moon or quit, man

It is horrible and it is beautiful.

Little Women (Greta Gerwig; 2019)

In the weeks we’d been thrown together that summer, our lives had scarcely touched, but we had crossed to the other bank, where time stops and heaven reaches down to earth and gives us that ration of what is from birth divinely ours. We looked the other way. We spoke about everything but. But we’ve always known, and not saying anything now confirmed it all the more. We had found the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.

“The thing that came up was the idea that it was a fantasy musical, and not a straight-up biopic. We were looking at photographers such as David LaChapelle and Tim Walker, and then I read the script and worked out what was needed in the script. Afterwards, I went to see Sir Elton John’s archive for clothes in London, which had his stage clothes as well as his regular clothes, so this was really interesting. The only thing that we particularly paid homage to was the Dodgers costume. But even then we changed it up slightly by using Swarovski crystals instead of sequins… It was incredible. I mean, he’s a legend.”

We had the stars, you and I. And this is given once only.

Rocketman (2019) dir. Dexter Fletcher