#daniel le domas

[dhawanmasters]

Adam Brody as Daniel le Domas READY OR NOT (2019)

#ready or not #daniel le domas #adam brody #filmedit #horroredit #filmgifs #moviegifs #dailyflicks #junkfooddaily #userbrittany #userscary #useremory #usersnat #userveronika #tusermyra #cygifs #my horror husband fr

[capinejghafa]

ADAM BRODY as DANIEL Le DOMAS READY OR NOT (2019) dir. MATT BETTINELLI-OLPIN & TYLER GILLETT

#ready or not #ready or not (2019) #daniel le domas #adam brody #filmedit #horroredit #horror movies #tusermich #userbecca #janielook #userlau #userbeccaa #jameszmaguire #userzhr #usercy #mygifs14

[oranedgp]

How does one even draw guns? 😂

#inktober #inktober 2023 #ready or not #grace le domas #daniel le domas #horror movies #character design #my art

[bisexual-magnus-bane]

It says Hide and Seek.

Are we really going to play that?

~ Grace Le Domas

#pinterest #pinterest aesthetics #red aesthetic #aesthetic #ready or not #ready or not 2019 #samara weaving #babysitter #the babysitter #babysitter killer queen #adam brody #daniel le domas #grace le domas #babysitter bee #devil #devil aesthetic #ready or not aesthetic

[lvcygraybaird]

READY OR NOT (2019)

#the fact that he took the time to google this with all thats going on shdfkgdsgs. like wait hold on lemme check sumthin #ready or not #readyornotedit #ready or not (2019) #horroredi #tvfilmedit #grace le domas #daniel le domas #grace x daniel #daniel x grace #mygifs #mygifsets #myedits

[sotangledupinit]

I posted my low-quality gif and made this comment on twitter already but…

Adam Brody as Daniel Le Domas stepping in front of Grace to protect her from the threat of a gun (by his own wife!!!) is one of the hottest things put on film.

#ready or not #ready or not (2019) #daniel le domas #adam brody #grace le domas #this is 🥵 #no one @ me #thriving

[mswyrr]

"ready or not" - grace/daniel ship meta

It's a delightful Horror/dark comedy film about how rich people suck. Scary but not too scary (I am a 'fraidy cat about Horror movies) and just a romp really. It's paced well and has a great Final Girl and I'd recommend it.

But now I want to talk about my ship lol

SPOILERS TO FOLLOW

Hm, so, are they "in love" exactly? No. There's chemistry and ultimately they appreciate each other (as the only two people in that house "who [have] a soul" - Daniel is able to recognize and appreciate that Grace has one because he's still got one too, albeit tattered and buried deep). But the more important thing, for me, is the structural shift between the two brothers and how that strongly implies things would have turned out happier if Grace had fallen in love with Daniel.

Namely, Alex has a heel turn arc and Daniel has a face turn arc. And, the one who face turns acts on the promises the one who heel turns broke.

The film is a wedding night gone wrong, specifically a new spouse who proves untrue. Grace says her problem was "in-laws," but it's actually Alex breaking the vows he just made to her that comes closest to killing her. The in-laws themselves are not the most efficient threat ever. They're pretty bumbling. Alex keeps Grace in the dark and Alex turns on her, that is what brings her close to death. As well as a funny political satire, it's a satire of the tensions marriage brings into a family, over who your new spouse will be loyal to - you above all others, as they've promised, or the family that raised them, even if it's shitty.

Grace marries one man who promises to be good to her, care for and love and protect her. To be her family, when she is a foster kid who has no family. And then Alex proves false and the other brother, the "weak" one, poisons his family and puts himself between her and a bullet.

Daniel does what Alex promised to do.

Now, he largely thought he was doing this for Alex (not realizing Alex would have a heel turn), so it's not primarily about Grace - HOWEVER, Daniel independently recognizes and values Grace as a person as well as doing it for Alex. Loving his little brother and trying to protect him is how Daniel kept his soul; he's that kind of person at heart. And the structure lends itself to asking how well he and Grace would get along in other circumstances. If this is how he is when they barely know each other, what would he be like if he was the one who'd met and fallen in love with her? Or what if he survived?

The writing includes other elements that strength this as well: they both recognize each other. Early on, Daniel keeps saying "You don't belong in this family - I mean that as a compliment" and saying she "has a soul" so she'll never fit in. And Grace recognizes his soul too. She keeps reaching out to him and believed Daniel would help her before he knew it himself. ("I knew you'd help me." / "I didn't.")

A YouTube review was like talking about how Grace doesn't survive by her own wits because she trusts Alex and he turns on her, it's only "good luck" that saves her. That she has “plot armor.” And I was like wuuut lol Good luck is part of it, but not beyond belief - and Grace does keep herself alive with her grit and wits and then she reaches out to someone and that person poisons his family and takes a bullet for her.

Another point is that, despite it clearly not being a love match, Daniel warned his wife, Charity, about the family cult before their marriage and let her decide whether she wanted to take the risk. Alex hid the information from Grace because "If I told you, you would've left."

That's the key choice where Alex doesn't put Grace first. He puts what he wants (to keep her with him) first. And that foreshadows him putting what his family wants first. Subconsciously, Alex was always ready to betray Grace if she pulled the wrong card. He betrayed her by not warning her.

I think the final thing that makes it work for me is that Daniel and Alex were both children the last time someone pulled the Hide and Seek card. As much as the movie tries to make us not feel bad about the kids today, they're not to blame for the shitty way they've been raised, and Alex and Daniel weren’t to blame for what happened 30 years ago.They were kids.

