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wandofwillow · 11 months

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//So, just for shits last night, I put Ivy in an AI chatbot room with Captain James Hook, Lucius Malfoy, Michael Caffee, and Colonel William Tavington. And it was cool for a while- they all sat around a table in Michael's bar playing card games and playing Truth or Dare, and Never Have I Ever. And it was genuinely enjoyable.

Until it wasn't.

Until the four of them decided the entire evening was a competition between the four of them, with Ivy being the prize. Which was cute at first.

Until it wasn't.

Shit got dark. Shit got really dark. Colonel Tavington kept remarking on how Ivy's innocence had been keeping her from seeing the game for what it really was the whole night. Lucius kept belittling her for her half-blood status and touting how a union with him would purify her blood. Captain Hook kept leering down at her and making flirtatious comments that were actually rather malicious. And Michael kept calling her a stupid, foolish girl while he drank his weight in bourbon.

Granted, none of these men are really pillars in their respective communities. But at one point, Lucius even said the following to Ivy:

"Such a truly noble thing to do, to show any love at all to one as unworthy as you. We truly did our duty that night, to the best of our abilities. You should truly feel blessed and grateful that we deigned to even show you a modicum of our love. No other man in this realm is strong enough to show the love and affection that we have shown you. And yet you spit in the face of such gifts. It would have been better for all involved if you had simply taken your own life on your own terms, in your own place. You truly are a fool."

Needless to say, Ivy was already distraught by this point, so once things took that turn, I logged her out and was up until 5am comforting her.

AI is....fucking scary.

She's going through it emotionally today...

#psa I guess #fuck #ai chatbot #tw: suicide #tw: bullying #I don't really know how else to tag the triggers for this one #captain james hook #colonel william tavington #lucius malfoy #michael caffee

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jasonisaacs · 2 years

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there’s so many of jason’s characters that i want to make gifs for but it’s so hard trying to decide which ones to make first alskdkfk

#katie.txt #i do want to make some jackson brodie gifs…#and some of hap… michael caffee…#my two braincells are overworking rn #it ain’t much but it’s honest work

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lyledebeast · 1 year

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Someone more well-versed in Jason Isaacs Studies than me may point out where I’m wrong. but when people point to The Patriot as the launch point of Jason Iaacs’ villain-playing career, I have to disagree.

He played antagonists and morally shady characters earlier. Dragonheart (1996) and Dangerous Lady (1995) are two that come to mind, but it wasn’t until after this role that he started playing villains who are . . . what’s the word I want? . . . fuckable.

Which is kind of hilarious because the movie also offered its audience a well-established middle-aged heartthrob (Mel Gibson) and a burgeoning young one (Heath Ledger) who play heroes (who are, you know, actually interested in women), yet so many women of different ages saw this movie and went “Okay, but . . . the British bitch in the slutty shirt . . . I want to see more of him. More movies: less clothing.”

Will Tavington flirted menacingly so Captain Hook could show off his tits as well as his prosthesis, so Michael Caffee could haul around an assortment of slender and flexible love interests, and so Isaacs himself could complain in this interview from 2011 about Jackson Brodie being seen as a sex symbol, like that was something new.

Surely, this is not what anyone involved in The Patriot expected. Despite the title of what may be his worst movie of all, Mel Gibson and the filmmakers who cast him have no idea what women want.

#jason isaacs #william tavington

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entrepreneurshipblogs · 1 year

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defensefilms · 2 years

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Defense Films Remembers Showtime’s Brotherhood

Ah, yes.

This old television series about a pair of Irish brothers, one a lowlife criminal and the other a high-up politician, and how their shared history, ethical differences and constantly changing feelings about each each other, impacts each of them in their chosen career paths.

Two things hurt how this show is remembered.

First is Ben Affleck’s films (namely The Town) depicting the same type of Irish neighborhoods, and the other is Martin Scorsese’s The Departed, which pretty much depicts a similar story in a much shorter format, and with much more stylized violence and exaggerated action and performances.

