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You can not tell me these mother fuckers wouldn’t be the best friend group in History

The amount of stupidness that would come out of there mouths would make you loose brain cells

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film journal entries for the second quarter of 2021 ✨

society6 / inprnt / ko-fi / instagram / twitter / letterboxd

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Video essays that make me go "oh, so you're like smart smart"

Elon Musk and Grimes: A Retrospective

Bo Burnham vs. Jeff Bezos

The Systemic Abuse of Celebrities

Lana Del Rey: the pitfalls of having a persona

we need to talk about Call Me By Your Name

MYTH OF THE AUTEUR: Stanley Kubrick vs David Lynch

In Search Of A Flat Earth

Envy

The Commodification of Black Athletes

The Lies Of The Lighthouse

The Green Knight: The Uncanny Horror of Masculinity

Max Payne, Kane & Lynch, and the Meaning of Ugly Games

Time Loop Nihilism

How Bisexuality Changed Video Games

The Golden Age of Horror Comics - Part 1 (Part 2)

Weighing the Value of Director's Cuts | Scanline

The True Horror Of Midsommar

a few more -

You're Wrong About Cyberpunk 2077 | An Overdue Critique (this is such great critique of both the game and the genre)

Disney's Fast Pass: A Complicated History

It Has Come To My Attention You Don't All Love BIRDS OF PREY

Adaptation.

The man who almost faked his way to a Nobel Prize

Music Theory and White Supremacy

Here's the YouTube playlist! ill be adding more but that's all so far pls like and reblog xoxo 💕

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“Marjana and the Mystery of the Three Apples”

Based on: The Three Apples, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Director: Bo Burnham/Greta Gerwig

Genre: Young adult mystery

Logline: Marjana is a girl genius who longs to be a real detective. Her father, Jafar, is the police chief of a quiet little town, who doesn’t allow Marjana to get involved in any dangerous affairs or crimes. But when a woman is found cut in pieces inside a mysterious wrapped box, Marjana realizes she is the only one who can solve this mystery and bring justice to the murdered woman. With help from the son of a local salesman, Marjana is determined to not only uncover the culprits behind this heinous deed, but exact due vengeance as well.

Producer’s Notes: This is a modern, Nancy Drew-esque mystery starring the sharp-witted Marjana from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and also serves as a crossover between that story and The Three Apples. We’re going for a dark academia-type aesthetic complete with a cast of smart teenaged characters including our intrepid heroine, her sidekick based on Ali Baba’s son, and Jafar, who is assigned to the task of solving this mystery but who is hopelessly unable to find any leads. This is a coming-of-age, badass detective story that tackles themes like feminism (from a teenage girl’s point of view) as well as justice and revenge.

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“The Festival of Sacrifice”

Based on: The First Old Man’s Tale

Animation studio: Studio Ghibli

Genre: Anime

Logline: Holy cow! Tom’s new stepmother is not what she seems. Magic lurks under the surface of this tranquil little village in the countryside, and the day after Tom’s father marries this strange woman, it doesn’t take long for Tom to realize the truth: she’s a witch! But before he can say anything, the evil stepmother places Tom under a spell, transforming him into a calf and putting him in a farm just before the start of the Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice. Luckily, dark sorcery isn’t the only form of magic in this little town. Mary, the young daughter of a shepherd and a budding green witch herself, recognizes Tom’s true form when she sees him in the farm. Will Mary be able to rescue Tom before the Festival of Sacrifice begins? Or is Tom doomed to stay as a calf when the fateful day arrives?

Producer’s Notes: We wanted to create an animated story with all the trappings of a fairytale, evil stepmothers, humans turned into animals, good witches versus bad witches, and a happily ever after. In our version of the First Old Man’s Tale (within the story of the Merchant and the Demon), we have erased the mistress (adultery is not very PG, neither is on-screen death), and reinterpreted the wife as a vindictive stepmother with nefarious plans for her stepson. We’ve positioned the son as the main character to spotlight the perspective of an innocent child just trying to find his way back to his family, and the friend he makes along the way who will do everything in her power to save him.

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“Parallax”

Based on: Aladdin

Director: Denis Villeneuve

Genre: Sci-Fi

Logline: Imagine Aladdin, but with a sci-fi twist. A boy travels to strange lands on a magic carpet-turned spaceship. A foreign planet with endless riches and advanced technology serves as his Cave of Wonders. Get ready for an epic space odyssey following a young boy from a humble background who gets approached by a mysterious stranger from a faraway galaxy. What is the stranger’s purpose for enlisting the young Aladdin for this intergalactic expedition, and what will come of Aladdin when he encounters love, danger, and riches beyond his wildest dreams?

