#the balade of songbirds and snakes

[mesillusionssousecstasy]

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

I really liked the beginning of the movie.

The parallel between Coriolanus Snow and Lucy Gray Braid.

The building of the Capitol's words, the story about the beginning of the hunger games.

But I did not understand what happened to Coriolanus' father? Why he was killed?

I also wanted to learn more about Coriolanus' mother.

In a way, it's Dean Highbottom would make Coriolanus what he is at the end of the movie, which is terrible. But if he wasn't the one to toy with him, he would never have became what he is.

I was very disappointed by the end of the movie. The last encounter between him and Lucy Gray didn't make any sense at all! Him wanted to kill her. Come on. Not possible at all.

Also, why the guns where in the cabin. That didn't made sense at all.

My theory is that Lucy Gray was pregnant and she didn't want to go back to the Capitol, so that's why she ran away, away from him and from the Capitol.

You can find it in her lyrics:

"Cold and clean, Swirling over my skin, You cloak me. You soak right in, Down to my heart."

He would have been smarter to suggest a Victory tour with Lucy Gray, them together as lovers too. They would be able to live together at least from sometimes.

I cannot wait to read the books.

[malice-kingdom]

Sejanus angst ✨

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This was a request by @sejanusxfan

I apologize that I took liberties with the prompt. Hope you like it anyway :)

[gooberhopper25]

“finnick, making out with my fake bf? what? is he gay?? oh nvm he’s saving him lmao”

[sunsetling-12]

if suzanne were to write more about the hunger games series i ask nothing more but a little short story about tigris and snow's relationship falling apart

she loved him so much, her "baby cousin", she did so many things so he could live and in the end she smiled at the thought of his death

i have a theory it probably started when he became a gamemakers and began with all of the changes so the games would be more exciting to watch since tigris was always against the games, but i want suzanne's views on this so much!

[etfrin]

Do you ever think of Sejanus Plinth, the boy from district 2 who blatantly spoke against the Capitol and Hunger Games, and so deeply loved his friend who made him believe he could bring change only to flash forward a few decades and his district thinks of Hunger Games as a form of glory, and they're blindly loyal to the Capitol, just like he was to Coriolanus

[ear-a-corn]

TBT to this piece from last year!

[guinejpg]

just imagine that sixty years later or so you're like someone grandbaby in capitol and they are telling you that they were friends with the president back in the days of the academy and there was one time they saw president snow kissing a tribute girl from district 12 and you're just like "ok, grands, time to take your medicine"

[quijotine]

i've been listening to Can't Catch Me Now for days now.

it is my entire personality. it has consumed me. i-

the beauty, the rage, the sadness. i am BANGIng my head against the wall, do you understand me? 2023 is for the dystopic girlie reinassance and i feel so ALIVE.

[sherlockholmeshound]

No gonna lie but I feel like such a hater because I have watched BOTH Dune Part 1 and 2, and I...dont...get....it.

So much of the hype feels fake to me because I seriously can't like these movies as much as I wanted to. They felt too long, boring, weirdly paced and exposed, I didn't see characters but like a long, long, series of epic and beautifully crafted photoshots with super well known actors.

The worms are fun, but besides that I'm... At loss here. Perhaps I need to read the books.

But no only that, this is bringing some fandom wars between Star Wars and Dune and LOL, yeah not shocked there. But it's so interesting to me how badly people equal Paul and Anakin as the same, yet I love Anakin so much and Paul....he is there.

Maybe it's because how it was presented in the movie, but I didn't buy Paul and Chani's relationship at all and his supposed commitment to her, nor the internal struggles Paul is supposedly undergoing. It's like when people say Coryolanus Snow's backstory and motives were exactly like Anakin all over again (I did like BOSAS a lot though!!) ....but that's another rant.

Disclaimer that this is not me telling others to not enjoy Dune. This is me being frustrated because I don't get the new shiny big thing and I can't enjoy the party, it looks so fun :(

(it is me, however comparing about how every single protagonist guy gone villain are talked about as if they're the exact same when their enviroment and personalities are so different but ppl go around like they're exactly the same wahhh)

[eye-candy-film-enjoyer]

My favorites of 2023

I wanted to make little wrap up of 2023, so here are my favorite movies and performances from 2023

Top Five Favorite movies

#5 The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds and Snake - dir. Francis Lawrence

I am a YA/dystopian boy through and through. I thought this was a very faithful adaptation and very visually stunning. The performances were all great and I just really liked it. However, I had my problems with the book itself and I felt the movie didn't do a great job truly villainizing Snow (I found him too likable until like the end of the film) All in all though a fun watch.

