#knowing if theres one thing fargo characters do

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Oh dang I started Fargo s4 and I gotta say, I love the Smutny's more than life. Also my terrible malewife Adam from this is going to hurt is there :) yayyyy that's my babygirl!!! I had one on of those, "omg a beautiful butch 😍 " moments and then realized it was Timothy Olyphant D:

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Alright poll time I will hopefully remember and find

Woah I havent showed you much of these, but a recap anyway about the and just an intro ig under the cut if you wanna learn more, feel free to ask questions too!!

DoveTech/LividMetals: Rival companies taking place in California, both majoring in robotics and experimentation. Lots of lore. Makn inspirations: Qualia Automata (Team 6x111) and FNAF. Yall should know about the Fritz family by now, I also got an rp blog for this at @dovetechandlividmetals

Bromind Deities: Bromind is one of my main worlds (2nd newest world as well), the deities were created by the Goddess light and split into two sections; The Astral deities and the Terestrial Deities. The Astrals being; Neptune, Void and Nebula and the Terestrials being; Myca and Fawn (theyre gay). They control over different things. And theres a hierarchy ofc!

Bromind False deities: This plot focuses on Siri (the False deity of the stars) and when she was rejected by Light for Nebula. Then Siri gets vengeful and with Voids help she makes a new hierarchy

Fumbling: Follows Liam and Mason's journey through Harkton Boarding highschool, and being gay they find friends with; Dereck (Drake), Dixie, River, Reef, Kayla and Addicus. Though since middle school our two mc's have been bullied by Mark and his friends. Though some things happen and everything goes askew, throwing thier whole life off balance. This is my gay story, and L and M were my first Gay characters (shocking aint it) I made them in 7th grade

Deadbeat Outlaws (DBO): This story follows two trouble makers, Zach and Craz. The lore has changed a LOT since when I first made it, though I kept the name. Its not fully completed and I don't know how much I want to change so I dont have much to put here

Hellena stuff: this has a LOT of lore and came even before Dragonopolis, like I grew up with this world cause its my lego world that got shaped into this. So the story would be one of many that are with the three heros, Nate, Flower and Nightshade. Nate and Flower have also been tied to DoveTech. But this would focus on their hecktic life of being hero's and going insane to the point where one goes evil and takes over, forcing the other two to have to save the lives, and a lot more!

11:11: Follows the story of a 14 year old girl with ADHD who wishes to not be bored one morning while she eats breakfast, this wish comes true and she gets transported to Trifullium and meets Fenn, the two have to work together to get Mayabelle (the girl) home, eventually falling in love in the process.

Everdollskin: my ragdoll world thing! And my most recent world I've built. Unsure of what part you want me to focus on, but itd probably be either Fargo and Evendor's story and Evan and Bens! Full lf twists and turns and of course Ragdolls and horrors, tears and all!

Apollo: Sooooo, Apollo is one of my newest Oc's, hes got a bunch of lore already though. So he's one of my Yandere's. I know he looks gay (people are arguing with me when I say hes "straight" sl we made a compramise and said he only likes one oerson and that happens to be a girl, and also ig hes bi) But he meets Mae and falls totally head over heels for her, but she... HATES him. Now join him in stalking his new found obsession and killing off anyone she dates!

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media reccs? 👀 since apparently you are a man of good taste?

Wow thank you 😏 I have a masterlist of movies that have changed me I often recommend to people, I'll just copy and paste here with quick synopses lol, it's kinda long. I'm not super great at writing synopses tho so bear with me

Dead Poets Society (1989)

One of my favorite movies of all time and a total classic. It's about a group of boys at a strict boarding school who are inspired by their new English teacher (played by Robin Williams) to think for themselves and chase their dreams. This movie literally changed my life lol

Quadrophenia (1979)

This movie is based off of the story behind the concept album by The Who of the same name. It follow the life of a young man named Jimmy who is in a gang called the Mods. Theres this huge gang war between them and the Rockers (I think that's their name, it's been a while since i watched it) and Jimmy questions his beliefs about coming-of-age and his values in life throughout the film

Cabaret (1972)

Based off of the Broadway musical of the same name, this movie is about a British man who moves to Germany during the beginning of the rise of Nazis. He meets a woman who basically turns his world upside down, and it follows their love affair and sexuality and anti-semitism, and it's hilarious and heart wrenching and a beautiful movie

