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zanephillips · 10 months

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Benjamin (2018) dir. Simon Amstell

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kr-yoongi · 8 months

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In my Colin Morgan era <3

#I watched bbc’s Merlin… incase you were wondering #would do anything for that man #also watched Benjamin last night! hence the art #I have some ideas for Merlin Fanart that I cannot share with you right now because the haters will sabotage me !#Colin Morgan is a delightfully beautiful man to draw #very lovely #Colin Morgan #Coling Morgan Fanart #Merlin #Benjamin 2018 #Digital Art #kr_yoongi

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tendermimi · 1 year

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richard siken “driving, not washing” / benjamin 2018 / ilya kaminsky “while the child sleeps, sonya undresses”

#my heart…#ilya kaminsky #richard siken #crush #poetry #poem #writings #excerpts #words #benjamin 2018 #film #film stills #parallels #web weaving #was going to add that one scene from gods own country but i didn’t like the way it looked welp #on love #tenderness #heart full of tenderness

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sexy-sapphic-sorcerer · 4 months

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there's patterns. there's patterns everywhere and you're laughing?

#I know Merlin isn't cAnONicALlY gay but he is to me <3 #and every other gay character he's played also fits into the other categories #I suppose I could've done that Catherine Tate Show skit but that seems too niche #colin morgan #bbc merlin #merlin #benjamin 2018 #the fall #I don't think the others have enough of a fandom to bother tagging

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maggiecheungs · 10 months

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benjamin (2018) dir. simon amstell

#benjamin 2018 #simon amstell #colin morgan #screencaps #movie tag #queue

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losttjournals · 1 year

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Bradley & Colin's Movies/Series🤌

I've watched and my favorites (Top5)

Colin Morgan

1) Merlin❣️ 🤌 2) The Happy Prince

3) Testament of Youth 4) Benjamin

5) The Fall

Bradley James

1) Merlin❣️🤌 2) Damien

3) iZombie 4)UW:Blood Wars

5) Fast Girls

CR:Owner💐 No time to make gifs for so many videos😞

Bonuses are here no more gifs;)

-Mammals

-Humans

-Vikings:Valhalla

#colin morgan #bradley james #2000s aesthetic #movies #tv series #merlin #bbc merlin #merlin bbc #merthur #netflix #arthur pendragon #damien #the fall #testament of youth #benjamin 2018 #the happy prince #izombie #fast girls

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mr-merlin · 1 year

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Oh, fuck the porridge.

#colin morgan #benjamin 2018 #he tried #phénix brossard #merlin cast #mr-merlinedit #my gifs #movie #gay #the boy has r a n g e #and this is iconic #benjamin #simon amstell

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effervescent-fool · 10 months

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"im vegan"

"me too"

"we should get married"

my brother in christ thats not how you have conversation

#benjamin 2018 #hes so fucking weird. i need him

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adhd-merlin · 10 months

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Ok so, @destielification asked about my Simon Amstell joke, and I'm not going to hijack poor @centurieslove's post but...

(Sorry, this isn't Merlin-related but it's tangentially about Colin Morgan, so it is at least Merlin-adjacent.)

Simon Amstell, if you didn't know, is a British stand-up comedian and certified weird little man.

I'm not, like, a Simon Amstell fan or anything, but I do like stand-up comedy. And I became aware of Simon Amstell some years ago after watching one stand-up show of his on YouTube, which is Do Nothing, which is still available, in fact, and you should definitely watch if you haven't because it's pretty good.

Now Simon's openly gay, and in Do Nothing he talks a lot about his romantic life, or lack thereof, and he jokes a lot about the type of men he finds attractive, who he describes as "ill-thin", "timid" and "vulnerable".

And one of the funniest bits in the show is one where he recounts an extremely awkward encounter with one such man — an actor Simon had "fallen in love with", despite never having talked to him.

So Simon went to see a play starring this actor in the hope of meeting him afterwards and maybe talking to him a bit, which didn't happen.

What did happen, though, is that a few weeks later Simon randomly bumped into the very same actor, love of his life, in a shop. And he decides there and then that it's destiny, and he must shoot his shot. (You can skip the quote below if you intend to watch the show, but I'm pasting it here because it's hilarious).

I saw him there, he hadn't seen me. He was about a metre away from me. There, that thin. And what I thought... For some reason, what I thought would be really cool and seductive would be to just stand in the middle of the shop and shout his full name. He turned round, alarmed. I could see the terror in his eyes, but because I'd started at a certain volume, I thought it'd be too odd to get any quieter. So I'm there just shouting about the good reviews this play has had and he's going, "Oh, I don't really read reviews." And he's all timid and vulnerable, which is why I love him. And I think the difference between us, because I think we were both quite shy as children... I say, "I think" — I did a lot of research on him.

And that man's name? Ben Whishaw. Apparently.

Look, I have no idea who claimed it first. I don't know if Simon admitted it in an interview at some point, or what. But it became An Established Fact™️ that the actor he was talking about was, indeed, Ben Whishaw. And if you watch Simon Amstell's show, and you know about Ben, well. It tracks. It makes perfect sense, actually.

