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most of the time i just reblog stuff but sometimes i’ll make posts about whats on my mind. i know way too much about 70s britpunk so a lot of my original posts are about that topic

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Much to think about.

this is such an excellent question. thank you for asking it!

i'd also love to see timmy take more villainous or at least morally dubious roles. this is part of why im so excited for the final dune movie. i cant wait to see the god emperor of mankind, murderer of billions, as played by chalamet

but heres the thing: timmy is a leading man and antagonists are, by definition, supporting characters. timmy does not play supporting characters anymore, he doesnt take second billing, and it'll be a while before he does again. so even tho hes the leo dicaprio of his generation, we're not going to be seeing him play a calvin candie type scene-stealing villain any time soon. very sad for me bc i'd kill to see him as the baddie in smth. maybe if that movie spike lee wants to do with him ever materializes it'll happen...

morally dubious characters, like marty mauser from marty supreme, and villain protagonists, like paul atreides from dune, are still on the table tho!! and ive actually thought a lot about which roles of this type i'd kill and die to see him play

on the top of the list is a young vincent hanna. this is the role chalamet was born to play. al pacino literally agrees with me. i cannot overstate how good timmy would be as everyones favorite coked out of his mind lapd officer. im certain that timmy can quote heat back to front and would fall over himself to work with michael mann. so...mr mann...if youre listening...do the right thing and cast chalamet as vincent hanna in heat 2. im begging on my knees here

i'd also love to see timmy as lancelot, one of my personal fav villain protagonists, if they ever decide to make another film adaptation of the camelot musical. i know lancelot is meant to be a baritone but who cares. chalamet's perfect for the part bc hes french, beautiful, and comes across as arrogant to the point that others want to harm him. i can just imagine him singing c'est moi. but, more importantly, i can imagine him singing if ever i would leave you aka one of the most romantic songs ever written. all of the girlies who miss him playing a romantic lead would be thrilled beyond words

if chalamet was british, i'd want him to play dorian grey. his british accent in the king is pretty mid but maybe a good accent coach could help him improve? who knows. accent aside, i think he'd do great as dorian. we're overdue for an actually good adaptation of the picture of dorian grey anyway

and then theres prince felix yusupov. i mean...its obvious. they look unbelievably similar. if youre not familiar with the name, felix was the man behind the infamous assassination of rasputin. he lived a strange little life, was one of the few russian nobles who survived the communist revolution, and was overall batshit crazy. he thought he had mystical powers. hes also the reason movies have to put that 'this is a work of fiction and anything similar to irl is a coincidence' notice in the beginning bc he sued a hollywood studio for lying about him. crazy bastard. he was also queer which is pretty cool. timmy would kill as this freak imo

those are all the specific roles i have in mind for timmy. less specific roles i think he'd be good in include being a jewish mobster and/or the son of a character played by jeremy strong. both at the same time would be great. i'd also like to see him do more comedies as hes very funny and do more historical dramas! i want to see him in ancient greece or rome...maaaybe he could play octavian? he'd have to dye his hair but i think he can make it work

i want to see him work with paul thomas anderson and/or martin scorsese one day bc i know they'd come up with great parts for him to play and he'd really excel under their direction. scorsese seems quite fond of him after the bleu de chanel campaign they did together so it'd be nice to see them reunite

^ timmy as prince felix yusupov trying to convince other russian nobles to help him kill rasputin

in my opinion, based entirely on my own experiences with and perceptions of the blue hellsites, theres two main reasons for why this is

reason one: twitter is the bigger, more popular platform. its considered the internet's town square for a reason. therefore the sub-communities that exist on the platform are inherently going to be more populous and more diverse then the ones on tumblr. as much as we all love tumblr and view it as superior to twitter, its a fact that its a very insular place that essentially no one is joining at this point in time. so its simply more likely that the ppl who work in film or love film to the point they consider discussing it to be an important activity to engage in are going to have twitter accounts

reason two: the overall culture of tumblr is reactively anti-intellectual and lionizes ignorance/hostility towards both what it considers to be mainstream culture (such as popular art) and 'pretentious' culture (such as highly praised art). good movies, made in hollywood or not, are oftentimes both popular art and highly praised art so many ppl on tumblr feel like theyre being counterculture or otherwise 'different' (which is considered inherently good on tumblr) by showing performative ignorance towards cinema or otherwise digging their heels in and refusing to engage with the medium beyond parroting talking points they agree with

this is why every political blogger on here has an opinion on saving private ryan but cant actually articulate said opinion beyond what they've read in this comic and are incapable of having layered discussions that dont devolve into pointless moralizing about why spielberg chose to make the movie the way he did. bc that would require not only watching the film but also watching spielberg's other films and interviews hes done and maybe even learning to have empathy for ppl who have differing world views (which is hard and scary and frowned upon)

also a lot of ppl on this site like to eat comfort food and nothing else. they know what they already like, usually things that feel safe to them bc theyre uncomplicated and easy to digest (often bc theyre made for kids), and they dont have much desire to explore things outside of that unless theyre certain it'll, continuing with the food metaphor, taste the same. the ppl who behave like this are usually the emotionally stunted fandom types who need to grow tf up and put on a haneke movie instead of shoveling slop down their gullet. yes im being mean but these ppl are literally Impossible to have worthwhile conversations with and actively make the world worse. theyre like isis to me in the sense that theyre radical terrorists who cant be reasoned with and therefore must be destroyed

meanwhile twitter, which as i said previously is more diverse and more populous, isnt disproportionately populated by ppl who behave this way. theres a lot of annoying idiots yes but theres even more film buffs and normies who dont have terminal fandom brain and are eager to have adult discussions about movies

is film twitter perfect? no. it fucking sucks and the root of all evil. is everyone on tumblr an idiot who doesnt watch movies? no. my beloved mutuals are extremely worldly and love cinema. but broadly speaking i think my analysis has merit