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“Best Actress 1992: Jodie Foster in The Silence of the Lambs” by Be Kind Rewind

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[0:00] Michael Douglas: “And the Oscar goes to

[0:04] Jodie Foster in The Silence of The Lambs.”

[0:08] Be Kind Rewind: The 64th Academy Awards in 1992 honored the best movies of 1991.

[0:13] It was the year Jodie Foster took home the Best Actress Oscar for The Silence of the Lambs.

[0:18] Her second win in the short span of three years.

[0:21] Tired of playing victims,

[0:23] she was determined to bring the now-iconic feminist character Clarice Starling to life.

[0:28] Her work helped Silence of the Lambs dominate the 1992 awards.

[0:32] But her win wasn’t necessarily inevitable.

[0:35] Her competition?

[0:37] Just two outlaws by the name of Thelma and Louise.

[0:40] We’ll discuss how Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon’s now-legendary performances fell just short of the top prize

[0:46] suffering from a game of numbers

[0:49] and perhaps from the sheer audacity of their story.

[0:53] First, let’s take a look at the nominees.

[0:56] It’s certainly a strong group but as usual

[0:58] only a few were ever serious contenders for the top prize.

[1:01] Bette Midler in For the Boys as a singer who tours with the USO during World War II.

[1:08] For The Boys received zero nominations besides Midler’s

[1:11] making her in this category highly unlikely.

[1:15] At that point

[1:16] only two other women had won under those circumstances.

[1:19] Sophie Loren in 1961[’s] Two Women

[1:22] and Jodie Foster in 1989 for The Accused.

[1:25] Laura Dern in Rambling Rose as a woman who escapes her life of prostitution to become a maid for an affluent southern family.

[1:31] Rambling Rose had only one other nomination:

[1:34] Diane Ladd, Laura Dern’s real-life mother for Best Supporting Actress.

[1:38] This was the first and only time a mother-daughter pair had ever been nominated for the same film.

[1:45] While the novelty of this was interesting

[1:47] neither the movie nor Laura who Entertainment Weekly had recently described as a “bright young talent on the verge of stardom”

[1:54] drum up enough interest to meaningfully compete.

[1:58] Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon in Thelma & Louise as best friends turned outlaws after

[2:03] Sarah Sarandon’s Louise kills a man attempting to rape Thelma,

[2:07] played by Geena Davis.

[2:09] Unlike Midler and Dern, both actresses here had a shot.

[2:13] Davis had already proven herself an Academy favorite just three years prior

[2:17] when she won Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Accidental Tourist.

[2:21] Sarandon had yet to win but her celebrity had ballooned since her days as a cult favorite in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

[2:27] With nearly as many nominations as The Silence of the Lambs,

[2:30] Thelma & Louise clearly struck a chord with critics and artistic peers.

[2:35] And last but not least our winner,

[2:37] Jodie Foster, as FBI agent Clarice Starling

[2:40] who enlists the infamous Hannibal Lector to contribute a psychological profile

[2:44] to her investigation of a serial killer, Buffalo Bill.

[2:48] Jodie Foster had been a working actress since age three.

[2:51] So by the time her role as a teen prostitute in 1976′s Taxi Driver launched her into true movie stardom at age fourteen,

[2:59] she already had more credits to her name than both her co-star,

[3:02] Robert Ne Diro, and her director,

[3:05] Martin Scorsese.

[3:07] For the next 15 years, Jodie built a solid reputation

[3:10] with the minor exceptions of her time at Yale

[3:14] and that one time a guy tried to kill President Reagan to impress her.

[3:18] She worked steadily to increase both her star value

[3:21] and her chops as a dramatic actress.

[3:23] In 1989,

[3:25] this journey culminated in her first Academy Award win

[3:27] for her role in The Accused as a newly minted Best Actress winner.

[3:31] She began to look for her next project.

[3:33] When she read the novel, The Silence of the Lambs, by Thomas Harris,

[3:37] she immediately knew that she had to be in the movie version.

[3:41] She was tired of playing victims

[3:43] and Clarice was anything but that.

[3:46] Jodie Foster: My whole life had been playing a lot of victims so I didn’t play a lot of women that had been acted upon and things had been done to them.

[3:52] For me, the reason that it was so important to make this movie was

[3:56] that there was a sort of healing process

[3:58] and almost like a growing-up process

[4:02] to finally playing the woman who saves the women

[4:06] and that woman who is saving the women sees a reflection of herself in the women she’s trying to save.

[4:12] Be Kind Rewind: She tried to buy the rights to the book but discovered that Orion Pictures had already done [so].

[4:16] And not only was director Jonathan Demme already attached

[4:20] but he was also already eyeing Michelle Pfeiffer to play Clarice.

[4:26] Determined to get the part she asked for a meeting,

[4:28] hopped on a plane, and asked him in person to be his second chance.

[4:33] Lucky for Jodie,

[4:34] Michelle though the project was too dark

[4:37] so the role was hers.

[4:39] The Silence of the Lambs became a box-office juggernaut

[4:42] outperforming every other Best Picture nominee that year,

[4:45] except Beauty and the Beast.

