“I laugh, because I will cry if I don’t.”
— Hedwig Robinson
“I laugh, because I will cry if I don’t.”
— Hedwig Robinson
just saw asteroid city last night, pls explain the proposed significance of the kiss!!
answering this publicly hope thats ok! cant do a readmore im on mobile *****asteroid city spoilers below beware*****
i dont remember anyones names so this is gonna sound partly unhinged. okay so the edward norton playwright and jason schwartzman actor (not character, in the black and white parts) are lovers right. tbh i thought this was kind of a gag and forgot about it. but later we find out that the playwright died 6 months into the production. i didnt make the connection that THAT’s why the actor-jason has to suddenly leave the stage and freaks out backstage about how he’s not sure he’s Doing it right. hes not talking about acting!! because he himself is literally grieving his lover while he’s playing a character who’s grieving his wife written by his lover so obviously it’s too much!!! actor-jason is trying to find meaning in his death through his writing but there isnt any meaning in death [gerris drinkwater voice] which is what the play is trying to say anyway. he doesnt think he’s performing grief right even in his own life!!! (and tbh it’s the 50s so he wouldnt be able to perform grief publicly anyway!!!!) the play starts with a car accident… anyone would search for some hidden meaning there, some sign…. so when he talks to margot robbie outside it’s not really about finding the CHARACTER’s motivations it’s about the actor himself being able to process the playwright’s death! and adrien brody director was probably also dealing with that too (him and norton seemed to be good buddies) so the whole “sleeping backstage” thing gets a bit sadder maybe? maybe everyone else got this in the theatre and im just stupid lol but crazy making stuff to me!!! the whole story is about sublimated gay grief that cannot be expressed?!?!
the tweet that caught me onto this was here which posits that the playwright’s death was a suicide but i think that’s pretty stupid and unnecessary because the whole thing about the play asteroid city is that death is random and meaningless. im pretty sure that’s what the alien represents— a shocking and absurd event that isnt outright evil or menacing, not something anyone can predict or make sense of, it’s just a thing that happens to you out of nowhere, it doesnt mean anything. he’s a little black figure, he’s death! giving and taking! aagh
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💖💖💖 ITS FINISHED!! PLEASE WATCH!! 💖💖💖
and in case it gets taken down on youtube due to copywrite of music
christian borle fans are so weird we just go ‘yall he’s so hot -literally the worst picture you’ve ever seen-’
thinking about that one scene in another country (1984) where rupert everett and cary elwes sneak out of their dormitories at night and meet in secret to go sit in a boat on the canal and just Hold each other 🥺
Me falling down another rabbit hole of a play turned into a movie? You know it, baby! 🤩
yall wish u were him
Shrek / Princess Mononoke parallel
constantly thinking about how if elle hadnt gone to harvard to follow her ‘one true love’ she would have never met the actual love of her life
haven't been able to stop thinking about
Shrek 2 (2004) dir. Adam Duritz
this is exactly what intrusive thoughts are like
this song sounds fucking awesome
dan posting hours. if u get it u get it
Grogu telling Luke about his adventures with Din on their way to the Jedi temple:
I finally got around to reading The Glass Menagerie, and I knew that the final line of it was in The Boys in the Band, but I never fully understood the connotations of Michael saying, “blow out your candles, Laura.”
Now I’m just trying to fully decipher that. And oh boy. 💀