#La folle

[prosedumonde]

Songeait-elle aux morts ? Rêvassait-elle tristement, sans souvenir précis ? Ou bien sa pensée anéantie restait-elle immobile comme de l’eau sans courant ?

Guy de Maupassant, Contes de la bécasse • La folle 

[audible-smiles]

My memory of The Birdcage (1996) is always that it's more dated and more difficult to watch than it actually is. You hear "drag-themed comedy from the 90s based on a musical from the 80s based on a play from the 70s" and you brace yourself just a little, right? But the film has a strong gay perspective, so the fruity fag jokes mostly come off as warmly affectionate. There is a surprising amount of poignancy in Robin Williams' portrayal of Armand, grudgingly agreeing to his beloved son's request that he go back into the closet for an evening ("do me a favor and don't talk to me for a while"). The drag club's staff attempting to redecorate the apartment with stuff straight people might like (a taxidermy moose head, an enormous crucifix, and Playboy magazine) is extremely funny. Albert's histrionics are a point of tension because he does often come off as a stereotypically pathetic/comic figure, but towards the end of the movie he makes it very clear that he's aware of how people see him, and asserts that trying to copy a stoic masculinity he doesn't possess for the sake of social approval would be more pathetic. In the 1983 musical adaptation, they give "Albert" (Albin) the only good song in the whole show, "I Am What I Am", which Gloria Gaynor covered to the delight of gays everywhere. Apparently Nathan Lane wasn't (publicly) out yet in 1996, which is amazing because it means that at one point in this movie you're watching a gay man playing a straight man playing a gay man playing a straight man, in a movie about how it's important to be yourself, an absurdity that does seem to encapsulate the state of gay America in the 90s.

[the-pea-and-the-sun]

these are my only two letterboxd lists btw

[strawlessandbraless]

COACH BEARD: “so there’s probably more people in this room who are gay”

RICHMOND TEAM: all looking at bi king Jamie Tartt who is FLATTERED

TRENT CRIMM: in his vintage Dolly Parton t-shirt and blazer who later drinks his victory toast out of his rainbow mug “who could it be?”

[gnnosis]

“as long as i’ve got a job, you’ve got a job, you understand?”

[the west wing 2x10 “noel” / ted lasso 3x09 “la locker room aux folles” ]

[schreibfederlaerm]

just realized that Roy was still with Isaac when Colin came out - so there's a non-zero chance that, when Roy said it was "none of his fucking business" why Isaac did what he did, Roy actually had no idea. because it wasn't his business.

which would kind of make it even sweeter that he went on to call Colin "a hell of a player and a great man", for no other reason than that being his honest opinion

[afc-richmond]

trent crimm sitting in that locker room with cheetah print shoes on and a dolly parton shirt and not one person clocked him as gay and looked at jamie instead i am beyond fascinated

[cloud-based-and-rainpilled]

Consider: David Tennant and Michael Sheen in La Cage Aux Folles. The vision? Do you see it? You should

[micarxena]

90% of veremhin is just me gaslighting myself but listen

I just think the idea of the two of them being forced to cohabit and collaborate under the senobium's coercion to be lovely

(especially knowing Mhin's character themes deal with repression + emotional struggle and Vere reads people like open books

Plus i'm just convinced Vere would find Mhin's soul tasty)

[ughhhdavid]

A collection of Normal™ faces to make when thinking about how you didn't watch the superbowl with a friend twice 25 years ago

[thekenobee]

I believe I see a pattern

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[fashioninpaper]

Birdcage Paper Dolls by Nurd Design (Diego Gómez) at Etsy.

[karmelarts]

When I say men need to dress sluttier this is what I mean

[gnnosis]

queer belonging / put simply: we are not in this alone

[ true blue, boygenius / in memoriam by alice winn / ted lasso 3x09 / stranger things 4x09 / 4x01 / stone butch blues by leslie feinberg / derry girls 2x02 / schitt’s creek 5x11 ]

[davidtennantgenderenvy]

ROLES I WANT DAVID TENNANT TO PLAY IN MUSICALS: THE MASTERLIST

Okay so I've divided this into three categories, which you shall see below!

Roles I Think David Could/Should Play NOW:

Charlie Guiteau in Assassins

someone in Brigadoon bc it would be funny

The Emcee in Cabaret

Ryuk in Death Note

The Man In The Chair in The Drowsy Chaperone

The Dysquith Family in A Gentleman's Guide to Love And Murder

Herbie in Gypsy

Hades in Hadestown

Frollo in Hunchback of Notre Dame (okay give him like five years)

The Baker in Into The Woods

Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe

Albin or Georges in La Cage Aux Folles (either one as long as the other is played by Michael Sheen)

Trunchbull in Matilda OKAY HEAR ME OUT (he could also do Mr Wormwood)

Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady

Fagin in Oliver

Tateh in Ragtime

Riff Raff OR Frank N Furter in Rocky Horror

Shakespeare in Something Rotten

Squidward in SpongeBob (im so serious)

Sweeney Todd (utterly delusional but I need it to happen)

The Wizard in Wicked

Roles I Think David Would Have Nailed When He Was Younger

The Balladeer in Assassins

anyone in Cats please it would be so funny (especially Munkustrap)

Connor Murphy in Dear Evan Hansen (like Campbell era come ON)

Motel in Fiddler on the Roof

Marvin in Falsettos (he MIGHT get away with that now not sure)

Monty in Gentleman's Guide

J.P. Finch in How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying

Molina in Kiss of the Spider Woman

Emmet in Legally Blonde

Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors

Edgar Allan Poe in Nevermore

Leo Frank in Parade

Narrator/Cat in the Hat in Seussical

Georg in She Loves Me

any character Christian Borle played in Spamalot

Tobias Ragg in Sweeney Todd

Roles David Quite Doesn't Have The Instrument For But I Would Watch Him Do Them Anyway Bc He Would Act The Hell Out Of Them:

Any Elder in The Book of Mormon (Younger)

Robert in Bridges of Madison County

Bobby in Company (Younger)

Jervis in Daddy Long Legs (Younger)

Lucheni in Elisabeth (Younger)

or death. Rudolph too tbh

Bruce Bechdel in Fun Home

Edward Rochester in Jane Eyre

Henry Jekyll/Edward Hyde (younger)

Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar (younger)

Javert in Les Miserables

Christian in Moulin Rouge (Younger)

Pierre in Great Comet (this one actually kills me bc he and Phileas are so similar)

OR ANATOLE HOLY CRAP

Gabe in Next to Normal (Younger)

Erik in Phantom of the Opera

Mark Cohen in Rent (younger)

Noel Gruber or Ricky Potts in Ride the Cyclone (younger)

Archibald Craven in The Secret Garden

Joe/Josephine in Some Like It Hot

BURRS IN THE WILD PARTY OH I WISH THIS WERE REALISTIC IT WOULD BE SO GOOD

GOD this is long please spill the opinions so this was worth it