phoebe

18

[dustycoded]

it’s always i love you but never

if im gonna live with this thing i don’t want it to look like some other dickhead. i want it to look like you

[whimsicalfairytales]

The “nobody” scene in the odyssey is absolutely not just a clever pun—it’s a character defining moment for Odysseus because he refuses to be nobody. He devised an incredible plan that worked and he could have saved his men and returned home much sooner but he just had to yell to the cyclops that he isn’t nobody—he’s Odysseus, king of Ithaca so now Poseidon knows who to curse which severely fucks up the rest of the journey.

The “nobody” scene highlights both Odysseus’s cleverness but also his arrogance and those two traits define Odysseus throughout the entire story. It’s a foundational aspect of Odysseus’s character and cutting the scene displays a shocking level of ignorance and disregard for the themes in the source material.

[secretly-sirens]

The "Nobody" scene is literally one of the most important parts. It's the moment of hubris that dooms Odysseus and his journey.

[apoetriee]

shining achilles inspired by the alexandre cabanel’s piece

[siomaisx]

leviticus was filmed in geelong, baccus marsh and other parts of west vic no wonder i resonate with the film so much

[give-em-hell-kiddo]

as an aussie, leviticus (the movie) hit me so fucking hard. the world feels so lived in because i fucking live in it, and obviously the ritual isn’t realistic but everything else felt so so realistic. straya isn’t as conservative as the film presents but there are certainly parts of it (often rural) that can be like that, and i just. yeah.

[hystericalend]

being queer and raised christian in rural australia it rlly feels like adrian chiarella personally accosted me in the street and said this is for You bitch. Like u dont understand watching that film and hearing ryan whelan open his mouth for the first time was actually a spiritual experience. Calm the fuck down. Fuck you cunt! Roaming the bush hitting sticks on the ground and exploring rusted old mills bc theres fuck else to do, buzzing powerlines, eucalyptus trees and endless fields of dry grass, cockatoos screeching overhead . I dont want it to look like some other dickhead. I want it to look like you being the most romantic line in the entire fucking film.. Like im not taking it away from the non australians so glad yall are resonating with this movie but i need u guys to understand that we dont get this!! european/american/asian queer cinema dominates and though those stories still resonate for australian queers there's forever a degree of seperation. The feelings are ours but the voice and setting is always inherently foreign and prevents a deeper connection. But leviticus??? Australian cinema feels like its still finding its feet in a lot of ways, and to see the unique australian landscape depicted so beautifully in combination with a queer coming of age is honestly not something ive seen before. Leviticus isnt just a queer coming of age horror, its doing something thats never been done before in australian cinema. I'll be the first to admit leviticus is a little rough around the edges technically but that doesnt detract from the fact this film is GENERATIONAL for queer australians, especially those raised religious/from a regional backgrounds. This is my fucking movie in a way no other film has come close to

[give-em-hell-kiddo]

leviticus is truly a film that is brilliant because it’s australian. idk how it’d change the experience for the non-aussies out there but you’re so right that this movie is so special to us aussie queers. aussie horror is known for its brutality and leviticus is brutal sure, but it’s much more psychological and cultural than other aussie horror and i think it’s so important. especially because queerness is so rarely talked about in australia. we’ve got rights, we’re not really attacked that much politically, but we’re not highlighted that often and so leviticus is such an important moment for aussie queers and so much more.

and the aussie environment and the line about eucalyptus trees and cockatoos, hits so hard because it’s the aussie environment presented so truly. i’m so used to our landscape being presented as hostile and scary and dangerous, but it’s also so so beautiful. and when it’s home, it’s that much more special. i appreciate so so much that the aussie setting is so crucial to the movie in terms of culture and character and world, and yet it’s not the aussieness of it all that makes it scary. they use the horror of being trapped in a small town and it hits hard for aussies bc that’s our home, that’s our backyard, and it hits hard for non-aussies (i think) because its unique.

[withdevovotion]

it felt so familiar !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the recognisableness of the places even when they're presented as something gothic & haunting & beautiful. the accents, the highschool, the language. when ryan opened his mouth for the first time i actually jolted a bit

[hystericalend]

Obsessed with how leviticus held true to the Australian Teenage Boy bc what do you mean it's just gonna look like the next dickhead you're into. And the next one after that. If I'm gonna live with this thing then.. I dont want it to look like some other dickhead. I want it to look like you. And it's the most romantic line in the entire movie

[pinkprincessxx]

Loved it soo much, but it genuinely took me out, lmao

All I could think of was how they sounded, acted, and even looked like the dickheads I went to school with

[be-it-so]

While we do have the clear indicators for when Odysseus is lying and when he is not, them being the narrator directly telling us "here he lies"/"here he is honest", we really don't have the same thing for Penelope a lot of the times and i think it is a shame, people do not bring it up more.

We don't have indicators for when she is lying and when she is not, we don't know if she recognized Odysseus, we don't know if the dream about the geese is something that really happened or if she came up with this to see how Odysseus would react, her thoughts a lot of time are unknown for us. By the end of the Odyssey we know for sure who Odysseus is, we know a lot less about Penelope.

Odysseus deceives only the characters in the story, but not the readers, Penelope manages to deceive even us, considering how many people perceive her every word without even the slightest hint of doubt.

[junessquill]

The song leader from paris the musical really feels like a big Twitter call out post where Achilles tagged everyone in the greek court but Patroclus and Patroclus replied to his long ass statement with "PREACH KING 🗣️🗣️🔥💯" or some shit like that please see the vision (it's making me want to type it out as if it was)

[goldenjuniper]

i can’t get enough of helen’s singing in paris the musical. her actress’s vocals? SO GOOD. IT’S SO POWERFUL IT’S INSANE.

[miss-este-eye]

me listening to the Hadestown soundtrack for the 600th time: maybe it will end different This Time

[grimalditeuthis]

what they don't tell you about hadestown is that orpheus and eurydice are not the main characters. neither are persephone and hades. or hermes. or the fates. the main character is whoever in the band is playing the trombone because holy fuck

[theodorafrompluto]

Orpheus and Eurydice (19th century)

by Catharine Adelaide Sparkes

[cupidsquilll]

[purple-dinosaur27]

@aspenindatree

[aspenindatree]

Oh how I adore Orpheus and Eurydice

He loved her so wholly that he went to one of the most feared god's domain to get her back. He loved her with everything he had, he opened the earth itself with his affection. And when he finally had her back with him he turned to see her just barely too soon. To tell her he loved her one last time.

[the-artist-lio]

listen I KNOW paris is a coward and a womanizer and useless and he started a war and he sucks but god that man knew what it meant to serve cunt

[chaoticdumbassrogue]

i need more people to listen to Paris the musical's soundtrack because it's consuming me and i need people to talk about it with

[thegeyeria]

NO NO NO- you guys just don’t get it.

TROY IS DOOMED TO FALL!!!! NO MATTER WHO WAS CHOSEN!!!! PARIS WAS JUST A PAWN!!! THEY ARE WERE(except achilles he had a choice)

[fionaneedsamango]

Wait till people who try to make fun of Elliott Page (Achilles in Nolan's Odyssey) by saying that "aChIllEs wAs NoT tRanS" and say that Brad Pitt was cooler in Troy (2004) find out about Achilles in Skyros as Pyrrha..🤠