#film splices

[gurumog]

The Clones of Bruce Lee (1980) Film Line Enterprises Dir. Joseph Velasco

Film wear, damage, dirt, adhesive tape, missing frames, a repair splice, and a projectionist’s markings on a reel of The Clones of Bruce Lee (1980).

[sneez]

linocut study of the poster for the 1924 film orlacs hände :-)

[allthehiddlethings]

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Tom Hiddleston plays Guess the Lines with Jenelle Riley at the Miami Film Festival

[the-entity-down-the-street]

"Splice" is a better Frankenstein adaptation than "Poor Things" because:

SPOILERS FOR BOTH FILMS

A) the mad scientists face consequences for their unethical genetic fuckery instead of dying peacefully. Elsa is left traumatized, with her loved ones dead as a result of this experiment. Sure, she's getting a lot of money, but that's not going to undo the mental scars that will no doubt haunt her to the grave.

B) The female monster is actually fucking monstrous. Dren does have some typically attractive traits like symmetrical features, smooth skin, etc, but still. If you're going to make an abomination against science, MAKE THE ABOMINATION. Don't give me some pretty girl in a frilly dress and call that a monster, okay? Cowards.

C) They don't frame the dubious consent/noncon as liberating. Elsa is disgusted with Clive for sleeping with Dren, and when Dren assaults Elsa in her male form, it's a traumatic experience. Bella's assaults (because that's what they are. She has the mind of a literal toddler. I don't care if she is enthusastic about it if she doesn't have the cognitive capacity to understand what's happening.) are framed as sexual liberation and it makes me want to hurl a chair at somebody. Calling sex "furious jumping" because she's not mature enough to fully understand sex. The fact that her fiancé wants to marry her when she's a fucking toddler. Gross. Disgusting. I hate it.

D) Splice is a true gender swap of the Frankenstein narrative, because both the scientist and the creature are female. Clive helps, but let's be real, Elsa is pulling the strings and convincing him to go along with it. Splice doesn't claim to be a feminist retelling like Poor Things does, but it's more narratively driven by women who are allowed moral complexity and agency. There's no bullshit girlboss moment either (the goat brain swap).

E) This one is just a personal gripe, but the whole "bringing back a dead woman with the brain of an infant she was forced to carry" thing? And somehow, this is a feminist retelling? Hate. Get it away from me. Not saying Dren was created ethically (Clive didn't even have fully informed consent because he didn't know it was Elsa's DNA), but goddamn, at least the mother of the child had agency in the child's creation. There is absolutely nothing feminist about using an unwilling woman's body as a vessel for the baby she didn't want. What in the pro-life bullshit is this? Ew. Ew. Ew.

Rant over. Thanks for coming to my Tedtalk.

[bidokja]

i've seen a few comments before (not on here, just in the past on other sites) frustrated and confused about why the oldest dream never talked to yoo joonghyuk. or anyone for that matter. why couldn't he just say something, anything at all? did he feel nothing as they suffered? couldn't he have helped somehow?

and there's a lot i could say about this and a lot of various layers and details and perspectives. but in the end it all comes down to this:

not a single one of us can talk to the characters in a book we're reading.

that's just how it works.

[paintedvanilla]

my emotional support english professor was telling me on Tuesday how he went to see fight club in theaters three times when it came out with different people. fuck I wish that was me.

[jonnyconsequence]

“None of our animal components have predatory characteristics.” “Well, there’s the human element.”

Splice (2009) Directed by Vincenzo Natali Cinematography by Tetsuo Nagata

[divinekangaroo]

I've been watching movies spread out into 20min chunks while I do my morning exercise, which creates an interesting sort of detailed focus compared to sitting back and consuming it all in one hit.

Latest one is Trainspotting: the long, energetic montage of All Things London just as Renton decides to move to London is possibly *the* most subtly hilarious piece of screen time I've experienced in agesssssssssss

[bragascreenshot]

[pardalidae]

movies about monstrous children resulting from unethical experiments my beloved

[rrrauschen]

Joseph Bernard, {1980} Splices for Sharits

[oneheadtoanother]

*watches Robo Vampire* wow this is maybe the stupidest movie i've ever seen lol

[beat]

*downloads literally 60 movies by the same director*

[gluetrapsreviews]

Ok watched Splice last night and I actually really liked it up till like the last 3rd of the film so ig like notes on that and how I think they could’ve had a similar ending but you know included less of *gestures vaguely * that

Tw for mentions of rape and incest btw, this is a really weird film

Uh ok so first change: Elsa finds Dren’s drawings of all of them, Dren even drew herself but maybe sad that she looks different than them or maybe she draws her Barbie doll instead of herself? Like a human stand in for herself almost. Elsa asks about Dren’s depictions of herself which upsets her and she runs to the cat. Elsa does take the cat away but to the vet to see if she might actually have some sort of diseases, Dren partially understands this but is still upset. Clive comes to check on her. This scene stays the same but make it less sexual please i beg you, Clive realizes Elsa used her own DNA through some means other than weirdly staring at Dren’s neck. Same argument with Clive and Elsa then they get a call from the lab about the protein thing that their hours have been extended till they figure it out. Elsa gives the cat back, Dren hits the cat but doesn’t kill it or maybe she just hides in the rafters while Elsa tries to apologize. Now Elsa and Clive have barely enough time to check in on Dren. This is when she starts getting hormonal changes when it’s just her and the cat. Insert montage of Dren acting weird maybe playing with her wings while Elsa and Clive work on the protein thing. Then one day Clive is checking the cameras and Dren is sick like she was near the end of the film, he fakes being sick and goes home to check on her. He realizes how weird she looks but assumes it’s just the next stage of her life and tries to take care of her. Dren wakes up with Clive next to her trying to work from home and attacks him, insert scene parallel to the one when Dren first gets sick and Clive tried to drown her(Dren drowning Clive). Dren then breaks out of the barn and starts looking for Elsa killing all men she sees in her path, eventually she gets to the lab and is poisoned by Elsa via parallel scene to the first time Clive tried to kill her. Elsa gets in tons of trouble and the lab gets shut down. Potentially there is a scene at the end where uh oh Dren might still be alive but that’s it that’s the film.

If you really need the Clive falls in love and has sex with Dren bit, have her lay eggs instead of having the sex change and then rape Elsa. It makes way more sense for her to lay eggs in the water and then attack everyone because they’re too close to the “nest” then boom you still have your weird sex crazed killer mutant + your sequel material + no horrifying incest rape scene, a triple win

[notallfay]

I was enjoying a film "Splice" (2009) which is a Sci-fi horror about scientists who splice different animals (then human) DNA together to create a hybrid.

But then the end got CREEPY fast. So the human creature hybrid they grew from an embryo, but she grows incredibly fast. And develops an attraction to the male scientist, and he actually sleeps with her.

Why are men so creepy?

The woman, who is his partner naturally gets upset. There is a lot to get upset about, but he is like we changed all the rules by making her, so it's okay. And it's apperently sleeping with someone you have been raising as your child, behind your partners back is TOTES the same as using your own DNA to make them. Sssuurrreeeee...

Then not long later she turns into a male, then rapes the women. So insest and rape rolled into one there.

Like what the fuck did I just watch...

[splatteronmywalls]