#non mention of EW and TTT although they were there too

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Unexpected sequels are the best

Who had on their bingo card that Jared Leto would spend the last days of 2024 in Thailand. Not only in Thailand, but in Krabi. At Railay beach at the Rayavadee resort, the place Colin Farrell stayed at right after the shooting of Alexander had ended in 2004? Of all places... Not on my card at least.

Jared shared this widely on Instagram and Snapchat. On the latter he chose Great Wide Open as soundtrack with the line

[I'm a thief; You're a liar] But we live in our wildest dreams; Into the great wide open Across a land of blood and dreams

The we get treated to a sunset view across a beautiful beach, which is at a different resort in Phuket now. This land "of blood and dreams" where an "I" and a "You" lived their "wildest dreams" ... it really looks like Mr. Leto gave us a personal 20th anniversary of Alexander after all. Thank you for that! There was nothing all year, no reminiscence, not even from Oliver Stone. Until these posts. You can't look at them and not make a connection to Alexander, even without an explicit mention of the movie, it's all over the messaging. The choice of location, Jared giving his sternest Hephaistion look. Like in 2004, and 2014, for that matter.

And with that comes the one who shall not be named.

Funny enough I realized something when I was making this post. Jared has edited the caption. "Some things change, others never do" was extended with an 🥸 emoji.

I don't know when it was added but it 100% wasn't there when he first posted the pictures in December. Please. PLEASE

It looks like this guy here ...

Come on! 😅 I don't care what anyone says this was deliberate. Added to the philosophical caption which expresses a very specific sentiment in abstract terms, which has no necessity there as a comment about the resort he's staying at - unless it addresses a different topic that he needed to communicate. It's got to do with that time frame "2004, 2014 and now 2024" and practically begs the question what hasn't changed since his first time in Thailand and he's certain will "never" change? "Things" can mean a lot. And I listen and I think everyone with a certain sensibility here will get it too. To quote 🥸-looking-actor circa 2004 concerning the relationship between Alexander and Hephaistion in the movie:

You'll probably get the fucking vibe unless you're blind and deaf.

I don't think we are, are we, blind and deaf? The vibe is vibing.

Farrell/Leto Throwback:

In April 2014 Jared was in Thailand, mind you, ten years after the shooting of Alexander had ended there, and he used the trip for a little sightseeing and a big ol’ non mention of the movie that allegedly “changed [his] life”. The year before, while campaigning for the Oscar, he had successively morphed back into his Hephaistion form - long, flowing hair and on/off beard - and then stayed this way for the next decade.

Thank you, Google Lens! These are the places he posted. All of those pictures (and some more) were captioned and sounded like a personal dialogue with someone.

left: “My view right now. Yours?”

middle: “Paradise. #ThinkingAboutYou.”

right: “The secret beach. #paradisefound”

Who could that someone be?

He went there after the shooting of Alexander had wrapped in February 2004 to recuperate. Depending on which old news source you trust, he fell down hotel stairs or from a table while dancing or jumped from a second story balcony, shitfaced in every scenario, thereby doing to himself what you can see in the picture and also jeopardizing the movie shoot, just a few days before it was to end. But he pushed through anyway and delivered some cool scenes. The photo shows him at Maya beach, the “secret beach” that Jared chose to post too ten years later. Colin also stayed in Rai Leh/Railay at a resort, where, ten years later, Jared chooses to make a sunset selfie and an intimate dedication. Such nice coincidences.

Was this the last great episode of FL signalling?

From what I remember, a few months later his yachting era would kick off in Capri with teenie future ex-girlfriend VK and CB and all those other people, giant ego boost included. And Colin? As was to be expected after the Golden Globes weirdness between them and after the release of an album (LLF+D) that was a breakup album with not so nice things said about a lyrical you that could’ve easily fit CF’s me, the cold era commenced.