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actually how it feels sometimes to see really good art
#in . in the cinema yesterday#w/ spiderverse#artists are incredible no bias whatsoever#actually correction. not how it feels. i do this#its pure inspiration and motivation getting injected into ur body
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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow , Vittorio De Sica , 1963.
#yesterday today and tomorrow#vittorio de sica#marcello mastroianni#60s#1963#film#edit#leri oggi domani#italian cinema
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HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS (2022) dir. Mike Cheslik (official website of the movie)
#hundreds of beavers#mike cheslik#2022#comedy#slapstick#independent cinema#watched at the movie theater yesterday#and omg i've never seen anything like it before#<3#my gifs
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Clawing at thr walls insane rn
Inject this movie into my fucking blood
#ive had to add yet another man to the list of men i actively think are hot#the list is now at 3#deadpool#deadpool and wolverine#poolverine#wolverine#deadpool fanart#deadpool and wolverine fanart#wolverine fanart#poolverine fanart#watched the movie yesterday and tbh one of the greatest cinema experiences of my life#were we sat front row? yes#did it matter? fuck no!! we were vibing and laughing up a storm life is beautiful
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CHŁOPI / THE PEASANTS 2023 | dir. DK Welchman, Hugh Welchman — from the creators of Loving Vincent (2017)
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Owen Wilson and Tom Hiddleston in Midnight in Paris (2011) // Loki S02E01 (2023)
#lokius#midnight in paris#loki#mobius#owen wilson#tom hiddleston#mcuedit#lokiedit#CLENCHING MY FISTS#the full circle of it all... something something i was following you no i was following you oh i'm insane about them 😭😭#to think this is where they ended up all these years later#not only masters of their craft but with an appreciation of grabbing a slutty little waist that only comes with great cinema#you love to see it!#(also if you saw me first label the loki ep as airing in 2024 since it still feels like s2 was yesterday then shhhh no you didn't 🤣)#marvel#marveledit#owenwilsonedit#movieedit#dianagifs
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Studio Ghibli Title Cards, Part 1
"Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind" ("Kaze no tani no Naushika") (1984) Directed by Hayao Miyazaki (Anime/Adventure/Sci-Fi) . . "Laputa: Castle in the Sky" ("Tenkuu no Shiro Laputa") (1986) Directed by Hayao Miyazaki (Anime/Adventure/Fantasy) . . "My Neighbor Tortoro" ("Tonari no Totoro") (1988) Directed by Hayao Miyazaki (Anime/Comedy/Fantasy) . . "Grave Of The Fireflies" ("Hotaru no haka") (1988) Directed by Hayao Miyazaki (Anime/Drama/War) . . "Kiki's Delivery Service" ("Majo no takkyûbin") (1989) Directed by Hayao Miyazaki (Anime/Fantasy) . . "Only Yesterday" ("Omohide poro poro") (1991) Directed by Isao Takahata (Anime/Drama/Romance) . . "Porco Rosso" (1992) Directed by Hayao Miyazaki (Anime/Adventure/Comedy) . . "Ocean Waves" ("Umi ga kikoeru") (1993) Directed by Tomomi Mochizuki (Anime/Drama/Romance)
#studio ghibli#hayao miyazaki#tomomi mochizuki#isao takahata#porco rosso#kiki's delivery service#grave of the fireflies#my neighbor totoro#ocean waves#only yesterday#Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind#laputa castle in the sky#cinema title cards#cinema#film#anime#fantasy
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Trektober Day 20, now in technicolor!
*gripping your shoulders* You ever just think about how they find each other in every universe. You ever think about that. I do.
(Please click for quality! ID under cut)
[Image ID: A digitally coloured drawing of Jim Kirk, Spock, and Bones as seen in Star Trek: The Voyage Home. They are all older than in the Original Series. Spock is wearing his white Vulcan robe and no shoes. Jim is wearing his maroon suit, and Bones is wearing his beige and brown jumpsuit. His cravat is untucked from his neckline and the ends are floating. Both Jim and Bones' trousers are flared and they're wearing simple boots.
Spock and Bones are floating against a starry backdrop, connected to each other and Jim by thin threads attached to each of their wrists. Both of their threads connecting them to Jim are floating, relaxed and looping. However, Bones has grabbed the thread connecting him to Spock and is hunched over, attempting to chew through it. Spock is watching this with detached curiosity. His posture is more relaxed and his left arm is being pulled towards Bones because Bones is pulling on the thread.
Jim is standing in the middle, feet edging over the border of the drawing. His hands are on his hips, and he is looking up despairingly at his soulmates, saying "Can't you two just get along? Please?"
