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man this year is gonna be the year i either die or become someone else i dont know which one maybe both

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WONDER BAR (1934) | dir. Lloyd Bacon

“The other [scene that stands out above the rest] involved a handsome man, asking a dancing couple if he could cut in. The female partner, expecting his attention, agrees, only to see him dance with her male partner. Jolson then flaps his wrist and says, “Boys will be boys. Woo!”. This scene almost caused the Production Code to reject the film, and was featured in the opening scenes of the documentary film The Celluloid Closet (1996).”

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#good day

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"The Brothers Grimm were important contributors to popular cultural European literature" and "The Brothers Grimm were violently antisemitic and misogynistic" are two facts that can and should coexist with each other.

#yes because fairy tales are not primarily prescriptive they are descriptive #meaning that they reflect cultural mores back to the audiences #their primary function is people bonding and providing amusement based on common and known tropes #of course they are not going to be progressive and question the dominant established views #(on the other hand they are also not NOT that - much like media today their message is made through dialogue and interaction #meaning making isn't a one way street)

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MONKEY MAN (2024)

#monkey man

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always frustrating when you try to raise a point that is fucked up about Society with someone and they reply "it's always been like this". Yeah, and? Don't you want society to be better? "It's always been like this though" BUT THATS NOT THE POINT? ISNT THAT FUCKED UP THAT ITS LIKE THIS?

#I'm baffled multiple times a day by this #'you know we just ... made this up right? ..... RIGHT???'

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I want to talk about the loincloth scene

So the more times I watch Dune Pts 1 & 2 and the more I hear other people talk about it, the more I realize how much Denis Villeneuve has made every single scene incredibly intentional, if not layered with meaning from the books as well as other classic visual language.

And gang? I think we got distracted by Austin Butler's killer abs and radiating mad vibes the first time we saw this scene.

First, there is no other scene in either Dune movie that directly and explicitly sexualizes a character like this. It's a PG-13 franchise. Even the love scene between Timothy and Zendaya is very, very tamely framed by the standards of PG-13 MPA censors, and that includes the characters who are literally concubines by role in the books and films.

Okay, so we have a single piece of eye candy, what of it? Well, this isn't just a gratuitous scene, this is an establishing character scene. The first time we're introduced to a character that has been mentioned briefly but never seen on screen before. The first shots, images, or scenes, will cement the character and a lot of thing about them into our mind. And Feyd-Rautha? We don't start with a shot as a whole, or from a distance, or his face, or hands. We don't even do the traditionally feminine panning shots that objectifying women in an introduction like this would usually bring (think starting from the legs and working up).

No. We start zoomed in, on his stripped bare chest, as ceremonial paints are applied by hand by servants all over his torso. The very first place we see the paint applied is over his ribs where Paul will ultimately stab him and kill him, his most vulnerable spot. His breathing is fast, but controlled, and seems almost animalistic, which we're to expect given everything we have just heard about him from Irulan. He doesn't seem aroused though? If anything this feels like an animal under stress, forced to show its soft parts and stay still. (An animal, caught in a trap, waiting for a hunter, one might say?)

We could assume that he's stressed about the big day. It is his coming of age, there are thousands of people watching, etc. But we see him strut out there and OWN that arena. He's confident, delighted, even in a fight.

This is where the things changed from the book, and things maybe left out come in. Feyd-Rautha in the book (and Sting in the 1984 Dune) takes to the Arena in a leather battle thong, similar to what we see him wearing as he's being painted. But in the new movie when he fights he wears full battle armor. Is the eye candy outfit just a reference then? Or… did Villeneuve find a way to showcase exactly what kind of character Feyd-Rautha is in the book with his opening scene?

I think it's the latter. I'm certain of it now, because while I've noticed the strain he seemed to display while being painted, on my most recent watch I realized:

He only kills the two handmaids who were rubbing their hands all over him, then noticeably relaxes.

