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Happy Birthday to Mr. Destin Daniel Cretton!
the writer-director of Shang-chi, Just Mercy, and Short term 12.
Some of my favorite films Ever.
(Here's an instagram link if you'd prefer looking at screenshots of the letter i wrote instead.)
Taylor Swift said "It's very brave to be vulnerable about your feelings in any situation, but it's even more brave to be honest about your feelings and who you love."
She also said, "I think you deserve to look back on your life without a chorus of resounding voices saying “I could’ve, but it’s too late now.” There is a time for silence. There is a time waiting your turn. But if you know how you feel, and you so clearly know what you need to say, you’ll know it.
I don’t think you should wait. I think you should speak now."
I'm an Asian Woman. I can relate to Taylor Swift like I can relate to Shang-chi.
A favorite moment of mine, of the person I'm dedicating this post to, happens in an interview that barely has any views (relatively, when compared, that is).
It's when Mr. Cretton told the youtubers "The Film Rejects" that he watched their reaction to the first Shang-chi trailer and greg & dave promptly appropriately lost their shit :') <3.
And in that same interview, when dave remarked that he was white and that he just liked movies, mr. cretton said, "and i have both of you in me."
It is the humanity, those small moments of character and connection that... is the reason why shang-chi fucking rocked me to my core.
it is so present with mr. cretton and it's why it's so present with the film.
mr. cretton is a film director who watches the trailer reactions of youtubers to his film.
he's a biracial man and honestly, i kinda connect with that. cause like i said, i'm asian and i'm a woman. that feeling of being in two places at once and being able to connect to both but also being in between?
i get that.
so, this is me speaking now, and this is me saying happy birthday to probably my favorite filmmaker of all time, and my fellow sagittarius heh :''D <333.
Happy Birthday, sir. Thank you for everything. I say the rest in the love letter heh 😅. Hope you have (or had cus timezones TOT) a beautiful magical wonderful love-filled day 🥺🥺🥺🥺 TTTOOOOOOOTTTTTT <333333333333333.
p.s.: and i just... who else celebrates wrap days with leis? i just.... TTTOOOOTTTT <333333333
<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3
The Letter:
it started with a photo, to be honest.
a couple of photos that hinted at something pure sweet and special underneath.
the photo of simu with an asian woman i didn't recognize then.
it piqued my interest. it was such a sweet tiny little thing… only noticed by the people who followed mr. cretton, or if you were like me, waiting and SCROUNGING for any scraps of shang-chi content I could get cause I just… IT WAS SPECIAL TO ME AND I ALREADY LOVED IT SO MUCH AND I WAS SO EXCITED FOR IT TOT.
this photo was just so sweet even when I didn’t know who meng’er was…
it just… conveyed so much joy happiness and celebration.
even if you didn’t know anything about what was happening in the photo and who these people were… it just conveyed so much joy & love.
and I don’t know which came first, watching just mercy or seeing those dedication posts mr. cretton did…
but it was just mercy that convinced me, the moment I knew… shang-chi was going to fucking destroy me.
it’s sort of a shame I wasn’t able to capture & commemorate the night our entire fam watched shang-chi…
but I’ll know the memory of that night will be burned into my brain forever.
(and not just cause it was also red tv day. honestly nov 12 truly was the day I died tbh hah)
you see, my family and I aren’t often complete, mr. cretton. but because of this pandemic, for the worst (if we’re being honest) and just silver linings of better, we were.
I feel…
I feel happy, to be alive, to have experienced that moment.
those moments of laughter with my entire family because of shang-chi.
for once, we were complete. and we were celebrating something asian. and we were having fun, SO MUCH FUN, together <3.
we talked, we ate, we laughed, we REJOICED. when shang-chi took down the mega soul sucker bitch (XD), the eldest sister and brother in our family literally shouted out loud “PROOF THAT THE DWELLER IN DARKNESS HAS A HEART” cause… cause it was like shang gave them an arc reactor?? right??? XD XD XD X’’’’D
we just… we laughed so much in shang-chi, mr. cretton.
I get teary eyed just reminiscing of how happy & just how much we enjoyed and loved the humor in the film.
I’m two ways, because on one hand, some critics have points in the what ifs. what if shang wasn’t a studio film and you were given full creative control…
if you were given more time
if this wasn’t like, the one shot you guys had to prove yourselves
(cause i… I genuinely FEEL AND BELIEVE, that fueled your filmmaking process. you guys tried to do as much cool awesome complex stuff as you could since WHO THE FUCK KNOWS IF YOU’LL BE ABLE TO DO IT AGAIN RIGHT?? this was your one shot. you guys were going to make it count and put as much heart & complexity in it as much as you could.)
would the film be more focused on the emotional moments? be able to go even deeper into the characters’ history and humanity?
