#cmbyn talk

[alittlefrenchtree]

So glad to see people are still passioned about CMBYN 😇 ... Did you read the book before the movie came out and if yes, did this effect your experience about watching the movie? And which parts/aspects of the book do you think was missing in the movie ? 💙💛

Dear Anon, you have no idea how happy your message makes me. You're welcome in my inbox at anytime, with any cmbyn thought or any question 💙💛

I've watched the movie first, in the most random decision you can think of. I barely knew what it was about walking into the screening room. I've started the book around a week later (I think I wanted to see the movie a second time before starting, but i don't remember why exactly) and finished it 48 hours later.

Seeing the movie first did affect my experience with the book actually. The main way of it is how I felt about Elio. I think if I had started with the book, I would have needed a bit more time to start loving this boy. I don't think it's because book!Elio is less lovable than movie!Elio but because as a reader, you're way deeper inside Elio's head and the intimacy of it. I find it quite uncomfortable as a first introduction to a character. But thanks to Timmy's work, I already knew him.

About the parts of the book I might have missed in the movie-- there are some, but in the narration of the movie, they wouldn't have made sense, so I don't miss them that much.

The movie is very much anchored in the present of 1983. Unlike the book, the narrator isn't a 20-years-later-Elio talking to the audience. So all the last parts of the book aren't missing as much as they would have in another type of narration.

For a while, I was a bit angry because all the lines where Oliver speaks his feelings for Elio during their summer weren't in the movie. But again, with the narration, it makes sense. 1983!Elio hasn't really understood any of Oliver's declarations in the present of the movie so him not hearing them for real makes sense. The older narrator in the book, because he had 20 years to think about his lover's words, can understand what they meant and what Oliver meant bacj then so the reader is allowed to read them. In the movie, it's more subtle. You can see things on Oliver's face with Armie's acting but Elio doesn't really catch them.

What I can say is, I liked their time in Rome better than their time in Bergamo. The movie version of this part was really short and less deep or meaningful than it was the book. And I miss the ocean in the global scenery and I miss it even more in the "days wasted" scene.

I hope this answers your ask. Thanks again for sending it 💜

[kafka-ohdear]

i feel like. the gesture of giving someone you deeply love and care for an object that is important to you like your lucky charm when they're away somewhere you can't reach out to, is like giving them a small part of you that they can carry with them on their journey, to know that you care about them, and you want them to always be safe.

[liljafish]

when people say the peach scene is gross but they don't realize it represents his sexual fluidity. the peach resembles his bisexuality- he's experimenting with his desires. after he gets the job done and oliver walks into the room, he cries because he feels that his attraction to men was abnormal- he asks oliver if he's sick for what he did and he responds saying "i wish everyone were as sick as you"- and he eats the peach to try and show elio that it isn't abnormal, and that he isn't repulsed by him. and after that elio realizes that his yearning is much more than he assumed, yet their time together is shortening

[liquidisedfrogs]

me at any minor inconvenience:

*turns on CMBYN*

[transmoriarty]

propose a question to the mormor hivemind. who r the main people u picture when u think of moran

[scatter-the-stars]

I feel like Robbie Taylor Hunt, the intimacy coordinator on the film, took a jab at CMBYN here and he’s not wrong.

[weclassybouquetfun]

GQ has a nice profile on Barry Keoghan

where he talks meeting Daniel Day-Lewis, his son, dream projects and his friendship with Jacob Elordi which offers this tidbit about an obvious cut scene.

That's like when I went to a Q&A with the artisans of SALTBURN and the editor says they shot a scene where Oliver does answer the question of whether he was in love with Felix, but they decided to just leave ambiguous (it's not ambiguous to me...) but I'm glad they left it out because then what would everyone on Reddit talk about because every 9th post is asking that question.

I mean it makes sense that they would shoot at least one kiss. Even cinematographer notes Linus Sandgren says of Oliver and Felix's dynamic.

Creasing that GQ went as far back as MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO for that comparison as if the CALL ME BY YOUR NAME press push wasn't that times 100. Call me when Barry records Jacob urinating next to him in the urinal like Timothee Chalamet did Armie Hammer.

The SAG Awards nominations will be announced tomorrow at 7am (PST). Hopefully, Barry will get a nomination and have the chance to meet more of his heroes like he did at the Golden Globes.

Two Jokers

-Jacob Elordi's look for Paul Schrader's OH CANADA starring Richard Gere,

Uma Thurman and Michael Imperioli. The film centres around "Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam, shares all his secrets to de-mythologize his mythologized life."

Elordi will also be seen (who knows when) in HE WENT THAT WAY with Zachary Quinto.

What is is about? Based on a true story, HE WENT THAT WAY is, "...a wicked spin on the buddy road trip pic, the film is set in 1964 and follows 19-year-old serial killer Bobby (Elordi) as he is picked up by a celebrity animal handler, Jim (Quinto), on a desolate stretch of Route 66, with priceless cargo in tow: his chimpanzee, Spanky, an American TV darling. As stress between them rises and their fiery personalities combust, the road only becomes more treacherous the farther they go.

[praetorpercy]

so i’m reading cmbyn and....... what the fuck guys

[aryomengrande]

so i just finished saltburn (2023)…it’s like joe goldberg but he’s in parasite (2019) lmao i’ve only watched barry keoghan in the one other movie—the killing of a sacred deer (2017); he kinda plays the same weird/outcast character and he does it so well. as always, a24 never fails to make my stomach churn ( ꩜ ᯅ ꩜;) ꩜���｡๋࣭ ⭑

[blackgumball]

i enjoy timothee chalamet the hate people bring up whenever i casually mention that i think he’s talented is so random and unnecessary

[rayssion]

Currently watching CMBYN, 40 minutes in and I'm really scared....

[asukiess]

when cmbyn said "no one my age had ever wanted to be both man and woman--with men and women" I really felt that

[apricusapollo]

last line game!!

(thanks for the tag @star4daisy <33)

The moment he’s close enough, Din holds a piece of folded paper out for Luke to take, which he does almost instantly, and then he looks at the flower crown on Luke’s head.

“Pretty.” He whispers softly and without saying anything else, he starts walking towards Padme and Anakin in the garden.

Luke takes a shuddering breath in and carefully opens the paper.

I’ll see you at midnight.

(feel free to do this if you want)

[just-slightly-chayotic]

i keep seeing discount timothée chalamets and discount tom hollands but when will i ever see a discount jeff satur???

[altereddime]

‘ because it was him

and because it was me. ‘

[theophagie-remade]

The rise of ~anti shipping~ as a phenomenon in recent years is largely attributed to idiotic Voltron: Legendary Defender shipping wars, which, true, but I feel that not enough people give credit to other crazy discourses™ that were happening around that same time, such as the alleged predatoriness of the two (2) years age difference between Yuri and Otabek from Yuri on Ice, or how allegedly awful it was that Killing Stalking ("bad representation", "romanticisation of abuse", etc etc etc insert any other buzzword that you like) was gaining popularity just as Yuri on Ice was ending