#roman polanksi

[simply-sharon-tate]

Sharon Tate, photographed by her husband during a 1968 trip to Joshua Tree National Park.

#sharon tate #1968 #actress #film #old hollywood #cinema #sixties #1960s #roman polanksi #Joshua tree #joshua tree national park

[hurgablurg]

as everyone is gushing over del toro’s pinocchio, please remember that

Guillermo Del Toro has not yet apologized for nor retracted signing a petition to allow convicted child rapist Roman Polanksi back into the united states.

he is not a queer ally, he is not a friend of children.

Guillermo Del Toro is a vocal ally of paedophiles and abusers everywhere.

I know you people will never boycott the film, but please. At least remember Del Toro’s willing degeneracy while you watch.

#pinocchio #Guillermo Del Toro #gdt pinocchio #roman polanski

[deuterosapiens]

Delicate Condition, by Danielle Valentine

This book was not for me. I wanted to like it, I bought it with the intention of liking it. I bought it with the intention of making a Rosemary's Baby joke, but this book, which I read over the course of two days, simply doesn't do it for me.

So, for those out of the know, American Horror Story's twelfth season is going to be unique, not just because it will be including Kim Kardashian, but because unlike other seasons which take inspiration from other works, but are, on the whole, original stories, this upcoming season is an adaptation. As it hasn't went live yet, I'm not certain whether to view AHS: Delicate as a straight adaptation, or a loose one (like the Bryan Fuller version of Carrie from 2002 that basically no-one saw), however the point is that I purchased this book in an attempt to get something of a feel for what to expect out of this season.

I'm not saying I regret that decision, I'm just saying that there are certain things which I loved and certain things which I disliked immensely in this book.

I will be spoiling a lot of it, and basically every other media I can thing of, including the classic Roman Polanski film, Rosemary's Baby, starring the treasure of an actress Mia Farrow (whose remake is... fine. I love Zoë Saldana, but her adaptations draaaaags).

So, Delicate Condition is about an actress who is desperate to have a child. I'm not saying desperate, the book is. Like, a lot (I might go through it again and highlight the sheer number of times the book uses that word.) In her desperation, she visits an IVF clinic to help. Boom, now she's pregnant. But now she's being stalked, so she moves away, has a miscarriage, then quite astoundingly, somehow still feels like she's pregnant. Is it a miracle or could it be...

...Sa~TaAaN???

No.

No it is not.

Which is one of these little things that kind of lead to this book fizzling out for me.

During her pregnancy, the post-miscarriage one, unusual events begin to occur around her. She develops an extreme craving for raw meat, she hallucinates frequently, and there's an intense discussion that she's being drugged. Her husband and her doctors refuse to believe her, and the word hysterical comes up frequently (etymologically interesting, as the word hysteria comes from an older Greek word for uterus, which creates an thematic connection that is undoubtedly intentional).

So, you know that scene in Rosemary's Baby where in a trance-state, Rosemary starts eating raw chicken? It's weird and uncomfortable and does a fair job of showing us, with no dialog, that there's definitely something going on her. It's an impulsive decision and it freaks her out tge moment she realizes she's doing it.

There's a comparable scene here involving a dead raccoon. Our actress is drawn to the smell of a rotting animal in her swimming pool. She's disgusted by it, but eventually finds herself craving it culminating in a scene of her waking up, convinced that she had gone back to its corpse and eaten it in her sleep.

Okay, so the Polanksi scene is snappy and works because it's impulsive. The Delicate scene does not, because it is clearly thought about, discussed, and takes place over the span of multiple days. It's also a fake out.

There is a raw-meat-eating scene later on. This is actually a recurring obsession of hers. One that results in her almost biting into one of her dogs, but due to incredible self-control, she resists the urge and raids the kitchen. This weird moment has a climax in which she lures a stray cat to its death. Except that cat is shown alive the following day. A hallucination! And another fake out.

This is a thing this book does a lot. It has these intense, interesting moments that you're waiting on the pay-off for, and the pay-off more-or-less amounts to "it's all in her head". Which would be incredibly cool. Subversive. A version of Rosemary's Baby where the pregnant woman thinks there's evil and conspiracy and the twist is, nope, you're legitimately just completely certifiably, a lunatic. Except, nope, it turns out there is a conspiracy!

