#no wonder i don’t like their films

[onlyzhuyilong]

#guardian #镇魂 guardian #沈巍 #even in English translation Priest’s descriptive writing is wonderfully #even in English translation Priest’s descriptive writing is wonderful #zhu yilong #朱一龙 #朱一龍 #주일룡 #my gifs #I got the English translation of the novel & man I love it #please stand by for the queue #if you’ve ever get the chance to see zhu yilong irl (like at an event or film festival) he matches this description too #he has a subtle beauty that cameras don’t do justice to #if anyone asks the drama ends with them sitting on a bench laughing the end nobody died

[theoryofwhatnow]

please stop asking me what the ending to Like Minds means. i don’t know 😭 i just work here

#i’ve got some pretty theories and overwhelmed tears for ya. but that’s all you’re getting out of me #this post is mainly about people on other social medias #not here #you guys seem to have a pretty good grasp on what you’re doing #nothing is scarier than getting a dm and the message preview says ‘hey i watched that film and was wondering if you could explain-‘ #NOOO I CANNOT #i don’t even know what the fuck is going on please leave me to die in peace #like minds #nigel colbie #murderous intent #alex forbes #like minds 2006 #murderous intent movie #tom sturridge #eddie redmayne

[orchidyoonkook]

Personal

Hi.

How did you get over your quarter life crisis?

Because I’m trying not to fall into the vast unyielding void. And I’m failing hilariously.

#TAG RANT. CAN IGNORE. YOON JUST NEEDS TO GET HER THOUGHTS OUT. #filler tag to push the rest of the rant down past the cut off point. #i literally don’t know what I’m going to do with my life and I can’t decide anything. #do I stay in flowers #do I leave flowers #do I try and get into film again #do I move to Europe #or delay that and go back to school for the one thing that’s always brought me pure happiness #or do I move out of my city #but in all of this I have to consider my partner and what he wants #but I don’t know what to do. i don’t know what the right thing for me is and I can’t afford a therapist so I ramble on the internet in hopes #of a shiny beacon of something rings into my head and figures everyhting out for me #like. I’ll be 25 in April. a ways off. but I’m 25 and I haven’t done anything. i don’t know what I’m supposed to do?? i had a life plan that #was derailed so hilariously hard by COVID that cannot be mended. and this is the first time I haven’t had a plan or a solid goal and so now #I’m floating in the middle of the pacific wondering which direction to turn in hopes of finding land #i have nothing to work towards and I miss who I was. i want to be that again. i wanna be her again. but it’s so difficult to do that. #anyway. rant over. needed to get that out. thanks for reading if you did. #this actually made me feel a lot better hope moly.

[sixty-silver-wishes]

thinking about caligari production ✨lore✨ again

so

this is german actress gilda langer

(she was the one who encouraged hans janowitz and carl mayer to write a film together, which would end up being “caligari.” everyone say, “danke schön, gilda langer.”)

when mayer and janowitz were writing “caligari,” they initially wrote the role of jane for langer. however, langer unexpectedly died of spanish flu before they could begin filming, so the role went to lil dagover.

so uh. this happened:

(before she died, langer was also engaged to director paul czinner.)

so, as for the film itself, in the original draft of “caligari,” the frame story element still exists, but francis and jane are a married couple telling the story to their guests at a dinner party years after it happened. however, in the final film, while the characters are friends in the frame story, they are both revealed to be asylum patients at the end. francis asks jane to marry him, but she rejects him, seemingly lost in her own delusion.

so I have a lot of questions. I have to wonder if, considering langer’s untimely death and the fact that she didn’t return mayer’s feelings for her, the way jane’s character was written changed. we know janowitz and mayer did not want the asylum ending, which was added to distill the film’s anti-authority themes. but as for jane rejecting francis, this element stands out to me because we hardly ever see the “damsel” character reject the male protagonist, especially in older works of fiction. what’s also fascinating is that while francis and alan appear to compete for jane’s affection, alan dies, but this doesn’t mean jane chooses francis. what’s curious as well is that even in francis’ own narrative which he controls, he could tell the story so that jane is attracted to him, but he doesn’t.

