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if new information contradicts your sense of how the world works, you should not dismiss it out of hand, but fact-check it instead.

if something appeals to your sense of how the world works, it is even more important to vet that information before sharing it, because if it is misinformation then it is the misinformation you are more likely to share.

#added this to the wrong queue but i'll leave it here

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sorry ms barkin i'm busy looking at the crooning and drum alligators in full formal on the beach

#sea of love #1989 #80s #interior design peaked here

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simmering looks by the ketchup aisle

#sea of love #helen cruger #frank keller #ellen barkin #1989 #80s #gif #the best place to give and get them

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AL PACINO as JOHNNY | FRANKIE AND JOHNNY (1991) dir. Garry Marshall

#frankie and johnny #1991 #90s #gif #melis-writes

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actual dialogue

#sea of love #frank keller #1989 #80s #top-notch dialogue!

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#sea of love #frank keller #1989 #80s #the way he says balloons here

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New York's finest

#sea of love #frank keller #1989 #80s #💡💡💡

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#sea of love #frank keller #john goodman #sherman touhey #1989 #80s #dan conner is a troubadour

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Please help I'm in a disagreement with someone over if Al Panino falls under the category of femboy twink in the first godfather movie or if that's just because he looks Italian and all Italians look kind of like femboy twinks.

Settle this please.

I think he has twink ass bangs

My friend thinks I'm weird

Tell your friend they've lost this one. Let the record show that Al Panino may be categorized as a femboy twink in the first Godfather movie, official 13 November 2023.

#the godfather #michael corleone

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doesn’t change that she’s supposed to represent the middle class WASPS that looked down upon Italians and is xenophobic because gen zers who watch this movie have no idea Italians were extremely discriminated against and it goes hand in hand with the godfather

You're probably aware that we are not living in a utopia. I'm not going to assume that Gen Zers haven't been on the receiving end of some type of discrimination. To say that they're all ignorant of that particular experience (the Italian-American one) is ignorant in itself. The expectation of such knowledge is also rooted in Americentrism, but let me not stray from my point.

I'm confident that there are still immigrants who know, and whose children know, what it's like to be newly arrived and called names and told to go back to where they came from or admonished for their broken English. Immigration didn't end with the closure of Ellis Island.

If they haven't encountered it firsthand, they've been made aware of it through their family history. It's part of mine on all sides: Polish, Italian, even Scottish. My Italian great-grandparents settled in a city that was almost like Little Italy, there were so many of them. Still, they encountered discrimination. We've got stories for days.

Some old ten-gallon-hatted cowboy with an accent like microwaved grits told my dad in 1972 that his Scottish accent would be a problem. He wouldn't hire him. His dearth of Canadian experience stood in his way more than once. He didn't even have to go to the trouble of Anglicizing his first and last name the way the other sides of my family did theirs. So, I know about it! My stories are not unique.

I get that certain events and experiences don't always get the exposure that they deserve and that the further away from them we get, the more important it is to keep their lessons alive. But again, just because you've run across a handful of people who don't know something that you know, it doesn't mean that everyone born after 1997 is clueless. Nobody is born knowing everything.

If any of us ever want to bridge the gap between generations, we can't approach the other with an attitude of superiority and ultimate authority. If they don't know, they can learn, but not if we treat them like close-minded doofuses.

#the godfather #kay adams #and tbh the movie doesn't deal with it as deeply as the book does #you've got older people who hark back to the non-existent good old days when 'nobody cared about colour or creed' #not just boomers but gen xers who think that everything is too woke now and not like the world that they grew up in #when we were raised on socially-conscious tv and after-school specials lmao #everything had a message then too #this isn't strictly a gen z problem #my mom's cousin was also a professor/historian/author who wrote about the italian-canadian immigrant experience from multiple perspectives #because parts of our family settled in the US and became more italian-american than canadian even though some of them were born here

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Tonight's movie

#sea of love #title card #noirvember

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DOG DAY AFTERNOON (1975) dir. Sidney Lumet.

#agreed!!

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Al Pacino & Marlon Brando on the set of The Godfather (1971)

#the godfather #al pacino #marlon brando #70s #bruce mcbroom

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Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather character notes for the extended Corleone family, based on each character's description in Mario Puzo's original novel (from The Godfather Notebook, 2016)

#the godfather #francis ford coppola

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SIMONETTA STEFANELLI as Apollonia Vitelli in 'The Godfather' (1972)

#the godfather #simonetta stefanelli #apollonia vitelli #1972 #70s #simonettastefanelli

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you can instantly tell if an edit was made by a man if the music sounds like it's asking for your lunch money and the comments are all like "W edit" "bro is so cold" "literally me"

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AL PACINO as IVAN TRAVALIAN | AUTHOR! AUTHOR! (1982) dir. Arthur Hiller.

#author! author! #ivan travalian #1982 #80s #gif #melis-writes