#tbh character deaths coming to a cinema near you

[richard-madden]

rules: answer 10 questions, come up with 10 more, and tag 10 people

(questions by @chlamets thank u for tagging me lovely <333)

happiest memory of 2020 so far? we wrapped the first day of filming for my friend’s thesis film at like 2am and we all got into this van, dropping ppl off. i got dropped off with my friend bc our houses are like 25 mins away but instead of going home we went to a 24/7 pizza hut and i ended up sleeping over. idk why this was my happiest, i guess bc of the whole day in general too and i got to spend the entire day working with the ppl i love?? mayhaps

favorite smell? copra drying out on the street under the sun whenever i come back to my province

at what time do you usually go to sleep? lately anywhere between 11pm to 3am

favorite movie scene of all time? in ‘portrait of a lady on fire’, near the end when marianne is running out of the house and heloise tells her to turn around and sHE DOES AND IT’S A VISION OF HELOISE IN WHITE, IN THAT WEDDING DRESS SHE SEES GLIMPSES OF HER IN THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE MOVIE IM ALREADY CRYING THINKING ABOUT IT FCUDVKCJ. that or the scene from ‘synecdoche, new york’ when phillip seymour hoffman visits his daughter and she’s on her death bed and then she dies and her rose tattoo falls out from her skin phEW cinema

a song that never fails to make you smile? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k85mRPqvMbE

favorite color to wear? im not rly fond of the color itself but i like wearing pink for some reason ??? or just white tbh it goes with anything

last book you read? last book i finished is ‘the coma’ by alex garland. currently i’m halfway through ‘i’m thinking of ending things’ by iain reid and ‘invisible monsters remix’ by chuck palahniuk

rain or thunderstorms? thunderstorms

a character that makes you feel too much? PADDINGTON

what was your favorite cartoon as a child? idk probably mr bean or baby looney tunes

my questions:

how would you describe your aesthetic? if you don’t believe in aesthetics, what’s one word to describe yourself instead?

what’s one song from childhood that you still know the lyrics to without looking them up?

what’s the weirdest obsession/fixation you’ve had?

are you a blossom, a bubbles, or a buttercup? elaborate.

what’s a bad habit you have?

do you have any pets? if yes post pic pls i wanna see

what’s the story behind your url?

what’s one random fact that you’d have no practical reason for knowing?

what’s one trend you can never get behind?

describe your zodiac sign without saying what it is

tagging: @hecxtewrites @genre @dejjavus @tom-hiddleston @adrianjpg @sparrowrps @chevans @nosferatutu @gkellmans @alaricwrites

[katyaton]

These Things Are Fun Lets Give It a Go

Tagged by the lovely @mygeekcorner​ !!! 

RULES: answer all questions, add one question of your own and tag as many people as there are questions. (…. yeah not doing that one sry)

tagging: Whoever wants to do it!!! I’d love to get to know people better :) I’m also shy and would like to tag more but don’t want to overstep my bounds. @dreamsinteacups @rollertoasteroflife @booksncupcakes @ramigo and @totallynotanobody and @nakedpasta (you last two can just tell me in person if you want, haha)

1.      coke or pepsi: Coke!!! Drinking Pepsi where I live is basically blasphemy. 

2.      disney or dreamworks:  Both excel at different things. Hard to pick just one, really. Depends on my mood. 

3.      coffee or tea: I feel like by now most of you know, but Tea all day everyday. 

4.      books or movies: books

5.      windows or mac: windows…. I have so many issues with macs i swear the computers can sense my fear.

6.      dc or marvel: Gotta go with marvel. Their universe and interwoven story lines are A+.

7.      xbox or playstation: Playstation - it’s what I grew up with as a kid.

8.      dragon age or mass effect: neither. don’t play them.

9.      night owl or early riser: Night owl

10.  cards or chess: Cards - I feel like there are a lot more games you can play with them.

11.  chocolate or vanilla: Chocolate!

