#autuer

[irishgop]

Gotta love those short shorts on Vadim.

Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda in Saint-Tropez, French Riviera, August 1966.

[1-800-fuckyou]

the sp***ider*verse vulture article is so aauuffhfhfj im glad it exists but the road we continue to walk over and over is everyone in the industry knows how shitty it is to work on big brand/name productions from word of mouth info that gets spread by the people who worked on them. but then they can’t speak out about it because you won’t get hired again if you complain about poor leadership publicly. and then when the project is released and everyone loves it they go online praising the very leadership that was creating horrible work environments for the people who actually did the legwork. so it has to be revealed in an expose article months later by anonymous workers. and then suddenly every joe shmoe is an expert on a. how a production should be run and b. defending the leadership they think was essential to creating the product they love as a consumer. i can promise you that movie was not good because of them it was more likely in spite of them

[oblivionbladetd]

Anti-capitalist here; that’s exactly what I’m saying! To be honest it feels gross in a way, Lily constantly saying how each media nowadays are stagnate and samey, but is oblivious to why they like that in the first place! Is billionaires and companies.

Lily DOES LOVE kissing the feet of Disney! Is frankly is not hard too see why Lily refusing to contribute anything meaningful to the anti-capitalist movement when she doesn’t wanna loses her precious company! (Also side note, the company is hitting hot water for the banned transgender episode of Moon Girl. And Lily is quiet on that.)

Lily has said a great many things in regards to corporate overlords, though a key one that comes to mind is this bizarre assumption they are there to reign in the autuer... and that it's a good thing they do that?

I could go in depth, but instead I'll just post this

This isn't even the full list, but look at that! One Disney movie that isn't a sequel or remake! What super creepo autuer are they holding back??? This lineup is creatively bankrupt save for one blip of life.

Though to really stab a knife into the real meat of it... Team Silent, the devs behind the first 4 LEGENDARY Silent Hill games were mostly 4 separate teams under the same banner. Even the overlapping staff were doing different jobs each time. Why bother saying this? Because I'd place bets that Lily would ever know. For it's true in many places, truer now than it was in the yesteryear team silent still existed. It's not a banner, it's the people that prop it up, and with the big banners, the people that hold it up are ever changing.

Loyalty to any company is in itself a level of wilful ignorance because the Disney that made Aladdin and Hercules died quite the while ago. Refusing to give the mouse a firm bonk is just a strange stance. It might be wearing the old mouse's skin, but the same mouse that defined many a childhood it ain't.

I'll also say that despite having negative horses in the trans episode moon girl race, I can still say with my full chest that it's "withholding" is absolute horseshit. Cowards the lot of Disney's upper management. Ain't gotta be a community pillar to see some bullshit and call it some bullshit.

[callmearcturus]

I mean, how much of what happens with Ted at the end of season three is Jason reacting to his own life? I genuinely think that they were leaning towards Ted and Trent getting together and Ted realizing things about himself and then Olivia left Jason and he took it personal and that affected the work.

No sell.

You could just as easily call it executive meddling or a result of COVID, there is the same amount of evidence (i.e. circumstantial guesswork).

I'm a devotee of death of the author. Frankly, I don't really care what the intentions of the cast and crew were. And furthermore, the show is not an autuer work and assigning all the glory and blame to one person erases the contributions of hundreds of people.

Sorry but the "actually it's not that deep, the creator was going thru shit" line is one I find incredibly boring because it essentially stops the critical read of a work in its tracks.

[alphadogmp3]

is it really "lacking critical thinking skills" if you are critical of a piece of media that parodies a textually racist and anti-semitic, meta-textually transphobic and transmisogynist work of fiction, on the grounds that while it engages earnestly with the racism problem, it—so far—has failed to engage in any way with the anti-semitism, and while it engages with some of the transphobia, it—as of writing this post—hasn't addressed the transmisogyny problem at all, which, knowing that transmisogyny is the bread and butter of the said book series' autuer, might point out a problem with the said parody. all of the "if you don't like the premise don't watch the show" posts are so frustrating, because it's not that i particularly dislike the premise; it's the fact that the premise has been executed clumsily. i'm not saying any of this to insult anyone or anything. but by god, some people's insistence that anyone criticizing mismag ought to be lying about having watched it or ought to be dumb as a bag of bricks is in such bad faith. i personally love d20; i love aabria, i love brennan, i love the entire cast of mismag—i think they have great chemistry together. i don't think any of the cast & crew of d20 or dropout are consciously transmisogynists; however, i think that perhaps they—and half the people in this godforsaken debate—don't really know about transmisogyny as a separate thing from transphobia. if seeing (honestly mild) criticism of a thing you like makes you feel this personally hurt and angry i suggest you examine why that might be.

