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*pirate voice 🏴☠️* : Arrrr make me look edgy in a tortured nautical way.
Feel like this movie is a good comparative highlight of when CG is actually useful. Practical effects fit his character and movements. Barnacle Bill was correct to do in makeup. However, I think this guy
Works best as his writhing mass. Not sure robotics/puppetry would've been able to get the effect the same.
The Accidental Anti-Feminism of The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and the New Sequel (Spoiler Warning!)
Many people have described both The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and this new sequel as feminist movies. They are, but only in the sense that they are both products of the culture in which they were produced. The real message of the original undermines the feminist narrative. The sequel is much more a critique of our modern media landscape (which is ultimately a result of feminism) with a little nudge to reinforce the unintentional anti-feminist message of the original.
Note: when I talk about feminism here, I’m talking about the girl-boss, career-first, “don’t need no man” feminist narrative that was blasted at millennial women throughout our childhood and adolescence.
In the original movie, Andy (Anne Hathaway) has a close group of friends that she hangs out with on a regular basis, which includes her boyfriend who she lives with. Over the course of the movie, we see her repeatedly choose her new career in the fashion industry over her relationships until those relationships begin to fall apart.
Andy gets a glimpse of her future when Miranda (Meryl Streep) confides in her about her upcoming second divorce. We see a broken, bitter woman who has chosen her career ahead of her marriage(s) and family. We see the choices Miranda has had to make and will continue to make to preserve her own career at the expense of those closest and most loyal to her. Andy finds herself making the same kinds of choices and realizes she will follow Miranda’s path exactly if she doesn’t change something now.
The scene where Andy throws her phone in the fountain should be the moment where she realizes her friends, family, and integrity are more important than any career.
However, the movie doesn’t end with her repairing her relationships. She smooths things over with her now ex-boyfriend, but they still go their separate ways. The movie ends with her setting off alone on the career journey she meant to pursue at the beginning of the movie, now just with a little more confidence and a better résumé.
In the second movie, we can see that while Andy went on to have a successful career as a serious journalist and win a bunch of awards, she didn’t actually learn the lesson from her time at Runway. She is single, childless (except for her frozen embryos stored in a clinic somewhere), and only one person from her original friend group is still in the picture.
The movie has some great critiques about our modern media culture and a good perspective on the importance of promoting meaningful stories over mindless content. There’s also a really interesting thread one could tug on about how not prioritizing family leads to the collapse of institutions when the next generation has not actually been raised to appreciate them.
*Spoiler warning!!!*
There is a scene, however, right at the end of the second movie that I think does something really interesting. Andy gets a romantic subplot that feels somewhat hastily tacked on, as if it was an afterthought. But at the end, when all the Miranda/Emily/Runway drama is resolved, Andy is debating whether to pursue the relationship with her new love interest. Her friend encourages her to go for it, even if everything isn’t perfect.
It’s small, almost a throwaway moment. But in our modern culture that has encouraged women to wait to get married and wait to have children until their lives are perfect, this scene feels like a gentle nudge to millennial women. It’s time to stop waiting around for perfect, because perfect is never going to happen.
Together, both movies create a cautionary tale about missed opportunities and priorities. My hope is that Gen Z and younger women look at Andy and Miranda and see two women who sacrificed family and friendships to build careers that turn out to be incredibly fragile in the face of a rapidly changing economy. Maybe they’ll decide to build something that matters more and will last longer.
hey you. teenage girl writing in her diary. quit talking about the boy you have a crush on and start writing about the current political situation, the valuation of currencies, and the level of technology your people hold. your diary might be the only piece of evidence our society existed after nuclear war fries all of our data backups. future historians don't need to know about damian, they need at least a secondhand accounts of the great water wars and whether or not your leaders truly did worship a deity called "the free hand of the market"
Keep writing about your crush Teenaged Girl. About your clothes, and how that other girl wore the same dress as you. Paint me a picture of what you were like.
Historians are going to hear about Damian and they're gonna LIKE IT
#as a history buff I want to hear about Damian SO BAD because people in my time are spreading myths about teenage crushes in your time #they're saying teenage girls didn't even wear dresses at all #help me prove them wrong BLEASE
stop saying "gen z brought back bush-era purity politics" i grew up in the bush era and even then people weren't saying that you're a sex addict for having boring marital sexual congress in the same house as your children. this is just plain unhinged
Literally almost every millennial I know has a memory of accidentally walking in on their parents or hearing their parents having sex. It's fucking normal. Human beings have sex. Your parents fuck. Get over it. Being weird about it isn't healthy.
