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myfandomprompts

"Well hey. At least we're in it together, right?"

Resident Evil 4 Remastered (2023)

Resident Evil Requiem (2026)

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This makes me so happy.

I don’t know who needs it, but here’s a cat marching band.

dankmemeuniversity

justsomerandomgaynerd

luke-thompsons

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

the-qvynrand

okay now i gotta tune in for this film just because benoit baddie blanc played phantom of the opera

the-qvynrand

update: i tuned into the film, and by god the wicked wolves struck so well

also did i forget to mention that the glimpses of father jud's neck tattoo reduced me to a victorian man crashing out at viewing ankles?? gimme gimme gimme

cinematicnomad

WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (2025) dir. rian johnson

laconic-librarian

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY.”

― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

neverbelongedtoangels

I fucking love the Knives Out movies. I love the different cast every movie concept, I love Benoit Blanc and his ridiculous accent, I love how they always come out around christmas for some reason, I love how original they are, I love a murder mystery. give me 14 of these films and I will eat them up

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.

boobyte

The duality of reviews on wake up dead man

this-is-a-podcast-fanblog

the benoit blanc movies show really beautifully how to write a queer character whose story is not centered around their queerness. it's shown that benoit blanc is gay married (to hugh grant!) it's shown that he participates in queer mediums like musical theater and fashion, but none of those things are ever explicitly remarked on. he doesn't have a big coming out scene because he doesn't need one; and the subtle details about him not speaking to his mother, the way he associates a church with homophobia, allows us to draw conclusions about how his family felt about his queerness without making that the sole conflict in his story. the conflict in benoit blanc's story is not that he exists in the world as a gay person, it's that he's always trying to wrangle a bunch of 30 somethings into not confessing to crimes they didn't commit

wandering-tangents

I love the religious symbolism in WUDM. The fact that when Jud arrives there is no Christ on the Cross hanging there. Everyone can see plain as day that Christ was here, at one point, but no longer. But it's more than that. The Monsignor has a wrathful, abusive relationship with his flock, and Jesus has been absent in this church for a very long time.

But when Jud begins to talk to the people, they begin to open their hearts to him. They see that whether or not this man Believes is a moot point, it's that Jud allows them to Believe, in salvation, hope, salvation, or a simple "it's going to be okay."

Even Benoit Blanc is swayed by this young man. Even though he passionately hates religion, he still sets aside his own passion for the Big Reveal, and allows the culprit to come and Confess because "It has to be by their own choice, or it means nothing." These words, spoken by Jud when he thought he had done it, and by Jud's own actions throughout the day, were enough to soften Blancs heart and ego to allow one last confession.

At the end of the movie, Christ is restored to the wall of the church, and to the hearts of the people. And who does this. Who cuts out the cancer of hate and wrath and fear out of that church?

A simple carpenter.

chronicallydom

Bawling my eyes out right now (in a good way). I'd never seen good representation of chronic pain before. While I have some issues with Wake Up Dead Man, their representation of chronic pain wasn't one.

"And some got their miracle. Not being cured or fixed, but finding the sustaining power to wake up everyday and do what we're here to do in spite of the pain. Daily bread."