12.  vans or converse: Converse I suppose

13.  lavellan, trevelyan, cadash, or adaar: ????

14.  fluff or angst: I need a healthy dose of both. It also depends on my mood, but I have to say that i’m slightly partial to angst. 

15.  beach or forest: Beach if I had to choose.  

16.  dogs or cats: Cats!!

17.  clear skies or rain: Definitely rain

18.  cooking or eating out: Eating out can be fun, but i’m also cheap and really like to stay inside, so probably cooking more 

19. Spicy food or mild food: I like a bit of spice on things, but overall most of my food is on the milder side. 

20.  halloween/samhain or solstice/yule/christmas: Halloween is good but I love the atmosphere surrounding Christmas and just the general good cheer and attitude. 

21.  would you rather forever be a little too cold or a little too hot: Where I live is super hot so I’d have to say cold. Also, when you’re cold you can always put on more layers. There’s only so many things you can take off when you’re too hot.

22.  if you could have a superpower, what would it be: I’ve been adamant about this for several years. I would choose teleportation. Just think how much money you’d save? No more plane tickets, no more paying for cars/car insurance…. You’d also never be late to anything, ever and your commute time would be zero! And if a bad guy is near you you can just teleport away!

23.  animation or live action: Depends on the subject matter. If it’s more fantasy I’d say animation. If it’s more entrenched in drama I’d say live action.

24.  paragon or renegade: ????

25.  baths or showers: showers  

26.  team cap or team ironman:  I love them both dearly but I have to say I’m partial to Cap. He’s just so pure and good.

27.  fantasy or sci-fi: I really love both, but I think I ere on the side of fantasy

28. do you have three or four  favourite quotes? if so what are they:

“I want that” (via Napoleon Dynamite)

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”  (Dr. Seuss)

“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”

(J.K Rowling…. this was actually my senior quote in my year book)

29.  youtube or netflix: netflix

30.  harry potter or percy jackson: Harry potter, however I really also love Percy Jackson as well. They’re both good boys. 

31.  when you feel accomplished: when i finish reading a 150,000 + fanfic in 1-2 days. 

32.  star wars or star trek: star trek.

33.  paperback books or hardback books: Paper back only because it’s less expensive. I understand that hardbacks are superior though.

34. horror or rom-com: Probably horror, although it can’t be one of those super cheap horrors that rely on jump scare or whatever. It needs to be legit and interesting. 

35.  to live in a world without literature or music: What would be the point to life???

36.  pastel colours or dark colours: Pastels

37.  tv shows or movies: shows - you stay with the characters longer and there’s more time for character development and complicated plots.

38.  city or countryside: City. I like the country for like… a few days, but then after that I get really board. As much of an introvert as I am I still need things going on around me to be happy.

39.  if any other zodiac sign could describe you, what would it be: Don’t get me started on this pseudo-psychology….. (*whispers* prob a virgo)

40.  if you could only listen to one album for the rest of your life what would it be: Oh god this is hard. I don’t really listen to albums, mostly just individual songs that I like. If I had to pick one, though, at this point I’d choose Hamilton. 

41.  cinema or theatre: cinema simply because I rarely, if ever, go the to theatre. I know I enjoy it, but it just happens so rarely that I can’t really compare the two.

42.  if you could be any fictional character’s best friend, who’d you be: Yuuri Katsuki or Kuroko Tetsuya. I feel like with both we’d get along really, really well.

43.  smiling or smirking: Smiling. Smirking has a rather negative connotation, no?

44.  are you an ‘all or nothing’ type or are you more consistent: Consistent

45.  playlists or your whole library on shuffle: Playlists. If I shuffle things I always end up skiping until it gets to the song I actually want. 

46.  travelling or staying at home: Traveling, but it can’t be 24/7. I definitely need time to recharge at home once in a while.

47.  books or fanfiction: Both are great, but tbh like most of us I have only really read fanfic recently. I have a few published books that I’m currently trying to get through, though!