I really loved Robert Evans’s response to this
abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don't wanna lose the rights to them
Game companies hate emulation, but none of them seem to understand that a lot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could. I don't want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay five bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the alternative option, and we're certainly not going to let the original dissappear. They're crying about opportunity cost for a product they're not even selling.
op i know you're probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company's out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it's a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can't be converted.
for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.
so like, i know a lot of people look at the original post here and go "well op just wants old video games to play" (which is valid! games companies should not be able to push shit to abandonware and then close it off) but also this is critical for like. biomedical research. if y'all had any idea how much basic infrastructure built on science relies on shit that is technically abandonware, you would probably be horrified.
In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous. — Aristotle. Stunning wild portrait by @prairierosephoto #upknorth #getoutdoors (at Mayerthorpe) https://www.instagram.com/p/B89gK9DAWx-/?igshid=1hm82gic6v1kg
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i love that we and cats share pareidolia (seeing patterns where they dont exist), but instead of seeing faces in everyday objects like us, they see snakes
that computer cord? snake. string? small snake. cucumber? short fat straight snake
snake pareidolia is one of the strongest things in human minds too! people report freezing mid-stride before being consciously aware of a snake in front of them, and the same happens with coiled rope, etc. in humans and other primates. it’s even been proposed that the need to detect snakes was a factor in the development of primates’ insanely good color eyesight
It’s because snakes are wonderful and we must stop and admire them at any cost
When my daughter’s cat was in my bedroom while I was getting undressed, I’d have to turn my back on her when I was taking off my belt, because she’d freak.
i like when you can tell a screenwriter thinks that being good at computers is all about how fast you type. you need to out-computer your enemies with your superior wpm. whoever types the fastest is the most elite hacker in the cyberspace. its all up to you, johnny quickfingers. we're counting on you.
Tolkien: Tom Bombadil is a funky little dude who lives in the forest with his hot wife. Also the most evil thing in the world has no effect on him.
I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue
everything about this is gold. Er, platinum.
Old Assumptions
There was a time when the world was built upon different assumptions. Not better people. Not smarter people. Just different assumptions.
The assumption was that a broken chair would be repaired. That a worn tool would be sharpened. That a machine would be rebuilt rather than discarded. That a man who did not yet know how to do something could learn.
The assumption was that usefulness was not purchased, but made.
Open an old magazine and you can still see it between the pages. Instructions for building a boat in the backyard. Plans for a radio assembled on the kitchen table. Articles explaining how to pour concrete, wire a workshop, repair an engine, build a cabinet, raise a barn.
No one stopped to explain why an ordinary person was capable of these things. It was simply assumed.
The world expected participation.
Somewhere along the way, the assumptions changed.
Now we are surrounded by things we are not meant to open, repair, modify, or understand. We are told to replace rather than mend, to hire rather than learn, to consume rather than create. And because we hear it often enough, many begin to believe that building is the work of specialists, and repair the work of experts.
Yet the old assumptions still linger in certain places.
They live in machine shops where tools older than their owners still earn their keep. They live in workshops where scraps of steel become brackets, where worn bearings are replaced instead of ignored, where old radios glow to life after decades of silence. They live in garages, barns, basements, and sheds. They live in calloused hands and notebooks filled with measurements.
Most of all, they live in the quiet belief that nearly anything can be understood if one is willing to spend enough time with it.
That is the oldest assumption of all.
A broken machine is not a mystery. It is a lesson waiting to be learned.
A missing part is not the end of a project. It is a problem waiting for a solution.
A thing does not lose its value simply because it requires effort. Perhaps that is why old tools, old buildings, and old machines feel different. They come from a world that expected stewardship. They were built by people who assumed someone would care for them after they were gone.
To hold something once meant more than possession. It meant responsibility. It meant maintenance. It meant repair. It meant preserving what was worth preserving and passing it on with a little more life left in it than when it was received.
Those assumptions have become less common, but they have not disappeared. They survive wherever someone looks at a broken thing and says, "Let's see if I can fix it." They survive wherever someone looks at a problem and says, "I can learn." They survive wherever creation is valued more than convenience.
And in those places, the old world has not vanished completely. It is still there, quietly waiting, built upon old assumptions.
EXCELLENT article!!
Remember "Stewardship"?
Practice Stewardship!
An old word that needs to be reintroduced to a new generation.
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“hamsters are not, in fact, euthanized by being exploded with lasers”
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Only a hundred years ago the world still believed it important to design ordinary things with elegance.
Door lock c.1912
