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succession (2018-2023)

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Roman Roy from succession? I need to know

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home from school.

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ONLY 2 YEARS UNTIL ROMAN DIES OF A TRAGIC JERK OFF ACCIDENT 🗣

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"jaime’s lot was to be glory and power, while mine was birth and moonblood.”

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honestly i’m so happy i got to see succession in real time like. there’s nothing like it.

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How fucked is it though that shivs choice was between Kendall and Tom like. You can have your brother-father or you can have your husband-father but either way you are never escaping your father

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3x01 / 3x05

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“He saw that she hadn’t been listening to him, focused on her words, wondering: Yes – why didn’t she make him do this? She could make him do virtually anything. He spoke quickly because here was truth and a change of subject: ‘Would you think it bold of me …Jessica, if I asked a personal question?’ She pressed against the window ledge in an unexplainable pang of disquiet. ‘Of course not. You’re … my friend.’ Why haven’t you made the Duke marry you?’ She whirled, head up, glaring. ‘Made him marry me? But—’‘I should not have asked,’ he said. ‘No.’ She shrugged. ‘There’s good political reason – as long as my Duke remains unmarried some of the Great Houses can still hope for alliance. And …’ She sighed. ‘… motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches. If I made him do … this, then it would not be his doing….”

“The Duke and I are father and mother surrogates to our people,’ she said. ‘The position—’ ‘He hasn’t married you,’ Hawat said. She forced herself to calmness, thinking: A good riposte, that. ‘But he’ll not marry anyone else,’ she said. ‘Not as long as I live. And we are surrogates, as I’ve said. To break up this natural order in our affairs, to disturb, disrupt, and confuse us – which target offers itself most enticingly to the Harkonnens?”

REBECCA FERGUSON as the Lady Jessica and OSCAR ISAAC as Duke Leto Atreides in DUNE (2021) dir. DENIS VILLENEUVE

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god i love dune twitter

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friends I am absolutely obsessed with the way Arrakis is introduced in the different adaptions of Dune. up until now, they all started out with Princess Irulan going “okay so here is this super hostile desert planet, it’s where we harvest Spice which gives us ALL the money. also my dad has the power to decide who governs it, everyone’s fighting over it, and whoever wins is gonna get super rich! :DDD”

1984:

2000:

I’m p sure it’s not even intentional, but what a perfect illustration of whose point of view the movie makers automatically defaulted to. what a perfect distillation of an imperialist outside perspective that sees the planet as desolate, dangerous, a resource to be fought over and harvested.

and then the 2021 movie just straight up overhead kicks that shit into the trash can.

we are not seeing Arrakis from outer space, as an outside observer would.  we are not othered from it like we are in the other adaptions. we are right there, on its surface. and the movie opens with Chani narrating: “my home is beautiful.”

you’d think it’s just a small, insignificant change, but the difference in framing. the awareness. the fact that Arrakis gets introduced to us not as a dangerous material resource, but a beautiful home…! that shit is meaningful.

for so long this story about imperialism has been told by people who barely seemed to grasp the concept of structural critique at all. (I don’t think I have ever seen anyone miss the point as spectacularly as the guys who sat down and thought “Hey, let’s make a Dune RTS!”

“join one of three houses, whoever harvests the most Spice wins! :DDD” … just. incredible 🤣)

and I could go into more detail about how the other adaptions have a tendency to depict the Fremen as proud but primitive desert creatures and passive onlookers in their own subjugation, while the 2021 version makes it clear right off the bat that these are independent, capable human beings very well aware of their complex situation.

but I’m gonna stop ranting now cuz this was just supposed to be a quick lil meta on how the first couple lines change the entire meaning of everything, and how 2021 Dune displays a very welcome new awareness on the filmmakers’ part that has been sorely missing from previous adaptions.

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The fact remains I do not, will not, and have not loved anything ever.

samwena ✘ lizzo “cuz i love you” [HD w/captions on YouTube]

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I’m always thinking about how literally everyone treats Roman like a weirdo for liking Gerri… who is objectively sexy and smart. The real freak in that relationship is Gerri imagine how embarrassing it is for her not only getting into a psychosexual affair with her bosses oddest son but ALSO being an “I can fix him” girl at her big age

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no more succ sunday no more succ award season