#cinephile patrick zweig

[callahanisms]

pretentious(?) cinephile patrick zweig.

call it a college au i guess

technically, he's a business student. he's just minoring in cinema studies, which was your major. you always hated the business school kids that came into your literature class (because film is literature) and thought it would be easy. and then they'd be surprised that they were failing because they didn't do the readings and when they participated, it was with shallow commentary. you don't even want to recount how many racist, misogynistic, queerphobic things were said in the class (in general too).

which is why patrick zweig pisses you off.

patrick zweig actually loves film. and unlike the other business boys, he understands that wolf of wall street is a cautionary tale.

"i wouldn't want to end up like him." he said. "doesn't mean i can't enjoy the movie."

patrick zweig actually has good taste in film. okay, maybe not "good" taste because "good" is always subjective. he's a bit of a film snob. you can't believe that he likes Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. you really hated the movie, mostly because it felt like an eternity. that might have also been because you were high watching it. sometimes weed has that effect.

at first glance, he seems like the kind of guy to dismiss foreign films because of subtitles. except you learned that he regularly consumes—and seeks out—foreign cinema. he grew up on foreign cinema.

"my dad's big into french films. that's how i started watching them." he explained to your french cinema professor.

you swear he's in every cinema studies class possible. and he recognizes you too.

"excited for this semester (y/n)? i'm looking forward to the syllabus."

now, patrick being patrick, he mostly skims the readings. rarely does he closely read. he finds himself getting distracted easily. and it's not really helpful with the multiple times you've worked with him whether it's as discussion leader or doing a group project.

there's the rare occasion you've seen patrick zweig in business class. and to say the least, he looks miserable. sometimes, he's so bored that he's doing the readings for your class.

"why don't you switch majors?" "because business school is just to appease my parents."

you don't 100% believe his answer. or maybe he's right in thinking that it will appease his parents. you're not all too knowing about his home life. you guys just have class together. until...

"wanna smoke?"

a joint before your screening. you guys were watching Spike Lee's School Daze for the race and american film class. he's never seen it. you have. maybe the colors will pop even more if you took a hit.

"sure."

so you guys find the smoke corner and light the joint. you inhale and make small talk. patrick zweig isn't the asshole he seems to be. he carries himself with such douchebaggery that it seems to be a defense mechanism. and you learn during that smoking session that he isn't really pretentious. he's just really passionate.

"i hate Prometheus." he says. "what? how can you hate Prometheus? Prometheus is so good! it's like right up your alley!" you cough as you inhale. "listen, i may be a film snob. and sometimes i can be an asshole about it. but ridley scott is a bigger asshole than me." patrick takes the joint to inhale. when he blows, the smoke sort of billows around him. it frames his frankly gorgeous face. "lean into the haunted house of the Alien franchise. don't try to turn it into something deeper when it already had such interesting themes."

School Daze was a watch. patrick had a lot of thoughts, but he seemed to barely express them in class. he saved it for his letterboxd review.

"you have letterboxd?" "duh." he glances at you as you guys are walking to the bus stop. "what's your username?" "ppzweig." "you can't be serious. that's so immature of you!" but also so on brand for patrick zweig. "i made the account a long time ago okay! i'll follow you back if you follow me."

so you do follow him.

you learn quickly that patrick reviews for nearly every movie he watches. the exception are rewatches (if there isn't anything left to say) and films that just didn't really interest him or were terrible. oh and you see through his reviews that he really hates tarantino. actually very surprising! patrick always had something to say though. you loved terrorizing him when he walked into class.