[4:48] Somehow this hour film managed to tap into the chaotic post-Reagan zeitgeist,

[4:52] a nation whose new cycle included both

[4:59] the trial of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer

[4:57] and the testimony of Anita Hill.

[5:00] She imbues Clarice with her own fierce intellect

[5:03] which brings an extraordinary quality of intensity, curiosity, relentlessness, and maturity.

[5:11] Her interplay with Anthony Hopkins is so full and fraught

[5:15] that you get the sense no one could have played these roles as well as they did.

[5:19] Undoubtedly Clarice also became a symbol for women.

[5:23] Demme takes care to emphasize her experience with the male gaze

[5:26] not just when the imposing eye of inmates

[5:30] but from her peers and co-workers as well.

[5:32] Still, she remains a tenacious, clever, and steadfast professional.

[5:37] She’s a complete and competent woman,

[5:39] allowed at once to reveal her vulnerabilities and become the knight in shining armor who saves the day.

[5:45] Jodie Foster: I’d like to thank the Academy for embracing such an incredibly strong and beautiful feminist hero

[5:51] that I am so proud of.

[5:54] Thank you so much.

[5:56] Mike and Carol, you won the bet!

[5:58] Right on!

[6:00] Be Kind Rewind: But Clarice wasn’t the only female cinematic icon of 1992.

[6:05] This was the year of Thelma & Louise.

[6:08] And given their cultural status power,

[6:10] I mean how many articles were written about their recent reunion at the SAG Awards?

[6:14] It’s worth thinking more deeply about why neither Geene Davis nor Susan Sarandon won.

[6:20] There is, of course, an obvious disadvantage to their nominations.

[6:23] It clearly split some votes.

[6:25] Let’s say as a voter you loved Thelma & Louise.

[6:27] It’s difficult to determine which actress should ultimately walk away with the Oscar

[6:32] because their performances are so beautifully linked.

[6:35] In fact unable to make the distinction themselves,

[6:38] some critics simply lumped them together and awarded the Best Actress prize to them as a unit.

[6:44] But apart from this simpler explanation,

[6:47] there’s something more specifically transgressive about Thelma and Louise as characters

[6:52] than there is about Clarice Starling.

[6:54] And that may have also affected voters’ perceptions.

[6:58] Clarice is not a rebel.

[7:00] She understands and navigates the boundaries of her space willingly

[7:04] and pushes herself to succeed in a role that was not designed to cater to her.

[7:09] This is heroic in its own right

[7:10] it contrasts with the disobedient insurrection

[7:13] that makes Thelma & Louise heroic in a new and different way.

[7:17] They’re outlaws from law enforcement? Yes.

[7:20] But they’re also outlaws from lifestyles that place them in boxes.

[7:24] When Clarice was eager to find and maintain order,

[7:28] Thelma and Louise set out to destroy it.

[7:31] That kind of feminism is more challenging to absorb

[7:34] and it doesn’t come without backlash.

[7:36] The film triggered vitriolic responses from some critics.

[7:39] It was called “fascist”.

[7:41] They were labeled “horrible role models who set back feminism by participating in violence”.

[7:48] Ralph Novak of People wrote, “Any movie that went as far of its way to trash women as this female chauvinist [sow] of a film does to trash men

[7:55] would be universally, and justifiably condemned.”

[7:58] These scathing reviews caused the New York Times’ Janet Maslin to push back.

[8:03] In her op-ed titled Lay Off ‘Thelma and Louise’,

[8:06] she wrote Thelma & Louise feels unfamiliar in the best possible way.

[8:11] “It’s something as simple as it is powerful:

[8:14] the fact that the men in this story

[8:16] don’t really matter.

[8:18] They are treated as figures in the landscape through which these characters pass.

[8:22] And as such they are essentially powerless.

[8:25] For male characters, perhaps, this is a novelty,

[8:29] but women in road movies have always been treated and precisely in the same way.”

[8:35] Roger Ebert recalled a personal anecdote to emphasize Thelma & Louise’s genre-bending transcendence.

[8:41] As a guest on Oprah, he called Thelma & Louise a quote “female buddy movie”.

[8:47] When a woman in the audience shouted, “it isn’t, either. It’s about sisterhood!”,

[8:52] she received thunderous applause.

[8:54] Thinking about this moment later Ebert wrote “I wanted to ask her what the difference was between buddy hood and sisterhood,

[9:01] and then I realized something:

[9:03] that was the whole point.”

[9:05] When you remember that a Los Angeles Times investigation concluded that 77% of Academy members in 2012 were male

[9:13] and that a San Diego State study found that 73% of top critics in 2016 were male.

[9:19] And then when you think about what those numbers must have been like in 1992

[9:23] you begin the suspect that the transgression of Thelma & Louise

[9:27] might have gone under-appreciated for a reason.

[9:32] 1992 was a wonderful year.

[9:35] We aren’t always so lucky to see this category filled with such complicated and complete female characters.

[9:40] Jodie Foster’s determination to bring women with agency to the screen paid off

[9:45] leaving her with an Oscar and us with a heroic professional character.