furthermore, while I’ve touched on this before, even in his own story, francis sort of fucks up his own friendship with jane. after she’s kidnapped, he immediately denies her (correct) account of what happened, leading both her and her father to appear angry with him. francis never apologizes for this mistake, but the fact that we see the olsens upset with him suggests that we’re supposed to see this as a fault on his behalf.

so, between the “love triangle” element in which the “rival” is killed, the fact that francis is rejected and jane remains single, and the fact that their friendship is presented as flawed, I have to wonder how much of the story of the final film may have been impacted by langer’s engagement and death. this is not to suggest that mayer may have had resentment for czinner or langer, or to make any assumptions on his personal life and thoughts towards these people, but it’s curious that while francis and jane started out as a couple in the original draft, francis’ feelings turn out to be unrequited in the final film. could jane’s refusal of him be a projection of mayer’s own unrequited feelings for langer? I have no idea, but I have to wonder

#the cabinet of dr. caligari #rambles #another thing too is that in the og draft #the kidnapping scene is far more . sexual. with cesare in a clearly aggressive role #but in the film it’s a lot more ambiguous as to what’s going on in his head #he looks more panicked than predatory I think #so I have to wonder too if after langer’s death. if portraying a character based on her violated like that #would have seemed to be in poor taste by the writers #I don’t know! all I’m doing is speculating #but it’s interesting that the scenes with jane were revised so heavily

[deus-ex-mona]

have you listened to meoto? yes? good!!!!! listen to it again~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!

#i fear that this song has changed me for life dangit #can’t even sit down for 3 minutes without thinking ‘ehehehehehe meoto mv coming soon’ #i mean. c m o n. if these two already act like an old married couple 24/7 imagine what they’d do as an *actual* married couple #man. i want the last scenes of the mv to be something like lxl thanking the staff for their hard work at the mv ‘filming’ #t h e n aizo trips on his hakama as they turn to each other or sth and falls forward and they accidentally kiss just as the song ends— #d. d o you s e e my vision auauauauauauauaaaaaaa #i can’t w a i t to see how they’ll even be able to act more lovey dovey than they do in *that* ny aizo unevolved 5⭐︎ #anyways. i think everyone needs to listen to the lxl album radio tracks instead of wondering if there even will be a meoto mv #c’mon guysssss they outright confirm its existence t h e r e it’s just a matter of w h e n it comes out now auauauauauauaaaaaaaaaaaaa #. or actually. maybe don’t listen to the first lxl radio. if i didn’t i wouldn’t be thinking about the meoto mv 24/7 #hauauauauauuauaaaaaaaaaaaaa meoto mv w h e n hw pls give some crumbs im begggingghhhh #anyways. i think it’s about time for a meoto tag to filter out all this nonsense. #LXL MEOTO CRISIS 2K24 #there… now time to go back to retag everything else lmaoooooo #染BODY ONCE TOLD ME—

[multifandom-garbage-compactor]

Aziraphale owns a copy of Love in the Time of Cholera.

This isn’t an unusual detail, but now I feel like I have more justification for having put Hay Amores and Despedida in my Ineffable Husbands playlist other than just liking those songs and wanting to hear them.

#I don’t think y’all understand when Shakira said ‘cuando alguien se va el que se queda sufre más’ #Google translate it bitch <3 #for context: Shakira worked on the soundtrack for the 2007 film adaptation of Love in the Time of Cholera #i wonder if bc my playlist has a few songs in Spanish people get turned off by it bc they don’t understand them #I promise they’re significant #like #good omens #good omens season 2 #good omens s2 #good omens 2 #love in the time of cholera #ineffable husbands #ineffable divorce

[euphorial-docx]

the movies aren’t dying… marketing is.