[gowns]

i'm still sort of shook by reading my old livejournal entries.

i think because it was my first experiment with "public writing," the voice is so performative and disjointed, so disturbingly not my own... like, of course it's not connected at all to who i am today (a person who has been through several changes, transformations, portals to hell and back, etc), but it's also not connected to the reality that i was living in at the time. it doesn't sound like "me," as i understand myself; it doesn't even sound like an "alternate me," or a "younger me," it's just... regurgitated jokes, layers of cheerful lies.

of course, i was not really living in reality; i had a rich fantasy life and navigated the world in a cloud.

--

honestly, i feel like i haven't even lived in reality until somewhat recently. like i just woke up from a very long dream and i'm suddenly living on earth in this body and i'm connected to it, and my place in the world. it's strange. i'm still getting used to it.

it feels better, though. reality. compared to "the comedian," "the actor," "the autuer," "the poet," etc, all the bullshit i invented in my head to protect myself over the years. i'm suddenly very grounded.

but who knows -- maybe i'll find my tumblr posts several years down the line, and still smack my head, saying "wow, i thought i had it all figured out at that point, didn't i? but of course there were still more layers of delusions to unpeel"

[autumn0689]

THE GIRLIES (me) NEED MORE TOM ZANE CONTENT!!! Where are the fanfics?? The thirst edits?? The insane ramblings about his character (okay I’ve seen some of that but still! There should be more!) I need everyone to know about my favorite slutty filmmaker/autuer/poet/diver! (I know this photo isn’t from AW2 but I love AWE Zane as well!!)

[superdeluxeaverage]

I thimk megalopolis was one of the most shitass movies ive ever seen but im glad i saw it in theatres and am gonna see it again with my sister thursday like the best way to describe it would be that it feels like a bad adapatation of a book that doesnt exist there was so much straight up stupid moments in it it felt like unreal spoilers if any1 even gives a shit

Theres this scene where adam drivers gets shot but his face heals with the power of the megalon and he has his face in wraps and when he takes his wraps off and reveals his healing face it plays THE most generic indian and tabla musical cue that in no way matches with the rest of the soundtrack and puts this fucking snapchat ass filter where theres like doubles of him behind him to his left and right infinitely going abd i was like is this fuckinh chowder or some shit. Ill never say the movie was good tho cause theres something i see no one talking abt atleast on letterboxd presumably cause they love deepthroating autuer dick so much even (or especially) when they kno the auteur in question is a creep but there was this weird subplot where there was this pop star with a like "virgin teen" image and they leaked a sex tape of her and the main character so the main character was arrested for being a pedophile but then it was immediately after revealed that the tape was faked (?) (They never say how they just say it was faked) and that the pop star was actually not from america abd was in her 20s. This whole subplot is obv coppola trying to exonerate all his sex offender best friends and its such a gross kneejerk response like why say the tape was fake but then also say oh shes a bad person dishonest liar too lol. Then when its showing news reports of it it cuts to her lile having changed her image to a like pop punk image and making more sexually suggestive music instead of conservative clean music like b4 so its supposed to be like she just moved onto the next image unfazed cause shes a liar its such a cringe subplot and it happens in the span of like 15 mins and is never mentioned again and very clearly is just supposed to be a rebuttal to accusations and scandals sooo fkn embarrassing especially given the fact hes been trying to get this movie made his whole life LOL the two (yes 2) other women in the movie are also treated super sexistly like the main characters love interest has no personality aside from always standing behind her mans artistic vision and passion and "completing" him then the aubrey plaza character is just supposed to be the sexy woman who sleeps with any1 for power like coppola def most sexist guy alive ever the fact he made that movie dedicated it to his wife at the end yup this man is going to hell. Probably the hardest movie to talk abt cause its not u kno deserving of praise the only frame of reference is camp rly like in that same ballpark not so bad its good but just a very wtf type of movie. Im also scared cause shia labeouf was in this doing a type of scary dennis hopper character (coppola even saying working with him reminded him of hopper) and obv this film flopped and is not gonna make any1 famous since even the acting was p bad from every1 or just v disconnected and unrelatable on a human level but watching this has me worried that labeouf is gonna thrive with piece of shit directors by using the dennis hopper/klaus kinski method of having ppl praise ur "energy" when its just that u only take roles where u play sadistic fucks cause ur a sadistic abusive fuck so ppl get convinced ur a great actor when ur not even acting.