#4 Saltburn- Dir. Emerald Fennell

If there's one thing I'm gonna do on this account, It's support a boy's wrongs. This movie has so many visual details and story details, it truly blows my mind. The soundtrack? Banger after banger. I'd never heard Murder on The Dance Floor before this movie but now I want to dance around a mansion to it. The cast? I mean just look at them. I do think occasionally this movie occasionally felt like it was just being shocking for shocking's sake and I got a little tired of it.

#3 Spiderman: Across The Spider-Verse- Dir. Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson, and Joaquim Dos Santos

I love art. There's no other way to say it. I am in love with creativity. The amount of details that are in this movie are so utterly mind blowing that every time I read about a new one, I feel like I have to rewatch this movie. The first Spider-verse film is an absolute masterpiece and this movie was not about to disappoint it. From the voice performances to the bleeding-water color, to animating on every other frame, this movie just had me floored. I hope it wins an Oscar for best animated feature or I'm throwing shit. I do want the second part before I fully judge the story but so far I think this is one of the best superhero stories in a while

#2 Barbie- Dir Greta Gerwig

I have never cried harder to a Nikki Minaj song. But actually, this movie made me fall in love with the simple act of being alive. It's a movie about a doll and yet its about enjoying life and growing up and how everything's so messy and it's so beautiful and we're so beautiful and I just. I get it. I get why Barbie wanted to be a human. We are all so fascinating. The ending montage alone is enough to make anyone with a heart cry. I hope that one day everyone is as in love with the world around them as this movie made me.

#1 Asteroid City- Dir. Wes Anderson

If you don't know the I'm Wes Anderson's number 1 fan, I'm doing something wrong. Truth be told, I didn't get this movie at first. I left the theater knowing that there was some deeper meaning but...what? So I thought about it for two weeks and then it hit me. There is no clear answer. There's no clear answer because the actors can't find a clear answer. There's no clear answer because the in-universe playwright didn't write one and maybe Anderson himself didn't write one. The movie has clear themes of grief and love and identity but at the end of the day what you choose to make of it is all up to you. There's also a lot to be said about how the play is existential and about uncertainty in the future and I think that's another reason I liked Asteroid City. I'm always so worried about the future. It terrifies me. But what can I do. And with that I once again realized that Wes Anderson was truly genius, and I don't think I'll ever see a film quite like Asteroid City again.

Favorite performances from each film

#5 Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird

I never got the hatred for Rachel Zegler. She was absolutely phenomenal in the 2021 West Side Story and she ate up Lucy Gray Baird. I just felt through the screen that Rachel understood her role so well. She played Lucy to all her vulnerability and strength and goddamn I am in love with her voice!! The old therebefore gave me absolute chills.

#4 Allison Oliver as Venetia Catton

being complete honest she's who I wanted to be in like middle school. Allison Oliver managed to play her as both such a free spirit and then to haunted on such the drop of the dime. From her subtle emotions to her snapping at Oliver in the bathtub she had me eating out of the palm of her hand. She would've loved Tumblr.

#3 Shameik Moore as Miles Morales

He had me laughing, crying, cheering and getting goosebumps the whole time. The absolute power Shameik Moore gives Miles is truly what tie the whole movie together. I feel like his performance often gets overshadowed for some of the bigger names in the cast and I truly find that shame. He gives Miles such a powerful and realistic portrayal that I admire it so deeply. From "Nah, I'mma do my own thing." to his conversations with Gwen to arguments with his parents, Shameik Moore makes Miles feel like a teenager who's trying to figure out who he is and a superhero saving a multiverse from collapsing

#2 Margot Robbie as Barbie

I'm fucking sick of only hearing Ryan Goslings name mentioned when we talk about the BARBIE movie! It is Margot's movie!! SHE ATE THAT SHIT UP!! She managed to so subtly bring in the changes of barbie being only a doll to being a real person. She provides so much of the movies comedy too. Her laying down crying had me wheezing not gonna lie. But she also shows us that how strong Barbie is and how she's so multi-faceted.She is truly someone little girls should see and be inspired by. Margot truly brought Barbie to life in all the ways that the audience and the script needed. She had me laughing, crying and smiling so goddamn wide the whole film. Here's to you, Margot.

