My Movies sideblog

Movies, mostly french and classics

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One reason why michel galabru's character in un drôle de colonel is the best is that when he comes home after two full years abroad and finds the house unlocked and the lights on, his first thought is a very blasé "damn i left it unlocked and the lights on, that's the kind of thing to avoid when you're going far away"

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THE GODFATHER dir. Francis Ford Coppola | 1972

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We each need to find our own inspiration, Kiki. Sometimes it's not easy.

KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE (1989) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

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KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE (1989) • dir. Hayao Miyazaki

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When I was a kid, I really loved Kiki, and that's probably why I made a SECOND poster with her. Or maybe I just wanted to draw some bread, I don't know…

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Some stills from Le Cerveau (1969) with Eli Wallach and David Niven amused at him.

Thanks to @sissi-n2 for the rec!

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Les chevaux dessinés par Albert Uderzo, Louis de Funès & Michel Galabru L'Avare, Jean Girault & Louis de Funès (1980).

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Dessin d'un personnage dans les Tontons Flingueurs

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Tarzan (1999) - dir. Chris Buck, Kevin Lima

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Thoughts on my first Tarzan rewatch since I was a kid:

• Golly gee, I did not remember that both Kerchak and Kala’s very young son AND Tarzan’s parents get mauled by a leopard, it happens within the first ten minutes, and you actually SEE his parents’ bodies. Modern Disney would NEVER

• Also remember when Disney actually animated really good fight scenes, they had nail-biting tangible stakes, and they actually showed blood??? Remember when they weren’t cowards????

• REMEMBER WHEN TARZAN KILLED THE LEOPARD TRYING TO PROVE HIMSELF TO HIS ADOPTIVE FATHER HAVING NO IDEA THAT HE WAS AVENGING HIS BIOLOGICAL FATHER (AND MOTHER). REMEMBER THAT

• It’s been said before, but the effort put into the physicality of Tarzan is just top-tier—especially later into the film where he starts to mix his gorilla and learned human mannerisms. There is so much detail here and it’s fascinating

• Also, the times where they chose to make the gorilla conversations understandable to the audience or make them sound like gorillas (aka switch to Jane’s pov) is SO fascinating and does wonders for building up the “two worlds” dichotomy.

• Jane’s crush on Tarzan is SO obvious and honestly comes on so suddenly, she is delulu for days, but honestly I cannae blame her, if *I* was saved by a strong handsome wild man who couldn’t understand me but stared deeply into my eyes as if he could see my soul through them as he pressed the palms of our hands together, I’d probably fold too

• My favorite character was Tantor the elephant. WHAT a character arc, I was so proud of him

• Hey uhhhhhhhh remember how the villain of this movie died by inadvertently hanging himself and the movie indicated this by showing his dangling silhouette in a flash of lightning??? HELLO???

• Y’all like to give Ariel a hard time for giving up her voice for a man when Jane Porter permanently and irrevocably left civilized society to run away to the wilds of Africa to live with gorillas for a man she met a week or two ago who she’s still getting over language barrier issues with. I’m not saying she shouldn’t have done so, I completely support her decision, but I feel like if this movie weren’t so slept on some of y’all would have a lot more to say about it.

• In general Jane is a bit more unhinged than we give her credit for, and more power to her. She’s rapidly climbing the ranks of my favorite Disney princesses.

• And then her father joins her??? “People go missing all the time”???? LOL

• Finally, it’s been said before, but: Phil Collins, you legend. You did not have to go that hard on this film, but you did and we appreciate it so much

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TARZAN (1999)

dir. chris buck and kevin lima

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Reasons why Kerchak from Tarzan 1999 is the ideal silverback

1. He's a great dad.

This is most seen in the opening with his ill-fated son, but realistically, all the juveniles in the troop would most likely be his offspring. Disney shied away from making that explicitly the case but you can apply this point to how he watches out for and protects (including risking his life for) the juveniles in the troop. Silverbacks who are good with juveniles tend to have the most successful and largest troops, which leads us to the next reason.

