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arrayed-in-purple · 1 month

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𝐄𝐯𝐢𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟏

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girlystories · 6 months

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❝I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.❞

— Alex Delarge [ A Clockwork Orange]

#a clockwork orange #aco #moodboard #movie blog #alex delarge #girlblogging #i'm just a girl #sillyposting #books #malcolm mcdowell #quotes

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suavis-nook · 1 year

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Little Women - director's specials 🎬

~directed by Kim Hee Won

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stevebuscemieyes · 1 month

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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

September 5 2024

Dir. Tim Burton

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cursedcinema · 1 year

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“Life is an ocean of chaos and the realization that you are the one supposed to throw the buoy while struggling to stay afloat is devastating.”

Detachment (2011)

#detachment 2011 #adrien brody #cinema #movies #films #movie account #mental health #film stills #film account #movie stills #movie blog

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belle-keys · 1 month

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Biographical movies and dramas about writers:

Tolkien (2019) - about JRR Tolkien

The Edge of Love (2008) - about Dylan Thomas

Set Fire to the Stars (2014) - about Dylan Thomas

Colette (2018) - about Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

Wilde (1997) - about Oscar Wilde

The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) - about Oscar Wilde

My Salinger Year (2020) - about JD Salinger

Rebel in the Rye (2017) - about JD Salinger

Mary Shelley (2017) - about Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Gothic (1986) - about Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Shakespeare in Love (1998) - about William Shakespeare

Sylvia (2003) - about Sylvia Plath

Dickinson (2019-2021) - about Emily Dickinson

A Quiet Passion (2016) - about Emily Dickinson

Vita & Virginia (2019) - about Virginia Woolf

Becoming Jane (2008) - about Jane Austen

Miss Austen Regrets (2007) - about Jane Austen

Kafka (1991) - about Franz Kafka

Byron (2003) - about Lord Byron

Total Eclipse (1995) - about Paul Verlaine

Capote (2005) - about Truman Capote

Rowing with the Wind (1988) - about the Romantic Poets

Infamous (2006) - about Truman Capote

Quills (2000) - about Marquis de Sade

Neruda (2016) - about Pablo Neruda

Juana Inés (2016) - about Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Daphne (2007) - about Daphne du Maurier

Priest of Love (1981) - about DH Lawrence

Little Ashes (2008) - about Federico Garcia Lorca

Lope (2010) - about Lope de Vega

Howl (2010) - about Allen Ginsberg

The Last Station (2009) - about Leo Tolstoy

Young Goethe in Love (2010) - about Johann Goethe

Tom & Viv (1994) - about T.S. Eliot

Céleste (1980) - about Marcel Proust

Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012) - about Ernest Hemingway

Balzac: A Life of Passion (1999) - about Honore de Balzac

The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017) - about Charles Dickens

Shirley (2020) - about Shirley Jackson

Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017) - about Alan Alexander Milne

Heart Beat (1980) - about Jack Kerouac

In the Heart of the Sea (2015) - about Herman Melville

Notes: Not all of the films on this non-exhaustive list are entirely “about” the lives of their respective writers to a tee. I cannot vouch for the accuracy or quality of all of these movies. I’ve only seen about 75% of these films personally. And yes, I know this list is very Westernized – I’m working on it.

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splinteredsoul · 2 months

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Oppenheimer (2023)

dir. Christopher Nolan

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moviegrabs · 4 months

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Little Women (2019)

#film #movie blog #little women #little women 2019 #greta gerwig #timothée chalamet #saoirse ronan #florence pugh #little women Greta gerwig #movie scenes #movies #film blog #vintage #movie lover #movie grabs #film photography #screencaps #portrait #screenshot

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poppletonink · 1 year

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6 Dark Academia Films Everyone Should Watch

Dead Poet’s Society

John Keating changes a group of boys lives when he starts teaching English at their school - Dalton Academy. In a pursuit of teaching the boys to be free thinkers and to live their lives to the fullest, he causes them to reignite an old group he was in when he was at Dalton Academy: The Dead Poet's Society.

Enola Holmes

Enola Holmes, follows the sister of Sherlock Holmes. After her mother goes missing, her life begins to fall apart - Mycroft wants to put her into a finishing school, and Sherlock is not objecting. But Enola is smart, and good at puzzles, so in an attempt to save her own future, she travels to London to find her mother. However, on the way she gets pulled into an exhilarating adventure, filled with just the right amount of mystery.

Kill Your Darlings

A story of the college days of Allen Ginsberg, and Lucien Carr; the murder of David Kammerer, brings together the early members of the Beat Generation of poets: Lucien Carr, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Boroughs.

The Imitation Game

Based on true events, The Imitation Game is a wonderfully acted and beautifully directed film that tells the life story of Alan Turing - the man who invented the machine that cracked the Enigma code during World War II.

Educating Rita

Educating Rita tells the story of a young woman with her life set out for her: she has to have kids with her husband, continue working as a hairdresser, and go to the pub every week with her family. However, when Rita (Susan) decides that isn't enough for her, she enrolls in a college, in pursuit of knowledge, leaving the mundane life she led behind her, and entering the world of academia.

Little Women

Little Women relates the story of the March sisters (Amy, Jo, Meg and Beth) - four young women each with different passions and different ideas of how they wish to live life, as they pass from childhood to adulthood.

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ijustrllyadorecats · 1 year

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Dr. Jonathan crane

Cillian Murphy 2008

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stopper-of-hearts · 2 months

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THE HOLDOVERS

if u love the “teacher who changed my life” trope, or found family, or christmas, or dead poets society, or TEARS i have the movie for you!! absolutely obsessed.

