-spaceee]

*looks at newt* that is a man who watches httyd at least 3 times a week and owns neon green alien socks

#hes extra snuggly when wearing the toothless hoodie :]] #pacrim and httyd have such similar vibes imo. pacrim is the older sibling of httyd or something #anyway yes I’m convinced newt has a toothless tattoo somewhere #might’ve even been his first tattoo!!!! how cute would that be #hermann never saw httyd so they’re watching all the films together! they both cry at stoick’s death #he appreciates the soundtrack a lot #newt can rant for hours about the different dragon species #also about httyd 3 and its… impact #I think he relates to httyd 1 hiccup a lot but prefers httyd 2 #oh my god imagine him singing and dancing for hermann at the ‘dancing and the dreaming’ song #turns out I have a lot of thought on this. might bullet point + post them at some point #my art #pacific rim #pacific rim fanart #newton geiszler #hermann gottlieb #newmann

[clarasghosts]

fear street spoilers, but the thing i cannot stop thinking about with solomon and nick is that they're not just likable characters, they're lovable characters. nick was just a teenager, but the way that his affection for ziggy leaks out, the way that he's hellbent on her safety makes you trust him. that he could love this girl enough that he could barely hide it at all when it came down to it, despite the risks. that he wasn't even trying to hide it. you don't question his loyalty to her for even a second. (learning the truth later honestly just makes this fervent protection of ziggy all the more interesting - because he always knew what would happen and that she would be a potential victim.)

similarly, solomon appears to be so wonderful and trustworthy. he has a strong bond with sarah; even when it's becoming clearer that he's actually in love with her, when she admits that she's in love with hannah, he doesn't turn on her. doesn't scold her or try to convince her otherwise, he accepts it and reassures her. he's logical and unwavering. when she goes to him for help, while everyone else is hunting her down, it's this sense of relief because he'll protect her. and just like nick, he's willing to take on the risk of doing so.

and i think that's why the horror of it all is so effective. if love is that feeling of safety, of home, then nick and solomon offer that in spades. it doesn't feel weak or flaky with them, they truly feel like safe characters. and it's terrifying to have that love be turned against you. that maybe it's never enough or it's never real. maybe you're never safe.

#the foil to this is of course in the deena/sarah set of characters #because sarah wouldn't just take the risk up until a point she'd die for hannah #and deena never stopped never gave up on sam for a second #fear street #fear street 1978 #fear street 1666 #obviously other horror films have had these twists but this is the first time it's really felt effective for me

[mangle-my-mind]

Todd Haynes on Mandy Slade

OM: How did you come to cast Toni Collette as Mandy? She doesn't strike me as an obvious choice for the role as it is written; her most famous part was in Muriel's Wedding where she played the podgy, Abba-obsessed ultra-hetero outcast.

TH: Mandy was the hardest part to cast in the film. It's a particularly demanding role due to the range Mandy has to display as she changes from the seventies to the eighties. This type of camp female character has basically vanished from our cultural landscape, as far as I can tell. The closest equivalent today is probably a Parker Posey-type character, but she's still quite different from the Liza Minnelli of Cabaret or the Angela Bowie of the glam era. Mandy has a theatrical, campy party girl persona that can be turned on and off at will, and owes a great deal to the gay male sensibility of the time. I think women around the world were liberated from all kinds of highly codified notions of femininity when people like Patti Smith entered the pop cultural arena. It had such a profound effect on women but girls today have no memory of that kind of camp femininity.

I saw so many strong actresses for Mandy, both in the US and the UK, and it was really tough to find the right one. We came close a few times, but it wasn't until I met Toni that it all clicked. I had no doubt about her acting ability, but the question was how to transform Toni Collette psychically, both for the camera and in her own self-regard into this very different, very confident, overly sexual creature. She really had to go off the cliff; I'm sure it was terrifying. And what you see in the film is such a transformation, such a complete commitment to the role that she almost becomes unrecognizable as Muriel in Muriel's Wedding. After a certain point, nothing was too scary for Toni. What you get with the character is what you get with the actress playing her - this range of changes and the effects of various cultures and various experiences on one extraordinary woman.

OM: Although the script informs you of Mandy being an American bisexual who reinvented herself, you get the sense of invention fully in the scene where she presents Brian with the divorce papers. She breaks down and you see the façade in a seventies context. It's a very moving moment and it's contrasted with Brian's coked-up emptiness. What did you discover in your research about the 'back-stage' women of the glam era?

TH: I guess Mandy's basic expression of real needs is made more vivid by that scene, but the beaten-down, hard-boiled Mandy of the eighties gives you the framework for that. She was definitely one of those people who was feeling and hurting and acting out at the same time. Often the casualties were the women of the male rock world. I really feel the film builds and develops complex sympathies for Mandy that you won't necessarily feel going in. The character is loosely inspired by aspects of Angela Bowie, and it's very easy to make fun of that kind of pop creature after the fact. But in all the books I read there was no argument on how fundamentally essential Angela Bowie was to the invention of Ziggy Stardust and to glam rock in general. She inspired risk-taking and flamboyance to a degree no one else can claim credit for. It wouldn't have happened without her.

Source - "Superstardust: Talking Glam with Todd Haynes", Oren Moverman.

Photo source

Emphases my own :)

#mandy slade #velvet goldmine #25yearsofvelvetgoldmine #velvetgoldmine25th #many things to think about from this. #first - Toni Collette's ever-changing accent through the film is a stroke of fucking genius #i will never understand people who criticize how all-over-the-place it is. that's the entire POINT #next - camp femininity!!! #Mandy really does more drag than the rest of the characters. I LOVE how performative she is with her gender #(also this interview is from when the movie came out and I think since then we've had plenty of displays of exaggerated femininity in pop) #then - often the casualties were the women of the male rock world!!!! #yes EXACTLY