#film only

[ilovejoyjessie]

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even." - Muhammad Ali // "One More Round" shot on black and white and color film by @lamargphoto

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Behind the Concept: This shoot was in my concept notebook for a while - I knew I wanted to take on a boxing concept as I felt like I was doing a lot of fighting with myself, but then this past spring and fall happened. “One More Round”, and this photo set it in particular, turned into a heavier story, scored by how I felt for a lot of the year.

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After a lot of things going right, a lot of things started to go wrong. And every time I successfully landed a small punch, I felt like I’d get several back: Relationships I’d thought were solid fell apart, I moved, unexpected life happenings popped up that were hard for me to handle, non-art work became unbearable. I barely had the energy to create. I lost supporters. I was struggling. Hit after hit just seemed to keep coming and I couldn’t seem to block the blows.  Every day, I was fighting to live, fighting to survive. 

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It got dark for a while. I didn’t think I could go on. But even at my darkest moments, I was able to find some amount of strength, somewhere inside, to get out of bed and do a day one more time. One more round...Somewhere, there was a piece of me quietly convincing the rest of me to go on even when all it wanted to do was give up. And that strength started to build on itself. I was making it - I was still standing, wounded emotionally as I felt I was - I was still standing there. And that personal strength is inspiring. That will to survive, to face my hardships every day, got me to believe further in myself and appreciate what my mind and body are able to do, even when my spirit feels like it can’t do anything at all. And I felt I owed it to myself to keep going and to create a life that I deserve at any cost. I cut people I was tired of chasing out; I quit that toxic job; I tried to accepted what I couldn’t change.

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That’s why in this shoot, I didn’t want to just be a boxer in a ring, untouched and unblemished. In real life, I had to fight dirty to find victory over the things that almost made me tap out. Bruised and brought down over and over, I was still able to find a way to make it to my feet and take out the obstacles in front of me. What fighter doesn’t make it to a victory without earning a scratch along the way? I knew that over the course of the photo story unfolding, I wanted the character to get injured, bl33d, and make it to the end, covered in the badges they earned in the battle for their life.

(Ruined a cute ass top to do it too. if that isn’t dedication to the story, I don’t know what is 😅)

[professorcalculusstanaccount]

as newspapers today dont tend to hire children, a modern day Tintin would run a clickbait YouTube channel, except the clickbait is 100% real every single time

he starts off as an irritating conservative pundit at 14, meets Chang then leaves the think tank paying him and launches his own independent channel and blows up shortly after. Chang helps with video editing and managing his socials and they often chat on video calls between adventures. Haddock, his foster dad, has absolutely no knowledge of his earlier videos.

[lastoneout]

No shade to OP as a person but believe me, this is a sign that something is DEEPLY fucking broken. Like they announced ONE new IP out of like eight films. I genuinely think within the decade they're just gonna stop making original films all together. That's what they learned from Elemental and Wish, just don't make anything new if you can help it.

Like they've unironically turned into what people pretend Dreamworks is, a sequel mill. The real downside is that Dreamworks actually knows how to make a good sequel, Disney never really figured that one out, bar a couple of outliers, and I have no faith in them pulling any of these off. Absolutely soul-crushingly pathetic. Thank god other animation studios exist.

This is the saddest shit I've ever seen, truly.

[chloesimaginationthings]

Can you imagine the puppet scene in FNAF 2…

[prokopetz]

Insisting that there's only one good MCU film can be a much more effective way of winding up MCU fans than insisting that they all suck, but you've gotta pick the right one. If you claim Captain America: The Winter Soldier is the only good MCU film, they'll probably just be like "I disagree, but I can understand how you'd feel that way"; if you insist with a straight face that Thor: The Dark World is the only good MCU film you can get them to write entire essays about how wrong you are.

[title]

“May I rest my weary head on your shoulder?” (insp.)

In the Mood for Love (2000), Rafiki (2018), Cold War (2018), Your Name Engraved Herein (2020), But I’m a Cheerleader (1999), Moonlight (2016), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), And Then We Danced (2019), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), My Own Private Idaho (1991), Anatomy of a Fall (2023), Lovesong (2016), God’s Own Country (2017), The Handmaiden (2016), Notorious (1946)

[bixels]

I watched Starship Troopers tonight.

[blumineck]

For when you just need to get rid of as many arrows as possible...

[sam-reid]

The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.

Aaliyah as Akasha QUEEN OF THE DAMNED (2002).

[backstepping]

ayo edebiri: the movie reviewer we deserve

and her dad also has an account

[emetitur]

boy and heron. 🏹

having some thoughts about this film

[zivazivc]

first night alone

[elizabugz]

[fleshadept]

HOT LABOR SUMMER

[langernameohnebedeutung]

ngl, I'm beginning to take issue with how in conversations about anti-intellectualism almost automatically, the face of girls and women will be slapped on the problem.