#‹ dynamic › ━━━━ margot & eli.

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pairs of siblings in santa guadalupe —

ANA JÚLIA & GUILHERME, shamans of humanity and funerals BRANDON & ROWAN, andromeda’s legacy MARGOT & ELI, the rogue ripleys TIBÉRIO & CÁSSIA, blessed by the sun

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#TH1RTE3N  is  a  group  verse  based  around  original  slasher  lore.  if  you  want  to  know  more  or  you’re  interested  in  joining,  please  read  the  CARRD.

the plot follows a slasher in two different timelines, targeting a group of friends who all went to school together. the first timeline takes place in the summer of 2009, following graduation leading up to the first six victims being killed. there was a thirteen year gap, where most of the survivors fled town and moved on with their lives. the second time line picks up in the summer of 2022 with kill #7, when first hale came back to hell and ended up being the first kill of the new timeline. the killer used the funeral and threatened family members and friends to lure the other six names on the list back to hell. the original six victims are available to be written in the 2009 timeline. to make this plot work best, we need other citizens of hell, ohio too. think of the characters in your favorite slasher films. cops, classmates, siblings and cousins, exes, anyone that could spice up the plot through dynamics. you are welcome to make another character affiliated with any other existing character in the plot, as long as you discuss it with the mun of the character you are affiliating with first (i will check, don't be weird.)

TH1RTE3N CANONS:

#01 : MAKENA WU — natasha liu bordizzo. (deceased) ABI.

#02 : DANIEL MILLER — jacob elordi. (deceased) HANNAH.

#03 : FAYE CASSIDY — ashley moore. (deceased) RORA.

#04 : MARIE AUGUSTINE — lucy boynton. (deceased) MAISIE.

#05 : SLOAN CARTER — kaylee bryant. (deceased) LYNS.

#06 : MAEVE KESSLER — ella purnell. (deceased) RISSA.

#07 : EASTON HALE — felix mallard + tyler hoechlin. (deceased) MERCURY.

#08 : LAVENDER  DAWSON — ginny gardner + elizabeth lail. CAROLINE.

#09 : CASPIAN MICHAELS — carlson young + cam richardson. QUIN.

#10 : LIAM WYATT — alex fitzalan + adam brody. RISSA.

#11 : HANNAH PHILLIPS — sadie sink + kat mcnamara. KELS.

#12 : RICHIE VALENTINE — austin butler + joe anderson. BRE.

#13 : TRYSTAN HALE — danielle rose russell + phoebe tonkin. KT.

THE KILLER : THE KILLER — ???. ANONYMOUS.

TH1RTE3N AFFILIATED CHARACTERS: *under the cut because there are so many!

BLAKE DARLING — mia healey + tracy spirodakos. CAROLINE. police officer. ex-wife of noah darling.

BENJAMIN DAVIS — cody christian + chris wood. ASTER. married to tate scott.

BRADLEY KING — jan luis castellanos + rick gonzalez. QUIN. faye’s partner in crime.

CAMERON BANKS — joe keery. KT. out of towner. it for penny’s podcast.

CASPER MICHAELS — austin north. ASTER. twin brother of caspian. unlisted murder victim.

DAISY DAWSON — olivia holt + brianne howley. MERCURY. older sister of lavender dawson.

DAKOTA JACKSON — yandeh salah + tbd. QUIN. high school photographer.

ELI ERIKSON — andrew garfield. KELS. ex-boyfriend of liam wyatt.

ELIJAH PUCK — jordan calloway + michael b jordan. QUIN. lindsey’s high school sweetheart.

ELODIE WU — peyton lee + brianne tju. MERCURY. makena + parker’s sister.

GENEVIEVE CRAWFORD — sydney sweeney + margot robbie. CAROLINE. kindergarten teacher.

ISABELLA HALE — alexandra daddario. KELS. younger sister of easton + trystan hale. girlfriend of matt phillips.

JENNIFER DAILY — emily alyn lind + samara weaving. DOE. news reporter.

JUDE MICHAELS — michel biel + casey deidrick. KT. bartender. brother of caspian michaels + casper michaels.

JUSTIN MITCHELL — dan stevens. BRE. out of towner. fiancé of lavender dawson.

LENNON LEMIEUX — natalie alyn lind + hilary duff. BRITT. publicist, maeve’s best friend

LINDSEY WYATT — maude apatow + emmy rossum. ABI. sister of liam wyatt.

MACKENZIE LAINE — abigail cowen + alexandra breckenridge. CAROLINE. penny laine’s older sister.

MATT PHILLIPS — dylan minnette. BRE. brother of hannah phillips. boyfriend of izzi hale.

NOAH DARLING — dylan sprayberry + jesse lee soffer. KT. homicide detective. ex-husband of blake darling. partner of regan driscoll.

PARKER WU — ross butler + tbd. QUIN. makena and elodie’s older brother.

PENELOPE LAINE — kennedy mcmann. LYNS. out of towner. true crime fanatic + podcaster.

POPPY DAWSON — mckenna grace + meagann fahy. KT. younger sister of lavender dawson.

REGAN DRISCOLL — katheryn winnick. BRITT. homicide detective. partner of noah darling.

ROSARIO DELGADO — jenna ortega + melissa barrera. KT. forensic scientist.

TATUM SCOTT — rudy pankow + lucas till. QUIN. former murder suspect. married to benji davis.