[9:50] The only performances that could have challenged her though equally heroic inn different ways

[9:55] may have paid for their boldness

[9:58] but remain important figures in our cinematic history today.

[10:02] Thanks for watching! I hope you enjoyed this video.

[10:05] Don’t forget to like and if you’re into it, subscribe.

[10:080] Thanks again. Bye!

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Video Description:

Three iconic feminist characters competed for the 1992 Best Actress Oscar: Clarice Starling, Thelma, and Louise. In this video, I talk about why Jodie Foster won for The Silence Of The Lambs and how the critical reception of Thelma and Louise may have affected Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon's shot at the prize.

I'll be posting a video for EVERY Best Actress Oscar, so be sure to subscribe to my channel and follow me on Twitter.

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Notes: None of the videos I transcribe belong to me. They belong to the content creators and the crew behind the videos.

My transcripts may not be 100% as I am not a professional. I'm just someone who wants to provide video transcripts because the auto-generated CC feature on YouTube is.... not great most of the time. Plus I want to provide a way for people to understand and enjoy these videos.

For this video, I focused on the speaker.

If there are any corrections you would like me to make, let me know in the comment section of the post.

If you like this video or any other video from Be Kind Rewind, please support by watching her videos on the YouTube platform and through other means by her.

Also, here’s the links to some of the quotes used in this video I was able to find:

1. Jodie Foster speech for her Best Actress award in the 64th Oscars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYikmz2AI24&t=101s

2. Entertainment Weekly on Laura Dern: https://ew.com/article/1992/03/27/ews-oscar-predictions/

3. Jodie Foster in an interview with Edith Bowman at BFI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZETEx_uAq9g

4. Ralph Novak of People magazine (unfortunately I couldn’t find the article but I found the quote on Rotton Tomatoes): https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/thelma_and_louise/reviews

5. Janet Maslin’s article for NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/16/movies/film-view-lay-off-thelma-and-louise.html

6. Roger Ebert’s anecdote: https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/thelma-and-louise-lets-women-rebel

7. JOHN HORN, NICOLE SPERLING, and DOUG SMITH’s 2012 for Los Angeles Times: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-unmasking-oscar-academy-project-20120219-story.html

8. San Diego State University study by Dr. Martha M. Lauzen: https://womenintvfilm.sdsu.edu/files/2016_Thumbs_Down_Report.pdf

#be kind rewind #jodie foster #the silence of the lambs #64th academy awards #thelma and louise #geena davis #susan sarandon #CCKN transcripts

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fridaythe13ththeseries · 1 year

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Stick It in Your Ear

Episode Recap #57: Stick It in Your Ear Original Airdate: October 28, 1989

Starring: Louise Robey as Micki Foster Steve Monarque as Johnny Ventura (as Steven Monarque) Chris Wiggins as Jack Marshak

Guest cast: Wayne Best as Adam Cole Chas Lawther as Phil Elizabeth Edwards as Randi Hamill Gordon Jocelyn as Dr. Walter Risbeck Bill McDermott as Mr. Gerald Maxwell Kimberly Miles as Cheryl Christopher Bondy as Stan Elliot Timothy Burd as Andrew (as Tim Burd) Hal Johnson as Guy Michael Caruana as Henry Feldman

Written by Jon Ezrine Directed by Douglas Jackson

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Open on an erratic driver in the city at night. He has ear pain, swerves around and crashes in front of a doctor's office. In agony, he makes hiss way up to the doc, collapsing on the man's desk. His entire face and head is mutating from something which he demands the doctor remove. Before the doc can act, the man tells thing in his ear that it "can't make him anymore", then yanks it out and throws it on the floor, and he dies.

Cut to opening credits.

Next, at Curious Goods, Micki and Jack are late for an auction. Johnny is writing a story based on Bigfoot, after reading about it in a tabloid. The auction they are going to is from the estate of a man who bought a half dozen items from Louis. The man, an investment banker, never answered their calls. As they leave, Johnny picks up his paper. The back page has a story about a banker whose head exploded in his doctor's office.

Cut to an audience watching a show of a man, Adam Cole, with supposed psychic power. He correctly guesses the photo a woman had. He correctly guesses the next person is a woman, but then misses the cues given by his assistant in the audience. Seems his hearing is beginning to fail.

Backstage, his assistant Phil (who says he created this whole act), demands Adam get a hearing aid, and they bicker. Phil doesn't want their current hot streak to end.

At a doctor's office, Adam gets bad news about his hearing, and the doc says he needs it and surgery won't help. Adam is quite reluctant. The doc leaves Adam to look at the hearing aids, but Adam feels drawn by a slight pulsing sound to open a drawer. He finds an odd hearing aid inside and puts it in his ear, hearing the doctor from the other room. The doctor tells him not use that one, but Adam pockets it.

At the next show, Phil and Adam go over their cues. Adam is nervous people will think the hearing aid is a cheat, but Phil says the blindfold will cover it. He also tells Adam a talent coordinator for a television show will be in attendance. They have prepared ahead of time to surprise them with info they have researched.

