Phaea Galicaea

A simple gay lesbian on the high seas. 25 and somehow also middle aged. Our Flag Means EVERYTHING and I’m about to make it everyone’s problem. 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈

[vcollies]

is this anything

[vcollies]

hi guys i need to be autistic about film scores for a second

so im rewatching mission impossible: rogue nation (for the third time in a week. don't mention it) and realized something about the non-diegetic music just before ethan goes into the opera: it features a flute. not just any flute, a bass flute!

this is most noticeable in the track starting right around the 3:40 mark. a few notes of the "mission impossible" theme is also played on bass flute at 4:40.

"now mav," you may be asking, "why do we care?" and to that i respond with two main reasons:

bass flute is a rare instrument to hear in film scores, mostly because it's a rare instrument in general. nearly every other time in the score when the typical mission impossible theme is played, it's introduced by your typical C flute, occasionally accompanied by piccolo trills. but this time, it's just one bar with a lone bass flute. why?

to answer the "why," it's highlighting joe kraemer's strike of genius in composing the score: he is using the instrument to foreshadow what comes next. the next scene shows a presumed musician getting his bass flute checked by security, and we later learn that there is a weapon hiding inside the flute (which, coming from a flute player, is a fantastic idea. nobody expects the bass flute!). by featuring the bass flute and having it play the mission impossible theme before we even see the plot-relevant bass flute in the film, we (the audience) are having something important alluded to us: this instrument is going to be relevant.

film composers love to do this; sprinkling blatant foreshadowing into their scores, telling the audience what's coming next in a way that the majority of viewers won't ever pick up. this is probably going to send me into yet another rewatch of the film where i try to find more silly little tidbits in the music.

anyways. that was a brief analysis of the importance of one singular instrument in a movie that came out a decade ago. thanks for letting me yap.

[werewolf-transgenderism]

baby pangolins look like an adorable creature someone made up for a fantasy/sci-fi series. just a sweet polite little alien type of beast wearing a nice little scalemail outfit

[mintyfreshfloppydisk]

"My body's on the line now

I can't fight this time now

I can feel the light shine on my face"

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(I'm obsessed with this piece, @bambinesque did of my boy Adonis! Thank you!!!)

[leaving-the-rotting-wolf]

[daisyofwaterdeep]

had a dream I went to a hozier concert and mr. hozier stopped singing and pointed to me in the crowd and asked me to go get him some extra crispy tofu and a blueberry shake for after the show and then the crowd passed his debit card to me and when I got it I could see his real legal name was Horace Bob-omb

[subversivegrrl]

[asessuale]

[vcollies]

the bluths

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[hanoizodiacmurders]

yusuf dikeç and his cat selfies

[stedebonnets]

Edward “Blackbeard” Teach + smiling

[mirkwoodest]

So from what I've gathered from interviews, it seems like before anyone had been cast in Our Flag Means Death aside from Blackbeard, David and Taika were talking about the role of Stede and David said something like "He should have the same vibe as Murray from Flight of the Conchords, who could we possibly get?" and Taika went "Literally there's nothing stopping you from calling Rhys." Meanwhile, Rhys knew about the project and was like "Wow that sounds great! I can't wait to see it :)" and was surprised to get the call, doubly surprised when it was for the lead. David and co. auditioned more than just him, but the other actors, while talented, all played Stede in a way that was kind of unlikable? Before taping his own audition, Rhys called Taika like "I really want this, do you have any advice?" and Taika was like "Calm down it's literally perfect for you." So he did, and the rest is history.

[encryorm]

more kisses just cus

[smudgeandfrank]

TURFFLES (Turtle Waffles) ARE COMING 🐢💖🧇

[bambinesque]

Please, I worked so hard on this and the Clock App is suppressing it so hard. Anyway, Blackbeard is still a work in progress!

[luluxa]

The Kraken

[myflagmeanspirate]

[worldstarmoneyyy]

Season 2 this, Season 2 that, I just want fucking bloopers. I wanna see how many times they had to film Taika Waititi beating that fake snake up. I need to know how many people on set couldn’t keep it together when Rhys Darby first chanted “man for sale” and “someone buy my booty”. How many other versions of the improvised forest-lunch conversation exist. 

I have to know.