#because peter jackson so edits for that c'mon

[fireintheimpala]

why beatles why now

I'm exactly 3 weeks out today from incidentally pressing play on Peter Jackson's Beatles LOTR one ramblin' night and watching for maybe half an hour tops before before being so flooded. Flooded with the memories that in fact I knew every Beatles song back in the day--my first musical love as a teenager that I had just wandered off eventually from and forgotten. Flooded with the flash realization that every notion I'd had of the band AND their songs back then was highly restricted by my youth but also by the simplistic band mythologizing and lack of direct media of the 90's.

I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but surely I can't be the only one with this mind melting experience. How did you get here, blown away by the Beatles in year 2024?

#the beatles #get back #beatles lotr #gonna also tag #mclennon #because peter jackson so edits for that c'mon #it is ridiculous #my entire car driving time which is unfortunately lengthy is now the passionate wailing of 70's Macca #the 90s anti-mccartney propaganda was so strong i include the previous tag just because my teenage self would have never even THOUGHT #I would literally angsty teenage cry over john lennon #which he does deserve some of #but we can finally look back now and see how over the top and terrifyingly effective the yoko/yokolennon estate propaganda was #especially in terrorizing paul mccartney! #annnywayyy there's a post in tags for ya

[mykinkyyandere]

How do you feel about Five fans calling out others for sexualizing Five? He's grown up for the fics which how one should do, but people still accuse others cause we know Five as a 13 years old in the series. (Also I love your fics, I just wanna hear your opinion)

Thank you for asking, I think we really need to talk about this because the character is so popular and causes a lot of hate.

There are a lot of characters who are young and very loved. I can't think of many examples right now, but I'll try my best. Peter Pan, Miraculous Ladybug (I didn't write about it, but I'm a huge fan), Artemis Fowl, The Chronicles Of Narnia, Harry Potter, Percy Jackson & the Olympians, many Disney and Pixar works that are top all around the world. Sportacus and Stephanie edits that are spreaded all over Tiktok. I'm sure we want to be in Stephanie's place, can't be an another reason why we like those videos. If you really like a child and an adult being together then there is the flag 🚩

Also, are there those who find characters who are officially animals and different species attractive? Don't get me wrong, I'm the one of them, and I wonder if they're sending the same hate that they're sending to us. Zootopia's Nick, Ice Age's Diego, Avatar's Lo'ak 14, Neteyam 15, Aonung 15...

C'mon haters, say something about it. Oh, I do know you send ridiculous hate to the writers but in love with at least one of those exaples above. Do we really want to fuck an animal or do we imagine them as a human? I don't know about you but I know I'm not a fucking z00pli or whatever. I don't even know what it is called. No watcher, writer and reader here wants a real child, of course, unless they're not a ped0, which we are often the target of these accusations by the haters. "Uuuuhuhu hOw dAre YoU Ped0 diSguStiNg"

If the author emphasizes that they are writing about a 13-year-old boy smut, this is absolutely wrong and a red flag. But if they write a grown-up version of the character, I see no problem. You have to ask yourself, are they writing thinking about a child? This is absolutely disgusting and sickening. Do they want a mature version of this character? Yes. Am I still disturbed and will read this fic and send stupid hate anyway? No, just block. The reader has no right to attack the writer with unfounded accusations.

#kinkyyan answers #anon hate

[watching-pictures-move]

Movie Review | War and Peace (Bondarchuk, 1967)

For all the possibilities opened by computer-generated imagery, it's hard not to feel as if we've lost something along the way. When blockbuster cinema regularly conjures images of world-or-universe defining stakes, scale starts to lose all meaning. I think back to seeing Avengers: Endgame in theatres and, despite enjoying most of the film preceding the climax, finding myself totally unmoved when it produced that splash page image of all the heroes joining forces, as flat and shapeless composition as I've seen in these things. (Rarely have I felt so out of step with the reaction of the surrounding audience, so I realize I'm in the minority on this one.) There's a certain thrill in seeing something physically real on a giant scale that a CG facsimile just can't replicate. For recent movies I can think of that feel truly grandiose, I'd have to go back to Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, and even then shortcuts were used in the way of special effects and stand-ins.

