#child movie stars

[mishalogic]

What were you kids thinking?

during your early days of movie making? ... Launa Patten and Bobby Driscoll

[wlwanakin]

i think possibly my favorite anakinism and one i think about a rather unhealthy amount is his body language and how he almost always looks viscerally uncomfortable and vaguely like a child who is scared of getting slapped. even when he’s being confrontational he looks sooo defensive like wow girl you have never fully processed anything that’s happened to you and you will carry the weight of it forever

[marisatomay]

It's so funny that everyone immediately called Eddie gay for doing the Risky Business dance and he is but he also just beat for beat recreated what Tom Cruise did in Risky Business and. well.

[in-the-stacks]

An interview with Halley Sutton, author of The Hurricane Blonde, the September MyLibrarian book club pick.

http://www.inthestacks.tv/2023/09/author-chat-the-hurricane-blonde

[fayegonnaslay]

Jane Fonda photographed by Milton H. Greene in Malibu for Marie Claire, 1965.

[mostly-natm]

Upgrades.

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[starch1ldz]

Me seeing Maxley on my fyp: oh they feel familiar.... Hmm

HMMM

OH

Oh no..

[cata613]

Bones seeing his "son" gives me so much joy😍

[sciderman]

Yk, I hate that adaptations keep making Peter a high schooler, and not just because it means he never evolves, but because the adaptations now also include wider Marvel, whitch usually (thanks to the MCU) is at the modern day stage with legacy characters and new age teen heroes, meaning that Peter is taking up Miles' spot and you can really tell when they put him next to someone like Kamala Khan or Sam Alexander who are Miles' pals. Tho Peter taking Miles' stuff is just a modern issue overall, just look at MCU whitch just stole and re-skinned Miles' personality, characters, story-beats, even the costume to an extent and then made it worse.

agree 👏

[princess-ibri]

King Magnifico Backstory Part 2

(Sorry it took so long. The holiday rush caught up with me, and it hasn't ended yet, so this is probably gonna be a three parter, actually. But here's the link to Part 1 and some other meta that connects to the backstory!)

The young man and his new bride sailed through time and space, through storms and starlight, out into the sea of a new world

Their ship crashed upon the shores of an island, on which stood the remains of a great castle and above which shown a brilliant star, shining as if it were a good omen that here they could build a new home for themselves

And such a home they built. The magic of the young man seemed to swell even greater beneath the light of the star--(the star he did not know was the home of his own fairy godmother)-- and as he and Amaya built their new home, others began to flock to them, as if also drawn there by the star.

The young couple welcomed them, and the young man used his magic to aid them in their dreams in exchange for their help in creating a new kingdom, where he hoped to be able to use his powers to bless those worthy of it--for he still felt the swell of love and happiness and wonder that came from helping to grant the wishes of others, so powerful it felt almost tangible at times.

They called the island Rosas, after the favorite flower of Amaya, and took the rose and the shining star above them as their symbols. Indeed, the star was already engraven on many parts of the now refurbished castle.

And soon enough, with the help of their new friends and subjects and the magic that flowed around them, a beautiful kingdom rose up, with Amaya as Queen, and the young man the people began to call “Magnifico” as King.

As the years passed, King Magnifico granted many wishes, and Rosas grew in prestige and beauty, people from the farthest flung places in the world began to flock to it, seeking its joy and bounty, and the chance to have their wishes granted.

Eventually the kingdom's population grew so great and so quickly that Magnifico--who had learned his lesson on granting wishes indiscriminately--decreed that only those who had lived in Rosas for a year and a day would have their wishes granted, and only then their greatest wish--so as to have time to prove their character and loyalty. Eventually this was raised to three years, then five, and finally all those who were born in Rosas and reached 18 were to have their wish granted, once per month at a grand ceremony.

To help aid and protect his new home, Magnifico studied magics both great and small, dark and light. He had books brought to him from all the lands that came to Rosas, and--though he did not know it at first-- the natural magic that drifted down from Rosas's guardian wishing star helped to aid him in becoming one of the greatest sorcerers in this new world, where magic was not as bountiful as the one he had been born in. One so great he managed to mostly stave off even old age for himself and his beloved queen, so as to keep their kingdom stable and secure

(And perhaps there was something of vanity within this. Having been starved of true affection for so long, Magnifico had became rather susceptible to flattery, and took perhaps more pride in his appearance then was healthy).

But for all his powers, and all his ability to grant the wishes of others, Magnifico found over the years that he was unable to grant the greatest wish shared between him and Amaya--to have a child of their own.

At last, one night, in desperation, remembering the vague story he had heard of his own birth, he wished upon the star above them.

