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oh sweet I found Adam's email address

do you think the Saw bathroom has wi-fi?

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He has had a rough day 😭

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he's only allowed to have one name in movies

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bob?… bob?

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I always need to do this kind of messy sketches to familiarize myself with new characters (the word dump is especially important!)

you can see how much fun i had doodling these lmao

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Cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw on the set of Sinners.

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If you left Sinners with a horn for Jack O'Connell, I have good news for you and that news is Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022).

It's on Netflix. You're welcome.

has something else in common with Sinners too

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"you twins?"

"nah, we cousins"

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me going back for round 4 next week

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Friday drawing around Oxford

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Fun Saw fact!

The movie only has two digital FX shots, and one of them was the removal of Speed "C**ty Boom Mic Operator" Ratliff from a reflection in the bathroom mirror.

Leigh Whannell: Wasn’t there someone in the mirror in this scene, in the background? Someone snuck in there and had to be… James Wan: Yeah, Speedy! Our boom wrangler… He was actually in the reflection in the mirror, and he was a very hard guy to miss as well… [laughs] LW: He had these little cut-off denim shorts. JW: I guess because we were shooting so quickly we did not notice that until post-production, and we had to digitally remove him out of the film. And believe it or not… it was one of [only] two digital shots that we had in the film.

Source

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I am obsessed with this picture.

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birb

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Even English colonialism is born out of a weird hero-worship for the Romans who colonised Britain. When I was in primary school learning about the Romans there was a big focus on how they brought the “gifts of civilisation” (i.e. straight roads, plumbing) to Britain and tamed the “barbarian tribes” (i.e. our ancestors).

This is baked right into the language developed by historians of the Roman Empire. The period of time when the Romans were aggressively expanding their territory is referred to as “Pax Romana,” and the emperors who ruled during this era are called the “Five Good Emperors.” Because things were peaceful and good… if you lived in Rome. Not so much if you belonged to a Germanic or Numidian tribe.

Out of that mentality we get “Pax Brittanica,” describing the period of time when Britain brought the “gifts of civilisation” to the rest of the world. There’s a famous chart from the time that shows the world colour-coded by “degrees of civilisation,” ranging from “Savage” to “Enlightened.” Like a video game where the goal is to hit 100% completion.

And alllll of this is baked into Sinners. The vampires don’t see themselves as monsters. They see themselves as benevolent superiors bringing a gift to the barbarians inside the barn. (While also, conveniently, taking all the stuff that they want from them.)

if sinners (2025) taught me anything, it's that it IS actually always about race.

you can be oppressed, and still promote and maintain the very same systems of oppression onto other marginalized people. being oppressed in one dimension doesn't allow you to be exempt from oppressing in other dimensions. the "villain" of the movie, remmick, being from the time period of the english colonization of ireland, all the while wanting to take a piece of sammie's own culture from him, use him for it. and this plot point coming after remmick witnesses the significance of sammie's playing within his culture, for his ancestors and how it would shape Black culture in the future.

even in today's society, ive noticed that people treat Black people like a commodity. our worth is only as much as other people decide it to be, and that's usually dependent on how much the oppressor can take from us. for example, the controversy of"internet slang" and how it is blatantly just AAVE with a bad disguise on

do you listen to Black musicians? do you watch Black movies? do you engage with Black creators? do you defend the racist tendencies you notice in your friends, in your family, or do you stay silent? do you listen when Black people tell you you've said or done something racist? do you actually care about not being racist, or do you just not want to look like you're racist?

i just think people have a very specific take on what racism is, and that if they're not committing KKK-levels of violence on people, then they're not racist. or if you've experienced oppression in one form, you cannot possibly be engaging with oppression in another form. but the ways in which we interact with other people and the world will always be through the lens of race, because that is simply what it means for oppression to be systemic, especially in the US and our current political climate

anyway 10/10 movie. highly recommend

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saw a theory that the SmokeStack twins were posing as one man in Chicago, which helped them get away with stealing from both sides. i'm poised to believe that because visually their clothing was very clearly of the two mobs. smoke was full irish— tweed, bowler hat. while stack had the full mafia look. yk italian leather shoes, fedora etc etc . like the details!!

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The funniest part of Sinners was when the Native Americans just said “yeahhh good luck with that”