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

This is a super trippy romance film. Basically in the universe of this movie, theres a technology that is developed that can delete memories of an entire person from your mind while you are in a dream-like state, and the main character of this movie (played by Jim Carrey) decides to undergo the procedure after a bad breakup. Its soooo good I highly recommend this movie

It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)

This is an animated film about a man named Bill who is going through brain cancer. Its told from the perspective of an unnamed narrator essentially communicating everything Bill sees, hears, and experiences. This is the movie that got me into film and it is still a complete masterpiece and one of the most beautiful movies I've ever seen

The Dirties (2013)

Loved this one a lot back in high school, it's been a while since I watched it. This is a film made in Canada about a high schooler named Matt Johnson and his friend Owen who decide to make a short film for their class about them killing the gang at their school that bullies them, and things take a dark turn. It's a hilarious movie and hits pretty close to home for me in a lot of ways haha

Logan's Run (1976)

Great movie, pretty cheesy though so be warned. This is based off a book with the same name, and it takes place in the future where most of humanity is wiped out except for a small society that lives under a domed structure. No one is allowed to leave the dome, and to control overpopulation, no one is allowed to live past the age of 30. It's really bizarre but I love this movie

Donnie Darko (2001)

Pretty sure this was Jake Gyllenhaal's first big hit when he was super young (I think he was like 19 in this movie but I'm not sure) basically about this kid, Donnie Darko, who is somewhat schizophrenic and has a habit of sleepwalking. After one particular incident he has a near-death experience and starts seeing a man in a bunny costume everywhere who makes him do weird stuff. Another pretty trippy movie with a crazy ending

American Psycho (2000)

Honestly I'm sure a few on this list you've probably seen (most likely this one included) but I didnt wanna leave any out because they're all so good. If you haven't seen this, it's about a Wall Street executive named Patrick Bateman who is a materialistic phony by day and a serial killer by night. I tried to read the book but the inner dialogue was really hard to get through lmao. Awesome movie though huge recommend.

Clockwork Orange (1971)

Yet another trippy one. And fuck it's been a long time since I've seen it so I might get some stuff wrong here. But it's basically about this serial rapist guy who hangs out with this group of goons and they all like to go beat up homeless people and shit, but the main character gets captured and has to go through reformation therapy to make him a better person. It's an extremely bizarre movie but soooo good and kind of hilarious lol

Creep (2014)

Of course this is on my list haha. If you haven't seen it yet, it's a horror movie about this freelance film guy who answers an ad on craigslist to help a man with cancer film a movie for his unborn son. And shit gets weird real fast. One of my favorite horror movies ever, I wouldnt say it's super scary but it's fun as fuck

Hereditary (2018)

If I'm being honest, I don't like a lot of big movies made in super recent years and especially not horror movies (mostly because they're all cheap cash grabs with no substance) but this one is an exception for me. Hereditary is fucking masterful in my opinion, legitimately creepy as hell and well-produced and well written. To put the plot as vaguely as possible without spoiling anything, it's about a family (mostly the mother) who go through some crazy fucked up shit. That's literally all I can say without giving anything away. Super good flick, big recommend

Gattaca (1997)

This list isn't in any particular order, and I love all these movies to death, but if I had to rank them this would probably be on the lower end. It's not a bad movie, it's still great but it's just not as life-changing as the other ones lmao. This takes place in the future where genetic modifications have progressed to a point where you can modify your unborn child's DNA to have the perfect baby. This has led to, essentially racial bias against those who never had that procedure when they were born. The main character was not one of these "special" children, but he wants an extremely prestigious job which requires that of the employee. Through the film, he is trying to fake his identity and fool the company into thinking he is one of these perfect people. Still a great film

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

Johnny Depp, man, he is something else. I LOVE this movie. Based off a true story and a book written by the man who lived it, Hunter S. Thompson, this follows the adventure of the writer and his attorney as they go on a drugged-out, psychedelic romp through Las Vegas with the original intention being to cover a story on a motorcycle race, but things go off the rails as they both terrorize the entire city in a way. Just a fun ride the whole way, a great movie

The Truman Show (1998)

