#last holiday

[cyhaino]

LAST HOLIDAY (2006) + letterboxd reviews

[samwinchestersgirl83]

Yes Dean, we saw you checking out Sam all dressed up. No Dean, you can’t mask that initial look you gave your little brother when Sam said he was going on a date with Eileen which was unfiltered jealousy.

[thisusedtobeafanpage]

THEY CARVED PUMPKINS 😭😭😭 AND IM PRETTY SURW I SAW A THANKSGIVING DINNER AAAAH I CAN'T

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[soullessjack]

okay but like. cogs turning .. last holiday truthing cwt maxxing… the sheer difference in dialogue between the script and the episode is killing me. the deliberate choices made to change said dialogue and even the ending…

like am I alone in thinking that this whole exchange in the dungeon was very oddly disjointed? very “nobody fucking talks like that” core. they just say shit but it doesn’t land with the other’s response.

and especially when you compare it to the draft:

for some reason or another, the writers deliberately cut out jack’s lamentation that he is still dangerous, that mrs butters is right to be doing what she’s doing, and that nothing has been the same between him and the Winchesters since he’s come back. they deliberately cut out dean saying “you’re one of us, and you have a chance to make it right.”

there’s also the glaring difference between how sam and dean defend jack in the episode vs the draft. in the draft, they say this:

D: “You said you didn’t want to destroy this family, but Jack is our family.”

S: “You hurt him, you hurt us.”

Mrs B: “No, he’s infected you. I have to keep you safe.”

D: “By trying to kill the people we care about?”

Mrs B: “No, he’s a monster!”

D: “Aren’t we all?”

•••

not only do sam and dean say that jack is their family and someone they care about, but they also explicitly hold themselves on the same monster totem mrs butters holds jack to (much like what dean said in tombstone, “we’ve all done things, so if you’re a monster then we are too,”

…which all then gets cut and turned into “He can save the world.” no, don’t kill jack, he’s our family and we care about him and he is good despite his mistakes -> no, don’t kill jack, he can save the world.

the explicit choice to center jack’s worth on his usefulness rather than his inherent value as the winchesters’ family and even just as a person, rlly speaks so much to the way he’s essentially narratively doomed to be dehumanized as a tool/weapon/device.

and the fact that this is all eventually preceded by Cas saying “you never needed absolution from sam or dean or me. we don’t care about you because you’re useful or because you fit into some grand design. we care about you because you’re you,” (which in turn is preceded by jack fitting into a grand design and fucking off to the raindrops forever), makes it seem either a painful inconsistency or some weird twisted inside joke between the writers (cough season 16 cough cough puke).

I haven’t posted about it a lot but I truly think there’s some vast trapped-in-the-narrative horror working around jack constantly being dehumanized both within the show as a living weapon and by the writers themselves as a plot device.

shits wack I guess

[nero-neptune]

in the new year, try to laugh more, love more, see the world, and not be so afraid!

[wholesomemorbid]

Lately I've been drawing Romcom Heroines ~ <3

[kcyars189]

If you’re reading this letter, my disease has run its course. Enclosed is some money for my burial. I would like to be cremated. Spend my whole life in a box. I don’t want to be buried in one.

⤻ Queen Latifah as Georgia Byrd in Last Holiday (2006), dir. Wayne Wang

[frankenstein-ate-my-left-shoe]

been thinkin about a steddie 'last holiday' au

[winchestress]

he was considering choosing the sandwich

[sweetfirebird]

I don't know what year Last Holiday came out and I am too lazy to look it up, but I would say mid 2000s because I remember watching it when I worked at a video store and also people in it are using flip phones.

Anyway, love when a movie from about twenty years ago is like, the premise of this comedy (haha it's a comedy) is this woman working a low-wage retail job and saving all her money to live her dream maybe someday, only then she gets diagnosed with a terminal illness which --there IS a treatment for but her HMO won't cover it, so she is basically sentenced to death.

haha it's a comedy!!

I mean it was actually very cute. But that is the basis for the movie. That's how it begins (and because it's a comedy, she does not have the terminal illness because of wackadoo shenanigans. surprise!) and it's not really addressed. The evil CEO guy responsible for all this is in the movie, and he's a dick as you'd expect, and we're supposed to believe that he gets his because his wife eventually divorces him and stuff but the systemic issue is left there and also we know in real life, guys like that never actually get theirs, they get rewarded.

Anyway, it was just very strange. Very American, to have that be the set up for a comedy movie and then because she didn't actually have that illness, it's fine at the end. So so American. Not that the comedy movie needs to be a revolutionary rallying cry or that this one woman is supposed to singlehandedly take on the system. In fact her seeking out joy in the face of death and disinterest from her bosses/society is revolutionary in itself (although doing so cost her all of her savings because she was treating herself to the luxuries that were commonplace to the elite).

The weird American part is the fact that this was inciting incident in a comedy. HMOs, amirite???

[movies-to-add-to-your-tbw]

Title: Last Holiday

Rating: PG-13

Director: Wayne Wang

Cast: Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, Timothy Hutton, Alicia Witt, Giancarlo Esposito, Michael Nouri, Gérard Depardieu, Jane Adams, Michael Estime, Susan Kellermann, Jascha Washington, Matt Ross, Ranjit Chowdhry, Jaqueline Fleming, Kendall Mosby, Chloe Bailey, Halle Bailey

Release year: 2006

Genres: comedy, drama, adventure

Blurb: The discovery that she has a terminal illness prompts introverted department store saleswoman Georgia Byrd to reflect on what she realises has been an overly cautious life. With weeks to live, she withdraws her life savings, sells all of her possessions, and jets off to Europe, where she lives it up at a posh hotel. Upbeat and passionate, Georgia charms everybody she meets, including renowned Chef Didier. The only one missing from her new life is her longtime crush Sean Matthews.

[thisusedtobeafanpage]

I'm not even halfway through this episode (s15 e14: Last holiday) and I already feel like crying

they're getting treated nice FOR ONCE and getting their home FEELING like a home and they're getting proper meals and dean got an AMAZING pyjama robe and they got Christmas cookies and Jack got a smoothie and a sandwich and and

[janewayforpresident]

Always remember the infinite wisdom of the movie "Last Holiday:"

When you begin pouring love and care into yourself, you will find the good things and good people you deserved all along.

Also, you will date LL Cool J 🖤

[subearnatural]

Yes, my human knitted this. No, I don’t approve of it.

[whatthegayle]

Last Holiday 2006