Shout-out to everyone who is trying right now…Trying to do the right thing. Trying to stay strong. Trying to hold on. Trying to let go. Trying to love themselves. Trying to find happiness. I see you. I'm there too. We're in this together.
"When Reputation arrived in 2017, the media was neck-deep in an exhausting thinkpiece war about what Taylor Swift meant to pop culture – and Twitter was aflame debating whether she was a saint or a snake. Realizing she could no longer choose to be excluded from these narratives, Swift did the next best thing: She owned them."
also if someone gave me their number on a friendship bracelet at the eras tour id fucking fold for them. id become so obsessed with them. id go home and listen to enchanted 500 times
My second watch makes me feel much stronger about my theory about the Big Spoiler in this movie, and how Part 2 will follow it up.
At first I bought the movie’s basic reading, but now there’s no doubt in my mind it’s a fakeout: Ilsa Faust is absolutely alive.
I will fully be ready to look like an idiot if she’s not, because I’ve run down everything I’ve thought of that the movie could do to telegraph her death being a fakeout, without actually revealing it:
- establish the idea of IMF people successfully faking people’s deaths in general and Ilsa’s specifically ✅
- Have both plot and character reasons why Ilsa pretending to be dead would be necessary ✅
- Establish that the way she supposedly died wasn’t guaranteed to be fatal ✅
- Have a scene vaguely establishing that the IMF is getting ready to do a con, but not specify what ✅
- No last words or final moments for her character ✅
- Skip past what the IMF does immediately after she supposedly dies ✅
- No one in the IMF literally says “she’s dead” ✅
That last one is big: Christopher McQuarrie has gone on record saying “No one in the audience of a Mission: Impossible movie will accept something is true until Ethan Hunt says it”. He never says she’s dead, and the closest he comes is thinking of her in a montage with Marie (who we also never specifically are told is dead) and Grace (who we know is alive).
Meanwhile, when Grace says “she’s dead”, Luther says “No, you’re alive because of her, and that’s the truth”, which is very specifically calling attention to the beginning and end of that sentence.
People are angry at this decision, but McQuarrie has also gone on record as saying “We want the audience to think we’ve ruined Mission: Impossible”, and if you want ways to make people think you’ve ruined any franchise, randomly and cheaply killing the leading lady is an obvious place to start.
FOLKLORE (2020.07.24)
In isolation my imagination has run wild and this album is the result, a collection of songs and stories that flowed like a stream of consciousness. Picking up a pen was my way of escaping into fantasy, history, and memory. I've told these stories to the best of my ability with all the love, wonder, and whimsy they deserve.
Now it's up to you to pass them down.
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