"hey so why did you rate Alien: Resurrection four stars?" "what happened to hello? how are you?"

side note: i did make a top 10 list of films that i think patrick would have. idk how character accurate this is but he strikes me as such:

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)

Trainspotting (1996)

Night of the Hunter (1955)

Citizen Kane (1941)

Amélie (2001)

A Clockwork Orange (1972)

Boogie Nights (1997)

Taxi Driver (1976)

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

Lady Snowblood (1973)

[jakegyllenbaalz]

mike faist as art donaldson (challengers 2024)

[diyasgarden]

diya. 20. she/her. mdni.

full-time moodboard maker and occasional writer. consumer of novels, poetry, and short stories. fruit enthusiast. chronic daydreamer and diagnosed with wanderlust. wannabe artist. struggling cinephile. often dancing in her room or spotted with her headphones. the lover of patrick zweig and a desi lucy gray baird

rules / my writing / my moodboards.

[callahanisms]

cinephile bf patrick zweig would take you to go see robert eggers' nosferatu on opening night :(

that man has been waiting for this. he definitely is doing his little auteur study on robert eggers dkjfngdjf

[callahanisms]

watched boogie nights for the first time finally because of ur fic…. i was not expecting that but it was SO GOOD!!!

and i pictured reader and patrick dressing up as dirk and rollergirl for halloween and reader posting it with the caption ‘sorry babe the rollerskates stay on during sex’

omg considered yourself influenced kscjndksf

i could go on forever about my love for boogie nights. didn't understand it much when i first saw it at like 14 but i appreciate it every year i grow older. ANYWAYS that's besides the point!

the rollerskates are absolutely the center of the post. i def think reader and pat tried sex with the rollerskates on and it did not end well (perhaps a rolled and very sore ankle). but it's such a them couples costume. everyone's asking who they are and they're like "we're dirk diggler and rollergirl. duh!"

anyways there's an alternate timeline where leo dicaprio played dirk diggler instead of jack from titanic. imagine that performance!

[callahanisms]

cinephile patrick would go to the new york film festival and steal the entirety of the criterion closet

[callahanisms]

masterlist

anatomy of a fall

vincent renzi

tell me (hcs | gn! reader)

lovin' me (hcs | gn! reader)

sandra voyter

good luck babe (wip)

baldur's gate 3

cast

would you love me if i was a worm? (gn! reader)

astarion

dinner time (fic | gn! reader)

gale dekarios

polymorphing gone wrong (fic | gn! reader)

challengers

duncan-zweig-donaldson polycule

capturing your likeness (hcs | gn! reader)

tashi duncan

burnt out passions (hcs | gn! reader)

ghostface au thoughts (blurb)

jealousy jealousy (fic | chubby fem! reader | request)

for me...formidable (hcs | fem! reader)

impressions (fic | bipoc fem! reader | ghostface au)

part 01

part 02

art donaldson

body talk (hcs | gn! reader)

ghostface au thoughts (blurb)

patrick zweig

b tier (hcs | gn! reader)

cinephile patrick (blurb | gn! reader | college au)

cinephile patrick & boogie nights (blurb | gn! reader | college au)

dragon age

cast

the inquisitor's arm is missing (gn! reader)

cullen rutherford

royal au (hcs | gn! reader)

house of the dragon

full masterlist

spiderverse

spider-man 2099 / miguel o'hara

an experiment (hcs | gn! reader)

pheromones (hcs | gn! reader | nsfw)

a fair trade (fic | gn! reader)

red strings (fic | gn! reader | nsfw)

pink ensembles (fic | gn! reader)

teleporting (hcs | gn! reader | request)

one offs

your desire - steven grant (hcs | gn! reader)

favorite person - marcus acacius (fic | gn! reader | nsfw)

relationship - robin buckley (hcs | non-man! reader)

visitation of the bard - eddie munson (fic | gn! reader)

part 1

part 2

relationship - eddie munson (hcs | gn! reader)

kidnapped - kamisato ayato & thoma (hcs | gn! reader | request)

all you need is more radaway - cooper howard (hcs | gn! reader)

[diyasgarden]

A Clockwork Orange is a slight red flag BUTT Amélie made up for it <3

pretentious(?) cinephile patrick zweig.

call it a college au i guess

technically, he's a business student. he's just minoring in cinema studies, which was your major. you always hated the business school kids that came into your literature class (because film is literature) and thought it would be easy. and then they'd be surprised that they were failing because they didn't do the readings and when they participated, it was with shallow commentary. you don't even want to recount how many racist, misogynistic, queerphobic things were said in the class (in general too).

which is why patrick zweig pisses you off.

patrick zweig actually loves film. and unlike the other business boys, he understands that wolf of wall street is a cautionary tale.

