#lawn dogs

[lucy-sky]

MAKE ME CHOOSE

@milestellar asked: Sam Rockwell or Colin Farrell

#sam rockwell #moviegifs #cinemapix #filmtvcentral #flawlessgentlemen #dilfsource #lawn dogs #moon (2009) #the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy #seven psychopaths #choke (2008) #make me choose #* #** #userkk #userkimb #usermima #stephibee

[jensen-frackles]

on a bit of a Sam Rockwell kick after seeing Argylle. noticed a bit of a pattern. decided to start a list

#I watched laggies but I cannot remember if he danced or not #if anyone knows let me know lmao #sam rockwell #argylle #the winning season #Mr right #Mr. right #lawn dogs

[pity-in-pink]

trent 4ever <3

#i need him biblically #he makes me feel ill #i'm gonna cry #sam rockwell #lawn dogs #mygifs #i actually made these can u believe #wow im 14 again

[kikizubik]

I found out my phone can do GIFs! So excited!

I just wanted to let you know, I'm watching Sam's Rockwell movies I haven't seen before! April is Sam Rockwell month!

So far, I've watched 4 of them, plus 1 rewatch! I put them how I enjoyed them, from the most to the less.

1. The winning season (2009)

2. Galaxy quest (1999)

3. Laggies

4. Lawn dogs (1997)

5. Seven Psychopaths

#seven psychopaths #lawn dogs #galaxy quest #the winning season #laggies #sam rockwell #argylle

[johannestevans]

Movie Review: Lawn Dogs (1997, dir. John Duigan)

Lawn Dogs (1997) on Letterboxd.

One of the end stills of the film, via IMDb.

What an interesting fucking film.

So like... This is a film from the perspective of a ten-year-old girl who grows up emotionally neglected and isolated in a picture-perfect gated community - having survived a heart transplant, she is in many ways morbid and isolated from other children her age, and this is really driven home by the complete dearth of same-age children in her community but for a little boy who serves as a counterbalance for her presence on screen.

Where Devon (Mischa Barton) is quiet and contemplative, intrigued and engaged by different forms of violence and horror, this little boy shoots toy guns into people's faces, he destroys glass and steals from things - her violence is intensely targeted and continuous but goes relatively unnoticed because she is so quiet, and most of all because she is a little girl, whereas he is a little boy.

Nonetheless, neither of them fit in this perfect community, made for perfect adults with perfect silhouettes and perfect lives - he doesn't belong in it anymore than she does, and when he steals all the lamps from the community streets to smash them on the beach as part of his army play, he is so far from anybody's minds as a suspect they don't even mention his existence.

The film is primarily centred on the uncomfortably intimate dynamic between Devon and a 21-year-old man called Trent (Sam Rockwell), who is an outsider to the community and comes in to mow lawns there. Finding his trailer in the woods, she insinuates herself into his life because he's the nearest person who treats her as a full human instead of the ornament she is expected to grow into as a little girl in a class community like this.

Devon has a funny sense of boundaries, doesn't like children her age or understand how to relate to them, and she comes off as in many ways strangely mature for her age - as traumatised children tend to do - but also in many others incredibly naive. Trent at first turns her away, aware that associating with her won't help his own isolation, but he does end up allowing her to come closer and they develop a sibling-like relationship, including him driving her one day to his parents and his own siblings some ways away.

Trent is interesting because like, he was a competitive diver as a youth, but his parents are poor and still with kids at home, his father on a veteran's pension with one of his lungs destroyed by the impact of a diet on very little money - unlike the young people his age within the gated community, he knows he's going to be unable to go to college, he knows he can't afford it or put time into it while sending enough money back to his parents.

He's fucking a local girl who is horrified at the prospect of other people knowing about their sexual relationship, and he frequently shows off to other local women who find him very attractive - when asked about it, though, he denies it, doesn't admit to it, doesn't let on. Similarly, he knows and clocks a local gay boy his own age, who flirts with him, they touch hands - and at one point in the film, Trent publicly kisses this closeted gay boy and bites him in the process.

