Notices by blessing ☁️ (theblessing@pleroma.skyshanty.xyz)
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blessing ☁️ (theblessing@pleroma.skyshanty.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 05:58:27 JST 
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baz luhrmann is such a treasure. i love how he gives seemingly zero fucks in his movie and dials everything up to 150%. still, it’s wild to revisit his movies from 20 years ago and see how extremely grounded Elvis feels. i hope he never stops making movies. -
blessing ☁️ (theblessing@pleroma.skyshanty.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 05:58:26 JST
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@PonyPanda baz has such a special place in my heart, i feel like he’s almost above criticism for me. i know it’s bad. i was very young when moulin rouge came out; i loved it then and i love it now. i rewatched it as recently as yesterday and it’s a cheesy hypermelodramatic hot mess but it’s MY hot mess and i still love it so much it makes me cry, lol. even as a little kid, i remember finding the plot dumb but still loving the movie for the music and atmosphere.
gatsby, similarly, is just.. such a perfect storm of crossed interests for me that there’s no way for it not to be my favorite movie. i love the novel, i love the time period, i love the costumes, i love the jazz, i love the baz, i FUCKING LOVE his musical scores, i love his cinematography and frantic style. he even used one of my all-time favorite songs in the score of gatsby, just incidentally. just for like 20 seconds, he subtly wrote it into the orchestral score while the green light is going around. and in an interview, he was just like, “oh yeah, i love that song! i’ve been trying to find a place for it for years!” that stuff just kills me. i can’t. 😭❤️
that being said, i absolutely recognize the flaws in his movies. gatsby in particular has quite a few. i think tobey and leo weigh the movie down big time. gatsby himself definitely gets a coat of cool paint when i feel like in the novel, people were slightly less sold on his act. but, i still appreciate the fuck out of the movie and i appreciate how much he lifted directly from the book by way of tobey’s shitty voiceover throughout. (idk if you remember, at the end, tobey recites the final few lines of the book, and i can’t imagine a worse and more childish reading of these very good lines of literature.. “GADSBY BALEEVED IN THA GREEN LIGHT..”)
but i love him nonetheless. and when i saw he was making an elvis biopic, it was like.. of course he is, lol. that’s like the perfect level of flamboyance and gaudiness and melodrama for him. and of course i fucking loved it. xd i’m a fangirl, i can’t help it. -
blessing ☁️ (theblessing@pleroma.skyshanty.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 05:58:24 JST
blessing ☁️
@PonyPanda i definitely agree that the book is about not being enchanted by the glitz of it like this particular movie is. i sort of like baz’s interpretation for its gaudiness and the novel itself for separate reasons. (probably i can empathize with gatsby to an extent, lol.) i don’t think they spent a whole lot of time making myrtle look as corrupt as she was, but they did have the backhand in the correct context in the movie. this is the scene in the book.. Some time toward midnight Tom Buchanan and Mrs. Wilson stood face to face discussing, in impassioned voices, whether Mrs. Wilson had any right to mention Daisy’s name. “Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!” shouted Mrs. Wilson. “I’ll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai—” Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand. Then there were bloody towels upon the bathroom floor, and women’s voices scolding, and high over the confusion a long broken wail of pain. Mr. McKee awoke from his doze and started in a daze toward the door. When he had gone halfway he turned around and stared at the scene—his wife and Catherine scolding and consoling as they stumbled here and there among the crowded furniture with articles of aid, and the despairing figure on the couch, bleeding fluently, and trying to spread a copy of Town Tattle over the tapestry scenes of Versailles. Then Mr. McKee turned and continued on out the door. Taking my hat from the chandelier, I followed. ..and that’s pretty much exactly how it plays out in the movie. she even says the “daisy daisy daisy” line. except that baz left out nick following mckee to his bedroom to get naked and “look at photography” which is one of the most sus scenes in the novel. 👀 -
blessing ☁️ (theblessing@pleroma.skyshanty.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 05:58:23 JST
blessing ☁️
@PonyPanda lolol i cringed so hard the last time i rewatched it at the dubstep. i can’t think of another musical genre that ages as quickly and as poorly as dubstep.
but yes, you’re absolutely right. she’s so much more annoying in the book. in the movie she’s just a basic bitch. -
blessing ☁️ (theblessing@pleroma.skyshanty.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Mar-2023 13:11:45 JST
blessing ☁️
i wish i had the faith to trust in a higher power to guide me. it seems very comforting to rest on the assumption that god has a plan for you. but i don’t think anyone has a plan for me and i think it is extremely common for people to suffer for very long times with no justification or reward.
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