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There is no logical explanation as to why Mads Mikkelsen and Jude Law are so fucking fine.
Him
Who will love you now, Dumbledore? You’re all alone.
They finally let him paint.
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)
Albus Dumbledore & Gellert Grindelwald + LOVE
Where Hugo, I Go...
Rewatched for the umpteenth time, the lovely film, Hugo (2011). If you haven't seen it, nor read the book by Brian Selznick upon which it is based, please consider a look and a read.
We rewatch films for a variety of reasons, just as we often do for books. Always something new and different to see, to hear, to learn, to experience.
But that wasn't why I put this film on the blog. With the WGA/SAG-AFTRA strikes, now more than ever, the Martin Scorsese directed piece seems relevant. Here we have the young orphan, Hugo Cabret, living in the train station and maintaining the clocks; the timepieces that make the trains, and presumably society, run on time. Those horological machines are human made and what time represents in the lives of humans is a constant tick tock, tick tock. With every beat of our heart, every breath taken, time passes.
Hugo senses this, as does his young friend, Isabelle. At one point in the film, Isabelle questions the future and what her purpose in life is to be. Hugo thinks for a moment and remarks:
"I'd imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn't be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too."
And during their conversation, Hugo also states:
"Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do… Maybe it's the same with people. If you lose your purpose… it's like you're broken."
Turning that scene over in my mind and thinking about the plot (w/o spoiling too much, it is a wonderful homage to humans and art and film and history and human connections) and the ongoing strikes...but...
How is it that we humans have so readily turned the machines into the masters and the humans who created them into the extra parts?
This marvelous film would be nothing without the humans who dreamed and created and built and moved and loved it into being along with the original work upon which it was based. The humans aren't broken, the system is. The studios/corporations must recognize the labor that gives purpose to our lives and place the technology in the place wherein it serves the greater good before time runs out.
I could contemplate this film and its themes for a long time, it is a real gem to view and think about in the context of the past, the present, and the future. Hats off to all involved.
16.06.2023
#Mira-Marathon | MCU
Film Name: Captain Marvel (2019); Production studios: Walt Disney Pictures, Marvel Studios, Animal Logic; Director by: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck; Screenwriters: Meg LeFauve, Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Nicole Perlman; Starring: Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Jude Law, Annette Bening; Genres: Science Fiction, Action, Adventure; Running Time: 2 hours, 3 minutes;
Captain Marvel is an exciting superhero movie of 2019 that tells the story of Carol Danvers and her transformation into Captain Marvel. The film is stunning with its visuals, although it may feel a bit too long for some viewers. Overall, this is a great movie for Marvel fans that explores themes of female power, friendship, and hero power.
My rating: 7/10
RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (Dir: Peter Ramsey, 2012).
What would get if you crossed Marvel’s Avengers with a 1970s Rankin/Bass holiday special? Probably something not too dissimilar to DreamWorks Animation’s Rise of the Guardians as Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Toothfairy, the Sandman and new recruit Jack Frost assemble Avengers-style to defeat evil Pitch Black, aka The Boogeyman, as he attempts to take over the world by filling children’s heads with nightmares and suppressing their belief in the ‘Guardians’, threatening the imminent Easter celebrations to boot.
Director Peter Ramsey’s movie is action adventure on an epic scale rarely seen in animation. The glib humour and pop culture references that often mired DreamWorks’ early features is thankfully absent here. Certainly there is humour, yet there is also pathos, as when Jack learns of his forgotten past and why he was chosen as a Guardian.
With genuinely exciting action set pieces and excellent voice work from a star studded line up including Chris Pine, Alec Baldwin, Hugh Jackman, Isla Fisher and Jude Law, it is difficult to see how Rise of the Guardians could fail at the box office. But fail it did. Much to the detriment of cinema audiences who possibly found the Christmas/Easter mash-up aspect unappealing. Perhaps its winter release date was also misjudged, although it is certainly the most Christmassy of Easter movies.
While perhaps not quite in the same league as their ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ and ‘Kung Fu Panda’ franchises, Rise of the Guardians is still one of DreamWorks’s best movies to date. Its visuals are often breathtaking and its nod to vintage Rankin/Bass shows, where Santa is as likely to crop up in an Easter or a Groundhog Day special as he is a Christmas one, gives it a nice nostalgic feel befitting of a movie which deals with childhood and tradition. While this movie was designed as a franchise opener, Rise of the Guardians was destined to remain a one off. As a stand-alone feature film it is an often exciting, warm-hearted treat and is highly recommend viewing at Easter, Christmas or any other time of year.
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Jude Law as Jeremy
My Blueberry Nights (2007), dir. Wong Kar-Wai
first in a series of bromance desktops I'm working on. : )
I find this so funny. Jude Law (the young man getting cleaned up) with no clue that one day, he'll play the role across from him.
Meet Sherlock "pathetic💚" Holmes and his husband, John Hamish Watson, who helped a man commit fraud once.
Can't believe I'm expected to act normal when I get shown this in the midst of my Sherlock obsession
thinking of this gif but with johnlock,,,,,
OK yes. I've been thinking about that scene where they're in jail and bickering when John says "You're not human" and the little twitch in Sherlock's face crushed me
I just noticed how often Watson broke Holmes heart with his cruel words: he bitterly told Holmes that the wedding will happen whether he likes it or not, said that it is their last case together quite enthusiastically, frequently reminded Holmes to not use "us" and "we", mockingly told him that he doesn't have any friends or mates. And even if Holmes didn't answer anything, his face showed that those words stabbed him in the heart. Despite of that, Holmes continued to love Watson and accepted to die to keep him safe...
Sherlock and John’s Friendship’s Mirror Scenes: Sherlock Holmes vs Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Sherlock Holmes (2009) dir. Guy Ritchie