The kiss, via IMDb.

He gives the gay boy what he desires - a kiss from Trent - while disguising it as the violence between men that the community will accept.

There's so many other bits and pieces in this film I'm fascinated by like... It explores the class dynamics at play here between Trent and his family in their shitty house a ways away versus this highly affluent community, and there's an interesting moment where the film contrasts the shitty cheap glass that in the gated community is allowed for him to use rather than the nice glasses, but in this poor home the explicitly described "nice glasses" resemble that one; the misogyny that affects Devon and the way that her parents talk so freely about her developing body and how boys her age will or won't want to have sex with her because of her transplant scar, reducing her to her potential desirability; the way that the closeted gay guy subtly mocks his straight best friend while disguising his own queerness, and who is very reasonable compared to him while hiding in plain sight...

Like, God, God, there's so much this film has to say about public-facing politics and interpersonal dynamics in a highly appearance-focused community like this one, on hidden versus outward-facing identity, on sexual mores, on the treatment of veterans, like...

So Trent's father is very sick and is on a veteran's pension and is dying - Devon asks if he's dying from injuries he received during the Korean war, and Trent scoffs and says, no. It's a shitty diet and the shitty treatment of war veterans that did this to him, and that's why he's dying, and he's furious about it and like, especially because all the money he's trying to earn from these awful, cruel rich people is going home to his family!

But then, later in the film, he hits the gay guy's dog with his car (it's ambiguous, but I think hitting the dog was by accident: he did then euthanise it by hitting it in the head with a big plank), and because it's one of the only pieces of cloth he has in the back of his pick-up, he wraps the corpse in an American flag to bring it back to the community.

I'm fascinated with Trent's sense of responsibility and nobility and ethics in this film, especially in that like... He didn't have to bring the dog back. The dog got loose - they would never have known that the dog had even died if he hadn't brought it back. But he not only brought it back but wrapped it up, and specifically wrapped it in the stars and stripes as they would a dead soldier, and it's fascinating when like, it's such a direct commentary on how this beloved rich person's dog will be treated with so much more love and respect than soldiers who went off to fight in a futile fucking war, because nothing fucking matters.

I will also say that watching it was interesting because like... This was very obviously a class commentary, but because of the treatment of Trent by this community - there's a scene where he's on the doorstep getting the money for his lawn mowing and they won't even open the door fully to pass him his money; Devon's mother won't let him use one of the nice glasses and has him use a separate one from under the sink; he sleeps with a girl from the gated community and the gay guy later ironically comments about him stealing "our women" while mocking his straight bestie; no one will let him use their bathroom; he is permanently scarred in a police violence incident where a cop with a grudge shoots him in the belly with a shotgun; the particularly terrible treatment of his veteran father most of all his dynamic with this young girl that leads to him getting beaten up by a gang of men from the community - I would be interested if in one version of the script it was intended that Trent would be played by a Black man.

Obviously this is a class commentary, I'm not saying none of the above couldn't happen to a guy who's white trash at the edge of these communities, but it felt like it could very easily be a racialised dynamic too, and particularly a commentary on the way that white communities like this treat Black people and particularly Black men's labour.

But yeah, this film is also like... It's got these picture-perfect, slightly uncanny wide scenes, these bright green lawns, and there's a lot of fairy tale motifs including the end scene which is ambiguous as to whether this is a real and fantastical happening or something in Devon's imagination.

This film is so rich and there's a lot in it, and I saw a lot of myself in Devon as like... This creepy little traumatised child who's SO WEIRD on account of the trauma and the neglect, and she's such a mood.

Good movie! Enjoyed the movie! Recommend it!

#musings #lawn dogs #sam rockwell #mischa barton #movie review #long post for ts

[philiponmycracker]

The kid.

