#alasdair gray

[flowerytale]

Alasdair Gray, from Poor Things

#alasdair gray #poor things #lit #literature #novel #typo #typography #witch #witches #currently reading #*

[maurafranklin]

poor things by alasdair gray poor things (2023) dir. yorgos lanthimos

#poor things #film edit #yorgos lanthimos #alasdair gray #emma stone #ramy youssef #willem dafoe

[purity-culture]

Poor Things (2023)

#poor things #emma stone #mark ruffalo #willem dafoe #ramy youssef #christopher abbott #yorgos lanthimos #bella baxter #duncan wedderburn #godwin baxter #alasdair gray

[frankfontainecalloutpost]

Victoria Blessington, poor little tadpole.

#Bella Baxter #poor things #Emma stone #alasdair gray #art #illustration #procreate #this is the tag for my art #this is the tag for my text posts #victoria blessington #Poor Things fanart

[squid-constellation]

The parallels between Frankenhooker and Poor Things are insane

#collage #collage art #poor things #frankenhooker #frank henenlotter #yorgos lanthimos #frankenstein #mary shelley #alasdair gray #Emma stone #Paty Mullen #Bella Baxter #my collages

[arinewman7]

Eden and After

Illustration by Alasdair Gray

tempera on panel, 1956

#Alasdair Gray #art #artist #illustrator #illustration #painting #Eden and After

[funkiest-ghoul-in-town]

Got a new mug and some books today💫

#sooo excited to read the familiar #booklr #books and reading #the familiar #leigh bardugo #der wüstenplanet #frank herbert #poor things #alasdair gray

[brokehorrorfan]

Spoke Art has released Poor Things 24x36 screen prints by Aleksander Walijewski. The English version is limited to 100 for $65, while the Polish variant is limited to 40 for $75. They'll ship in 8-10 weeks.

#poor things #yorgos lanthimos #emma stone #mark ruffalo #willem dafoe #ramy youssef #christopher abbott #jerrod carmichael #spoke art #art #gift #aleksander walijewski #tony mcnamara #alasdair gray

[mytypeofdistraction]

Cinematic parallels:

Lorde's Perfect Places music video directed by Grant Singer (2017) / Poor Things film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos (2023).

#lorde perfect places #lorde #perfect places #grant singer #2017 #melodrama #poor things #yorgos lanthimos #emma stone #bella baxter #2023 #cinematic parallels #alasdair gray #cinema #films #film

[miawallace]

Poor Things (2023)

#2023 films #cinema #cinema aesthetic #poor things #yorgos lanthimos #emma stone #bella baxter #mark ruffalo #willem dafoe #films #film stills #movies #filmedit #alasdair gray #december 8

[notsoterriblymisanthropic]

I will pour into the mouth of this head another dram of stupidity. The questioning part of this brain is too active tonight.

Alasdair Gray, 1982, Janine

#Alasdair Gray

[peonies-and-dreams]

#Poor Things #Poor Things 2024 #yorgos lanthimos #emma stone #bella baxter #robbie ryan #cinematography #cinema #film #film edit #film stills #black and white #alasdair gray #frankenstein

[emmellas]

people launching discourse on this scene being "overdone," "problematic," and misperceiving it as the film trying to state injustice existing as a wild, deep concept have just lost the whole plot. the film is told through bella's eyes as it is BELLA'S story and she had lived a sheltered life that, while no fault of her own, was in part due to being white and wealthy and in part because god confined her to his house. the point? it is meant to be an immensely dramatic scene because that is BELLA'S poignant, indignant reaction to the realization that injustice exists. her heart is destroyed. this is a GOOD thing in the sense that she ... you know ... truly cares about systemic oppression. it would be disheartening to see her act indifferently as those around her do.

indeed, she has what we'd call "rich white lady" guilt and her naïveté leads her to initially believe that throwing money at the problem will solve it, which, while good-intentioned, obviously will not solve things. this clownish behavior, again not an insult to bella as she doesn't know better, is intentionally presented that way to comment on the ridiculousness of that typical white saviour mentality from people who are in fact aware of injustice and simply do not choose to educate themselves on how they can meaningfully contend it because they do not care. bella, however, upon finding that it's not that simple, is committed to finding ways that actually do help. the witnessing of the slum was her moment not just of "growing up" from a sheltered life but of radicalization, which ultimately leads her to socialism and the finding that deconstructing oppressive systems is a collective effort. read: the scene isn't "poverty porn" but rather a wake up call and one of action for bella given she is a good-intentioned being. her impetus to effecting actual social change. she couldn't do this if she didn't even know it existed.

i am perpetually shocked at people's proclivity (perhaps propensity but it seems to be a common phenomenon to hop on a hate train) to misperceive this film, in so doing acting in a petulant, unhelpful way that the film critiques, but i digress.

#emma stone #film #poor things #yorgos lanthimos #bella baxter #film theory #feminist film #white saviorism #media illiteracy #holly waddington #social commentary #alasdair gray

[mhevarujta]

I'm still stuck with the way Poor Things was adapted:

Book:

Has 3 main parts: 1)Bella's story from the perspective of her husband: A grotesque gothic sci-fi of a baby in a woman's body that also works as a sociopolitical allegory for Scotland. 2) Victoria/Bella 's own objections nad attempt to tell her story, to reclaim it from her bitter, lying husband and the part that really ties the story to reality. 3)A (male) editor's notes.

Movie:

Uses only the part of the story delivered from the husband, which is criticized and Bella herself denounces in the book, as a tale of self-discovery and liberation.

Now, I'm NOT saying that the movie (despite its flaws and the end being completely acontextual from the version of the world they have presented) is not quite good as its own thing. I just think that it's weird how anyone adapting a book focused on a woman, with an entire section about her reclaiming her narrative, only keeps the part in which she has no voice.

#poor things #yorgos lanthimos #tony mcnamara #alasdair gray

[issela-santina]

Poor Things 🤝 Penny Dreadful

Bella Baxter and Lily Frankenstein

Bella from the Poor Things book asserts that her husband fantasized her life story based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, so here we see quite a few similarities between her and a version of the monster's bride

fast learners; everyone just thinks they're dumb because apparently there's a belief that when you're resurrected you're supposed to be a clean slate

gaslit and gatekept, but still girlbossed

everybody in their milieux hates when they take full agency of the fact that they can be fierce and sexy and unhinged

forging their path from dying of grief to living unbound to it

both of them lost a child: one to their mother's death before they were born and the other to their mother being barred from coming home when she wanted to keep them warm

both of them don't necessarily hate men for starters and consider recommitting to a traditional relationship with a man but men really are like that, so ehh here we are

women's rights means understanding women's wrongs

in essence both of them, being white women living in Victorian England with extra add-ons, may stand for a feminism that hasn't discovered intersectionality just yet — a feminism raw and pale and inapplicable to more than just their own

all this being said, I think they could be friends

#poor things #penny dreadful #brona croft #lily frankenstein #bella baxter #alasdair gray #emma stone #billie piper

[esqueletosgays]

POOR THINGS (2023)

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Cinematography: Robbie Ryan

#poor things #pobres criatures #yorgos lanthimos #emma stone #willem dafoe #mark ruffalo #ramy youssef #alasdair gray #frankenstein #bride of frankenstein #mary shelley #cinematography #movie screencaps #movie screenshots #movie frames #film screencaps #film screenshots #film frames #screencaps #screenshots