[snailmailmp3]

i can tell that 95% of you don’t know what a filmbro is bc none of the posts about them involve being hardcore into autuer theory. amd most of them dont even mention christopher nolan

[marcosoropoet]

cracked mirror express

1.

evocative

provisional

ephemeral 

super eight mm

autuer  

backyard 

horror show

sibling spoof 

change 

of

dimensions

& iterations

zero blank

black & white 

advertisements

smiling

brightly

diamond teeth

aerial earth

street tableau

punch thru

silvery ice 

shattering metal

mirror glass

structure 

vivifies

razor

sharp

focus

in the street

loudly

over the phone 

sequential

retro replica 

insignia

transmissions 

spatial

disorientation 

verbal disfluency

the earth is far from us now:

glassy

in the spiral silver sky 

what was so far off 

is now very close

traffic cop waved

at a glass storefront 

flash of earth 

mottled sapphire

coalesced in

loud heavy

rush hour

traffic & rain

heard in the

background

freefalling static

of

radioing voice

thunder collides

with crystalline ice 

web

splintering mirror

slices thru fog

thrum frisson 

point zero x

sub quantum

microcosm

is deflecting

soft phased in

fog spillover

inky mimeograph 

radar 

of atmospheric nascent 

star emission

in that roped off area

where thought reversal        

refracts scratched movie      

iteration subtext

holographic meme fractal 

expanding 

in neo organic palette

its just us now talking

theres nothing here 

nods

besides no one else 

recording continues

sunlight world borderless unhid coherent

convenient unceasing

white light immerses us

retrieving info z gusts

quickly brush away soot

& ash

sky divers falling

in faux flames

astronauts 

silhouttes walk 

taut silent

tightrope

lunges down stretched

out plastic         

primed to accelerate 

steeply

at the precipice      

primordial grip of                   

ancient galaxies made        

their legs lighter & rubbery

...event horizon pulled &                                   stretched 

them out like         

putty

afterwards they had  

space coffee & a

laugh

in black matter edges

of extraterrestrial night

over blossoming

neon day glo haywire 

street festival

vibe heavy crowd

rotund soap shaped 

cubist women throwing

over sized

plastic dice at the wall

the sun sets in purple

& a gold falling away

of cracked blood cirrus spatter 

o first lights red bird you are a true beauty

dark

rose

tattoo

flung oblong eclipsing sideways to

running zebra leopard

& tiger slashing

deep burning crimson

the atmosphere is 

quietly my own

minus moons

stone opal fires prisms 

moonstone 

calligraphy

i can think clearly 

again the ancient 

burning blue opal

suspended 

in a galaxy of glass

exponential fractal tactile

slow sunshine spotlight 

nano collision

flashing auras of outer 

spatial slow motion 

frozen tunnel monolithic

sideways moon stare

neon green slush

rushing black clouds

copper tea fog sepia 

burnt out time fabric

neighborhood always seems 

heavy with clouds & old houses

frost fractured thunder

strikes the luminous ice

jagged glass spray                

erupts fathomless

the first tree was hard to 

yank out 

upward cranking claw

let loose heavy tree roots viscerally tingling in mid air

2.

hazy single yellow 

lightbulb smile

goes on & off 

from across the 

sliding street 

planet neon sign

irradiating in a 

vacillating shell of 

unfolding black matter 

crystal grid specks

meta impact

skirmish

collision

flashing

space

slow

out motion

of

sideways moons

glow in an aura

more photographs                phosphorescent behind the unoccupied train yards

in the dark blue 

of gaussian night 

aroma bitter atmosphere 

burnt out off the ground 

off the sky superimposed 

the singular rainfall 

pattering when i first woke 

scattering leaves clear unstill

& lift my head up off the mossy ground to signal a single frame of pristine

black & white cinéma vérité that transfixed

a subculture of ultimate public freakout compilations

3.

moonlight sonata is

playing from

the painters window 

outside the 

harsh blare & traffic is iron & crystal loud horn ruse...

[lwcina]

reject autuer theory. embrace authorship

[irishgop]

James Stewart and Kim Novak in a publicity photo for Vertigo (1958) (uncredited Pinterest photo).

