the past isn’t behind you it coils inside your body that’s why some years you feel closer and more nostalgic for certain ages than others just fyi
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All Too Well: The Short Film is an American romantic drama short film written and directed by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was produced by Saul Projects and Taylor Swift Productions, and distributed by PolyGram Entertainment, Republic Records, and Universal Pictures. Titled after Swift’s 2012 song “All Too Well”, the film is based on the premise of the song’s 10-minute version and stars Sadie Sink and Dylan O'Brien as a romantic couple whose up-and-down relationship ultimately falls apart, with a brief appearance by Swift at the end. It was released to YouTube on November 12, 2021, alongside Swift’s second re-recorded album, Red (Taylor’s Version).
The film premiered at the AMC Theatres at Lincoln Square, New York City, on November 12 as well, and received a limited theatrical release in major cities. It opened to positive reviews from critics, who praised the direction, cinematography, and Sink’s performance.
Synopsis
All Too Well: The Short Film opens with a literary quote from Chilean poet Pablo Neruda: “Love is so short, forgetting is so long”. The film chronicles the relationship of two doomed lovers, Her and Him, compounded by an age gap. American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift’s 2021 song “All Too Well (10 Minute Version)” plays throughout the film, except during a dialogued conflict between Her and Him.The 15-minute film is divided into seven chapters—"An Upstate Escape", “The First Crack In The Glass”, “Are You Real?”, “The Breaking Point”, “The Reeling”, “The Remembering” and the epilogue “Thirteen Years Gone"—each of which represent a formative period in the relationship of Her and Him.
Plot
The story starts with the couple lying in bed together, Her mesmerized by Him. They travel to upstate New York, where she leaves her red scarf at a house belonging to his sister. Their relationship takes a turn at a dinner party, where Him ignores his girlfriend as he is busy catching up with his friends. They fight afterwards; Him is arrogant and dismissive, while a distraught Her is heartbroken but still wants to stay with Him. He apologizes and kisses her to end the argument, and they dance in the refrigerator light. Him starts to distance himself from Her when she needs him, eventually breaking up with Her. A devastated Her weeps in bed, ignoring his phone calls. A montage shows Her alone at parties and miserable on her 21st birthday. Him’s life carries on as he walks alone down a Brooklyn street, recalling some of the happier moments in his relationship with Her. The film then jumps 13 years into the future. She has become an author and is celebrating the release of her novel All Too Well, presumably detailing the heartache of her early twenties, reading it out to an audience of fans in a packed bookstore. Outside, an older Him watches Her through the window, wearing the same scarf she had abandoned 13 years ago.
Background and production
Swift announced her second re-recorded album, Red (Taylor’s Version), a re-recording of Swift’s fourth studio album Red (2012), for release on November 12, 2021. It contains both the re-recorded version of the fan-favorite track ”All Too Well“ and its 10-minute-long, uncut version as a bonus track "from the vault”.All Too Well: The Short Film is a dramatized account of the incidents and dynamics of the relationship described in the song. Swift said the film was an expression of her gratitude to her fans for their reception to the song over the years.
On November 11, 2021, Swift revealed via her social media accounts that All Too Well: The Short Film was shot in 35 mm film format by cinematographer Rina Yang.On a Late Night with Seth Meyers episode on November 12, Swift stated she cast Sink and O'Brien because they were the only two people she imagined playing the roles. Swift added that she is a huge fan of O'Brien’s works and that she would not have proceeded with making the film had Sink turned down the offer. Swift explained, “I like working with friends or people who I think would be excited about working with me. I’ve never made a short film before. I needed to reach out to people who would maybe believe that I was capable with it. I’m just blown away by what [Sink and O'Brien] did—they went out and left it all on the field”. Swift further revealed that Sink and O'Brien “were so electric and [improvising] a lot of what they were doing that we just couldn’t take the camera off [them]”.
lyrics
I walked through the door with you The air was cold But something about it felt like home somehow And I, left my scarf there at your sister’s house And you’ve still got it in your drawer even nowOh, your sweet disposition And my wide-eyed gaze We’re singing in the car, getting lost upstate Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place And I can picture it after all these daysAnd I know it’s long gone and that magic’s not here no more And I might be okay but I’m not fine at all'Cause there we are again on that little town street You almost ran the red ‘cause you were lookin’ over at me Wind in my hair, I was there I remember it all too wellPhoto album on the counter Your cheeks were turning red You used to be a little kid with glasses in a twin-sized bed And your mother’s telling stories 'bout you on the tee-ball team You told me 'bout your past thinking your future was meAnd I know it’s long gone and there was nothing else I could do And I forget about you long enough to forget why I needed to'Cause there we are again in the middle of the night We’re dancing 'round the kitchen in the refrigerator light Down the stairs, I was there I remember it all too well, yeahAnd maybe we got lost in translation Maybe I asked for too much But maybe this thing was a masterpiece 'til you tore it all up Running scared, I was there I remember it all too wellAnd you call me up again just to break me like a promise So casually cruel in the name of being honest I’m a crumpled up piece of paper lying here 'Cause I remember it all, all, all Too wellTime won’t fly, it’s like I’m paralyzed by it I’d like to be my old self again But I’m still trying to find it After plaid shirt days and nights when you made me your own Now you mail back my things and I walk home alone But you keep my old scarf from that very first week 'Cause it reminds you of innocence And it smells like me You can’t get rid of it 'Cause you remember it all too well, yeah'Cause there we are again when I loved you so Back before you lost the one real thing you’ve ever known It was rare, I was there, I remember it all too wellWind in my hair, you were there, you remember it all Down the stairs, you were there, you remember it all It was rare, I was there, I remember it all too well
the decrease in costuming quality over the last 20 years has been soooo precipitous & nauseating. i’m not even talking abt marvel’s cg supersuits or anything this time, look at the fabric quality, structure, layering, character, and craftsmanship of older costumes in 102 dalmations (2000) vs cruella (2021)
ever after (1998) vs cinderella (2021)
lord of the rings (2001-2003) vs the rings of power (2022)
this trend should upset you not just because it looks cheap, but because it suggests a strong anti-art and anti-labor movement in film and tv making. don’t forget costumers are unionized
Ok, but what is happening here is not a degradation of skill. At all. The number of phenomenally talented and knowledgable Costumiers and maker working is astounding. The only thing more astounding is how little they are being properly utilised.
