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giveamadeuschohisownmovie · 4 months

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xplore-the-unknwn · 6 months

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"You wrote to me once, listing the four chief virtues: Wisdom, justice, fortitude and temperance. As I read the list, I knew I had none of them. But I have other virtues, father. Ambition." - Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus (Gladiator, 2000)

Pt. 1, Pt. 2

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courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme · 3 months

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Platoon (1986, Oliver Stone)

24/03/2024

Platoon is a 1986 film, written and directed by Oliver Stone, which deals with his time in Vietnam as a volunteer during the war and is inspired by the real experiences the director had between 1967 and 1971 during his military service.

The film won 4 Oscars out of 8 nominations and Oliver Stone was also awarded the Silver Bear in Berlin as best director. In 1998 the American Film Institute placed it in eighty-third place in the ranking of the one hundred best American films of all time, while ten years later, in the updated list, it dropped to eighty-sixth place. In 2019, it was chosen for preservation in the National Film Registry of the United States Library of Congress.

The bloodiest episode, as in many other films dealing with the Vietnam War, is inspired by the most atrocious event of that conflict, known to history as the My Lai massacre, in which American soldiers committed atrocities including rape of very young girls, indiscriminate killings of innocent civilians, destruction of the homes and resources of the inhabitants, believed to be allies of the Viet Cong, despite there being no evidence. From this perspective, the figure of the platoon commander, Lieutenant Wolfe, both for his inability to control his men and for other characteristics, can be traced back to the main person responsible for My Lai, the then US Army Lieutenant William Calley, convicted to several years of military detention for that very affair.

Due to an error by Lieutenant Wolfe, who gives wrong coordinates via radio, the platoon is decimated by friendly artillery.

In the last war action of his volunteer service, Chris escapes a deadly ambush by the Viet Cong who almost completely annihilate the platoon and the subsequent American bombing with napalm.

Initially Hollywood snubs the script as many producers are of the opinion that what three is to say about the Vietnam War has already been reported in highly successful films such as Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter, however the strength of Stone's script still attracts some producers who see enormous potential in him. He was then assigned to write a screenplay for another film, Stone accepted and wrote Midnight Express in 1977, thanks to which he won the Oscar for best non-original screenplay (first statuette for Stone) a fact that made all of Hollywood understand the Stone's enormous potential; it was therefore not difficult for him to find the producer to begin work on Platoon.

The film was shot, following the great example of Apocalypse Now, director Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece, on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines, starting in February 1986. The film's production was almost canceled due to the political upheavals in country, due to Ferdinand Marcos, dictator of the country. Upon arrival in the Philippines, the cast members underwent a two-week course of intensive training by Dale Dye (former Marine captain during the Vietnam War and interpreter of Captain Harris), during which they had to dig trenches and suffer forced marches and night "ambushes".

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azira-fucking-phale · 10 months

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Blow the Man Down (2019)

#I SUPPORT WOMENS WRONGS!!!!!!#anyways everyone should watch this movie #it was lifechanging actually my dad and i talk about it all the time #plus it has THEEEE best shanties i have ever heard #theres like a greek chorus of fishermen that show up its awesome #blow the man down #blow the man down (2019)#films #movies #i dont have the time to learn how to make gifs so you get screenshots instead

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judesstfrancis · 2 years

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everyone's always talking about sympathetic villains and how they want more shades of gray from villains in media bc it's more interesting and blah blah blah but nobody's ever mentioning us (2019) dir. jordan peele

#like. sorry to horror blog on main yet again but us (2019) is one of THE best examples of this #but no one wants to say anything bc they're like 'oh it's just a slasher film 🙄'#use your heads!!#text post #horror tag

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nibeul · 2 years

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anyway, a big reason why kingdom is so good (aside from the fact that it was obviously a very skilled team working on this + the cast is some of the best casting I’ve seen a while) is that it's a TV show that was shot as a movie. the seasons are pretty short for k drama standard because of how meticulously it was filmed and prepared for. on top of that, it's essentially six two hours movies back to back; each two episodes go together in terms of plot/main conflicts and the conflicts that come from the current "movie" are wrapped up by the beginning of the next "movie". at the same time, each episode flows nicely into the next, so it doesn't really feel like a long, dragging film, but rather a cohesive story that keeps you on the edge of your seat the entire time.