Adam is doing well at the show, hitting on all of Phil's cues. Next, Phil lets Adam know he is near the talent scout. Phil asks for more info on her, and just then, the cursed hearing aid begins to show Adam what it can do: let him hear the thoughts of everyone in the room. Adam is overwhelmed, tearing off the blindfold. But then the device calms down, and he tells a heckler about the fact that he killed someone. The man is angry, but Adam pushes on, scaring everyone. He goads the man to pull out his gun, which he does, and shoots, missing Adam. The man is subdued by others. The audience is shocked, and Randi, the scout, is quite impressed. Phil is confused. A glimpse of the hearing aid shows it pulsating in his ear and Adam rushes out, stumbling on the streets in pain.

At Curious Goods, Micki signs for a package. Seems they have bought back five of the six items from the auction, but are still unable to locate the last the man bought, a hearing aid. Johnny remembers the story from his tabloid. Jack and Micki's info on the banker and his death match up with the article. Jack is skeptical, but Johnny presses on. Soon enough they are inclined to believe him.

Adam is still struggling with intense pain, making his way back to the doctor's office, just as Jack calls the doctor. Adam bursts in and scares the doctor, pushing all the thoughts built up in his head on to the man, killing him but releasing the pain from himself. Jack has heard the noise on the phone and tells the others they need to go, now. Adam leaves. Jack and crew get to the doctor's office and find his dead body.

Later, Adam shows up at the apartment of Randi, the talent scout, with wine, telling her things he heard her think earlier. Still impressed by his ability, she lets him in and closes the door.

Jack, Johnny and Micki search the doctor's office. They take his appointment book to investigate his patients.

Next morning, Adam and Randi are still in bed, having fun. She knows he is somehow reading her mind. He also can tell she wants him on the show, tonight. And that she wants to run the show herself. He says maybe she will someday. She goes to dress, he calls Phil, who says the phone has been ringing off the hook. Everyone wants him to be on their show. Adam then tell Phil he is breaking up their act, to Phil's dismay. Adam hangs up. A knock at the door, and Phil answers to Jack, looking for Adam. Phil tells Jack Adam sometimes lives there, but just quit. Jack presses, and Phil tells him that Adam will be on The Stan Elliot Show tonight.

Back at the store, Jack arrives and hears Micki and Johnny had no luck with the patients they checked out, but Jack thinks Adam is the guy and tells them about Adam's sudden reversal of fortune. Jack knows mentalists are just working on clues, not mind readers. He tells them to go to the show while he does research, and warns them that Adam might be able to read their minds, too.

At the show that night, Adam is on his own, doing his act, hearing aid in place. He knows people's names, and is being quite charismatic. Micki and Ryan are in the audience, and Phil, looking disheveled, also arrives to watch. Adam amazes a couple, knowing the man has a ring and is preparing to propose. Audience loves him.

On stage with Stan Elliot, Adam tells the host what he's thinking. He then spots Phil, and the sees Micki stand up. She tells Johnny she's going backstage, but Adam hears her thoughts about the hearing aid and getting it back, to stop him before more die.

After the show, Randi tells Adam that Stan Elliot loves him and wants him on the show again tomorrow. Randi is falling for him, he can tell from her thoughts. Adam says he wants her to produce the show, and that Stan Elliot will be agreeable since he wants to replace the current producer.

As they enter his dressing room, they find Phil inside. Adam sends Randi away. Drunken Phil is angry for being dumped as Adam hit it big. Phil pushes, letting Adam know about Jack coming to ask questions about him. He tells Phil to go after they argue. Micki arrives as Phil leaves, and thinks about the hearing aid, which Adam hears. She leaves, and Adam moves his hand, revealing the pulsating changes to his face the cursed item is causing.

Johnny is surprised Micki let Adam read her mind, so that he will come after her. She walks off, Johnny promising to follow closely. Adam does follow Micki as she walks, listening to her thoughts. Johnny almost hits someone who makes a scene, then a cop taps on Johnny's window. Micki wonders where Johnny is as Adam continues to chase her, then grabs Micki. They struggle, and he is trying to dump his overloaded head on to her, but Johnny drives up quick and Adam takes off.

Back at the store, Johnny calls out for Jack and tells him Adam tried to kill her, holding his head in pain. Jack says he figured out how the curse works. The aid lets Adam hear thoughts, but then Adam needs to offload them. Micki wonders how they can stop him if he knows what they are thinking.

Adam bursts in to Phil's apartment, in agonizing pain. Phil isn't surprised Adam came to him, but is shocked by Adam's appearance. Adam grabs him and pushes all the thoughts to Phil, killing him, just as Randi walks in to witness this. She's scared, but Adam says he had to do it to keep his power. Reading her thoughts, he knows she got the producing job. He says she can have whatever she wants for the rest of her life.

They go back to her apartment. Randi is still unsure, but Adam says they can have it all, and she'll never be alone again. She thinks he is perfect, he hears these thoughts, and then they kiss.

Micki is reading the paper and it seems The Stan Elliot Show is offering $50,000 to anyone who can stump Adam. Jack says the talk show is just step one for Adam. Micki suggests they talk to Phil, so they head out.

Adam is getting made up for that night's show. Randi introduces him to the network president, who wants to talk to him tomorrow. Adam tells Randi then man wants him for his own show. He tells her to cancel the other guests tonight, he wants the whole hour.