#movies are marketed so horribly now #like no wonder i didn’t see your movie with 283828282 celebrities in it… i didn’t know it fucking existed you idiots #if i (a chronically online film nerd) don’t know a movie existed then you KNOW the marketing was bad

[lhrry]

x

#can’t believe how many people are vile and vicious about mp just because harry is in it #unfortunately the homophobic responses to the movie were to be expected but the way people reduce it to a ‘hating on harry styles fest’ #because apparently that’s cool rn #the way i saw someone call it giving a platform to a queerbaiter just yesterday is making me sick #especially when the movie does such a wonderful job portraying the complexities and pressures of closeting #to disregard the brilliancy of cinematography and storytelling that the film brings to life #the beautiful work done by all the actors of the young as well as older versions #the absolute care and love that obviously went into making this happen the details the touches the intimacy the music the slightest twitch #of a muscle is all so purposeful and thought out and beautifully put together #as everything the movie has its drawbacks back they’re not harry being in the movie and refusing to look past him at the work as a whole is #just not cool or edgy but ignorant and making you miss out on an important and emotional experience #similarly don’t like the film being purely reduced to comparing harry’s personal life to it and making it about larry purely #and solely like of course they are there and it is an important factor in Harry’s portrayal of Tom for sure but I’d hate to see that #overshadow everything else about the film and the role

[papertowness]

“ every thanksgiving i go visit family “ “ every thanksgiving i eat pumpkin pie “ every thanksgiving i watch it’s a wonderful life and bawl my eyes out

#i loathe what thanksgiving stands for don’t get me wrong #but if i HAVE to celebrate it with my family #this is definitely the better tradition #( i started it btw ) #y’all best believe the scene with george and mr gaur at the beginning has me SOBBING #the scene at the bank too where he’s like can you have 17.50 ? of course you can #the entire honeymoon scene #and of course the end where they all sing auld lang sine to him #hats off to whoever can watch it’s a wonderful life dry - eyed bc motherfucker it is NOT me #filmblr #film #movie #it’s a wonderful life #christmas #christmas movie #text post #poetry #love #friends #thoughts #poets corner #humanity #lgbt #lgbtq

[afieldinengland]

thinking about peter cushing’s obviously deep, meticulous, and enthusiastic interest in the character of victor frankenstein as a doctor

#it’s everything. i don’t think there’s ever been another actor as meticulous as peter cushing…. i don’t think there could be now #the job of actor itself has changed. but every interview where he discusses playing the baron— every move and handling of an instrument was #studied. he joked his gp used to love it when he rang because he knew he wasn’t ill he just wanted to know how to take a brain out #he said something about if there happened to be a doctor in the audience he didn’t want them to spot him handling his scalpel etc #incorrectly— and i mean rightly so the baron is meant to be a surgeon above all surgeons after all— but that level of study and seriousness #is unparalleled i think. his approach to van helsing and sherlock holmes was very similiar— i imagine it was the same to all characters #honestly. he used to learn everyone’s lines not just his #but it brings something so unique and fascinating to hammer’s depiction of victor frankenstein. as someone who’ll probably always be a #little obsessed with the man. adding things like the janus-faced nature of the ‘bedside manner’ and the reputation of ‘the good doctor’ #where they never featured in shelley’s original novel— i’m saying nothing new here but hammer’s victor has always #struck me as an extrapolation of what would happen if victor was stripped of his human limiting factors. #remorse. love. a family. mortality. and my points here are probably linked most to #the revenge of frankenstein (1958) but i think it applies in general. #but yes. i wish there were more surviving interviews of cushing discussing his relationship to ‘old frankenstein’ as he called him. #especially since surgery etc was coming on leaps and bounds at the time the films were being made— 50s > 70s is a long time in medicine #and he spoke about things like organ transplants with such fascination…. there’s a brain transplant in so many of the films of course #it does make you wonder. some things now would’ve fascinated him i think. #perhaps this is an odd thing to say but i wonder what he’d have made of transgender surgeries? i like to think he’d be deeply interested