Producer’s Notes: Our take on Aladdin centers on the grand, epic adventure that Aladdin undergoes in the Nights. Setting will play a huge role in the tone and aesthetic of this story — we’ve upped the scale of the original Aladdin by setting it in space, across planets and galaxies. We were inspired by the sweeping, awe-inspiring landscapes of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, and wanted to evoke a similar feeling in our take on Aladdin by emphasizing Aladdin’s otherworldly journey, minimizing the size of humans against the vastness of time, space, and destiny.

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“The Tomb”

Based on: The Tale of the Enchanted King

Director: Jordan Peele

Genre: Psychological horror

Logline: There’s something in the walls . . . a tortured cast try to keep their sanity in a strange place. In a castle with no doors, the only way out is through. But everyone has secrets—clandestine lovers, wild magic, murderous pasts. You never know who’s watching . . . after all, there’s something in the walls.

Producer’s Notes: deceptive, dizzying camerawork follows our three unnamed protagonists, the prince, the wife, and the slave, in a mad, adulterous relationship through the labyrinthine passageways of a strange, endless castle-like tomb. We wanted this film to be disorienting—the audience should be unsure how many characters there are, when they’re following who, and who they should root for. Paranoia builds as the prince becomes aware of a third presence in the castle, the slave’s paralysis breeds helpless dread, and the wife’s dark magic spirals out of her control. The psychology should be Freudian, Mulveyan, and terrifying. As supernatural events play out—men turning to stone, stone coming alive—the lines between madness, magic, and nightmare blur. Just like our tortured cast, the audience should never be sure what is real and what is hallucination. Per Peele’s forte, we want it to play on modern racial anxieties and sexual dysfunction. Dominated by a dark, cold, high contrast visual palette (i.e. Taxi Driver, Pan’s Labyrinth, The Batman).

#stone

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“One Night in Baghdad”

Based on: Porter and Three Ladies

Director: Baz Luhrmann

Genre: Historical Drama

Logline: It’s a party in Baghdad! Join a humble porter and three fabulously wealthy ladies for a night of music, dancing, and sin. As the wild party tumbles into the night, they are joined by an enigmatic cast of characters: mysterious dervishes, an eccentric vizier, and perhaps even royalty in disguise . . .

Producer’s Notes: We were really taken by the opulence and levity of the original story and wanted to recreate it with a Gatsby-esque cinematic experience. We especially loved the extravagant descriptions of the bazaar: the overflowing baskets of food, fruits, spices, and wares. There’s no shortage Western period pieces, replete with sumptuous costuming and set design, and we wanted to create an Arabic equivalent. It should be delicious, flamboyant, historically accurate, a sensory explosion of colors and sounds, an ode to excess. The whole movie takes place over the course of one night. As we follow the humble and unsuspecting porter into a dizzying world of wealth and possibility, the characters become more improbable. The dialogue is snappy, glib, and fun. Everything is a joke. Everything is a party. The music is giddy. And of course, everything is bolstered by the impossibly vivid period designs.

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photos are from the internet, they don't belong to me.

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NANCY DREW — 1x10: The Mark of the Poisoner’s Pearl

“I’ve always been fascinated by how the press creates heroes.”

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Every Ace and Nancy Moment 1x03 The Curse of the Dark Storm 5/5

Nancy: Hey. Ace: Hi. Thanks for coming. I just didn't want to embarrass her.

Nancy: I'll take it from here. Ace: Mm-hmm.

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the apple became a symbol for knowledge, immortality, temptation, the fall of man into sin, and sin itself

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INTP/Scorpio/Aspiring Detective  aesthetic mood board

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Were the Dana Girls the Hardy Boys in drag?

Happy about the success of the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books Harriet Adams thought a series about a pair of teen girl detectives might also work, so she designed the basic outline of The Dana Girls. 

While the author was given as Carolyn Keene the pseudonym used on the Nancy Drew books, the first four were actually written in 1933 - 34 by Charles Leslie McFarlane, the writer of the first 19 Hardy Boys mysteries. 

He hated the series, he hated writing under a female fake name (he wanted to use his real fake name?) and he hated having to write girls as the main characters. So basically he just wrote a Hardy Boy story and then turned them into girls. 

He stopped writing them after the fourth one, saying he would rather stop writing than do anymore, and Nancy Drew writer Mildred Benson took over for numbers 5 - 16. Though she said she never really warmed to the Dana Girls the way she did with Nancy Drew.

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