At Phil's crappy apartment, Micki and the guys look around. Micki sees blood under the sofa, and they find Phil's body underneath. They take off.

As the audience settles in, Stan Elliot is freaking out about just having only Adam. Randi tells him to calm down and trust her. The show starts.

As they drive to the studio, Jack tells them Adam can't listen to all their thoughts at once.

Adam is playing the crowd, as the pain builds in his head. Jack and crew arrive backstage, but Randi takes them to his dressing room. She locks them in.

Adam is in pain, and stumbles backstage to Randi. She says Jack Marshak is in the dressing room with two others. Adam gets pissed off that it is multiple people, so he pushes all the thoughts on to Randi, killing her, as Jack, Johnny and Micki try in vain to get out of the room.

As the show comes back from commercial, Adam shows up late, but is feeling better and goes back into his routine.

Jack and the others get the door off finally, find dead Randi, and rush to the audience. Adam is looking for another challenger, and Jack says he'll challenge him. Adam reads Jack's thoughts, about all the deaths. He tells Adam to remove the hearing aid, saying it isn't needed if he is reading thoughts. Micki and Johnny add their thoughts to the mix, goading Adam. Soon, the audience turns, and the thoughts become overwhelming. Jack presses, and Adam's face mutates, worse and worse, pulsing in front of the audience, who watch in shock. Soon, Adam pulls it out and drops it before dying. Johnny picks it up.

At the store later, they look at the small hearing aid. Johnny wonders if Jack was afraid, but he says Adam was trapped in the spotlight, adding that Adam should have looked at what was in his own mind before delving into the minds of others.

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My thoughts:

Quite an interesting item. Reading someone's thoughts is quite a power to get. But I wonder if the antique would have been better able to keep itself out in the world if it let the user just hear one person's thoughts, instead of overloading the curse user to the point of death. Seems like it worked against itself in the end.

Adam was charismatic. And he found an eagerly opportunistic partner in crime with Randi. Too bad the pain was overwhelming.

The special effects were super gross. Not an episode for those with an aversion to body horror.

Micki put herself in a very vulnerable position. Might have been smarter for Johnny to follow on foot, as well. She's lucky he was able to get away from the cops quickly.

I liked Johnny trying to be a writer. A little more development for him.

And was the auction Micki and Jack went to their best ever attempt at getting antiques back? Five out of six items bought back with no muss or fuss! Impressive.

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Next week: Bad Penny

#stick it in your ear #episode recap #season three #hearing aid #johnny ventura #micki foster #jack marshak #chris wiggins #robey #louise robey #steven monarque

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rapturousrot · 5 years

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Falling Down (1992) dir. Joel Schumacher

#Falling Down #Bill Foster #D-FENS #True Crime in the Movies #Movies #Killing Spree #Rampage #Shooting Spree #Standoff #Michael Douglas #Joel Schumacher

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awakandangoddess · 5 years

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Ant-Man and the Wasp

⚠️Warning⚠️: this will contain spoilers (even though I think almost everyone who wanted to has seen it by now but just putting this here)

Hi everyone! So y'all I finally watched Ant-Man and the Wasp last night! I have been wanting to see it since it came out but too lazy to until yesterday. My school was showing it for free so I went with a friend.

Anyway, that movie had me cracking up like heck with these scenes:

Luis and his usual crazy long story telling ways had me dying😂😭.

Scott on house arrest playing the drums like he's a teenager

Scott and Hank found holding hands after his wife tapped into him

The Ant holding onto the fruit loops like they were his

Ghost appearing through the wall after hearing Luis tell Sonny Scott's location

The in denial name for truth serum 😂

The FBI agent wanting to grab dinner with Scott (possible ship in there just saying) 🤷🏾‍♀️

And the FBI agent trying to learn the magic after seeing Scott

So yes this movie had me dying. But I do want to get into Ava.

This is my personal opinion, but I think her and Killmonger are alike in a few of ways to list a few:

They both have traumatic pasts so they both felt hurt physically, mentally, emotionally, and possibly spiritually into adulthood

They both have hurt people to get what they want

They both were put into the system as kids (at least we can assume that for Killmonger)

They both have trained in fighting skills to get closer to their goals

It’s this idea again where they are portrayed as villains but they really aren’t and instead just hurt people

But if I may say this about Ava too away from this is that the person who played her (Hannah John-Kamen) is so pretty and I'm glad they found a female person of color for this role. And can we also highlight that she comes from a biracial background? Just throwing that in.

And my man Laurence Fishburne was in it which I was happy with too.😃

I did enjoy the movie, yes. And then the mid credits scene came. 😑 I promise I watched it and I went through many different emotions and actions in a matter of one minute:

Shock

Tears

Denial

The I needed a moment moment

Slight anger

Slight acceptance

I am serious I could not breathe, my heart was racing, I felt slightly drained from that one scene and it took me about five minutes before I returned to normal.

I recovered from Infinity War and then this happened and I felt done. I mean Thanos already took T'Challa and now this?!

