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livelovecaliforniadreams · 7 months

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Hadley Sullivan and Oliver Jones will kiss 12,872 times in their life together. They'll be married 58 years, have 1,462 arguments, and make love 5,787 times. Hadley will hold Oliver's hand when Tessa takes her last breath. Oliver will hold Hadley's when she takes hers. And they will both hold their daughter's hand the day she's born and marvel at her tiny fingers and how none of it would have been possible were it not for a missed flight, a broken seat belt, and a choice to love each other every day.

#cute things #love #movie #movies #filmedit #filmedits #love at first sight #rom com #romantic comedy #gif #gifs #gifset #haley lu richardson #Hadley Sullivan #Ben Hardy #Oliver Jones

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pleasureprose · 1 month

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#mash #oliver jones #I do really like his pink shirt orange hat :3c but that hat was my nemesis

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hawkeyeslaughter · 5 months

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make sure to show this to a middle aged man you love to give him an aneurysm

#don’t let me down mashblr you’re my only hope #i had .. a normal amount of fun with this #guess who my favorite of the four is based on this edit alone #if you notice i messed up ho jon’s part a little no you dont #mash #m*a*s*h #mashposting #mashblr #mash 4077 #hawkeye #hawkeye pierce #trapper john #trapper john mcintyre #john mcintyre #trapper mcintyre #oliver jones #ho jon #lgbt #lgbtq

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asianchips · 7 months

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happy 51 to the only show ever

have some redraws from the pilot

#mash #mash 4077 #m*a*s*h #mash fanart #hawkeye pierce #margaret houlihan #trapper john mcintyre #oliver jones #henry blake #radar o'reilly #WOOO

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cinderellc · 7 months

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BEN HARDY as OLIVER JONES

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT, netflix (2023)

#ben hardy #oliver jones #love at first sight #ben hardy gif #fcxdirectory #gifsociety #rph

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dyingroses · 26 days

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Happy M*A*S*H Monday!

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allgirlsareprincesses · 7 months

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Love At First Sight (2023)

Okay, we’re going to talk about the new Netflix romance directed by Vanessa Caswill, Love At First Sight, because I’m seeing almost no chatter about it and that cannot stand. Full disclosure, I’ve never read the book on which this movie is based, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, so I’m reacting only to the film (which I’ve now seen 4.5 times in 2 days).

The Surface Reading

It’s a perfect, tight, adorable little RomCom that’s heavy on the Rom and light on the Com, with a wrenching dash of angst and the most hair-twirling chemistry between two leads that has graced our screens in years. Truly, if all you want is 90 minutes of two actors being saccharine precious cinnamon rolls, look no further!

There are simple takeaways here, like that chance can only take you so far, but in the end you have to choose to love. Or that change and loss are part of life and you can’t run from them. Or that London is a massive labyrinth of eccentric people that probably looks 400% cooler onscreen than it is in reality (I wouldn’t know, I’ve never visited, so this and the 90s Parent Trap are the extent of my knowledge about the city, sorry).

Anyway, I adored how straightforward the story was - that the narrator (played brilliantly by Jameela Jamil) tells you directly in the first two minutes that it’s a story about love, fate, and statistics. She then repeatedly describes every development as it is happening, the characters’ histories and internal monologues, and all the context you need to follow the thin but fast-paced plot. The writing, performances, and production design are all solid, allowing the audience to get lost in the romance as it unfolds.

BUT if you’re slightly unhinged like I am and you’re always looking for more layers in your media, HAVE NO FEAR! There is in fact more going on in this little movie than you might expect.

Color Theory

For starters, the use of red and green in the film is fascinating. Yes, I realize the action of the story takes place a few days before Christmas, so you might assume it was just a seasonal aesthetic choice, but if you look closer, you can see very carefully selected shades of red and green repeating throughout the film. The red is a cool, deep rose color, sometimes pink, while the green is cool and dark, like oxidized bronze rather than emerald. Further, while they appear over and over, these hues are rarely used in a purely decorative or festive way. Instead, they play a role in the separation and coming together of the couple. On a color wheel, red and green are complements, perfect opposites that are never adjacent but always joined in the middle.