God I'm realizing this list is long as fuck. Don't watch all of these movies, it might take you a lifetime lmao. Anyway, this is a classic Jim Carrey movie and another one you've probably seen. But again, if you haven't, this movie is about a man whose entire life has been fabricated and shot for television without him knowing. Super great, super moving, fantastic film 10 outta 10 I gotta wrap this shit up

A Scanner Darkly (2006)

A lesser known Keanu Reeves movie, but fuck I wish more people have seen this. This is one of my favorite movies of all time, and it's based off a book which is just as amazing. This movie takes place in the near future, where facial recognition technology has progressed wayyy too far, and drugs have gotten to the point of no return. The plot follows a detective who is undercover in a junkie house trying to figure out who is the top of the drug dealing totem pole, but ends up wrapped in the junkie lifestyle a little too deeply. Seriously, I recommend this movie to everyone who asks, it's so damn good

Fight Club (1999)

Another popular one. If you havent seen it, it's based off a book by Chuck Palahniuk following the story of a man (the main character actually doesnt have a name lol) who meets a guy named Tyler Durden who changes his entire perspective on how the world works. They start an underground boxing club together to help themselves and other men blow off steam and get away from the capitalist consumer-centric lifestyle they are forced into. Big twist at the end, great movie five stars on yelp

Harold and Maude (1971)

This is a weird one. Gotta say. It's about a guy in his 20s who meets an old woman at a funeral and falls in love with her. Sounds pretty ok at face value but theres a lot of really strange subplots and a huuuuge twist at the end (one of the subplots being the guy compulsively fakes his suicide to get his mother's attention) big recommend

Polyester (1981)

This one I cant even explain u just have to watch it its fucking bizarre

Fargo (1996)

Ok lightning round on the synopses, this movie is about a man who wants to commit fraud by hiring guys to kidnap his wife so her father can pay them ransom and instead the husband gets the money but everything goes wrong it's really good

Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)

Another modern movie I actually like, last time I watched this I was on shrooms and it was crazy but it's about this hotel right on the border of california and (Nevada I think?) And all these weird people are staying at it and there are twists at every turn and chris hemsworth is a cult leader in it its great

Memento (2000)

GREAT MOVIE GOD PLEASE WATCH THIS ONE it's about a man who develops short term memory loss after witnessing the rape and murder of his wife AND WHEN I SAY THERE ARE TWISTS LIKE EVERY TEN MINUTES I MEAN IT. The film is chronologically backwards, in that the first scene takes place at the end of the story and works back from there in increments of like 5 minutes. Basically each scene is a segment of time that this guy remembers before his memory loss kicks in and he forgets and FUCK it's so good please god watch it

Almost Famous (2000)

This is another one that would probably be low on my ranking but still a great and fun movie, it's about this kid that wants to write articles about rock stars for the rolling stone (based off a true story btw) and he ends up running away to go ride on a tour bus with some band and gets into all types of shenanigans and its great and sad

Parasite (2019)

Another modern movie I love, fuck this is getting too long lmao. Poor family wants to make money and they hatch a scheme to pretend to be bougie and work for this rich family but shit gets weird and everything goes wrong and it's so good (also literally the only film ever that made me speechless afterwards)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Pretty much lives up to the hype, I totally forgot the plot but it's pretty damn good I remember that lmao

The Warriors (1979)

Fun movie, theres a bunch of teen gangs in New York and the leader of all of em is like "hey we should rally all the gangs together and fuck up the cops so we can rule this city" but then he gets shot by someone in the crowd and the gang The Warriors gets blamed so the whole movie is them running from all the other gangs so they can get back to home base and it's just an all around fun time movie

12 Monkeys (1995)

THIS MOVJE IS CRAZY it takes place in the future where a virus has almost completely wiped humans off the face of the earth so these scientists send this guy back in time to figure out where it came from so they can stop it from ever happening but obviously everything goes wrong and yadda yadda yadda it's amazing

Waking Life (2001)

Gonna preface this by saying this film is definitely not for entertainment, it's kind of an arthouse-type flick. It's the type of movie you have to think really really hard about to watch. The basic plot is the main character is stuck inside his own lucid dream, and is walking around listening to all these characters in his dream talk to him about, idk like the meaning of life and consciousness and shit. It's really good if you're in the mood for that type of thing.

