#critical film studies

[jolteonmchale]

[unofficial-trader-joes]

[jeffwingxr]

i really like that i can communicate my feelings with a niche group of people by describing how i feel using a tv character/episode.

like if i admit to you all that i'm relating pretty hard to jeff winger's outburst/confession during his "My Dinner With Andre" moment with abed right now, some of you guys will understand what I mean and I feel like that's something really special.

[austinslounge]

We don't talk about this interview nearly enough in the Austin fandom 😅

LOL he must have really liked her name 😂 I see you Austin lol

Now I'm so curious to know what he said to her at the end to make her have cougar tendencies -- 👀

Full Interview:

Looks like he really left an impression on her! (The comments section! lmao)

Source: The Curvy Film Critic | TikTok

[dzvinkamirrorball]

such an insane thing to say

"falling for my best friend..."

[atlasascending]

So I just finished young royals and Oof, what a show. If you haven’t seen it yet watch it because it’s great BUT ALSO can I please just take a minute to say I love how much all the characters just hug? There’s so many hugs? I love it. Of course it’s Wille and Simon the most, but I adore how much a normal gesture of intimacy it is for them all. It’s so sweet to see.

I actually also think this show kind of perfectly strikes the balance of Teenager™️ wherein you can’t focus for the following two scenes after kissing someone you like (shout out to that one post) but you can also do drugs and drink and fuck around and somehow these things are not mutually exclusive. Just honestly 10/10

AND the writers and director(s) give the characters so much SPACE. It is so unbelievably refreshing to not be rushing from scene to scene all the time like most American media does (and sadly UK media is heading the same way). Truly reflect for a moment and consider when was the last time you watched something that had so much silence in it, so many pauses, so much room to breathe? And by god do you need it, because all the characters are such forces coupled with the intensity of the plot that you’d be buggered if the characters (read: actors) were barrelling on a mile a minute too

I think it’s a really well written, INCREDIBLY well shot show and that more people should watch it

[devilsskettle]

i think some of the popularity that meta horror has garnered is a little bit disingenuous tbqh even though i do like some of the movies that have come out of the subgenre, people don’t realize that the foundation of the slasher genre was established in the 60s/70s and a lot of the 80s movies that have become so classic were already riffing off of the tropes established by those movies before full fledged meta took off. the idea to make friday the 13th was sparked by the commercial success of halloween. the original script for slumber party massacre was a parody of the genre and the movie retains much of that humor which is referential to past slashers by nature. + it intentionally uses typical slasher tropes around gender and sexuality to bring forward the concerns of teenage girls. is that not something that meta horror is frequently touted as doing? child’s play is like a slasher, “except —” which is what a lot of meta horror comedies do now (“slasher except it’s a possessed doll” is not that far off from “slasher except it’s freaky friday” and whatnot). this isn’t to say that scream isn’t foundational to what the slasher genre evolved into or that contemporary meta slashers aren’t doing something interesting but i also think they tend to lean towards cynicism towards the movies they’re deriving their themes from + they’re not even as different as they think they are from “classic” 80s movies that already are borrowing from classic slashers which in turn borrowed from even older horror (for example, in halloween, laurie is watching the thing from another world from the 50s which was adapted into the now classic john carpenter’s the thing in the 80s). and of course many of these older horror movies were adapted from literature which also inspired more literature. like the shelley/byron/polidori scary story writing contest is now legendary but also you don’t get the shining without the haunting of hill house (and you don’t get the haunting of hill house without turn of the screw, for example) and the shining is probably one of the most referenced movies by other media of all time. horror has always been an intertextual genre let’s stop pretending it didn’t become “self aware” until 1996

[quorras]

every time i see someone call tron 'cyberpunk', i lose ten years off my lifespan

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

The Half of It (2020, Alice Wu)

10/11/2023

The Half of It is a 2020 American film directed by Alice Wu. The film is loosely based on Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand.

The film was released on Netflix on May 1, 2020.

[jolteonmchale]

[thesoftboiledegg]

People debate about whether canon is more important than fanon or which one gets the "final say," but I think it's pointless because it's all fanon. Yes, you watch a specific set of events unfolding on screen, but you insert your own interpretations while you're watching it.

