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THE BEAR — 3.03 "Doors"

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Oh ok so it turns out ive been borrowing grief from the future ! it turns out ive been preparing to lose the things i love rather than basking in the light of them while they last. Maybe i should nt do that

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While I love the vision for them in a when harry met sally type of movie (seriously it would rock my world) I feel like they’d eat a romance drama…

I just need timmyflo to give me one project where they’re married in an extremely loving and affectionate normal romantic relationship with zero second choice allegations (we love and respect you so bad amylaurie, they will never get you like I do) and also made by a director that doesn’t hate romance (we still love you greta)

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Matilda (1996) dir. Danny Devito

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My Fair Lady (1964) dir. George Cukor

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE 2005 | dir. Joe Wright

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EMILY BADER as JANE GREY and EDWARD BLUEMEL as GUILDFORD DUDLEY MY LADY JANE Episode 1 Who'll Be the Next in Line?

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THE MUMMY 1999 | dir. Stephen Sommers

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So, like the rest of the world, I’ve been completely obsessed with the new season of severance. I’ve been finding that my current obsessions are fighting over my unemployed brain capacity. This has translated to me consistently ideating the love triangle (pentagon/trapezoid) between Helly/Helena/Mark/Gemma/Ms Casey in severance and how that translates to the (I’m using the phrase liberally) ‘dune love triangle’ (if we’re going by movie canon) between Chani/Paul/Irulan.

At first glance (I thought about it for days) I thought the love triangle between Helly/Mark/Gemma was similar to, respectively, Chani/Paul/Irulan. I felt that Denis version of Chani fit right in with Helly’s characterization as somewhat of an outsider perspective in a community she’s so undoubtably embedded in. They are passionate and fiery (and real as fuck). Helly goes on this journey in s1 where she’s trying to get out of this severed existence by fighting and resisting. Which culminates in her last scene in s1 where, under the guise as Helena, she points out how terrible Lumon treats the severed employees. Chani similarly calls out the religious zealots that she feels holds her beloved fremen community back. The person who was at her side while she was fighting for Fremen freedom throughout the film was Paul. Similar to how Mark also became an ally to Helly in transforming the workplace and being conscious.

I think Gemma/Ms.Casey could be linked to Irulan in that they both are tethered to Mark/Paul as status of husband and wife. I also think it goes a little deeper than that. Irulan comes from the Corrino dynasty, their lineage has been synonymous with gold and known as the golden lion crown. Light and shadows are also used intentionally for Irulan's scenes in the film. In many of scenes with Gemma/Ms. Casey there is a usage of light that contrasts her from other characters. Whether it’s Mark looking at her picture, Mark looking from Helly to Ms Casey and the scene getting brighter, or the sun streaming in through the window during the Gemma/Mark kiss (which I saw from trailers/teasers, it hasn’t come out yet don’t jump me) From what little we know Gemma was a teacher, which let’s me know she’s interested in knowledge much like Irulan who is a historian and is passionate about literature/history. Gemma/Irulan are also tied to Mark/Paul as husband and wife but seem to be distant figure in the plot (Irulan comes to a forefront in Messiah, we have reason to believe the same might happen to Gemma/Ms.Casey this season). There is a mysterious air surrounding Gemma/Irulan because of it. In many ways Mark and Gemma feel destined or tethered to each other not only because of their marital status but because

Interestingly, I also think Irulan is similar to Helena. That one connection I make is solely based on the fact that they are fail-daughter (Helena was possibly bypassed too?) heirs to company/throne. Both are very calculating and poised, with pride that speaks for itself. I also make this connection because as the season goes on it feels like Helena grows interested/obsessed with Mark in a way that can kinda be compared to with Irulan writing all those books about Paul (and realizing her love for him). I think that scene where Helena watches Helly kiss Mark before going into the elevator is very layered. I read the scene as her looking another part of herself receive an intimacy that feels foreign to her, she in someways is envious of Helly because she gets to do that freely; she's uninhibited. I think Irulan see's Chani in a similar light because she is on the receiving end of Paul's love. Both of them are not free of him though, his love entraps them, as their all entwined together by destiny.

Denis has brought up the idea of destiny vs love for Dune Messiah. "He [Paul] is dealing with power, time, family and love. Which side will win? Dark or light?" It's pretty clear that Irulan is his destiny and Chani is his true love. Chani is his tether humanity and light where Irulan stands for his imperial destiny and his noble blood, notably Harkonnen (standing for the darker parts of himself). The concept of destiny vs true love playing out in severance is interesting (mind boggling and complicated) because it's different 'souls' occupying the same body. So Mark's "true love" as we know it is split; as an innie its Helly while his true love as an outie is Gemma. Helena is hell-bent on being Mark's destiny by having him continue to do whatever nefarious thing lumon is having the severed floor do while also obsessing over him because Helly was receding affection she'd never been not he receiving end of and because she looked at her as less of a person the thought of that sort of drives her insane I think?

I feel like had had some more points but is escaping me at the moment and its now 3am. I feel like I also didn't really articulate this in the way I wanted so sorry if its all over the place. All of this has been just a bunch of word salad but severance and dune are having a hyper fixation off in my head and this is what it's come to.

EDIT: It completely went over my head but I meant to talk about paulchani and their tether to markgemma. The way markgemma are separated by lumon after going to a clinic because they wanted to have kids. This ultimately lead to Mark losing her. That is super reminiscent of the way Chani is predestined to die after giving birth to Paul’s kids.

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"I have lots of wishes, but my favorite one is to be an artist in Paris and to do fine pictures and to be the best painter in the world."

"That's what you want too, isn't it, Jo? To be a famous writer?"

"Yes, but it sounds so crass when she says it."

