#( trick ) interview

[nicostiel]

LESBIAN VELMA FINALLY CANON

#scooby doo #velma #halloween #lesbian #queer #gay #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #autumn #fall #video #try guys #interview with the vampire #trick or treat scooby doo #dreamwastaken #*mypost

[loustat-0]

I love how they were walking & talking here & how Louis could tell Lestat things he couldn't even tell his own family.

#when Louis told Lestat if I had your tricks i would have done the same to paul 😬 #loustat #interview with the vampire #iwtv #louis de pointe du lac #lestat de lioncourt #amc interview with the vampire #amc iwtv #iwtv 2022 #lestat x louis #iwtvedit #loustatedit

[magnoliascelebration]

sooo it's almost one month left before the end of the car era so @ arctic monkeys you still have time to release That One Very Important Song That Didn't Make It To The Album.. don't leave us hanging 👉👈

#listen #did they trick us #have we all been clowned again #i was sooo excited for this song from the moment i read these interviews #from the moment ue said he's looking for the ways to release it #i won't give up hoping that easily #also it'd be so cruel if the car ends up being the only album with no b sides at all #it was supposed to be there all alonggggg #and it's not in the endddd #💔 #arctic monkeys

[batfleckgifs]

BEN AFFLECK  iHollywoodTV (2003)

#ben affleck #benaffleckedit #baffleckedit #affleckgifs #dccastedit #dilfsource #dilfgifs #mancandykings #flawlessgentlemen #mensource #mine. #edit: gifs. #misc: interviews. #gifs. #i'm trying this new sharpening trick i'm liking it so far

[hella1975]

idk how to feel about the atla live action show but I just saw that the guy who’s playing zuko mentioned zukka in an interview and I’m kinda foaming at the mouth, going feral at the moment

ENOUGHHHH. T-MINUS ONE DAY

#NOT MY ZUKKA ❌ #can you believe i was one of the naive optimists being like 'maybe this live action will be good' #and then they started making announcements.... #i have ZERO hope for it anonstie. i dont want them to even touch zukka #not that im delusional enough to think they will but even this kind of shit of saying it in interviews like. i just feel #like they're fucking w us. like that's the issue w these big corporate shows made only for extra profit and not for love of the source #is that they treat the audience like something to be mocked. like we're all part of one big moneymaking trick #and if we fall for it by getting excited about certain things ('the actors JOKINGLY mentioned my fav ship!') then we're stupid #and i just really hate that. i need to get into more freak shit made by some students and a dodgy camera #bc the corporations have truly taken all love from film-making and the concept of a producer-consumer relationship is lost #OR SOMETHING. ANYWAY. WHAT WAS THAT #ask #atla

[sonego]

it's kinda funny to me that interviewers still think THEY are special and THEY are gonna be the one to make jannik answer the questions he never answers (fully) and give away more than he wants to... you're literally not gonna make him publicly say anything he doesn't mean to say no matter who you are sorry

#like. #that vanity fair interviewer trying to play chess with jannik and also psychoanalyzing his body language i'm #dude even i know his body language when he doesn't want to answer a question that doesn't mean you have the upper hand over him sorryy #also trying to be like “oh i know you don't want to answer these kinds of questions! let me try to make you anyway by being 'sneaky' tho” #IT DOESN'T WORKKKKK MY GUY! #this isn't even like a critique it's just like. it's not gonna work. why are you even trying #i understand that's their job it's just like. funny. jannik is not gonna fall for cheap tricks #but yeah we did get i guess confirmation that he wants to protect the people close to him AND that he sees it as a duty #which tbh i knew already but still #nico.txt

[oatbugs]

Jack Marsh (2005), Friendship Otherwise - Toward a Levinasian Description of Personal Friendship

