Max with the late Hannelore Elster
One of the funny scenes in “Auf das Leben!” / “To Life!” 😂 It will be shown on Sky Cinema Classics (Germany) on 9th June.
*gifs are mine
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I still absolutely love how Wolfwalkers ended.
Love that it still ultimately focused on Robyn and Mebh and how they leave their old world behind to find a new one, just for them, their parents, and the wolf family to live in peace, far away from the townspeople. How after all that drama and near-death experiences, they just get to rest in the caravan, protected by their respective parent and live together in the forest.
No more societal expectations. No more gender roles. No need to appease a bunch of people who really only want them dead for what they are. No focus on these two literal children to change a town’s whole mindset like so many other films do. No, the message was just these two girls finding their happy ending with their loved ones somewhere else and just cutting out that toxic environment all together.
Why waste energy trying to help a bunch of people they don’t even have any real attachment to, after all? Especially with people who actively forced roles they didn’t want onto them and mistreated them for being different? It’s just such a breath of fresh air to see a film that ends with the characters finding happiness and peace in their own little slice of heaven, rather than wasting time, energy, and emotions on trying to change others.
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So just then I was re-watching Disney's underrated "Dinosaur" (2000), and there happened to be this scene where they've reached the watering hole just to find out it dried up, shortly after, Aladar found a way to get them water with Baylene's help.
Without hesitation, he called out to the rest of the herd.
and unfortunately, had to deal with a pretty rough, unexpected backlash when he tried containing their reaction, and basically got flooded.
That was when someone called him "stupid"..? I couldn't get where that came from so, I asked, and was answered with:
" He should've waited for the older ones to be done drinking first before calling others, to avoid this kind of situation."
So, what makes him stupid is basically lacking your knowledge ..?
If we shall take a look back on his life ..
Aladar was the unchallengeable creature on his island, meaning that he never really had to experience opposition, that along with the way he was raised, never fed the "potential threat" he could've become.
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Though it's also obvious that before the catastrophic meteor shower, he never went through scarcity of resources, which would lead us to remember that even when he did, it'd only shown his true nature;
(He was the last one digging, though he wasn't any less thirsty than the rest, but look at his proud smile! and him stepping back for them to start drinking first)
He'd proven to be an altruist..
time and time again.
Hence, clashing against self-seeking behavior was rather perplexing to him.. (not like he knows what that even is..)
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Knowing that already should naturally interpret that he wasn't "stupid", but inexperienced..
If we'll be setting that way of ignorant thinking, we'd easily ignore his motives & assume that Aladar staying behind with the "weak" was because he's an idiot. (Deliberately ignoring that it was out of benevolence)
And Bruton's death was an illogicality.. not at all sacrificial or noble
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The issue with setting that behavior irl is ignoring facts & passing judgment without taking the other side's morals, characteristics, knowledge, and motives into account. which wouldn't only make them feel misunderstood, but makes you terribly misinformed!
You managed to know everything but somehow ended up knowing nothing. How unfortunate.
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My top 10 Donald Sutherland performances:
Vernon Pinkley in The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Hawkeye Pierce in M*A*S*H (1970)
Oddball in Kelly’s Heroes (1970)
John Baxter in Don’t Look Now (1973)
Homer Simpson in The Day of the Locust (1975)
Liam Devlin in The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
Matthew Bennell in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Calvin Jarrett in Ordinary People (1980)
Jerry O’Neill in Space Cowboys (2000)
President Snow in The Hunger Games (2012)
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