48.  If you could live in a fantasy world, what world would it be: Probably Harry Potter, but only if I was a witch. Having magic would solve so many of my problems!

49. your favorite cartoon: It’s kinda up for debate whether it’s an anime or cartoon, but I’m calling it a cartoon made in the anime style simply because it’s not Japanese made. Avatar the last airbender/Legend of Korra

50.  name the weirdest five songs on your itunes, current or past: Hmmmm ok here’s what I came up with

Chum Drum Bedrum Ok I love this song so much. The singer completely describes how I am as a person: hella awkward, long and lanky, and flowy. He represents me on so many levels. 

2-1 by Imogen Heap Not a lot of people know about this song but I find it so intriguing and interesting. Definitely not everyone’s cup of tea, though. 

Wide Eyed by Animal Collective This song is what it sounds like if you're on LSD, I imagine. 

Five Night’s at Freddy’s Song 1 This song is very strange - it’s based off of a horror computer game - but you have to admit it’s jammin.

Seaboard Rise 49 Literally heard this song at a music museum and it’s the most lit keyboard song you will ever hear I guarantee it!!!

51. mountains or plains: mountains

52. favorite anime (or tv show if you don’t watch anime): Yuri on ice (of course), Death Note, Death Parade, Kuroko no Basket, Ouran High School Host Club, and Erased. (sorry couldn’t pick just one!)

53. which social media platform are you most like yourself on: Tumblr in terms of personality I suppose, but since I try to not post everything about my life on here there are a lot of things missing that don’t really come through. I’d say facebook simply because almost everything about me is uploaded on there, by one person or another. I’ve had my facebook since I was in 7th grade, so it’s really documents my life almost. I’m not really into any other social media other than those two. So in conclusion, tumblr in terms of personality, facebook in terms of being able to open up more about my life.

54. What are some of your passions: I am in love with the brain. I think that it is akin to the deep ocean or the universe - there are so many things we do not understand about it. It also houses our personality, every thought, memory, emotion. Every little nuance that makes us human. Yet it really is just a collection of water, lipids, proteins, and neurotransmitters, yet somehow in all of that we have developed a complex sense of self. Are our personalities really separate entities, or are they just a complex construct that our advanced brains have superimposed to make sense of the chaotic word that we live in??? Basically I want to research some sort of neuroscience/biopsychology related field. 

I also love genetics for similar reasons… I find it fascinating that some sort of elemental coding for our functioning lives inside us. 

I’ve also found a new passion for writing as of late :)

[sufilmbologna]

Fare Thee Well (Dink’s Song)

So this will be my Final Long Post. No Ifs ands or Buts. I’ve wrote 8-9 of these suckers at this point (shame those other ones didn’t count but ya know you gotta write about film in the film program *color me shocked) but here is my last one.

I’d like to do an overall review of this program and the Film Festival. I haven’t been this happy in a long time and I’m sad to leave. I’m really gonna miss Italy. Alex talked about how when you go to a film festival you feel like you’re home that is exactly how I felt. Home.

I’m gonna have this be an extra long post (when had that stopped me from going over 3k characters before) so I can fulfill my obligation of talking about film whilst I talk about the program as well.

So a brief overview:

We started off viewing a few Italian Neorealist films (Rome Open City, Momma Roma) and being given readings to help us better understand the films. Many of the readings were great if you could sit down and get into them. When you’re in Italy it's very hard to do that when you want to explore. They could also be quite dry. I’m more of a spark notes kind of guy tbh; I’m impatient.

For those going into the program in the future do the readings before you come if you have the chance. It will give you time to process the information and more time to explore Italy.  

Then we watched 4 Months, 3 weeks, and 2 days by Cristian Mungiu a notable Romanian filmmaker who we would later meet and watch said film a second time. I don’t think any of us asked any questions of him - either because some of us chickened out and others of us had no questions (I thought the film was clear to me and he’d explained enough).

