Nope (2022)
Nope (2022) is such a brilliant movie in so many ways. It’s about the inherent evil of spectacle. It’s about Hollywood’s abuse of animals. It’s about stealing and erasing black history. It’s about how personification is ultimately a bad thing. It’s about trauma. It’s about the never ending cycle of abuse that comes from exploitation. It’s about predator and prey. It’s about looking up to the heavens in awe. It’s about averting your gaze lest you be punished. It’s about respecting animals. It’s about the way poc are treated in media. It’s about how far some people will go for money. It’s an alien movie but it’s a monster movie but it’s a western but it’s a si-fi and it’s the best movie I’ve ever seen.
The way that the alien in Nope's final form looks like an old studio camera. The way the opening credits take place inside its stomach, shown as an endless darkness framed by billowing sheets - the blanket-like hood of an old camera that the photographer hides under. The way Jupe calls the alien The Viewer. The way Jupe makes stuffed animals of what he imagines the aliens inside the "ship" to look like subconsciously reference the camera magazines on the set of Gordy's Home with the body of a monkey. The way that Jupe was only saved because the table cloth kept him from looking Gordy in the eyes. The way that OJ and Em signal "I see you" before the final showdown. The violence of attention. The all-seeing eye. The panopticon. The camera obscura. The dark chamber. The spectacle.
I liked this post, scrolled for like another minute before I went “SHIT FUCK SHIT” and scrolled back to reblog it
I always reblog this one when I see it on my dash. When someone posts their own art, writing, or music here they are really hoping you will share it.
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Harley she is a) a lesbian & b) literally in love with you
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I need this.
Reblogged last year, hoping it comes this year
This is a great looping gif because now I just imagine Raiden having like a barrel full of cigarettes next to him he keeps grabbing from and Naomi is making this gigantic pile of cigarettes on the ground in continuation
Naomi keeps giving Raiden cigarettes from her big barrel but he is ungrateful
no you dont understand, i’m obsessed with him
no you dont understand i’m obsessed with him
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ngl, this song slaps way harder than it has any earthly right to
Story time: When I was at university in Japan I lived in an international dorm with all of the other foreign exchange students, and my best friend at the uni was a French girl who lived directly across the hall from me. Nausicaa, and we taught each other slang from our native languages.
One of the first things she taught me was to respond like this when someone’s looking for something, so like “où sont mes clés?” (where are my keys?) “dans ton cul” (in your ass), which can then be followed up with “comme ma bite” (like my dick)
Fast forward 8 years and Nausicaa comes to visit London from Lyon with her boyfriend, who I’ve never met before, and at one point he says “ou est mon tabac?” (where’s my tobacco?), and of course I say “dans ton cul”, and the boyfriend looks at me like “what the fuck English person” and then when the follow up of “comme ma bite” comes, he laughs so hard I think he’s gonna break a rib, and Nausicaa is just there with this shit eating grin and is like “I taught them that”
She told me later that day that of all the things she taught me and we learned together, she was so proud that saying “up your ass, like my dick” was what stuck
stop and read the story
A man who ran away as a child and ended up getting raised by a gang meets and falls in love with a woman who was raised by the same terrorists who killed her family. They join forces with a pair of bounty hunters who are best friends and a man grieving the loss of his family at the hands of the terrorists who raised the woman. Through the resulting adventure, one of the bounty hunters dies, leaving his friends to raise his infant son. This gang eventually joins forces with the leader of the gang who raised the main man; his father figure, along with the man’s adoptive sister and the woman’s adoptive sister, all to fight the main man’s incredibly powerful biological father.
Or
5 idiots save the world with the power of love, all the while listening to vintage music and snarking each other like there’s no tomorrow, eventually meeting and adopting 2 more idiots plus a dad, and saving the world again, discovering that the real treasure was the family they found along the way.
Take your pick. They are both completely accurate descriptions of Guardians of the Galaxy.
You’re saying that you were attacked by pirates – after you found the coffin of Sir Francis Drake. Is that right?
What does it take to teach a bee to use tools? A little time, a good teacher and an enticing incentive. Read more here: http://to.pbs.org/2mpRUAz
Credit: O.J. Loukola et al., Science (2017)
“Friend? Friend push ball? I push ball. I do good.”
Bees. Smart enough to push a ball, not smart enough to not be fooled by a stick masquerading as a bee.
maybe they know and they’re just being polite
Other dimensional beings are undoubtedly amazed at what human beings will accept as human beings too. “But it’s just a stick with a person on it.”
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NEIL WHY. WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT.
This turns up on my dashboard. And I read it and am impressed that someone writes exactly the post that I’d write, without actually reading the name of the person who posted it.
And then I’m puzzled at all the Neil Why’s, and realise that this was me in the Wayback Long-ago.
At least I’m consistent.
And, I should point out, we are no closer to being able to spot the extra-dimensional stick “people” who move unobserved among us.
