look, guys, i know that farleigh isn't the main character in saltburn and is supporting cast at best, but truth is—i’d loved if they’d explored the queer and racial aspects of his character because there’s a lot of material there that they could’ve worked with. god, how i would’ve loved if they’d just given him five more minutes of screen time for that. but just like in the plot, no one really cares about farleigh, do they? because it’s not his story and it’s not his house.
but like- theres just so much to say about a queer and colored character in 2006-2007, y’know? at that point in time, being queer and colored was still seen as horrible and something to make fun of. and, like, farleigh is so extra, somewhat effeminate and just downright scandalously fashionable for an era where men were severely toxically masculine and wore double popped collars and relatively simple clothes. i’m sorry but… you’re telling me that nobody ever said anything about this man?
not only that, but he’s a black/mixed man in a predominately white university/space. i mean, huh? people were massively racist in 2006-2007, especially in places like britain (and you can’t tell me otherwise because we all know it’s true).
but, sure, let’s entertain the possibility that he might be in the closet, okay? yeah, whatever, i don’t care. but the doors are glass!! not even opaque glass or something like that, they’re plain see-through, transparent glass doors.
no one, NO ONE said anything? and he’s still popular as fuck just because he was felix’s cousin? people still talked shit about oliver at oxford even when he was felix’s friend but we never heard a single thing about farleigh. and that may be because he wasn’t given enough screen time for that, but it doesn’t matter.
what i’m trying to say is that they had so much material and they wasted it by not making the movie about him.
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The hype over the trailer inspired me to make my own posters! I made two cuz I couldn't decide what idea to go for. Let me know which one's your favorite!
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The Artist in the Character of Design Listening to the Inspiration of Poetry – Angelica Kauffmann // Portrait of the Poet Armand Sylvestre – Jean Béraud // Barbie (2023) – Directed by Greta Gerwig
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Doctober day 12:
¤》° Train Tracks °《¤
Professor Brown stood at the front of the classroom,
"Trains. Their tracks are truly fascinating, if you ask me. If left abandoned, they seem like portals to the past. If you look at what they're doing with them nowadays, they seem like the path to the future."
Although he had quit teaching many years before, Dr. Emmett Brown had been invited to teach a seminar about trains and their importance in technology.
He had been chosen because he himself operated a train recreationally on the previously forgotten tracks around Eastwood Ravine. Or, that's what most of Hill Valley thought.
"To add to that, the track appears to span infinitely to each side, much like time goes infinitely both forward and backward. And that's what leads me to my lecture about the train's influence on the world of transportation…"
Professor Brown had a large audience that day, but one student in particular stood out from the rest. He sat smiling in today's "History of Technology" class. Although he should've thought about whether he liked all of history in general before majoring in it, today was different.
As Marty McFly sat writing notes on the lecture, he couldn't help but think about the day he arrived on those train tracks by the ravine. The day he finally came home.
The day he went back to the future.
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