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TAYLOR SWIFT Fortnight (2024)

MAMMA MIA! (2008) + tags about Colin Firth

does anyone have that gif set handy where an interviewer asks Colin Firth “so when you meet the Creator at the pearly gates when you die - what do you hope he’ll say?” and Colin Firth replies: “I thought you were quite good in Mamma Mia.”

Colin Firth understood the assignment.

anyone who said ryan gosling couldn’t pull off ken apologize NOW

“he’s too old” “he’s not enough of a himbo” “he won’t put his all into it” this one photo just proved u wrong

first of all I don’t “waste” time on stupid things I spend time on stupid things there’s a difference

girl help they are making me do my job at work

Friends forever (via)

The Princess Bride (1987)

i reject the idea that the only 2 stances to take on ghosts existing are “believer” and “skeptic”

Part of the reason I have a complicated emotional relationship with Javert is because— Javert is BAD. He is a BAD person

But adaptations often don’t understand why he’s bad, and make him bad for the wrong reasons.

In the book, Javert is bad because he’s a cop. He is the Best Cop It is Possible to Be, he’s honest and completely obedient to the law, and he’s TERRIBLE, because you can’t be “good” when you’re enforcing a system that is inherently cruel.

But like... in Les Mis 1998 Javert is portrayed as being an unusually evil person who just has a weird obsession with Valjean, unlike other cops, who are Good. Les Mis 1998 even adds a Good Cop side character who lets Valjean go free in Montreuil-sur-Mer, while joking with Valjean about how Javert is unusually evil and none of the other cops like him.

???????

And as I’ve ranted about a lot, BBC Les Mis Javert’s desire to enforce the law is portrayed as a good honorable quality, and there’s an entire precinct of “good cop” side characters who help him.....while BBC Javert’s actual “moral failing” is what Andrew Davies calls his “twisted love” for Valjean.

and I’m just like...eh? Javert is bad, yes!! But that’s noT WHY he’s bad. He’s not bad because he’s gay, he’s bad because he’s a cop. He’s not bad because he’s an usually evil cop, he’s actually an unusually “good” cop— and being a “good cop” is why he’s bad!

Anyway....my problem with these adaptations isn’t that they make Javert a bad person, it’s that they completely misunderstand why he’s a bad person. They turn a critique of the police as a whole into “one guy was weirdly mean, and then he died and everything was fine”

I've noticed that these types of "cops are good" interpretations also make Javert's death unnecessarily confusing. CONTENT WARNINGS FOR THAT. In the book his reasons for suicide are actually quite simple. He's been a FANTASTIC cop his entire life, and in one brief moment he realizes just how wrong he is, and crucially, just how much wrong he has done to Valjean and other prisoners (in the book he actually leaves a proposal for a more fair prison store system, that would allow prisoners to keep more of the money they rightfully made working, with his supervisor). His suicide is the culmination of his being a good cop. He realizes that by following the law of man, he's broken the laws of God, and in the book his suicide is described as the answer to the question "how does one turn in one's resignation to God" It's not a snap decision he makes because he can't catch Valjean. It's the logical conclusion of the level of rule enforcement Javert lives under.

Victor a Hugo said ACAB and people still don’t believe him to this day

Happy December 10th

nick parker’s napa house in the parent trap is THE dream house

so good

“Kitty gets some time to play on the slide.”

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