#Judd Apatow

[for-a-longlongtime]

On Dieter, Goya's Black Paintings, and Pedro on Talk Art 

Alright y'all, it's Saturday evening, I have nothing better to do (I actually do but I don't feel like it), so welcome to my mini TED Talk about 'how to pay too much fucking attention to the Pedro cinematic universe'. None of this is new, and maybe everybody already knew about this, but I didn't... so here's a nerdy tangent courtesy of googling/wikipedia-ing.

I was reading a Dieter!fic (this one right here by @chaoticgeminate - go read her writing!) earlier today, which refers to the 'Saturn Devouring His Son' painting - that giant mural Dieter is working on in The Bubble:

(his brush isn't even touching the wall tho, ha)

The original 'Saturn' by Goya

The fic mentioned its part of 'The Black Paintings', so I got curious and started googling. I'm no art major or expert, so please allow me to just paraphraze the Wikipedia page. 'Saturn' is part of a group of 14 Goya paintings that are called Pinturas Negras/The Black Paintings. They "portray intense, haunting themes, reflective of both his fear of insanity and his bleak outlook on humanity" --this was late in Goya's life, and was connected to several illnesses he had experienced (and the fear of relapsing) and political turmoil in Spain at the time (post-Napolean war, changing Spanish government, etc.

Trivia fact 1: Goya actually made these paintings right on the walls of the Quinta del Sordo (so-called Deaf Man's villa) where he was staying -- so I love that Apatow had Dieter also paint right on the walls.

Trivia fact 2: while Goya was living in this villa, he actually became gravely ill (again) - not by a pandemic obviously, but it's hard to not link that loosely to the COVID period. He had never intended for these 'Black Paintings' to become public; "these paintings are as close to being hermetically private as any that have ever been produced in the history of Western art" (the murals were eventually transfered to canvas by other folks once he had moved out of the villa). Switching back to The Bubble -- I love how the tragic influence of Goya's illness(es) and art/things 'made at home away from the world, not intended for an audience' (so obviously, in a bubble) has that connection to the COVID experience and how many folks were suddenly homebound, along with the burden of illness in many ways (lord knows this all did a serious number on our mental health). In the movie, Dieter and the others do not want to go into isolation again, but that solitude is what eventually led him to painting on the walls in his room. This is not a 'grand discovery' of any kind, but I got a kick out of the parellels once I read up on it - and honestly makes me appreciate the movie a bit more, haha.

Not happy about another quarantine period.

Alright, more hyperfocusing after the cut:

Some googling led me to a post from last year by @nicolethered (gifs in this post are hers), and she included screencaps of the walls of Dieter's room (during that drug scene), which I hadn't even noticed while watching the movie. Upon taking a closer look, I noticed they're outtakes from other pieces of Goya's Black Paintings! I thought that was really cool, they sure worked on the details with that set (there's one more that's shown in a different shot but I can't exactly figure out which outtake that is):

First one is a mirror image from Two Old Men Eating Soup and the second one is basically Satan aka 'The Great He-Goat' from the Witches' Sabbath painting. Which IMO makes for fucking hilarious perfection a.k.a. trivia fact 3 -- because we all know about Dieter and his little emotional support goat, LOL. Excellent connection.

*insert sound bit from Hot Ones interview* : "Just let me love you!"

Anywaaay there's more. The Bubble was shot during Feb 22, 2021 to April 16, 2021, right? Pedro has spoken about how his input in shaping Dieter was mostly regarding his outfits (the Crocs, the robe, etc). But then I suddenly remember the Talk Art interview he had done in 2018, and how he namechecks 'The Dog' by Goya - and lo, guess which painting is actually part of the 14 Black Paintings? Yeap - the dog! So I checked the podcast and he was asked, 'if you could be any painting, what painting would you be?' by Russell. Here is the painting, and below it is what he said on Talk Art:

'The Drowning Dog' by Goya

"I think… it's a Goya. Yeah, old school. I think it's called 'Dog Buried in Sand' or something like that. It's so… I remember feeling it was such a visual representation of helplessness, in such a… come on, let's all admit that helplessness is a very recurring feeling for many of us, you know what I mean? When it comes to so many things. I guess… I was in Spain, in Madrid, and I was 20. And I went to the Goya museum. What's interesting about it is that the head of the dog is really quite small and sort of adorable, it looks like a stray mutt, and the painting - if I can remember it correctly - is very rectangular. There's so much above him, like the world just seems so big. It's quite incredible, isn't it? I know it's really sad, and sort of dark, and maybe I really like enjoy perceiving myself like..." (He gets interrupted by Russell, and then continues;) "Yeah, he's certainly not dying, it's sort of - it's a moment", (then interrupts himself with;) "Maybe he's totally dying, there's no way that dog is getting out of that. That dog is SO fucked. Anyway, that's the painting that represents my life". (All three of them burst out into laughing.)

