#movies*

[prokopetz]

Weirdly, the Star Wars prequels compressing the hell out of the previously implied timeline in order to make everything all about the Skywalker family actually made the Empire more plausible. It's "unrealistic" that the Empire has existed for less than twenty years at the start of the Original Trilogy and it's already in the process of fragmenting into a loose affiliation of regional warlords paying lip service to a distant and ineffectual imperial core? Buddy, do some reading on real-life Fascism – the fact that they managed to piss away the Galactic Republic's institutional legitimacy in under two decades is literally the only thing that's realistic about the Star Wars timeline.

[anthonysperkins]

It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives (1971) dir. Rosa von Praunheim

[daily-spooky]

The craft inspired fits

[artzyleen]

..."she spoke...she called my name"

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Once again tagging these amazing accounts for inspiring me to stay creative ✨💕

@rosemilo @squishyghostie @crimsonmoonlight88 @kidasthings @xplore-the-unknwn

[tinagodiva]

Atrani, Italy 🇮🇹

[laurens-german]

TWISTERS — 2024, dir. Lee Isaac Chung

[thequantumranger]

Silent Hill (2006)

[trendfilmsetter]

Friday Domestic Box Office: May 31st, 2024

1- The Garfield Movie $3.7M

2- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga $3.0M

3- IF $2.8M

4- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes $2.4M

5- 🆕 Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle $1.9M

6- The Fall Guy $1.1M

7- 🆕 In a Violent Nature $1M

8- 🆕 Ezra $570K

9- 🆕 Young Woman and Sea $500K

10- 🆕 Summer Camp $390K

[gwendaria]

movies shouldn't have to make a billion dollars in 3 weeks to be considered successes. movies shouldn't have to make 150 million in 4 days to get a sequel/follow-up... one of my favorite films is Hellboy from 2004 directed by Guillermo del Toro and it didn't find success until the home video release... Hellboy 2 wasn't even considered until Hellboy's DVD sales were so positive that the studio knew it had found an audience.

studios used to invest in the long term success of a film and understand that it was just that -- an investment -- and they used to have the patience to foster said success. this modern approach to film, from a business perspective and in terms of fostering a space for creatives, isn't and never will be sustainable. this could have all been avoided and it's incredibly sad and frustrating.

[angstics]

i recently read some work on james dean and it got me thinking about why his image was used by mcr from 2002-2004. (it was on their website, merch (1, 2), banner (1, 2), shirts, even their guitar straps into at least 2007)

it was a pretty big part of who they were. but they *never* talked about why they chose him. i had my theories about him being the epitome of "live fast, die young" and his reputation as a star rebel, and that's probably it. maybe even the "famous living dead", considering the X's. but i hadnt considered james dean's unusual kind of masculinity.

richard dyer briefly talks about dean in comparison to rock hudson in his book "the culture of queers" (2002). comparing acting styles, dyer sees hudson as classic hollywood - straight, stiff, normal - while dean's naturalism "suggests someone ill at ease in the world, marginal and insecure." to dyer, hudson is stable heterosexuality, dean is insecurity associated with homosexuality. i connect this further to how it isn't just stability in sexuality, but in gender performance as well. dean's anxiety is so physical (intense eyebrows, hunched shoulders, flailing and wailing) that it's closely linked to how he's perceived, and how he's perceived as a man. he is insecure in his body, as if he's trying to escape it. he lacks masculine traits such as confidence, emotional stability .. even class (he directly represents this narratively in rebel without a cause). it wasnt the strong masculinity cinema, and dominant culture, favored. deyer also attributes dean's appearance (along with other actors' like monty clift and sal mineo) to othering him from the hudson-gable-cooper dominant masculinity: "physically slight, with intense eyes and pretty faces". many things contribute to the conclusion james dean disrupted dominant masculinity. im reading a book on this rn so im sure there's more to say (the book is gay fandom and crossover stardom by michael deangelis).

sooo i think that out of historical context, dean isnt as much disrupter. pretty much any idiot emo boy wants to act like james dean. he's cool now. but i like reading uneasy masculinity when i see that mychem poster. im not saying it was intentional, but dean's anxiety is the most important aspect of his acting to me. that necessarily translates to his expression, including gender expression. also i trust that film major and hitchcock-tattooed ray toro knows something about rebel without a cause

[reality-detective]

The Movie : "Years of the Beast" 1981. 🤔

[prokopetz]

You need to understand that my analysis of a series of films is going to be based on what's actually present in the films. That the current owners of the intellectual properties associated with those films are loudly insisting that a specific piece of fixit fic published decades after the fact is how it was meant to be understood all along is an interesting bit of trivia, but it's got nothing to do with me.

[anthonysperkins]

Fireworks (1947) dir. Kenneth Anger

[gayfic]

Walk on the Wild Side (1962) dir. Edward Dmytryk

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[tinagodiva]

Milan, Italy 🇮🇹