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[autumnsup]

Riding on the heels of my Mandy Slade appreciation post from yesterday, I had to drop in a few quotes from another blog I discovered recently that goes into depth about Toni Collette's performance. I don't know if I agree with every point the blogger made, but they certainly provided some interesting parallels and contrasts with previous analysis on the characters of Velvet Goldmine.

"[A]ll the praise in the world for Collette’s performance shouldn’t overlook how rare so many of the integral features to Mandy Slade are within her filmography. How many characters can you think of where her beauty and sexuality were this central? How often has she traipsed around bathed in so many riches and ornaments? When has she highlighted so many angles and colors to a person without quite revealing their core, the same way one might try to look through a jewel that’s too bright and multifaceted for anyone to comfortably say they’ve seen the center of it? I think my favorite sequence of hers, purely for how Haynes films her, is Jack Fairy’s 1969 New Year’s Party, where she talks about meeting Brian for the first time. She looks fantastic, yet she's so absorbed into Brian when she sees him that it becomes almost impossible to tell them apart for the rest of the party. Even for most of their sex scene, their bodies combine in a transfixing whorl of light and flesh that only occasionally clarifies whose body is whose. Toni Collette is fucking hot, and to see her beauty be so central to her character and so magnificently showcased should be more common than it is."

"Mandy goes through some of the most overt shifts in her appearance of anyone in Brian’s entourage, yet we never really get the sort of dominating style or private interiority that would suggest some core version of herself. Compared to Curt Wild’s feral, wounded, livewire attitudes or Brian Slade’s alien glam and aching wants, it’s not clear what Mandy really desires. She seems perfectly content with being a prized bauble in her husband’s collection of personalities, as she slips oh so comfortably in and out of her poses and costumes. Even in her unvarnished present, as Mandy candidly sifts through her memories, it’d be doing a disservice to Velvet Goldmine’s theories on presentation and self to ascribe this version of her as an ultimately truer, deeper woman. Rather than over-elucidating a hidden depth or thru-line of personality, Collette digs into each scene while working with the heightened cinematic grammars Haynes is using to meet her halfway. Sometimes Collette evokes a fiercely specific sense of who Mandy is, while in other moments she simply drains her face and lets the image of Mandy standing in a black void speak for itself."

"Toni Collette is the kind of actress with a dozen performances anyone could confidently pick as the very best in her career and feel absolutley justified in their choice. I still imagine her harrowing, wretched Annie in Hereditary will be my go-to for a while. But the absolute rarity of the sort of character work she does in Velvet Goldmine - blessedly freed from doing rescue work or needing to fully flesh out a character, and instead asked to preserve mystery, beauty, and wit across multiple timelines - makes it stand out in the best of ways. For my money, this is still the best film she's ever been in, and ranks among the most creative uses of her talents. Mandy Slade is an absolute gem, and I hope Collette will get another chance to play in this kind of sandbox again."

Source: https://href.li/?http://thefilmexperience.net/blog/2021/7/2/1998-toni-collette-in-velvet-goldmine.html

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[rosasamuels]

THE CHARACTER STATISTICS

FULL NAME — rosalind florence samuels

NICKNAME — rosa, rosie sometimes

D.O.B. — august 6th, 1999

LINK TO THEIR PINTEREST BOARD OR TAG ON YOUR BLOG — board | tag

STAR SIGN / MOON & RISING — leo sun, gemini moon, pisces rising

MBTI — istp - the virtuoso

MORAL ALIGNMENT — chaotic good

MARITAL STATUS & SEXUALITY — single & bisexual

LANGUAGES — english and . incredibly basic french n spanish tho she wants to become fluent

TALENTS / HOBBIES — singing, guitar, debating, baking, knitting tbh, gymnastics, soccer, tennis, baseball

TOP 5 MUSICIANS — florence and the machine, fleetwood mac, backstreet boys/nsync/one direction i kno thts 3 bt >_> any boy bands she jst loves......., halsey, amy shark

FAVOURITE BOOK — she was obsessed w everything twilight including the books tbh, the narnia series too, likes a lot of poetry now esp richard siken

FAVOURITE FILM & TV SHOW — she’s still obsessed w the twilight movies. now tht her n lana live together they have 1000 marathons its a lot., eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, little miss sunshine, tangled, mulan / new girl, parks and rec, grey’s anatomy, the foster’s....... jst either rly straight to the point sit coms or gut punch drama soapy shows

FAVOURITE VIDEO GAME — she never rly got into video games but she 100% has 90% of the just dance dance’s memorized

WHAT DID THEY DO THIS PAST SUMMER? — just hung out in lovell with friends, kinda got up to chaos/trouble which isnt too out of her character cuz she can easily get dragged into things but some events did Change her. fr the better? stay tuned to find out.................