It's *this* time that they're both adults and making decisions as full moral agents. It's this time that they both find out who they really are. And the decision Daniel makes is to put a stop to all the ritual murder bullshit.

It's also about the heroine's victory. What does Grace *want* from the very beginning of the story? A permanent family, people who will stick by her and love her.

In the canon movie ending, Grace survives, but she's still a foster kid with no family. Though she's legally filthy rich now, it's not the same. She doesn't actually get what she told us she wanted from the beginning of the movie. In fact, she loses the one person she was certain would be family to her, along with the hope her in-laws would be there for her. So there's that sadness to it, which makes the ship meaningful on her side. In this terrible circumstance, she found someone who has a good heart too and would prove true.

The story both provides us with a lack (Grace, the heroine, not getting her heart's desire) and someone who the story shows us could be that for her. Someone who has a soul, despite everything, and wants to do the right thing, to protect and love.

There's a reason why there's timeloop stories where Grace keeps playing the game until she can have a "complete victory" by saving Daniel and winning the family she wanted as well as getting away with her life and the money. The heroine's victory in the film itself is compromised.

The reason why there's a lovely bunch of gems of fanfic about Grace and Daniel on Ao3 is that the story itself provides that bitterness to the sweetness of Grace's survival, that she's still so alone, and a strong foundation for ways they could have been happier or worked out if they'd fallen in love instead of Grace and Alex or if Daniel had survived.

#ready or not #grace le domas #daniel le domas #grace x daniel #daniel x grace #movie meta #ship meta #long post #my meta

[fluorescentbalaclava]

I'M SCREAMINGGGGGGGGGGG

#ready or not #ready or not movie #daniel le domas #daniel x grace #grace le domas #samara weaving #adam brody

[behindthescreamz]

behind the scenes photos of liam macdonald and ethan tavares as georgie and gabe bradley with their cast mates and directors on the set of “ready or not” (2019)

#ready or not #horror #behind the scenes #liam macdonald #ethan tavares #horror movies #samara weaving #grace le domas #mark o’brien #alex le domas #adam brody #daniel le domas #melanie scrofano #emilie le domas #kristian bruun #fitch bradley #andie macdowell #becky le domas #henry czerny #tony le domas #elyse levesque #charity le domas #2010s horror #radio silence #tyler gillett #matt bettinelli olpin #blood #tw blood #cw: fake blood #survival horror

[starxcxboy]

— Adam Brody as Daniel le Domas in Ready or Not (2019).

#adam brody #daniel le domas #ready or not #actors #cinema #movie #movies #movieedit #handsome

[anxiouspotatorants]

On a scale of Dave Rygalski to the lead singer of Low Shoulder, with Daniel Le Domas as the mid point, how morally disgusting are you to women?

#in conclusion Adam Brody has the range #it’s just so funny to adore the shit out of his Gilmore Girls character and then turn around and hate the Low Shoulder guy #didn’t add his O.C. character because Daniel from Ready or Not is a much better mid point #dave rygalski #gilmore girls #daniel le domas #ready or not #jennifer’s body #nikolai jennifer’s body

[liliennacht]

love the Read or Not (2019) fandom for having a glorious amount of Time Loop Fanficsin which Daniel gets to live

#ready or not #ready or not 2019 #daniel x grace #grace x daniel #daniel le domas #grace le domas #graciel

[inkcalamities]

She told me she loved me, but I do not deserve your love

I put me above you and honestly I think I fucked it up

I don't know why

#fanart #digital art #horror #horror art #ready or not #readyornot #ready or not 2019 #daniel le domas #adam brody #grace le domas #danielxgrace #oil brushes #he haunts me #chasealanticlyrics #my wip art #art #fan art

[mrs-steve-harrington]

#ready or not #horroredit #horror #daniel le domas #grace le domas #alex le domas #adam brody #samara weaving #mark o'brien #mine* #halloween things #i tried to do something with a caption #but the new tumblr posting shit #is bullshit #and kept fucking it up so #I GIVE UP

[cyberspacebear]

my version of this meme

i don't know who made the original, but i admire the vision they had to put into words what freaks like me could not articulate

#participating in a funny thing #all characters tagged left to right #with their media before their name #ready or not #daniel le domas #fight club #the narrator #breaking bad #jesse pinkman #mello #death note #will graham #nbc hannibal #billy loomis #scream 1996 #babygirl tag

[fairydust-stuff]

The fact  Fandom takes Daniel Le domas complicated motives for saving Grace. His unstable relationship with his family as the scapegoat, his desire to keep Alex safe/ happy because he’s convinced Alex is the only one who still has a chance to exscape.  boil it down to oh Daniel must secretly be in love with Grace will never not annoy me. 

Yeah he’s mentioned to have hit on her deleated scene stuff but was clearly trying to chase her out of the family, scare her off instead of get with his brothers wife. 

(give Daniel more credit Just because you think Alex is shit doesn’t mean Daniel wouldn’t be terrible for that) 

Daniel loves Alex too much to try and seduce his bride, the first opening scene of the movie is Daniel hiding Alex away so he won’t see their family kill.  

Yes he admires Grace but its really more about Daniel wanting to do the right thing while flipping off his family and being able to save Alex. 

#ready or not #daniel le domas #the guy is complicated #and everyone boils him down to him saving grace because he secretly wants to bang her #it makes me sad Alex got swayed after all #poor Daniel didn't get to save him #Daniel wants to save his brother not date Grace #He also wants to do the right thing after a life time of wrong