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saraharchivee · 6 months
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favorite trope, for sure
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vendriin · 1 year
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Practical Magic (1998)
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maybethistimemegz · 7 months
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BOOK TO FILM TELEVISION ADAPTATIONS → The Duke and I (Bridgerton) By Julia Quinn
"To meet a beautiful woman is one thing, but to meet your best friend in the most beautiful of women is something entirely apart."
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oldshrewsburyian · 2 years
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Your Persuasion tags are are perfect. I am too tired to Screenshot them. Help.
Here for all your chewing-glass-over-19th-century-literature needs.
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lunaoblonsky · 7 months
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Honestly, the movie Beautiful Disaster was only barely like the book.... and I kind of liked it a lot! There are a few things that I wish they'd kept in, but they made it so that Travis Maddox wasn't toxic and I really appreciated it, like he was still everything else, cocky, vulgar, hot, smart, funny, but in the movie he wasn't a toxic, "I only like this in books" possessive freak, and even if he was he wasn't bad he was just all "You're gonna have to walk away because I cant walk away from you." I loved it.
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The chapter in the book Little Women/Good Wives, and the scene in the movies of Jo's proposal and married life are So Important. They show the heroine living a happy and unconventional lifestyle: It says that this life she leads with work, marriage, and very little money is a good, wholesome life. That is so important.
But - I think an overlooked chapter in the books (not depicted in the films that I have seen) is the one in which Meg tries to cook and preserve currant jam. She has a miserable day, turned even worse when her husband John brings home a friend for dinner. For once, Meg snaps at him and he snaps back when provoked.
Eventually, Meg takes some good advhice from Marmee, and she brings peace. The chapter ends with a line about married life foe these two not being perfect - it will always have its difficulties, but peace has been preserved and quarrels will be managed.
In another chapter, after Meg has had twins, she understandable becomes so wrapped up in them that she neglects both herself and her husband. Neither the book nor I are saying that one partner should be a servant to the other. But in marriage, we have promised something of ourselves to them*. Meg has isolated herself from the world and grown irritable while she rarely sees John who spends time at his friend's house instead of being nagged at home.
Again, Meg takes initiative and fixes it. This is a bit of a pattern that we see the world over today, in which women usually take the emotional burden in the home. I have no comment to make on that, it's not the point of this post.
The point is: The book has made a few excellent points through everyday, domestic scenes about marriage which are not (or only rarely) shown on film. The glamour, unpredictability and excitement of Jo's publishing, marriage to the Professor, work and, from a plot-based POV, the fact that she is the main character, mean that her storyline is in the spotlight. I love her storyline. But I also think that Meg's has something important to teach us: If you choose the more traditional path, your life is just as full of adventure and growth, difficulties, pain and pleasures.
*talking about non-toxic nd non-abusive relationships.
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paddysnuffles · 8 months
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Why you should watch Red, White, & Royal Blue on Amazon Prime Video
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It's a queer romance story
Bisexual and gay representation!
Queer person of colour representation!
There's a woman of colour in traditionally male job
Characters of colour who are just characters who happen to be of colour rather than it being a major part of their character
It's the first queer prince representation I've ever seen in adult pop culture (I've seen one example in kid lit, in the picture book Prince & Knight)
Both the leads are hot eye candy
The storyline's really good
The cinematography is really good
The soundtrack music is bangin'
The story deals with very different experiences regarding what being queer is like
The president of the US in the story is a woman (Una Thurman!)
Happy ending!
It's also a book!
Note: If you're a kiddo you may want to wait until you're a bit older to watch this if your parents aren't okay with you watching stuff with swearing or a sex scene.
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nerdby · 13 days
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I've been watching AMC's Interview With A Vampire and I don't think I've ever hated a character more than I hate Lestat.
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thebeautysurrounds · 8 months
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Okay this is gonna be a small rant about RWRB:
First things first it’s an adaptation NOTHING is gonna be exactly like the book or certain things will be cut for time and or flow of the movie. With that being said can you be disappointed certain elements were lost of course is the movie perfect (that’s up to personal interpretation) but people discounting this movie because it didn’t tick THEIR personal boxes don’t make sense to me and saying it doesn’t deserve the R rating or it was “cringe”.
Please bffr queer media can/deserves to be cringe queer folks hardly get rom-coms or shows that just center queer characters their love, character growth etc. so many movies (and shows) constantly have bury your gays tropes or only have lgbtq characters within it to serve as comic relief or only to fluff up the straight characters but never have any actual character development or characterization of their own. So when we get movies that center around just discovering ones identity and love I’m sorry but imo it deserves to be “cringey”
So many queer folks have watched decades of cringey straight movies we deserve to have “cringey” movies of our own that we can actually relate to especially when it comes to one’s identity, figuring out what you want in life, and having your first serious relationship.Also let’s be honest why do some of y’all hold queer movies to this unattainable imaginary standard that you don’t hold to any other media? while I understand wanting to have better movies and movies that have the same drive as non queer movies it just seems like queer movies have to prove their worth or else it’s discounted. Maybe I’m biased because I loved the movie (as a reader adored the book more) but for a movie that wasn’t released through a major studio but instead on a streaming platform it captured the characters, the story and, their love story as best it could the source material is right there to still consume I highly recommend the book especially if your just watching the movie without having read the book it’s a more in depth look into Alex and Henry’s relationships and personal lives and elements that were not in the movie.
TL;DR: The books of movie adaptation 9/10 will always always be better let queer people have cheesy, “cringey”, romcoms stop holding queer movies to unrealistic standards that you don’t do for other non queer media read RWRB and Casey McQuiston’s other works. This in fact was not a small rant.
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moefling · 11 months
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Is anyone else slightly conflicted about the Red, White, and Royal Blue movie?
Like, on one hand YAY cuz I love the book but also NO because I swore off watching movies that I read the books of like 10 years ago....
The thing with watching movies (or shows) from stories you've read is they always don't have an important part (to me) or they did something weird.... it's just not the same as the book...
And also watching the movie WILL influence how you read the book next. A scene will look different now, the people's voices and appearance changes....
....and I think I love RWRB too much to let the movie change anything...
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"It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed. If I'd known, maybe I'd have kept tighter hold of them and not let unseen tides pull us apart."
Never Let Me Go (2010) directed by Mark Romanek
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isobelleposts · 1 year
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What I’ve Been Watching This Year
by Isobelle Cruz [April 13, 2023]
March has passed and I figure it’s too late to follow through with a post on the female directors I love, so instead, here’s a short list of the shows and films I’ve been watching this year in no specific order.
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Beef (2023)
Directed by Lee Sung Jin
My most recent and favorite watch…lo and behold, Beef. A show about two extremely vulnerable and flawed people masking themselves through pride and borderline pettiness. Beef has it all from road rage, heist, and arson, to child abduction.
The Netflix Original starring Ali Wong and Steven Yeung features some of the most lonely characters I’ve seen on film. Danny Cho is a struggling self-proclaimed contractor that works every opportunity he’s given to keep him and his brother afloat while also standing by his promise to buy their parents a house in Los Angeles. With all of that weight at hand, Danny resorts to attempts at suicide and at the perfect time, meets Amy Lau—a woman just as lonely, struggling, and desperate at life as Danny.
But I promise you, it is not as touching as I made it out to be.
Danny and Amy take turns attacking each other after a road rage incident—pissing in Amy’s bathroom floor, vandalizing Danny’s truck, breaking into her house, fucking his brother, kidnapping her daughter—it never seems to end. … Until it does, in the middle of nowhere. The final episode of Danny and Amy in the Deserts reminded me of animals in the wild, a representation of what humans are in the grand scheme of it all. Beef is a must-watch for the hot-tempered, prideful Asians out there who are looking to see themselves on screen
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Aftersun (2022)
Directed by Charlotte Wells
Aftersun was an experience. It was uneventful yet somehow spoke so much to me about the joys I’ve been holding myself back from and continue to do. I’d say that Aftersun is so well-loved because of how much it’s able to connect with its audience, despite their varying experiences in life.
It reminded me so much of a trip I had gone on with my father when I was about the same age as Sophie. It’s happened, it’s passed, and I can’t say it really made a drastic impact on my life. But it was there. It is now a memory—which is exactly what the film was. Instead of showing a major turning point in the protagonist’s life, it showed a memory, and it was enough for me to love.
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Daisy Jones & the Six (2023)
Directed by James Ponsoldt, Nzingha Stewart, and Will Graham
Let me start off by saying how rich the production for Daisy Jones & the Six was, firstly through their music. I still remember when I first got my hands on the book and searched the band on Spotify, knowing very well that no results would come up, but now there they are—-with 3 million monthly listeners and 24 songs released.