What is happening is a degradation of production schedules. Prep time is constantly being shrunk to the absolute bare minimum which limits design time, fitting time, r&d, sourcing (materials, hardware habdash, etc), making time (drafting, construction, embellishment, etc). Additionally budgets - despite the ridiculous sums of money being sunk - are becoming more shrunk, focused and scrutinised. That feeds back into the materials available (and a dependency on what IS available?, but also staffing levels - smaller workrooms, limited outsourcing etc etc. Schedules are not locked down at all. Ever. Even more so in these Covid times. Scripts aren’t locked down. Ever. Because productions never consider the wider logistics of outlying departments like costume, props etc.
Cast is increasingly last minute, w negotiations dragging out. This limits contact time for development and conception (actors must also be involved int he design process), fittings, etc. I did a job last year where - aside from our two leads - we had zero cast until the week we started shooting which meant we could only do extremely linited advance work plus we had a minuscule team despite being for a huge streaming platform with major stars. On another job we had three (3) days between a principle actor needing a visually iconic costume being cast and being ON CAMERA.
Additionally it is becoming increasingly common for actors to expect higher use of doubles - both stunt and picture doubles m. That means, simply, more costume as they all must have their own. Often in multiples. This with the commonality of stunts means that sometimes as much as 20+ repeats of element of a costume are needed, depending on necessity. That means fabrics are needed in huge quantities, and workrooms must effectively have factory productions. This paired with scheduling limitations above means more often than not we must use what we can get immediately. You know if you could have even a week to source something from, say, Italy, you can get something divine. But there just isn’t the time because you need 60m of specific fabric yesterday. There’s not time to get things made.
So the entire process is streamlined into what can be made in quantity and quickly. Everyone mourns what could be made if we only had the time, money and resources. Everyone know what we could be achieving, should be achieving and want to be achieving. But we just can’t because everything is about immediate, constantly shifting deadlines, high demands and logistics. It’s a nightmare, and we’re all very very tired. As with everything it’s all part of corporate greed. And I haven’t even gone into the twenty levels of executive meddling and the endless rounds of approvals (plus marketing and merchandising approvals etc etc etc it’s unending.)
I’ve been working in film costume for coming on 12 years (ugh), and it has gotten noticeably worse on all of these fronts in just the decade plus I’ve been around. Even in the last five years.
— Only you, my darling, only you
thank you for 1000 :’) i remade the very first drawing i posted on here !
me in 2025 after my 9th moderna booster
this is NUTS
Reblogging this again because I found out he’s actually the drummer in an all-mascot metal band called Charamel.
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wait a second
Holy fucking shit dude
The drummer is Nyango Star! He’s the mascot of Kuroishi City, which is known for producing apples. His name is a pun combining “nyan” and the Japanese word “ringo” which means “apple” and also is the first name of the second-best drummer in the Beatles, Ringo Starr. So…Nyango Star. Nyango Star is an apple possessed by the spirit of a dead cat.
He also formed Charamel with several other mascots, but he had been drumming and repping Kuroishi City for some time before that. He’s very important to Kuroishi City, as his presence is playing a role in saving a declining community.
Thank you for your service, Nyango Star.
Hey guys did I mention I live on a fucking weird island and sometimes land crabs with 8-inch claws try to get into my house
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cute puppy what breed is he
sideways
today one of the student workers at my job told me that if she’s struggling to remember something important in her course work she’ll wait until her professor asks a question related to that topic during a lecture and then she’ll purposefully raise her hand and answer it wrong because, and I quote, ‘the combined shame and embarrassment of getting an answer wrong in front of more than a hundred of your peers will make sure that you’ll never forget what the right answer actually was’ and if that is not the most next level balls to the wall bonkers extrovert thing I’ve ever heard then I don’t know what is
this is the funniest fucking thing, god bless elton
(tw: f slur, even though it’s not really used in that context)
you can see the EXACT moment where he decides oh this is going to be so fucking funny if i say this