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re: Anora, i feel like some films are more akin to novels, while others to short stories. Often short stories craft a glimpse or vignette of someone where the reader is expected to work to pull the “interiority” from the character from the intentional but limited context
re: Anora, i feel like some films are more akin to novels, while others to short stories. Often short stories craft a glimpse or vignette of someone where the reader is expected to work to pull the “interiority” from the character from the intentional but limited context
— jp (@excesstential)
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re: Anora, i feel like some films are more akin to novels, while others to short stories. Often short stories craft a glimpse or vignette of someone where the reader is expected to work to pull the “interiority” from the character from the intentional but limited context
Ok… thoughts on Challengers
Ok… thoughts on Challengers
Overall fun, but could have been better. I was left wanting some complexity. I couldn’t help but feel it was surface level the whole time. Pacing also got weird a couple times for me It was shot wonderfully. The glass tennis court undershot is one… — Reggie James (@HipCityReg)
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Ok… thoughts on Challengers
Brian Merchant on X: "Pleased to have done my part to usher in the "Is Her Really a Dystopia?" discourse — really interesting thoughts and conversations, feels like a slice of Old Twitter. Gonna rewatch the film fresh and return with some thoughts that in no way confirm my previously stated biases" / X
Brian Merchant on X: "Pleased to have done my part to usher in the "Is Her Really a Dystopia?" discourse — really interesting thoughts and conversations, feels like a slice of Old Twitter. Gonna rewatch the film fresh and return with some thoughts that in no way confirm my previously stated biases" / X
Gonna rewatch the film fresh and return with some thoughts that in no way confirm my previously stated biases — Brian Merchant (@bcmerchant)
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Brian Merchant on X: "Pleased to have done my part to usher in the "Is Her Really a Dystopia?" discourse — really interesting thoughts and conversations, feels like a slice of Old Twitter. Gonna rewatch the film fresh and return with some thoughts that in no way confirm my previously stated biases" / X
foone🏳️‍⚧️ on Twitter / X
foone🏳️‍⚧️ on Twitter / X
So Contact is one of my favorite sci-fi movies, and part of why is about how "real" it feels. It's far less fantastic-feeling than most sci-fi.Part of that is the contemporary setting, sure, but the visual direction plays a big part of it. pic.twitter.com/ov2CY8JAxJ— foone🏳️‍⚧️ (@Foone) August 19, 2018
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seosamh 🇵🇸 on X: "my hot take is that this isn't a sad ending. the film makes it clear oliver was bad for elio by revealing that oliver is closeted and getting married. the tragedy is not that they 'broke up', it is the necessary pain of first heartbreak and thus self discovery" / X
seosamh 🇵🇸 on X: "my hot take is that this isn't a sad ending. the film makes it clear oliver was bad for elio by revealing that oliver is closeted and getting married. the tragedy is not that they 'broke up', it is the necessary pain of first heartbreak and thus self discovery" / X
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seosamh 🇵🇸 on X: "my hot take is that this isn't a sad ending. the film makes it clear oliver was bad for elio by revealing that oliver is closeted and getting married. the tragedy is not that they 'broke up', it is the necessary pain of first heartbreak and thus self discovery" / X
Josh Harding on X: "Favorite aspect of Dune 2 is how aggressively “anti-blockbuster” it is. Every aspect of the standard Chosen One narrative here is filled with portent and dread. The movie doesn’t want Paul to become the One. Once he does, even the “epic final battle” intentionally feels wrong." / X
Josh Harding on X: "Favorite aspect of Dune 2 is how aggressively “anti-blockbuster” it is. Every aspect of the standard Chosen One narrative here is filled with portent and dread. The movie doesn’t want Paul to become the One. Once he does, even the “epic final battle” intentionally feels wrong." / X
#threads#see-replies#adaptations/books#dune#hollywood#narratives#films
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Josh Harding on X: "Favorite aspect of Dune 2 is how aggressively “anti-blockbuster” it is. Every aspect of the standard Chosen One narrative here is filled with portent and dread. The movie doesn’t want Paul to become the One. Once he does, even the “epic final battle” intentionally feels wrong." / X
nina on Twitter / X
nina on Twitter / X
#DunePart2 Chani Book ChaniZendaya was magnificent. But, I wish Denis had included the storyline of baby Leto, adding more emotional depth. It would have been even more devastating if Chani had become pregnant with their first child only to lose him in the Sardaukar attack. pic.twitter.com/ITbFXdczjs— nina (@21Nina_) March 1, 2024
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fka 🌹 on Twitter / X
fka 🌹 on Twitter / X
emerald fennell + sam levinson are similar...both have a keen visual eye which makes them not bad directors, but when it comes to writing both get bogged down in trying to subvert and/or shock + lose track of what they're trying to say which makes them both not good writers— fka 🌹 (@holyteerrain) December 25, 2023
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Sherry on Twitter / X
Sherry on Twitter / X
I think what makes Ari Aster horror so brilliant is that it uses traditional horror motifs like demons and cults to do the opposite of what traditional horror does. Instead of making the story scarier, it gives the story some kind of psychological relief by saying “dw it’s just… https://t.co/kUDswSVew0— Sherry (@SchrodingrsBrat) November 9, 2023
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Tony Tost on X
Tony Tost on X
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (2023). I feel like late stage Scorsese -- perhaps from WOLF OF WALL STREET onward -- is carving out this new genre: the true-ish fever dream lyrical essay about America. Pictures that feel like full literate novels, all grace notes & soul sickness.
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Rosehill on Twitter
Rosehill on Twitter
Killers of the flower moon review:1. beautiful movie.2. not an indigenous movie at all, rather a early 1900ʻs period piece where the osage people are the setting. both a positive and negative.3. To me a powerful exercise in humanizing even the most detestable of villains.— Rosehill (@Kailikapu) October 23, 2023
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Sherry on X
Sherry on X
I watched Barbie thrice to come up with this idea: What stops most people from living out their true selves is not ignorance of their own mortality but an inability to distinguish between wants and oughts. Most are too busy going through the motions (ie. planned choreography):
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laura 🦠 on Twitter
laura 🦠 on Twitter
wish studios would take notes. posters can be subtle works of real art they dont need to be obnoxious https://t.co/M80XL6v6eF— laura 🦠 (@ecto_fun) October 17, 2023
#posters#films
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