thinking about matt johnson's thinly veiled fixation with guns and their ability to penetrate from a distance without actually making physical contact kinda feels like looking away from the shadows on the cave wall and seeing their source for the first time ngl

the ultimate mattjay (rpf) web weave: the real guys, the show guys, matt and bird break loose, frog and toad, bert and ernie, withnail & i, rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead, magic man by brave shores, exit we by brave shores, needle and grenade by brave shores, peanut butter by eileen myles, that matt quote about his character archetype being the imaginary friend beckoning the protagonist to return to their childhood, that direction andy muschietti gave bill hader in it chapter 2 (go back to childhood, and then realise you can never go back to childhood, and cry like youve never cried before...), sonnet 75 by edmund spenser, sonnet 81 by william shakespeare, extracts from between men: english literature and male homosocial desire by eve sedgwick, "when you have a best friend, you won't even notice getting older" & when matt said that was so hacky he wanted to cut the line from the movie the others convinced him to keep it, jay talking about a "north star" in creative vision and sharing that inherent spiritual understanding with a director when working on a score (also "making animatics" for the blackberry behind the scenes), "I think what he found in me was someone who really understood what he was going for. What he couldn't even fully articulate. [...] We're good for each other in that sense.", old friends by simon and garfunkel, franz kafka writing to max brod "my love for you is greater than myself and i dwell in it rather than it dwells in me."