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Avengers: Endgame thoughts
Apr. 27th, 2019 10:20 amI just got back from a 7am screening (you know you're an adult when you choose a 7am screening over a 2am one).
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Hamlet (1996)
Apr. 12th, 2019 07:45 pmSo I was watching the 4-hour Kenneth Branagh Hamlet film (as one does), and I noticed something! At the end of Act 1, Hamlet says "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in our philosophy." In most versions of the text he says "your philosophy." The best explanation I could find online is that the "our" variant was only in the quarto 2 version of Hamlet.
I'm geeking out! This is so cute!
I'm geeking out! This is so cute!
High School Musical thoughts
Apr. 8th, 2019 07:03 pmBroke: Troy was the hero of the High School Musical franchise
Woke: Sharpay was the hero of the High School Musical franchise
Bespoke: Ryan was the hero of the High School Musical franchise
To everyone who reads German...
Apr. 3rd, 2019 06:44 pmHere, have a 1921 silent film of genderbent!Hamlet
Article round-up: The Gay Gatsby
Dec. 7th, 2018 08:17 pmI cycle through fandoms: I get intense about specific books and films, and then drop them and move on. I recently got back into The Great Gatsby because my brother had to read it for school and I wanted to talk about it with him. We’re both Jay Gatsby/Nick Carraway shippers! I’m posting some of the articles I’ve read on gay subtext here.
Book synopsis: http://community.sparknotes.com/index.php/2016/12/31/blogging-the-great-gatsby/
A little juvenile, but I like her take on Tom Buchanan having a weird thing for Nick and that she dubbed Gatsby a “sexy orphan war hero” and his car a “phallic sin wagon.”
TV Tropes page: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheGreatGatsby
Has some good analysis of queer coding in the novel.
Book analysis: https://www.salon.com/2013/01/09/was_nick_carraway_gay/
More book analysis, alternate view: https://themillions.com/2018/04/the-queering-of-nick-carraway.html
2013 film analysis: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/05/-i-the-great-gatsby-i-movie-needed-to-be-more-gay/275768/
The Truman Capote script that was “too gay” for the 1970s film: https://the-niche.blog/2017/10/18/hey-gays-heres-truman-capotes-hardcore-gay-screenplay-of-the-great-gatsby-for-real-this-time/ (note that this isn’t actually very gay but still interesting!)
And finally, this masterpiece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYq3Y6vwrTs (PLEASE EVERYONE WATCH THIS)
Min's Musings: A Room with a View (1985)
Dec. 6th, 2018 03:50 pmI watched A Room with a View for the first time today and there isn't a big enough fandom for me to post my takes but I’m doing it anyway. Maggie Smith and Judi Dench's characters were DEFINITELY dating. You're welcome!
