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i am respectfully asking for elaboration bcs it makes so much sense when i read it but i need to see your thought process 😍👀💜💜💜💜💜

OK SO BISEXUAL MOVIES LET'S GO

(spoilers under the cut ofc)

the old guard is pretty self-explanatory i think? the canon queer relationship aside, there is definitely an element of... romance? devotion? literal undying love? in the way andy speaks of quynh. the way they look at each other in that scene just before they're taken away!

like.... what is that!!! i'll tell you what it's not - it's not straight lmao. the tenderness! the love!! and idk in general there's just something about charlize theron that is automatically bisexual. maybe it's the haircut. maybe it's the clothing. maybe it's the way she built herself a family that all love each other unconditionally. maybe it's because she's charlize theron and i'm a weak woman. idk. you get it tho!

(also, nile. nile gives off chaotic bi vibes because i said so. you're telling me a straight person would yeet fictional martin shkreli off a building just to kill him? no i do not think they would.)

and then there's inception. i mean we were all there in 2010 when you couldn't open tumblr without seeing about a billion posts about arthur and eames being criminal dreamsharing husbands etc. etc. guess what I'M STILL THERE. the way arthur kept track of where eames was ("eames? no, he's in mombasa.") the way eames's reaction to hearing arthur's name was "MMMMMMM aaaarthur" and that Look. like there was always this implication that they know each other really well and there's something Between them that had them not on the best of terms initially. gut feeling says it's cobb, somehow. arthur is very loyal to cobb, while eames has no qualms calling him out on his bullshit. makes sense to me that eames would have Problems with arthur, an accomplished dream thief on his own, following cobb around like a puppy on whatever harebrained scheme cobb's cooked up this time to try to get back to his family.

also. the matching totems. eames constantly teasing arthur during the planning stage. then "you mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling." the way arthur panics only when he's afraid eames might've been shot in the car chase on the first level, and doesn't panic so much about saito, the billionaire who's funding the entire thing. the way he helps eames with his IV on the second level, when he knows full well eames can do it himself. "security will run you down hard." "and i will lead them on a merry chase." "just be back before the kick." "go to sleep, mr. eames." THE INTRICATE RITUALS OF TELLING SOMEONE YOU CARE ABOUT THEM WITHOUT SAYING THE WORDS THEMSELVES. like not to make the entire thing about a ship but again, it's about the way they're so aware of each other. also, tom hardy's presence also makes everything bisexual. in fact considering the previous movie and this one i'm surprised i forgot to mention mad max so maybe that'll get an honorary mention later on.

also, whatever cobb and saito had going on. cobb pining after his dead wife but also going all fucking out for saito. yes yes i know he wanted to go back to his family, but what even is "take a leap of faith. come back, so we can be young men together again" like you only knew each other for what, two weeks before this?? "i've been waiting for someone from a half-remembered dream" for decades??? you had no reason to believe he wouldn't abandon you in limbo or lose himself? you waited all this while and like. limbo is supposed to turn your brain to, as eames so eloquently put it, scrambled egg, right? and yet. and yet here's saito, and he remembers cobb, all these years in limbo and he waited. an old man filled with regret waiting to die alone? what regret could saito possibly have had? ...other than cobb. and maybe saito thinks that to cobb it's just about the agreement, but the way cobb looks at him when he sees him again, "to be young men together again" not even "young men again." he said "young men together again." it's not straight, i am telling you. i am not a cobb enjoyer but i am SO fascinated by him and saito honestly. pretty sure fandom would've been all over this ship if it wasn't for cobb's entire personality.

then again tenet. mr. christopher nolan why are your movies Like this. the protagonist going along with everything neil says. the cryptic smile neil has when he talks to the protagonist. the way he looks at him when the protagonist isn't looking. so many unspoken things. neil knowing he's dead from the beginning of the story. neil knowing the protagonist will live. neil knowing the protagonist better than he knows himself. "well i prefer club soda" a smile. "no you don't." the protagonist wondering if there's any way to change things, to make it so that neil lives. neil knowing there isn't. a love story lived forwards and backwards at the same time. you're going to die in your best friend's arms and you play along because it's funny, because it's written down, because you've memorized it, it's all you know. i don't know man there is just something inherently bisexual about all these hyper masculine action movie heroes and the way they'd die for each other. the way they look at each other, the way they always choose each other. and robert pattinson plays it SO well. you know you're going to die and you are with someone who doesn't know you yet and you love him and one day you know he'll love you too but you will not be around to see it. time is a circle and love is a circle and you are always going to be on the opposite ends of the diameter of it. you will die to save his life and in the meantime you will yearn because you can't tell him. i am going to SCREAM.

which brings us to mission impossible 4 aka ghost protocol aka the one where tom cruise runs down the side of the world's tallest building aka the best MI movie ever there i said it. first of all can i just say that it's extremely funny to me how jeremy renner did not want to be in this movie and tom cruise literally kept calling him until he said yes. then there's also the story about jeremy renner doing the stretchy thing he does on set, tom cruise seeing it, and going like "oh we are SO putting that in the movie" and i thank him for it. thank you mr. cruise.

i mean this gif btw:

yes, tom cruise insisted on this being included in the movie.