If you're still reading this - I am impressed with your dedication to my silly little post, haha. Anyway, I just thought it was so striking that there basically is a straight line from the painting he mentioned in Talk Art to what Dieter is painting in the Bubble. Makes me wonder if perhaps he - or even Russell/Robert - had any input in that part of Dieter's backstory.

Thank you for attending my TED Talk on artistic analysis of Dieter Bravo during COVID, we now resume your regularly scheduled program for Saturday night. 🤪

(Have I been smoking because a local dispensary actually had 'Mando' bud? I sure as fuck have and I blame that for this post.)

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[dd-is-my-guiltypleasure]

Leslie Mann Men's

#judd apatow #david duchovny #nikolaj coster waldau #Instagram #DGA 2024

[godspell]

#godspell #godspell documentary #judd apatow #I'm excited!!

[d-criss-news]

juddapatow: Photo drop from our benefit at @largolosangeles for @ doctorswithoutborders. Photos by @tylerossity

#darren criss #judd apatow #mason alexander park #judd apatow and friends benefit #doctors without borders #instagram #nov 2023

[sesiondemadrugada]

The 40 Year Old Virgin (Judd Apatow, 2005).

#The 40 Year Old Virgin #judd apatow #steve carell #seth rogen #Elizabeth Banks #Jack N. Green #Brent White #Jackson De Govia #Tom Reta #Debra McGuire

[donniefrankdarko]

Freaks & Geeks 🖤

#music #movies #cinephile #spotify #cinema #90s aesthetic #90s grunge #1980s nostalgia #freaks and geeks #freaks #geeks #lindsay weir #sam weir #kim kelly #judd apatow #seth rogan #jason segel #james franco #linda cardellini

[pedroacrossthestreet]

I still think “I’m eating blud.” is one of the best comedic lines ever uttered on film.

#the delivery #the disdain #the bubble #danielle vitalis #pedro pascal #harry trevaldwyn #judd apatow #dieter bravo

[blueribbonbaby]

Maude apatow

#maude apatow #iris apatow #leslie mann #patrick gibson #judd apatow #euphoria

[cinematic-literature]

The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) by Judd Apatow

Book title: MTU Presents: Iron Man and The Hulk #4 (1972)

#the 40-year-old virgin #judd apatow #comic books #comic books in movies #mtu presents iron man and the hulk #iron man #the hulk #steve carell

[flipjack]

Emma Stone at the Directors Guild Awards

#Emma Stone #Directors Guild Awards #DGA #Judd Apatow #Mark Ruffalo #Poor Things #Superbad

[dorothy16]

.💜 🧡

#mason alexander park #judd apatow #darren criss #marcus nand #largo #largo la #judd apatow with friends #doctors without borders #judd apatow ig #largo ig #me edits

[d-criss-news]

largolosangeles: #JuddApatowAndFriends benefit for #DoctorsWithoutBorders was a smashing success!! Look at this amazing line-up 👀 Comedy and music, our favorite combo 🧡 Thank you to an amazing audience and to all of these players! #JuddApatow #MasonAlexanderPark #KevinNealon #AparnaNancherla #Marcus #KumailNanjiani #AdamSandler #DarrenCriss #largolosangeles #largocomedy #largomusic #largobenefit #largodjs

#darren criss #largo #mason alexander park #judd apatow #marcus nand #judd apatow and friends benefit #doctors without borders #instagram #nov 2023

[lonesomedreamereccentriclover]

Happy Birthday Maude Apatow!

#Maude Apatow #celeb birthdays #actress #fashion photography #red carpet fashion #pretty dresses #Iris Apatow #Leslie Mann #Judd Apatow #Euphoria #Zendaya #Sydney Sweeney #Hunter Schafer #Sadie Sink #Kaitlyn Dever

[high-quality-tiktoks]

To be clear, I think a lot of his films are great. They just had a surprisingly strong impact on the genre as a whole

#video #tiktok #tiktoks #story time #movie #movies #film #films #romcom #romcoms #romance #judd apatow #jstoobs

[donniefrankdarko]

Behind the scenes of ‘Freaks and Geeks’

#90s aesthetic #90s grunge #freaks and geeks #tv: freaks and geeks #busy philipps #judd apatow

[jgroffdaily]

A video from Teddy Yudain after Jonathan’s visit to ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ and an Instagram story from Judd Apatow.

#jonathan groff #Teddy Yudain #little shop of horrors #maude apatow #judd apatow