That's right! As we near the climax, it's revealed that her IVF doctor was in league with Satanists to take her baby for ritual purposes!

This too, is a fake out. Because it's actually witches!

Oh, yeah, she was definitely being stalked, but it wasn't Satanists attempting to produce The Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is Called Dragon, Prince of This World, Father of Lies, Spawn of Satan, and Lord of Darkness. It was witchcraft. How silly of me. And so it's witches then, who are trying to produce The Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is Called Dragon, Prince of This World, Father of Lies, Spawn of Satan, and Lord of Darkness?

Nope.

Because the subversion here, is that witches were stalking her to guarantee that her pregnancy is successful and painless because the real horror, the real evil, is that doctors don't take women seriously.

There's a sub-plot of our actress's husband being shady. Those of you thinking of that whole thing about Guy trading his wife for fame should disregard that notion. Turns out, he's just an unfaithful prick who intended to separate from her if their recent attempts at baby-making failed. Cool. Great. This added sooo much tension. Completely necessary. Yay.

Okay.

So going into this, the first thing you should realize is that, despite the set-up reminding you very much of a certain film (and the book on which it's based, which I have not read, but will remedy shortly), and despite the name of that film appearing prominently on the cover as part of the accolades, your enjoyment of Delicate Condition will vary quite heavily based on your relationship with that film (and/or its original novel). Think of it as its own thing, separate and see how it stands on its own.

I can see how this will work for American Horror Story. That show has always been about taking familiar horror stories, familiar situations, familiar tropes and telling its own story with them. Whether that story is good is relative. Delicate Condition does very much the same things and so is very much worth at least a casual glance to your average AHS fan.

I cannot however entirely recommend this to fans of those films and books which brought the Satanic Panic to its head. It wants to be Rosemary's Baby but isn't. It wants to be an original thing but shares too much with Rosemary's Baby to divorce itself too much from the concept.

I wanted to like it. I was ready to love it. But this wasn't for me. Maybe it's because, as a guy, I cannot relate to the physical experiences here. I will concede that this might be a perfectly chilling, unsettling, and disturbing reading experience for people who are more intimately familiar with its subject matter, but that's not me, and that's no fault of the book, or its writer.

I truly want others to like this book more than I did.

#reading #books #rambling #delicate condition #ahs delicate #american horror story #rosemary's baby #time for the exorcist #colo(u)r coded for your (in)convenience

[icedsodapop]

Me hating how Ke Huy Quan's biggest role as before EEAAO (Short Round from Temple of Doom) will forever tie him with Roman Polanksi apologist Harrison Ford

#when they reunited harrison ford and ke huy quan at the oscars. i literally rolled my eyes. #like its not cute. i hate how hollywood and the academy is using this as a pr for harrison ford's problematic ass #anti roman polanski #anti harrison ford #rape apologia #rape apologism #metoo #oscars 2023 #academy awards 2023

[sweetlolah]

while i do believe men can be victims of abuse, i have a hard time believing that 46 year old A list celeb depp, with his powerful security, friends, etc had such a difficult time standing up to this “evil” 120 pound 23 year old D-List celeb woman, and that they let her “abuse” this man that they love and care for and he pays their bills

whether or not people believe AH or JD is the abuser, we can’t ignore the indisputable fact that there was a HUGE power imbalance in their relationship.

Also, it seems they don’t want to talk about his pattern of dating YOUNG women, him allowing a 15 year old Lily Rose to be laid up with a 23 year old man. Or the fact he is best friends with marilyn manson who has abused SEVERAL women, and that he defended roman polanksi. to be quite honest, i wasn’t a depp fan prior to the trial specifically because of his association with marilyn manson. The red flags have BEEN out there but people refuse to believe a man with a horrible record could possibly be guilty of abuse!

People will jump to defend a man who is even slightly attractive or popular.

We already know society hates women and that men especially love to see any woman who dares stand up for herself be put down relentlessly.