2. His troop is quite large (with many juveniles).

A large troop is a sign of a very successful silverback. It's a silverback's responsibility to keep his troop happy and mediate conflicts between troop members, so the larger the troop, the more work he inherently has to do to maintain it. A large troop means a silverback who's very good at maintaining relations with and between his troop members. And tying into the first point, the many juveniles are an extra point of success.

3. He's patient, accepting, and doesn't chase conflict.

This one might not be very apparent if you're coming from a purely human perspective, but it's true from a gorilla perspective. He acquiesces to Kala adopting a strange baby of an unknown species pretty quickly. Tarzan's survival into adulthood implies that even though Kerchak wasn't fond of him, he provided the same protection for him as he did for the other babies and juveniles. Despite his disagreements and tension with Tarzan, he permits Tarzan to stay in the troop because it makes his troop happy. He's also alright with Tantor the elephant traveling with them.

His choice of plan for the unknown threat of humans is to avoid them, protecting his troop. When he does encounter humans he uses physical displays to warn them off and only becomes violent when Clayton threatens the juveniles (and honestly that scene is a "justice for Kerchak" scene, it was dumb luck nobody else saw what Clayton was doing).

This point ties into the next point:

4. There are several older blackbacks in his troop who all follow him.

Several of the troop members seem to be older blackback males, close to becoming silverbacks themselves. I don't know if the gorillas in the movie are meant to be any specific subspecies but the point stands true for all of them (even the one subspecies that regularly has multiple silverbacks in a troop) that having so many males so close to becoming silverbacks themselves still living in the troop is a sign of a very socially savvy silverback. And this ties into the next point:

5. He's extremely well-respected by his troop, who are very loyal to him.

Other than Tarzan, Kerchak doesn't really have any conflicts with his troop. And while the troop love Tarzan and want him around, they often side more with Kerchak when the two butt heads. It's especially notable as these conflicts can be seen as Tarzan challenging Kerchak's role in the troop, and the others' reactions show loyalty to Kerchak as their leader. The older blackbacks in the troop also don't seem to challenge Kerchak. His role in the troop is very respected and his troop, including those who could theoretically challenge him themselves, choose to follow him even when his dominance is challenged.

6. He's very physically capable and fulfills his responsibility to protect the troop.

Running into a stampede of elephants to rescue a baby, fighting a leopard... Kerchak's very physically skilled and strong! Other than the tragic case of the wandered off baby at the beginning of the movie, Kerchak's successfully protected his troop from threats through all the years since then. Also, I know we need to have suspension of disbelief for the ages of the gorillas, but I do want to point out that realistically, Kerchak in the main part of the movie would likely be past his prime and possibly even elderly so it's even more impressive how physically capable he still is. I'll meet them halfway and still treat him as past his prime, though in Disney movie world he might not have been elderly.

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imagine you're in charge of a large group. You and your wife just lost your very young child and you're like. forced to soldier on for the larger group but you can't help but feel worried for her. Then one day she brings back home a monkey and she's like he's our new son honey. And you're like. ok that sounds unhealthy but if it really pleases you i guess we can accept the monkey. And weirdly enough as he grows up the monkey become friends with teenagers and gets into trouble with them like an actual teenagers would and he speaks your language well enough and at some point you sort of forget he isn't human but you can never forget that your wife babies him so much because she's projecting her grief for your very real dead child on him. And then he keeps getting in bigger trouble as he grows up to be even bigger than you because when she brought him back your wife didn't precise it was going to reach adulthood with that kind of size and it keeps endangering members of the group you have to look afterlike when he was a kid he already got them all almost crushed to death and their homes destroyed. And then it goes walking around and brings back a bunch of funky looking monkeys who have weird contraptions with which one of them shoots you almost dead and tries to enslave your group. And when you look like you don't like him people think you're crazy because you're having beef with a little monkey in a loincloth dude. Happened to my friend kerchak

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[vivadonsalluste]

Absolutely love older people in Ghibli movies. Now granted I have seen two ghibli movies and a half but. The Pirate Mom in the castle in the sky is a whole mood and a half. The president in From up on Poppy Hill? Love him.