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Janie and Tea Cake in Their Eyes Were Watching God
Elizabeth and Will in Pirates of the Caribbean
Rose and Jack in Titanic
Bianca and Adonis in Creed
Robbie and Ceclia in Atonement
Lucky and Justice n Poetic Justice
June and John in Walk The Line
Vivian and Edward in Pretty Woman
Joe and Kathleen in You’ve Got Mail
Nina and Darius in Love Jones
O’Connell and Evelyn in The Mummy
Ally and Noah in The Notebook
Ennis and Jack in Brokeback Mountain
Q and Monica in Love and Basketball
Jane and John in Mr and Mrs Smith
That’s it for now!
Anonymous asked:
do you have favourite ships from movies?
Will and Elizabeth, POTC
Their story is full of such angst and Keira and Orlando have amazing chemistry. I get that Johnny Depp essentially takes over the movie because Jack Sparrow is Jack Sparrow and people mostly talk about Johnny and Keira but Orlando and Keira, man, they fucking sell that relationship; they play longing and yearning extremely well:
Like even now in gifs, I feel that tension, that connection, that chemistry and when I watch a movie, chemistry is the first thing that’s going to get me to invest in a ship on a visceral level and movies have less time than TV shows.
Monica and Q, Love and Basketball
Well firstly I have such love for this ship and for this movie because Love and Basketball came out when I was 10 and it was one of the first young black couples I had ever seen onscreen and Monica was one of the first assertive, strong, passionate young female characters I ever saw on screen too so that alone means I have a very special place in my heart for their relationship and for the movie itself. Monica and Q was also one of the first ships I saw where they go from “hate” to love/friends to lovers and I love that they give each other so much shit but that they genuinely care about each other.
Harry and Sally, When Harry Met Sally
When Harry Met Sally is just an exceptionally well-written movie, I’ve studied that script (along with You’ve Got Mail but I will not put Kathleen and Joe as a ship because that relationship is actually fundamentally fucked up which I realized when I got older) and the relationship between Harry and Sally is witty and fun and just very real about two people who hated each other, became friends, slept together, stopped talking to each other and then realizing that they’re in love with each other, it’s just very smart.
Slevin and Lindsey, Lucky Number Slevin
I read somewhere that Lucy Liu said the most fun she ever had on set was on the set of Lucky Number Slevin and when you watch the movie, you can tell, you can see that she’s having a blast on set, that she and Josh get along really well, there’s a scene (she’s the neighbour) where she walks into Slevin’s apartment while he’s taking off a towel and Josh actually had no underwear on and he didn’t tell Lucy so her reaction is priceless anyway even before I knew any of that, Lindsey and Slevin have this incredibly quirky, cute, odd relationship that works so well and it’s just really fun.
Janie and Tea Cake, Their Eyes Were Watching God
This is purely chemistry. Tea Cake and Janie were supposed to have a wildly passionate relationship that consumed everything and Michael and Halle showed that with such intensity, I felt like leaving them alone when I saw the movie. When I found out Halle and Michael dated for a bit after this I was like well how could they not? I MEAN LOOK AT THIS.
Hildy and Walter, His Girl Friday
This is banter at its best, this is I loathe you but somehow I like you and I hate you for it, you ass at its best. This is still one of the smartest, funniest relationships I have ever watched.
June and John, Walk The Line
This was a relationship, I remember watching it and feeling both sad and happy and frustrated, their journey was kind of torturous to witness but Joaquin and Reese have really good chemistry, they just work well together and I really wanted to see them through and it’s another example of a well-written consuming love.
Arwen and Aragorn, Lord of the Rings
Because you get that sense of eternal, never-ending love between the two of them, that they’ll always be entwined no matter what and that it’s a driving force next to Aragorn’s sense of valour and honour to defeat Sauron.
Latika and Jamal, Slumdog Millionaire
Because tear my fucking heart out why don’t you?
Ron and Hermione, Harry Potter
The movies took away a lot of Romione’s nuance, a lot of Ron’s development and a lot of their dynamic as the movies went on (the first movie they did it spot on) but it’s Romione, I always ship Romione.
So someone asked me about my movie OTPs and the post was deemed “adult” even after I appealed it so I’m just going to try and repost it because that’s fucking ridiculous.
anonymous asked: do u have any movie otps?
