Cl-Ark

I'm a writer, and from time to time, I might post some wrting on here.

[revolutionaryeye]

[to-transcribe]

[ID: Text reading “When One Door Closes Another One Opens” heading a series of different doors. Most of them are locked, closed, and barred in a variety of ways. These doors are labelled:

schools

housing

health

youth

seniors

libraries

drug treatment

homeless shelters

pars

arts & culture

community services

The last and only unlocked door is a jail cell left open, showing a dark and empty cell. The caption is “Destroy the prison industrial complex.” End ID]

[tentacle-therapissed]

I’m so glad the Guillermo Del Toro Pinocchio movie is being received really well, because it was literally my most anticipated movie of the year! So here’s some fun facts about the crew, concept, and production that got me excited about this movie and that I think would excite much of tumblr as well:

-the screenplay was cowritten by Del Toro and Patrick McHale, creator of Over The Garden Wall and a writer on Adventure Time.

-the movie was codirected by Mark Gustasfon, who was the animation director of Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

-the primary art/animation designers of this movie (production designer Curt Enderle, art director Robert DeSue, character designer Georgina Hayns, animation supervisor Brian Leif Hansen, and photography director Frank Passingham) previously worked on projects that include Coraline, the Corpse Bride, Paranorman, Isle of Dogs, Frankenweenie, Kubo, and Chicken Run.

-Besides Netflix, it was produced by the Henson company (always a good sign when you’re doing anything with puppets) and ShadowMachine, who have produced a lot of Adult Swim shows including Robot Chicken, Moral Orel, and Tuca and Bertie, as well as the Netflix original BoJack Horseman.

-Del Toro was inspired to make this adaptation due to the similarities he’d always noticed between the original Pinocchio story and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Both are about a man-made character’s relationship with his father/creator, and his attempts to understand what it means to be human. This inspiration is why the film takes on a gothic feel at times.

-the movie is over 10 years in the making. Del Toro announced the project in 2008 and production began in 2012, but it went into development hell and no further updates were made for several years. Del Toro has described it as his passion project, saying "I've wanted to make this movie for as long as I can remember.”

-the backdrop of Mussolini’s Italy was intended to show how Pinnochio was able to find his own humanity and will in a time where everyone else was acting like a blindly obedient puppet. Del Toro wanted to deviate from the original book’s themes of obeying authority by making his Pinocchio virtuous for questioning the rules and forging his own set of morals. (Also if you know anything about Del Toro, the guy likes to dunk on fascism.)

-Del Toro didn’t feel the need to have Pinocchio become flesh-and-blood at the end of the movie, saying all you need to be a real human is to behave like one.

I was lucky enough to see this movie in 35 mm in a movie theatre on Thanksgiving weekend. If there are any movie theatre showings near you and you’re in a position to be able to attend them, I would totally recommend it especially if you can go with loved ones. It was a gorgeous, heartwarming, and magical movie to experience on a big screen and perfect for the late fall/winter holiday season.

[sallychanscraps]

i havent seen a damn thing about the new grinch movie, but if they didnt make him a love interest that’s just another grinch but softer w/ eyelashes and one blue streak in her hair named The Binch then i dont wanna know

[sallychanscraps]

my sweet Binch…..

[sallychanscraps]

well whom else would be voicing The Binch??????

[sallychanscraps]

i want to thank everyone for getting this horrible post to 40k notes today thank you

[sallychanscraps]

ITS DECEMBER!! 🎄 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!! 

[joemerl]

The official explanation is that, in the Toy Story universe, there was a live-action Buzz Lightyear movie in the mid-90s, which inspired the Buzz Lightyear of Star Command cartoon, which inspired the toys. Lightyear is that live-action movie (despite being in CG), while Andy was only a fan of the show.

My preferred explanation is that Buzz Lightyear of Star Command came first, inspiring the toys, and that Lightyear is a gritty reboot coming out in our current year of 2022. Andy, now in his thirties and with kids of his own, hates it on principle.

[xmagnet-o]

Okay. I like this explanation

[anderwater]

Wendell & Wild (2022), post credits scene with Kat Elliot

[jasonpriestley]

The Scooby-Doo Project (1999)

[acreaturecalledgreed]

fun fact this special scared so many kids so fucking badly (b/c the blair witch aspect was played weirdly straight) that CN never aired it again 

[hz-archive]

you’re telling me this is real and not a shitpost

[preciousbeaan]

I seriously thought this shit was fake until I looked it up

[drawing-bored-deactivated202312]

that one time a parody of a fake found footage film is believed to be fake until footage is found.

[dykebrucespringsteen]

i found an extended version of the one above in which scrappy is inexplicably out in the woods and the gang, rightly, is scared shitless by him

[black-geek-supremacy]

Yeah I remember this lmao

[taikova]

All my bigger Gris + SUF drawings together! I really want to replay the game sometime so i can imagine more of how this version would play out.

also, the first drawing got updated for this compilation heheh. and the second drawing is a recreation from the original game scene with my design for steven and the hand.

[tay-swifts]

✧ ZENDAYA Winner of Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for “Euphoria” — the 74th Annual Emmy Awards (September 12, 2022)

[blackexcellence]

Zendaya Makes History as First Black Woman to Win an Emmy Twice for Lead Actress 🙌🏿✨

[andrew-garfielld]

BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER (2022) dir. Ryan Coogler | Official Teaser

[jamesquinn917]

Not gonna lie, this is the first Marvel trailer in a while that’s made me emotional. Ryan Coogler is finally brining quality to these Phase 4 movies. 

[hailneaux]

This is why I say Black American music is THEE SUPREME. All from lil ol us stripped from everything, we create abundance out of nothing but soul. And this chart stops at 1992. Think of all we created 1992-present. 

[dcfilmblr]

Aquaman dir. James Wan | 2018

[orquidia]

I drew betty boop and her butch girlfriend

[flyandfamousblackgirls]

Serena Williams at “After the Sunset” premiere (2004)

[ladychlo]

@mattxiv

[xmagnet-o]

Some people need to talk to lgbt+ children in real life.

[wry-and-erring-stimmer]

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[michellechang]

love u hairy butt boys keep up the good work

[felixdeon]

It's International Transgender Day of Visibility.

Although this is a festive occasion, it is also a date to protest against the harshness and the violence that our trans sisters and brothers face everyday

Let's end trans discrimination now!