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Top 5 Rachel Weisz movies (if I am not mistaken and you like her too)
I do like love Rachel Weisz, but I actually haven’t seen very many of her films.
I wasn’t excited about her work in the years after the Mummy. My vague understanding of her career in the aughts was that RW seemed to get typecast as a brilliant, dead wife. Upon doing more research I’m realizing this might have just been The Fountain and The Constant Gardener, but it was enough to turn off younger me. I was a teen and I remember being mad that she was only allowed to play a strong, vivacious woman if the character was ultimately punished with death/violence.
Now, looking at her list of work, I’m realizing that I really want to see My Cousin Rachel, and I might actually skim Black Widow later this year. I do want to watch the Lobster... but, I really don’t like that dude that’s in it with her.
From the films I have seen, I’ve chosen four!
1. The Mummy
I feel like putting this at #1 is kind of passé but this movie was so formative to me as a kid. I loved seeing a woman going on an adventure, as having a sense of humor, as being an all-out, unabashed nerd. The Mummy overall is a problematic fav because of the heavy white-washing of Egyptian history/centering of colonizers/overall orientalism.
But, I still can’t help but adore so much of the film. The swashbuckling ridiculousness, baby bae Oded Fehr, hottie Patricia Velazquez, the perfect melodramatic villain delivery of Arnold Vosloo, the amazing comedic chemistry between John Hannah and Rachel, the overall fun and funny adventure with horror elements.
And of course, the incredible chemistry between Rachel Weisz and Brendan Fraiser. Just wow. *chefs kisses* I’ve always known I was bi and I’m not sure why my parents let me watch this R rated movie as an eight-year-old (srsly those damn bugs gave me nightmares for weeks) but wow did I have such a crush on both of them in this movie. I never knew I could ship straight people that hard, and I will expand on how I want to be a third person in their fictional marriage in our next section~
2. The Mummy Returns
My girlfriend just yelled at me across the room that shouldn’t count Evy twice on my list, but it’s literally another movie, okay? And in this second installment, our girl is still an all-out nerd, library master who is now also an adventuring, treasure-seeking gun-fighting explorer who lives in a bomb mansion in London with her gorg himbo husband? And she’s got that old boys club the Bembridge scholars calling and asking for her help? I’m just like yes, queen. Get it.
Again, ditto on the further white-washing of Egyptian history and harmful Hollywood tropes.
But, also, the love she has with Rick and for their kid makes my heart swell. I’m so glad we’re a second movie in and Evy and Rick are still so sexy and so goofily in love. Definitely a top five otp of my life. We can ignore the rest of the franchise.
Also, can you believe The Mummy Returns was Dwayne Johnson’s cinematic debut? I’m cackling.
3. Disobedience
When I first heard about this movie, I was like “Rachel Adams?” and I scrunched my nose a little bit and thought, “This movie is going to be bad.” Bad because I think up until then I had id-ed Rachel Weisz as straight and was mad at this whole straight people playing queer characters phenomenon for some sort of acting clout~
After this movie and The Favourite, I very much claim Rachel in queer girl cannon.
This movie is very specifically about a Jewish Orthodox community and while those are not my cultural identities, this movie felt very relatable to me. The themes of cultural shame and the feeling of having to choose between your identity, your self and the ways you find joy, and how that intersects with expectations from your community, and shaming, really hits home. There’s been such a narrative wave of “poor gay people”, unempowered storylines where being queer is simply a tragedy. And while losing childhood community is oftentimes tragic and traumatic, this film really did a great job at teasing this all out while still giving the two Rachel’s incredible nuance and power in their stories.
This movie was also incredibly sexy. I was enraptured watching it and 10/10 recommend it to others.
Also superficially, Rachel Weisz as this power queer girl photographer in NYC? Ugh, yes yes yes!
4. The Favourite
SUCH. A. GREAT. CAST! I watched this for Rachel and was completely enamored by Emma Stone and Olivia Colman by the end.
There have been many wonderful dissections of The Favourite posted on Tumblr around the strategic use of gender in the costuming and just wonderful thoughts about all the pieces of the movie. I encourage folks who haven’t watched the film to watch it!! And then to go read you some tumblr film analysis.
I loved the power plays and all the stereotypical period-piece court intrigue in a women-driven cast and just done so fucking well.
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I can’t wait to see what Rachel does next (outside of the Black Widow film). Does anyone have any recs for Rachel’s work?
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my last words... wtfock s3e10 review
- is that,,,, is that FORTNITE?
- as my 17 year old brother says “that was a rage quit”
- i bet sander is gonna cope with this through his art while robbe copes with it THROUGH FORTNITE because (say it with me one last time) ROBBE HATES THE ARTS!
- senne is my favorite himbo. he just be handsome and love girlfriend and that’s his whole character but I Respect Him So Much
- FACE TO FACE!!
- milan looks like that “weirdo” guy from riverdale
- if zoe and senne break up i am going to astral project into whatever plane fiction exists on and scream at them
- what if this phone call was just senne calling robbe from the other room
- HIS MOTHER??? IS COMING??? HOME??
- okay not to out myself but i’ve been to an inpatient mental hospital before and they Do Not just let people walk down the halls like that
- *beyonce meme* BRITT?!
- i LOVE the very clearly staged drawing of robbe with all the pencil shavings on it... and the paper is way smaller than the sketchbook it is on and THE SCISSORS WHICH ARE 20000% NEVER ALLOWED IN A MENTAL HOSPITAL and now that i think about it NEITHER ARE PENCIL SHARPENERS
-“i’ll do the same” is britt’s One Sentence Character Development. this technique was also seen with aaron in the cafe scene.
- this room looks very staged i’m sorry
- how long do exams last in belgium why are they still in school?
- jens is like... tall
- “you should’ve seen him there all wrapped up in...” TIN FOIL! LIKE A HOT DOG!
- “i can’t protect you against the fallout” okay john green
- au where everything is the same but robbe naruto runs down the hall like an anime club kid
- why are there just cans all over the floor of that room
- i like the warm filter they used on the clips... Very Pleasing To Mine Eye
- if sander starts crying i’m peacing our for the night i don’t want to feel emotion
- oh my that’s so... como se dice.... Tender
- MINUTE BY MINUTE?!
- even in a very emotionally compromising situation sander gotta use A Little Tongue
- god my heart clenched this is unacceptable
- i wish they had used the original version of You’re The One That I Want... Olivia Newton John BELONGS in skam
- omg britt got character development through text QUEEN
- robbe kinda fit tho ngl
- the Tenderness 🤢🤢
- oh god ohhhhhh goddddddd
- i feel like an unhinged white woman in an arthouse film wailing at the loss of her husband... but it’s just over zoe and senne breaking up
- the actress who plays zoe honestly serving up the best performance of 2019
- omg is moyo going to get One Sentence Character Development too?????
- NO I DONT KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN SAY IT YOU COWARD
- jens, a skater boy with an earring, really just said zendaya isn’t a ten... wtfock writers on some bullshit i tell you what
-so in this hypothetical deserted island robbe has to fuck to survive or...?
- bruh was that a green screen or is there really a part of that city where you can just walk above it bc if so that’s cool as hell
- he literally stared into it for a solid three seconds before spraying that perfume in his eyes
- he got those perfume samples in his hand like a very lame version of wolverine who gives his opponents paper cuts
- BABY! NOOR!!
- when he said sorry... i felt that
- what if noor hadn’t been working this shift
- robbe ONLY dates people who wear combat boots
- FAMILY GAME NIGHT
- not to sound like everyone else on here but That Was Soft
- aaron: hey little mama lemme whisper in your ear
- a 17 year old getting alcohol for christmas... america could NEVER
- it’s a box??? robbe got a box???
- bro you know the vibes when your ex gf and current bf become friends
- NOTHING i write in these reviews is even HALF as jarringly funny as what luca said about bathbombs... i give up
- teenage boys who film everything are the bane of my existence
- COOL PUSSY????????????? cool pussy.... he said, and i quote, “cool pussy”. the writers of this show wrote that down and then he said it. in the show. on television.
- YASMINA THERE SHE IS
- oh for a second i thought robbe was gonna text sander from across the room
- “TONIGHT”
- sander said: minute by minute? more like miNUTe by miNUTe
- awwwwwwwww :’)
- they just yeeted me, the viewer, into the sky.
okay it’s been real y’all... a lot more people ended up liking these than i expected so thanks for reading and sending me asks (and sorry i don’t answer them all... y’all are welcome to dm me if you really wanna talk about this show lol). i might end up doing this again for skam españa who knows????
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