The title card during Hadley’s introduction is literally a green stripe over a red stripe, then the hallways of the airport are green, and of course Hadley’s ever-important backpack is a rosy red. As the couple grow closer on their flight, the light turns pink. Once in London, a green van takes Oliver one way while a red taxi takes Hadley the other. At her father’s wedding, Hadley is dressed in red (“the color of a bruise” she calls it), contrasting beautifully against her green jacket. Upon realizing Oliver’s true purpose, she chases after him on an iconic red double-decker bus. Meanwhile at the living memorial, Oliver’s father is dressed in red while his mother wears a faded green, as if to say she is already beginning to fade away. The event is decorated with green drapery and streamers, and there are even stacks of red and green chairs in the stairwell where Oliver begs his mother to receive treatment.

Hadley gifts her red and green bouquet to Tessa, and when she is driven away, a green-clad narrator returns the red backpack to Oliver. Wandering London alone, Hadley exchanges her painful red heels for a pair of green trainers (“sneakers!” she insists), and tries to call her dad first in a red phone booth and then on a phone from a stranger sitting in a cluster of red chairs. Finally, Oliver chooses to pursue Hadley to the wedding reception which is lit in pink, and where they finally share the long-awaited kiss.

There are many more examples, but in general we see that green indicates separation and loss, while red symbolizes joining, intimacy, and (what else?) love! It lends the film a gorgeous, subtle aesthetic without being garishly festive, and shows the lovers’ emotional journey from lonely childhood to vulnerable, loving adulthood.

Death and Rebirth

Speaking of which, there’s plenty of rebirth imagery too! When Hadley and Oliver meet, they are both still children, struggling with the impending loss of parental security through divorce and death. Thus, when they board the plane, it is as if they enter an underworld or womb, separated from their families and remade as new adults. They emerge on the other side into a hallway (read: birth canal), as each must still confront their own dying childhood before they can join as full and equal partners. Hadley journeys to a bright, red-strewn celebration of life, while Oliver must enter a dark green commemoration of death, his fear driving him deeper to hide in another hallway. Here his mother comes to find him, begging him to emerge into life, but Ollie still can’t confront her death alone.

Thankfully, Hadley travels to this underworld to find him, bursting into the memorial like a bright red flower. Even the bruise metaphor works, acknowledging the pain they are both experiencing at the changes in their lives. But Oliver still refuses to face his fears, trying to take a shortcut around death to life with Hadley. Still, she knows he’s not ready (likely because she’s not yet, either), and gently pushes back. And so, Oliver returns to the underworld, and Hadley walks off alone until she descends barefoot through a soggy riverside tunnel (birth canal again!). Finally, she calls her father and admits she is “lost.” When he arrives, Hadley at last gathers the courage to ask why he ended their old life, and to tell him how much it hurt her. But as Oliver predicted, she forgives her dad and even begins to accept his new bride.

Back at the memorial, Oliver is reminded by Hadley’s red backpack - his unaddressed emotional baggage - to be honest about his pain. In at last openly mourning his mother and his own childhood, Ollie takes a step into adulthood, just enough for his family to nudge him that extra bit to go after Hadley. And so, the family delivers him to his bride, who has meanwhile learned to dance again, even through her heartbreak. With one last confession, the two consummate their love with a kiss, bathed in pink light before an open door.

Happily Ever After

There’s so much more, with the hand-holding, numbers, Shakespeare, Dickens, the music, and beyond, but the point is that this cute, charming little romance is actually very deliberately constructed. It follows timeless patterns and motifs which we instinctively understand through visual and auditory language. And the narration plays a huge role in this as well, not unlike the prologues and epilogues of the Bard’s plays in that they state the story’s lessons plainly: that we cannot always be prepared for unwelcome surprises, but that we can make the choice to love every day.

Anyway, Vanessa Caswill deserves all the flowers and if you haven’t seen her gorgeous adaptation of Little Women (with all due respect to the marvelous Greta Gerwig and Gillian Armstrong), please do yourself a favor and watch that after you finish this!

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majorbaby · 1 year

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And when you meet people, don't look down. Look them in the eye. And don't back off.

#mash #m*a*s*h #oliver jones #young hi #s01e05: the moose #i appreciate this episode has a lot of issues - the white saviourism is glaring #but oliver telling her not to cower away from people is important to ME #and since we have this episode i'd rather have this moment than not #also the moose > the tooth shall set you free (the other glaring white saviour episode)#and of course just. oliver <3 <3 <3 #majorbaby.gif

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caffiene-fueled-fuckery · 9 months

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Have a map I made of M*A*S*H Hometowns!

