#Gold Star Film

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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981): Still Thrills Decades Later

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) #Review

Synopsis- In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis can obtain its awesome powers. Director- Steven Spielberg Cast- Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman Genre- Action | Adventure Released- 1981 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 6 out of 6. A true cinematic masterpiece that effortlessly blends action, adventure, and…

[chellustrates]

i adore this iteration of sun wukong 🍑

[queer-cinephile]

our enhanced and colorized versions of this photo of actress/dancer Ginger Rogers

[your1master]

Carrie Fisher and her stunt double Tracey Eddon sunbathing on set during filming Return of the Jedi (1983).

[linesonscreens]

Let's Read Peanuts (Sponsored by “Snicker-Snacks”) – July 1957

There are lots of great strips I just don't have room to comment on. I strongly encourage everybody to read the full month at the official GoComics page. Today's month starts HERE.

July 2, 1957

Married? I legitimately can't remember a single interaction between them.

July 3, 1957

I really like this one because it's so rare that we get to see Charlie Brown and Lucy just doing friend stuff without one dunking on the other. It gives you a bit of insight into why they bother to spent time together.

July 9, 1957

Well they’re…

Um…

Hold on a moment...

~Googles~ 

They’re this part of a barrel, apparently.

Also while looking that up I also found this video on how barrels are made. 

Neat!

July 11, 1957

An interesting strip considering “getting called into the army” literally happened to Schulz.

July 16, 1957

The things Charlie Brown has seen will haunt him for decades.

July 26, 1957

I like Shermy’s shirt. It really gives you the impression that he has a personality of some kind.

July 28, 1957

New blog header image found!

Lookit how mad he is! :3

Thoughts

I don't ~want~ to dunk on Shermy. I actually feel kind of bad about doing it considering the way he gets unceremoniously sidelined into oblivion. But god damnit kid, get a hobby or something. Literally anything will do.

Here, I'll give you this stapler. You're the stapler kid now. You're welcome.

[gentil-minou]

wangxian rookies in showbiz au where newbie idol Wei Wuxian is on set of a commercial wearing a ridiculously uncomfortable outfit getting yelled at for dumb reasons by his incompetent agent while bottom-of-the-totem-pole production assistant Lan Wangji is being bossed around by the awful director

Except wwx isn't actually a newbie he was once popular child actor Wei Ying seen everywhere, the golden boy of the industry known for his upbeat personality and the smile constantly on his face.

That is until his final role when he was 13 where he played a dark jaded teenage psychopath in a psychological thriller and was forced to perform intensely emotional scenes without any counselor or anyone there to keep an eye on him (his manager at the time Madam Yu's focus was always her other children's careers, Wei Ying was just an extra way to make money you see). He even got badly injured on set, and now has an ugly burn scar above his heart from a poorly done fire stunt.

But the movie flops and things just keep getting worse from there...

It gets no attention from critics that is until former golden boy becomes the teen misfit all the gossip rags talk about, with constant cover stories showing him at 15 doing drugs and partying and eventually getting kicked out by his manager/aunt at 16. The narrative becomes clear that Wei Ying is a flop and another failed child star turned deplorable diva

He disappears for a few years, only ever coming up in a low budget TMZ special or some commentary youtuber's videos, but Lan Wangji never forgot him.

Lan Wangji had often worked with his uncle when he came on as a consultant on set and so was able to watch and admire Wei Ying from afar. He's especially fond of Wei Ying's role as the happy go lucky middle child on a popular sitcom role and his smaller movie roles where he played a genius child inventor and solved crimes alongside a precocious bunny rabbit.

So well Lan Wangji has always been a fan of him so he's shocked when the new idol on set of their cheap commercial stage looks so similar to Wei Ying.

But at the same time, they're not the same at all. While Wei Ying was known for being friendly and silly, Wei Wuxian is acting like a pompous and cocktail overly confident ass, flirting with the director and everyone else while making a show of whiny and being cutesy with hopes for more screentime.

It's very unnatural and there's a moment where LWJ thinks he must have been mistaken but there's a moment in between when he's running back and forth on the producer's order while balancing cups of coffee when he spots WWX sitting by himself, huddled in a corner of the soundstage deep in the shadows where no one else is around.

He's staring at the fingernails they've painted and stuck gaudy fake jewels on and fiddling with the ridiculous black demon wings he's wearing, as he picks at the layers of makeup and stickers they've put on his face. He's tugging on his red crop top, cut indecently short and revealing so much, as watery eyes dart back and forth in front him like he's worried someone important might see.

In general he doesn't seem anything like the person he was under those lights just minutes ago.

As lwj approaches he sees that actually wwx shoulders are shaking his hands are clenched into fists, his eyes shut tight so that his makeup doesn't run

Wei Wuxiann watches as the director is barking orders for someone to fix the set as another idol takes wwx's place and finishes the shoot. Apparently his acting wasn't "peppy enough" so they've replaced him with someone else

But this was his first gig in months, years actually but months since he tried to come back and for it to fail like this, so fast without anything to show for it is absolutely devastating. He'd tried so hard to give them what he thought he wanted, desperately hoping for his big break. Only to fail again.

What does he do? What can he say? Why does he even bother?

