I AM ⍾⍾⍾⍾ LOCKED

Marvel: We are so fed up with your SteveTony agenda, let's not make them together for a while.

Steve: “Tony, you’ve been the best friend I had since...well, maybe ever." Tony: “I like to think I work best alone, Cap. But the truth is, I’m better because you’re my friend."

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Keep thinking about Ram falling in love with this beautiful man and his beautiful smile.

Can you even IMAGINE the lengths he went to to make Bheem happy just so he could see that smile every day?!

Can you comprehend the level of devotion and care and tenderness he dedicated to Bheem?!

Can you picture the meals he would cook for him, the dates he would plan for them, the quality time he would spend with him?!

Honestly, Ram’s entire flat looks like some kind of Oscar Wilde level gay dandy professor homo bookworm heaven. No straight man can interior decorate like this!

It just makes me appreciate the attention to detail in RRR. This set was lovingly built and furnished to deepen the viewer’s understanding of Ram, and I feel like that’s something that’s totally gone in modern Hollywood. So many residential sets in American movies are sparse, minimalist, cold, clinical, barren. This set feels so much more REAL! It’s warm, lived in, and it tells me a lot about the man who occupies it. It’s not only more beautiful to look at, it’s more useful to the characterization. ESPECIALLY when you contrast it with Bheem’s intro sequence, what his home looks like. You can really feel how differently the two men had been living before they met in the middle.

Take this shot of Bheem sat comfortably on the floor while Ram stays in his wooden chair. This tells me SO MUCH about Ram’s internalized colonization and Bheem’s enduring connection to his roots.

And this shot of Bheem lovingly gazing at Ram asleep at his desk, with that tiny moment of confusion as Bheem tries to understand the words printed on the pages that surround him. The messy set is essential to my understanding of their dynamic! There are things which consume Ram that Bheem cannot understand.

Back to the canopy: Why is this shot so fucking sexy???? The intimate lighting, the delicate, diaphanous quality of the canopy and how it softens Bheem’s features… The camera treats this canopy like a wedding veil, not a functional mosquito net. It brings us into Ram’s bed with Bheem in such an erotic way… I fucking cannot get over it!!!!!