#film #oscars #best picture #the holdovers #dead poets society #found family #movies #blog #movie blog #history #dark academia

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musicmakesthemovie · 8 months

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"What Was I Made For?" A Look into Barbie's Most Tear-jerking and Overplayed Song

[WARNING: Spoilers for Barbie ahead]

If you've been alive and conscious for the last few months, you've at least heard of Barbie if you aren't one of the people who's been decked out in pink to go see what could, arguably, be called the Movie of the Year.

Even if, by some miracle, you haven't seen Barbie, you've probably heard Billie Eilish's song "What Was I Made For", which plays a pivotal, emotional role in the film. And you've probably drawn your own conclusions about the song, whether you're a fan of Billie's or not.

If you know anything about Billie Eilish, you know that she is no stranger to airplay and TikTok fame, and her most played songs tend to be earworms, played repeatedly until you're ready to pull your hair out. We've all been there.

So, it wasn't shocking when a friend, after seeing Barbie, told me how much he despised the song. I mean, he absolutely loathed it. His argument was clear: "It doesn't fit with the movie! 'Don't tell my boyfriend, it's not what he's made for' totally undermines the entire plot!"

Initially, I nodded in agreement. I like Billie's music, but did it really fit with the movie? Like every weekly hyper fixation, this required a deep dive. I researched how Billie Eilish came up with the song and what it meant to her. To my surprise, I found that it resonated beautifully with the Barbie movie. Let's break down the lyrics before delving into the song's musical significance.

"'What was I made for?' is...it's Barbie's voice...it's your voice...it's anybody's voice" - Billie Eilish Jul. 13, 2023 (Interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music)

The first verses are quite straightforward in their references. "I used to float, now I just fall down" alludes to Barbie's malfunctioning state, a central plot point in the movie. "Looked so alive, turns out I'm not real" reflects Barbie's mental conflict with realizing that she's just a toy; however, it could also be seen to reflect the other struggle Barbie faces: realizing that the real world is not the feminist, women-driven world she thought it was. Even as "Stereotypical Barbie," she senses that something's amiss. For her, it means that everything the other Barbies worked for has been lost. What's her purpose now? What was she made for?

Now, let's address the contentious line: "I'm sad again, don't tell my boyfriend, it's not what he's made for." At first glance, it seems like Barbie is concealing her sadness from her boyfriend as if she needs to put on a facade to shield him from distress. While this is partly true, there's a broader context that some miss. Barbie grapples with depression, a daunting experience for someone who has only known happiness. We've witnessed how it affects Barbie, both physically and mentally. In the film, Barbie lacks someone to confide in about her feelings, especially Ken, who's portrayed as having limited critical thinking skills. Barbie refrains from telling Ken because she understands he either wouldn't grasp it or wouldn't cope with the impact of her emotions. Thus, the song authentically mirrors Barbie's inner struggle to communicate her newfound feelings and her desire to protect others from her experience.

Another criticism my friend raised was that the music wasn't complex enough. The melody was too simple and the harmony was boring, etc. Here's where we delve into the technical side of the song, starting with the harmony or chord progression.

Firstly, Billie's song is originally composed in C major, one of the simplest keys due to its absence of flats or sharps, with a 4/4 time signature, making it rhythmically straightforward. The main progression comprises C-Em-F7, with an Am thrown in on the repeat of "What was I made for?" resulting in C-Em-F7-Am-Em-F7 until the beginning of the chorus, where the Dm and G chords are introduced.

So if we look at it as a numerical chord progression, it would look like this:

(verse) I-iii-IV7-vi-iii-IV7

and (chorus) ii-V-I-iii-IV

The most used chords in pop songs of a major key are I, V, vi, and IV.

So, what's the "iii" chord doing there? It's rarely used in recent pop music. The Beatles featured it in "Here, There And Everywhere," and Elton John in "Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters," but it's uncommon. When we think of common progressions, it's typically I-V-vi-IV.

What's intriguing is that the dominant (V) chord is only used 3 times in the entire piece, with the final one being the very last chord as a Dominant 7th chord, which, in itself, is such a cool choice. The "V" chord naturally gravitates back to the "I" chord, and the addition of the 7th intensifies this desire to return to the home chord, especially since the expectation has been set for it to revert to C major, as it did twice before in the song. Thematically speaking, this choice reflects Barbie's longing for answers and a purpose. The last chord leaves you aching for something more.

Up to this point, we have a harmonic progression that may not be groundbreaking, but it creates compelling tension. So, what about the melody?

Billie's sung melody is quite simple when looked at on its own. All of the notes are diatonic (within the key signature), and the most complex thing is the few leaps between notes that are present. However, when the simple melody combines with the harmony, that's where the magic happens.

The interplay between the melody and harmony is where much of the tension lies. Billie often sings notes that are "unstable" or not part of the chord playing in the harmony, even though the individual notes are diatonic to the key of C major. This adds complexity and tension to the song. When we hear these notes that don't quite harmonize with what's playing underneath, our ears long for something less discomforting, like the warmth and safety of the tonic chord. In this case, that mild discomfort is what gives the song its potency and relevance to the movie as a whole.

If you want to take a deeper dive into the music theory behind the song, I highly encourage this website to get you started!

Q&A: Do you have a song from a film that you feel strongly about, whether you love it or hate it? Share your thoughts and why it resonates with you.

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suavis-nook · 2 years

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Little Women color palettes ✨

~directed by: Kim Hee-Won

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stevebuscemieyes · 9 months

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OPPENHEIMER, 2023

Dir. Christopher Nolan

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cursedcinema · 1 year

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"Don't you ever feel like... you've just done a whole amazing day and then you come home and feel tired and down and... it feels like your organs don't work, they're just tired, and everything is tired. Like you're sinking. I don't know, it's weird. "

Aftersun (2022) dir. Charlotte Wells

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hudsonsbluff · 4 months

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talk to me

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