カウボーイビバップ 天国の扉 // COWBOY BEBOP: KNOCKIN' ON HEAVEN'S DOOR (2001) dir. SHINICHIRO WATANABE

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カウボーイビバップ 天国の扉 // COWBOY BEBOP: KNOCKIN' ON HEAVEN'S DOOR (2001) dir. SHINICHIRO WATANABE
I'm about to have a hot take and I would say it shouldn't be controversial but this is Tumblr so who knows.
A few weeks ago, I saw Jurassic Park for the first time, and there is a scene in there I think every aspiring filmwriter should be forced to watch and dissect. You may be thinking it's a Big Moment, like the timing on getting the power back on, or whatsisface IT guy shutting down the system to go steal embryos. You may think it's the kids and whatsisface who kinda looks like but isn't Harrison Ford* seeing the brontosauruses for the first time. Or the moment the first T-rex crashes the fence. But it's not any of those.
No, it's when Ellie finds Hammond in the dining room and he's eating whatever was supposed to be served for dessert and he's like "it was melting. I didn't want it to go to waste."
Because there is so much humanity in that line. It's not some big, grand theme statement. But I guarantee each and every one of us has been in a situation where life is going to hell in a handbasket for whatever reason, and we sit down and we may not be crying outwardly but we're screaming inside, and we wash the dishes. Or fold the laundry. Or eat the leftover Chinese so it won't be thrown away. We have exactly one point of control over one tiny little thing that seems (and often is) absolutely futile, and fuck it all, we need that control. Just for a moment. Just to feel something that isn't black screaming despair.
Hammond's guests and grandchildren are in grave danger. There is nothing he can do about it. Ellie's fiance is one of those guests. There's nothing she can do about it. They're in a severe thunderstorm in a place with mostly dirt roads in the middle of the night and all of the power is out and there are animals that dwarf skyscrapers outside. They. Can. Do. Nothing.
So they sit down and they eat the ice cream.
And then when Ellie says "it is good," Hammond just very quietly says "spared no expense."
His entire dream is in ruins. I know in the book he's more morally dubious, but in the movie I think he really genuinely believed he was doing something that could be wonderful and got stars in his eyes. In this moment he's grieving the potential loss of his grandchildren. The knowledge that even if (if!!) they survive, they will likely never see him the same way again--nor will his children. He's grieving because his beautiful dream has killed multiple people and he's realized he created a nightmare. He's grieving because he's in a hell of his own making and there's nothing he can do about any of this.
The animatronics are amazing, the CGI is top-notch (especially for its era), the story is solid, the cinematography is ace, but the moment that made that movie to me was that scene in the dining room lit only by the lightning, where two terrified human beings eat a dessert they almost certainly aren't really tasting, and say "it was melting" and "it is good" because if either of them says what they're really thinking, even breathes so much as a "do you think--", they will both scream until they go insane.
We've none of us faced dinosaurs run amok but we've all of us eaten the ice cream. And I think every prospective filmwriter out there, and a whole lot of shitty execs who wouldn't know a real emotion if it danced naked in front of a neon sign, need to see that scene and be forced to really sit with it.
I think movies would be the better for it.
*I would apologize for only learning half of these characters' and/or actors' names but frankly my facial recognition was already bad and has gotten worse in the last couple of years so you'll just have to deal with that.
You have excellent points, and I like your post, but I am dying at calling Sam Neill "Harrison Ford", because he was 1000% being a Harrison Ford-alike character in that movie.
Oh, it showed. I was literally calling him "not-Indiana Jones" while we were watching it.
god it's like
little moments like these are VITAL to story-telling, and it's so telling how movies shy away from them nowadays. NO break in the action or the romance or the drive to the Big Money Shot, nothing to reflect on the little moments of things.
Agreed. Moments like these are what make you give a shit about the characters.
Instead we get Interchangeable Quippy Marvel Hero #49472738393 and we're told we should care because he's the good guy. Supposedly. Nothing will SHOW us that, but he totally is.