#saw carnation lily lily rose by john singer seargent irl today. it was basically at my doorstep all along idk why i never went to see it #it was placed at a corner in the gallery. me and my friend sat down and sketched the paintings of beautiful naked people quite badly. paper #provided by tate britain. she told me about how she couldnt look her boyfriend in the face after a harrowing film about war. when i say the #interview was informal i mean the person who was supposed to be my boss told me let me get you a cider and then he said after #50 years of life he knows people are inherently good and it only takes a little bit of kindness to save this world. he said he tricked #his wife into keeping the baby and then he said he quit his job at a US bank to help people find meaning and in it #he would have liked to find meaning. instead he started climbing with his friends. he said he chews his cigarettes because its a habit from #when he had to hide things from people. the entire time i felt uncomfortable and incredibly enlightened. this is my friends mentor. she has #his pattern of pauses and expletive and penchant for ends-justify-means attitude. i do think im not very clever #but maybe one day i will love you enough to make up for it. i wrote code i dont understand staring at the final error i thought about how #we both thought of how when we're too old to remember the voices of our friends we would like to stand in the pathway of the LHC beam pipe #cut it open and eat light in the freezing cold vacuum (kills you long before radiation will) the invisible puncture wound unfolding dna #back to the start larger than you ever were. you go to heaven once youve been to hell. my friend is in my bed #practicing calculations of eigenvectors by hand and she is uninterested in a visual proof you are uninterested in incompetence #we catch a train this is your kind of burden you tragic hero wincing at that word you only do this because you have to. im the only one #who can. i am a coward in this for the fucking poetry. the visual proofs. the pretty numbers. an architect who was horrible at maths wanted #to be a philosopher and accidentally ended up neck in deep in 70th Error On Visual Studio Code i want to kiss your eyes before we say #goodbye we both know there is no love in the way there should be. I still have your dress in my wardrobe. i hope you make art. #you think im alright head-wise i think you fucking hate me i think ill never be so clever you want me to tell you my idea? #if you wanted more of this world i would have liked to kiss you harder. we cant both be like this. im sorry i cant be with you the whole wa #the love is gone if you have to ask it. his breath catches his eyes feel stiff it is -1.9 kelvin he is near the beam pipe i miss holding #his hand i miss her singing voice i miss his hair and i found the antonym of pain thank you for carrying me home.

[jq37]

Please let us know if you solve this mystery!

OK! It’s the end of the year so let me compile everything I was able to come up with (with the help of everyone I dragged into this–you know who you are and thank you and I’m sorry). 

To anyone who’s just seeing this and doesn’t have context, in November, right before the movie Wish came out, I made a longish post questioning who Allison Moore was (which, incidentally, is the first post that comes up when you Google “Allison Moore Disney”).

The reason I was curious about who this random writer is is because she’s credited as one of the co-writers of Wish, Disney’s 100th Anniversary Feature Film BUT she has no obvious experience writing for animation, children, or fantasy when everyone else on the main team has credits on stuff like Frozen and Encanto. I thought it was bizarre that there would be someone so green on a project so big so I went digging. 

Here’s what I learned:

(1) Moore wasn’t originally announced as being attached to the project. Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, and Fawn Veersunthorn were all mentioned when the project was officially announced in Sept 2022 (for example). Moore was not. And you’d think they’d mention the *co-writer*, right? You don’t start to see her name until a year later in Sept 2023 when the trailer dropped (for example). So it seems like she was brought onto the project later. Of course, this could just be a normal quirk of the industry or something I’m misinterpreting, but I think it’s worth mentioning. 

(2) Moore seems to have a lot more credits in stage writing than she does in screenwriting. I wasn’t able to 100% confirm it until recently (I’ll get to that in a second) but she’s written a bunch of plays and it seems like this is where she has most of her bona fides. 

“Allison is the recipient of two Jerome Fellowships, two McKnight Advancement Grants and the Bush Artist Fellowship.”

