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divorce movie!stevetony + ship dynamics

CARMEN "CARMY" BERZATTO in every episode of THE BEAR (2022 — PRESENT)

1.04 “DOGS”

Via @danacea at Bluesky.

The world changes. It is inevitable. Perhaps the only thing that is inevitable.

Where are the acting awards for Jonny Lee Miller in Elementary? That man takes one look at Watson and you see: my most favorite treasured person, what is she even doing?? I am so lucky to have her in my life, How shall I wake her up tomorrow? I want to solve crimes with her forever, I would kill for her, die for her, change for her, I’m going to throw a tennis ball at her back just to see what she does, written all over his face.

Freddie Mercury posing on his car

Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins (1964) dir. Robert Stevenson

Filippo Palizzi (Italian, 1818-1899)

La fanciulla sulla roccia di Sorrento

To The Substitute Art Teacher - Jordan Bolton

unfortunately even if you divorce it completely from christian rhetoric &c saint francis hagiography remains incredibly cool and also kind of hysterical

he was born as giovanni but one day his father decided to change his name to francesco because he made money selling fabrics imported from france. he grew up in a well off family joining his father's business and drinking and sucking and fucking with all the other young men in assisi. then he was sent to war on his horse. he was imprisoned. then he was gravely ill. he recovered. then he was about to go back to war but said nope actually and turned his horse around. he fell ill again. and at this point he went crazy. just kind of insane. he started throwing out his father's fabrics. he threw his money at people. he kissed lepers with tongue. he went all the way to rome just to take his clothes off and gift them to random people. his father pressed charges against him for being batshit insane but he got naked (again) during his public hearing in the town square and people kind of didn't know what to do so they just let him go. he started his order and he was being borderline heretical with his pauperism but the pope thought he was a chill guy and let him do his thing. women thought he was a chill guy and formed an order adjacent to his. he went to gubbio where he talked to and became friends with a wolf (allegedly). he went to egypt where he had a situationship with sultan al-malik al-kamil (reportedly). he asked a rock really nicely to produce water and it did (allegedly). he received stigmata but was shy and modest about it and didn't mention it to anyone. he often talked to birds and liked to be alone on top of hills and mountains. one of his contemporaries wrote that he was short and unattractive with a long hollow face and tiny black eyes but that his lifeless body was kinda handsome (?). one of his most controversial and talked about moments was him cutting santa chiara's hair short that one time

[ID: hopper painting nighthawks positioned on a white wall so the stripe of sunlight that falls on it aligns perfectly with the lines of light in the painting's diner. end ID]

KIM NOVAK in VERTIGO (1958)

God I just fucking. I am so blown away when I watch any older movie. When they filmed on real sets and built elaborate props because cgi wasn’t an option. “Ohhh but you can tell it’s an animatronic it doesn’t even look reeaaallll” shut the hell your mouth. That is an actual physical thing that the actors could actually see and interact with. It is a billion times more “real” than the endless greenscreen bullshit you love so much.

I was showing my friend the 1956 Moby Dick and like!!!!! That’s a real ship on the real ocean! That’s real water! They strapped a camera platform onto a boat! Was it safe? Probably not. Did it make it look cool as fuck? Yeah!

And that whale is a physical object! They built a big-ass whale head and filmed it! They strapped Gregory Peck to a giant metal prop and dropped him in the water! That’s fucking crazy by today’s standards! This would all be cgi now!

And like, even well into “modern” movies we were using elaborate animatronics and that’s why they still look cool! That’s why they still hold up! These were incredibly complex pieces of technology that involved potentially hundreds of people and hundreds of hours to complete.

It’s sad that we just can’t do this anymore. It’s so sad that this technology just doesn’t exist and we must film actors reciting their lines to themselves in little individual greenscreen boxes and then have everything else filled in later by Dale the cgi expert who works 23 hours a day and lives in the studio’s basement and gets paid in gift store coupons. But at least it looks “real”, right?

brokeback mountain / supernatural