#Jonathan Chang

[anthonyamadeo]

Jon Chang by Anthony Amadeo

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Jonathan Chang

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Yi Yi

directed by Edward Yang, 2000

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Yi Yi (2000)

Dir. Edward Yang

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Jonathan Chang and Nien-Jen Wu in Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)

Cast: Nien-Jen Wu, Issei Ogata, Elaine Jin, Kelly Lee, Jonathan Chang, Hsi-Sheng Chen, Su-Yun Ko, Chuan-Chen Tao, Shu-shen Hsiao, Pang Chang Yu. Screenplay: Edward Yang. Cinematography: Wei-Han Yang. Production design: Peng. Film editing: Po-Wen Chen. Music: Kai-Li Peng. 

In his Criterion Collection essay on Yi Yi, Kent Jones does something that I endorse completely: He compares writer-director Edward Yang's film to the work of George Eliot. As I was watching Yi Yi, I kept thinking that it gave me the same satisfaction that a good novel does: that of participating in the lives of people I would never know otherwise. George Eliot's aesthetic was based on the premise that art serves to enlarge human sympathy. It's an idea echoed in the film by a character who quotes his grandfather saying that since the introduction of motion pictures, we now live three times longer than we did before -- we experience that many more things  The remark in context is ironic, given that the character, a teenager (Pang Chang Yu) who will later commit a murder, mentions killing as one of the experiences now vicariously afforded to us by movies. But the general import of the observation stands: Yi Yi gives us the sweep of life, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral, and taking in along the way birth, found and lost love, and other experiences of the Jian family and acquaintances in Taiwan. The central character, N.J. (Nien-Jen Wu), is a businessman caught up in the machinations of his company while trying to deal with family problems: His mother-in-law suffers a stroke and lies comatose; his brother-in-law's wedding to a pregnant bride is interrupted by a furious ex-girlfriend; his wife has an emotional breakdown and leaves for a Buddhist retreat in the mountains; his daughter, Ting-Ting (Kelly Lee), is in the throes of adolescent self-consciousness and blames herself because her grandmother suffered a stroke while taking out the garbage Ting-Ting had been told to take care of; his small son, Yang-Yang (Jonathan Chang), refuses to join the family in taking turns talking to his comatose grandmother, and he keeps getting in trouble at school. And these matters are complicated by the reappearance of N.J.'s old girlfriend, Sherry (Sun-Yun Ko), now married to a Chicago businessman, who joins N.J. in Tokyo on a business trip that puts him at odds with his company. The separate experiences of N.J., Ting-Ting, and Yang-Yang overlap and sometimes ironically counterpoint one another, and the film is laced together by recurring images and themes. Although it's three hours long, Yi Yi never seems slack. A lesser director would have cut some of the sequences not essential to the narrative, such as the performances of Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata and the Cello Sonata No. 1, or the long pan across the lighted office windows in nighttime Taipei, but these give an essential emotional lift to a film that has rightly been called a masterwork.

[hummise]

do you ever just

[the line is from a fic by @/Rauchendes_GNU on ao3]

[bernard-the-rabbit]

Oh alice..you would have loved Tim pls don't end up like him <3

[occudo]

Be ace, be aware redraw (?) of last year's post

[hemi-demi]

Because he loves me

The next chapter of I am Here is up!

[saragrosie]

Some really stupid season 3-4ish mag sketches plus obligatory crumpling Jon up into a ball (And also s1 Jon is there writing his gay little statements whatever).

I say s3-4 cuz Helen ya know here's another Helen under the cut my beloved they could never make me hate you. You are the not a who but the moment the icon the legend:

I'm sharing some more dumbass things I've drawn in another post cuz there are early season 5 references (I'm on MAG 169) so check that out if you're caught up to there if not begone no spoilers for you ok byeeeee

[anthonyamadeo]

Jon Chang by Anthony Amadeo

[ookamihanta]

A Heart to Heart Vol 2

Vol 1 | Vol 2

[redeemed-wren]

I do find it facinating how Dracula Daily has turned Dracula into a different kind of myth now that we're in its third year running. I've seen a few people compare it to Hadestown, or a timeloop. The enjoyment isn't JUST from engaging with the story now, it's engaging with the experience, and while the emails are still the same as previous years, we've been through this before.

The way we as an audience interact with this story and this way of telling the story changes the genre. Its no longer a gothic horror, classic lit story. It's become a mythology, a tragedy, a repeating loop. Jonathan Harker returns to the castle every year. Every year it happens again. And that changes it, builds up new mythos around it, even if the words stay exactly the same.

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closed starter @honeyedblossom (jonny and malia)

Jonny had just gotten off work, having to work much later than he had planned due to a couple people not having been able to make it today. Truly, he didn’t mind it all too much. He enjoyed working for the firehouse, it was just exhausting some of the long hours he’d end up working. However, after taking a quick shower at there, he felt quite energized. It probably wouldn’t last. Parking his truck outside, he made his way up to his apartment, unlocking the door and tossing his keys onto the table beside the door. He was about to head to his room, but stopped when he noticed an all too familiar face. “Malia?” He asked, taking a step closer. “What the hell are you doing in my apartment?”

[ceaselesswatchersspecialboy]

Messy doodles because I will never be normal about this. Ever.