Above the drawing is written "Trektober" and "Day 20 - Soulmates" Below it is written "@aerialworms" and "Spocktober"./End ID]
#star trek#star trek the voyage home#fanart#star trek fanart#mcspirk#spock#james t kirk#leonard mccoy#trektober 2023#spocktober#star trek the original series#Went to see Search for Spock in the cinema yesterday and was again in awe of Bones' outfit. The cravat. The hair. The kitten heels. Icon.#Drawing it was my fave part of this one it's just so fun with all the details and everything!!!#literally all of them were slaying in SfS and VH#except chekov in his little victorian orphan fit in SfS. who did that to my boy i just wanna talk-
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Yesterday Once More 倒数说爱你 (2023) — dir. Lin Xiao Qian
#yesterday once more#yesterdayoncemoreedit#chen feiyu#zhou ye#cdramaedit#world cinema#worldcinemaedit#filmgifs#moviegifs#fyeahmovies#userfilm#motionpicturesource#filmtvtoday#cinemapix#filmedit#dailyflicks#userstream#useroptional#romancegifs#!gifs
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We're not alcoholics. We decide when we want to drink. An alcoholic can't help himself.
25 films for 25 years {22/25} ANOTHER ROUND (2020) dir. Thomas Vinterberg
plot description from IMdB, [insp: ☆★☆★ ]
#the choreography in the end scene is one of my favourite choreographies in cinema#two today to make up for missing yesterday#birthdaycountdown2024#timestamp roulette#colour pallette#my gifs#cinematv#filmtvcentral#chewieblog#usercreate#userthing#popcultureds#mediagifs#usertvfilm#tvfilmsource#film gifs#filmedit#cinemapix#dailyflicks#userfilm#filmgifs#tvfilmspot#filmtvdaily#dailytvfilmgifs#another round#druk#mads mikkelsen
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きのう何食べた? | WHAT DID YOU EAT YESTERDAY? (2021) dir. Kazuhito Nakae Kakei Shiro is a 45-year-old lawyer who works at a small law firm. He is good at cooking and a meticulous and thrifty person who keeps the monthly food budget to 25,000 yen. Shiro’s daily routine is to leave work on time and head to a discount supermarket nearby. His partner Yabuki Kenji is an affable hairdresser also in his 40s. They share a two-bedroom apartment and the finer points of two men living together come up at the dining table every day. Although two of them have been in a relationship for three years and Shiro's parents know of his sexuality, he never shares the fact that he is gay or Kenji is his partner to anyone. Based on the manga and series of the same name. (link in title)
#lgbt cinema#gay cinema#what did you eat yesterday#wdyey#kinou nani tabeta?#japanese cinema#lgbt#japan#gay#lgbt movie#gay movies#japanese movie#lgbt film#gay film#japanese film#lgbt media#gay media#queer cinema#asian cinema#east asian cinema#kazuhito nakae#hidetoshi nishijima#seiyo uchino#2021#2020s#2020s movies#2020s cinema#2020s films
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Poor Things and Born Sexy Yesterday
(spoilers for Poor Things)
I stumbled on a discussion on whether Bella Baxter from the movie Poor Things (2023) is a representation of the Born Sexy Yesterday trope coined by video essayist Pop Culture Detective, who defines it as a mostly fantasy and sci-fi adjacent trope of a regular human man falling in love with a beautiful, otherworldly woman who, through some plot quirk or another, has no knowledge of social norms and no sexual or romantic past. Even though he is brutally average, he is able to win her love simply because he is the first (human) man she connects with and thus everything that's basic about him is impressive to her. Some examples of the trope given by Pop Culture Detective in his video essay are Leeloo from Fifth Element (the physically grown yet mentally child-like alien creature who falls in love with a taxi driver in a wifebeater) and Madison from Splash (a clothes-aversive mermaid who thinks that Tom Hanks is the most enchanting man in the world). I love Pop Culture Detective's work, and the Born Sexy Yesterday video essay was a cultural reset in my personal history. I saw the video when it premiered six years ago, but it has never fully left my mind, so of course I immediately thought of it when I saw Poor Things a couple of weeks ago. The movie certainly touches on the same themes that the Born Sexy Yesterday is made of. However, I think that the movie is an intentional subversion and a satire of the trope rather than a sincere execution of it.