#1 Jason Schwartzman as Augie Steenback/Jones Hall

It was the year of Schwartzman and nowhere was the proved more than in Asteroid City. Here we see, Jason Schwartzman playing and actor playing a single dad war photographer. Schwartzman manages to play all these layers so well, letting them blend together through on intense common factor: grief. Jones' grief bleeds into Augie in such a fascinating way that you might not even realize at first. It's so subtle and yet, it complete makes the performance. When we see Jones on his own a few times, though Jason Schwartzman manages to make him feel like a completely different man than Augie. The entire scene from Jones walking offstage to us being returned to 'Asteroid City' is truly some of my favorite acting of the year. Even through subtle expressions, we can truly see everything that Jones is experiencing. It's just such a sight to watch and it blows me away.

Some honorable film and performance mentions

Oppenheimer- Dir Christopher Nolan. Good film but a little too long if you ask me. Sorry!

Fav performance- Emily Blunt as Kitty Oppenheimer. She might not have been in a lot of the film but she stuck with me

Renfeild- Dir Chris McKay. Sorry I like fun camp! sue me!

Fav performance- Nic Cage as Dracula. I'm sorry Nic Cage is just so goddamn funny

Poison- Dir. Wes Anderson. Maybe the real snake was the Benedict Cumberbatch we met along the way.

Fav performance- Dev Patel as Woods. Wes please cast Dev Patel in a longer on of your films he ate this up.

Five Nights at Freddy's- Dir. Emma Tammi. I wanted to like it more but it felt like 3 different films until the last 20 minuets

fav performance- Matthew Lilard as William Afton. I want Stu Macher back after this.

The Swan- Dir. Wes Anderson. (Last time I mention Wes in this post I swear.) Hey Wesley! Quick question! WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?? Thank youuuu!

Fav performance- Rupert Friend as Narrator/Peter Watson. Yeah he was the only guy speaking and he carried! The one moment where he breaks the stoic delivery and truly pleads for them to not kill the swan? Wow.

Gaurdians of The Galaxy Vol 3- Dir James Gunn. I have never cried over cgi this hard in my life!

Bradley Cooper as Rocket. Just hearing him scream sob almost had me open mouth sobbing in public.

Scream 6- Dir. Matt Bettinelli-olpin, Tyler Gillet. Starting to get real pissed at radiosilence.

fav performance- Jasmin Savoy-Brown as Mindy Meeks-Martin. She's so funny, I love her.

If y'all want I also have a favorite tv shows of 2023 post

[sirnica]

I don't know what pov the new Hunger Games book will have, none of us do, but I've been thinking about two things:

Multiple PoVs: Something about the blurb and the title has a feel of an anthology book. I know this isn't what Susanne Collins usually does, but there is a first time for everything.

Plutarch Heavensbee: we would lose that mystery his character has, but we know he's from an old family. He probably grew up believing in the Games, watching them, thinking they were a good thing. I would love to see an awakening, his realization about what is actually happening as well as the beginning of the Revolution.

But, I look forward to whatever it turns out to be.

[swarmof2billionlocusts]

I love you media that ends tragically and soul-crushing with a happy 1st act to rewatch and pretend you don’t know anything yet

[malice-kingdom]

Judging you!

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I got a request from @snowcote to draw Coryo and Clementia and it actually motivated me to finish a big tbosas fanart I had abandoned.

I hope you like it :)

[gooberhopper25]

imagine you’re being chased by ceaser flickerman and al you hear is the trumpets that play every time he appears and the roar of the capitol

[sunsetling-12]

re-reading ballad for the movie (as if i do not have a thousand assignments due this end of semester lol) and let me tell you that lucy motherfucking gray knew how to play the games was insane

play as in the same way peeta played the games, if you know what im saying

that girl was a performer, and she was performing since the reaping, maybe not intentional *then* but later? in the zoo cage in the capitol?? oh, my girl was playing the popularity game and she was fucking winning it

she couldn't know about the capitol's plan to make the games more entertaining, and she also couldn't be thinking (in the very beginning, i mean) that it would be possible to get out of there alive, but she wasn't going to allow herself to die as a nobody

if the capitol was going to kill her, they better remember her name

[frenchfryqueen69]

GUESS WHAT

i made a character ai beauty and the beast au with coriolanus snow

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