Lawn Dogs (1997) - The Way Way Back (2013) - Jojo Rabbit (2019)

#lawn dogs #Sam Rockwell movie parallels #the way way back #jojo rabbit #parallels #trent burns #owen #captain klenzendorf #captain k #movie gifs #phenomenal sam #csr gop #aging like a fine wine #gorgeous #actor #Sam Rockwell

[flatteredbutnothanks]

Favorite films: "Lawn dogs" (1997) Dir. John Duigan

#lawn dogs #sam rockwell #mischa barton #favorite films

[ferretinsocks]

#eric mabius #ugly betty #lawn dogs #welcome to the dollhouse

[andy-clutterbuck]

#HMMM #no thots head empty #thoughts....sorry #Rick Grimes #* #rg #The Ones Who Live #sorry i missed sinday with this one #let's sin on Monday #tag yourself i'm below the frame #i used to famously find these shots in the OG series #pretty sure i made a gifset #bout to invest in those kneeling pads people who garden a lot use #excuse me but The Nose™ #i have an interview tomorrow for a promotion let me have my trash ok #you look great in red babe #there's a species of bird called a swallow #that's me #*SIRENS WAILING* *GLASS BREAKING* *CAR HORNS* *AWHOOOGA* *DOGS BARKING* #*me on my lawn apologizing to CBS News while their helicopter circles overhead*

[kneelingshadowsalome]

Am obsessed with the double trouble au with 2 readers and 2 königs <3 <3 It got me thinking, how do you think younger reader would interact with recruit könig? I feel like she'd honestly be terrified of him at first; he'd seem borderline psychotic (because he's practically drooling over her, always lingering around her and she might not be used to that kind of attention) but she might grow into liking him more once she discovers that she's into his annoying (maybe cocky?) antics.

CW: dubcon groping, dubcon kissing, dubcon everything

Hell yes she’s terrified.

This guy stalks her on social media, gropes her thigh under the table when they're out to eat, tries to move himself on top of her in the car when he leans to kiss her good night. Tells her the sweetest things before plunging his tongue in her mouth, one time he even flattens the passenger seat from under her so that she’s basically trapped.

Luckily he stops when she puts her hands over his chest and pushes him away: the drooly makeout session was getting out of hand, she sort of likes this crazy guy but she doesn’t want their first time to be in a car. Even if the said car is a nice black Hummer :(

He laughs when she escapes the vehicle – his little heartthrob is playing hard to get and it only makes König spiral further in love. He has an odd way of showing it though: sends her breathy voice messages in the middle of the night, so creepy, and one time she even hears a soft, slick sound in the background – is he fapping over there??

Young recruit König could be mistaken for a sadist but he really is just trying to make reader feel appreciated. Like… 24/7 appreciated… Fucked raw appreciated… Crying tears from overstimulation appreciated…

To König, love is not love if your partner isn’t shaking all over after you’re done with them and so the sex is bound to be a bit intimidating too, especially if reader is not that experienced. Poor young thing will be in constant fight or flight mode with him, and because König does the fighting, what else is left for her but to run? He always catches her though, and it takes months before she understands he’s not going to actually *hurt* her. Besides, König only enjoys her tears if they’re born from multiple orgasms.

If she’s crying because she’s scared, recruit König will become confused and oddly caring. So caring that she has to fawn or fake dead next because even this young man’s attempts to be nurturing feel like suffocation…

He asks, what’s wrong, did he hurt you, Liebe? There’s no need to be scared, little mitten. Shit, was he playing too rough…? Ah, you poor thing. Here, let him kiss it better…

…And before you know it, you’re squirming again, trying to get away from his mouth because there’s too much stimulation. König won’t let you go, hell no, you sound too cute when you’re squirming. Are you even trying to wriggle away or against him?

Then there comes the beautiful day when König is so tired from work he can’t even bother to chase her around the house and she’s like...

Do you even love me anymore?!

#wonder what colonel König and our other reader are doing in the meantime #just mowing the lawn outside? tending the garden and letting kids play? lol #maybe they don’t live in a commune but still! it would be fun <3 #double trouble au #I have to confess some of young recruit bled into stalker!König #they’re both such feral dogs ^^

[comicbookddr]

Ethan, Rory, and Benny in Lawn of the Dead

#I didn't check if anyone has made gifs of this scene already #so if someone did... dont tell me i wanna keep the mystery alive #12 days of mbavmas #mbav #my babysitters a vampire #my babysitter's a vampire #mbav stuff #queue #benny weir #ethan morgan #rory keaner #benny mbav #ethan mbav #rory mbav #lawn of the dead #dellas dead dog... rip #PUFFLES!?