The main character of the movie Bella Baxter starts out as a grotesquely literal version of the trope, as she is literally a newborn in the shape of a conventionally attractive woman who is being actively shielded from the influence of the outside world. She has the brain of a baby salvaged from the fresh corpse of a deceased pregnant woman, planted inside the skull of the reanimated body of the aforementioned woman as an experiment done by the unorthodox doctor Godwin Baxter. He keeps her locked inside his house and controls every aspect of her life, so when he invites the young doctor Max McCandles to join his research, McCandles is served what is essentially the perfect Born Sexy Yesterday experience: an exclusive access to a beautiful and naive young woman who is in a prime position of being groomed into whatever her keepers wish her to become.
Or so they would think.
A sincere Born Sexy Yesterday would be fully fascinated by this power dynamic and probably leave her here to be romanced by McCandles for the rest of the film. The audience would be expected to assume McCandles's perspective and indulge in the fantasy of falling in love with the untainted woman who has neither the life experience nor the critical thinking skills needed to question him.
But, fortunately, the movie doesn't remain here. After the first act, the movie switches its point of view from McCandles to Bella and starts putting her experiences to the forefront. She starts developing interests that absolutely do not align with the wants and needs of the men around her, and she begins to learn things that clash with the essence of the Born Sexy Yesterday trope. Soon, she has grown into a headstrong, independent, sexually experienced, intellectually curious woman who had zero interest in entertaining the whims of men and who intends to live fully for herself and herself alone: an absolute antithesis of the clueless and subservient blank slate the trope would require her to be. My reading of the film is that it's an intentional satire and an autopsy of the BSY trope and the gender politics that gave birth to it. It criticizes the men who entertain fantasies like it by making them look like absolute losers, urging us to ponder on what the hell is wrong with these creeps who see nothing wrong with drooling over a woman who is mentally a toddler instead of their intellectual equal.
The movie also reads as a critique of how women are socialized into a patriarchy. Godwin treats Bella just like a possession of his. Her body and her life are completely under his control from the moment she is "born" (another act in which neither Bella nor the woman she was born from had any say in), which isn't dissimilar to how a lot of fathers view their daughters. He wishes to keep her under constant supervision until the end of her life, until she protests and gets him to change his mind. When he asks McCandles to marry her, the two men treat the proposed marriage as a contract between the two of them rather than as a contract between McCandles and Bella herself. Again, this isn't too different to what marriage between men and women has meant throughout history.
McCandles is romantically interested in Bella even though he is fully aware of the fact that she is mentally a child. He seems to be looking forward to starting a sexual relationship with her after they are wed, as if the seal of marriage would make the intellectual disparity between them any less iffy. This bears resemblance to the way men in the real world prey on young girls with little to no sexual experience and whose brains are not fully developed because they're easier to control than grown women. I don't think that McCandles's hypocrisy is lost on the film. He agrees to marry Bella almost in the same breath as expressing his desire to keep her safe from other men, as if his desire to bed a person who is intellectually at the level of a five-year-old was any better than theirs.
When Bella chooses to leave Godwin's house to explore the world, the two men immediately replace her with a new experiment, showing that they were never truly interested in her as a person. They wanted the eternal baby, the thing that they can cage and control, and not the person who can think and learn and disagree with them. This exemplifies how disposable women are when they no longer serve their limited purpose in a patriarchy, and how replaceable people are when they are primarily viewed as bodies to be used. (Sidenote: I do think that Godwin and McCandles eventually learn to appreciate Bella for the person she is and that they both grow to be better people by the end of the film, but I still attest that these two are total creeps at least by this point of the movie.)
And then there's the supreme loser of the movie: the sleazy lawyer Wedderburn, who slithers into Bella's life and convinces her to run away with him. He is the darkest example of the kind of person who is drawn to inexperienced women like the ones represented in BSY movies - a predator who finds pleasure in the prospect of getting to corrupt and consume an innocent. He intends to take advantage of Bella and abandon her once he's gotten his fill only to find himself choking on his prey, who turns out not to be the malleable, naive creature he thought her to be.
This is the point where I think the movie goes from simply critiquing the BSY trope and everything it represents to successfully subverting it. The characters who embody the BSY trope don't really evolve. The movies they appear in are not really interested in their inner worlds and individual experiences beyond whatever serves the interests of the male protagonists. These characters are projections of male fantasies, so there really isn't a way for them to exist without centering men. This is not the case with Bella, who quickly grows into her own woman who is only tangentially interested in the men around her.
The bright side of Bella's condition is that she isn't just unaware of the ways of the world, but that she's also unaffected by the years of patriarchal conditioning that most normal women are burdened with. She literally has no shame, no internalized misogyny, no history of crushing blows to her sense of self-worth, and no looming knowledge of societal norms society. She has skipped the part in life where she is constantly bombarded with demands to make herself smaller and more palatable, to hate herself, to think of her body and the way it finds pleasure as something disgusting and abnormal, to treat other women as competition, and to think of herself as so much less important than men that she must pursue their validation beyond all else. Because of this blessed defect, she is free in a very rare way.