This is me beating up Marvel once again:

But for the movie I went from this:

To this:

And the very ending where it said Ant-Man and the Wasp will return? Threw me a curve ball. I usually like to read that in the typical narrator voice but they threw in that question mark that shut me up fast.

So overall I did enjoy the movie, but now I need to go see Captain Marvel because I need her and the remaining Avengers, but mostly her to save me us from the madness that is Thanos.

This was my take on the movie and if you did, thank you for reading all of this! ❤❤💕💕

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godofslaying · 6 years

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Remember last year when we were all annoyed with that 'patience' troll... um, yeah... I've got news for you.

#ant man and the wasp #amatw #ant man #scott lang #hope van dyne #hank pym #hope pym #janet van dyne #ghost #marvel #bill foster #mcu #marvel cinematic universe #paul rodd #post credit scene #evangeline lilly #michael douglas #stan lee #infinity war

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scarlet-vision-trash · 6 years

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GUYS THIS IS IN THE ANT MAN AND THE WASP SOUNTRACK I CANT EVEN

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urbannoizeremixes · 6 years

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Brand new, spectacular promotional movie posters for Ant-Man and The Wasp.

#marveledits #antman and the wasp #antman #the wasp #scott lang #hope pym #hank pym #ghost #bill foster #paul rudd #evangeline lily #michael douglas #hannah john-kamen #mcuedit #mcu gifs #marvel cinematic universe #marvel

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matt-murrdock · 6 years

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Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) dir. Peyton Reed

#bill foster #hank pym #scott lang #hope van dyne #antman and the wasp #mcu #marvel #lawrence fishburne #michael douglas #paul rudd #evangeline lilly #mine i guess #(also #goliath!!!)#ant-man and the wasp

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marvelloussynergy · 6 years

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REVIEW - Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

Director: Peyton Reed Screenplay: Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Paul Rudd, Andrew Barrer, Gabriel Ferrari Running Time: 118 minutes Cast: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Peña, Walton Goggins, Bobby Cannavale, Judy Greer, Tip “T.I.” Harris, David Dastmalchian, Hannah John-Kamen, Abby Ryder Fortson, Randall Park, Michelle Pfeiffer, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Douglas

One of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s greatest strengths is the conscious decision to give each film or franchise a different tone. Ant-Man and the Wasp is no exception, with its smaller focus on families (heh)—a great palate cleanser after the epic scale of Avengers: Infinity War.

We pick up with Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) towards the end of his two-year house arrest, a result of having helped Captain America in Germany. Days away from being set free, Scott finds himself kidnapped by Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) and her father Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), both of whom have been on the run. Though estranged, they need his help in rescuing Janet van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer)—Hank’s wife—from the quantum realm.

Director Peyton Reed finally gets a chance to really show off the franchise’s potential, building on the humour and light-hearted fun from the first instalment. With greater creative purview this time around (Reed replaced Edgar Wright late into pre-production on 2015’s Ant-Man), Ant-Man and the Wasp feels more cohesive, the gags more strategically placed, and every plot thread intertwining with one another.

Rudd easily steps back into the role of Ant-Man, drawing laughs with witty one-liners, and Lilly makes a spectacular debut as the Wasp. An early scene showing the Wasp dispatching a bunch of henchmen more than proves that she’s a capable fighter, with surprising moments coming from the change in size of everyday objects, such as the enlargement of a saltshaker, to block their escape. The action scenes are imaginatively staged, thanks to the bevy of situations afforded to the filmmakers as a result of the constant growing and shrinking of the titular characters.

Rescuing Janet is made more difficult thanks to the film’s two antagonists: Hannah John-Kamen as the Ghost and Walton Goggins as Sonny Burch. Both parties are after Hank’s shrunk-down lab and the contents inside it for different reasons. The Ghost proves to be the more interesting of the two—both in terms of the movie’s plot and from a visual standpoint—wanting the tech to heal herself of her painful phasing abilities. The design of the Ghost’s unstable state is mesmerising with multiple images of the character moving and blending on top of one another, with her intangibility bucking the “hero fighting a villain with similar powers” trope that’s constantly used in the Marvel films.

Though dull moments are rare, the pace can grind at times with some lines of dialogue feeling a bit forced. FBI agent Jimmy Woo (Randall Park), for instance, feels like a character that was given a bunch of lines in an effort to find what would work, with nothing really sticking. Ultimately though the film’s strength lies with the tender moments between characters. Cassie (Abby Ryder Fortson) telling her father Scott how much she idolizes him and wanting to emulate his heroism when she grows up is genuinely touching, highlighting Scott’s role as both a superhero and a dad.

The twentieth entry in the MCU, Ant-Man and the Wasp proves that it doesn’t need to have big set pieces (well, besides Scott becoming Giant-Man…) to be charming and effective.

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Falling Down (1993)

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Film Review | Ant-Man & The Wasp (2018)

Wow, another really solid entry in the MCU! I think the Ant-Man films are becoming something of the black sheep in the MCU now, kind of like the early Thor films - but they’re totally fun and accessible; they serve as a great break for the world/universe-threatening fare of the other MCU films.

Such good humor, great action and fight scenes, great performance from Michael Douglas and Michael Peña; a real step up from the first Ant-Man.

Some story gaps and leaps for characters from place to place, and some deus ex machina things in the wrap-up at the end. But definitely a lot of fun, a family friendly and very socially aware (ex-convicts need opportunity too!) Marvel film.

101 of 365.

3.5 out of 5.

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These look great! 😍🐜

#ant-man and the wasp #paul rudd #evangeline lilly #laurence fishburne #hannah john-kamen #michael douglas #michelle pfeiffer #scott lang #ant-man #hope van dyne #the wasp #bill foster #ghost #hank pym #janet van dyne #peyton reed #marvel studios #marvel cinematic universe

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The Shaman's Apprentice

Episode Recap #50: The Shaman's Apprentice Original Airdate: June 3, 1989

Starring: John D. LeMay as Ryan Dallion Louise Robey as Micki Foster Chris Wiggins as Jack Marshak

Guest cast: Paul Sanchez as John White Cloud (as Paul Miceli-Sanchez) Gordon Tootoosis as Spotted Owl Heather Hess as Sasheena Isabelle Mejias as Blair Gerard Paul Miller as Dr. Eric Jeffries Fiona Reid as Vera Anderson James B. Douglas as Dr. Thomas Lamar Ellen Horst as Nurse Meredith Peter James Haworth as Dr. Ralph Walker Candee Jennings as Night Nurse (as Candace Jennings) Tom Harvey as Harrison Bill Vibert as Anaesthetist

Written by Michael Michaelian Directed by William Fruet

This week, we are at Riverview Hospital, and join a surgery in progress. One doctor is not thrilled by a younger doctor's advice to proceed carefully. The older doc, Dr. Lamar, is also not a fan of both the low-income patient or the Native American nationality of the younger man, John White Cloud. Soon, the surgery goes awry, and John calls Lamar a butcher, causing the older surgeon to revoke all of his privileges at that hospital.

Later, at a small home, a Native American Shaman is chanting and telling an ill man he can rise and walk, but he cannot. Shaman then says his time has come. He doesn't want to hear it and offers money. John shows up, he is the Shaman's grandson. Him and a young woman, Sasheena, leave to talk. Seems his family wanted him to follow in his grandfather's footsteps instead of going to med school. Sasheena is learning, instead.

They go to a ceremonial place and John notices an old Shaman's rattle, a symbol of the power over life and death. It shakes as he holds it and spirits moan. A vision shows him the healing power of the rattle.

Later, at the hospital room of the surgical patient, John arrives to check on him. Another doc says Lamar is going to be pissed he came and picks up the phone. John holds the rattle up, it shakes and flies into the air. The other doc screams in pain and has a gory aneurysm and dies. John grabs the rattle and tells the patient in bed he will be okay.

At Curious Goods, Micki asks Jack to cover as she visits a sick friend, Blair, in Riverview Hospital. Seems her friend has a rare lung cancer. Seems only 1% survive.

John is at the hospital and another doctor, Jeffries, tries to talk with him, telling him to stop upsetting Lamar. John won't listen, saying Lamar isn't really interested in patients, just money.

John comes in to check on Vera, a patient who shares a room with Blair. She says she's in pain, John says he'll talk to Lamar as the man walks in. Lamar says they have done all they can for Vera. John tries to talk to him, but he won't listen, and tells John after today he better not see him in the hospital again. John appeals to the nurse, but she sides with Lamar.

That night, John follows the nurse to a supply room, and she isn't happy to see him. John says she just dopes the patients up and holds up the rattle. It flies about and kills the nurse. He then holds it over Vera and chants, as Blair watches.

Next day, Vera is arguing with Lamar, saying she is well and leaving. She won't listen and packs her bag. She tells Blair to visit with Dr. White Cloud. Blair tells Micki what she saw. Micki tries to calm Blair, who then tells her about the dead nurse. Micki tells her she will look into it.

The old man who the Shaman couldn't cure is seen by John, who asks how much a cure would be worth to him. John says he wants a fully staffed clinic. The man thinks John is just like the rest, but John offers to prove it with another patient.

Micki tells Jack and Ryan about what's going on at Riverview. They all agree it sounds like a cursed item. Jack remembers something in the manifest. He finds an entry for the ceremonial rattle Lewis sold to someone named Spotted Owl. He is the tribal Shaman of the local Iroquois reservation. Jack says he'll go alone.

Jack visits Spotted Owl and says he wants to buy back the rattle to keep it safe in their vault, but Spotted Owl disagrees. He says it belongs to his tribe, but Jack worries in the wrong hands it isn't so benign. Spotted Owl knows Jack means well, but says the rattle is in a safe place. Jack says otherwise, and the old man says he will look into it himself.

Sasheena, Spotted Owl's granddaughter, walks Jack to his car and tells Jack about John, but has faith in her grandfather. Jack isn't so sure, and leaves. Sasheena and Spotted Owl go to where the rattle was kept and find it gone. Sasheena says John was there with her.

Later, at a ceremony, Spotted Owl calls to the sprits to give him a vision of guidance. He sees John at the hospital, with the rattle, following Lamar. He hears Lamar talk about a patient of his that will help change medicine. John slips into this young patient's room and uses the rattle to kill him. Spotted Owl is shocked by this.

At his clinic, John brings in a young boy with the same illness as the old man. John uses the now-powered up rattle on the boy to prove what he can do for the sick man.

Micki is trying to help Blair deal with the treatment she is undergoing, but Blair is desperate and wants to go to John for help.

Later, John walks the young boy, now healed, out of the hospital. The old man says he will be back and his accountants will be in touch. Ryan shows up and asks John about what Blair saw him do. John says he uses herbs and extracts, and was just chanting a mantra to calm his patient. He leaves.

At the store, Ryan tells Jack that the old man's chauffeur told him the boy he was was deathly ill when he entered John's clinic. And that old man Harrison is just as ill. Micki arrives with info from the hospital about the young patient's strange death. Jack connects all the dots, from dead people to cured patients. Jack says he has to go visit Spotted Owl again. Ryan is unsure why John would use a cursed item.

Sasheena is visiting John and asking him to return the rattle. He says he can do more good with it, saying Spotted Owl lied to her. But Sasheena isn't buying it, saying John has changed. She asks him to bring the rattle back and that their grandfather is preparing a ceremony to take the rattle's power away.

Micki is trying to talk with Lamar, but he isn't interested and cuts her off. Dr. Jeffries tells Micki that Lamar was served with a malpractice suit. Micki asks what happened, and Jeffries fills her in on the death and the feud between Lamar and John. He then tells her Blair is leaving for John's clinic. Micki rushes to talk sense into Blair, who won't listen. She tells Micki she's fighting for her life.

Spotted Owl tells Jack he was right about John having the rattle, but he won't risk Jack's life. He says he will work on getting the rattle back himself, and tells Jack to return tomorrow.

Later, John arrives but tells his grandfather he's keeping the rattle. Spotted Owl tells him he saw him kill with it. He tells him to return it or he will call on the spirits. John argues with him, then holds the rattle up to kill the old man, who does battle with the item, but to no avail. The rattle kills Spotted Owl. Sasheena watches and goes to he old man. John grabs the rattle and screams, but blames the old man for not listening.

At the clinic, John has cured the old man, who walks on his own. He asks John if he wants more than just a fully funded clinic. He leaves, and Lamar approaches John. He tells him the medical board is shutting John's clinic down. John almost hits the man, but stops, even though Lamar taunts him.

Micki, Ryan and Jack try to figure out what John will do next. Micki wonders if John will kill Lamar and then heal Blair. Jack tells her this is wrong, no matter how horrible a person Lamar is. But Micki says Blair is young, and should be worth more than an old bigot.

At the clinic, Blair begs John for help. John tells her to come back in a few days, and hints that Lamar may even be of help to her recovery. Later, at the hospital, Lamar is grabbed by John.

Jack, Micki and Ryan go to Spotted Owl's home, but Sasheena tells them her grandfather is dead. She asks Jack to help her awaken the spirits of her ancestors to stop John, who has tied up Lamar and is torturing him first.

Sasheena takes the trio to the burial cave of the Shaman, and they all head inside. They find this is where John has Lamar, and Sasheena says John is trying to purify himself. She tells them they have to proceed the right way and calls to the spirits to stop White Cloud. The spirits appear and tell John he has to return with them. He vanishes, leaving the rattle behind. Which Micki picks up, then goes to comfort Sasheena as Jack and Ryan untie Lamar.

Another day, Micki is wandering in the store. Ryan arrives and tells Jack he watched Sasheena put the rattle back into the burial cave. He thinks it should be in the vault, but Jack says it isn't theirs, and is sure Sasheena and the spirits will guard it. Ryan asks how Lamar is, Jack says fine. Micki thinks it is unfair that Blair is still going to die and Lamar is fine. Jack tries to comfort her. We see Blair arrive at the closed clinic, looking hopeless.

My thoughts:

A good episode, with a different type of antique.

I like how most here all want to do the right thing, but go about it all wrong. Lamar is a good doctor, but mainly for the acclaim and esteem that brings to him. John wants to heal, but then has no problem killing others to kill those he wants to heal. Vera, Blair, the old man, all want to be well without knowing how. And even Micki herself treads a dangerous line when comparing Blair's life to Lamar's. Quite a lot of moral quandaries.

I like how good our trio has gotten about figuring out the curses and how to approach the prospect of getting them back without causing more deaths.

The deaths caused by the rattle are intense. I liked how Micki described the nurse's death as way less gruesome than it actually was.

I also liked how Spotted Owl and the other spirits stopped John, not by going after the rattle a second time, but just removing John from the equation. No John, then the rattle is just lying there.

Also interesting that Jack lets or rather accepts Sasheena keeping the rattle in the cave. I can see Ryan's worry, but Jack is right, I guess. Not their place to just take it.

Very sad end, with Blair just finding her last hope gone. Big downer.

Next week: The Prisoner

#season two #episode recap #the shaman's apprentice #shaman's rattle #rattle #micki foster #ryan dallion #chris wiggins #john d. lemay #louise robey #robey #jack marshak

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