The other moment that gets me is when the phones ring and Hammond hears from Grant. He’s relieved for a moment hearing the kids are safe… only for breaking glass, screaming and gunshots to cut off the phone. Hammond’s hope goes to utter terror and he drives out to the Visitor’s Center knowing there’s a chance his grandchildren are dead
what should I wear to a screening of Dune (1984)?
something kind of spacey and futuristic and goth
some kind of sand colored stillsuit chic
tinfoil bikini over hot pants with a shirt that looks like a naked man’s torso
regular clothes
screen accurate
what "no sugar added" should mean: the natural sugars of the other ingredients like fruit are the only source of sweetness in this product
what is actually means: we added a fuckton of artificial sweeteners
i see we are all angry about this
raidcore
Once on IMDB I saw a “goof” which was that during a scene set in India(?), the light flicker was at the wrong frequency (in hertz). I wish I knew what movie it was to show you guys, I want to say it was some Marvel shit.
I always wondered how this person knew that. Was there an amazing Indian electrician who just instinctively felt the flicker rate was off? Did they go frame by frame and count the flickers per second?
I wanna say that was Tenet?
It was The Bourne Supremacy @garbage-empress
holy fuck
*punching propane tank in a video game*
“no way! I fill these for a living.”
I will always be in love with highly specialized incredibly niche knowledge. Humans are beautiful
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gen z has to reckon with its radicalization problem. you are not a morally pure and superior generation of youth come to save the world, your men and boys are radicalized at an unprecedented level and you ignore it because it’s too hard to address but you have to. these boys are in your classes, they date your friends, you know them and you cannot continue to pretend this is an “old white guy” problem
girls are contributing, too. the coquette aesthetic, the “i don’t want to girlboss i want a man to pay my bills”, girlmath girljob girlmoney. it’s a joke, it’s clothes, it’s whatever, i get it but it is driving a mentality of traditional gender roles and you know you’re joking but your boyfriend doesn’t. your kid brother doesn’t. you have to stop this shit it is a contributing factor
guess who just found out the difference between wax paper and parchment paper the hard way
wait what’s the difference?
one you can use in the oven safely and the other you can also use in the oven if the thing you are trying to make happens to be fire
every day i think about the cat on twitter who looks more like a scheming eunuch than any creature has ever looked
monkey i love you beloved little freak i would die for you
like……… look at this face
UNREAL
Please take the term “porn addiction” away from booktokers
Can we take it away from everyone? Bc it's not real, Evangelicals made it up
wait, really?
some context on this would be appreciated because i've been reading for years about guys who literally say they have/had addiction to porn and used it as an unhealthy coping mechanism that had negative impacts on their perception of women, relationship prospects, and even to their own body as their masturbation became dependent on it. they have whole programs and support groups and self help books modeled after substance abuse treatments and therapies with varying success. porn site comment sections are filled with people who talk about their unhealthy porn habit like it's smoking and how they wish they could quit but can't. i'm a weeb so specifically i've seen this a lot in hentai circles.
what has everyone been talking about this whole time, then, if it can't be considered a form of addiction? how might it be more rightly classified and explained? (genuine question)
Yeah, really! So there's been more and more evidence the last several years that the real issue people have in situations like you described is guilt/shame (and good old-fashioned misogyny for some of it). People who have self-described "porn addiction" don't actually watch more porn, but they are more likely to be religious and to feel ashamed of sexual desires.
Most of the programs, self-help, etc are (usually faith-based) organizations taking advantage of this shame to make money. I'm sure plenty of people who believe they're addicted to porn would really benefit from therapy, but they need therapy to work through their shame, not therapy to make them more ashamed.
Below are a couple of links. One's got a pretty clear write up of a study, and the other is the study itself, which is a meta-analysis of past studies (this is when you use data from a bunch of other studies to paint a bigger picture, and it can also be helpful for seeing if what the authors claimed they proved was actually supported by the evidence and if their results line up with others'). The abstract tells you a lot about the study, but unfortunately the rest is behind a paywall. There are ways around that if you want to really dig deep into the study.
What does it mean that religion, not porn use, predicts porn-related problems?