@pscentral event 35: parallels

↳ jo and amy march in little women (2019), dir. greta gerwig

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Emergency Donation!!!

Hi everyone I normally don’t post about things like this on my page but this is an urgent matter concerning a medical student from Gaza. If you have the means to donate please do so. There’s only a limited time window to ensure the funds get to the right place. Asem will get fired from his university and return all his donations if we don’t get these funds in time, by 1/30. These are the links to the donation, please give if you can and if you can’t please share!!!

Update: he has 806 he needs to reach his goal!

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Chapter 44 : My Lord & Lady

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Lets discuss fail marriages

It’s about the fact that you're trapped together. It’s the forced proximity trope on steroids. There are more things than one that are tying you to each other. It’s a combination of external and internal factors. Some times its about the way you challenge each other, in a way that feels enemies to lovers-esc because your ultimately on the same side, as you are tied together, but you find yourselves on opposite ends of the spectrum (ideologically/values/actions). You maybe love each other but there is some form of hatred and maybe distain as well because more often than not that person is a mirror to you or an idea of everything you want to be and are not. It’s about how they fail to be a normal couple. They’re not indifferent toward one another but rather have a distinct sense or awareness of the other person. They are not the only thing in the room they notice but the most important/distinct (sometimes unbearably the person they pay most attention to). They are not in love (not in the way you think) but they don’t strictly hate each other, they’re prickled by each other and thus they are that secret third thing. Affection is not shown in the conventional ways in fail marriages and thank God for it.

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One more proof that Greta’s early script was way better

I’ve talked about Laurie’s proposals in the book, but in this movie we don’t really see any proposal to Amy. However in an early script the kiss scene has much more substance and I just don’t know why Greta decided to cut it. Surely the scene could have had one more minute if you took out that stupid letter from Jo. Sorry I just can’t get over it.

Anyway, let’s go back a bit to the scene were Aunt March tells Amy that Laurie is gone.

Now, the 1994 movie has a very similar scene with Laurie sending a note so maybe that’s why it got cut. However there’s a significant difference. This is the note from the 1994 movie:

My darling Amy. It is you I want and not your family. I’ve gone to London to make myself worthy of you. Please, do not do anything we shall regret.

Notice the difference? In this script 2019 Laurie is not asking anything from Amy, while 1994 is basically asking her to wait + that thing they did when Laurie says he only wants to be part of the family. I guess 2019 Laurie had already asked her not to marry Fred, but still.

2019 Laurie is only informing her that he’s off to work in London. And this is really important because in the movie we never see Laurie better himself and realizing that he want to be a productive member of society. Furthermore, he talks about their friendship, not a romantic relationship. He knows he hurt her, he knows she’s been loving him for years and he’s aware that he screwed up. So he might not have Amy as a wife but at least he expects her to maintain their friendship. I just think it’s very mature of him to do that.

Onto the kiss scene. This is what the early draft had:

Do you see? Do you see the difference? The beauty of this scene compared to what we got in the actual movie?!?!?! Why?!?!?!

It starts identical but then he says “I love you”. We never hear him say it in the movie! And I love how Amy is shocked and didn’t even hear him the first time he says it. She can’t believe it’s happening.

And again in a movie about parallels this would have been a perfect contrast to his proposal to Jo. He also tells Jo repeatedly “I love you” but the intention is completely different.

With Jo he was insisting, she was saying “no” and he kept pushing and like to shut her up. And with Amy he’s also trying to stop her but the issue is different cause Amy is going on about forgetting whatever happened between them. She doesn’t want to appear as if she’s trapping him. Since Laurie wrote “friend” in the note, maybe she thought he had second thoughts and he regretted it. And at least I read it as if he were speaking in a very sweet and tender tone. So it’s as if he were saying “no, I don’t want to forget and act as if nothing happened when I actually fell in love with you!”

And then he reassures her that she is not second to anyone!

But the jewel here is:

You don’t have to accept me, but I love you, Amy March.

Those words are so meaningful. Again, he knows he screwed up so he can’t really ask for anything, not from her. With Jo he forced her to listen to him, but here he’s leaving the decision entirely to her. Whether she accepts him or not, his love is not going to change. He’s being so selfless here.

I just love that she starts crying harder. I would have cried with her in the movie theater.

*signs* we could have had it all guys.

Like it would have fixed so many problems from the movie, at least with Amy and Laurie.

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I’m seated. Ao3 writers are scared and asking me to leave because it’s not completed yet but I’m simply too seated.

Being married to Paul Atreides is somehow at once tedious and precarious. Depending on perspective, an observer might truthfully describe Princess Irulan’s new life as humiliating or humbling.

Summary: Probability always leaves open unrealized possibilities. In this version of events, having fled after the Battle of Arrakeen, Chani remains in the desert for the first year of Paul and Irulan’s political marriage. In that time, they begin to break their own rules to form a wary alliance. When the one her husband truly loves returns, Irulan wrestles with second place. What was whole is divided, and though choices form fault lines in fate, fragmented futures have a way of eventually reconverging…

Act I: Do you wish that you loved me? Law of inertia: An object will remain at rest, or in constant motion in the same direction, until acted upon by a greater force.

(And so it begins!)

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Look, Paul didn’t hate Irulan, as many people for some reason like to claim. Yeah, there's all this stuff with a supposed love triangle involved (which, of course, isn't), so everyone's like, "Man, he hated Irulan, what a love triangle?!" No. He doesn't. In my opinion, he would really like to, but sometimes she told him the right things, which he himself thought about. He protected her when Chani wanted to kill her. In a sense, he regretted his attitude towards her, but he could not be with her any other way. They are both children of great houses with terrible destinies that were decided for them.