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funeralparadeofroses:

A Comedy in Six Unnatural Acts (1975) dir. Jan Oxenberg

[ID: Eight black and white gifs.  The first six show a butch getting ready for a date.  They put on a tie, open a tin of hair gel, style their hair, put on a suit jacket, and show up outside their date’s door holding a bouquet of flowers, smiling nervously but with genuine joy.  The second-to-last gif shows their date- another butch with their own bouquet of flowers- smiling and winking back at them.  In the last gif, the two butches trade bouquets.]

virginiaisforhaters:

i think the thing that gets me the most is that jordan peele movies are not difficult to understand, but people still dont get it and at a certain point it seems almost willful or intentional not to understand anything outside the marvel formula, especially when it comes to movies about the othering or abuse or marginalization of POC. he is a very accomplished writer and director, who skillfully finds the middle ground between throwing ideas in your face and obscuring them in shadows. “whats up with the shoe tho????” its a bad miracle, or its a false memory in jupes mind obscuring his trauma, or hes waiting for the other shoe to drop, or its just something to set the tone. either way, its not about the shoe, its about everything. you just watched a giant hungry predatory camera graphically digest a bunch of people and spit them out, just like the film industry chews people up and spits them out, but the shoe is the thing you cant get past. “what was the point of the monkey scene” its the most pivotal scene in the entire movie, thats the point. its about exploitation, its about trauma, its about the abuse of animal and child actors to manufacture spectacle. thats the entire point of everything, and he didnt exactly spoon feed it to you but its not like you have to have a film degree to get this. you tell me what you think the shoe means. sit with the idea, consider the possibilities.   

letterful:

actually, no, i do have something to add. if your work of fanfiction can be easily rebranded and sold as original fiction, then it was never good fanfiction in the first place—and, in all probability, it won’t make for good original fiction either. i have a lot of love and respect for all kinds of derivative works (unsurprisingly, considering my perennial love affair with postmodernism), but i also believe that the superior fics are the ones that actively and continuously engage with their source material (and so it wouldn’t be possible for anyone to scratch their serial numbers off without damaging their integrity). something something mutualism (the derivative work deconstructing and expanding on the source material and so keeping it alive) as opposed to parasitism (thinking you can simply lift your blorbos wholesale and run but failing to realise that uprooting them from their respective stories will render them but a shadow of a reflection of their original selves).


junkfoodcinemas:

According to director Dan Trachtenberg, Sarii’s presence in the film was heavily inspired by The Road Warrior, and “Mad” Max Rockatansky’s loyal dog companion from that film, known simply as “Dog.” So, giving Naru a dog was always part of the plan for Prey. What changed along the way was just how much Sarii would end up being in the film.

“We were trying to get Coco out of scenes but the opposite ended up being true, and we ended up including her more – even in some of the action set-pieces, because I just thought it’d be so fun,“ Trachtenberg said. “One of the great things about Road Warrior is the way Mad Max uses his doggy, so we wanted to have the same kind of fun in this movie as well.”
- SYFY Wire

MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR (1981) dir. George Miller
PREY (2022) dir. Dan Trachtenberg

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