#it could've been campier

[gjdraws]

After meeting in prison, two strangers from different echelons of English society decide to join forces and become highwaymen.

Plunkett & Macleane (1999)

[ordinarytalk]

I just watched Lisa Frankenstein and I am in love.

The Creature was, hands down, the most personality I have ever seen portrayed in a (almost) nonverbal character. He couldn't even move his face for half the movie, but you could absolutely tell he was goofy and petty and temperamental and artistic and incredibly, incredibly in love with Lisa. Lisa was dramatic and funny and sensual and self-centered, and both of them were the best chaotic evil power couple I dreamed of. Absolute freaking Addams Family love story.

The art direction was amazing, I wanted to get posters of like every third shot. Like maybe the only criticism I have was that it could've been even campier.

Taffy, you were the nicest person in the entire movie, complete subversion of the bullying cheerleader trope, you didn't deserve any of this. Your dad could fall in a toilet, though.

[carma-tjol]

Miscellaneous OPM Characters as Lady Gaga Songs

please read this oh my god I spent so much time... there's some meta scattered in there I promise.

Fubuki

Telephone

Bloody Mary

Eh Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)

Telephone - because I watched an Instagram edit that used it and now I have it permanently associated with her. Fubuki has a fun and glamourous aesthetic and I feel like the song reflects that too Bloody Mary - because of the "I wont crucify the things you do" line. it reminds me of all the people she knows that are like. highly problematic but she's irremovably tied into their lives and ultimately accepts them. Eh Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say) - there are relationships she's had that fell tragically because of, while among other things, her own personal flaws and ego. It's tragic, but she really wasn't equipped to handle everything thrown at her at the time. there really is "nothing else [she] can say" anymore. Imagining her with this song puts a lighthearted twist on the woe of it.

Psykos

Summerboy

So Happy I Could Die

Teeth

MANiCURE

Summerboy - I like to imagine it as Psykos having the summerboy's POV. Feeling disposable and like she got played by Fubuki, she is left to sort of sourly reminisce on what could've been. So Happy I Could Die - for that INTENSE SAPPHIC ANGST. Also I like the concept of like. attempting to use sexuality to cope with severe internal turmoil. I love this song sooo much. Teeth - vibes I guess MANiCURE - "SHE WANNA BE MAN CURED!" so basically more sapphic stuff but campier and less gut wrenching this time lol.

Genos

(... god I initially struggled finding stuff for him HARD but ended up with 4 things. what.)

Replay

I Like It Rough

Shallow

Paparazzi (bonus)

Replay - Lady Gaga is talking about trauma and PTSD taking over and effecting every part of her life, which I feel like is relevant. "Every single day, yeah I dig a grave Then I sit inside it wondering if I'll behave" I Like It Rough - I've always interpreted this song as only ever experiencing harshness from people, not knowing how process kindness, and struggling to decipher sincerity. Which I feel like, removed from all the sex stuff, fits Genos pretty well thematically. Shallow - I don't really mean this in a ship way here (to be honest, one sided genos pining is my ideal! But that's not relevant here) but I can think of this song with Genos and Saitama's relationship and how at its core, One Punch Man revolves around them. They represent the central themes of companionship and how humanity is based on relationships with others. They try to "fill that void" with each other and Genos looks at Saitama worried, when will it be enough? (When will HE be enough?) Also I enjoy listening to songs where there is some form of disappearance or death and imagining the MA arc. I did that a tonnn with Sweet Talking Woman by ELO a while back, something about mixing the love song about chasing someone with the tragedy of the MA arc and how Genos became unattainable really clicked for me. (Fun fact, I had 182 listens for that song on my Spotify wrapped... pretty much all thinking of Genos) I'm supposed to be talking about Lady Gaga though oops. "Crash through the surface, where they cant hurt us We're far from the shallow now." They've experienced the same alienation, whether inflicted or self imposed and were able to drag each other out of it. Perhaps there's comfort in the similarity. Paparazzi (bonus lol) - If you enjoy leaning into Genos's weird obsession, this is the song for you! He's a little neurotic...

