#bern speaks

[annebrontesrequiem]

Update: I saw the pasty Victorian child commit war crimes

#DUNE PART TWO HAS BEEN SEEN #dune part two #dune part 2 #dune #bern speaks

[jelepermets]

"Et nos petites vies ne comptent pas."

"La vie dure si peu et elle ne vaut rien"

#les miserables #les mis #les mis 2012 #barricade day #enjoltaire #please be very gentle lol I know the quality's not great I haven't made gifs in years #les mis musical #enjolras #grantaire #bern speaks #my edit

[aminiatureworld]

Just going to say I love the implications of Scaramouche having an anemo vision. Venti really said I’ll take all the mentally ill ones

#ignoring that he’s a puppet of another archon lmao #okay venti #genshin impact #not writing #bern speaks

[annebrontesrequiem]

Thinking about how in Dune Part 1 the concept of Paul dying and rising is this big set up to his fight with Jamis. And how through killing a man for the first time, Paul does in some ways kill a part of himself, which is then reborn.

Now thinking about how many times Paul dies and is reborn in Dune Part 2. When he is accepted by the Fremen, and rejects his status as outsider of the planet. He severs his ties to Caladan more than even the death of his father.

When he accepts his fate and goes South. Though Paul is saving himself from being killed by the Harkonnens, he's also killing his hope. The last of his resolve. And he accepts his terrible destiny, rising again.

Of course, drinking the Waters is the most explicit example of this. Paul literally almost dies, only to be resurrected by Chani. Only this time it's the most terrible death of them all. Because Chani assured him that she would always be his as long as he remained himself. And in this act Paul is losing her. Already when he goes South he's lost. But now he can see it clearly. And she can too. Paul Atreides is dead. Paul the Messiah is born. He's gained so much, and yet how much he's also lost.

Then, of course, circling back to Dune Part 1, Paul the Duke is killed by Feyd Rautha, before being reborn as Paul the Emperor. Again he comes perilously close to dying, yet even here the loss and gain does not match the scope of when he took the Waters. Thus, though this is his 'moment' politically, in terms of fate that moment has already passed.

#I think you could also follow this line through Paul's names #but that's a wholeee other post #dune #dune part 2 #bern speaks

[annebrontesrequiem]

You are not immune to propaganda (men in 1810s clothing)

#or women in men's 1810s clothing #what I'm saying is cravats? sexy. #bern speaks

[annebrontesrequiem]

Okay but Stilgar's religiosity is crucial to the story. And also in a situation so dire as the one on Arrakis, of course there are some people convinced the Messiah has come! Especially when the Bene Gessert have been doing such a 'good job' instilling the prophecy!

And is that not part of the tragedy? That everyone from Paul to Stilgar to Chani to yes even Lady Jessica are at the mercy of a plan that was laid out for them by people they don't know who would never live to see the consequences?

#on my bullshit #dune #dune part 2 #bern speaks

[annebrontesrequiem]

Okay, so I saw Dune Part 2 and it was so very good.

Though I definitely felt the amount of cuts that had to be made, and the way it was simplified in some cases (see Feyd Rautha's birthday duel and how the subtext of the man being specifically drugged with a delayed agent was cut, making the scene in some ways much more straightforward). I'll have to reread the book especially before I really cement my feelings about Lady Jessica and the sheer amount her story was cut (no mention of her being a supposed spy and all that and the changes from cutting her inner monologue).

Still what Villeneuve does he does spectacularly. The two things that stood out the most were a. the sense of scale and b. the scale of tragedy.

The shifting around of plot points worked a lot more for me than I feared. Though at first I was worried about Paul's pseudo-training montage, it actually worked really well. Cutting between Paul becoming a fighter and member of Sietch Tabr, falling in love with Chani, getting dreams, etc. and the politics and perspectives of the other, bigger and more politically aware players, was a really good idea.

It gives you really the sense of how big the world is. Of how much Paul is struggling under the weight of it. Of how small it is to be one person. It filled me with such a sense of dread and anguish, which is pretty impressive considering how the book has a lot more pages and a very distinct writing style that conveys this sense of scale. But the movie really went for it, and from the great to the small, there's a sense of importance.

I like that Villeneuve delayed Paul's change in perspective until after he drinks the waters. This really emphasizes the change within him, and really ups the tragedy of his character. Seeing him seemingly capitulate so readily after all the agonizing he went through, the desperate attempt to stem the tide of the war that has already begun and which began the moment he stepped foot on Arrakis, it was really heartbreaking. It also helped with Jessica's characterization. You get to see how drinking the waters utterly changes you. And how Paul has accepted his fate, while still bearing all the pain of doing so.

I struggle with how bleak Dune as a book series is in some place. The movie really does tap into that. It's a tragedy through and through and while you hope so desperately that something will change, you are so staggered by the scope and scale of this struggle. By the scale of agony that is going to be wreaked on the universe. It's really phenomenal.

#dune #dune part 2 #dune part two #bern speaks

[annebrontesrequiem]

Shane putting reylo on his list is so so funny that man really lit a stick of dynamite and threw it at tumblr, godspeed

#I do hope he was joking tho… #tumblr top 5 #shane madej #bern speaks #watcher

[annebrontesrequiem]

Sherlock trending is activating my fight or flight response

#sherlock holmes #bern speaks

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Also Brennan Lee Mulligan is obviously wonderful at voice acting - the range of accents and tones he can do is stunning. But also I just want to point out how amazing his expressions are too. He really knows how to do these very subtle acting choices within his facial expressions that convey really an immense amount of characterization/character context. And I just think that's kind of amazing. Really truly talented person

#like the expression of the baron of the bricks really stood out to me #so did miss muffet; and death too - just a ton of little choices that convey so much emotion #dimension 20 #brennan lee mulligan #bern speaks

[annebrontesrequiem]

Happy Good Friday to those who celebrate! This Good Friday let us not perpetuate the antisemitic idea that Jews killed Jesus. Besides being literally, historically incorrect, this idea has also been used to perpetuate a horrific amount of violence against Jews around Easter - and in general.

Seriously. Don’t do it.

#christianity #antisemitism #bern speaks

[annebrontesrequiem]

Very hyped for Dune Part two, can’t wait to watch this pasty Victorian child commit warcrimes

#dune part 2 #dune #bern speaks

[annebrontesrequiem]

I love when reading a book makes you gain awareness of some aspect of life you weren't really aware of before. Not in a "I didn't know about this fact/experience/person" but in a more, fundamental way. How we see suffering, how we see happiness, how we see the world. That shift, whether in every day, in writing, in reading, in creating. It's all so wonderful. Something has opened for me. I have tools, I have experiences I didn't have before. It's beautiful

#reading #bookblr #? #classic literature #bern speaks

[jelepermets]

It’s today it’s today one of my favorite moments is today and I’m too behind to get to it ahhhhhh

#AAAAAAAAAA #les miserables #les mis letters #grantaire #enjolras #enjoltaire #bern speaks

[jelepermets]

I never want to hear anyone talk about classics as archaic again. When I see Victor Hugo discuss poverty and the ignorance it brings and how the fault is not that of the poor but of the rich. When I see him discuss the place of women and how they too have been robbed by ignorance. When I see him discuss the guillotine and how one does not truly see capital punishment until you see it at work. How can this be called anything but modern?

#on my soapbox #les miserables #les mis letters #bern speaks

[annebrontesrequiem]

Literally who let Charles Dickens be so funny, this is only one of some legitimate bangers:

The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night time, as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment by the twopenny post a day or two previous.

Oliver Twist (Book the Second, Chapter the Seventh)

#oliver twist #charles dickens #classic literature #bern speaks