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therealvinelle · 11 months
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What if Alice’s Breaking Dawn Vision was real (the fakeout I mean)
(Obligatory caveat of I don't consider the movies canon, but I can't resist making fun of them so allons-y.)
Already answered, in that it was a very cartoonish and strange battle where pulling herself up is suddenly impossible for Esme, a vampire with super strength, or Jane, another vampire and therefore someone who doesn't need to breathe, is asphyxiated. Actual warlords Aro and Caius are overpowered by Bella and Edward, and Tanya respectively, and through it all Alice herself is... strangely badass. Suspiciously so.
The vision is Alice's self-indulgent "and then I overpower Jane and feed her face to wolves because I can see them now and it's badass" daydream, in an AU where she's a wanker.
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realtacuardach · 1 year
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One difference between the Lord of the Rings books and the Peter Jackson films that I find really interesting is what the hobbits find when they return to the Shire.
In the books, they return from the War, only to see that the war has not left their home untouched. Not only has it not left their home unscathed, battle and conflict is still actively ravaging the Shire. They return, weary and battle-scarred, to find a home actively wounded and in need of rescue and healing. All four launch themselves into defending their home and rousting those harming it, and eventually succeed. But their idyllic home has been damaged, and even once healed, is never quite again the Shire they set out to save.
In contrast, in the Jackson films, they return to a Shire shockingly untouched by the horrors of war. The hobbits of the Shire talk, in the Green Dragon in Fellowship of the Ring, about not getting involved with issues "beyond our borders," and it seems those issues have not invaded their sanctuary. After having been bowed to by kings, dwarves, elves, and men alike at the coronation in Gondor, their only acknowledgment upon returning home is a skeptical head shake from an older hobbit.
One of the most poignant scenes to me in Return of the King (and there are a considerable amount) is the scene where Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin are sitting in the Green Dragon. The pub patrons bustle around them, talking loudly, clapping excitedly, drinking cheerfully, just as they had in the beginning of the story. But the four hobbits sit silently, watching almost curiously at what was once familiar but is now foreign to them. Their home has not changed. But they have.
Which is the deeper hurt? To come to your home to find it irrevocably changed, despite all you did to keep it untouched and the same? Or to return home but no longer feeling at home, because it is only you that is irrevocably changed?
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midwestmunster · 8 months
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
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velvet4510 · 22 days
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Ok, time for a hot take.
It really bothers me that Rosie and Sam’s relationship is reduced and made so shallow in the films, with the implication that they’ve never even talked to each other, and Sam is pining for this girl he doesn’t really know….
Like …
… this actually misses the entire point of their relationship in the book.
In the book, Sam and Rosie grew up together. His warmest memories that bring him comfort in the darkest place are the memories of playing with her in the pool when they were kids.
The point of Tolkien’s Rosie is that she’s someone familiar to Sam, the face that comes into his mind when he thinks of home. He remembers an actual moment he spent with her, a moment of fun and bonding. Then when he comes home, it turns out she could somehow sense the moment the Ring was destroyed, and knew he was coming home. They have this special, deep bond that brings Sam a sense of comfort and stability.
She’s not supposed to be some distant, unknown figure that Sam has built up in his head but has never actually talked to or gotten to know. That’s literally the antithesis of Tolkien’s Rosie Cotton.
It’s like the films swap Sam’s initial relationships with Rosie and with Frodo. In the movies, he starts off more familiar and friendly with Frodo; they apparently go to the pub together frequently like typical buddies do, whereas Rosie is in another world, dancing and making drinks behind the bar, and Sam is just too unsure of himself to even make small talk with her.
But Tolkien’s portrait is the exact opposite. Rosie is the one who Sam spends a lot of time with and has known for a long while. Frodo is the one who Sam is distant from and doesn’t really have the nerve to make chit-chat with, because he is Frodo’s servant and thus he thinks it’s not his place to be too friendly with “his betters,” as his dad says. (And then the journey takes the two of them out of that restrictive class system and frees them to bond and get to know each other as people.)
Then when they come home, there’s an actual sense of coming home, because Rosie embodies everything that is familiar and safe for Sam. Not everything that is unknown and scary.
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dathen · 2 months
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TAZ vs Dracula book-accuracy ratings from Episode 1:
Dracula: Plaguing locals, running over old church ladies with his car because he wants to see how fast it goes. Captures the pointless mean-spirited violence with humorous anachronisms. 8/10.
