#Dogfight (1991)

[goldenivygarden]

dogfight (1991), dir. nancy savoca

'dogfight', my beautiful underrated gem, my beloved anti-war, pro-love and kindness film. my sweet, tender balm for trying times. god i i miss river phoenix so much. what an incandescent talent. what a privilege that cinema has his performances immortalized in celluloid forever.

every scene in this film, every frame, pulsates with such pure, young emotion: first thrill then confusion and anger and then something warmer, something realer, something almost like love, the kind only possible on certain summer evenings. they never last forever the way we so desperately want them to. and then growing up, coming into terms with the inevitable cruelty of the world.

there's a scene about midway through the film when eddie and rose slow-dance around a music arcade, there are no words spoken, only the unraveling and revealing of something unnamed but so, so unmistakable.

but what also elevates this film from your standard forever-in-one-night romance fare is that it comes from a place of real hurt, it carves out its joy and grace and young love from a place of real cruelty. and that seeps through in every nuanced beat, even beyond language. that we need each other to survive—that our entire species depends on it in spite of all our protests—is such an embarrassing thing to come into terms with sometimes, but to be seen is a necessary precursor to being loved.

it's films like these that make me believe in everything again and thank god and the heavens that cinema is a capsule of time and memory and emotion.

[cregganwhitehare]

Dogfight (1991), dir. Nancy Savoca

[anliafail]

"Couldn't we just..."

DOGFIGHT (1991) | dir. Nancy Savoca

[gabriestat]

gonna watch dinner in america. i have to understand why everyone seems to like it

[moncherelephant]

clingy

[d0gf1ght]

6am post about my username bc I've never talked about it before and I'm bored.

There's a 1991 film called Dogfight and it centers around a marine who's spending his last night stateside with his friends. He's meant to ship out the next morning for Vietnam.

"The rules of the Dogfight were simple. Everyone puts in fifty bucks, and the guy with the ugliest "date" wins."

Eddie (the marine) brings Rose (daughter of a cafe owner) to the dogfight with the rest of his friends and their "dates". She ends up finding out about the game and it's rules and storms off. Eddie wins some money because Rose threw up in the bathroom.

Eddie spends the rest of the night trying to make it up to her, even going so far as to ditch his friends, and the two end up falling in love. Rose asks Eddie to write her, but he never does because he doesn't want his friends to find out. When the occupation ends, Eddie doesn't return home to his parents, no. He goes straight back to Rose, who is now the owner of her mothers cafe.

The word "Dogfight" refers to a close range aircraft fight. The modern term is much less fascinating and is just referred to as "maneuvering".

There was also a musical that ran shortly, based off of the film.

[panienkazokienka]

[brixuth]

“You and me, against the pricks. Are you with me?”

Dogfight (1991)

[cristinaricci]

RIVER PHOENIX 1991 | Dogfight

[cinematicmasterpiece]

dogfight (1991)

[thecoparoom]

movie review of Dogfight

Boston Phoenix, October 1991

[sawthefaeriequeen]

I was tagged by @queenofattolia

List five of your favourite movies and let your followers decide which vibes fit you best.

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[pierreism]

Dogfight, 1991. dir. Nancy Savoca

Watching the Criterion restoration just confirms this isn't merely your favourite movie that you haven't seen in a while - it's one of the greatest ever made. Nancy Savoca is one of the best to ever do it.

[maaarine]

MBTI & Celebs

Brendan Fraser: INFP

“Brendan James Fraser (born December 3, 1968) is a Canadian-American actor.

Having graduated from the Cornish College of the Arts in 1990, he made his film debut in Dogfight (1991). Fraser had his breakthrough in 1992 with the comedy Encino Man and the drama School Ties.

He gained further prominence for his starring role in With Honors (1994) as a Harvard student and George of the Jungle (1997) and emerged a star playing Rick O'Connell in The Mummy trilogy (1999–2008). (…)

Fraser's film career was revitalized by roles in Steven Soderbergh's No Sudden Move (2021) and Darren Aronofsky's The Whale (2022).

His starring role as an obese gay man in the latter earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor, becoming the first Canadian to win this category.”

Sources: video, wiki/Brendan_Fraser. Screencaps: transcript.

[monarch-afterdark]

Titan History: Rodan

Welcome once again to Monarch: After Dark, the digital gateway between you and the organisation dedicated to navigating and understanding this troubled new world we live in.

Before we begin, we would like to take a moment to thank you all once again for your engagement with this platform. Just today, Monarch: After Dark has surpassed 50 followers, a great feat in our goal to help the public learn more about and understand the world of the Titans and beyond. We here on the After Dark team appreciate each and every person who interacts with the blog, and hope to see more of you join as we continue this journey together.

To mark the occasion, we will be making an earlier-than-scheduled return to our "Titan History" series with a Titan who has become something of a popular tourist attraction in recent years; the winged demon born of fire, Rodan.