Anyway, Simon talks to Ben, gives him his email address with some excuse or another. Ben promises to email him. And then, he doesn’t. Cue sad noises from the audience.

And that could have been the end of it, except that Simon, certified weird man, decided to be weird about it. And instead of letting it go, he elaborates his trauma by incorporating it into his writing.

And in case you think I'm exaggerating — here's what Simon himself wrote about it some time after the fact, in his own book. Straight from the horse's mouth.

A year later, the actor was in another play at the Royal Court. So I thought I’d give myself one more go at making him love me. I felt I’d written and performed all the insanity out of my head and was now ready for something real. I believed this because it would have been unbearable to accept that after all that transformative, healing comedy, I was still the same lunatic. (source)

So what Simon did was write a sit-com, in which he played a fictionalised version of himself, and in it he put a character called Ben Theodore, a pretentious theatre actor and also, basically, Ben Whishaw. (Like, if you know Ben Whishaw, you cannot not see it. That's him talking.)

But hang on, you might say, I thought this was going to be about Colin? Why are you going on about Ben Whishaw?

Well, Simon, in case you don't remember (and at this point I hope you don't) is also the writer and director of the film Benjamin (BENjamin), starring Colin Morgan as the lead and title character.

A Colin Morgan who, I might say, has something of a young Ben Whishaw about him. And he doesn't play a pretentious actor this time — in fact he plays a version of Simon Amstell himself — but the fact remains that he's exactly Simon Amstell's type, kind of looks like the man Simon was admittedly obsessed with, and even bears his name. And Simon cast him in his film to play himself, which is weird but also funny and very on brand for him, because he's self-obsessed like that.

So, to come back to my joke — I just thought the idea of Simon Amstell developing an obsessive crush on Colin Morgan and going to see The Tempest specifically to see him and missing him was hilarious.

But he did get to have him in his own film, so.

(I can't censure Simon too much for his obsession with Ben because... well, same, and also it resulted in Simon giving us Colin Morgan looking Peak Gay and serving cunt in Benjamin — in his own accent! — and I'll be forever grateful for it).

here's another post about it

#I'm doing that thing where you dissect a joke like a frog #and it's not funny anymore #but you deserve to know about simon amstell and his obsession with timid thin actors #you'll never be as obsessed with an actor as simon was obsessed with ben #the fact that ben and colin are friends is sending me SJKDFJSLKJ #i didn't even know!!#i still think it'd be funny if colin did a ben whishaw and just went “oh i have a husband actually” some day #it wouldn't even surprise me #do you think simon saw those b&w pictures of those two in pj harvey's studio and started hyperventilating #like i know HE KNOWS about it #simon amstell #colin morgan #ben whishaw #benjamin 2018 #*not merlin

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tuppaware-art · 1 year

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this movie has ruined my life !!!!!!!!

#colin morgan #benjamin 2018 #benjamin oliver my beloved #i relate a bit too hard to this silly little gay guy and it’s starting to become concerning

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orangechickenpillow · 2 years

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Benjamin 2018 is one of the most quotable films I've ever watched. Literally every word that comes out if Ben's mouth is unintentionally so funny and floats around in my head like the DVD symbol

#benjamin 2018 #benjamin #colin morgan

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nose-bl · 2 years

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one of my favourite things about Benjamin (2018) is that the protagonist is so obviously autistic and somewhere on the aromantic spectrum. while i don't think he was intended to be autistic and aro, he still is heavily coded for both. the movie touches on his fear of love and "inability to love", as benjamin himself puts it. he struggles with love, the meaning of love, what love feels like or is supposed to feel like. he's only had failed relationships and he just can't express his feelings, he doesn't know what he's feeling. and i just read the whole thing as him being greyromantic

i see benjamin as someone who feels very little to no romantic attraction, and when he does, it's under specific circumstances. in the film he meets noah and he is immediatly in awe of this man, but he still struggles with romance and love in that relationship too. and it's a whole journey for him to be able to understand his feelings and actually feel something. it's hard for him to admit he loves someone, and part of it is because loving is scary, but i also highly suspect it's because for the most part he really just doesn't love people romantically, he barely feels that, and only under certain conditions

and it's interesting to compare to the sexual attraction he very clearly feels. he is physically attracted to people, he can easily have sex and enjoy it, he sees noah and is like "oh wow. that french guy singing over there is beautiful and hot". it's the romantic aspect he struggles with

i've never seen anything like this before and it's honestly so refreshing. even tho benjaming isn't explictly described as aromantic or anything, it's so easy to read him that way and i love it

i'm gonna quickly touch on why he's so heavily autistic coded. the way he navigates the world so differently from the rest of the characters, the way he speaks, the way he just doesn't stop talking because he doesn't understand how to have a conversation, the fact he's the most socially awkward person ever, all the random things he says to try to get somewhere in a conversation, and the way he struggles with social cues and what "normal" conversations and situations and relationships look like. the way he tells stephen "you're not allowed to touch me. don't touch me". all the problems he has with articulating his thoughts and explaining himself. how distracted and confused he is all the time. it all screams autism to me

benjamin is an autistic greyromantic gay man and no one can convince me otherwise

#benjamin #benjamin 2018

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ijustlikemovies · 2 years

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