Although the production and marketing went beyond my expectations, the writing seemed to lack, unable to show depth and establish the characters’ relationships with each other. The show went straight to the point, as though the writers had been scared of losing the audience’s attention by putting more focus on the little things, which I would doubt. It lacked the craziness that was found in the book. It lacked the drugs, women, fans, and the skyrocketing feel of their career that were always present in Reed’s works.
Nonetheless, these things never dragged down my rating of the show. It was interesting to finally see what Daisy and Billy’s chemistry looked like on screen and hear their lyrics come to life, which were, oh, so difficult to read on paper. Amazon Prime did its job to reach DJATS fans’ expectations and to entertain newcomers to the fictional band. — Let’s just hope Netflix does the same for Evelyn Hugo.
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Suzume (2023)
Directed by Makoto Shinkai
My first anime experience in the cinema. Suzume’s soundtrack blasting from the speakers and Makoto Shinkai’s breathtaking art displayed before me brought this urge to jump through the screen. The atmosphere his art carried through the room was something I wish I could do with my own works.
Throughout the whole watch, it didn’t come to me that this was a love story between two people. There was that obvious crush Suzume had on Sōta, but it surprises me to hear a few people refer to this film as romance. It was moreover an emotional adventure, shining light on the lost souls that have made inches of the world alive.
My favorite scene, before Sōta is turned into a keystone, wherein Tokyo is shown in slow-motion with people going through their everyday lives—eating, shopping, and commuting–-while not knowing their world was on the brink of end, made me ponder of the unseen things that make life the way it is. Everything that has brought everyone to where they are.
There had been times when Suzume and Sōta would prepare to lock up a door once again and I’d think to myself, when will this end? It was as though listening to a song that would repeat the same line over and over again, but besides that, the pacing was captivating---had my eyes stuck to the screen the whole time.
Suzume is exactly what you would expect from Makoto Shinkai. Beautiful art, music, and an okay story.
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Babylon (2023)
Directed by Damien Chazelle
Ask me if I’m tired of watching films set in Hollywood and I would likely say yes. But that doesn’t stop me from doing just so over and over again. It surprised me to see how negative the reviews on Babylon have been and almost allowed myself to be swayed by them, but thankfully, had chosen otherwise.
Although I do see where some of the negativity comes from.
The film has been branded as “ Chazelle’s attempt to pander to the Academy for another best pic nomination” by audiences, and as yet another film showing off the lavish and wild lives of Hollywood. Inequality, drugs, women, abuse, and everything. What’s new?
Well, I don’t really care about what’s new or what makes Babylon a poorly-made knockoff of Cinema Paradiso or Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Chazelle was able to keep me entertained and laughing throughout its 3-hour duration, and sometimes it gets really tiring trying to make cinema a technical experience. I can proudly say (shaking as I type this) that I loved Babylon.
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kingandqueenofillea · 6 months
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There really is such a different story in the book than the movie. I highly recommend people read the book, too.
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oldshrewsburyian · 8 months
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coming in with another le Carré related ask: do you have any recommendations of fiction authors who also write about the moral darkness/complexities of the cold war (or mayhaps the drug war), but preferably with more women involved? I asked my local librarian for a recommendation along those lines and all the stuff I got was either cold war but primarily focused on men (graham greene's quiet america), women but it's wwii and they're presented as straightforward hero narratives, or like...stuff about women and nuclear science which is just not what I'm about right now. for context, I'm kinda trying to inhale vibes for fanfic reasons (although the fanfic is not of a le Carré book). if any recs spring to mind, I would love them! if not no worries <333
Hello! I do; they are not from the Anglophone world.
Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum, Heinrich Böll, and its film adaptation (I know Penguin Classics has an English translation)
Der geteilte Himmel, Christa Wolf (honestly, I recommend all of Wolf's work; this lives in my head rent-free. It's translated as They Divided the Sky for reasons I don't understand)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera (although it's very different, I also really enjoy the film adaptation with Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, and Derek de Lint, not solely for intellectual reasons, ahem)
Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt, Olga Grjasnowa (translated as All Russians Love Birch Trees)
On my TBR:
Der englische Liebhaber, Federica da Cesco
Guter Mann im Mittelfeld, Andrei Mihailescu
Bonus not-a-book recommendation: "Das Versprechen," dir. Margarethe von Trotta
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lunaoblonsky · 3 months
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