EVEN THOUGH I WILL FUCKING ARGUE TO THE DEATH. THAT SHANG CHI HAS INFINITE TIMES MORE HUMANITY THAN EVERY OTHER FUCKING MCU ORIGIN MOVIE (MAYBE EVERY SINGULAR MOVIE). GO AHEAD. TRY ME, BITCH. I’M BEGGING YOU, FIGHT ME-
deep sigh…
honestly, I think I’m just tired of people shitting on “stupid bland mcu humor”
when moments that I had with my family exist.
they happened because of you.
SO WHAT IF THE CHARACTERS QUIP A LOT??
THE HUMOR HAD SO MUCH HUMANITY AND DO YALLS JUST HATE HAPPINESS AND JOY AND LAUGHTER??
THE COMEDY IN THIS FILM WAS JUST SO FUCKING SWEET AND ENDEARING AND I’LL BE FUCKING DAMNED TO HELL IF I LET YOU DISREGARD IT AS JUST THE “typical bland dumb mcu quipping”
CAUSE IT FUCKING WASN’T. I’LL LITERALLY HITCH A RIDE WITH SANTA AND PERSONALLY GO TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THE HOUSES OF EVERYONE WHO SAYS OTHERWISE. I’M READY, BITCH. LETSS GOOOOOOOOOOO-
sigh…
like a great poet said…
“maybe I’m too emotional, but your apathy’s like a wound in salt” – olivia rodrigo (A FIL AM SINGER-SONGWRITER TTTOOOTTTT), good 4 u
the apathy’s gotten to me.
the fact that I have to sift through AN OCEAN OF IT, to find the good.
while other properties can get their praise and love and fandom fresh baked hand kneaded delivered right on their doorstep with a smile and ‘have a good day.’
but… a poc animator & creator and a comedian also cemented this quote for me:
“Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right.
This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world – ‘No, YOU move.’”
― J. Michael Straczynski (writing for Captain America), The Amazing Spider-Man: Civil War
A PERSON OF COLOR WHO LOVES ANIME & ANIMATION CAN BELIEVE IN THIS QUOTE.
AS WELL AS A PERSON WHO YEAH BELIEVES COMEDY CAN BE DEEP. IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE ALL SLOW INTENTIONAL DRAMATIC MOMENTS. HUMOR CAN BE DEEP AND TOUCH HEARTS.
so just because it’s… honestly?
fucking heart breaking and soul crushing to love shang-chi…
doesn’t mean I should stop. or that it isn’t worth it. cause it is.
THOSE MOMENTS OF LAUGHTER YOU GAVE ME AND MY FAMILY.
THE HUMOR THAT SO MANY FUCKING PEOPLE HATE??
IT MATTERS.
EVEN IF THE WORLD HATES IT, THE LOVE AND JOY AND LAUGHTER AND HEART AND MEMORIES WE HAD MATTER.
It Matters.
so… sigh…
I think I just want to say that you gave me something worth fighting for, something I believe in.
you gave me and my family, love and laughter and joy and FUN!
I will forever be thankful and grateful to you for that.
we just…
I think for the first time, we felt truly seen.
my sister and I saw ourselves on screen when we saw shang and xialing exchange wordless BUT SO MEANINGFUL looks AT THE DINNER TABLE when wenwu pontificated about himself LIKE ASIAN DADS *ARE* LIABLE TO DO.
WE KNOW BECAUSE OURS DOES.
ALSO AT THE DINNER TABLE.
OFTEN IN EVERY DINNER TBH.
OUR ENTIRE LIVES WERE IN THAT SINGLE BLINK AND YOU’LL MISS IT SCENE.
WE SAW OURSELVES IN FRONT OF US.
WE EXISTED, OUR STORIES CAN EXIST AND BE TOLD.
WHEN SHANG AND KATY GOT DRUNK AND WENT TO KARAOKE?? AND WAS KNOCKED OUT AT THE END OF IT??
MY SIBLINGS LAUGHED. (probably cause they’re old enough to have those experiences. I turned 20 in lockdown, sooo….)
THEY SAW THEM SING A WHOLE NEW WORLD AND MY SISTER REMARKED “MOOD!!!!”
WHEN KATY’S GRANDMA TALKED ABOUT LEAVING BEHIND FOOD FOR HER HUSBAND??