In this respect, Sergey Bondarchuk's War and Peace represents some kind of pinnacle of this lost art, a work that feels truly colossal in ways few films have approached. One way to grasp the film's scale is in terms of hard numbers. It runs a total of seven hours (released initially in four different parts). At the time of production, it cost reportedly $100 million, estimated by the New York Times to be $700 million in modern times when adjusted for inflation. The cast totaled approximately 120,000, many of whom were extras supplied by the Soviet Army. Thousands of costumes, sixty cannons and 120 wagons were made, and over forty museums donated artifacts to the production. This would all be moot were the movie a mess, but the production is a masterwork of controlled chaos. The sheer scale of the battles is captured with clarity by the expected crane and helicopter shots, but Bondarchuk's style is spontaneous and constantly evolving. Handheld camerawork hurtles us through the combat, while the liberal use of filters, splitscreens, superimpositions and jagged editing give the proceedings a heightened, hallucinatory quality. There's an exhilarating documentary quality to seeing anything of this scale, but the stylistic abandon with which the proceedings are captured render them almost a fever dream. There's a tendency to treat important novels like homework (I'm sure everyone has at least one example from their high school English class), and truth be told, I haven't actually read War and Peace (because it's like 1200 pages, c'mon), but Bondarchuk injects a spontaneity into his adaptation that should lay those fears to rest.

Bondarchuk produces some truly remarkable images, like a sequence where the composition of shot of a battlefield full of soldiers morphs real time as clouds of gunsmoke erupt with orchestral precision. Given the scale and scope of the movie, it's hard not to compare it with that famous American epic Gone with the Wind, and War and Peace contains certain moments that feel like direct responses to some of the former's most memorable images and scenes, outdoing the burning of Atlanta and the landscape full of wounded soldiers with even more vivid, forceful images. In the face of the sheer size of the spectacle, the human element can seem underwhelming at first, and that seems intentional in the first part, Andrei Bolkonsky, where a joke about an illiterate messenger seems completely limp after a horrific battle. It's in the second part, Natasha Rostova, where the human element comes into focus, carried by a trio of lead characters, a fallible but good hearted noble played by Bondarchuk himself, an innocent young woman played by ballerina Ludmila Savelyeva, who is lit and shot to look as achingly beautiful as possible, and a prince played by Vyacheslav Tikhonov who goes off to war against the invading Napoleonic army. (On a side note, the actors resemble Thomas Mitchell, Anna Karina and Christopher Plummer, respectively. Should your attention happen to drift, as is possible during a great yet somewhat unwieldy seven-hour epic, you can amuse yourself by pretending they're in the movie.)

Bondarchuk's character is deployed as an audience surrogate during the third part, The Year 1812 (where he views the excitement and madness of the truly astounding battle scene firsthand), and develops a capacity for every day heroism in the fourth and final part, Pierre Bezukhov. As such, his arc is most closely tied to the film's nationalist viewpoint, but because Bondarchuk understands human weakness (in this character and others, like the half-blind general who mistakes his pyrrhic victory for a real one), it's also the most moving in the film. If anything, Bondarchuk, despite allegedly being an enthusiastic party supporter, renders the nationalistic fervour transparent, like when he slaps on a patriotic coda to the carnage at Borodino and immediately follows it with a retreat from Moscow. This moment is further subverted when he applied Napoleon's stentorian narration over the sight of a weakened French army retreating in the thick of winter. Napoleon himself is more of a figurehead in this movie than a real character, and is denied any real interiority, yet I suspect Bondarchuk identified with him at least a little. Near the end of the battle at Borodino, there's an image of Napoleon sitting down on a chair not unlike one used by a director during filming as he observes a vast formation of his men moving across the landscape, and in this moment he comes as much a stand-in for Bondarchuk as the character the director actually played.

#film #movie review #war and peace #sergey bondarchuk

[grade-a-masochist]

Okay, so things I have figured out during my Teen Wolf Rewatch

Honestly, Stiles's Jeep is tougher than half the assemble combined

I flicker between profound like and even more profound dislike for Allison and honestly, 9 year old me would be weeping

The more I remember why Derek is, y'know, Derek—the more I wanna give Kate her own Tara

I just finished season two and I'm actually kind of impressed at how they've set down the groundwork for some of the events of season three

Deaton was?? So fucking mysterous??? Like, get on my level, creepy Hales

The whole Lydia-is-immune crap is so funny in retrospect because ooh, boy, she sure as hell ain't

Peter is a hella good character and I just can't bring myself to hate him though trust me—I have tried

Okay I already said it but I kinda wanna beat Allison with Stiles's bat. The metal one, not the wooden one

Honestly Scott is the most cunning dumbass and I feel we overlook the first part of that statement a lot?