And the star answered.

They named the child Maroula, “Wished for Child, or, Star of the Sea”, as she was born with the mark of a star on her forehead

The couple adored their daughter, as did the whole kingdom. Neither Rosas nor its rulers ever knew greater happiness than in caring for the young princess and watching her grow.

One day though, as young Maroula was playing in the rose garden of the palace, she heard a soft voice calling to her, though she could not see from where.

“Maroula, Maroula, wished-for-child of a wished-for-child. Great will be your power, but great too will be the trials that come to you from it. Would you face them when you are young, or old?”

And the little princess thought, “Far better to get anything bad over with sooner than later. Then, once it's done,I can live happily ever after without worrying about it”

So she answered “When I'm young”

"So be it" said the voice, and faded away...

And yet the years went by without any sign of these promised trials, until Maroula had grown into a beautiful young woman.

The princess has always been close with her father, and over the years he had taught her magic as well, and eventually she became his official apprentice, as well as his heir

Maroula studied hard, and became wonderfully proficient in all manner of spells and sorcery, helping her parents to bless their kingdom and aid in its prosperity

All seemed well, until the eve of the Princess's 18th birthday…

Part 3

[into-ition]

Tw SA/Grooming/child abuse

Honestly the Anakin Skywalker saga is a warning tale about the dangers of fame and celebrity for young people who get chosen by it, and probably more deeply a major siren sound for grooming young stars.

Anakin’s force power (aka talent/looks/aura/etc) is noticed at an extremely early age. The boy is severed from his family (qui-gonn and Shmi, I know that’s a reach) by an agent/stooge (Darth maul) working for the industry at large (obviously Palpatine/the empire)

Once that’s done, the industry allows for a milk and honey period wherein they make the young person feel safe, loved, and important, but it’s all a very thin mirage hiding a more sinister plot. And scarily, both the “good” and “bad” sides all work unknowingly in league with each other (Jedi/government/Sith). Anakin gets his milk and honey phase through the Jedi’s reluctant acceptance of him into their order, Obi Wan’s brother/father-like role (which he didn’t want initially), a hollow, possibly marionetted but very passionate relationship (Padme), and the spoils of his own talent (Anakin becomes a war hero during the Clone Wars, reinforcing the chosen one narrative). Child celebs get fame drunk, child Anakin got more and more drunk on the idea that he was the chosen one—fed to him by everyone who knew him.

Once this has all taken hold, this is when the more sinister hands step in and fully isolate young celebs from anyone that has their best interest at heart. The industry (Palpatine) drives division between the child and their family/friend support system to make the child most vulnerable to their own plans (manipulating Anakin into believing the Jedi’s corruption was deeper than it was, forcing a separation from Obi-Wan by driving the Padme relationship??, continuing to glow up Anakin’s overinflated sense of self, finding ways to convey betrayal by Anakin’s close friends, driving doubt into Anakin’s mind about his own values separate from the industry’s)

Finally, when all of this is complete, the claws go in. The child is disconnected from any outside support system or outside voice of reason and care, and they are left only with the weaseled words of evil men in disgusting power, ready to use them for their own bidding. This happens for Anakin when he finally defeats Dooku and Palpatine convinces him to whack the Count. This is the point of no return, the moment that Palpatine knows he can go back to whenever Anakin expresses a future doubt. He has now made Anakin complicit in the larger evil of his empire, transformed him into that empire’s most powerful agent, and totally robbed him of his ability to think or act on his own as well as any shred of self-reliance he once had.

From there, it’s a nasty spiral that leaves a young, very exploited victim in the center of millions of others.

Anyway this went longer than I was planning

[wlwanakin]

star wars fandom is awesome because you can say something like “a militarized religious institution having child soldiers is bad” and you’ll actually have people try to be like “UM ACTUALLY”

[katara-stan-club]

saw some people on twitter describe Osha and Qimir as a black female lead seen as desirable while the romantic lead is an Asian man seen as incredibly attractive, and I went "hey I've seen this before"

[weregonnabecoolbeans]

I keep watching that shot of torbin spinning his lightsaber because it just makes me so happy.

Its just it reminds me so much of anakin and obi wan during the clone wars

I missed that type of lightsaber choreo

[brodasgay]

need alpha dave to be a washed up movie star but in the bojack horseman kind of way. he can’t deal with anything without abusing substances and ruining relationships left and right. alpha dave starting his career so young and getting torn up as he gets older by his demons and spiraling until he’s corrupting everything he touches (yes this includes dirk, and if you’re feeling sad just throw alpha rose in there too)