We might THINK that we're taking the series as it is without inserting our own theories, but that's not true. Two people can watch the same episode and have totally different interpretations, each thinking that they're right. Look at all the fandom discussions about characters and their motivations. That wouldn't happen if everyone just blankly watched episodes without thinking about it.

Even people who say that they only draw or write about canon scenes aren't really doing that. For example, if you draw art for a canon ship, you're still drawing a scene that doesn't exist in the show. And yet, it feels equally real to you.

Likewise, other media influences the way that you view the series. If you watch a live-action adaption of a novel, you have different mental images when you read the book again. Someone who hasn't watched the movie wouldn't view the book that way.

No objective "canon" exists. Even the people who worked on the series (writers, directors, actors, etc.) interpret their work a little differently. A book written by one person might be the closest, but the writer can't control the mental images that each reader creates.

Canon doesn't matter. It's all imaginative anyway.

[lifeandtimesofpineapplehead]

So I just started watching BoJack horseman and so far I'm on episode 4 and I just want to say I knew Bojack wasn't a nice person but I did not know that he was not a good person. oh my God. He's straight up sabotaged Todd. orchestrated a whole plan to make sure his plans never amount to anything and that he'll always live in his house as a freeloader. all that because Bojack is so scared of being alone.

I knew he was bad but it didn't know he was THIS bad.

another character who's really standing out for me and who I can't quite clock is Mr peanut butter. there's something very off about him but I cannot put my finger on it. I see how he tries to copy Bojack and it's not even in subtle ways it's super out there. from having a show similar to his, getting someone to write a BuzzFeed article about him because he saw Bojack was writing a memoir....idk something feels off about him.

And the thing that puzzles me is why do they tolerate each other or at the very least why does Bojack tolerate Mr peanut butter when he knows that he's trying to be him. another thing about Mr peanut butter that I can't quite place is that he gives me the vibe of a nice guy who hasn't done anything wrong but still triggers your warning bells.

I'm on ep 4 so far, let's see how season 1 will pan out

[maganne-studies]

How is it so hard for people to get into the disability studies approach for a presentation on 'A Silent Voice'? Like how?

At first, I was excited that my group wanted me to be in-charge of the presentation, but apparently they just don't know how to do it in the first place? Either way, the presentation is on Monday, so I can't really do much about it nor help guide them on how to do it.

[saphosticated]

A casual analysis of Pan’s Labyrinth makes the use of Captain Vidal as a representation of Del Toro’s Daddy issues incredibly clear.

However, the HSC markers probably don’t care for a thesis about Daddy issues in their selected texts, so we’ll focus our analysis on fascism instead.

Stay tuned for opinions on T.S Eliot and his clear need for therapy and for Ezra Pound to hold his hand.

[weatherwltcharchive]

HEADCANON. SHANKS.

Luffy is Shanks' only child.

I think Film: Red dampens the specialness of Luffy’s relationship with the Red Hair crew. It was so special because he was this lonely little kid who idolized them and wanted to be one of them so bad, but Shanks, while still nurturing that passion of Luffy’s, had to insist, "No, you're young and impulsive. Have those kid experiences, grow up, and then go be the best pirate you can be."

But all this time, he had a kid on his ship anyway?

I don't like that it portrays Shanks as a bad dad. Of course, I think he'd be an imperfect father, but ten years later, he still speaks so fondly of Luffy and looks into how he's doing. Why would he not speak about Uta? And regardless, I just hate how many absentee parents there are in this universe.

I can chalk it up to projecting blame on something/someone else so you don't have to look into your own feelings, but I'm not really cool with the fact that Uta knew Shanks didn't actually abandon her and destroy that town, but still continued her fight anyway.

I wanted to like Uta, but I just didn't feel that emotional pull.

[gothhabiba]

I see The Menu mentioned in the same breath as Knives Out and Glass Onion (and Triangle of Sadness, which I haven’t seen)—and I do see why—but I think that, while the Knives Out movies “wanted” to have something to say but didn’t, I’m not sure that The Menu “wanted” to present a critique of the wealthy. it seemed more like “look at these assholes”