Okay I'm finally done, you probably didnt expect this but I've been meaning to put my movie recommendations on this blog anyway haha. I deleted some just cause it was getting wayyyy too long. If u want a shorter list I can just give u like a top 5 in DMs but there u go have at it, every movie on that list is a banger I swear

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Fargo and Fiona Apple and Fetching the Bolt Cutters

One thing I do when I get obsessed with a character is make playlists for them in my head, like all the songs I think describe them or could be written by them or whatever. My favorite artist of all time is Fiona Apple and I couldn’t help but make the connection that half the songs on Fetch the Bolt Cutters could be about Rabbi Milligan (who I just found out’s name is really Patrick) and his relationship to the Faddas. 

Ok, here we go:

- The titular Fetch the Bolt Cutters - straightforward describes his life and needing to break himself out of his self imposed prison because he’s been punishing himself for 20 years and its time to get free. Further explanation - The fist part of the song describes his relationship to Josto and how it felt being rejected as a friend/brother (see Newspaper below) and how his childhood abuse affected his self esteem. He feels guilty about betraying the Moskowitz’, especially Ari, and probably has conflicted feelings about betraying his own family since, even tho his father deserved to die, the others might not have. He probably believed that he would become part of the Fadda family, but instead they treated him like a servant and constantly questioned his loyalty, which made him feel foolish for getting duped into choosing them over his own family; thus he thought he deserved what he got and had to punish himself. He’s been living a monk-like existence ever since to try to atone for his mistakes, but after 20 years, its time to fetch the fucking bolt cutters.

- Then there’s Relay. Again, it is straightforward about the cycle of abuse he was born into. His father burned him (metaphorically) and he’s been passing the torch by committing violence against other people, but also he managed not to fall into the trap of hating and becoming sadistic. He’s the only character with a conscience and I think he realized that he had to actively fight against becoming evil like the men around him. He refuses to let the same thing happen to another kid who is in the position he was in once. He’s trying so hard to stop the cycle of violence with Satchel, its heartbreaking to know it won’t work. 

- Newspaper is about his feelings toward Josto, since they were both abused by his father, and then used by Josto’s father. I think he probably thought he and Josto would be like brothers but then Josto rejected him and he imagines its because their fathers turned Josto against him, but still sort of loves him from afar. He has complicated feelings about him because he feels guilty about what his father did, feel like he understands him, but resents not being welcomed as a brother or friend. Josto (I imagine) hated him because he wanted to just forget and move on from what happened during the switch, but Rabbi is a constant reminder of the worst experience of his life. Plus, being abused by Milligan gave him a low opinion of Irish people and Rabbi (should I call him Patrick?) is therefore lesser than him. Secondarily, when he came home after 3 years he expected his father to be happy to see him, but because of Rabbi’s being turned, Fadda Sr instead wanted to parade Rabbi around like trophy for a little while to brag about his conquest and master manipulating skills. Of course, that became old news quickly and when he got bored he sent Rabbi back to the attic, but Josto stayed salty about his homecoming being overshadowed. Theres a whole other head canon I have about Rabbi’s relationship with Fadda Sr, but I won’t go into that now, its for another fic.

- Heavy Balloon is about depression in general and Rabbi has clearly been depressed for most of his life. But, like Fiona says, he’s been sucking it in so long that he’s busting at the seams. 

- On I Go is the simplest song, but I still think it applies to the character: up until now it was day, next day/up until now in a rush to prove; meaning he was previously just trying to survive the day and proving himself over and over to the people who wouldn’t accept him. On I go, not towards or away...now I only move to move: he’s running away with Satchel and finally doing something more, something for himself.

