only found out about the Okinawan blueberry hermit crab today and I’m already in love. his soulful little eyes. his purpleness.
"If cats could talk to cops, they wouldn't"
Sticker seen in Portland, Oregon
I love the behind the scenes of movies so much. It gives me so much more appreciation for filmmaking as a craft, and so much more appreciation for the individual movies. I didn't really love tlotr that much when I first saw it, but seeing the bts changed the way I viewed movies forever. Seeing the passion, attention to detail, and craftsmanship that is poured over every frame of a movie, sometimes in places you didn't even realise that it could be, is just awe-inspiring. Lotr is the quintessential example of good bts (for good reason), but some other good behind the scenes I can think of off the top of my head are: The Matrix trilogy, Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio, Annihilation, Nope, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Alien, Pacific Rim. I'm sure there are so many more amazing bts out there, if anyone has a favourite please do share, I'd love to hear.
Adding on to this, the Shape of Water bts are amazing. The creature effects are phenomenal, the colour theory and set design and music and just everything. I love that movie so much, and seeing how it was made, the care and effort put into it, deepens my love for it more than i ever thought possible.
Maturing is realising that the "filmbro" films that people insist are satire (despite the massive fan base of people who completely and unironically empathise with Patrick Bateman and Tyler durden), genuinely are in fact very obvious and undeniable satire, and the large amounts of people who didn't realise that are just staggeringly stupid and misogynistic.
Okay so I found the most incredible horse statue while doing research for my job and guys. Are you ready for this. Are you sure you're fucking ready for this thing
*sees 2 notes* FUCK yes let's fucking GOOOO
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I saw the opposite of this horse
HONSE & hrse
Sometimes autistic people are fully aware of social norms but we ignore them anyway because we think they're stupid.
Another Lord of the Rings Hot Take: the reason Frodo starts starving himself isn’t *just* because of the horrific emotional toll of the journey. It’s also because the only food Frodo and Sam have is Lembas bread, which the Ring takes away your ability to eat.
When Frodo tries to share the Lembas bread with Gollum, Gollum is physically unable to eat it. He wants to eat it, but Can’t. Because it’s elvish bread, it burns Gollum’s throat and “chokes” him.
I mentioned in a previous post that Frodo isn’t just afraid of becoming like Gollum– he’s afraid of becoming like Gollum because he knows that Sam despises Gollum, and he’s paranoid that he’s becoming someone who Sam can no longer love.
When Gollum says that he can’t eat Lembas bread, Sam coldly responds that he’ll have to “starve then, and good riddance.”
And then Sam repeatedly worries that Frodo isn’t eating enough, that he worries Frodo is starving himself. (”You haven’t eating anything all day, and you’re not sleeping neither– don’t think I haven’t noticed!” “I’ve seen you– you’re not eating, you barely sleep.”)
I feel like the reason Frodo is eating less isn’t the horrible emotional strain of the journey– it’s also because he’s physically losing the ability to eat. As the Ring takes over his mind eating elvish food is starting to become painful for him, the way it’s painful for Gollum. Frodo saying ”I can’t recall the taste of food, nor the sound of water, nor the touch of grass” on Mount Doom is a direct callback to Gollum saying that “we forgot the taste of bread, the sound of trees, the softness of the wind” in the beginning of the film.
One thing I think is really compelling about the Ring is that….there is no clear line between “the emotional toll the journey takes on the characters” and “the actual physical damage the Ring does to their minds.” There’s no clear separation between the times when Frodo is not eating because he’s traumatized and afraid, and the times when Frodo is not eating because the Ring is warping his mind and making it harder for him to eat. It’s like the Ring is parasitic, feeding off the guilt and trauma it creates in people.
Frodo tries to hide how little he’s eating because he doesn’t want Sam to worry about his emotional state…… but also because he doesn’t want Sam to realize that he’s gradually becoming corrupted like Gollum, that he’s gradually becoming the kind of person he’s afraid that Sam can no longer empathize with.
Fantastic post. I think part of why Sam is so vicious to Gollum is because he is afraid that Frodo will become like him and refuses to contemplate the possibility, but I hadn’t considered the parallel idea that Frodo is afraid that Sam won’t love him if he becomes like Gollum.
this tiktok screenshot ruined my life i need to see the serbian pigeon movie so so badly but it doesn't exist it's so foul to make this bad of a point with something so cool and then take it away from me.
Tiktok marvel fans really will be out here like "movie fan SHOCKED because i'd rather watch superhero movie #54 in blue and not a sensual 1987 french horror film about a man discovering his wife may not exist set in what is gradually revealed to be a space station" as if you're supposed to agree that superhero movie #54 is the clear winner in this comparison
Love the idea of a story about a complex issue that's told from the perspective of something that cannot comprehend or care about the issue. The way the story would be sliced up and moments that a human would consider pointless would be focused on because the pigeon happened to be there would be hype as fuck
Ok FINE I made the movie poster of it
Mališa, otherwise known as Little One, is a pet pigeon owned by a conservative butler of the Austro-Hungarian aristocracy. She is loved, and she is pampered— until her owner is murdered in cold blood, and she is left to fend for herself in Sarajevo.
In the wilds of the city, she feeds from the poor, working nationalist radicals, and the vieux riches alike.
To Mališa, there are no ethical concerns. No politics. No burgeoning nationalism.
There are only hands that feed her, and hands that do not.
This is compelling. Consider me fucking compelled.
We are in danger of inventing another critically acclaimed cult film bro jerkoff film that doesn't exist....
Now, because she's hungry, she will disobey like a ten-year-old would and eats one single measly grape, two single measly grapes on a huge banquet table. She thinks it's not important. She learns a lesson there. But, she learns to trust herself. At the end of the movie, the important thing is that no matter what danger she went through, she still does not distrust her nature. She does not distrust her instinct. I think it's really important that she chooses for herself. Regardless of danger, regardless of influence, she remains true to herself. - Guillermo del Toro's commentary on Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
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Great work everybody, hit the showers