Of course! Some are just on principle because of nostalgia or a book, some withstand even me now hating the movie itself now, some are about the actors just being compelling onscreen together and this isn’t to be confused with romantic movies/rom coms that I love, which is different because those movies don’t necessarily have my OTPs.
Monica and Q, Love and Basketball
Cecilia and Robbie, Atonement
Elizabeth and Will, Pirates of the Caribbean
Arwen and Aragorn, Lord of the Rings
Clemetine and Alonzo, If Beale Street Could Talk
Chiron and Kevin, Moonlight
Ziki and Kena, Rafiki
Evie and O’Connell, The Mummy
Jack and Rose, Titanic
Nakia and T’Challa, Black Panther
Quill and Gamora, Guardians of the Galaxy
Ron and Hermione, Harry Potter
Jasmine and Aladdin, Aladdin
Meg and Hercules, Hercules
Latika and Jamal, Slumdog Millionaire
Janie and Tea Cake, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Walter and Hildy, His Girl Friday
Joe and Kathleen, You’ve Got Mail
Harry and Sally, When Harry Met Sally
Wesley and Buttercup, The Princess Bride
Vivian and Edward, Pretty Woman
John and June, Walk The Line
Melanie and Jack, One Fine Day
Melvin and Carol, As Good As It Gets
Dorothy and Jerry, Jerry Maguire
Lindsey and Ben, Fever Pitch
Lindsey and Slevin, Lucky Number Slevin
I think I’ll end it here.
I’m absolutely serious when I say Beth and Randall are the only reason why I watch This Is Us and will stop watching the show if the writers break them up, that being said, this fight was a long time coming and a necessary blow-up. Beth is right, she’s the one who always bends and we see it throughout the series with William, with adoption, with the building, with city council, she acquiesces to his whims and on some level, I think Randall knows that because he couldn’t come up with any counter-points to Beth’s complaints. He just says that her entire persona is being the head of the household but he can’t even offer any perspective on the incidents she brings up, he doesn’t even articulate remembering these things differently. There are a lot of beautiful things about Randall and Beth’s marriage, which is why they’re the only reason I watch the show, but this is a very big issue that needs to be sorted (please go to couple’s therapy).
OK! So.
The first thing I did for this post was look for gifs of romantic relationships between black people on relatively popular TV shows outside of 90s sitcoms
I’ll add all three of Issa’s love interests because Insecure, for the most part, navigates romance through black relationships
(and I do note the serious lack of dark skinned couples)
Compared to:
Now to the point, I high key wish there was as much investment in onscreen relationships between black people as there is regarding interracial, specifically wm/bw, romances and more critical thought as to why it’s so rare to see black love in television shows.
Like I get the fact that fandoms are anti-black and that when white male characters are paired with black female characters, they go crazy because how dare a black woman sully a white fave and they’ll find every excuse to render the ship non-romantic or toxic or abusive or whatever else, I get that, but legit, it’s as if people fail to see the systemic anti-blackness in the fact that a well-written, earned love story between two black people is so rare to find in television in general (but teen television specifically) and most of the time if a black relationship is portrayed, it’s along the lines of:
Bonnie and Jamie share one kiss in 3x20 and then Jamie is just never heard from again and he was clearly a rebound after Jeremy and after Jamie, Bonnie and Jeremy reconcile and then it’s on to Enzo.
Or Edison and Olivia
where his purpose was basically to reveal to her how much she wants to be with Fitz.
Michaela and Aiden were engaged when the show started but it turns out he didn’t really love her and she didn’t really love him
she’s attracted to Caleb but oh wait, he’s a psychopathic murderer
A one night stand with Marcus that doesn’t lead anywhere.The framework here is basically Michaela has a idea of her “perfect black man” but the only relationship that actually fulfilled her that we had seen on the show is the one she had with Asher.
The erasure of black love is even in background details like how in The Good Place when you see the “soulmates”, it’s white couples or interracial
same in The Handmaid’s Tale, it’s either white couples or interracial couples
(and I didn’t even put gifs of all of the ww/bm relationships there are)
Another example of this is when it comes to the representation of LGBTQ relationships.
