The creators of Gotham literally said: "We're going to have to get really creative here because Warner Brothers and their legal team are not going to deny us the right to have the Joker on our show because of Jared Leto" đ¤Łđ¤Łđ¤Ł
He keeps telling you he's straight, that a hole is a hole, that it doesn't matter how much he fucks and cuddles with you, that when he brings gifts and is jealous of every guy you hang out with is just a "bros who fuck sometimes" thing, that saying "I love you" while he's pounding your ass while looking at your face is just a human reflex. He tells that so much you're almost starting to believe at this point.
Dumbass doesnât know that joint was full of the Nu strain of weed. Take a few hits and that fuzzy, foggy feeling never goes away. That stoned, out-of-it look on your face becomes permanent. That groggy feeling you get when you try to remember a ⌠uh⌠word, and itâs uhhh⌠right on the tip of your ⌠uh, uh, tongue⌠yeah, thatâs gonna happen a lot more now, bro. Flip side is that youâll be working out all the time and focusing on getting fit, so you wonât need to talk too much. Thatâs right, laugh your dumbfuck laugh. Huhuhuhuh. Huhuhuhuh. Now take another hit. Youâre doing so well.
There is a line in the Bruce Bogtrotter song from Matilda the Musical that goes:
âYour largness is like a tardis;
Bigger on the inside.â
Though the rhyming is pretty poor the implication is clear; Bruce is capable of eating more than it appears that he can, which is why he manages to eat the entire cake much to the delight of his classmates.
This story is not about Bruce Bogtrotter. Itâs about Damien Smith, a gainer. Damien was overweight, he was quite frankly very fat, but compared to how much he consumed he wasnât on the level that you, or he, would have expected.
A lot of gainers would think that being able to consume endless amounts of food would be a dream come true, but being bigger on the inside is not always the benefit that it is made out to be...
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Damien Smith is a gainer with a belly like a tardis.
Cemeteries are not wastes of space. Historical cemeteries ESPECIALLY are not wastes of space. The fact developers are continuously foaming at the mouth to destroy them and put a strip mall up in their place should make you even more determined to help maintain them. In urban areas, they are a haven for wildlife. They are a green space. If you are too afraid of death to utilize them for that purpose, that is on you.
Actually I'm not done thinking about Frankenstein sorry
The fact that Harlander only saw Victor's science, his creation, as a means to preserving himself. His own name.
The fact that Victor had only thought so far as the creation itself, and not what comes after. That the perfection in his mind began and ended with the act of creation.
How men only see (pro)creation through the lens of carrying on their legacy.
And when told no, that the creature will not be Harlander and his legacy? He seeks to ruin it all. And when the creature seems too slow, too difficult, too painful for Victor to deal with? He tries to destroy him.
Because to them, if what is borne from that isn't a perfect vessel to carry on their name, if it does not serve them, then the only answer is violence.
i bought the $70 book about guillermo del toro's frankenstein film because i'm nuts, and here are some of my favorite highlights thus far:
⢠the fact that all jacob elordi really had to say for guillermo to cast him was "my father is spanish. also i went to catholic school and felt scared and deeply uncomfortable there" like...GDT's requirements are: you gotta be hispanic/latine, be filled with catholic guilt, or BOTH
⢠[regarding the nine hour prosthetic application process] "elordi recalls, 'the first thing guillermo said to me was that it would be my skin, and i would have to take the sacrament. like every morning, getting the prosthetics put on would be like the eucharist. that's how he spoke about it from the moment i came to the project.'" THAT'S INSANE LMAO
⢠this quote from jacob - "i love that the film doesn't have a fatalistic ending. what recourse does the creature have but to live? in all the drudgery and sadness and rejection, what else will you do but keep walking toward the sun?"
⢠the character of william frankenstein was based on guillermo as a child. guillermo gave the actor, felix kammerer, a photo of himself where he looked very little and sad and lonely, and felix carried that photo with him for the entirety of the film.
⢠the makeup artist applied subtle prosthetics to mia goth's face when she played victor's mother in order to make her look slightly more similar to oscar isaac
⢠jacob had to wear oversized fake teeth because of the way the prosthetics altered the proportions of his face. they also gave him large dark contact lenses to make him even more doe-eyed/baby-ish.
ultimately the truth about frankenstein is that we are all grotesque amalgamations of the best and worst parts of everyone who came before us. and sometimes the people who are supposed to love us because of and in spite of this will not. and we can kill them with hammers for that. and i think thatâs beautiful
Recording my thoughts for the first portion of Frankenstein:
- Bear or maybe throaty wolf for creature noises
- Victor caring about the danger to the crewâvery different from how he treats his potential parts. Is this evidence that heâs grown as a person through his trials? Or is it the context that mattersâthe crew are not already condemned to die or of a low social class.
- hands as tools, face as vanity. Victorâs worth is wrapped up in what he can do as a doctor, as his fatherâs legacy. You are allowed to protect the parts of you that will further this goal. You canât protect anything extraneous.
- Father wants hot clean water for birth â a nod to him being ahead of his time and for obstetrics itself being a field that got into disinfection before the others.
-Victor begs his Father to save his motherâdid not expect this. I assume despite despising the man, he has trust in his fatherâs medical prowess.
- life into death (into life? Baby after mother dies)
- breeze (William) vs storm cloud (Victor). One is impotent but delightful, the other is powerful but destructive.
-William also slept under that Angel. Does he have any thoughts about it? Did he notice Victorâs fixation on it?
- William got sent away to family when he was like⌠maybe eleven? So he might have chosen finance on his own, perhaps by equating losing money with losing family, specifically Victor.
