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@verandamusings @benshotonfilm @DebasedDandy Lot 49 easily. Plus that one you can read in a day (and reread the next day if you’d like)
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@benshotonfilm @DebasedDandy Which one is the best introduction to his work in your opinion?
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No offense but how do you read all of that in 7 months? That's way too fast
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@_Mark_Walsh_ “The Man Without Qualities” is a sprawling novel of ideas that kinda fits the bill nonetheless. Very relatable if you feel like life is passing you by
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What are the best "nothing novels"? Novels that are seemingly about nothing in particular.
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@KunibertRandolf @sorrytotweet @bogwitchbooks This is one of my pet peeves with GOT. They crucify the masters in the same way the masters used crucifixion, like a directional signpost, with one arm stretched out and the other nailed to their bodies. Just felt like a contrivance to differentiate from Earth cross imagery imo
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@sorrytotweet @bogwitchbooks Crucifixion as a form of punishment is way older than christianity tho, it was just christianity that popularized that specific line. Carrying your own cross was the same as digging your own grave.
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@bakeyflakey @Madame_Ennui @DavidAstinWalsh “Can she fix Tony or only make him a more efficient monster?” You can’t have that without the interplay of “How will Melfi balance her ethics + moral code working with Tony?” That episode closes the book on the latter, unanswered, and abandons the former, the heart of the series
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@bakeyflakey @Madame_Ennui @DavidAstinWalsh Spoilers ofc for Sopranos but I never liked how Employee of the Month was seen as the ultimate test for Melfi and her decision to forego revenge meant… what. No further character development now bc she passed the humanity test? Also marks a pivot from (imo) the show’s central q:
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Rewatching MAD MEN and it's remarkable how much the showrunners hate Peggy's boyfriend Abe despite him being right about pretty much everything.
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@antpaxton @thedadlitpod @_motherslug Yup but this is right before he pursues his train buddy’s wife. Poor Rory Gilmore, one of the more tragic storylines on Mad Men. Come to think of it, maybe he should’ve been reading The Bell Jar in this scene, though that might’ve been a touch on the nose
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@thedadlitpod @_motherslug At the risk of being too pedantic: the incident with the neighbor’s au pair precedes this shot by a season or two. It happens when he and Trudy are still living in Manhattan and this is after they move out to Connecticut.
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@thecandykeynes @coopercooperco Forgetting who said “if Tarantino read Pynchon he’d never shut up about it” but The Bride kinda is DL-inspired…
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@coopercooperco How do you even try to do all the Thanatos stuff lmao. DL is one of my favorite Pynchon characters though.
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My main thought reading the OBAA discourse is could you imagine how people would be acting if he had actually adapted Vineland more directly lol
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@coopercooperco Nobody saw Running Man but it faithfully adapted the “TV as a drug to keep the population docile” bit. It works because of a retrofuturistic aesthetic that gets dropped halfway through the film. Despite its runtime, OBAA is too lean for worldbuilding like that
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@coopercooperco The whole “tubeheads” thing could work, but it would be about phones, and it’d seem hacky to discuss because 1. “Phones bad” is done to death and 2. OBAA has too many plot beats that rely on phones. Eddington managed both of these things but it was a very different movie
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@jessecrall Considering his other attempts at “getting even” and the fact that nothing at the mansion rises to the depravity we glimpse at the costume shop, the big party is just part of Bill’s journey. The film is very obviously about Bill and his journey and his marriage first and foremost
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@jessecrall It’s not about the sex party, that’s just the backdrop for a very frank and human story about marriage. “Man learns about wife’s infidelity and goes on odyssey after unraveling” is a classic tale, the twist here isn’t the elites/orgy/masks but that she was just sharing a fantasy
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@jessecrall All the accolades and recognition and creature comforts that Bill enjoys as a young doctor in 90s Manhattan aren’t enough to prevent him from unraveling when his wife tells him she had a sex dream. It’s Raymond Carver’s “Would You Please Be Quiet Please” just with more money
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@AlexMaskill @PinstripeBungle The decision to move it from 85 to 25 feels like it was mostly made to aesthetically distance the film from Vineland, but being a jaded lib who came of age in the 2000s just isn’t the same as being an aging hippie living through Reagan
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@PinstripeBungle imo that's because while the metaphor is revolutionaries, it's actually about disappointed Obama liberals
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I didn't like OBAA (politically, as a film it was great) and the thing that keeps sticking with me about why that is that the movie understood how fascist freaks work but it didn't really understand how or why revolutionaries work.
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@delmoi @Caol_MacCormaic Ben sacrificed himself to distract Vader and buy Luke & co. more time, not to stop Luke from trying to save him. He knew Vader would be blinded by his obsession w finding his old master. Luke does the same thing in TLJ, exploiting Kylo’s obsession to buy the Resistance more time
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@Caol_MacCormaic The story doesn't make any sense. Obi-Wan killed himself so that Luke wouldn't try to come and save him from Vader, instead of escaping which is what he wanted Luke to do.
What would be the point of Luke killing himself here? Just being miserable?
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I mean I fully got the sense from the movie that he was committing suicide, that he (like Obi-Wan!) was self-immolating to save everyone else, which means presumably he knew. I don’t get how Hamill is really solid in the movie but doesn’t seem to understand it at all lol
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Mark Hamill has commented on Luke Skywalker's death in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, saying, "Don't you think if... using the Force could be lethal, Obi-Wan would've said 'Use the Force in moderation, Luke?' Or Yoda would've said 'Overdo Force projection, you must not?'" bit.ly/4s0eqBD
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@katherineveritt If you’re not in too deep already I can’t recommend the Pevear + Volokhonsky translation enough! They also did an excellent edition of Notes from Underground
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UPDATE: Maybe I shouldn’t have drawn a parallel bw Raskolnikov & myself…
Katherine Everitt 💥@katherineveritt
It’s been a tough week personally and politically. So I went to the pub, cracked ‘Crime & Punishment’ for the first time, and cried as Raskolnikov sat in his own sticky pub and wondered what this world has in store for him.
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@iscythea @IgnatzHaderach Not sure if there are cameras now but this used to be a thing for city kids without any privacy at home… in the mid-2010s you could rent a karaoke room for $20 at pretty much any spot on St. Marks and have an hour to hook up and underage drink
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@IgnatzHaderach not to be crass but why wouldn’t you use the karaoke room itself. it’s dark and has a couch and probably has fewer people coming and going 😭
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@roryisconfused Nobody on here really talks about Hal Ashby in general (aside from Being There perhaps?) but as wonderful as Harold and Maude is, it’s very earnest and people don’t seem to love that anymore. Also unsubtle in a way that isn’t bad but that might make folks roll their eyes now
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Why don’t the film people on here talk about Harold and Maude
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@signulll Insoles, esp ones that are $50+ normally. If you don’t mind swapping them between shoes you can get away with just one pair and it’ll save you a lot of foot/leg/back pain in the long run
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the scene directly before where the proximity sensor in the push ignition adds a lot of tension
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In Vineland the push-to-start ignition (which I don’t think even existed IRL in the 80s?) represents the rejection of masculinity. Not even subtext, Pynchon talks about it being like a clit as opposed to the phallic gear shift. Wonder if PTA was nodding to that in this sequence +
Robot Jones talks movies!@robotjonesmovie
One Battle After Another is finally on digital sooooo fuck it, here's the road chase sequence (aka the best sequence of the year).
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