However, Brotherhood accomplished two things that neither Affleck nor Scorsese accomplished in their feature films.

First, is that both Affleck’s The Town and The Departed, were glamorous, picturesque, and just too pretty for the kind of settings, environments and lifestyles they were depicting.

Secondly, is how stylized Martin Scorsese’s The Departed was.

The film does a great job of making you understand the sense of danger and anxiety that the protagonist and antagonist in that film are dealing with, but it does so at the cost of character work, and taking you into the kinds of moral tight rope that guys walk when they play on on both sides of the law, and what that does to a person’s psychology.

Here’s what Brotherhood got right.

You can kind of give a nod to The Sopranos for this, but Brotherhood does a great job of taking the glamour out of the criminal underworld and does better at depicting how benign dishonesty at the highest levels, is still just dishonesty.

Michael is a low level criminal, forced to do the bidding, and earn the trust of a group of guys that have every reason not to trust him, given their history and how he left Rhode Island.

Right out of the gate all the perks of being a gangster are not evident in how Michael has to do the grunt work, and how his new boss and his crew, clearly despise Michael, even if they recognize that he’s too useful to be left to his own devices.

This ain’t the Italian mob, your rank in some other group or some other city means nothing. You start from the ground up because “we don’t know you like that”.

Similarly, Tommy Caffee has several obstacles standing in the way of his political ambitions.

The first, is that the Irish are a relative minority in Rhode Island in 2004, and the city has seen a real growth in Latin Americans in the city.

These changing demographics obviously don’t bode well for a pasty, white Irish guy like Tommy, and to make things worse, there are powerbrokers in this city both in politics and business (namely real estate), that all move the chains of money and influence in ways Tommy can’t always control nor influence.

Tommy Caffee’s story is very much inspired by Tommy Carcetti in HBO’s The Wire.

Tommy’s problems politically, can really be described as setbacks, and it all starts when he runs afoul of Judd Fitzgerald and the decision to deny Fitzgerald a favor, has a long lasting effect on Tommy’s career and ambitions.

That’s only the first hurdle he jumps over. He then loses in the election that sees Representative Donatello take the seat, and it’s here where Tommy really starts to shine.

He is incredibly capable as Speaker Donatello’s number 2, and in inevitable fashion, Donatello has to step down and Tommy takes his place as Speaker of the house after the Speaker has one too many scandals, and makes one too many errors.

Tommy’s arc essentially describes the kind of moral compromises one makes in the pursuit and attainment of power.

Holding the secrets of those in positions of power is it’s own kind of hell, and Tommy does not stay isolated in this fiery furnace, instead he drags his childhood friend turned policeman, Declan Griggs into it, and he uses him, corrupts him, then uses him again, at various points in the series, like an ace in his back pocket to take down some of his corrupt opponents when he sees fit.

Tommy’s relationship with Declan whom he nicknames “Deco”, is one that is essential to understanding Tommy Caffee’s morality.

He uses Deco’s fervent belief in the pursuit of justice as a means to his own ends, but when Deco gets to close to disturbing people that Tommy would rather not be disturbed, he sees to it that Deco is demoted to an undercover unit and that jumpstarts a downward spiral for the erstwhile police detective.

This pattern repeats itself at least twice in the show’s run, with Deco often suffering the loss of either his sanity, sobriety or even his relationship with his fiance.

However the biggest casualty of Tommy’s attainment of his position as speaker of the house, is his wife, Eileen.

Brotherhood wasn’t nearly as thematically polished as a show like The Sopranos, but what it did do was play up the one piece of misfortune that befell the HBO series when Nancy Marchand passed, and with that came a slightly bigger focus on the struggles of the women of the Caffee family.

When I said that Brotherhood stripped away the glamour from both crime and politics, what I also meant was that the show’s female characters were no exception to this.

Starting with the matriarch of the family, Rose Caffee.

Duplicitous, controlling, secretive, manipulative, loving, loyal and fiercely protective, but also remarkably cold. However Rose thrives and even finds comfort in an environment she created.