In one scene, Villeneuve shows us Feyd-Rautha: a character who has made his body into a weapon, but one he holds no true autonomy over. In the scenes that follow that day he wears severe black robes that cover him from half his neck all the way to the ground, leaving only half his hands exposed. It's in these robes both his uncle and then Margot Fenring manipulate him for their own purposes, with Margot explicitly sexually manipulating him with the Voice, and his uncle… well, Villeneuve has read the books, and I'm saying 'manipulative Feyd who has been abused his whole life' is meant to be canonically coded, not just that one weird kiss and the look of pure delight every time Feyd sees something happen to the Baron by someone else's hand.

On a lighter note to end, as always, Feyd's battle armor (both gladiatorial and desert) is less severe, and shows more of his throat and wrists and other vulnerable places, as well as the fight scenes being the only time he explicitly reaches out for physical contact (except that kiss with the Baron) and seems to receive it as well with great exuberance and abundance something something revealing more of yourself while fully armored my baby boy <3

#dune #I didn't reread the book when going in for dune 2 and I missed a lot apparently

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i miss when actors all had normal human teeth

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far from prudish but just got blazed porn of someone's pussy spread out so hard and up close like it's a map of the polish-lithuanian commonwealth and I'm king and grand duke sigismund II augustus inspecting his lands to plot defense against the swedes

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Goth girls love trains

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Simz on Instagram

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LADY JESSICA & LETO ATREIDES Dune (2021) dir. Denis Villeneuve

#ahhhh #dune

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The reason the work you’ve done on how you feel doesn’t seem like it’s working is because you need to do it until it works. It’s never been “this strategy will pull you up” it’s always been “here’s something you can do that will END with you getting out of that hole” the climbing still hurts and the being underground still hurts but that doesn’t mean it’s not working

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Conversation between me, and another high educated Jewish women whose opinions I respect

Her: What's missing here are the facts. If we stuck to the facts there wouldn't be so much intensity surrounding this issue. Me: But you and I are both highly educated Jewish women, and we can't even agree on the facts regarding the history of Palestine as a place name, ethnic identifier, and nation. If we can't even agree on those facts, how on earth can facts help anyone move forward?

There's the question. Not just for Jews, but for everyone involved in, or concerned with this conflict. How do we move forward if multiple sides of the room dispute the veracity of such basic statements as:

-Jews are a globally oppressed minority ethnic group, the hatred of which is deeply embedded in Western thought and rhetoric.

-The Naqba was a period of ethnic cleansing in which the government and military of the new State of Israel expelled Palestinian Arabs from their homes and property; a dispossession and a series of events which continue to traumatize and negatively impact the lives and livelihoods of Palestinians.

-The Holocaust was a traumatic event in the history of the Jewish people, the legacy of which is embedded in the psyches, world views, and collective trauma of the Jewish people, and invariably impacts how this group views global issues.

-Palestinian Arabs had a full developed sense of identity and statehood before the British Empire fucked off, and made their discomfort with increasing Jewish emigration clear to the British before the outbreak of the Second World War.

-Jews had nowhere to go before, during, or really, after the Holocaust; and the governments of many Arab States ethnically cleaned their own ancient Jewish communities in retribution for the creation of the State of Israel.

-The State of Israel does not exist because the Holocaust happened, or as an "apology" for said event.

THIS POST COMPRISES A SERIES OF RHETORICAL QUESTIONS MEANT TO MAKE US APPRECIATE THE DEPTHS OF THE DISCURSIVE PROBLEMS HERE; NOT A POST FOR "DISCOURSE" AND HATEFUL, AGGRESSIVE SHIT.

If you feel you have to do that, copy & paste into your own separate post.

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(SOUND IS CRUCIAL) this video is has murdered me dead the music the editing the way information is slowly revealed about the two of them the plot twist the breaking bad images. WILLIAM WILLIAM WILLIAM. all over minecraft parkour someone help im seizing

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i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY