Can't Stop the Music (1980)
My rating: 5/10
What a weird, confusing movie, but I suppose some of the music is pretty good.
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Ray Vecchio.
A cinnamon bun character with a covering glaze of 100% sass, sarcasm, and willful stubborn grumpy ignorance.
And nerd. Did I mention I love all the nerds of Due South!
This isn't your bad guy or jerk. I refuse interpretations that forgo the soft heart underneath that makes the character.
Dude was this soft little boy that had his hope and dreams of what it means to be a good man beat out him by his father and example. Had all the harsh realities of people's lives letdown to muddle through. And you know what his mantra and overall reaction to these lessons is? His core refrain of action, again behind or with the glaze, throughout the series and his life? Try again anyway. Keep dreaming of better. Even when angry and afraid and down.
At heart, he never quits trying to be better. Even if he doesn't know what it is; See the bad examples. Or project feeling it; See bad experiences.
He wants his classic car, pool night with the guys, and a shortie pajama wearing girlfriend who bakes him muffins at Christmastime.
Hee sorry couldn't resist.
He wants loyalty, and respect, and love foremost. The real and honest stuff. To have. To give.
He has wanted to be a cop since childhood, because it's his base impression of a hero. As he references while doing the actual weird and miserable part of the job in the dumpster. Instead of trying to live up to an example like Fraser 's relation to his Dad, it's seeking an example in opposite, but it's the same virtues wanted; Cops are the good guys, they save the day, they help.
The interior meat of him, and to understand the character, you have to realize the fronts he puts up to cover the fear and hurt, the anger at the world, that tells him none of his wants or dreams or this seeking are worthy or achievable. So you get vexed and cankerous and ignorant Ray. But it's clearly a response and a defense. Which doesn't make it goals or good of course, hence he's in the gotta learn better position, in the fool and prove wrong position most times. It's not supposed to be free from critique, more is kinda of there to be, but it does make him layered when you can plainly see that's not his heart or wants either and that he works as a character with that balance of division in him.
To me it's a perfect balance. A humanity and emotional character that you can relate to on either end. The dreamer or screw-up. Cause that feels like a reality.
Ray Vecchio is the everyman of the series. Don't poison that one and keep it a happy series.
The saddest thing or line of his character struggle is the worry or to confirm he isn't worth having those basic wants or fulfilling them. That he'll give in or get given up on. That the outer projection of negative will just be a final reality for him or the outside. Letting his grump or the awful aspects view of the world win or beat him, essentially argues the realities of that is more powerful than DS's hopeful magical realism...and I go ah no!
Because the joy of doing good and helping and overcoming he gets from being with Fraser is a way better reward than glitz or external rewards, even as it's the most challenging too.
Because it's the more self-fulfilling. That reward of the soul.
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Transfem Juniper Wheeler AU
Order of people Juniper came out to in the Final Family AU (yes I’m including Glen and Glenda, they’re a part of this too)
Andy
Glen
Glenda
Leo
Jake
Devon
Nica
Lexy
Kyle
Aweeee! I honestly don't blame her for Jake being lower on the list because they're still working on their relationship. However, I am wondering where Jules & Coraline rank on this list🤔
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I can't fully explain what about this photo makes me giggle, but something does.
@streets-in-paradise @losersclubisms
Possibly Alex's facial expression.
Or any of theirs really. The more you look, the stranger it gets. XD
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Chucky Headcanons! (Glenda & Kyle)
- Kyle won’t admit it but she sees Glenda as her child
- After about a month of them coexisting awkwardly Kyle found Glenda mid-breakdown and they got really close after that
- During this breakdown Glenda admitted to making the bomb in season 1
- Neither of them are good at showing that they care about each other which leads to awkward displays of affection
- They have a pact that if Glenda doesn’t kill, Kyle won’t smoke
- Glenda calls Kyle “mom” accidentally more than they’d like to admit
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Saw your scream headcanons. What's your chucky headcanons?
Ooooh okay!
Charles Lee Ray: CisMan, Internal biphobia.
Tiffany Delilah Valentine: CisWoman, Pansexual.
Edward James Caputo: CisHet ally
Andrew William Barclay: CisHet ally.
Monica Jean Pierce: CisWoman, Bisexual.
Kyle Marie Simpson: CisWoman, Lesbian
Glen Hades Ray: Genderfluid, Demisexual, Panromantic.
Glenda Eileen Ray: Genderfluid, Pansexual
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Images from Charlie's upcoming film Fool's Paradise just dropped in this Vanity Fair article.
Discussions of the article below (no spoilers, but this is just in case anyone wants to avoid any hint of a spoiler and go in blind this May):
Apparently he's been working on ideas for this movie since 2014 between seasons of Sunny and all the other movies he was doing at the time.
It also sounds like he used the late 2021 reshoots to shift the heart of the story from his character to Ken Jeong's character, which I had suspected might be the case based on how the one-line summary of the movie in news articles seems to have changed from back when the film used to be called El Tonto.
Love that they remembered Jimmi Simpson but forgot Glenn lmao.
I hope he gets to show his acting! I really want this movie to be good and entertaining!!
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