MY BROTHER LAUGHED. (he lived with our grandma and that’s why he’s usually not with us. that’s why I think he laughed… I think it’s special for him…)
WE LAUGHED AT KATY’S WEIRDNESS AND EXHUBERANT NATURE.
WE FUCKING *CHEERED ALONG TOO!!!*
WHEN WONG FUCKING TOOK DOWN ABOMINATION WITH THAT PORTAL MOVE??
OUR JAWS WERE DROPPED AND WE FUCKING CHEERED RIGHT ALONG WITH THAT AUDIENCE, SHOUTING “WONG! WONG! WONG! WONG!”
we’d remark on how ying li and wenwu didn’t age in the film and our sister talked about it afterwards remarking “Asian Don’t Raisin B)”
I ALWAYS BET ON ASIAN IS NOW A NEW CATCHPHRASE ME AND MY SISTER ARE SURE TO USE FOR ALL TIME, MR. CRETTON.
NEVER MIND THE FUCKING HUMANITY FUCKING WENWU POSSESSED THE ENTIRETY OF THE FILM, THAT HE NEVER FUCKING LOST NOT ONCE.
AND JUST….
THE IMPORTANCE AND DEPTH THAT YOU’D INTENTIONALLY PUT THERE???
THE HIM GOING TO THE SHRINE OF HIS WIFE AT HER VILLAGE FIRST?
BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE.
THE DEPTH & IMPORTANCE OF THE MOMENT HE USED HALF OF THE RINGS TO LAND THAT BLOW ON HIS SON???
LIKE THAT WAS THE MOMENT THAT SHOWED,
he… he hurt his own son…
almost killed him…
showing just, just how far gone he was now?
I LITERALLY FUCKING SOB, THINKING ABOUT THAT MONTAGE OF MOMENTS HE HELD & LOOKED AT HIS SON. ENDING WITH THE VERY FIRST ONE????
(and I’m sorry, but I can’t help but think of how this means for -you- personally sir… like, in that moment where wenwu held shang… it was like it was you holding your own kid.
what with what you’d say where your main motivation for making this film was wanting your child to have a hero that looked like them…
and I also just recall what simu said about the sacrifices you went through just to make this film. what with the pandemic, and you had to quarantine, and your newborn, AND STILL SHOOT THROUGH IT ALL…
I just… I think that moment held… so much.
I think that moment held all, EVERY LOVE YOU HAD IN YOUR ENTIRE BEING FOR YOUR FAMILY… I think it was in that moment. and it was in every fucking moment of this film.
like how wenwu did everything for his family… you did everything for yours. YOU DID ALL OF THIS FOR YOURS.
*cue actual literal sobbing again* no, seriously, I immediately cried as soon as I wrote that…
I just think… that first moment where you held your child, for the very first time, welcoming them & bringing them into the world…
there are no words.
it’s just, felt.
and I felt it, sir. like, damn, I feel it…
with every fiber of my soul & heart & being… I feel it.)
AND THEN JUST…
THE MOMENT WITH HIM GIVING THE RINGS SYMBOLIZING HIM BEING WORTHY OF IT.
ESSENTIALLY HIM SAYING HE’S PROUD OF HIM WITHOUT ACTUALLY SAYING IT CAUSE HE’S STILL FUCKING ASIAN AFTER ALL.
CAUSE the thing about asians is so much of us is such wordless unacknowledged love & devotion
it truly is such an actions speak louder than words culture
slight brief looks & glances can mean Everything, and they do.
i don't actually want to fight, you know?
i see ignorant people push aside this unique story and it angers me.
and i hate that it does.
i hate you can't see the most vital difference that differentiates shang & the gang's story.
love.
in the end, the "villain" ended up reforming himself. redeeming himself.
not a single one of the mcu's villains have done that. make the choice to do the good thing for once.
genuine true humane love.
but yeah, sure. it's basically ego & howard & t'chaka & odin & thanos' story just cause they're dads too. who gives a single flying fuck.
just cause the conversations aren't shouty & flashy doesn't mean they aren't as important.
anyone wanna talk about the poetic awesome lines in the film?
the gorgeous jaw dropping visuals and set design?
the humor family & love & compassion & kindness?
shang chi is such an asian story
you often have to grapple with your heritage with where it stands in modern society
but shang chi allows that choice to just be
to not have to make a choice, choose one or the other
you can be both
you get to decide which parts you take up
that's your right
you get to just be you
action was epic. relationships were everything.
so much kindness and love and family and life filled the film.
i'll never forget the look of excitement my siblings had as we watched shang & katy literally get welcomed with open arms into the marvel universe :')
Birthdays should be celebrated, it means another year where a person you love is still in the world.