[cinnamontoads]

man

#i fucking hate my college i hate the town i hate being here i hate all the people here #everyone who goes here is fucking mean and unwilling to make friends so im never going to make any friends it’s been like two years #and when you don’t have friends to room with you cant get an apartment and you arent allowed to live off campus so im #never fucking getting an apartment and will have to live alone in a dorm where i just sit and cry every day after class because im so lonely #no wonder so many people who go here kill themselves #👍 #vent #personal #and the only reason i go here is ebcause my parents forced me to go to college even when i begged to take a gap year because #covid fucking ruined my mental and physical health and they refused so im twice as miserable as i would have been #and i didnt want to pick a school so i just picked this one because i also grew up here and ive fucking hated living here this entire time #i dont know what to do #and i was going to transfer this semester but now i’m in the film program and it’s a top film tv school in the country so i feel like #id be making a worse choice career wise if i were to transfer but im so miserable im so fucking miserable man i cant do it anymore

[seeminglyseph]

Can you imagine if I started an essay like “I’m not mad, I just need to manufacture outrage in order to mine enough motivation to get this project done”

I think I might have to.

#like just ‘hi please don’t take this personally I just need to be argumentative to move’ #I don’t know who I’m arguing in this hypothetical but I have half constructed passionate speeches over so many video essays about media #which I disagreed with in totally petty ways and then been like #‘I can’t just randomly start fights about my personal interpretations of old films’ #or something stupid like that #but now I’m wondering if I can just be like ‘hi I only know how to motivate myself by getting angry about something I know is pointless’

[desirableendings]

Watching the documentary about the music in Wakanda Forever and recovering hope in humanity

#wakanda forever #ludwig göransson #ryan coogler #black panther #one of the things that I love the most about that movie was the soundtrack and now I understand why #because Ludwig Göransson put his whole souls into making it good holy shit #traveling to Nigeria and Mexico and digging the most underground musicians with the most potential #and then remixing such different music styles in a way that makes sense… AND that makes sense for the film #AND that is just straight up art…. like #the amount of care the amount of love the amount of talent #no wonder that soundtrack is so good! ! ! ! #there’s people out there still trying to make art and I’m crying #am I also on my period? that’s none of your business #also now I have a small crush on ryan coogler… don’t ask more #pls #music

[jmflowers]

sometimes I’m like, yeah, I’m totally normal and like an average level of intelligent and everything is cool

and then other times I feel this like, consuming rage at witnessing other people ‘breaking rules’ and like not understanding things that I do and I’m like, oh yeah, dis bitch neurodivergent

#my perfect world right now would require any handheld video to be filmed by trained steadicam operators with stabilizing equipment #so no one just shooting with their cell phones while running around would be allowed to create and share video #also there’d be no more mopping linoleum floors with boiling water #and you wouldn’t be allowed to ‘restock’ cleaning supplies in dumb glass containers that don’t include the safety information #clearly those are all insane ways I would like to control other humans #because none of that impacts me seriously #except for the shaky video shit… cause I just hate watching most things now as they all make #me dizzy when they’re not done well/professionally #just buy a tripod and use it exclusively everyone thanks #personal #edited to add: watching classmates edit!!!! sometimes I wonder if we sat through the same classes

[likehandlingroses]

if there had been no spoilers in the trailer or companion books, how long would it have taken for people to figure out what Guy was doing there

probably most fans could have picked up on Guy’s potential interest by their first interaction

but gotta wonder how aware we would have been as a group when the first things he said were “I like to travel, I play cricket, and I don’t mind getting into some trouble.”

#actually really I do wonder how much that trailer really primed the fandom for reactions #like overall I don’t think the broad strokes would be different but some nuances I do think are there bc of how the pre-film stuff happened

[dianaof-themyscira]

Tbh I’m grateful the dceu Wonder Woman suit was like Real and not some cgi monstrosity

#like it looks just as beautiful in bts photos as it does on film #I don’t love ww84 but lbh the ww suit never looked better #wonder woman #dceu