(Pictured above: The USS Argo approaching Rodan as he rises from the Isla de Mara volcano, circa. 2019)

Monarch Database File: Rodan

Monarch Designation: Titanus Rodan

Height: 154 feet

Weight: 39,043 tons

Wingspan: 871 feet

Nature: Bio-Volcanic

Behavioural Classification: Destroyer

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The largest currently known case of "magmafauna" (a term coined by Monarch for superspecies biologically adapted to volcanic environments), Rodan is an impressively intimidating pterosaur-like Titan perfectly adapted to his resting place within the volcano of Isla de Mara. It is speculated by some within Monarch that Rodan's parents had nested within the volcano long ago, Rodan himself seems biologically molded for his home.

Rodan appears to almost be made of volcanic rock, cooled magma coating his wings. Red cracks glow through his wings during flight, giving the impression that the Titan oozes lava as he soars through the air. Due to his volcanic nature, Rodan does not "bleed" as organisms traditionally, as an injury sustained from Mothra's stinger in 2019 only resulted in magma coming out. Truly, Rodan seems to be a living volcano.

His range of abilities similarly match the destructive potential of volcanoes. Capable of flying at supersonic speeds, Rodan need only fly over a city to destroy it, or he can create a powerful sonic thunderclap capable of dispatching several fighter jets with a single strike. His razor-sharp talons and beak aid in dealing with other Titans up-close, and his internal tempearatures can reach such heights that they can burn his opponents if he gets close enough. According to one account, Rodan can cause volcanoes to erupt simply by flying past them.

(Pictured above: Rodan battling Monster Zero within the latter's storm beyond Isla de Mara, circa. 2019)

While Rodan's existence was known to Monarch as early as 1973, the Titan itself would not be discovered by the organisation until 1991. Under the guise of "environmental research" (a tried-and-tested excuse), Monarch quarantined the volcano of Isla de Mara. As the years went on, the quarantine zone became a fully-fledged Monarch facility, forced to operate with aerial satellites as the volcano's temperatures rendered standard Monarch equipment impossible to use.

In 2019, following the awakening of Monster Zero in Antarctica, former Monarch member-turned eco-terrorist Emma Russell used the ORCA sonar device to awaken Rodan, despite Monarch forces still attempting to evacuate the population of Isla de Mara below. The civilians watched with silent horror as Rodan rose from the volcano, before running screaming as the Titan took notice.

In an effort to divert Rodan's attention, Monarch's command ship USS Argo and its fighter escort Gold Squadron fired on Rodan to draw his ire and lead him to a massive storm generated by Monster Zero, who was headed to the volcano itself in response to Rodan's calls. Rodan took flight, still causing massive damage to the city, before engaging Gold Squadron in a dogfight as the Argo led him toward the larger Titan.

(Pictured above: Rodan emerging from the clouds to engage Monarch forces in the sky, circa. 2019)

As Rodan made short work of the Gold Squadron, including one documented instance of the Titan "smirking" before using a barrel roll to finish off the remaining jets, both he and the Argo arrived within Monster Zero's storm. The two Titans clashed almost immediately, Rodan holding his own for a while until Monster Zero shot him out of the sky.

Rodan recovered from the attack quickly enough to evade the Oxygen Destroyer's deployment on Godzilla and Monster Zero, and quickly returned to his volcanic home in order to bow before Monster Zero, which recently staked its claim as the Alpha Titan following Godzilla's supposed demise. During the multiple Titan attacks provoked by Monster Zero, Rodan was reportedly responsible for setting off the Ring of Fire around the Pacific Ocean.

Working directly alongside Monster Zero, almost like its personal guard, Rodan fought off military and Monarch forces in Washington, DC. He later turned toward Boston when the ORCA was activated, arriving just in time to intercept Mothra when both she and Godzilla were gaining an advantage over Monster Zero.

Rodan kept Mothra oocupied, ramming her into buildings and using his lethal temperatures to burn her wings to weaken her. Going in for a final attack, Rodan was met by Mothra's stinger, impaling him through his shoulder and incapacitating him for the remainder of the battle.

Due to his volcanic nature, Rodan was able to survive through the thermonuclear pulses given off by Godzilla when he entered a superheated state, and managed to recover to fly off presumably before a thermonuclear explosion consumed Boston and destroyed Monster Zero's body.

(Pictured above: Rodan roaring at Godzilla, moments before accepting him as the new Alpha, circa. 2019)

Rodan was the final Titan to surround Godzilla in Boston following Monster Zero's demise, still bearing the injury sustained from Mothra. He roared up at Godzilla but was met with a glare, moments after which he bowed down before Godzilla, the first Titan to do so, accepting Godzilla as the true king of the Titans.

Following the Monster Zero crisis, Rodan took refuge in Fiji, where he established a new nest for himself. His presence led to a spike in tourism from people wanting to glimpse the Titan.

To date, Rodan remains dormant in Fiji, and has had no involvement in any of the Titan crises since the Monster Zero crisis.

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And that's all she wrote for Rodan! The Titan's re-emergence has been both hotly anticipated and dreaded by the public since his return to dormancy, with many wanting to see the Titan in action once more...presumably because they are far away from wherever he is and thus unlikely to be blown into another country by his supersonic winds. We here on the After Dark team, would indeed want to gleam more data from Rodan, though preferrably from a safe and comfortable distance.

Until next time,

Monarch: After Dark