He's staring at the floor like it might have the answer to all his problems when a pair of white sneakers appear.

He tracks those sneakers up to meet the stonefaced stare of one of the PAs he's seen running around, the youngest one who's been doing the most menial tasks. He looks somewhat familiar but his face is impassive and wwx can't tell at all what he's thinking

The PA hands him a bottle of water that wwx takes with both hands, too taken aback to do much else. Then the PA slips his headset off and sits next to him, the black faux feathers of wwx's wings brushing against the PAs arms, though he doesn't seem to mind

And so they sat. Two nobodies hidden in the shadows of a forgotten corner in a busy studio, far from the reach of the shining spotlights and stage. Little by little, wwx finds it easier to control his breathing and stray sniffles.

Eventually, the PA starts taking off his hoodie, revealing a plain white t-shirt underneath. He reaches into his pocket and holds out a marker for wwx to take as he turns so his back is facing him.

When wwx, understandably confused, doesn't do anything, the PA glances over his broad shoulders and just says "Sign, please."

Wei Wuxian blinks waiting for the punchline but it never comes. He's not even on the roster for any boy group, just a trainee idol whose only fans are the diehards who follow the trainee circuit and his sister. And this guy doesn't seem like the former and he definitely isn't the latter.

But the PA just sits and waits, back facing wwx.

Eventually, almost mechanically, he signs his new autograph, the one where he uses the 2 W's to make a smile.

He asks for a name to make the signature out to, and the PA answers in a quiet hesitant voice that he can barely hear over all the background noise, "Lan Zhan."

That name sends a spark up his spine like it should be familiar but wwx can't figure out why. So he finishes his autographs with a star and a flourish. He hasn't gotten to test out the new signature yet. He thinks he likes it better than he'd expected.

Wei Wuxian beams up at him, heart beating a beautific beat against his ribcage and asks, "Why would you want a signature from a nobody like me?"

He means it as a teasing joke but the PA, Lan Zhan his brain corrects him, gives him a grave look that steals the breath from his lungs.

"You're not nobody, Wei Ying"

Lan Zhan takes the marker and slips his hoodie back on, covering the autograph with their two names side by side, and with a final nod he walks away, melting into the general chaos of the production floor.

It takes a long moment for Wei Wuxian to realize he'd never told the guy his real name.

(originally a threadfic here)

[pondslime]

Share five songs you would put in a horror movie soundtrack (any five songs except for actual horror movie soundtracks) and tag five or more people.

tagged by @stephendorff! aaaaa tysm for the tag!! this is right up my fckn alley!! <33

locust laced by sleigh bells (opening/establishing shots kinda track. THE final girl song tbh. like C'MON. it's an upbeat cheerleader bop w/a apocalyptic/four horseman twist. PLS go listen to it I luv it sm hsdfgfdsjh)

shake, rattle and roll by bill haley & his comets (a song to murder ur loser husband to)

bite me by kilo kush (HOT. great track from some pre-disaster partying)

a girl doesn't get killed by a make-believe lover (cuz it's hot) by the thrill kill kult (freakweirdo killer is chasing u around and is very weirdly into it. maybe ur also weirdly into it. u do not have time to be into it. a song to clutch ur axe to as u run thru an evil fckn maze or smthn.)

heartbreak beat by the psychedelic furs (triumphant final scene/credits song. the evil has been defeated. u and ur bestie reunite on some fuckass dirt road in the middle of nowhere. u both made it out alive. the sun is rising and ur running down the road covered in blood & deeply traumatized. but giggling. that's the vibe.)

🪓🩸 tagging five of u horror freaks (said w/so much affection): @visceravalentines, @ace-of-hearts-and-spades, @f1nalboys, @rottent33th, and @slutforstabbings! if any of u guys wanna

[landonherreragangbangfiestashow]

Herman Lowe loves to blow little boys

The Nightman Cometh

Bloody Sheets

Headlines

The Giant Killer

Evening Post

Daguerrotype

Bustle

Neville Chamberlain homorider

Gold Disc Gold Disk Golden Disc Golden Disk Discs Disks Gold Record Gold Records Voyager Disc Voyager Disk VGer

[roseshavethoughts]

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Lawrence of Arabia - #MovieReview #FilmFriday

[magicalflowernerd00]

I know a lot of people are scared right now 🩷

I send my love and my heart to you ✨

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[lilacerull0]

Top 2 books you've read this year?

dalí & film + the waves 💖

ask my top two _______ <3

[mariocki]

Patrick Magee works to apprehend the villains as Parsons, the head of airport security in Dial 999: The Great Gold Robbery (1.4, ABC, 1958)

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AT LEAST ONE GOT AWAY FROM BEING TOTALLY CONTROLLED BY YOU AND YOU CANNOT EVER TAKE CONTROL OF THEM AGAIN

[roseshavethoughts]

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

My ★★★★★★ review of All Quiet on the Western Front #CharityShopCinema #FilmReview

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Synopsis – A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror – All Quiet on the Western Front. Director – Lewis Milestone Starring – Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray Genre – War | Drama | Historical Released – 1930 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 6 out of 6. If you liked: 1917, Dunkirk, Empire of the…