tumultuous thoughts

I'm hopelessly in love with love

[itmightbehere]

Art done by Isabella Watling, shared by Rian Johnson

[retrotryx]

SIMONE WAS PAINTED WITH HER INSTRUMENT IM GOING TO DO A TRIPLE BACKFLIP OH MY GODDDDD…. SIMONE YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS. CHARACTERS WITH CHRONIC PAIN I LOVE YOU.

i’ve already said this in a post before but simone is so so so so so so so precious to me. chronic pain, undiagnosed, keeps going in spite of it bc of her passions. we both play an instrument too

i honestly can’t think of another character that has this specific representation, if anyone knows more characters like this please tell me

[its-hard-to-say]

one thing i have loved from the knives out movies is the way benoit blanc visually changes to fit each narrative. classic noir in the first, beach vacation in the second, and new england gothic in the third. his taste remains consistent across movies, but he makes enough adjustments to his style to blend into each story. i just find it such a nice detail that works so well with the anthology aspect of the series

[margaretencinos]

bless you, father

[gayteensupreme]

rian johnson: hiii jeremy so sorry to hear about your horrific accident im so glad you recovered. would love to work together on the next knives out!!

jeremy renner: oh wow nice im so flattered yknow things have been really tough after my various and extremely serious physical injuries including a collapsed lung and over 30 broken bones. so glad to get back into filmmaking

rian johnson: ok so heres the pitch. im going to throw you down the fucking stairs

[cryptidjeepers]

I do love how the characters in wake up dead man are a lot more subtle with how awful they are. They're not the cartoonish evils of Glass Onion or the loud and chaotic old money evils of the first movie (which fit the vibe of their own movie). But the evil was more grounded. They were normal people that were radicalized by a man who used their bad sides to secure their undying loyalty. The incel behaviour is played for laughs, but it's also a sobering moment of ah, fuck these were just normal people before. They weren't rich. They weren't powerful. They were vulnerable. And easily manipulated.

[cherryysocks]

...forgive me, Grace.

[joshuakellin]

Oh my god

[rovermcfly]

jud duplenticy writes some fantastic lines in his account of the murder like "The darkness of that story was the bedrock of this place" or "Testing tolerances, tapping deep poisoned wells, hardening, binding with complicity" or "Because in the part of my soul that cannot lie to Christ, or myself, or you…" but he did also write "Young, dumb, and full of Christ" which doesn't necessarily undermine his skill as a storyteller or anything but what an insane thing that is to say to benoit at this point in the story

[tboy-molloy]

Okay but as an ambulatory wheelchair user I loved how Rian Johnson portrayed Simone. He didn't have her be miraculously healed, but had her learn to live and deal with her chronic pain.

Abled people really don't understand how big that is. Like just having an ambulatory wheelchair user is big!!! (I cackled at the scene where she gets out of her chair and someone says it's a miracle and she just goes "I can walk, it just hurts.") But also having her angry that she's in constant pain and trying anything to feel better is so realistic. A lot of disabled people, especially newly disabled people, fall into the idea that they need to be "cured" and that they need to get back to "normal".

Having her accept her disability and making her learn how to still do the thing she loves while still having chronic pain is amazing! Like, the idea that you can continue living after becoming disabled is so rarely shown! Like believe it or not, disabled people can lead fulfilling and happy lives doing things we love!

[serendipitous-posts]

oh, Wake Up Dead Man the messages you carry. "Religion is used to radicalize spread hate by preying on the vulnerable" and "religion can be used to uplift others by giving them a community and offering them acceptance and a second chance if they're willing to take it." and "it doesn't matter if your belief is no belief you should still love others" and "those puritanical women you see where raised in an environment where they were told to hate others and that they had to follow and serve a man for their entire lives"

[mobius-m-mobius]

#love this life for him 🎭💖

[filmfanaticforlife-blog]

Love that Benoit Blanc loves both Sondheim and Webber. Abolishing the boundaries of musical theater fandom as gracefully as he evangelizes the sanctity of justice

[buellersfueller]

The fact that Father Wicks died because he was so consumed by the need to punish his daughter for her "sins" that he literally swallowed 'Eve's Apple' is maddening to me, literally named it for original sin but was so caught up in attaching that sin to femininity that he killed himself over it. Literally named his daughter Grace and never gave her a single spec of it. Literally ate the apple too. Literally.

[deezilpum]

spoilers for wake up dead man!!

having wicks symbolise jesus, comparing himself to jesus in that big speech, implying that his father was god and that he was preparing to fall and rise again, having him be the one that was leading the flock, etc, and then actually have him 'rise' from the dead on the third day and 'die' again after having been betrayed by someone close to him - already fantastic, i was totally on board

having the plot twist be that samson, the one that was probably the most separated from wicks' church, the one who was said to truly love and care for others the most, the one willing to sacrifice for those he loved, the CARPENTER (who uses nails on good friday to essentially make his own coffin), actually ends up as the one rising from the dead on the third day to be killed by someone close to him - also fantastic

[oldbutchdanielmolloy]

this is basically how it went right

[chidorinnnnn]

so you’re telling me one of the characters in wake up dead man is a formerly beloved author who, after the culmination of his wildly popular fiction series, has been radicalized online by right-wing conspiracy theorists, has abandoned his successful writing career in favor of spending all of his time on social media (and what little writing he does put out on his substack is praised only by his staunchest supporters), and is SO convinced that everyone’s out to get him that he’s dug a literal moat around his (distinctly castle-shaped) house?

lol. lmao, even.

[luke-thompsons]

#look at my detective dawg we are NOT solving this case

[cordelia-grey1612]

Benoit Blance, born to be a theater kid, forced to become a detective

[brothermouse-skeleton]

Just saw the new Beniot Blanc movie, I love that this established that Blanc's crime solving M.O. is to team up with whatever suspect has the kindest heart and commit minor acts of obstruction of justice to keep them from getting arrested until he can crack the case.

I hope that southern fried fancy boy never stops adopting good people at grisly murder scenes.

[hopefulromances]

Mind you half of the time he spends trying them not to turn themselves in for crimes they didn't commit.

[travelinggrizzly]

I'm late to this but I'm currently obsessed with Knives Out again and one thing I really really love about the scene on the phone is that the lady who plays Louise isn't obviously an actress, she's just a normal looking woman. I love big gals I'm not saying anything negative but she isn't played by Bella Hadid; you know her, I know her, you've met the same woman a million times at the counter at the store. You're not thinking wait isn't that that actress I know from that place, you're thinking, hell maybe I could've listened better those times. Goddamn I love the extremely pervasive kindness of these movies and just like with Malik in Superman the point is, any of us can show this kindness even when it isn't easy.