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“What if I enjoy watching my targets scream & squirm as the blood drains from their bodies, beg for help as their lives wither away?” ~ Kieran White
Webtoon: Purple Hyacinth
Literally not what Scorsese said but also idk it's hard not to be cynical about Disney's motivation when it is literally a multi billion dollar corporation that's involved in the exploitation of its workers, creatives, writers, actors etc. It's funding genocide in Palestine. I am not really sure if Disney really cares about people of colour like that.
i'm so tired of Martin Scorsese complaining about the marvel movies. Regardless of the quality of the films, it's very telling how he and other filmmakers (Tarantino, Cameron etc), have openly expressed their criticisms of the mcu the moment they started becoming more diverse
So I've kinda broached this topic in one of my videos before
https://youtu.be/DjY0la3Rh8k?si=8gGxTze6IBkgcDdb
I tackled it as "what is the M She U" but I think I should make a follow-up talking about the white actors ( ex: Jennifer Aniston) and white directors (martin scorsese especially but lbr his new killers of the flower moon is a MAJOR departure from his previous all white films) that decry the mcu even though Black panther and shang chi really elevated the super hero genre.
mod ali
Christopher Cote, an Osage language consultant on the project and one of many Osage members who attended its Los Angeles premiere Monday, told THR he was “nervous about the release of the film; now that I’ve seen it, I have some strong opinions.
“As an Osage, I really wanted this to be from the perspective of Mollie and what her family experienced, but I think it would take an Osage to do that,” Cote said, referencing Lily Gladstone’s character in the movie. (Historical spoilers from the film ahead.) “Martin Scorsese, not being Osage, I think he did a great job representing our people, but this history is being told almost from the perspective of Ernest Burkhart [played by Leonardo DiCaprio] and they kind of give him this conscience and kind of depict that there’s love. But when somebody conspires to murder your entire family, that’s not love. That’s not love, that’s just beyond abuse.”
He continued, “I think in the end, the question that you can be left with is: How long will you be complacent with racism? How long will you go along with something and not say something, not speak up, how long will you be complacent? I think that’s because this film isn’t made for an Osage audience, it was made for everybody, not Osage. For those that have been disenfranchised, they can relate, but for other countries that have their acts and their history of repression, this is an opportunity for them to ask themselves this question of morality, and that’s how I feel about this film.”
Just a heads up about Killers of the Flower Moon
Here Osage language consultant Christopher Cote speaking about this:
Never been more excited for a film than I am for Scorsese's Killer of the Flower Moon. Someone on Letterboxd said it's his coldest film to date and I just can't wait.
"Can you find the wolves in this picture?"
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) dir. Martin Scorsese
The Aviator 2004
excerpt from Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann.
“Can you find the wolves in this picture?”
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
dir. Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro
BLUE JEAN (dir. Georgia Oakley) ANATOMIE D'UNE CHUTE (dir. Justine Triet) PAST LIVES (dir. Celine Song) LEE (dir. Ellen Kuras) KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (dir. Martin Scorsese) PERFECT DAYS (dir. Wim Wenders) EILEEN (dir. William Oldroyd) THE NEW BOY (dir. Warwick Thornton) There are so many films that I’m dying to see. I swear to god if they are not at least ⭐⭐⭐ films…
This could be my last report from Gaza by Tareq S. Hajjaj. Please read.
beauty
the hardest part of making a Discourse Post™ is that i don’t have the time or energy to respond to everyone who disagrees with my viewpoint. and even if i did, my followers would get annoyed with seeing the same post dozens of times with different additions. so just rest assured if you ever disagree with me 1) i already thought of that and 2) i have the best comeback ever
AUDREY HEPBURN as Princess Ann in ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953) dir. William Wyler
Billboard Magazine, December 1969
prefacing this post by saying that I am a big enjoyer of “this site has poor reading comprehension” jokes on here, but I think there needs to be better and more precise language about this sort of thing that isn’t bound up in like, the ability to parse text, which is always going to be tied to class and ability. I’m not saying every joke about this site not being able to read is classist/ableist, and I don’t think anyone is making any grand ideological proclamations when dunking on a stupid reply to their post, but the backing behind that kind of joke is, ultimately, “haha you’re an adult that can’t read.”
And aside from some potentially troubling baggage, I don’t even think that’s what’s going on in the first place! I think the more precise (but admittedly less catchy) term for “poor reading comprehension” is something along the lines of chronic incuriosity, or a rigid adherence to normative thinking. if you see a post saying, for example, women shouldn’t have to wear makeup to be viewed as human beings, and the comments are filled with “actually you can just wear some winged eyeliner and foundation it’s not that hard to wear makeup and also women love makeup stop gatekeeping,” what is happening is not a failure to comprehend the text in front of them. these responses are not made in ignorance, as in, they are not the result of a failure to understand the sentence they just read. these responses stem from a refusal to challenge base assumptions, and reacting emotionally to the mental dissonance this causes (probably something along the lines of “I think of myself as progressive but this person is challenging something I like doing and this threatens my weak political instincts”). These people are rejecting the opportunity to analyse the habits and behaviours they previously assumed to be non-political (eg, wearing makeup), and then externalising that rejection as a defence mechanism. That is not a failure to read a sentence, that is a demand to be intellectually coddled, which is very different.
Again, I’m sure people are already aware of this. I enjoy being a hater, and having people constantly swarm your posts with ridiculous and hysterical replies is incredibly frustrating (speaking from a lot of personal experience here lol). This is also not me saying you have to do the coddling and explain to them that they’re being ideologically incurious about the world, you don’t have an obligation to do any of that. but I think framing a person’s failure to be curious about their own biases as “they don’t know how to read” situates the problem as an issue of ignorance or lack of technical skill, instead of the much more prevalent problem of people refusing to be challenged or reconsider things in their life they didn’t think about before. Calling these kinds of people ignorant is just letting them off easy
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Smtimes your house is haunted because there’s a ghost sometimes your house is haunted because you miss grandma and your mom misses her even more sometimes your house is haunted because the subtext of how the last owners decorated rubs you wrong way sometimes your house is haunted because you’ve sublimated the fact that you didn’t want to move in the first place and Sometimes your house is haunted because there’s a carbon monoxide leak. Lots of options.
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