N E WAY. right off the bat we get the impression there's something we don't know about brandt. helpless little analyst who watches his boss get shot in the head right before the car they're in is punted into a river, and he lets himself be rescued by ethan hunt. he's supposed to be out of his depth trying to save the world in the field as opposed to from behind a desk, and yet there's a competence to him that's frightening. something is not adding up. that fight scene in the burj khalifa was actually SO fucking sexy — brandt's competence showing up when needed. ethan seeing him take down people as easy as pie and going all "i am SO suspicious and also SO turned on right now." the gun scene when they're hiding from the sandstorm, the way brandt disarms ethan within seconds. AND THEN. the Secret. the Shared History. brandt revealing that julia hunt's death was on him. that's the singular incident that took him out of the field. the guilt of it is so overwhelming he can barely look ethan in the eye. ethan choosing to trust him anyway and brandt accepting that trust, doing everything he can to help. the fact that he's paralleled with ethan himself when he jumps down that shaft in mumbai (and when ethan broke into the CIA in the first movie). the relieved little laugh he does when he finds out ethan knew who he was all along, and that julia is alive. the way ethan tells only him that she's alive, and not benji who KNEW her, who mourned her. not even luther, who also knew and mourned her.

hell, even the sequel to this movie is bi as fuck. like you have these gorgeous women in these movies, i am telling you my crush on jane carter is fucking GINORMOUS, there's ilsa faust, and yet it's brandt that ethan continues to be compelled by. brandt that he has all these interesting narrative entanglements with. the way the fifth movie was set up to show us brandt's internal conflict — his job vs ethan, and then we find out it wasn't ever a conflict at all. he protected ethan and kept him safe even when everyone else thought he was a sellout and a traitor. he literally fed the CIA false information to keep ethan safe while also keeping himself there as a useful mole on the inside. he left it all behind when luther told him ethan needed them. and luther didn't even trust him, and brandt KNEW it. he KNEW no one in there thought much of him, and yet he went, and he risked everything, and he did what he could to help. the way the movie set up brandt and ethan to make us think brandt would betray him, the way we didn't know brandt's true loyalties at any given time even though brandt himself always knew, and ethan always knew. the reveal that brandt never betrayed ethan, that they'd been in on the whole thing together the entire time. idk it's just COMPELLING.

and like even aside from the plot. ethan hunt is this legend within the IMF, right. even his friends kind of look at him with this weird hero worship. look at how benji acts around him. luther doesn't, but luther has been with him so long and he's got this impression of like, ethan as some infallible being. he never really questions him because he has no reason to. in his experience, ethan has rarely been wrong. ethan is not used to being questioned by these people at all. there's that inequality in their dynamics always because they see him as this mildly insane man who'll live forever out of sheer spite and who's indestructible to them, so they always go along with whatever he says. and then along comes william brandt, and he can barely look ethan in the eye but he sure as shit can disagree with him, he can call him out when he's wrong, he can find a better way of doing things. he's the only one that speaks to ethan on an equal level because he doesn't consider ethan a god of some sort – he sees him as he is. he sees the person ethan is instead of the agent and idk it's just. he's an analyst, right. it's his entire JOB to know people. he can read them in seconds, he's intelligent as fuck, and he's the one person that challenges ethan. that tells him give me a reason to believe you, to follow you. prove to me you know what you're doing. i'll follow you to the ends of the earth - but i need you to prove to me why you deserve it. and that is fucking amazing, ok. i'll forever be mad we didn't get brandt in mi:6 and probably not in mi:7 too because his dynamic with ethan was far more interesting to me than ethan's dynamics with benji, luther, OR ilsa.

honorary mention: mad max

a dudebro film to some, a bisexual movie to others. either way, charlize theron and tom hardy is a powerful combination. a movie where the woman is the protagonist and the man is the supporting character? where he's a character in HER story? he's supporting HER mission. fucking amazing. they're fighting the Man and they're freeing the women he abused and they're allied with elderly lesbians on bikes. there are cars. there are car chases. there is the war machine. there is charlize theron's buzzcut. so much to love. so little heterosexuality. SO fucking here for it.

#I'M SORRY THIS GOT SO LONG BUT I ALWAYS HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS ABOUT MOVIES #asks #effervescentdragon #akira #mad max #mission impossible #tenet #inception #the old guard #movies

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