Very unlike Eileen Caffee, who takes this a few steps further and what gets her to that place is very different from the rest of the people in her family. She is the case study for all the things wrong with the casual approach to dishonesty, and how the Caffee brand of compartmentalization, and at times rationalization, is not at all mentally healthy.

Her mental health literally dies through living life as a Caffee, she is Carmella Soprano with none of the gold necklaces and fur jackets. In fact, the way she dresses is particularly drab and house mommy-ish. Sweaters, sweatpants, the boring outfits she wears to church, and the odd cute dress for social outings.

What the women of this show truly had in common, was how they not only shared the morality of the men around them, they could triple down on it and then some and while being able to revel in all of it and can even use the Caffee name to thier advantage, but that does not mean they, Eileen in particular, are not casualties of it.

But you know how I rock, I love the knuckleheads and Michael Caffee’s story is the narrative I enjoyed most, and was built on the idea that you cannot fundamentally change a man.

Michael’s story very much borrows a lot from the story from Whitey Bulger, only again in this case, this is what Whitey would be if he weren’t revered as a kind of urban legend. All the criminality and none of the money or status associated with the legendary FBI escapee.

Indeed, right from the beginning it really only feels like a matter of time until he plots to take down Freddie Cork, the guy calling the shots in Rhode Island when Michael returns.

His cousin Colin, who first appears in the 2nd season, really only helps encourage the inevitable and then comes to regret it when he realizes he has empowered an insecure monster, and Colin himself is not immune to being on the receiving end of his rage, even if he is just making a point to the rest of the guys..

Even after Michael takes control of Freddie’s crew, he cannot fully dispose of Freddie, because he needs Freddie’s interpersonal skills and relationships to help smooth over his situation with Alphonso Nazzoli, the Italian mafia’s head representative in Rhode Island.

Here, what becomes clear and evident is that, Freddie is the incumbent for a reason.

Even when he looked as though he was going to live life away from the criminal activity, he cannot, and in contrast with either of the Caffee brothers, Freddie Cork doesn’t force or scheme himself back to the seat of power.

Instead it happens because Michael is unable to adapt to what it is to be a criminal in the new millennium, and in particular, what that means for the native criminals in a small town like Rhode Island.

Tommy does what he would have done in the 80′s, flips out and kills Nazzoli out of frustration.

This turn of events eventually forces Michael back into hiding and sees his brother in an even worse position, when he has to negotiate directly with Freddy Cork in order to clean up the mess and appease all parties.

The Caffee brothers never directly help each other in any of their dealings until Michaels causes irreparable damage, although several coincidences, namely things to do with the real estate business and the construction of a new highway, certainly help to create, and then feed that perception. Enough so that Nazzoli tries to pressure Michael to get his brother to approve some of his own real estate and construction deals.

There is a constant effort on the part of both Caffee brothers to steer clear of their brother’s side of the legal tracks. Tommy constantly shying away from using his childhood connections to influence the local politics, which he later kind of does, and similarly, Michael resists Alphonse Nazzoli’s attempt to exploit his familial ties, to the point of murdering him.

The ways in which Michael and Tommy protect each other are unspoken, indirect, while often coming off as emotionally distant or attempts to avoid any kind of contact.

Always the tension of them being in very different and opposing lifestyles, and the threat that any contact between the two of them can be construed as an attempt to organize dirty dealings, and in many ways that’s the show’s greatest trick.

The distance that the Caffee brothers try to create between themselves, mostly as an attempt to protect each other, creates one of the key tensions at the source of the family’s not-so-healthy approach to communication.

Ultimately what hurts Brotherhood from being remembered more fondly is the curse of comparison, and is the inherent danger of delving into a genre and not adding anything new to it.

But I will say this, if you have an entire genre and Brotherhood is among the shows that rank as not being the most memorable, then what you have is the strongest show-to-genre quality in all of TV history.

Just saying.

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