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ROAD TO THE OSCAR MAYER WIENER AWARDS 2K19

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, 2018 (dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)

Nominated for: Best Original Song, Best Costume Design, Best Adapted Screenplay

SPOILER ALERT THAR BE SPOILERS AHEAD ME HEARTIES BE YE WARNED

wowee what a cool film!!  i went into this not knowing much about it except it was directed by the Coen brothers (directors of Fargo and The Big Lebowski) which set real high expectations for me.  these guys are real masters of storytelling and what immediately come to mind when i think of movies that know how to effectively use dark humor.  i also love the kinds of stories they tell in general, how they take subjects and settings that seem kinda mundane and just give them this little extra spark. 

so is this newest film just as good as their other work???  well id say yeah for sure!!!  it reminds me a lot of a film they did shortly after The Big Lebowski called O Brother, Where Art Thou?, because theyre both period pieces AND because they both feature a myriad of eclectic and interesting characters.  the one thing that makes The Ballad of Buster Scruggs really stand out from their other films however is the fact that this is actually an anthology made up of six different stories, all set during the same time period in The Wild West.  its also worth mentioning that this movie was made to premiere on Netflix, which is something ive started to see more and more as the streaming platform becomes the new go-to source of media content.  its very exciting to see such prolific directors go the Netflix route and have great success with it, because it means that the platform really is capable of creating high-quality movies and TV shows and working with big-name talent.  im sure the big hollywood production companies are all quaking in their lil booties cause this means big BIG changes are on the horizon

ok so ive reviewed anthology series before, notably Black Mirror, and with those reviews i ranked the short stories in order of least to most favorite.  so i guess in this case ill do the same, although its hard to really rank these cause i truly enjoyed all of them in different ways.  there was one however that didnt really tickle my fancy much, which was “Near Algodones”.  this one stars james franco as a bank robber who seems to have met his match in a fiery (probably crazy) bank teller.  he gets caught and hung from a tree by the town’s sheriff, but nearly manages to escape death when a Native American tribe swoops in and kills the sheriff and his crew.  james franco is saved by a cattle driver, only to be caught again by the next town’s sheriff for allegedly trying to hawk the cattle (which was not the case at all).  right before they kick the chair out from under him at the hanging, he sees a beautiful woman in blue, who at first smiles at him but then looks unnerved as he stares back at her. 

i think with this one the ending really didnt do much for me, i kinda didnt get it.  i did understand the whole irony behind surviving punishment for a crime he DID commit but getting hanged for a crime he never committed, and the bank teller was pretty hilarious, but everything else about the segment was just ok.  james franco didnt really blow me away (he never really does but thats besides the point), the rest of the performances were fine, and the story just kinda zipped on through.  maybe ill give this one another watch to see if the ending makes any more sense to me, or if theres any sense to be made from it at all

next up for me would be “The Gal Who Got Rattled”, and this segment i have mixed feelings over.  its about this brother and sister who set out on the Oregon trail so that the brother can get his sister to marry his business partner in Oregon.  the sister seems like a kind of wishy-washy, subdued character who just kinda goes along with whatever her brother says without giving much of her own opinion.  i gotta give credit to zoe kazan (who starred in The Big Sick) cause she does a great job with this character, totally spot-on performance.  ok so turns out the brother is a fucken HORRIBLE businessman who screws up all his business deals all the time, and he tragically dies like two days into being on the oregon trail.  he has this annoying-ass dog that barks all the time and everyone else on the caravan is sick of it, so when the brother dies the sister just lets one of the trail leaders put it down.  turns out the sister like did not like her brother at all but was always too afraid to say anything.  now getting back to the bad businessman thing, apparently he had promised the helper boy that is helping move their covered wagon a large sum of money, half of it halfway through the journey and the rest when they get to oregon.  problem is, the sister doesnt have the money, so it was either left in the brothers pocket when he was buried or there wasnt actually any money at all and he lied, y’know, like a bad businessman does.  the trail leader who put the annoying dog down offers to help her, and the two start to get close.  so now its like a pseudo love story thing.  except it ends pretty tragically (the sister dies its a long story and pretty ironic just watch it if u wanna know)

so uuuhhhhh this one was long as shit, like a lot longer than the other segments when it didnt really need to be???  like it just kept  going and going, and again the ending didnt really make up for how long it was.  i really liked zoe kazan in this, but otherwise nothing to write home about. 

number four on my list would have to go to “All Gold Canyon”, which basically just follows the story of a gold miner in the mountains trying to get that money honey.  this segment is the simplest one out of the bunch, but i gotta say its absolutely gorgeous.  what beautiful scenery and cinematography.  it provides a nice contrast to our disheveled, run-down gold miner who is just tearing up the beautiful grassy fields trying to get to this gold.  there seems to be a theme in this one of man’s relationship to nature, and how the gold miner does put in effort to respect it but still takes advantage of it for his own benefit.  and i guess theres a broader theme of greed, or the ruthless and endless pursuit of wealth which can drive people to do crazy and desperate things.  i definitely really enjoyed this one, especially the gold miner character played by tom waits.  but otherwise it didnt stand out as much to me as the other segments im gonna talk about

