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uspiria · 1 year

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The Escapees (1981) dir. Jean Rollin

#the escapees #jean rollin #filmedit #1980s #french cinema #caps #*#*theescapees #*rollin #900

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sepublic · 3 days

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Looking through my old writing, it’s funny how I kept trying to portray the Escapees as sympathetic villains with a heart of gold deep down, while also trying to frame their motives to kill Lloyd as somehow. Understandable???? Like Lloyd secretly did something to warrant all this???? Because it just sounded like I was saying

“Trust me guys he’s not an asshole he just needs to get this asshole move out of his system and then he’ll be fine.”

Anyhow tag your OC for whom this image applies.

#the escapees #GEverse #meme #memes #oc #ocs #my ocs

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365filmsbyauroranocte · 2 years

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Les paumées du petit matin (Jean Rollin, 1981)

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sklira · 8 months

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Les Paumées du Petit Matin (1981) Dir. Jean Rollin

#Les Paumées du Petit Matin #The Escapees #Jean Rollin #my post #gif #cine #film

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theglassdragoncollective · 3 days

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I don't think Taylor can be normal about me

#wren speaks #taylor #the escapees

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adhbombus · 10 months

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Ive managed to get some art out this month, happy pride have some lesbians

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watching-pictures-move · 2 years

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Movie Review | The Escapees (Rollin, 1981)

This review contains mild spoilers.

There’s something quite poignant about the way Jean Rollin depicts characters with disabilities or mental illness. I think of the blind woman from The Grapes of Death or certain characters in The Night of the Hunted, and while the portrayals may not be up to the standards of real life accuracy or political correctness (I alluded in my review of Wait Until Dark to some occasional uneasiness I’ve had around how movies use disabilities in their storytelling), I think Rollin is able to depict these characters with a great deal of sensitivity. I think a large part of the credit goes to the actresses, who bring a certain dignity to their roles, so that they don’t just feel defined by their disabilities or mental illness, even if those conditions play into the plot. The lead characters are two girls who escape from a mental institution, go off to live with a traveling troupe of entertainers, and when they’re about to get busted by the police, sneak away with a kindly pickpocket with dreams of sailing away to a distant land. When we meet them, one of the girls is practically catatonic and the other is more prickly, but over the course of the movie, we see them both evolve, the former opening up and the latter becoming warmer and more nurturing.

I think a large part of why their arcs are so affecting is the experiential quality Rollin imbues into key sequences. There’s a pretty beautiful figure skating sequence (undeniably the movie’s highlight) where you can see the thrill and joy the character gets from the activity. Or look at the scene where the characters enter a bar, one of them likely for the first time in her life, and the way the movie captures the excitement of entering a lively new location. This feels in obvious ways like Rollin’s other movies, with a similarly delicate touch to the direction, and that half-awake atmosphere that doesn’t quite feel dreamlike. But here, stripped largely of genre elements (no vampires, not much bloodletting, not even much nudity), it ekes out a certain poetry by juxtaposing these essentially innocent heroines with their hardscrabble existence and unforgiving surroundings. There is temporary solace found as the characters take up with makeshift families of kindly outsiders, but that is shortlived.

Things go south when the girls fall into the orbit of a quartet of swingers (the great Brigitte Lahaie among them, lighting up the screen as she always does). One of the men shows off his collection of antique guns to one of the girls, while the two women invite the other girl into their softcore coupling. And here you see Rollin reintroducing those genre elements, but with a sinister edge. The stuff that arguably adds enjoyment to his other movies merits suspicion in this context. It reminds me of the way Gerard Damiano ends Skin Flicks on a particularly ugly scene, as if decrying the triumph of exploitation over art, and while I’m not as well versed in Rollin’s motivations, I wonder if he had similar feelings about his filmmaking. What I do know is that I had grown to care for the heroines quite a bit, and when the film ended in tragedy, I was quite moved.

#film #movie review #the escapees #Jean Rollin

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mizaruwu · 2 months

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"Stay away! It was an accident!! Leave me alone!!!"

"Hey captain, got a clue why the revenge squad is after him?"

"A bit, let's just say he deserves it"

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The aftermath of this incident XD:

https://mizaruwu.tumblr.com/post/680083542565355520/legend-should-use-his-items-for-trivial-things

#legend was framed #one accidental hit from legend made them swarm him because warriors provoked the cuccos before that #petty revenge for making him look for the escapee(legend) for hours #linked universe #linkeduniverse #lu legend #lu warriors #lu hyrule #my art

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herebutnotpresent · 8 months

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Tfw you transmigrate back into a shitty noble household, pre-unification Toph edition

check out their pre-uni atla idea @allgremlinart (ノ＞▽＜。)ノ

#atla #toph #zuko #you gave us kofun zuko so i give you wei/jin and n/s toph #escapee toph part two electric boogaloo #my exuse to draw two outfits 😌#pre-unification atla

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fantastic-nonsense · 3 days

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"Inej is the mom fri—" *loud incorrect buzzer noise* Wrong. You are looking for Matthias Helvar.

#stop projecting mom friend status on Inej just because she's a girl #Inej is the HEART of the group not the CARER of the group #Matthias is the 'born to be a grumpy worrying big brother/mom friend; cursed to be a religious cult escapee' character #look no further than the bit where they kidnapped Alys as proof lmao #six of crows #inej ghafa #matthias helvar

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goldkirk · 9 months

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TW for modesty/purity culture rhetoric

From my memories: Losing your virginity or messing around before marriage is the same as presenting your future husband with…

an already-chewed piece of gum

a birthday present that’s had the wrapping paper torn off

a rose with the petals all pulled off

a used-up piece of scotch tape that has too much dirt and fuzz on it to be sticky anymore, thus no longer being usable or filling its purpose

a candy bar that someone already licked and took a bite out of

a delicate flower that’s been passed around a group of people and had its petals fondled, bruised, and torn

a cookie that’s had pieces broken off

These are all comparisons I genuinely heard in conversations and youth talks or personally read in books as a teenager.

#yikes yikes yikes yikes yikes #purity culture #cult escapee

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uspiria · 1 year

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The Escapees (1981) dir. Jean Rollin

#the escapees #jean rollin #filmedit #1980s #french cinema #caps #*#*theescapees #*rollin

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sepublic · 1 year

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Have you ever seen a bubble in the process of freezing?

Very beautiful... Snowflakes like crystalline stars, with ghostly ferns sprouting afoot. Looks just like a snow globe, too! I imagine this is what the Escapees were trapped inside when frozen in magical cryostasis. What delightful gifts for the Queen of Tears’ child, when the wrapping they come in is a treasure in and of itself!

#GEverse #the escapees #tower of tears #oc #ocs #my ocs

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365filmsbyauroranocte · 2 years

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