"i wouldn't want to end up like him." he said. "doesn't mean i can't enjoy the movie."

patrick zweig actually has good taste in film. okay, maybe not "good" taste because "good" is always subjective. he's a bit of a film snob. you can't believe that he likes Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. you really hated the movie, mostly because it felt like an eternity. that might have also been because you were high watching it. sometimes weed has that effect.

at first glance, he seems like the kind of guy to dismiss foreign films because of subtitles. except you learned that he regularly consumes—and seeks out—foreign cinema. he grew up on foreign cinema.

"my dad's big into french films. that's how i started watching them." he explained to your french cinema professor.

you swear he's in every cinema studies class possible. and he recognizes you too.

"excited for this semester (y/n)? i'm looking forward to the syllabus."

now, patrick being patrick, he mostly skims the readings. rarely does he closely read. he finds himself getting distracted easily. and it's not really helpful with the multiple times you've worked with him whether it's as discussion leader or doing a group project.

there's the rare occasion you've seen patrick zweig in business class. and to say the least, he looks miserable. sometimes, he's so bored that he's doing the readings for your class.

"why don't you switch majors?" "because business school is just to appease my parents."

you don't 100% believe his answer. or maybe he's right in thinking that it will appease his parents. you're not all too knowing about his home life. you guys just have class together. until...

"wanna smoke?"

a joint before your screening. you guys were watching Spike Lee's School Daze for the race and american film class. he's never seen it. you have. maybe the colors will pop even more if you took a hit.

"sure."

so you guys find the smoke corner and light the joint. you inhale and make small talk. patrick zweig isn't the asshole he seems to be. he carries himself with such douchebaggery that it seems to be a defense mechanism. and you learn during that smoking session that he isn't really pretentious. he's just really passionate.

"i hate Prometheus." he says. "what? how can you hate Prometheus? Prometheus is so good! it's like right up your alley!" you cough as you inhale. "listen, i may be a film snob. and sometimes i can be an asshole about it. but ridley scott is a bigger asshole than me." patrick takes the joint to inhale. when he blows, the smoke sort of billows around him. it frames his frankly gorgeous face. "lean into the haunted house of the Alien franchise. don't try to turn it into something deeper when it already had such interesting themes."

School Daze was a watch. patrick had a lot of thoughts, but he seemed to barely express them in class. he saved it for his letterboxd review.

"you have letterboxd?" "duh." he glances at you as you guys are walking to the bus stop. "what's your username?" "ppzweig." "you can't be serious. that's so immature of you!" but also so on brand for patrick zweig. "i made the account a long time ago okay! i'll follow you back if you follow me."

so you do follow him.

you learn quickly that patrick reviews for nearly every movie he watches. the exception are rewatches (if there isn't anything left to say) and films that just didn't really interest him or were terrible. oh and you see through his reviews that he really hates tarantino. actually very surprising! patrick always had something to say though. you loved terrorizing him when he walked into class.

"hey so why did you rate Alien: Resurrection four stars?" "what happened to hello? how are you?"

side note: i did make a top 10 list of films that i think patrick would have. idk how character accurate this is but he strikes me as such:

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)

Trainspotting (1996)

Night of the Hunter (1955)

Citizen Kane (1941)

Amélie (2001)

A Clockwork Orange (1972)

Boogie Nights (1997)

Taxi Driver (1976)

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

Lady Snowblood (1973)