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#monkey man

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the dev patel girlies have KNOWN how hot he is for years and years but the little giggle I heard from a grown man seated next to me when he took his shirt off in monkey man tells me it's truly over for everyone else. god bless

#dev patel

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MONKEY MAN (2024) dir. Dev Patel

#thanks dev patel for taking it in your hands and giving us want we need🙏🏻 #monkey man

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MONKEY MAN + trivia 2024, dir. Dev Patel

#monkey man #im absolutely in awe of him #how did he do so well for a first timer

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No but really I love that after Darcy’s second proposal and Lizzy’s (awkward) (vulnerable) (affirmative) response Darcy DOES say something, he does elaborate and you know it’s the most romantic thing you’ve ever heard in your life but Austen doesn’t tell us what. Austen drops the veil for a second and only tells us what his face looks like and that Lizzy is unable to meet his gaze. And tbh that makes it perfect.

#p&p

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#HOWWWW #art #people are insane

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QUEEN CHARLOTTE & KING GEORGE

#oh how i miss them #queen charlotte: a bridgerton story

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there is no unlived life or alternative reality where everything went right…. there is only here and now what are you going to do with it

#life #:)

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let’s boogie

#monkey man

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Dev Patel on shooting Monkey Man:

#bro!????? #monkey man #dev patel

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i just saw monkey man and wow it had everything

a character saying "you ever seen john wick" before we see two hours of senstive john wick

dev patel petting puppies

commentary on femicide in india

nicki minaj reference

girls cheering when dev patel took his shirt off

trans women attacking bad guys in vishnu costume

allegories to the ramanya at every turn

veiled commentary on modhi's politics

beating a man to death with a high heel

#FIGHT SCENE ON OOH LA LA SONG 😭😭😭😭 #also op tabla boxing jugalbandi!!?? #monkey man

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for me, the heart of monkey man was its immense love for india, and the confidence of articulating that love through representation and criticism—the things that make india beautiful are not the colorist, hindu-nationalist propoganda stories of bollywood but largeness of the diaspora: indians who trans, who are muslim, who have been oppressed by their government, who are unacknowledged by society, etc—and prevail despite the odds stacked against them. they are encouraged to be themselves and fight against these occupational forces.

major props to dev patel for showing that hey, you actually can make a movie about indians in a way that perfectly encapsulates the various cultures, mythologies, AND egregious political climate, while also highlighting indian people and giving them the recognition and respect they often don't recieve in western—OR bollywood—canon. now that we know it's possible (it always was) i want more! thanks!

(also it helped that he was either in a suit, shirtless, or covered in blood [sometimes two at a time] for most of this movie. dev patel, i literally only need one chance...)

#i wont get into political aspect of it #but bro you can feel the love he has for this culture and its people #like i did not expect a man who has not grown up in this country to be so aware about it #monkey man #dev patel

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hes so right...action movies should be gross and unsettling and visceral and raw. we need more action heroes who bite chunks of flesh off their opponent's face and then spit it out 👍

#monkey man #so so soooooo fuckign good

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MONKEY MAN 2024, dir. Dev Patel

#monkey man #🤍

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Dev Patel on Monkey Man

“The action genre has been abused by the system. You know, a quick buck. Mindless shit. I wanted to give it soul. Real trauma. Real pain. You guys deserve that. I wanted to infuse it with a little bit of culture.”

“I really wanted to touch on the caste system in India. You have the poor at the bottom, slaving away in the kitchens. Then you go up to the land of the kings. Above them is God — a manmade God that’s polluting and corrupting religion.”

#bro i dont even like action movies at all but this movie surprised me too #dev patel #monkey man

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#the scene is everything to me 🙏🏻 #dev patel #monkey man

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The protagonist is named Kid in the credits. He is constantly surrounded by children who should not be in the situations that they have found themselves in. All of the children featured have been forced to grow up, and with the protag’s character name Kid, he has not moved on from the trauma of his childhood. This calls into question the lives of the children around him as his mother’s question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” haunts the narrative, showing that for many children, you do not get to choose.

#shut up!!!!! #monkey man