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#1035 The Royal Tenenbaums

Released: December 14, 2001

Director: Wes Anderson

Written by: Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson

Starring: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Gwenyth Paltrow, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Danny Glover, Bill Murray, Alec Baldwin

Had I Seen it Before? Yes

Animal death in a Wes Anderson movie? R.I.P. Buckley

Wes Anderson loves him an ensemble cast. I think The Royal Tenenbaums might have the most impressive ensemble cast of them all. I would never think to make Ben Stiller and Luke Wilson brothers in a movie, but Chas and Richie are good complements to one another. Anderson retains more recurrent collaborators than any director I’ve seen, even more than the Coen brothers. Just look at this cast list for Isle of Dogs, his upcoming movie. It’s huge. Is there an actor in Anderson’s Rolodex that’s not in this movie? By 2025 Wes Anderson movies will be every niche actor alive shouting simultaneously in a lavishly-decorated room scored by Alexandre Desplat. 

When I first approached the movie list I’m using for this blog, it felt like it had to have every movie I’d heard of on it, or at least close to. But going through it there are a number of movies on there that I am surprised didn’t make the cut. Anderson has multiple movies that would be worth including on the list that didn’t make the grade (Life Aquatic and Fantastic Mr. Fox being the most egregious examples), and two of the movies that are included, Tenenbaums and Rushmore, feel like they under-serve the director’s talents. 

Irena Gorovaia, Aram Aslanian-Persico, and Amedeo Turturro as a young Margot, Chas, and Richie Tenenbaum

There’s nothing wrong with either of those movies, I’m a fan of both, but I don’t see why they’re the ones featured. Anderson’s signature style is pretty much unsuggested in his debut movie, Bottle Rocket, and only comes out in glimpses during Rushmore. The Royal Tenenbaums is his first movie that feels distinctly Anderson. No list of “essential” movies is going to be without issue, I knew that from the start. But no Moonrise Kingdom? Really?

I actually watched this movie a few days unaware that it was on this list, and so am writing this a few days removed. I don’t think it’s a big deal, but it is against my usual process. I don’t take notes or anything while I’m watching these movies as I’m not exactly writing a dissertation afterward, but I do like to keep them fresh in my mind when I go at it (although sometimes inspiration strikes at odd times, and I started my writeup for The Exterminating Angel at 5 am this morning). Maybe I should keep a notepad out while I’m watching these. It’d help me keep off my phone, which is goddamned impossible unless I’m watching a movie with subtitles or watching it with someone else. 

I’m not too concerned with form in these. I write them how I want them, and starting with that Vertigo one I did, I feel any sort of artificiality draining out of me, leaving me free to me as sophisticated or surface level as I feel like, depending on the movie. 

Bill Murray and Gwenyth Paltrow as Raleigh St. Claire and Margot Tenenbaum, in one of the most depressing screen couples in Anderson’s filmography, which is saying something

And I do tend to find Anderson movies more surface than substance, maybe if only because there’s so much surface it tends to drown everything else out. That’s not a knock, there’s enough of an emotional center in each Anderson movie to anchor it down, be it Steve’s grief in Life Aquatic, the disconnect between the brothers in Darjeeling, or the earnest, unaffected love between Sam and Suzy in Moonrise Kingdom. There are moments in each that cut pretty deeply, but his movies always seem to be more focused on playing the characters off of each other than proving a Grand Point (Grand Budapest Hotel being an exception, and one I’ll get more into when I watch that one for the list). 

Still, these are movies that I adore, and I don’t give a shit what that says about me. Everyone’s got their pet directors, and Anderson is one of mine. There’s not another out there like him right now, and that’s all I need to appreciate him. And, unlike someone like Tarantino or Spielberg or anyone with their own distinctive style, there seems to minimal derivatives of Anderson. I think the guy may have achieved a style that is so hopelessly idiosyncratic that emulation is doomed to be pointless. 

Final thoughts:

Next to Tarantino’s foot fetish, I think Anderson’s penchant for murdering pets and animals in his movies is one of the most bizarre trademarks of a hyper-stylized director. 

Richie’s suicide scene is one of my favorite examples of jump cuts in a movie, and that it’s soundtracked to Elliot Smith’s “Needle in the Hay” gives it a beautiful edge (if one that would be sadly prescient).

I also love how after Richie slices himself open, it gives that action cut of Dudley opening the door and goes to a very loose handheld camera shot and movement that is so against the grain for Anderson’s typically controlled and ultra-composed style. Sometimes directing is knowing when to go against type. 

That Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson’s real-life brother, was cast as a family friend and not a Tenenbaum feels deliberate. I don’t imagine the Wilson family dynamic is similar to the Tenenbaum one, and keeping Eli out of the family avoids unwarranted comparisons. 

IMDb users agree that this exchange between Richie and Chas in the hospital is gold:

Chas: Why did you try to kill yourself? Ethel: Don't press him right now. Richie: I wrote a suicide note. Chas: You did? Richie: Yeah. Right after I regained consciousness. Chas: Can we read it? Richie: No. Chas: Can you paraphrase it for us? Richie: I don't think so. Chas: Is it dark? Richie: Of course it's dark, it's a suicide note.

The are a few things in this movie that feel oddly familiar to later Anderson movies, specifically that the tent Richie and Margot lie down in appears to be the same as or very similar to the one Sam and Suzy use in Moonrise Kingdom.

Recommended: Arrested Development, which shares the dysfunctional upper-class conceit (complete with a bumbling patriarch), as well as the satirical fascination with incest. But, honestly, who is out there watching Wes Anderson movies that hasn’t heard of Arrested Development?