That sounds fancy. But it still doesn’t say “Top Choice for Disney Anniversary Movie” to me. That’s not a statement on writing quality. I haven’t read/seen any of her plays. It’s about the subject matter. Look at some of these synopses:

None of that really screams Disney. Which isn’t to say people can’t have range. George Miller wrote all the Mad Maxes but also Babe and both Happy Feet. But if I was hiring someone for a really big project, I wouldn’t want that project to be their first attempt at expanding into that genre. 

(3) This isn’t actually inherently important but she was on an episode of Nailed it. That’s where this picture comes from:

She won the first round and the game ended in a three way tie for the first time in the show’s history. 

The only reason this is noteworthy in the larger scale of things is that, until very recently, this was one of only two places online you could see Allison Moore talking. The other is this very short interview on the red carpet during the premiere. 

There’s nothing in that interview that explains anything. It’s mainly her talking about how it was fun working on the movie and how good the movie is. 

Honestly, good for her for not being Extremely Online, but it really felt like I could get a bit of a handle on everyone else who’d worked on this project in a high profile way but not her. Which is part of why I started down this rabbit hole to begin with. There was nothing to show where she might have had a connection or an interest or anything that would connect the dots. 

For reference, Fawn (who was one of the Directors and story writers) has the kind of resume that I was expecting Moore to have when I initially Googled her:

Smaller jobs on other kids/animated movies (Hop, The Lorax, Despicable Me 2), some storyboard or art work on other Disney stuff (Frozen, Moana, Zootopia, Ralph), and then a big break (Raya and Wish). Based on my understanding of the industry (and I know a fair bit because it’s one I’m interested in professionally) that’s a very typical track to get to the writing side of animation.  

A couple of people speculated that Moore got onto the project in a mentorship capacity. Now, I’m a Black woman who writes fiction professionally when I’m not on this hellsite (affectionate) with the rest of y’all. That means I have firsthand experience with what mentorship looks like in writing–both official Diversity and Inclusion type mentorship and more organic “Let me take you under my wing” type mentorship. I have *never* seen anyone get a job this high profile at the jump just due to mentorship alone. Going from zero to Disney’s 100th anniversary is kinda insane. This wasn’t some B project or something. It was a Big Deal Project. And this is Disney so they could have hired basically anyone they wanted. So you have to assume this was an active decision someone made and not just a thing that happened for lack of options. But in all my searching, Moore wasn’t mentioned except to just say she wrote the screenplay with Jennifer Lee. It was just the baking show and the Youtube clip.

Until today.

(4) I’m going to preface this by saying this doesn’t actually answer the question in a big AHA! way, but it is the only interview I’ve seen about Wish from Moore besides the red carpet clip.

On December 15th, Moore gave this interview with the San Antonio Current.

I stumbled across it while searching for a different piece of information and eagerly clicked to see what she had to say after three weeks of silence after the movie dropped on November 22.

Here are some highlights:

-In high school she was a theater kid and thought she wanted to pursue acting. 

-I college she did playwriting and eventually she got her MFA from Iowa (which has a weirdly great MFA program btw, and also, this interview is how I confirmed she was the playwright Allison).

-When she started on the theater track at her college, she told them she was a playwright so she could study that too even though she’d never written a play before. So it sounds like Wish isn’t the first time she’s just jumped into a new thing without experience. You have to respect the hustle.

But this is the most important line in the interview because it’s like, an answer and a non-answer all in one. She’s asked, “How did you go from writing plays to writing for TV and film?”

And her answer is, “I had a whole career writing for theater, and then when my son was born, I realized I needed to make more money, so I started pitching for TV. I worked in television for about a decade. In the midst of working in TV, I continued playwriting. That's how I got on the radar at Disney.”