I don’t happen to have the syllabus on me at the moment but if I recall correctly right before the film festival started we went to Turin’s National Cinema Museum. It was a sight to behold. The view uptop was great but the real treasure was what laid inside the building. Film peraphinalia from a myriad of different famous films.

They had several exhibits where you could see how sound affects a scene with the option to change the music and notice a tonal and/or mood change. Sound as we’ve been taught has a huge effect on the overall experience. Telling you what to think and feel.

They also had an exhibit that was a first person virtual reality but you had to work it with your hands on a screen to look around 360 degrees. However my favorite one, because it got Anna dancing, was one that played different music to a beat and created a missenscene using lights.

The props were cool too stuff from the old horror Frankenstein days, Aliens, Jaws, etc. All films near and dear to my heart. Even films I wasn’t too familiar with it was still a pleasure to see the love and passion to maintain the films legacy for generations to come.

Then the film festival happened. It was essentially as I stated on one of my posts. We all watched at least 3 films a day (or went to events) that Alex and Donato had selected from the overall list. A greatest hits list so to speak; apparently so good the grad students started following ours.

There were a wide variety of films on offer - Mexican, French, Italian (of course), Japanese, Chinese, American, etc. A little bit of flavor for everyone. Truly the spice of life.

We gotta chance to have an audience with Martin Scorsese. Who spoke to the auditorium about his life, what he did to get where he was now, what he thought of filmmaking, where it was going, and how it needs to be preserved for future generations.

Martin Scorsese I believe is one of the greatest filmmakers of his time. He looked frail; age sadly is catching up to this great so I’m humble and happy I got to have that experience. Not many people can say they have.   

I talked of the other highlights for me in my other reviews. However I didn’t speak of a particular actor who caught my eye at the festival. Marcello Mastroianni who appeared in a couple films that had elements of dark comedies (up my alley). They had 8 ½, Divorce Italian Style, and Il bell'Antonio.

I never was aware of this actor, but now that I am; I’m checking out more of his filmography and loving it. The films were an experience and it was nice to hear them talk (when it was translated) about how they made it or other fun anecdotes.

The best way to  experience cinema is to see it in theatres with other people who share your passion and enjoyment of the medium. The restorations offered were varied and they did justice in their restoration to make it as much like the original releases. The SU Program offered so much it's really hard to do it justice in one post.

A restored film from Mexico (1940s) was shown that acted as a rom com. (it was very serious at first but then changed to a comedy imo to catch you off guard). People in our group had a crush on the main protagonist after - which I got a kick out of.  

The most thought provoking film I believe we saw at the festival was the Swedish Seventh Seal in which a knight returns from the crusades and plays a game of chess with death. Obviously I’m selling it short but I can tell you it asks many philosophical questions and has moments of darkness and levity. Worth a watch.   

It was truly an experience and I got to meet people from around the world (people from Belgium, Africa, France, Italy, England, even West Coast Counterparts). They all loved cinema and had their own or similar experiences we could bond over. It was nice talking to people who I felt understood me and shared the passion.

Once the festival was over we got to go to the lab where they restored everything and saw all the work that went into what we got to view (taking it for granted tisk tisk). It really makes you appreciate all the time and effort that goes into these endeavors. I also took away some useful information to preserve your film the best way is film.

The whole festival is something I’d love to do again. Certainly makes me think I need to get out there more. Now I just need more film buddies to go to these things with…

After the festival we didn’t stop we continued to watch more films and learn about what layed beyond Italian Neorealism (the successors to the crown). We learned about Antonioni and Fellini.

There were two “big” projects during the course of this program - two films made with groups. The second one will go to the last day of class so be prepared to pull an all nighter. As long as you guys take turns it will be manageable.

Alex and Donato can be demanding but they’re not merciless they’re there to help and make you a better filmmaker. I suggest you heed their advice and ask for any help you can.   

This program is something I’m never gonna forget. It was a great time and something I’ll look back fondly on. Save for my missing watch it was a great adventure.

Christopher Purcell Class of 2019 Signing OFF

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