#Alasdair Gray

[maurafranklin]

poor things by alasdair gray poor things (2023) dir. yorgos lanthimos

[funkiest-ghoul-in-town]

Got a new mug and some books today💫

[peonies-and-dreams]

[brokehorrorfan]

Spoke Art has released Poor Things 24x36 screen prints by Aleksander Walijewski. The English version is limited to 100 for $65, while the Polish variant is limited to 40 for $75. They'll ship in 8-10 weeks.

[arinewman7]

Eden and After

Illustration by Alasdair Gray

tempera on panel, 1956

[artnarchistwitchcraft]

poor things book vs movie

idk finally saw the movie and read the book and had thoughts

[mytypeofdistraction]

Cinematic parallels:

Lorde's Perfect Places music video directed by Grant Singer (2017) / Poor Things film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos (2023).

[zzigzadig]

“You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable.”

Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

[lascitasdelashoras]

Alasdair Gray

[esqueletosgays]

POOR THINGS (2023)

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Cinematography: Robbie Ryan

[miawallace]

Poor Things (2023)

[notsoterriblymisanthropic]

I will pour into the mouth of this head another dram of stupidity. The questioning part of this brain is too active tonight.

Alasdair Gray, 1982, Janine

[issela-santina]

Poor Things 🤝 Penny Dreadful

Bella Baxter and Lily Frankenstein

Bella from the Poor Things book asserts that her husband fantasized her life story based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, so here we see quite a few similarities between her and a version of the monster's bride

fast learners; everyone just thinks they're dumb because apparently there's a belief that when you're resurrected you're supposed to be a clean slate

gaslit and gatekept, but still girlbossed

everybody in their milieux hates when they take full agency of the fact that they can be fierce and sexy and unhinged

forging their path from dying of grief to living unbound to it

both of them lost a child: one to their mother's death before they were born and the other to their mother being barred from coming home when she wanted to keep them warm

both of them don't necessarily hate men for starters and consider recommitting to a traditional relationship with a man but men really are like that, so ehh here we are

women's rights means understanding women's wrongs

in essence both of them, being white women living in Victorian England with extra add-ons, may stand for a feminism that hasn't discovered intersectionality just yet — a feminism raw and pale and inapplicable to more than just their own

all this being said, I think they could be friends

[oldsardens]

Alasdair Gray - Portrait Of Carole Gibbons. 1959

[lesmachins]

An illustrated manuscript page from Alasdair Gray’s novel Lanark. From the Glasgow University Library Special Collections Department.

via biblioklept

[eucanthos]

Yorgos Lanthimos (GR, 1973)

Emma Stone Poster from the participation at the 80th Venice Film Festival, where the film won the 2023 Golden Lion. [and 4 Oscars at the 96th Academy Awards ceremony, March 11, 2024]

Taken from Alasdair Gray's 1992 homonymous novel, the story revolves around Bella Baxter, a woman with a mysterious past. Her husband, Archibald McCandless, writes a distorted autobiography entitled "Episodes from the Early Life of a Scottish Public Health Officer" in which he claims Bella was a resurrected corpse with the mind of an infant, a creation of the scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter.