Pillars of Society/ Stützen der Gesellschaft (Detlef Sierck, Germany, 1935)

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i’m so sick of writers who proudly proclaim that they don’t read and directors and actors and other filmmakers who smugly say that they rarely watch movies or any artist who acts like an audience is stupid for connecting with their work like what the fuck is wrong with you that you hold such contempt such derision for the art that you have chosen to make the art that so many people dream of the opportunity to make the art that brings meaning and connection to people’s lives it’s unbelievably disrespectful to both your audience and the art-form and if you can’t muster basic respect for either your art-form or your audience then kindly fuck off and do something else

Lead Stage Tech: [video of mic check with clear audio and empty auditorium]

Production Manager: [video of speaking the audio from the parking lot behind the building]

so I went and bought the book with info on the caligari deleted scenes. will update if I find anything cool

the prince (2023) review: i was already crying about hotspur, that's a given, but now i am also crying about transfem trapped in the narrative hotspur which is a whole new level. henry iv is about trans girls actually

One of the things I absolutely adore about Jane Eyre is just how much of a drama queen Mr. Rochester is:

1. After he's known Jane for about three seconds he asks her if she thinks he's pretty.

2. You know, instead of asking Jane how she feels about him - like a normal person, he brings a whole crew to try and make Jane jealous.

3. When that fails, he disguises himself as a traveling female fortuneteller and messes with his so called friends. He tries (and fails) to get Jane to say how she feels about him.

4. He dramatically asks Jane if she would still be his friend if the whole world hated him.

5. He goats Jane into admitting that she's in love with him by telling her that she's about to be shipped off to Ireland because he's getting married.

6. "I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave I'm afraid that cord of communion would snap. And I have a notion that I'd take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, you'd forget me."

7. He, in song, basically asks Jane to die with him and is amazed when she replies: "no, thx."

Truly, iconic.

this year's jsc choice versions:

all-female cast. i haven't actually seen this yet, i just found it on a youtube search today. i'm looking forward to starting it after i finish with the original film version, but i have listened to the album and loved it.

latest tour production. i saw this version when it was (very) briefly in toronto in december 2021, before the run was cut short due to cast & crew testing positive for covid. fantastic set, amazing costuming for king herod, tyrone huntley as judas (after he originated this version in the regent's park open air theatre) which was an experience (the cast in this video is from 2022 - 2023, not the cast i saw).

I am excited for the 3rd Sonic movie but I'm not raising my expectations for it very high tbh

The existence of this Rosaline movie makes me so MAD, because SHE WAS NEVER IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH ROMEO. SHE TOOK A VOW OF CHASTITY, AND SAID THAT SHE WAS JUST GONNA NOT BE IN LOVE.

SHE. REJECTED. HIM.

SHE WAS NEVER INTERESTED IN BEING WITH HIM AT ALL.

And then they just...make a whole movie from her supposed perspective (which is loosely based on a book which...hoo boy we’ll get to that in a second), where the premise is that she’s jealous and wants to break him and Juliet up? That she’s so in love that she has to win him over again? (Also, how do they justify her knowing that they’re together? The entire point is that no one knows Romeo and Juliet are in love?? I know this is an adaptation, but Jesus Christ.)

WHY DID YOU PICK THIS CHARACTER. TO HAVE THIS STORY WITH. THE WHOLE POINT OF HER CHARACTER IS THAT SHE CHOOSES NOT TO BE WITH HIM. THAT’S WHAT OPENS THE DOOR TO HIM MEETING JULIET. IF ROSALINE IS DEEPLY INTO ROMEO, THE ENTIRE PLAY DOESN’T WORK.

Are we saying that she was just “““playing hard to get”””? That she was toying with his heart for fun? That when she told him no, she really meant “yes”?? I THOUGHT WE LEFT THAT BEHIND OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST DECADE, I THOUGHT WE DECIDED THAT WAS BAD???!!?

Don’t even get me started on the book this is based on, where that general premise is that Rosaline is just an Innocent Average Girl, and her cousin who is Beautiful™ and vOLaTiLeLY uNsTAbLe and cRaZy comes and “takes” her poor unsuspecting boyfriend who is completely blameless for his own terrible behavior away from her while being called a “slut” the whole time. (I doubt much of this carried over into the actual movie, because that’s being billed as an ironic rom-com, and I highly doubt ANYONE would try to make that genre work while keeping this premise 100% intact.)

WHY WOULD YOU EXPAND THIS CHARACTER LIKE THIS. WHY. WE STUDY THIS PLAY IN SCHOOL AS AN EXAMPLE OF LITERARY STRUCTURE AND POETIC LANGUAGE AND FORESHADOWING AND HOW TO WRITE A TRAGIC NARRATIVE AND FOR WHAT. FOR PEOPLE TO NOT TAKE AWAY ANY OF THE INTENDED MEANING FROM THIS PLAY???!?!?!? I AM SCREAMING SO HARD I WILL BREAK THE EARTH’S CRUST UNTIL I AM SUBSUMED INTO HELL.

If you’re going to adapt something, you’ve gotta make it clear that you have some significant understanding of the original work. Retellings are fine! They can even have different functions or deconstruct tropes or be unexpectedly edgy! But it’s 1000% obvious when you don’t have any knowledge or engagement with the source material, and that is a problem. It’s ignorant, it’s lazy, and everyone involved deserves better.

one day i’ll be good enough for someone to be inspired to create something based on something i created... people who aren’t even as good as me already get to experience that high

also i wouldn’t be able to at all easily find a previous reblog of this pic but

certainly knowing that rick moranis had seen bmc clearly and timingwise it was like, okay probably one of the later shows, but learning via joe iconis carrie the musical interview that went on a lsoh tangent that it was a Surprise Visit on the Closing Performance actually apparently, which is news to me

( it's simple: i think i should be allowed to direct every version of phantom and not have to pay royalties for it & in fact i should be given a budget to do so bc i will do it so Correctly c'man c'maaaaaan )

I forgot about this but it slaps!!! thank you monsieur leroux <3

*looks at comments on bsd nikolai gogol's personaility database page* they are all fooled by his act so bad

It's midnight time to think about the 1999 utena musical adaptation with the machine gun and zombies again

people who know sweeney todd from the shitty movie and not from actually seeing the show done by a company will never understand just how good this show is