[thecringefailintherye]

TODAY IS A SAD DAY FOR SOCIETY

i cannot, for the life of me, find any way to watch oliver twist 2005 for free (i don’t wnna give roman the pedo polanski money so don’t just tell me to buy it)

so has anyone got a totally legal version of it (or like, a site that wont install porn on my mums fucking tesco item scanner) theyre comfortable sharing with me because this is my comfort movie of over a year now and my oliver twist fixation just yeeted itself back into my life

#oliver twist #oliver #roman polanksi #anti roman polanski #film search #movie search #you wouldnt download a car

[jeffreycombs]

Rosemary’s Baby (1968) dir. Roman Polanski

#rosemary's baby #horroredit #filmedit #roman polanksi #mia farrow #fyeahmovies #filmgifs #moviegifs #mystuff #myedit #mygifs #cinemapix #<3 #mia is so cute

[maelstromdimages]

Chinatown, 1974, Roman Polanski

#man #nose #gaze #regard #cowboy #eyes #black and white #chinatown #jack nicholson #roman polanksi

[painiac]

#The Ninth Gate #Roman Polanksi #1999 #titlecard

[dressforvillains]

Banning Will Smith from the Oscars for the next 10 years is Hollywood Hypocrisy at its finest. 

Pieces of shit that have Oscars and aren’t banned:

Casey Affleck

Mel Gibson

Kevin Spacey

Dustin Hoffman

Adrien Brody

Gary Oldman

Jared Leto

Woody Allen

James Franco

Sean Penn

Michael Douglas

Paul Haggis

Alexander Payne

Cuba Gooding Jr.

Pieces of shit that are banned from the Oscars, but have not had their Oscars Revoked: 

Harvey Weintsein 

Roman Polanski

#the academy awards #the oscars #will smith #its the racism #i might make another post about why they are pos #if i missed any let me know and ill add them #i'm about to bitch about roman polanksi tbh

[simply-sharon-tate]

Sharon Tate, photographed at the Paris premiere of Rosemary's Baby in October of 1968

#sharon tate #rosemary's baby #premiere #Paris #film premiere #public appearance #October #1968 #october 1968 #candid #actress #model #roman polanksi #iain quarrier #1960s #sixties

[mishastoesies]

hey since we got rush limbaugh today can we get prince charles and mitch mcconnell too? three for one special?

#while we're at it let's get roman polanksi and woody allen #i know mike pence and trump are pipe dreams but like... them too

[tmcphotography]

I don’t get why people are surprised The Academy awarded a sexual predator. They gave Roman Polanski's pedophilic, fugitive ass an award too. They gave him an award WHILE he was on the run.

#ocars #Casey Affleck #Roman Polanksi

[woundthatswallows]

repulsion (1965) dir roman polanksi

#posting these that i took a while ago for my next post #mine #films #catherine deneuve #roman polanski #repulsion #repulsion 1965 #<3 #me

[embrace-the-mutation]

but they'll give another Oscar to the likes of Woody Allen, Roman Polanksi, Sean Penn, Jeremy Renner, Mark Wahlberg, Christian Slater, and Ben Afflect with nooooo problems? because even though all of their crimes were exponentially worse than Smith's they had the decency to not commit them at the award show?

the fuck outta here with that shit. we see you Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

#will smith #oscars 2022 #academy awards #ampas #racism

[pochiperpe90]

LUCA? Don't leave him alone

Considered the new Italian handsome, sensitive and reserved, he became famous immediately. What more could the Solitude of Prime Numbers actor want? "Starting over from Berlin”

To win his first role in Saverio Costanzo's film The Solitude of Prime Numbers (5 nominations for the Silver Ribbons), Luca Marinelli (28 years old) weighed 100 kilos. For the second, L’ultimo Terrestre by the cartoonist Gianni Pacinotti, he totally shaved off and wore 20 cm high heels. For the third, he hasn't changed weight or sex: he and the director Paolo Virzì have produced Tutti i santi giorni, a comedy that recalls the best Monicelli. The handsome face of the Roman actor, after 4 films, a little TV and 6 years in the theater, reflects the new season of Italian cinema. The latest film starring Luca is Waves, by photographer Corrado Sassi, which has just been successfully presented at the Rome Film Festival. We meet him in Berlin, Mitte, at Caffè Buscaglione. A blow-up of Fred behind the coffee machines. Luca is often seen here.