Which kind of sidesteps the most intriguing part of the question? Like, first of all, it’s not 100% clear if she means her playwriting or her TV writing caught Disney’s attention. I’m guessing playwriting, but I could be wrong. Secondly, who is “Disney” in this situation? A Disney recruiter? A Disney director? Did Jennifer Lee see a production of Slasher: A Horrifying comedy while passing through Texas and think, “Her. I want her to be my co-writer on this children’s film.” And what did she do to impress them so much that they right away put her on the the *Anniversary Project*? Like, I know I keep harping on this but I can’t stress enough how big of a deal this is. It’s hard enough to write for just your average sitcom or little movie. To just jump on something this big is baffling. I obviously don’t expect Disney to be justifying their every hiring decision publicly but, usually, when someone is doing something like this, it’s very obvious why they were chosen and, even with this sliver of explanation, it’s still frustratingly opaque. And with the strange post hoc timing of the interview (seriously, doesn’t promotion usually happen PRE movie release?) It almost reads like an interview that exists because someone realized the lack of any online presence was weird. 

(5) When she was a kid, Allison Moore had a crush on Fox Robin Hood. That’s not at all important to the mystery, that’s just information she volunteered during the interview and that I’m now sharing with you. So when you search her name now, the top results are me wondering who she is, her IMDB, and her talking about how she liked Fox Robin Hood's little hat. Which isn't a LOT of information, but it’s more than we had before and that’s something.  

#Wish #disney’s wish #wish 2023 #disney wish #I cannot stress enough that I don’t have anything against moore as a person #(if anything I'm impressed by how she managed to pull off what feels to me like a magic trick) #I just can’t resist a mystery #and as a writer this is a big one #i’ve had this in my inbox for a bit #but I was hoping new info would drop that I could include #and the interview did it #also just as a side note #speaking of mentorship #if they were going to bring a co-writer onto this project it might have been nice for them to pick someone with more cultural connection #you know to their Moorish lead from their Iberian setting #this movie is so culturally bland #and someone who could actually speak to the culture might have helped a lot! #like I know pete docter got a Black writer in on Soul part way through #and he talked about getting the barbershop scene just right #there was no moment like that in this movie #asks

[rexscanonwife]

Against my better judgement I'm watching more of the 2016 ppg reboot and lemme tell you something. I HAAAAAAATE the way they write Utonium I HATE IT!!!

But sometimes there'll be a little moment here or there where he's kinda...cute > ^ <

#jane journals #self insert talk #🔬 starkissed scientist 🔬 #ONCE IN A GREAT WHILE THERE'LL BE A VERY RARE W #like the one i just watched on recommendation from my partner where bubbles doesnt feel cute anymore cause she took a bad school photo #and woww they CAN write him being a good dad for once!! 🙄🙄🙄 #not like good dad is a CORE PART OF HIS CHARACTER #but he reminds her that being cute is just ONE facet of what makes her a wonderful person #and then he brings her close and says 'between you and me you're the cutest one in the world!' UGGGHH #YOU CANT DO THAT YOU CANT TRICK ME LIKE THAT!!!! #and in the one i currently just finished he had a. job interview?? i guess he DOESNT get paid by the government #but the lady doing his interview said that they 'really love his work' and he BLUSHED ugghgh #fuck this show. ESPECIALLY FUCK IT FOR HAVING /SOME/ MOMENTS I ACTUALLY LIKE!!!!! #also it seems weird to me that bubbles would become so hung up on being cute #in the og its not like she's consciously being cute because its her THING she just IS #shes naturally innocent and good hearted ie CUTE #idfk #oh also buttercup pulls out a bucket list and the first thing is 'yell at a bird' #and ngl that made me blow air out of my nose ajfkf #ugh i could say a lot more but im not gonna

[nicostiel]

#LESBIAN VELMA FINALLY CANON

#scooby doo #velma #lesbian #gay #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #halloween #trick or treat scooby doo #hayley kiyoko #interview with the vampire #illustration #drawing #dreamwastaken #inktober #fall #autumn #october #art #*mypost

[hiidkwhatimdoing7525]

Claudia is definitely the type who will take 10 pieces of candy when the sign said only two during trick or treating

#claudia iwtv #iwtv amc #halloween #trick or treat #claudia interview with the vampire #the vampire chronicles

[abirdie]

