*insert "the girl from ipanema" muzak*

I love that thing when people get a little bit tongue-tied and garble what they’re trying to say so they make a little “blegh” 👅 noise and start over. verbal reset button. hitting the top of the tv to unscramble the signal

I really like the practice of putting years after a movie title, mostly because it gives you context of when it was made, which is often the most important part of understand where it sits in the culture and history of film. I say What Women Want (2000) and you immediately get where and when this film was made, and can extrapolate information from that. It's a great convention for talking about film, maybe because film tends to be less timeless.

*looks at polyamorous triad* so which of you is the soldier and which is the poet and which is the king

For those who thought that this was Nintendo baiting people into posting videos for them to take down, (as I initially did, admittedly), it’s actually people posting pictures of YouTube takedown notices. Nintendo didn’t bait anyone...They walked into a metaphorical garden rake.

Okay, that's funny.

You gotta watch this one the whole way through.

Now THIS is physical comedy

is this a safe space to think it's corny as fuck that so many classicists are getting fixated on the lack of sex in nolan's odyssey instead of just saying what the lack of sex accomplished, which is that it removes any instance of odysseus cheating on penelope, which is just another way the film sidesteps having to deal with gender and power with any real depth or complexity

Fascinating how what's considered feminine and what's considered masculine can change over time. The rebranding of being a horse girl into being a stereotypical feminine girly trait needs to be studied.

Look at classic children's novels. As recently as the 50s and early 60s, being obsessed with horses as a girl was depicted as strange and tomboyish, and the very concept of being obsessed with horses from early childhood and loving toy horses and desperately wanting your own horse being a "little girl thing" and not a "little boy thing" would send someone from the 1800s and earlier into a coma.

There's maybe a point to be made here somewhere about how when keeping and riding horses stopped being necessary to the functioning of society and became a more "frivolous" thing, it was rapidly rebranded as silly and girly and for women, but what do I know.