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Snowpiercer

DOP - Kyung-pyo Hong Format - Arricam 35mm 250T 500D Lenses - Zeiss Master Prime and Angenieux Optimo Lenses  Aspect Ratio - 1.85 : 1  Delivery - Super 35mm, Digital Intermediate 2K

If you’ve seen this movie then this is either really funny or incredibly insensitive I’m an asshole

Rebecca Keegan: Tilda, in Snowpiercer you’re playing a role that was originally written for a man…how did that affect the way you approached it? Tilda Swinton: I think it still is actually written for a man. I don’t think it ever changed.

I was looking up Snowpiercer stuff and this one site was like “based on your browsing history you may also like” and recommended The Polar Express

They’re basically the same right

Minorities can be marginalized in film, but not silenced. (via salon)

Bonus “so that’s what was going on” from Snowpiercer:

“Snowpiercer,” 2014. The native language of this dystopian thriller is French, as it’s based on a graphic novel, “Le Transpercerneige,” 1982, released last year as 설국열차 in South Korea. Directed by Bong Joon-ho, it features Chris Evans as its lead. Despite its French and South Korean origins, the film’s dialogue is mostly English. Writer Emily Yoon saw this film when it was first released in Korea last year, and explains there’s a terrific joke that goes untranslated on two levels: When Curtis (played by Chris Evans) first encounters Namgung Minsu (남궁민수, played by Song Kang-ho), Evans keeps calling him ‘Nam,’ to which Song responds:  “‘남궁’까지가 성이고 ‘민수’ 가 이름이다 이 무식한 새끼야.” (“‘Namgung’ is my surname and ‘Minsu’ is the name, you ignorant bastard.”) Because there are many languages being spoken in the closed universe of the train, the people riding it use an interpreter/translator device. However, the device is stumped because he has a rare two-syllable family name — he should be called either ‘Namgung’ or ‘Minsu,’ but never just ‘Nam.’ The translator machine can’t make sense of this, and so as Song rants, the machine remains silent. So the entire insult goes untranslated for the movie audience as well.