Gael García Bernal in Me estás matando, Susana (2016, dir. Roberto Sneider)

(these gifs also feature Verónica Echegui)

[other gael filmography gifsets]

#gael garcía bernal #me estás matando susana #ggb filmography gifs #gael garcia bernal #there's more nuance to this film than you might think from the trailer #can't find the interview now but roberto sneider said he needed to come up with a way to still have the audience kind of root for eligio #and understand why susana hadn't just left him years ago #in spite of what an asshole he is at the start of the film #and realised that casting gael was the trick that made that work #i appreciate he looks sad in all of these but it is a comedy i promise just a comedy in which he's sad a lot #it's interesting to see a mexican view of the usa captured here too #btw you would not believe the effort i had to go to to get english subtitles of this #or even spanish subtitles which would have been fine #but apparently there are no deaf people in spain because spanish region 2 dvd has no subtitles at all other than for the english sections #grrr #(and the only english-language srt file i could find was terrible) #i mean it had a us cinema release the official subtitles must exist somewhere #you're killing me susana

[anti-dazai-blog]

I just remembered that interview where Asagiri answered Dazai's ideal marriage partner and the answer was, Dazai could "no matter the girl, shape her to suit his tastes." It was an Otomedia interview. The other two Dazai questions had answers just as bad

Thank you so much for citing the interview so precisely, thanks to that I was able to find it:

I don’t know why I thought I had a lot to say on this. It is what it is. At the moment my only reaction is “yeah that checks out.”

Question 1’s refusal to give a wedding gift is pretty on par with his general work habits (ie not doing any work ever)— if he could get out of putting in time/money/effort, he’s gonna. We already know that.

Question 2’s “shaping his partner to suit his tastes” is also pretty on brand. He makes his plans work with whoever will end up involved in them. He personally hands Akutagawa an inferiority complex on a silver platter and shapes his obsession with and desire to surpass Atsushi. Prior to Dazai’s repeated provocations, Akutagawa was entirely neutral on Atsushi—and Dazai was able to create an all-consuming obsession over the course of one or two conversations. Question 3’s “setting up up his partner to betray him” is just as canon as the former two responses— he set up Chuuya to seem like he betrayed the sheep.

so all in all, this interview isn’t telling us anything new— it is interesting to see how all of the typical Dazai-isms come through in the context of dating and relationships though, so thanks for sharing this interview with me, I’m glad I got the chance to read it

#Anti dazai asks #i know that the purpose of these interviews is to show the characters’ personalities in non-canon situations #Kinda like Wan #But wouldn’t it be funny if Dazai canonically looked an interviewer dead in the eye and went #“I’m gonna trick my girlfriend into cheating on me because breaking up with people is annoying and it’s much easier if they cheat first” #And the interviewer’s just sitting there. like Ok Sir That Sure Is Fascinating

[monstersinthecosmos]

I liked in Interview with the Vampire how Armand qualified that he's the oldest living vampire in the world with "And as far as I know today" like

I don't read this as him lying, I think he thinks that everyone he loves is dead :)

#interview with the vampire #armand #my greatest blunder #being ND about fandom stuff is a parlor trick where I can make myself sad about armand on command

[paul-simon-juggling]

Tonight I bring you this picture I found of Paul wearing a One Trick Pony t-shirt in 1983.

#could also be 1982 tho idk honestly #either way i just like how he owns a one trick pony tshirt and wore it to a concert a few years after the movie even tho it didnt do so wel #he could have been real extra and wore it to interviews about the film in '81 #this and the time art wore a concert in central park shirt #wearing your own merch yeh! #hell yeah baby you be proud of your funky little film!! #one trick pony #paul simon #paul simon 80s #simon and garfunkel #simon & garfunkel #s&g

[warpedwings]

Stick Out Your Tongue Mlems Weirdness Castiel

#misha collins #misha poll #tongue #tongue tricks #cloverleaf tongue #that was a fitting end to that larry king interview