Flashy Flash and Sonic

I'm giving them the same song

Speechless

Speechless "In your tight jeans With your long hair and your cigarette stained lies Could we fix you if you broke? And is your punch line just a joke?" I connect it by thinking about how much weight their relationship held in their lives. Each of their dreams had the other in it. And I think that losing that was a bit worldshattering. "Would you give it all up If I promise, boy, to you?" Eyyyy we were left on a bit of a cliffhanger right? Flash was trying to ask sonic something but got cut off by the other ninjas. "We could-" we could what, Flash? we. could. what. (Team up again? Please I'm literally on my hands and knees begging, yet I know it's never that easy with OPM)

Amai Mask

Beautiful, Dirty Rich

The Fame

Beautiful, Dirty Rich - It's about fame! Living the high life! He's like a major celebrity and a diva so I think it works. Just ignore the bit where it says "but we've got no money" because he definitely has money. The Fame - similar thought process

Webigaza

Applause

Applause - She "lives for the applause!" The fame itself is empty without her fans.

Do-S (aka BONUS! other songs I like but had zero use for)

Love Game

Money Honey

Bad Romance

Poker Face

Government Hooker

Judas

not sexual enough for Do-S but I really like Americano too.

okay I'm done with these now I'm literally going insane

[mermaidsirennikita]

THIS IS AN ASK FOR FUTURE CAROLINE

now that you, future caro, has seen elvis- rank all baz luhrmann movies!!!!!!!!!

WELL GIRL I'M GLAD YOU ASKED

Moulin Rouge. Easily. While sometimes goofy and certainly quite campy (campier, imo, than some of the movies that followed it) I think this provided the best story for Baz's... sensibilities. It's set in a the Moulin Rouge--it's meant to be over the top and performative and a bit ridiculous. I think Baz works best when he's going for big emotions too, so a tragic love story is perfect for him. He loves music; this is a musical. It all clicks. Also, an A+ Nicole Kidman performance.

Elvis. While I do have very real issues with some of the story issues (the handling of race and the sanitization of Elvis's relationship with Priscilla, among other things) it's very entertaining. I also think that if you look at it not so much as a biopic but more an examination of the myth of Elvis, it works better. Baz again works best when he's giving you kind of a music video vibe, and Austin Butler's performance is insanely good both from a biopic perspective and a human perspective. Tbh, Baz's directorial style was kind of made for the glitz and camp that was late stage Elvis especially.

The Great Gatsby. There are... problems. I think Daisy could've been cast better. The story is sort of garbled and I think a lot of the points Fitzgerald was trying to make are sort of lost in Baz's interest in the TRAGEDY!!! of the story. However, the soundtrack is killer and the visuals are great and I do think it's like. The most Leo has ever dialed into his innate MOVIE STAR quality since Titanic. One thing about Baz is that if he can get a great performance out of a top caliber actor, he will frame the movie around that performance in a way that really works.

Australia. To get one thing out of the way--I don't think Baz, as a white Australian, needed to be discussing the history of aboriginal people in Australia; and I don't think he did it well in this movie. If you take that issue out of the movie, you do have a visually great over the top The Thorn Birds style romantic epic. The only movie in which I've ever been attracted to Hugh Jackman, I'm sorry to say. So yeah. Deeply flawed, but it's a RIIIIIDE and I do appreciate the attempt to revive the epic.

Romeo + Juliet. I have a lot of nostalgic affection for this one, and I appreciate the way that it synthesizes Romeo and Juliet so that it's easier for teens to understand. Also, it is SUUUUUUCH a "this boy is a star" moment for Leo, much like Elvis is for Austin. But it's a mess. Basically, outside of some great visuals and Leo's performance, it's.... messy. I can still enjoy it, but I think that's largely because of the nostalgia.

Strictly Ballroom. Yeah man. This. This is... hard to watch. Like, I find it funny, and I APPRECIATE HOW HARD EVERYONE TRIED. BUT I DON'T THINK IT HIT. I THINK IT MISSED. A LOT.