SPEAKING OF WHICH heres number three!!  “The Mortal Remains” is right up my alley, and has some more mythical elements to it than the other segments ive talked about so far.  so we have a wagon full of passengers all going to this hotel for various reasons, and its a really diverse cast of characters: we have the older wife of a prolific religious lecturer, a rich Frenchman, a trapper, a foppish Englishman, and a cheery laid-back Irishman, the last two seeming to be companions of some sort.  they all get on the topic of the true nature of mankind, and the three characters opposite of the strange pair all have something different to say.  the trapper believes that all people are inherently the same, with the same basic needs.  the older woman disagrees and insists that there are two kinds of people, upright and sinning.  and then the Frenchman says that both of them are wrong, that human existence is much more complicated and nuanced than that; no one persons life is exactly the same as another’s.  and then we have the Englishman and the Irishman, who turn out to be bounty hunters of some sort (is heavily alluded that they are grim reaper-type figures).  they explain their method of completing their kills, and talk about how they enjoy watching their victims “try to make sense of it all” in their death throes.  these two clearly have a much more cold and sinister idea of the nature of mankind, and the rest become very unsettled all the way to the hotel.  no one else even dares to step out of the carriage while the bounty hunters drag their latest victim through the front entrance and up the stairs.

oh man this segment was great!  i think the reason its third on my list is cause i really wish there was more to it, like if the Coen brothers spent more time on this one instead of “The Gal Who Got Rattled” it would be perfect.  Jonjo O’Neill and Brendan Gleeson as the bounty hunters were so enthralling, and i loved watching them play off of each other.  hell, i couldve had a whole movie featuring those two.  and the screenwriting really shines in this segment too.  this segment almost feels like a fable or something, which is really fitting for the time period.  makes me wonder if they had based it off of an actual fable.  but anyway yeah this ones awesome!

i had a hard time choosing between “The Mortal Remains” and this next segment for second place cause i liked them both equally, but in the end “Meal Ticket” gets #2 purely because of the utterly fantastic performance by Harry Melling, who plays a quadriplegic actor in a traveling show run by liam neesons character, an irish traveling entertainer.   the story itself is really simple, we just see this disabled actor be carted from one town to the next, doing the same stage show which is basically just him reciting famous prose throughout the ages.  meanwhile liam neeson is trying to get as much money as he can out of the audience members.  he doesnt interact much with harry melling outside of feeding him and helping him piss and get dressed.  u get the sense that he doesnt really see his disabled actor as an actual person, but more of an entertaining object or a pet.  and this becomes even more apparent when the irishman gets some competition from another traveling entertainer who has a chicken that can do math.  he sees this chicken getting more money than him, so he buys it off of the other guy and takes it with him.  and finally, the poor limbless actor is literally and figuratively tossed aside for the next best thing.

man oh man what a great segment!  harry melling blew me away with his performance, the fact that he was able to get such a nuanced range of emotion out of the few lines he was given (basically he had to recite the same shit over and over again) was so impressive to me.  and his non-verbal communication was really solid too.  liam neeson did really well in his role too.  and again the story itself is really great, simple but effective and really gets the point across without having to beat the audience over the head with its message. OH YEAH ITS REAL GOOD LOVE IT

and finally we have my #1 pick, which i think the directors knew this was the best one out of the bunch too cause its the first segment as well as the title of the whole movie.  “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” has that signature Coen brothers wit and dark humor that i love, it plays off of typical Western movie tropes and is very tongue-in-cheek and i ate that shit up.  tim blake nelson as the titular buster is just so fucken perfect for this role, he really shines in this and its kind of a shame that its one of the shorter segments cause it really is the best one and he knocks it out of the park.  we got some great music in this segment too, which is where that Best Original Song nom comes in.   this one also has some strong fable-y vibes to it, like this story could be amongst the likes of American folklore like Paul Bunyan and Johnny Appleseed.  i wont get much into the plot of this one but i highly recommend watching it, even if you dont wanna see the rest of the segments. 