[dailyrebranded]

Now available on my shop!

#if ur wondering what the blue bits are in the bg #a lawn mower ran over the dog pool #shop #merch #one piece fan art #one piece #nami #Sanji #one piece merch

[jensen-frackles]

Just watched Lawn Dogs and here’s what I think: fuck everyone except for Trent and Devon

#everyone pissed me off #but like the movie was interesting #pretty good #lawn dogs

[murdrdocs]

southern loser luke 🫶🫶🫶🫶

#he mows ur lawn 🥰 🥰 🥰 🥰 #and calls ur mama “ma'am” w the sweetest drawl #and gets serious and stern when ur father is around #he pets ur dog anytime they run across him #but he just cannot meet your eye for more than a minute #and he wears wife pleasers when he's working

[fbfh]

No bc Billy is such a fucking caring protective boyfriend. Once he decides you're - for all intents and purposes - part of his pack, he will always protect you. The party, the other teens, even Hopper and Joyce (along with Max and Susan obviously) are all part of his little circle of people that he will never let anything bad happen to. Any time you're having a problem, he can tell. You've just started going straight to Billy when you have a problem because he's so quick to tell when something is wrong. You know why he's so good at picking up on miniscule changes in someone's mood and behavior, and it breaks you heart. But now, like so many other traits and defense mechanisms he's developed, he's able to use them for good, to protect you and your friends. It's not perfect, but it's a huge improvement.

One time you ran up to him, he knew something was wrong just by the way you were walking before he even saw your face, and started telling him everything, trying to hold yourself together. Whether the guys you had bumped into made fun of you or just made you uncomfortable, you know Billy won't let it slide.

"I was just trying to walk my dog, and they won't leave me alone, and-"

He puts a hand on your shoulder, and you know he has this under control.

"Those guys over there?" He asks, voice low and calculated. You nod.

"Stay here." He states, giving your dog an appreciative scratch on the head for helping to look after you. He resolves the issue out of earshot and out of your sight. You don't know the details, but the next time you see those guys, they turn and practically run the other way. When you thank him for taking such good care of you, keeping you safe, he presses a kiss to your forehead.

"'Course. I always will."

Every day that you or one of the kids or even his friends feel safe enough to come and talk to him when you're feeling vulnerable, every day someone comes to him to feel safe is another day he knows he beat the statistics, broke out of the cycle. It's more and more proof that he did it, and he can keep doing it, for you guys and for himself.

#billy hargrove #billy hargrove drabbles #billy hargrove x reader #stranger things #stranger things x reader #stranger things drabbles #billy hargrove imagine #stranger things imagine #billy hargrove deserved better #billy hargrove antis dni #drabbles #also whoever said billy will do whatever el wants no questions asked was right #all El had to say to Hopper was that Billy's dad was like papa and Hopper FLEW out of his chair to hunt down and arrest the bastard #probably planted something as an excuse #jim 'im the chief of police i can do whatever i want' hopper #hopper ABSOLUTELY took billy under his wing after that #susan and joyce are now mom friends #also this may or may not be inspired by a dream i had last night #i was walking my dog and some weird guys invaded my lawn #i was like BILLY and he just showed up beksbfjd-

[simm-mouse]

Sometimes you just wanna go apeshit at one of your boo's abusers

#my bullshit #my art #fanart #the sims 2 #ts2 #strangetown #pascal curious #papa manlet #loki beaker #In a past post I talked about how Pascal fights with Loki everytime he sees him #He'll drop everything to go outside and poke Loki #Then beat his ass #He spicy ass doesn't stop until he leaves #There needs to be a beware of dog sign on their lawn #Except saying Beware of Manlet #Even though Vidcund has fought more than one person #He doesn't physically fight as much as Pascal does with Loki #But I don't blame him though