Bremen is the town that Crabapple Cove is apparently based on. Fort Bliss I saw somewhere that Margaret mentioned, but she grew up on various army bases so I just used that one. And I can’t find a consensus for Sidney, it’s either Manhattan or Brooklyn so I just marked him down with Zale because they’re so close. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a hometown for Igor :(

I also included the location of the setting in AfterMASH!

#m*a*s*h #mash #hawkeye pierce #father mulcahy #radar o'reilly #bj hunnicutt #sherman potter #henry blake #max klinger #nurse kellye #charles emerson winchester iii #trapper john mcintyre #frank burns #margaret houlihan #mash posting #mashblr #sidney freedman #oliver jones

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coffee-rack-art · 1 year

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In my ideal world there is a secret season 1.5 of mash where Oliver and Margie and Ginger get 300x more plots and lines and screen time

#mash #mash 4077 #hawkeye pierce #m*a*s*h #trapper john mcintyre #trapper John #margie cutler #oliver jones #ginger bayliss #trapper and Hawkeye are there too because I love them #sorry about it (lie)#happy trapper tuesday :)

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mrsniallhoran505 · 7 months

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#ben hardy #oliver jones #love at first sight #the statistical probability of love at first sight

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livelovecaliforniadreams · 7 months

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nofatclips · 2 months

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Âme noire (AKA Black Soul) a short film by Martine Chartrand

#short #movie #nfb #martine chartrand #animation #yves leduc #pierre hébert #marcel jean #lilison t.s. cordeiro #oliver jones #fernand bélanger #serge boivin #diane carrière #jean paul vialard #shaun nicholas gallagher #jérôme décarie #benoit leduc #geoffrey mitchell #Youtube

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guygirlwhatever · 2 months

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So, an idea I once had… you know how Wayne Rodgers left MASH because he felt like Trapper was just Hawkeye's Lackey and they dropped Spearchucker because they just didn't know what to do with them?

What if they just rotated out the cast? Someone's gotta be on post-op or in X-ray, or sleeping so that they're awake for second shift.

This would allow them to have episodes with 2/3rds of the trio at any time, bringing in the 3rd when they had a bit that specifically needs them to engage with it. It would allow them to do Trapper/Spearchucker episodes where neither is having to play second fiddle to Hawkeye.

It could also explain the disappearance of their anisthesiologist, Ugly John, he gets to cover post-op when Trap, Hawk, and Jones are all together (and Frank's busy with Margaret)

#mash 4077 #hawkeye pierce #trapper john mcintyre #oliver jones #Spearchucker Jones

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theprofessor07 · 24 days

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Just rewatched the first episode of MASH and here are my thoughts

All of the recurring characters that were remnants of the movie are here, Ollie Jones, Ugly John, Lt. Dish, "Knocko" McCarthy, Boone, General Hammond, and Ho-Jon, I wish they did more with those characters.

There's a reference to the Painless pole when they are listing off tickets, they probably planned on having him appear but dropped him probably because his whole character was about how he's really good at sex, and that's not very family friendly.

Mulcahy is played by a different actor, and he's also referred to as "Red" a remnant of his nickname in the books and movie (and George Morgan has really red hair too).

The still looks different, but this can be explained due to Frank breaking it in the episode.

The swamp looks different (I'm pretty sure it's bigger too) than in the series proper. And there's 4-5 swampmen: Hawkeye, Trapper, Jones, Ho-Jon (if he counts, I'm not sure if he bunked or if he was just a houseboy) and Frank.

I'm pretty sure this plot was lifted from the book, where Ho-Jon gets accepted into Hawkeyes college, then Hawkeye and Trapper raise money, but in the book, Hawkeye and Trapper raise the money by having Trapper dress up as Jesus. Anyways, they raise enough money, so Ho-Jon gets to go to college, which is probably where he disappeared after a few episodes.

Hawkeye mentions that he's engaged, which is never brought up in the series again

He mentions his parents, rather than just his father, implying that his mother is still alive.

Also, I'm pretty sure Dish was meant to be Hawkeyes love interest in the show.

#mash #mashblr #hawkeye pierce #trapper john mcintyre #oliver jones #ugly John #henry blake #margaret houlihan #father mulcahy #frank burns

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mashtastic · 1 year

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M*A*S*H S1:E5 - The Moose

#oliver jones #hawkeye pierce #trapper john mcintyre #mash #m*a*s*h #M*A*S*H

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