Why Berlin? 

I've been living there since June. Italian commitments allowing. Neither an escape, nor a need, a free choice dictated by private reasons. I remain grateful to Rome. 

You started acting in the Academy, led by Carlo Cecchi. For the final essay you chose Shakespeare ... 

The same A Midsummer Night's Dream that we have been carrying around for three years. A beautiful experience. I owe a lot to Carlo. 

The first movie you saw? 

I remember where, but not what. In Rome, at Testaccio, a cinema near Nanni Moretti's New Sacher. I was with my mother. A very sweet afternoon. 

What do you do before going on stage? 

I abandon myself to the blank page. The work done, the emotions, who I am and my character, all dissolve into a blank page.

A book that made you cry as a child. 

Narcissus and Goldmund, by Hermann Hesse. I still get emotional when I think about it. 

And then? 

Bukowski and Dostoevsky. 

The Solitude of Prime Numbers is the story of Alice and Mattia's bodies. What is your relationship with your body?

That film changed it radically. When I got fat, of course, but also and above all when I regained my weight. I learned to feel and discover the needs that the body signals. I understood the uniqueness of body, mind and soul. 

Elsa Morante thought that saying "I love you" means nothing, but that asking "have you eaten?" is the right way to say "I love you". Do you agree? 

Yes. Asking "have you eaten?" is one of the most beautiful forms of attention. A true proof of love. 

Should the attractiveness of an actor be cultivated or forgotten? 

If the attractiveness is there, certain roles are played and that's okay. All the great Italian actors were beautiful in their own way. Mastroianni. Or Gassman. 

And Sordi and Tognazzi? 

If there wasn't the attractiveness, there was the charm.

Guido, the protagonist of Tutti i santi giorni, overturns the cliché of the Italian male for his sensitivity. Is Luca more Guido or more a Roman male? 

More Guido. I am a Roman male when I want to play. 

Tutti i santi giorni marks the return of the Italian comedy. And behind Antonia and Guido you can see the Roman suburbs, ring roads, junctions, shopping centers, broken escalators ... Do you know that life?

I know the situations of Guido and Antonia. Crushed by the weight of things that don't work. Obviously all this is not just about Rome. 

A corner of Rome you love. 

I love all of Rome. A corner of the soul is the fountain in Piazza Mazzini, where we wallowed as children. What putrid water! That bubbles on the skin! 

In the TV fiction Mary of Nazareth the Madonna is investigated in her humanity. The Maddalena becomes a childhood friend... 

And my Giuseppe is a coetaneous of her. 

Do you know spirituality? 

Yes. 

And do you pray? 

Sometimes. 

Who? 

Someone to help me. But the idea of ​​God is very beautiful. 

A movie character you would like to give your face to? 

Indiana Jones. Underrated. 

Would you remake a Fellini or Polanksi film as a director? 

8½ by Fellini. Maybe with the iPhone.

French or American cinema? 

Bad question! American. Better, a French Connection.

What do you recommend to a guy who is about to enroll at the Academy of Dramatic Arts? 

I would tell him/her that it’s a choice that I would make again. It’s a long road in a contradictory world: open to the outside but completely self-referential. 

With the first film you ended up on the red carpet of a prestigious Festival... 

The beginning was an atomic bomb. The Solitudine has opened up possibilities for me that for others, if they do, take usually a long time. But after a success you have to start walking again.

A fear for 2013? 

Nothing. 

A hope for 2013? 

In my life so far, every year has been good. I prefer not to hope for anything.

D La Repubblica - 12 Gennaio, 2013

Just wanted to translate this old interview for the non-italian’s fans ^^ (sorry for my English)  

#Luca Marinelli #interview #old interview #2013 #movie #film #actor #english #translation #mine #Tutti i santi giorni #la solitudine dei numeri primi #La repubblica #D #D la repubblica #maria di nazaret