In the upper echelon of cinema anecdotes are reports of Altman intentionally damaging film reels and audio tapes at the end of each shooting day, hoping to circumvent the studio inevitably withholding permission for similar effects work in post. It’s just as well that he did; the only thing harder to imagine than executive approval for such a technique is McCabe & Mrs. Miller existing in any other form. Altman dramatizes the idea of the American dream here via the fog…
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The Master 2012
“Where am I?”
“You’re safe. You’re at sea.”Those who admire the films of Paul Thomas Anderson are no strangers to the labyrinths his thematic puzzle boxes construct — one could probably watch Magnolia half a dozen times in the span it would take to unravel all of its mysteries — and yet, The Master lingers tantalizingly even above this, the most oblique and elusive of all his work. For a film that feels so assured of itself, one so…
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Written on the Wind 1956
Next time I crave 50’s technicolor melodrama I’m sticking with ATTACK OF THE CLONES
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Spider-Man 2 2004
the virgin amazing spider-man:
- responsibility, no power
- listens to phillip phillips unironically
- shares diluted to 0.03%
- skater
- has never seen a girlthe chad mcu spider-man:
- power, no responsibility
- girls are fine but legos are better
- can’t do anything w/o sugar daddy iron man
- snap score hit 1m last week
- favorite movie is the lion king (2019), doesn’t know it’s a remakethe thad raimi/maguire spider-man:
- power & responsibility
- ironic dancing
- respectful to women but not a simp
- relatable (can’t pay rent, occasionally emo)
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