The notion of problematic pornography use remains contentious in both academic and popular literature. Although the mental health community
thank you for the detailed answer and resources!
Happy to help! Not enough people ask for sources or stay open to new information, so thank you for doing both
Chat, is it considered “abusive roommate behavior” to release a raccoon into the living space after you have asked your roommate for months to please clean up their messes (they do not pay any of the mortgage)
For context, when I used to live alone I would do something called “Princess Time” where I would do an initial sweep (to remove any significant hazards) and then I would release a raccoon into the living area and clean. This helped because I would 1) feel like a princess and 2) the raccoon would bring attention to things my ADHD brain had decided to ignore and I’d quickly clean that stuff up.
So like, if I’m expected to clean the house now, I will be doing it in the way that is most effective for me. And anything that has not been cleaned up after months of having sit-down talks and sending reminders and being promised things will change, might be deemed “trash” by the trash panda and thrown away.
We haven’t done since we moved into the house, because I didn’t want to cause my roommate or their cats destress or have their things destroyed by a raccoon
I am a raccoon biologist and one of the few people in the state allowed to take in captive bred raccoons that had been possessed illegally. The raccoon in the photos is Moonshine, but she is currently at the animal sanctuary where I work as I had been quarantining multiple new intakes from an abuse case. I still have two males (Rum Tum Tugger and Electra) left in my home enclosure as we are getting them neutered and then hopefully sending them to an AZA accredited zoo.
I wanna make things very clear that underneath all the whimsy, I am a trained professional.
I mean this in the nicest possible way but you're the sort of person that can normally be found only on reddit
On a mission to demystify bottom surgery for girls like
no the risk of complications is not as high as you think
no you dont need to only go to one of two expensive surgeons, you can get good results in tons of places that your insurance will cover
no you wont lose ur trans status or be exiled from the community
yes you will get wet and cum and have a cute vulva and never need to tuck again
something that needs to be adressed around bottom surgery is that it is SO difficult to find examples of post-recovery patients, which is understandable because hey, its ya genitals, not everyone wants to show them off...
Except that there are myriad examples of how it looks during and immediately after surgery. That isn't the case for any other gender affirming surgery, that the post-surgery images would be so widespread and yet the post-recovery images would be all but absent. You don't even get that for top surgery, it's always bottom surgery. This applies broadly too, not just vaginoplasty but phalloplasty and orchiectomy too. Always bleeding incisions and bruising stitches and never actual results. shits whack
Just verified this, I tried to find "Vaginoplasty post-recovery examples", and all that came up were images of the complications, and mid-surgery images. I am fully convinced this is intentional, to prevent trans people from wanting to get bottom surgery.
Idk if its intentional but it is entirely true that I quite literally had to start hooking up with post op trans women to get an idea of what a trans woman's vagin looks like and how it works!!!
so long as we're back to social justice 101 on this stupid website, u need to be aware of the feedback loop that emerges from disproportionate scrutiny: any social group that is placed under extra scrutiny, regardless of the actual prevalence of any particular behaviour, will appear to engage in that behaviour more often.
you see this most blatantly with racialised groups (more cops in black neighbourhoods = more arrests in black neighbourhoods = "omg look at all the crime in these neighbourhoods!" = more cops in black neighbourhoods etc). even if the rate of crime is the same (putting to one side the criminalisation of poverty which is also an important related factor), one group gets away with it way more often and a new generation of racists is indoctrinated with the crime statistics which "prove" that some groups are simply more criminal in nature. we see a similar phenomenon online with particular groups (trans women being a huge example) being subjected to mass stalking, their every move documented by weirdos and broadcast as representative of the group as a whole.
tl;dr - overscrutinising groups based on existing bigotries creates a recurring feedback loop, reproducing those bigotries across generations and nominally justifying them. this is bad, and you need to remember that you are not immune to it.
last night i dreamt tumblr added like a billion buttons to the mobile app so instead of this
we got this
and everyone just rolled with it but sometimes the wide naruto got too wide and blocked off all the other buttons and people would just post "got naruto'd again :/" and the only way to reset him was to log out and log back in