- even the first reanimated corpse is curious and can understand a question
- want to see/understand the bit where Victor watches first undead die â what is his face doing?
-he literally lives on a street running with blood
- William making a name for himself means heâs good at what he does, heâs got some renown. Despite Victor seeing him as the (perhaps) weaker little brother, still subservient to his will, when William is away from Victorâs presence he may very well be more confident.
-Victor is not afraid to make others uncomfortable to get what he wantsâdramatic displays disputing God, leaning into other peopleâs spaces, insulting questions.
-Harlander was an army surgeonâwhat was his education and medical experience like? What made him decide saving lives was less important than making money?
- Harlander is the one who gives Victor the clue of the lymphatic system â but also Victor jumping to the spine is what makes Harlander believe in him.
- something electric between Victor and Harlander. Victor keeps getting in Harlanderâs space. Harlander sees himself as facilitating a miracle (for his own gain, but still) through finding Victorâs brilliance.
- William says âVictorâ almost in relief when they first see each other
- Elizabeth holds the skull from the memento mori
- Harlander doesnât want to listen to Elizabeth and draws William into leaving her, tacitly making her fiance undermine her ideas
- How does Elizabeth know about the realities of war? As an upper class woman I would think sheâd be insulated from any ugliness, and fed the most propaganda. Where did she get her anti-war ideals?
- flash forward to the ice. What is Victor dying from?
- tower says âwater is lifeâ
- why does William only now start helping Victor? If heâs so big in finance he would have the ability to at least help Victor get a better flat. It also seems like they donât have the most up to date correspondence, if the news that William getting married is new to Victor. How distant are they?
- Harlander also pulls Victor into his space. Tries to assert dominance. He wants to control his miracle, maybe groom Victor to bending to his demands. Good luck.
- Victor out here impersonating a priest to satisfy his own curiosity
- Elizabeth knows heâs in there, is she just riling him up or is it really what she thinks? Think sheâs mostly riling him up.
- William really out here responsible for the whole tower and machine. Does he know what heâs helping to make? Does he care? Is he just going along with everything because his basically-father-in-law wants this to happen?
- Elizabeth wants to find Godâs design.
- when the pain is gone you can see the beauty
- Elizabeth tried to let him down gently. Sheâs upsetâby having to choose in the first place? Or by finding out her friend wants more?
- Love the carnival music happening during the assembly
- Harlander also a part of this by photographing and funding and supplying pieces for the work. The Creature has three parents. Like William, one is dead before he gains consciousness.
- Harlander was also living in the tower! What was that like?
- Victor looks honestly upset at learning Harlander has syphilis. But also very much âwhy NOW??â
- My spouse: all this work and no ladder?
- Victor why does you think you can argue with a desperate man?
- Victor tries to save Harlander, did not expect thatâor that he checks on the man before the equipment. Here I was thinking Victor was going to outright kill him and instead it was all a bad series of events.
- Friend: Probe looks like a speculum
- Victor looks honestly horrified when the creature doesnât wake up. Likeâsad horrified. I think the anger was grieving.
- creature is mimicking from the first âhuhâ noises
- creature is smiling (might be actor underneath unable to stop) even before bandages are off
- creature embraces Victor back, and I think receiving that easy unconditional affection, the first heâs had in so long, is part of why Victor looks so blissful.
- Creature playing in the water breaks my heart. Is so cute and so baby like.
- In very beginning Victor is talking to the creature like you would a baby, including jingling the chains like keys. He gives them a blanket!
- âI was there to mold himâ and that being frightening. Parenthood being unexpected and scary and something you can fail at.
- âachievement felt unnaturalâ â easiest read for me is that Victor thinks creating life is a womanâs job
- Victor thinks thereâs a moral to his story, and could help others lost in the pursuit of their goals
- Victor losing joy in creatureâs curiosity as he gets more sleepy. Parenting mood.
- Creature was allowed out of the downstairs before the razor scene. How often was Victor letting it up into the upper floors of the tower? Is that part of why he hasnât been sleeping? I thought he chained up the creature and left it but maybe there was more interaction before everything went south.
- Bloody hand on cheek was clearly a flashback moment to Victorâs motherâs death. Made him feel helpless in a situation he already felt like he couldnât control.
- Creature may be healed but he remembers being hurt
- When the couple arrives, Victor grabs for Elizabeth and ignores William until William goes âyou donât look very wellâ
The Creature calling itself Viktor and following Viktor around is so much more tragic when you know how babies develop and how newborns don't yet realise they and their mothers are two separate people. And one of the first things babies realise about themselves is that they're a whole separate person. And one of the first things they do when they start developing as a person is find out they have hands and play with them and with textures and start exploring. And when they want to start talking, they put their hands and fingers on their parents lips and throats to figure out how that sound is coming out of there and then they start imitating. Guillermo Del Toro nailed every single step of human development in such a beautiful celebration of life.
And Viktor abused the crap out of the poor creature for not being smart enough when it was only following natural developmental milestones. Because, like most men, like his own father, he wanted to create life but he wasn't interested in raising it beyond that and instead wanted it to be born a doctor ready to show the world how smart Viktor is for creating a carbon copy of his brain except in a stronger immortal body. Elizabeth gave him five minutes of love and let him explore how sounds come out of her mouth and he started talking.
Idk why some people are complaining about the movie being different from the book when the essence is literally the same, Viktor created life as if it were a godly feat and not something women have been doing since the dawn of humanity, and then he abandoned that life as deadbeat dads do. And that abandonment is what created a monster out of an innocent souls who could have become a beautiful being had it been nurtured. That's literally what Mary Shelley wrote. She would have been proud of this story. On top of being an incredibly gorgeous visual story, the narrative is very loyal to the point Shelley wanted to make.
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