#andy and nile ESPECIALLY are such a good duo

[stiffyck]

Rewatched the old guard with a friend today and can I just say how much I LOVE the romance in this movie?

It's very unobtrusive, it's cute and sweet, it's not annoying, it's just very well done.

I also love the lack of romance. There's almost nothing. Besides Joe and Nicky there's no romance.

I don't even think that one scene with Booker and Andy was supposed to be romantic. They've known each other for a long fucking time and they all care about each other and Andy thought she might have lost someone close to her. Her pressing her forehead to Brookers was incredibly moving in a way where you just know she's worried and she cares so deeply.

But then we move on and there's no other hints at romance for these two. At least i didn't see any tbh.

Another thing i want to point out- I don't know if I'd describe Joe and Nicky as gay- I'd just say they're queer to me. They love each other so much and the speech in the van that Joe gives? Beautiful. Fucking beautiful. You know how much they care about each other and not just because of the speech of course. There's plenty of moments in the movie where you see them move together in a certain way, where it's just so clear they know each other really well.

Idk. Its a movie I adore and I forgot how much i liked it.

Good action that's not interrupted by some silly romantic subplot for the main character, a romance on the side that's incredibly important for the characters but that's not annoying or forced-

Like idk. I want more movies like this. I want to see more movies where the romance isn't shoehorned in there just for the sake of having a romance. It's not there because it doesn't need to be there.

All of them are close to each other and they all care about each other and it doesn't need to be romantic. It's just so refreshing I think.

[wickedpact]

oh yes all of the old guard love children (even andy, though andy has a much... colder exterior) but nicky and nile are Especially soft for kids (joe is especially soft for nicky with kids) which actually leads me to another con/undercover idea - again, i know this is not really their speciality but maybe they need a break for a job that doesn’t involve as much killing, but maybe they hear word about a sketchy orphanage and idk maybe it’s not the most forward thinking orphanage (as in, only accepts applications from straight couples) so nile and nicky go undercover as a couple looking to adopt. so it really has everything for us, the undercover, nicky & nile friendship, them interacting with kids, the mlm/wlw solidarity of pretending to be a totally heterosexual couple. really what more could you need. - 2ta

theres a panel from one of the tog comics (second one i think?) that shows a picture of joe and andy from the... midish 1900s ? where andy is holding a baby and joe is standing just behind her looking over her shoulder and theyre both making hearteyes at the baby and its so fucking tender. i only saw it once by accident on via tumblr dot com recommended posts but it filled me with so much serotonin.

what was i saying. right, babies

NO but re: nicky and nile being undercover as a couple, that one bit from happiest season where dan levy has to pretend to be kristen steward’s ex bf and hes like ‘yes i am attracted to this Female Woman. i am a heterosexual’

either That or them being really good at it (the iconic duo of ‘bisexual queen nile + having eyes’ and ‘gay king nicky + saying exactly what hed say if it were joe but just swapping the pronouns’)

nicky keeps saying Cute Nicky Things abt her to the adoption workers and she retaliates by whipping out as many modern cutesy petnames as she can. its the only way she can fight back

nicky: [charming nickyism]

nile: awww, cuddlemuffin!!!!

adoption worker: [leaves to grab paperwork or whatever the fuck]

nicky, turning to nile: ...( •ิ ｪ •ิ )? im a muffin?

also theres the sad aspect of nicky and nile leaving all the kids after the con is over but Who Says nicky and nile cant steal several dozen children from an orphanage?

[mainstodo]

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was helped greatly by the emergence of MTV, which put the group's stylish videos into heavy rotation. By the November release of the remix EP Carnival, the bandmembers were superstars in Europe, but only just beginning to make headway in America. Rio entered the charts at number two, and its singles - "Hungry Like the Wolf" and "Save a Prayer" - became Top Ten hits. The band quickly followed the album with Rio in the spring of 1982. Duran Duran reached number three upon its release and stayed in the charts for 118 weeks. The group's popularity increased through its cutting-edge music videos, especially the bizarre, racy clip for "Girls on Film." Although the BBC banned the Godley & Creme-directed video, the single became the group's first Top Ten hit, setting the stage for the fall release of its eponymous debut album. Immediately, Duran Duran became the leaders of the new romantic movement, and media sensations in the British music and mainstream press. "Planet Earth," the band's first single, quickly rose to number 12 upon its spring 1981 release. Following Wickett's departure in 1979, a pair of singers passed through the group before Simon LeBon, a former member of the punk band Dog Days and a drama student at Birmingham University, joined in early 1980.īy the end of 1980, Duran Duran had become popular within the burgeoning new romantic circuit in England and had secured a record contract with EMI. However, Duran Duran were still having trouble finding a vocalist. The group placed an ad in Melody Maker, which drew the attention of Andy Taylor, who became their guitarist. After recording a demo, John Taylor switched to bass and guitarist Alan Curtis joined the band, only to leave within a matter of months.

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Within a year, Duffy and Colley both left the group - Duffy would later form the Lilac Time - and were replaced by former TV Eye vocalist Andy Wickett and drummer Roger Taylor. Taking their name from a character in Roger Vadim's psychedelic sci-fi film Barbarella, the group began playing gigs in the Birmingham club Barbarella, supported by a drum machine. Inspired by David Bowie and Roxy Music, as well as post-punk and disco, schoolmates Nick Rhodes (keyboards) and John Taylor (guitar) formed Duran Duran in 1978 with their friends Simon Colley (bass, clarinet) and Stephen Duffy (vocals). Over the next decade, they collaborated with a number of prominent modern hitmakers, including Timbaland, Justin Timberlake, Mark Ronson, and Blur's Graham Coxon, who featured prominently on their 2021 album Future Past. The group forged an alliance with Chic's Nile Rodgers for 1986's funky Notorious, then refashioned themselves as mature balladeers in 1993 and landed one of their biggest hits with "Ordinary World." The original lineup from the New Romantic era reunited for 2004's Astronaut, a move that helped revive the band's profile. Unlike many of their new wave peers, Duran Duran managed to sustain a career that lasted for decades, withstanding a shifting lineup - the duo of keyboardist Nick Rhodes and vocalist Simon Le Bon were the only two members to stay with the group throughout the years - and changes in musical fashion. Between 19, the band were fixtures on the British and American charts, with "Is There Something I Should Know?," "Union of the Snake," "The Wild Boys" and the James Bond theme "A View to A Kill" reaching the Top Ten on both sides of the Atlantic. The group had the good fortune to deliver their debut album in 1981, the same year MTV began broadcasting, and their success was intertwined: Duran Duran gave the network clever, cinematic clips for "Rio" and "Hungry Like the Wolf," which MTV played ceaselessly, helping to turn the Birmingham, England-based band into global superstars.

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Duran Duran epitomized the sleek, fashionable side of new wave, specializing in danceable, synthesized pop delivered with visual flair - a talent crystallized in a series of groundbreaking music videos from the early 1980s.