Someone give Derek those years of therapy he needs so he can give Isaac the support my poor pup needs

Or, you know, Scott can do it, too, I'm not picky

Just someone—help that poor boy

(I know it doesn't really happen and it hurts)

I love Coach like thrice as much this time around??? Idk don't ask me

And I appreciate Chris as a parent like, cubed

Honestly if Peter had bitten Stiles and not Scott, shit would have gone down thrice as much and Peter would not stare at Stiles as though to ask "Why the fuck haven't you taken the bite yet???" during the next three seasons

Jackson came out just like his alpha—dramatic. AF

I wanna smack Erica and Boyd for being idiots but I also whimper and mumble about "My pups, my poor pups"

(I am choosing to chalk that up to the constant fever)

Scott has grown so much?? I am so fucking proud??

And Stiles, too

Jury is still out on Allison

Victoria Argent was scarier than all the scary shit in Teen Wolf and honestly what the fuck

Like?? Lady??? Lady are u alright

Also I'm glad Isaac's dad is dead and gone and honestly, pat on the back for you, Matt

The effects used to be sooo crappy man. We sure have evolved a lot

Also remember when the biggest problem Scott had was avoiding the cool kids? Yeah me too

Melissa McCall is a fucking blessing

Sheriff Stilinski, too

Give those guys a cookie

Edit:

Jennifer is such a good actress? The character, I mean. Like, wow. Give the woman an oscar

I had completely forgotten how under all that sarcasm, persistent negativity and occasional puppy-like behavior, Isaac's got some serious sadistic tendencies going on

Also the reason why Isaac and Stiles get along worse than Scott and Jackson is because the two are pretty fucking similar

Derek loved his pack of self-esteem-deprived adolescents a lot, okay, even if he had a HELLA weird way of showing it. Like, dude; therapy

I knew this for a fact, sure, but you can see it so fucking clearly when he's desperate to get Boyd and Erica back even if they willingly left him. For all intents and purposes, they're not his responsibility anymore. But he cares, so he keeps searching and looking, and the devastated look on his face when he cradles Erica's dead body is actually painful. You can see his grief. And you can see his life even more when "Survivor #1" Derek Hale lets Boyd and Cora fucking maul him half to death without hurting them. He just ...lets them unravel. Because he'd rather die at their hands than kill them. And I think that's beautiful

Peter and Stiles might actually be the ones I find funniest in the whole show and I don't know how I feel about that

Can someone give Kali some shoes and tell her that she doesn't need to hop through life with her claws on display? They aint that pretty sis

Scott's tattoo is still amazing, thank you very much

Stiles can't catch a break and honestly, fuck you, writers

How come it takes everyone in every show 178939 episodes to figure out what in fuck is going on and Stiles has got it right on episode three

Like wow the only competent decision Peter's ever made is offering that kid the bite

(Making terrible decisions runs through the Hale blood, okay)

Might I just say I really, really love Lydia's banshee arc

Like, WOW IT'S ONE OF MY FAVES

I'm just watching this and remembering the glorious time when Alphas were still worth something

Like, wtf now any random creature magically matches up when before having red eyes immediately made you more or less the equivalent to an angry lion while everyone else is, like...a dying baby sheep

Yeah, no

I already said this but it's worth repeating: Scott McCall can be one hell of a cunning, clever little shit when he wants to be. If he had Stiles's morals? I'd be scared for the world. It's a very, very good thing things are the way they are, or Peter would've had a fucking blast

The effects? Much better. Could use some work? Definitely. Do I choose to ignore it? Yup

Isaac's bond to Derek is sometimes sweet and powerful (c'mon, he's the first beta, he's special) sometimes just...dude you shouldn't have said yes honestly

I am not looking forward to next episode. At all. Derek will be a bad, bad Alpha and I do not like it.

Is it bad that I took pleasure in Allison finding out how the fuck her mother got herself killed? Yes. Do I actually feel bad? Ha—no

The true alpha plot line always makes me think of this one small moment in season one, when Peter makes Scott shift in the school. For a moment, his eyes flashed red—that never happened ever again with any other beta when they were forced to turn

#Teen wolf #allison argent #scott mccall #isaac lahey #derek hale #Peter hale #Vernon boyd #erica reyes #Stiles stilinski #melissa mccall #chris argent #kate argent #spoilers #like sooo many #woe