Wedderburn absolutely cannot handle that. When Bella first gets to know him, he paints a flattering picture of himself as a proud social deviant who gleefully eschews the rules of polite society. However, when faced with the actually deviant Bella, who flatly refuses to obey and center him, Wedderburn is revealed to be a phony. He is not a genuine libertine. He does not want to live in a truly free world with a free spirit like Bella, because he is a pathetic, insecure little man who only likes women in scenarios where the power balance is stacked against them. In my opinion, this is a direct shot fired at the BSY trope and its average enjoyers: if your ideal woman is someone who is many steps behind you in terms of mental capacity and experience, you are quite pitiful and would not stand a chance in an equal playing field.
It's hilarious how Wedderburn loses his mind when Bella starts exhibiting the kind of behavior he himself has proudly displayed earlier in the film: having multiple sexual partners, keeping sex and feelings separate, not falling in love with him or treating him like he's special, dropping him once she's had enough of him, and generally living life in an unconventional way. Again, the movie is pointing out the hypocrisy in men who fetishize inexperienced women while bragging about their own sexual conquests.
The part in the movie where Bella becomes a sex worker delivers the final blow to whatever is left of the BSY trope in her story, because the trope relies on sexual exclusivity and the fetishization of virginity. By having many partners and gaining lots of sexual experience out of her own free will, Bella stops fitting the ideal of the untouched woman who can be deflowered and exclusively possessed by the male protagonist. Also, through the conversations between Bella and the other sex workers, the movie finds another way to address the politics behind certain men's sexual fantasies of women - such as pointing out that some men enjoy sex with women more the less the women themselves enjoy it. It's a stray observation that the movie doesn't get deep into, but it has its place in the tapestry of the general theme of what desire reveals about people.
Finally, there's Alfie, who gives Bella (and us) an idea of the kind of life Bella's "mother" lived - as well as the kind of life Bella herself might be living had she grown up the normal way. It seems hellish. She'd be living under the tyranny of her awful husband, under a constant threat of violence, under absolute bodily control. Alfie wants to impregnate her against her will and to mutilate her genitals to deprive her of pleasure, and there's nothing that she could do about it because he is her husband and thus legally allowed to lord over her. She sees a terrifying glimpse of the role even privileged women like her have in this world: objects who exist solely for the pleasure of the men who own them. I would venture to say that the same description lies in the underbelly of the BSY trope.
I am happy that the movie doesn't take its sweet time to revel in the horror of this part of the story like so many other movies that address the oppression of women do. Instead, Bella stays with Alfie just enough time to say a hard and a well-informed no to his bullshit before getting on her merry way.
I think Poor Things is such a great example of taking a trope and exploring its implications in a way that goes beyond just pointing it out or parodying it by simply repeating it.
#poor things#yorgos lanthimos#bella baxter#emma stone#born sexy yesterday#pop culture#tropes#feminism#gender politics#movies#cinema#film#film studies
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mahito
#art#art ph#digital painting#illustration#artists on tumblr#studio ghibli#the boy and the heron#i watched the boy and th heron yesterday it absolutely destroyed me this is a psa to watch it in the cinema please#digital art#anime art#davs art
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day 16 of horror: horror blondes im on my knees for
#yea yea i know clear was brunette in the first but idc#horror#bride of chucky#house of 1000 corpses#buffy the vampire slayer#teeth#king kong#friday the 13th new blood#halloween#friday the 13th part 2#dracula#final destination 2#x 2022#ready or not#horroredit#moviesedit#tvedit#cinema#oops forgot to post yesterday for it
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Kim Hee-ae and Yūko Nakamura in Moonlit Winter (2019)
#moonlit winter#filmedit#korean cinema#kim heeae#yuko nakamura#lgbtcinema#gif#wlwedit#rewatched this film yesterday#thanks nayeon for recommending it years ago#the whole film is a long oughhhhhoughhfhhhhgh#in a good way#i love this movie (:
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watched pride and prejudice for the first time yesterday, had to go make this immediately
#i loved the movie pride and prejudice#i really enjoyed the book but im not sure why i never got to watching the movie until yesterday#so many moments when me and my friends were screaming and squealing and quoting the lines it was sooo fun#this is cinema i get it now#pride and prejudice#pride and prejudice movie#pride and prejudice 2005#mr darcy#mr bingley#jane bennet
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