the segments fit together pretty well overall, although the tone of each of them differs slightly the fact that the setting and time period are the same is enough to firmly knit all these stories together.  its a really unique idea for a movie, and is so far the best attempt at an anthology movie that ive ever seen purely because the stories really all make sense together and play off of each other well.  in other anthology movies ive seen like The ABC’s of Death the segments usually dont have much at all to do with each other, except that they all fall in the same genre.  so overall id say give this a watch, especially if ur a Coen brothers fan, cause theres some real good stuff in here.

well thats all i got for now cowboys!!  i watched Roma the other day and CRIED REAL HARD so get ready for me to kiss that movies ass in a review that should be done in the next few days.  until then go uuhhhhhh lasso a cow or something.  chew some tobaccy.  fondle a barmaids titties.  die of dysentery.  y’know just old west things~

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legion review fx marvel

‘Legion’: The Next Generation of Superhero TV Legion is a new show about people with super-powers based in the Marvel Comics universe; when it premieres Wednesday night, it will be FX’s first such show in this genre. Because I’d been having a minor case of superhero fatigue—I don’t mean I’m a tired superhero; I mean I’m rather sick of superhero TV shows and movies—I was prepared to be irritated by it. Instead, I was enthralled: This is the best Marvel Comics-based TV show by leaps and bounds, by head and shoulders.

Legion stars Dan Stevens—yes, the sniffy Matthew Crawley from Downtown Abbey—as David Haller, a young man diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic, leading a miserable life of insecurity, fear, and bouts of destructive drug use. (His pal in misadventure in the latter area is wild-child Lenny, played with controlled abandon by Parks and Recreation’s Aubrey Plaza.)

As we see early on, David may actually possess telekinetic powers, which is to say, he can control objects around him with his mind. So, the good news: Not schizo. The bad news: Might destroy things without intending to. No wonder Stevens plays him as jumpy and mistrustful. Consigned to a psychiatric hospital, he meets Rachel Keller’s Syd Barrett (yes, the name is a nod to Pink Floyd’s trippiest member), a young woman who possesses a special ability that immediately links her to David. They are soon taken under the care of the psychiatrist Melanie Bird, played by Fargo alum Jean Smart. She leads a team of researchers who are conducting experiments with—and here’s the ta-da! Marvel moment—mutants living among us, waiting to be activated into doing (one hopes) good.

Legion has been adapted for TV by Noah Hawley, who’s been doing such a great job with FX’s Fargo and whose 2016 novel Before The Fall I recommend without reservation. Hawley brings a method of storytelling and a visual style that no superhero show has ever had. The story-lines fracture and double-back on themselves. When David goes into telekinetic mode, the screen explodes in a slow-motion riot of everyday objects swirling around him like a mini-tornado.

I’m not conversant in the Legion comics as created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Bill Sienkiewicz in the 1980s. I am very familiar with the first-gen X-Men comics as created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in the 1960s, though, and Legion certainly connects strongly and well to the mythology set out back then: Mutants as young, troubled people as much in fear as in thrall to their sometimes-uncontrollable powers; overseen by a powerful, science-based, flawed leader (Prof. Xavier in X-Men; Melanie Bird in the TV Legion).

Stevens plays David as withdrawn and twitchy; he’s also prone to little bursts of deadpan humor, a quality that also pops up elsewhere in the story, and humor is much-appreciated in superhero stories, which tend to be dreadfully solemn and portentous. Hawley knows you can’t do without a certain amount of overwrought pronouncements—that’s one of the things that makes comic books fun, and so you will hear Legion characters say things like, “He thinks he’s mentally ill, but he may be… the most powerful mutant we’ve ever encountered!” But you’ll also be delighted by David’s quick, deflating sarcasm, and the rapid-fire banter of characters like Lenny and Bill Irwin’s absent-minded-professor scientist Cary Loudermilk.

One presumes that David will eventually become what he is in the comics–the superhero called Legion, but there’s no indication of that in the three episodes made available to critics. Some may think of this as a slow-burn narratively; I think it’s just proper stage-setting. If Legion can maintain the balance of thriller-tautness and hallucinatory chaos he does so well in the show’s opening hours, this will truly be a unique and superb superhero series.