For instance, in The Get Down we have a predominately black cast, a narrative that explores the rise of hip-hop and disco through the perspectives of black teens but when it comes to Dizzee exploring his sexuality, the show goes to a white space as if New York in the late ‘70s didn’t have a black gay scene. Even in Black Lightning, we see Anissa with another black woman for all of two seconds and then that relationship is shunted to the side in favour of an interracial one,
which is why Damon and Ricky in Pose were such a refreshing dynamic to see (as well as Chiron and Kevin Moonlight and Kena and Ziki in Rafiki but those are movies and I’m focusing specifically on television).
There is a dismissiveness or a refusal to look at the fact that the only way to see black characters in loving relationships or relationships that are meant to have substance is when they’re married to whiteness or non-blackness:
Added to that, I feel like there has been this unspoken yet spoken idea that for [cishet] black women to be desired and loved onscreen, the goal is to pair her with a white man.
To find a black woman as a love interest for a white man in which a stable and loving relationship follows is rare when relationships with white women are staple. A black woman paired with a lead white male in a giant franchise is almost non-existent in media. Uhura is breaking stereotypes and showing that black women are desirable, in which one is so desirable that the most popular and loved Star Trek character, Spock, falls in love with her.
Clearly the above section is from a tumblr post defending Uhura and Spock specifically but I think the ideas here permeate the way bw/wm relationships are viewed as being the Golden Standard for black female characters because she inhabits a role white women usually inhabit, because popular, typical white leading men are intrigued by her, there’s a form of validation there that I think we should unpack because I find this idea myopic because whiteness is still centered. I’m ready to move on to more Nakia and T’Challa, Ziki and Kena, Damon and Ricky relationships as being staple relationships, to seeing functional, romantic, lustful, healthy, playful nuanced black relationships onscreen.
And this isn’t a call to stop shipping interracial ships, I have quite a few myself, I love Ashburn and I love Micasher and Silvermadi and Sasil and Jesus and Lafayette and Alisha and Simon and Chris and Jal and Kevin and Raymond etc. I have breakdowns and “love letters” to a lot of these ships, but this has been bothering me for a while so I decided to just post about it.
Why are Randall’s vows like me trying to write an essay in first year university? Oh my God, this is oddly relatable. I’m getting war flashbacks.
gemleilou asked:
Kyle and Maxine, Living Single (duh)
Hildy and Walter, His Girl Friday
Joe and Kathleen, You’ve Got Mail
Dan and Blair, Gossip Girl
Ae Ra and Dong Man, Fight My Way
Eun Tak and Shin, Goblin: The Lonely and Great God
Randall and Beth, This Is Us
Rufus and Lily, Gossip Girl
Summer and Seth, The O.C.
Merlin and Arthur, Merlin
Finn and Poe, The Rise of Skywalker
Barney and Robin, HIMYM
Harry and Sally, When Harry Met Sally
Jeff and Britta, Community
Danny and Mindy, The Mindy Project
Nick and Jess, New Girl
Cookie and Lucious, Empire
Ron and Hermione, Harry Potter
“That idiot, Hogwarts champion?” said Ron as they pushed their way through the chattering crowd toward the staircase.
“He’s not an idiot. You just don’t like him because he beat Gryffindor
at Quidditch,” said Hermione. "I’ve heard he’s a really good student - and he’s a prefect.“
She spoke as though this settled the matter.
“You only like him because he’s handsome,” said Ron scathingly.
“Excuse me, I don’t like people just because they’re handsome!” said Hermione indignantly
Ron gave a loud false cough, which sounded oddly like “Lockhart!”
So here’s the thing, I’m of course happy that Beth and Randall did not get a divorce because like I said before they’re the only reason I watch the show and I’m a huge fan of their onscreen marriage. I actually let out a sigh of relief when they kiss in the flashfoward.
At the same time, I think the fix was too quick. I didn’t want to see them separated but I wanted to see them work through their issues, I wanted to see them grow, I wanted to see them explore the issues that this situation brought about, I wanted to see them work at working? Or at least see them separated temporarily only to realize just how well they work together and re-remember all the good in their marriage that deserves to be fought for. Seeing them find the “door” so quickly had me pleased as a viewer but I also felt like it was a bit of a disservice to such a wonderful relationship.
Either way, Deja’s speech to Randall was everything.