(CRASH LANDING ON YOU QUOTE, WRITTEN BY PARK JI-EUN, A KOREAN WOMAN. SHE’S AN ASIAN WOMAN LIKE ME SO IT JUST MEANS SO MUCH FOR A FAVE SHOW OF MINE TO BE WRITTEN BY SOMEONE LIKE ME TTTOOOOTTTTT. TAKE THIS AS MY OFFICIAL REC TO WATCH THE AMAZING BEAUTIFUL HEARTBREAKING SOUL UPLIFITING EMOTIONAL LOVING SHOW.)
I love you, sir.
you give me so much hope & faith, you make me believe in the world & humanity & life.
I hope you have (or had cause timezones TOT) THE HAPPIEST OF BIRTHDAYS, YOU INCREDIBLE WONDERFUL IMPERFECT WEIRDO HUMAN, YOU TTTOOOOOTTTTTTTTTT <33333333
just in case it wasn’t clear…
your films mean a lot to me.
short term 12 meant A LOT. I’m a freaking psych major for crying out loud. it genuinely makes me feel like brie’s AND YOUR job there could be a job option for me too…
AND THE FUCKING HEARTBREAK AND HOPE IN JUST MERCY???
I think it’s sort of official you’re probably my favorite filmmaker…
thank you for everything, sir. I love you so much. I’m forever grateful for your existence. thank you for being you, my fellow sagittarius heh :’’) <3.
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List which 5 TV shows make you feel better then tag 10 other blogs.
if ya tagged me ya probs know what i’m like, so you must have expected some version of this to happen. nevertheless, thanks @caseopenandcaseshut and @red-leafy (& i’m sorrs lol) andddd... this is my top *6 feel-good shows rn... yep... tis wat tis is....
1. Phineas & Ferb (Summer, Humor, Relatable/Endearing Lovable Characters, Childhood Feels, Colorful Imaginative Creativity, Positivity, Incredibly Unforgettable Music I’ll probably keep with me til the day I die, Family... 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺)
2. Modern Family (Family, Gut-busting Knee-slapping Comedy & Humor, Heart, Love, Family, Likable/Lovable Characters, Fun & Clever Writing, Pride, FEELS, Family....)
3. The Marvel Cinematic Universe, WandaVision currently (Entire Universe of Established Well Developed (more-developed-than-any-other-franchise-or-series anyways imo) Complex Interesting Characters That You Love, Stories of Different Genres Coinciding and Existing and Connecting in One Universe, Gut-wrenching Sob-inducing Heartbreaking Feels, Memes, Family, Found Family of Weirdos That Love Each Other, Female Lead (WandaVision), Love)
4. Legends of Tomorrow (Hilarity, WEIRDNESS, Diversity, Found Family of Weirdos That Love Each Other, Pride, Heartfelt Stories, Time Travel, Fantasy, Cheeky Cute & Weird, Love, Feminism, FUN!!!!!!!, You Would Die For Every Single One Of The Leads/Main Characters - level of their Complexity & Lovable Adorkableness, Female Lead/s, WEIRD)
5. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (Love, Romance, Diversity, Mental Health, Feminism, Musical, Comedy, Heartbreakingly Relatable Feels and Mental Health Struggles, Realism Yet Fantasy, Meta/Self-aware, FEMINISM, MENTAL HEALTH, Endearing Likable Complex Characters, F.E.M.I.N.I.S.M., One of The Best Endings I Have Ever Watched & Witnessed In My TV-Binger Life Thus Far, Found Family of Weirdos That Love Each Other, Pride, Complete Cohesive Story, Incredible Songs, Female Lead, Sexual Empowerment, FEMINISM & MENTAL HEALTH)
6. Scorpion (Found Family of Weirdos That Love Each Other, Diversity, Clever & Smart Episodic Storylines/Problems/Plot, Genius/Weirdo Ennui, Fuck-Being-Normal Feels, Funny, Heartfelt, Loving, Genuine, Family.... Love....)
tags to follow cus im tired of looking at screens all day... and close seconds had they not been too cliche/dark/just not THAT my jam *to choose are htgawm, grey’s anatomy, b99, friends, black mirror, person of interest, a:tla, queer eye, yakitate japan, sky castle, cloy, bnha, fma:b. (* by parenthesis, i mean that they’re too that to choose, not that they themselves are too that by themselves)
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