WHERE HAVE THEY TRAVELLED? — nowhere special, jst a few places in the states i think

DO THEY TAKE ANY PRESCRIPTIONS? — no

DO THEY HAVE ANY DIAGNOSIS’S? — she saw a therapist a few times after her sister passed that explained she had some trauma related to her death but that’s about it

FICTIONAL CHARACTER THEY ARE MOST LIKE? — hmmm.......... i think for sure cristina yang (grey’s anatomy), noora (skam), spencer hastings (pretty little liars), n marianne sheridan a wee bit (normal people)

ARE THEY EMPLOYED? WHERE DO THEY WORK? — no she’s just focusing on being a student currently tbh

WERE THEY POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL? — no she didn’t rly like a lot of ppl n wasnt exactly warm to anyone tht wasnt her friend LKSHGLHLGKDHSD

DO THEY DO DRUGS? — like . barely at all she hasnt tried much either it jst makes her nervous

DRINK? — yes

SMOKE CIGARETTES? — she’s tried it but not regularly by any means.........

SMOKE WEED? — yes

WHERE WERE THEY BORN? WHERE DID THEY GROW UP? — rochester, new york then pretty much immediately moved to connecticut n grew up there

DO THEY PLAN TO GO TO GRAD SCHOOL? — yes!

WHAT ARE THEIR PLANS POST-GRADUATION? — she wants to become a gender studies professor

PARENTS NAMES — i knew their dad was john and i had to check james’ task for this cuz we never even rly . discussed their moms name bt carol sounds abt right

DO THEY HAVE SIBLINGS? NAMES & AGES? — yes tatiana (23 when deceased), viktor (24), mili (22)

DO THEY HAVE PETS? TYPES & NAMES? — no :/

ARE THEY RELIGIOUS? WHAT IS THEIR RELIGION IF SO? — christian tho she’s . not rly a bible thumper or anything

HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE THEY SLEPT WITH? — 6 i think..... that feels right.

WHAT VEHICLE DO THEY DRIVE? IF THEY DON’T DRIVE, HOW DO THEY TRAVEL AROUND TOWN? — she doesn’t have a license n pretty exclusively relied on her siblings to drive her around when she was younger bt now tht she has more gal pals she asks them for rides if she needs them titters

DESCRIBE THEIR FASHION — sweaters and mom jeans a lot.............. lots and lots of overalls, she does like fun patterns/designs, lots of funky colours on her sweaters, has abt 3 pairs of the same striped pants in 3 diff colours, if she does wear a t-shirt it’s probably a band tee or something oversized and flowy, has a lot of bracelets she likes to wear cuz of sentimental value, if she’s in pj’s they’re 100% some sort of childish matching set frankly

DO THEY PREFER TO BE BEHIND THE CAMERA OR IN FRONT OF IT? — behind

DO THEY BELIEVE ANY OF THE STORIES ABOUT RADCLIFFE? WHICH ONES? — not overly, she’s kinda taught herself not to believe i any Out There stories after growing up with viktor who made freaking rosa out with made up stories one of his fave pass times when they were kids LKSHDGKLHSDLGKHSDG

DO THEY THINK THE MOTHMAN IS HOT? — no, sorry buddy

A QUOTE THAT DESCRIBES THEM —  “Sometimes I come to hate people because they can’t see where I am. I’ve gone empty, completely empty and all they see is the visual form; my arms and legs, my face, my height and posture, the sounds that come from my throat.”

A SONG THAT THEY WOULD RELATE TO — god must be doing cocaine - charlotte lawrence