#ramblings #kingdom 2019 #sorry for all the kingdom posting I am insane and taking everyone down with me #I think the best comparison I can make for the way it was filmed in terms of practical effects scenery etc is lotr

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gmzriver · 1 year

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#parasite #2019 movies #bong joon ho #memories of murder #snowpiercer #okja 2017 #the host #films headers #park so-dam #cho yeo-jeong #park seo joon #song kang ho #best picture 2019 #icons #Twitter Icons #headers #film headers

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theinfinitedivides · 1 year

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have been listening to the Pathaan OST on and off for almost three weeks(?) now since its release and Vishal-Shekhar really said they'd give some of the best songs in their career to the gays in War (2019) and then took the leftovers to give to the king of Bollywood,,,,,, i'm crying

#film: pathaan #film: war (2019)#pathaan #war (2019)#war 2019 #bollywood #srk #shah rukh khan #local gay watches Bollywood.txt #no but fr #the album is good. truly it is in its own right but #this would be a crime if the Hrithik-Tiger pairing wasn't so f*cking gay it set off the radars of every queer person #within a 15 mile radius #and for that alone this misstep is allowed to pass relatively unscathed #imo Besharam Rang is the closest thing we got to War's Ghungroo #there was no equivalent to Jai Jai Shivshankar despite their best efforts bc tbh i don't think they can ever top that #Jhoome Jo Pathaan f*cks severely. it's not JJS.#(raw homoeroticism is contained in JJS tho so theoretically they COULD top that but not musically iykwim)#not at all a fan of the official Pathaan theme which is ironic bc that's literally who you're supposed to like???#the villain has a better theme than you SRK you're going to have to come over to the dark side now #begging Dunki and Jawan to come through with the OSTs and give SRK what he deserves pls

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saint-of-ossaville · 4 months

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— Martin / The Boy (Côme Thiry, Senan Jennings, Éanna Hardwicke, Jonathan Aris) in Vivarium (2019) dir. by Lorcan Finnegan.

Martin, or The Boy, is an unlabelled creature that has a handful of abilities such as: mimicry, he often copies accents or reenacts moments of distress in the voices of those around him, this accompanies his unusually deep voice box prior to “adulthood”; and age acceleration, showing growth into a fully grown 10 year old in just a mere 98 days. Martin / The Boy uses these abilities to torment those trapped in the suburbia world of Yonder, where unsuspecting individuals (often a couple) are forced to care for him, or those like him, until they can be “released” from the labyrinth.

#creatures #horror #film #entry set #vivarium #vivarium (2019)#psychological thriller #unspecified monster #unspecified creature #best we could say is that martin is a #mimic

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not-quitenormal · 4 months

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I love how divided we are about this trailer, ngl.

#fascinating how jon chu put his whole pussy into this film and some of us are like 'nothing is like the stage version so meh'#i also am not sure why they changed the lines #and ariana grande still has to prove herself to me #but i've accepted that this might be the next cats 2019 (best picture pre-edits btw) so. bringing out my popcorn here

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silouvertongues · 6 months

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vlogmas time tomorrow 🫡

#my friends and i do this thing qjere we film little vlogs and upload them on yourube unlisted and then just send each other links !!#makes me feel like a micro influencers its so fun #bc its just likeeeee we live so far from each other and barely get to like meet so its nice seeing into their lives yk?? idk #started doing it in 2019 bc i moved countries and schools in senior year and my best friends from my old school wanted to see my graduation #so i filmed a lilvlog and sent it to them and then we kinda started like infrequently sending random vlogs to each other #and then last year i started doing it like Properly #did vlogmas last year anf then also my last week of uni and its so fun to like have these little video diaries that i can watch back 🫶🏼#also did a few reading vlogs <33 #SOOOOOOO many typos god #h talks

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