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Thereâs a Variety article I read today that summarizes how I felt about âDeadpool and Wolverineâ. Itâs a movie that was made by a genuine Marvel fan, from the fanservice to the disses.
The fanservice in this movie feels like itâs targeting the fans that are really into Marvel. Of course, you have yellow suit Wolverine. But there are references that casual fans probably wouldnât understand, like Channing Tatum playing Gambit, the Wolverine crucifix, and Henry Cavill Wolverine.
The disses in the movie feel like they also came from a Marvel fan. When Wade says stuff like, âYou joined at a low pointâ and âYouâll be playing this role till youâre 90â, those are the kind of jabs that the fanbase would make. Think of it like this. A hater would probably say something along the lines of superhero movies are the death of cinema, or that we should be watching A24 over anything Marvel related. You know, surface level criticisms. A fan would make digs that they could only do if theyâve been following the universe for a long period of time.
For example, Iâm a fan, and I know Iâve made jokes in the past about the whitewashing in Doctor Strange. Or that Agents of SHIELD is better than anything in the main movies. Or that the Netflix Marvel shows were so poorly organized that they failed to properly build up to the Defenders miniseries. Or that the people behind the Fox X-Men movies donât know how to make a good story without Wolverine. Those are critiques, but I could only make those critiques if Iâm a genuine fan who consumes this material.
Thatâs why I like how Variety described Deadpool as if he was a Marvel fanboy. Because he is! He spends a great deal of the movie fanboying over Captain America and Thor, he views the Avengers as the gold standard of what it means to be a hero, he jokes at the expense of Fox and Disney, and he winks at the audience when he knows that the next scene is something that the Marvel fanbase would truly love. Again, the movie is a love letter to Marvel and the Marvel fanbase and it shows.
#marvel#mcu#deadpool#deadpool and wolverine#deadpool & wolverine#wolverine#wade wilson#james logan howlett#x men#dp&w#dp&w spoilers#variety magazine#2024 movies#2024 films#movies#films#marvel mcu#marvel cinematic universe#fox xmen
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ariana grande for variety
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Benedict Cumberbatch at the Variety Cover Party during Sundance 2025
"It was a no brainer for us who we wanted to feature on the cover. Benedict has leveraged his star power to support and produce independent movies which is why we're all here." x
#benedict cumberbatch#dailymen#mensource#flawlessgentlemen#dailymarvelkings#marvelcast#mygifs#variety magazine#sundance 2025
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TimothĂ©e Chalamet & Monica Barbaro, ACU pressâš
#timothee chalamet#timothée chalamet#monica barbaro#variety#a complete unknown#variety magazine#december#December 27#Christmas#merry christmas
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Paul talking so wonderfully about Pedro in his Actors on Actors conversation with Ariana.
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New/old pictures of Taylor Swift for 2020 Variety Magazine photoshoot!
(October 14, 2024)
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Sydney Sweeney arrives at the Variety Power Of Young Hollywood held at NeueHouse Hollywood, California on August 10, 2023.Â
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Sneak peek at RYAN REYNOLDS and ANDREW GARFIELD's "Actors on Actors" conversation, which goes live tomorrow at 8 a.m. PT across Variety's channels.
(Variety)
#variety#actors on actors#andrew garfield#cutie pie#my baby in blue#he's so sweet#ryan reynolds#variety magazine#hope itâs not so chaotic#spideypool#sincericida
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WRITER SARA HESS TALKING ABOUT RHAENYRA AND ALICENT'S RELATIONSHIP IN SEASON 1 AND THEIR MOTHERHOOD FOR VARIETY MAGAZINE.


âI can definitely understand that itâs hot watching complex female characters who have agency and who are trying to navigate the world and understand themselves. Like, that is hot,â nonbinary actor DâArcy says.
âAnd is very different from, I suppose, more two-dimensional portrayals of female sexuality.ââŻ
Cooke adds: âI guess whatâs alluring, and quite scintillating, is that they all live in quite close proximity to each other,â noting âHouse of the Dragonâ Season 1âs focus on keeping its characters near the Iron Throne in Kingâs Landing.
âStealing these loaded looks with someone that you fancy and thatâs forbidden, thatâs hot. Itâs all hot.â
âWe had a lot of conversation at the beginning about, is this a feature or a flaw?â Hess says.
âThereâs a lot of births, do we want to see a lot of births?âŻMy thinking was, every single childbirth Iâve ever seen on television, in any show,âŻin any genre at any time, has always looked exactly the same: the woman lying on her back with her feet inâŻthe stirrups and doing the pushing andâŻthe baby comes out.â
âIn my experience, womenâŻgive birth in vastly different ways.â
âI thought we should show them all and they be really, really different, separate experiences and not just, now thereâs that birth scene and we all know exactly what it looks like.â
FOLLOWING THE BIRTH SCENE IN EPISODE 6, D'ARCY RECALLS SHOOTING A PARTICULARLY REALISTIC MOMENT OF MOTHERHOOD WHEN RHAENYRA FINALLY GETS TO REST AFTER GIVING BIRTH AND IMMEDIATELY GOING OFF TO SHOW THE BABY TO ALICENT:
âShe gets in and [her sons] Jace and Luke have gone and got a dragonâs egg and want her to look at it.â
âAnd I just remember responding, âWow, that looks perfect,â but not looking at them at all, I was looking in the other direction.