Frankenstein: Made a business out of resurrecting people, has an Igor, SHACKING UP WITH DRACULA?? Opposite in every way (except for being gay I guess), 0/10
Griffin Invisibleman: Shows up just to beat a player character’s brother to death, keeps getting stabbed, yells FUCK and runs into the forest only to run back all “I changed my mind!!” to resume beating him up. Highest level of accuracy, only thing missing is the sneezes, 100/10
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lit-erary-memes · 1 year
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Book Faramir: Ah yes We shall have food, you can sleep, here we made up little cots for you
Movie Faramir: Fuck you and your weird cat give me the ring
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theatre-heathen · 8 months
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I’m just as feral for this moment as everyone else and I know a lot of ppl are talking about how Henry’s leading here…BUT MAY I REMIND YALL WHAT PROCEEDS THIS?!
Alex secluding Henry only to pin him to a table in front of a founding fathers portrait to make out and then LEAVING 7(5, thanks Amy) minutes in heaven by saying:
“You are gonna go be, like, five hundred feet away from me for the rest of the night, or else I am going to do something that I will deeply regret in front of a lot of very important people. And then,” Alex says, and he grabs Henry's tie again, close to the knot, and draws his mouth up to a breath away from Henry's. He hears Henry swallow. He wants to follow the sound down his throat. "And then you are going to come to the East Bedroom on the second foor at eleven o'clock to-night, and I am going to do very bad things to you, and if you fucking ghost me again, I'm going to get you put on a fucking no-fly list. Got it?”
So yeah man’s has a lot of catching up to do
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mr-nauseam · 3 months
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I confess. There is a scene that I hate in the movie and I consider it the worst adapted. I'm talking about Sejanus' sandwiches
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Did you see this miserable sandwich? Marcus was so real for make that disgusting face. Like dear, I wouldn't talk to you either if you offered me that shit
Honestly who approved that?
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Because his sandwiches in the book were the best sandwiches in the world and included a plum. Besides, Sejanus didn't just bring Marcus food, my man brought all the tributes food and even fed his cabbage friend Coriolanus
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the-pipis · 2 months
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Go Matthew Go!!
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lettersfrompanem · 3 months
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No no no you don't understand!!! Clemmie needed more screentime (especially after the snakebite)!! And they left out Reaper's scene where he ties the flag around his neck and watches it fly behind him!!! But they compensated it with Wovey's "can I go now?" when Dr. Gaul released the snake tank, with Lamina mercy killing Marcus (and I think that was in the book too) and with Coral's "I can't have killed them all for nothing". Those were THE scenes where they showed us that they were KIDS.
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izzyartcraze · 4 months
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harry and ginny being a quidditch power couple
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long time no see, tumblr ;) guess what i just reread
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therealvinelle · 2 years
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what would you do if you woke up in aros body? you can choose which movie
Which movie?!
Oh flowersnbl00d, you underestimate my disdain for the movies.
I choose New Moon, and proceed to eat Bella because this world is a strange one where nothing quite makes sense and she's delicious.
Supposed immortals age visibly within just a few years, and their appearances change drastically from one month to the next. You can't even trust yourself to sparkle in the sun the same way twice. The people around me don't make sense and their decisions are strange and confusing to me, people will start declaring each other their personal brand of heroin with no context or yell across a battlefield that we're great friends even though I have absolutely no recollection of any such friendship ever being brought up before. The powers and abilities supernatural beings have depend entirely on what some unknown higher power wants us to have at any given time.
Faced with such a surreal place I can only make the best of it and find out what human blood tastes like. Bella is here, she's delicious, she's not a real person, I have superpowers, and after I'm through with her Edward and I are going to find out if movie Twilight vampires are edible too.
The irony that this makes me a thousand times hammier and more insane than Sheen's Aro ever was is not lost on me.
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hellish-cruelty · 3 months
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A deadly combination.
Scott Pilgrim vs the world (2010)
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ravenclawscanbedumb2 · 2 months
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one of my favorite differences from the hobbit movies and the book is the scene where Thranduil’s questioning Thorin
In the book it was like
Thranduil: what were you doing in my forest?
Thorin: starving.
Thranduil: where are your companions?
Thorin: idk probably starving in the forest
And In the movie it was like
Thranduil*says like five things*
Thorin:
DISHONOR! DISHONOR ON YOU! DISHONOR ON YOUR FAMILY! DISHONOR ON YOUR COW!
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velvet4510 · 24 days
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arditb06 · 3 months
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Wallace Wells my BELOVED
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