Random flailing over fandoms

I feel like tumblr should be bigger fans of The Blues Brothers. It's a movie that has everything we value as a community. Attention and respect to pioneering black musicians, open hostility to nazis, open defiance to police, Carrie Fisher with a rocket launcher and flamethrower, a soundtrack that goes hard as hell, John Belushi so blasted on cocaine that he continues to do somersaults despite having a broken ankle. It's got it all!

For centuries, Fanny Price had been considered the weakest character that had ever written by Jane Austen but I think it’s only because she is the most misunderstood character of her. In my humble opinion, she is the strongest character that exists in Jane Austen’s work. She might be a little scared mouse, living her life in the attic while she is frightened of Sir Thomas Bertram and generally afraid of her own shadow, but she has courage and independence that are admirable. When Henry Crawford proposes to her, she declines him. When nobody understands her refusal and insists that it is a considerable mistake of her and tries to open her eyes - she insists on refusing him, keeps the real main reason to herself and mentions her other reasons so very bravely. She does not believe that Mr Crawford loves her and she does not love him back anyway. She does not believe that he can change his flirtatious character for her and she insists on not having him, no matter how much pressure her family puts on her. This is courage, to live to yourself and by your own way while neglecting the fact that the man who has been paying for your living and education just called you ungrateful to your face. Fanny cries a lot, she feels a lot, she saddens a lot but she does not give up, she does not yield to anyone, not even to Sir Thomas or to Mrs Norris. Back at her parents’ home, she uses her own money to register for a local library, she picks and borrows books on her own and she is so courageous and independent that she does not do it for herself alone; she does it for the eduction of somebody else, her sister Susan who never reads since at their father’s home there are no books. Fanny is bold enough to take responsibility not only on her own eduction but also on the education of Susan and it takes courage and self worth to try to shape someone in your own image. Fanny, who is usually considered a quiet, timid, shy and physically limited, has a mind of her own and a strong mind. She is timid but courageous and this complex makes her the strongest character of Jane Austen, since she is strong and weak at the same time , which makes her so intense and powerful.

I think that many people who find Mary Bennet relatable, imagine her to be like Fanny Price. Mary is a pretentious, not very bright show-off. It is Fanny who is a neglected, abused, intelligent introvert.

everybody leaving tags on my letterboxd roundup like "they didn't do the nobody scene??" we're so fucking past that i need you to catch up. i went into the movie knowing they wouldn't do the nobody scene and frankly i had made peace with it like okay if you don't want odysseus calling himself outis because you don't feel like the joke translates well enough WHATEVER you dont need to film every line of the poem. what i was NOT prepared for is that THEY DON'T SPEAK TO POLYPHEMUS AT ALL. they don't steal a giant wheel of cheese, they don't get him drunk, odysseus doesn't taunt him after their escape, AND he doesn't cry out to poseidon or the other cyclopes on the shore. it's "revealed" that he can speak in the cave before their escape as he prays to poseidon. someone asks odysseus "should we try to reason with him?" and ODYSSEUS says "we're past that." resulting in an adaptation where odysseus does not use wit or trickery to escape polyphemus at all-- which is the case with every single obstacle he meets. this guy does not lie and he does not play tricks. his intelligence is restricted to battlefield tactics, the administration and direction of his men as units. You have to poke polyphemus so he opens his eye before you can stab it! I am very smart. the only point at which he could be described as "tricking" polyphemus is when-- because the movie is allergic to making odysseus look stupid or silly in any way-- they tie straw to their backs to be mistaken for sheep instead of riding the undersides of the sheep, and we are presented with an action sequence of trousered and armored soldiers somersaulting and army crawling under polyphemus' gently dangling hand. which i hate because it is a less clever solution that only works if polyphemus is extremely stupid (shepherd who doesn't know how many sheep he has) -- and more importantly because it removes IMO the most emotionally efficient moment in the odyssey, which is polyphemus talking to the one sheep that's walking slow because it has odysseus on its belly like "oh no are you feeling okay today? you're moving so slow, maybe you're upset because i'm in pain? you're the best sheep in the world and i love all of you my sheeps" like that scene is supposed to instantly retroactively humanize polyphemus and make you realize odysseus has been torturing a person with feelings who basically just wants to be left alone with his pet sheep and it's extremely good at that in every translation i've ever read. but not one of odysseus' enemies are allowed an inch of humanity in this entire adaptation which seems to be a veiled metaphor for the vietnam war so what can you expect. and yes because odysseus never does anything wrong or stupid or silly, OF COURSE he would never reveal his name and allow polyphemus to curse him, and his crew only "believes" that he's been cursed by poseidon thereafter, which removes the ENTIRE MAIN ANTAGONIST of the story and changes the central conflict from man vs. god to man vs. ????