âAnd that felt like what a lot of parenting is probably like.â
FOR COOKE, THE MOTHERHOOD MENTALITY HIT IN EPISODE 9, WRITTEN BY HESS AND DIRECTED BY CLARE KILNER:
âThat moment in the carriage where Alicentâs hungover son asks her if she loves him, and she says it by smiling and saying, âYou imbecile.â
âLike, itâsâŻso obvious, this is all for you.â
âEverything that Iâve done.â
âEverything that Iâve sacrificed.â
âAll the awful things Iâve done in order to facilitate your ascension is because I love the bones of you.â
BUT MOTHERHOOD IS FAR FROM THE ONLY ASPECT OF A WOMAN'S LIFE THAT FEMALE WRITERS LIKE HESS AND WOMEN DIRECTORS INCLUDING KILNER AND PATEL INFUSED INTO THE STORY, WITH MUCH OF THE SEASON FOCUSING ON YOUNG ALICENT (EMILY CAREY) AND RHAENYRA (MILLY ALCOCK) AND THEIR DEEP BOND AND INTENSE FALLING OUT.
âThereâs an element of queerness to it,â Hess says.
âWhether you see it that way or as just the unbelievably passionate friendships that women have with each other at that age.â
âI think understanding that element of it sort of informs the entire rest of their relationship⊠Even though theyâre driven apart by all these societal, systemic elements and pressures and happenings, at the core of it, they knew each other as children, and they loved each other and that doesnât go away.â
Hess continued: âOlivia has told me she believes â and this is her headcanon â that they at some point kissed or made out or had some kind of physical interaction that Alicentâs mother found out about and forbade.â
âAnd that was Oliviaâs head story, âOh, I canât do that. Thatâs not right.â And thatâs the background for her in their relationship going forward. I would be 100% down with that.â
COOKE SAYS SHE AND D'ARCY HAVE âDEFINITELYâ TALKED ABOUT ALICENT AND RHAENYRA BEING âEACH OTHER'S FIRST LOVEâ:
âBut when it comes to our iterations of the characters, too much has happened and too much time has passed to probably even recognize those fledgling feelings.â
âBut Condal and Hess werenât ânecessarily interested in ever definingâ what that love meant in terms of the womenâs sexuality.â
âI happen to be a queer woman, but I know straight women who had âHeavenly Creaturesâ -esque, romantic friendship with their best friend at that age,â Hess said.
âThatâs something that I think, probably â I donât want to stereotype anybody â but it seems to be more a phenomenon with young women than it is with men, probably because whether youâre queer or not, society cares less if youâre physically intimate with each other or hugging or touching each other.â
âYou can have sleepovers and sleep in the same bed and nobody cares.â
#house of the dragon#hotd#hotd s2#tv shows#team green#team black#queen alicent hightower#hotd alicent#alicent hightower#rhaenicent#rhaenyra#queen rhaenyra targaryen#rhaenyra targaryen#alicent x rhaenyra#emma d'arcy#hotd rhaenyra#sara hess#clare kilner#motherhood#hotd s2 spoilers#hotd spoilers#emily carey#milly alcock#hotd cast#interview#ryan condal#variety magazine#olivia cooke
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Sebastian Stan getting a standing ovation đ„čđâ€ïž (I know his introverted ass is internally wanting them to stop but is also super grateful) the tears omg Iâm so proud of my you seb đ„čđ I wish anthony was there with himđđ
#sebastian stan#marvel#marvel cast#mcu cast#dailycelebs#james bucky barnes#bucky barnes#sexy seabass#variety magazine#tiktok#video post#the apprentice
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@ericaerk: BTS // SEBASTIAN STAN // @variety @imsebastianstan photos x @heatherhazzan styled x @mjonf hair x @ericaerk @ericaadamshair using @gamaitaly.us skin x @akgroomer using @circa1970beauty
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#michael shannon#batman vs superman#batman v superman#donald trump#zack snyder#funny headlines#variety magazine#variety#funny news#my post#photo#humor#memes#lol#funny#funny post
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anya taylor joy in balmain promo look for 'furiosa' in mexico // in cheney chan ss24 for variety magazine, may 2024
#anya taylor joy#fashion#film#furiosa#mad max#george miller#couture#cheney chan#balmain#editorial#art#runway#magazine#variety magazine
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Victoria Monét x Variety
#victoria monet#variety magazine#black girl magic#beauty#erik carter#photography#kollin carter#style#black beauty#pro-royalty
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New photos from the Percy Jackson show from Variety!!
#percy jackson and the olympians#pjo#pjo show#percy jackson show#percy jackson and the olympians show#percy jackson disney+#pjo disney+#percy series#percyjackson#annabeth chase#grover underwood#walker scobell#leah sava jeffries#aryansimhadri#variety magazine#rick riordan#riordanverse#the riordanverse
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Paul Mescal
Variety November 2024, photographed by Mason Poole.
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