Legion airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. on FX.

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Interview: How Dark Side of the Moon shaped the music of Legion

Music hasan integral role inLegion,playing into the show’strippy artistic vision.Featuring artists like Nina Simone alongside original music from composer Jeff Russo, Legion‘ssoundtrack helped create the mostambitious X-Men adaptation to date.

Russo also works with showrunner Noah Hawley onFargo, and they bonded over The Dark Side of the Moonfor the 1970s-influenced tone ofLegion. We spoke to Russo about how music shaped the multisensory experience ofLegion, touching on Pink Floyd, auditory hallucinations, and Noah Hawley’s very specific music taste. Youcan listen along with thesoundtrack playlist and Russo’s original score on Spotify.

Legions atmosphere is intentionally confusing because the lead characters viewpoint is so unreliable. How do you use music to help create that unsettling environment?

One of the things I talked about with was to create music that sets the tone and the audience off balance. I would use multiple key structures in the same piece. Alot of dissonance, and a lot of key changes that are subtle so you don’t really recognize that its a key change. I go from playing with a synthesizer, and then I morph that into playing the same piece of music with the orchestra, but in an adjusted key.

Not to mention a bunch of atonal music as well, which is stuff thats just not meant to be played together. That’ssort of whats happening in David’s brain.

I read that The Dark Side of the Moon was a big influence on your work for this show. Could you tell me a bit about that?

The Dark Side of the Moon is one of my favorite albums of all time, and it also happened to be one of Noahs favorite records. He was like, The Dark Side of the Moon was sort of the sound of schizophrenia, the sound of mental illness in the ’70s. So why not use that as the touchstone for what the sound of this score might be?

The very first thing I did was find a synthesizer called a Synthi, made by EMS, which was the synthesizer they used on Dark Side of the Moon. I wanted to get a very authentic sound, soI found one in Florida and bought it.

Along with that synth, were there any other peculiar instruments you decided to bring in for this show, that you hadnt used before?

In the finale, we open with a solo harpsichord piece that I wrote. I found and rented a classic harpsichord from the 1800s and brought it into the studio. So Iwould say thats a pretty odd instrument for a television series. And then theres a lot of these orchestral effects and quartet effects, that I would say are definitely left of center. Not to mention what we did for episode 7, which was this big takedown/remix/reimagination of Bolero. I did a very electronic version of that piece that we then merged with the London Symphony Orchestras version, and ended up with something Iaffectionately entitled Fauxlero.

Alot of sound design elements as well. I put violin bows on bed springs, bowing metal and stuff like that to give this ambient texture that is very off-center.

Its interesting to hear you talk about using this old instrument along with the more ’60s and ’70s music, because theres this kind of ambiguous time period in the show. Were you thinking about that while working on the music, or is that something that came in with the visual style later on?

That was something I thought about from the very beginning. The idea was not to let it sound like its from any particular time. Youre really not supposed to know when we take place. Theres this ’60s mod element to the way we look, but theres also some very modern aspects. It wasnt supposed to sound like a nostalgic score.

Before you started working on the show and you were talking things over with Noah Hawley, what discussions did you have about your vision for the show?

The idea was how to make it sound like what a hallucination might sound like. Noah actually had me read this book called Hallucinations, and it was very informative. Theres a big section of the book on auditory hallucinations, and what someone whos having one might hear. So we talked about how to make it feel like you dont know whats real and what’s not.

Id try to make pieces that you didnt know where the beginning was and where the end would be. If you listen to it from the middle, you wouldnt know where you were in the piece. And if you listened to it from the beginning, you never expected an ending.

What was your involvement with the soundtrack elements that are not by you? Is that something you were involved with, or is there a music supervisor who was selecting those tracks?

Theres a music supervisor, but Noah is very clear on what he wants. Occasionally hell pick songs and hell call me and say, what do you think of this? Or, does this work with the score.But other than that, Im not really involved with choosing the songs. Thats mainly him and our music supervisor Maggie Phillips.

So, finally, have you started work on any ideas for season 2?

Well, no. I just started work on Fargoseason 3, so Im in the middle of writing and finishing the ideas and themes for that show. And we wont get started back with Legion… we start shooting in July, so Ill get started thinking about what those themes are going to be in June.

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