[videostak]

Its weird to me eno is seen as a more serious autuer type artist than the heads cause i love eno but i think the heads were better at just reaching a artistic compromise in approiated rhythms n sounds etc. Like eno to me has always felt like some1 whos popularized or classified pre existing ideas than invent them outright. Im saying this btw too as some1 who like listens to more eno than i do talking heads btw. Like i think eno has trouble grasping where the experiment stops and the pop starts and u kno never was a big bug famous act of the 70s cause of it whike heads happily embraces both and just as a group are so strong that they arent one of the groups that went unappreciated during their heyday .

[darkfalcon-z]

this is true but also:

a meaningful, not instrumental relationship between JC and the disciples he's recruited is never established in the story (I don't even remember him having any of interaction with them on page prior to WWX's demise, only after)

likewise no meaningful relation between JC and mundane people in the Yunmeng area is never established. In fact common people fear him and expect mistreatment of him.

on the contrary it is established JC does not value or even understand YMJ ideas - he has no respect or appreciation for sect traditions, which leads to the fact that

JC overhauled physical infrastructure of Lotus Pier to the point of near unrecognizably, but he did the same to the leadership style and basically the culture of his sect - and he got to that because he's the sole autuer who curates what that culture is, which is why we should consider that

a person among other things is a repository of living cultural knowledge, culture is something that can only exist authentically if it's shared, considering that Chines culture is patrilineal in general, the only two remaining people who could stay in theory on site were JC and WWX (if JYL were to stay she would either be willing not to marry or to find someone willing to marry in). Which means either of them was basically irreplaceable in the project of maintaining YMJ's culture - the damage of JC essentially banning WWX and later lead to his death was irreparable

lastly JC is not married and he has no children (not even adopted ones). He does not in fact fulfil his duty to his ancestors

to sum up and idea that JC tried to fulfil his duty or responsibility to the sect/clan is empty, because JC is the one controlling what that sect/clan is and that is abstraction devoid of meaning - it's not people and it's not culture/tradition. It's not even kinship lineage. The idea of YMJ is just a hollow figure, which severs to buttress whatever JC's personal agenda is.

i find it funny that some jc stans will laud jiang cheng’s political savvy and also say how jc always treated wwx like a brother (to then make wwx’s ‘promise-breaking’ seem like such a *massive* betrayal) and then go around and say that of course jiang cheng could not have helped wei wuxian because “he had to look after his clan!” while referring to the newly recruited disciples, forgetting entirely that if jc did consider wwx a brother, wwx and jiang yanli would be his ONLY remaining family and as such, if he were to prevent another event like lotus pier, it would include safeguarding wei wuxian, his “brother”, first and foremost! they also forget that “political savvy” and jiang cheng do not have any meaningful connection because it was precisely his lack of political acuity and tendency to let his emotions dictate his choices that allowed jin guangshan and the rest to manipulate him into withdrawing his support from wei wuxian.

i just don’t get some of the fandom’s vehement defence of characters in mdzs who had immense power (purely by nepotism and name-brand recognition basically) and the efforts to go around and around in talking points to absolve them of their guilt and wrongdoings, even if it is simply caused by wilful ignorance. for jiang cheng, ignorance can never be claimed and his actions are damningly wrong. he IS a fucking clown and in a striking moment of growth, he himself acknowledges this. there was no excuse that would justify him persecuting and aiding in the genocide of the wens and it is undeniable that he abandoned wei wuxian before wei wuxian ever suggested separating from the jiang clan.

[callmearcturus]

Oh yeah totally like the way I heard it was for MI3 and due to the MANY starts and restarts of the production (like, you'd think MI3 was made by Bioware it had so many restarts) that TC and Wagner DID initially have people on contract to return, but after a while it was kind of unfair to string them along when they didn't even have a script, and that lead to the New Team in MI3.

I also beeeeelieve that McQ wanted to bring back Maggie Q and others for short appearances in.... RN? FO? one or the other, but due to the way this fucking batshit auteur duo make movies, it was again a matter of

Iirc McQ said it was like "you don't want to film a bunch of stuff with people you work with and respect only for their parts to be cut much much later, it's just not cool" and that's one reason why he sticks to a core team

Except Sean Harris bc that shit was HILARIOUS, I told this story in the Fallout commentary Punct and I did, but Alec Baldwin returned on the condition that he got to die saving Ethan and the team, we which TC and McQ were like "sure"

Fucking Sean "make sure you kill me off in RN" Harris found out, called McQ, and was like "you MOTHERFUCKER"

I love it. Hilarious. Thinking of how McQ and TC make movies really recontextualizes the fraught concept of autuer theory and gives me agida to think about BUT

It's also v entertaining.

[puiton]

all the a24 rising autuer film directors need to make an Arthurian movie then we can finally decide who is the best one