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Whirling posted:I wonder if the corporate trend to back down meekly over right wing swine being angry about LGBT people will transfer over to things like film and TV. Obviously, it's gonna take a long time to see if this stuff now has any effect in the future, but seeing companies like loving Starbucks decide to not even bother with pandering this year in fear of having soulless right-wing ghouls make TikToks about them is making me sweat a bit. skooma512 posted:Yeah I don't understand why the backlash is working this time. Are they afraid of violence or is it just much louder than usual because gays are the target de jure on this season of TV news? I think Starbucks' particular alleged cowardice is down to the culture Howard Schultz (who you may remember from his failed run in the Democratic presidential primary as the supposed business-minded centrist) put in. It's going to depend on the company. Has InBev done anything particularly craven in the wake of the Bud Light controversy? I haven't seen much on their reaction one way or the other. Have any other companies buckled? I see rainbow flags all over the business district where I work.
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:RIP to a legend His obit should be terse and contain very little punctuation.
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:RIP to a legend rip The Road posted:The road was empty. Below in the little valley the still gray serpentine of a river. Motionless and precise. Along the shore a burden of dead reeds. Are you okay? he said. The boy nodded. Then they set out along the blacktop of the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other’s world entire. burst out ugly crying on plane when I first read that. I was going through some poo poo and I got daddy issues.
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His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
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Whirling posted:I wonder if the corporate trend to back down meekly over right wing swine being angry about LGBT people will transfer over to things like film and TV. Obviously, it's gonna take a long time to see if this stuff now has any effect in the future, but seeing companies like loving Starbucks decide to not even bother with pandering this year in fear of having soulless right-wing ghouls make TikToks about them is making me sweat a bit. this seem fantastically unlikely to me because the pandering is so hard baked into the narrative i actually havent seen any right wing complaints at all about lgbt stuff thats actually intended for that audience rupauls drag race has been a thing forever its only mainstreaming of it into community things like drag queen storytime that sets them off because of the perception that this kind of representation is about subliminally normalizing queer stuff instead of acknowledging it as deviant im actually really curious if or whether nimona is going to spark any kind of backlash along these lines my current inclination is no because its not exactly a secret that the book is hella queer and that the movies planning on turning that subtext into text but its like an actual part of the story which is a pretty significant distinction compared to just making random characters gay for no reason and not even trying to work it into the plot
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Eric Cantonese posted:I think Starbucks' particular alleged cowardice is down to the culture Howard Schultz (who you may remember from his failed run in the Democratic presidential primary as the supposed business-minded centrist) put in. It's going to depend on the company. the irony is that buckling only encourages more harassment they're still mad at Bud Light after their half-assed reversal, Target is now facing bomb threats, and pretty soon they'll be swarming starbucks. the number one mistake is acknowledging they even exist. they think they've finally been noticed by Big Brands and the public at large and will keep hitting that exposed vein for more clout, attention, and recruitment possibilities beyond the diehard fanatics already on board Durf has issued a correction as of 22:49 on Jun 13, 2023 |
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indigi posted:a decent proportion of gop voters will actually honor a boycott ehhhhh i don’t know about that. i think everyone is equally subservient to the treat economy. remember when conservatives boycotted the nfl? coke? Nike? none of these had any effect whatsoever on sales.
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Guess I've got to give reading Mccarthy another go. The no paragraph or qoutation thing drove me crazy the one time I tried to read Blood Meridian and I had other things going on so I dropped it, but every excerpt I see of his prose is total magic. The Road was an incredible piece of filmmaking that I never want to watch again, and even as I write this I can see the scene of the intestines hitting the ground in my head. Just an incredible spirit of bleakness.
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awkward_turtle posted:Guess I've got to give reading Mccarthy another go. The no paragraph or qoutation thing drove me crazy the one time I tried to read Blood Meridian and I had other things going on so I dropped it, but every excerpt I see of his prose is total magic. I tried a few times in my 20s and his prose just did nothing for me. like I can see the talent and proficiency in the quotes above, I would never claim he's overrated or mid or etc, but I'm not moved at all the way I am by other writers. in honor of his death perhaps I will give him another try
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can't wait for uncannily realistic Bambi mother death trauma. there's a scene toward the end of Blood Meridian that ripped my guts out. felt like i swallowed a giant ice cube. quote:He knelt on one knee, resting the rifle before him like a staff. Abuelita, he said. No puedes eschucharme? uber_stoat has issued a correction as of 00:04 on Jun 14, 2023 |
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quote:He worked it up dry with his hands and all the while the savages down there on the back pain drawin nigh to us and when I turned back the judge was standin, the great hairless oaf, and he’d took out his pizzle and he was pissin into the mixture, pissin with a great vengeance and one hand aloft and he cried out for us to do likewise.
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die. Still the best ending of any book I've ever read. Blew out a fuse in my tiny mind, one that has never been replaced
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I finished Blood Meridian like 3 weeks ago. All the prose is fantastic and I feel like a visual adaptation would be inferior because of losing all of those lines. Sometime come the mother, sometime come the wolf.
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Jun 14, 2023 00:37
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Well thank god her talents aren’t being wasted on stupid bullshit anymore!
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skooma512 posted:I finished Blood Meridian like 3 weeks ago. All the prose is fantastic and I feel like a visual adaptation would be inferior because of losing all of those lines. I have this insane idea that Dave Bautista would absolutely destroy it if he got the nod for The Judge. We're talking about career best, Best Actor winning performance we'd be talking about 30 years from now.
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Zeroisanumber posted:I have this insane idea that Dave Bautista would absolutely destroy it if he got the nod for The Judge. We're talking about career best, Best Actor winning performance we'd be talking about 30 years from now. I...I don't hate this idea.
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I can see it yeah. It'd either be sheer hubris or the performance of the decade
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I had a dream recently and I was at my grandmother's house and her basement was a maze and cormac mccarthy wouldn't (or maybe would i forgot) give me a plate of spaghetti
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Momoa is so good in Fasten
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StashAugustine posted:I can see it yeah. It'd either be sheer hubris or the performance of the decade Hopefully both.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I had a dream recently and I was at my grandmother's house and her basement was a maze and cormac mccarthy wouldn't (or maybe would i forgot) give me a plate of spaghetti and then you woke up
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:RIP to a legend
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judge holden should be played by that plump lil hemophilic from british bake off and no other
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her oscar speech started "the two words hollywood never wanted to hear together: Women Talking" lol
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drat I had a few to post but this might be the best one
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croup coughfield posted:judge holden should be played by that plump lil hemophilic from british bake off and no other
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If you don't think so you haven't seen the movies where he's a crazy mother fucker
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The judge is Anthony carrigan
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galagazombie posted:Foundation seems to me an obvious example of one of those original pitches the creator has continually failed to sell because it sucks. Frustrated, they simply make it anyway next time they’re assigned to make an IP adaptation. Merely doing a find-replace with the title and a few names. Same with I Robot and HBO Watchmen. Nah, HBO Watchmen was way too invested in the original comic to be an original idea. It's a huge misread of the comic and everything it's trying to say, but it's definitely written by someone who spent a lot of time misreading it.
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croup coughfield posted:judge holden should be played by that plump lil hemophilic from british bake off and no other
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the judge isnt crazy. hes just an american.
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Mr Hootington posted:The judge is Anthony carrigan Hairlessness is good, but he's not imposing enough. Even the bits of Barry where he was serious aren't the same level of intimidating that the Judge needs to be.
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