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Very disappointed in Ryan and Shane. This is just another reminder of how out of touch celebrities and influencers are.

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Things I noticed on my most recent “Coraline” rewatch: part 1

1. THE COMPUTERS: at the beginning of the movie we see that Coraline’s parents are ignoring her for their work, more specifically a gardening catalog they have been working on. That’s when I notified the computers. Coraline’s mother has a lap top, it appears to be brand new mostly because around the time this movie was made laptops were just becoming popular, while Coraline’s father has a 90s style box computer, he even appears to be using an older program to write his section of the catalog. How I interpreted this is that Coraline’s mother seems to be more sophisticated or materialistic. We see that she dresses far nicer than her husband and of course the Lap top. Coraline’s father is far more laid back, his clothes are messier and he seems to enjoy Coraline’s presence far more than her mother.

2. THE DOLL: the first night at the house, Coraline lies down in bed (the dinner transition) glanced at her poison ivy rash and then talks to the picture of the friends she left behind in Michigan, when the camera pans over we see that the doll is looking at Coraline as she lays on the bed, later, when Coraline wakes up at the sound of mouse, the doll is no longer looking at her, this is because the other mother is using the mouse to spy on Coraline and guide her, not the doll like she does during the day.

3. ONE NOTE PIANO: when Coraline first enters the other world she meets the other mother and she is then told to go fetch her other father who is in his study, for dinner. When Coraline enters the study we can see that the other father is tapping on a singular piano key, almost as if he’s in a trance, he had no purpose because Coraline isn’t around him, then about two or three seconds later he notices Coraline’s presence and acts giddy and excited and plays the “making up a song about Coraline” piece. I took this as the other mother “activating” the other father the second Coraline was near him.

4. NO FOOD?: the iconic dinner scene. On Coraline’s first night in the other world, the other mother cooks her an elaborate welcome dinner. During this dinner Coraline piles the food onto her plate (it’s appearance and likely taste is far better than her fathers tragic cooking in the real world) and then we see the other father, who also piles food onto his plate, but there’s one outlier here, the other mother. The other mother doesn’t pile food onto her plate, despite spending time on an elaborate dinner, which you’d then expect she’d want to feast on her labors, she sits there, her porcelain plate empty as she watches the others eat. I interpreted this in two way. First, the other mother is ancient, she doesn’t need to eat to survive. At least, she doesn’t eat food to survive, she eats the souls of children. Secondly, she is far more focused on Coraline, pleasing the blue-haired eleven year old girl and manipulating her rather than the food, and eating it like a regular “human being”

5. SMART COOKIE: once again this takes place during the dinner scene. Coraline has just received her welcome home cake when the other mother offers for them to play a game. At this point Coraline is growing a little suspicious for a number of reasons. She likely got a gut feeling that something a little malicious and uncanny was happening, the other mother and the other father knew she was coming based off of what the cake said (there’s no way they should’ve known she was coming, without magic of course), then the other mother asks to okay a game Coraline’s mother in the real world hate games. But we really see her first grow truly uncomfortable when the other mother taps her fingers against the table, something that Coraline’s real mother does quite frequently. It is clear that the other mother made this movement in an attempt to make Coraline feel comfortable, to make her feel like she was around her actual mother, but the girl doesn’t fall for it. She actually finds it strange and it just tacks into the pile of strangeness that has taken over the dinner. Then the lightning strikes after Coraline says there is no rain and at this point Coraline is deeply unsettled. She’s one smart cookie if you ask me.

6. “SEE YOU SOON”: despite the fact that Coraline showed extreme discomfort at dinner and on the way up to her bedroom the other mother and the other father say “see you soon” as she falls asleep. I interpreted this as: The other mother knew that the talking stuffed octopus and the chomping turtle wouldn’t convince Coraline something weird wasn’t going on there or wouldn’t ease that discomfort, but she did know that creating false versions (Coraline doesn’t know this) of Coraline’s “best trolls” aka her best friends from Michigan would comfort her and make her more open to coming back. She knew that Coraline would come back, she knew that she won this round simply based off of bringing Coraline’s “best trolls” to life.

This is where I stopped. I got tired lol. I will continue watching and update more on what I notice

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I feel like nobody ever talks about Stanley Kubrick and how abusive he was as a director. I am a big fan of his films but I definitely recognize his abusive behavior, so here are some questionable things he did

1. In “A Clockwork Orange” Malcolm McDowell filmed one of the most iconic films in cinema, the ludovico experiment scene. Where his character Alex, has his eyes held open and he is forced to watch violent scenes. When Kubrick showed him a reference photo for the scene, Malcom McDowell said something along the line of “hell no” but he did it anyway. As a result he has a cornias scratched which led to long term eye issues. Unfortunately Kubrick revealed that he wanted a closeup of McDowell’s eye and he had to film the scene for a second time where he ultimately scratched his Cornias for a second time.

2. Emotional Abuse to Shelley Duvall. Shelley Duvall is most iconic for her role in “The Shining” and it definitely wasn’t an easy roll for her to play. Kubrick isolated Duvall from others on set, and even convinced people not to talk to her and to ignore her. Additionally he would repeatedly yell at Duvall if she made a mistake during a scene and when Duvall would ask him for direction, he would also scream at her. This lead to severe anxiety and mental distress which resulted in Duvall’s hair to fall out in large quantities. Afterwards Duvall slowed her acting career to a stop as a result of the trauma.

3. Eyes wide shut. Stanley Kurbricks final film was “Eyes Wide Shut” starring Tom Cruise and his at the time wife Nicole Kidman. In order to create distance between Cruise and Kidman (if you’ve seen the film you would understand) Kubrick would forbid her from telling Cruise what she did on set on the days he wasn’t there. Though this isn’t as bad as the other things I felt I had to mention it considering it likely created a rift in Cruise and Kidmans relationship.

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One thing that I found interesting about Saltburn (2023) is the costume and makeup choices. Venetia has a terrible bleach job. Her roots are showing and admittedly it looks like she did it herself. Her makeup is sloppy, and her clothes are mismatched at times. I thought this was interesting considering the Cattons are rich and she’d be able to afford a good dye job and I bet someone would have taught her how to do makeup. This proves that Venetia has seperate herself from her families wealth.

“Poor Dear Pamela” also doesn’t exactly look like someone who would hang around the Cattons. Her hair is dyed a bright red and She has a good amount of visible tattoos. This is interesting because she isn’t exactly someone that the Cattons would typically choose to spend their time with, making me think that the Cattons simply allow her to be around because it makes them look good. Taking on a “charity case” such as Oliver and allowing someone far different than them to stay with them.

I believe that Felix and Venetia are very disconnected with their wealth. Felix likely felt a need to flaunt his wealth at Oxford due to the attention he was receiving and likely felt like he didn’t have a choice. The kids are definitely disconnected from the wealth but I believe Venetia is far more disconnected. Felix likely doesn’t feel a need for wealth but enjoys the pleasures that the lifestyle gives him

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I would love a Marvel show about a regular human just living their life in NYC. Like imagine them receiving a letter saying they’re late on their “Avengers Damages” insurance payments. To make the show more interesting they could even have the mc work at the Daily Bugle. The character could also have run ins with Marvel characters. Like say their best friend is suing someone and they hire Matt Murdock or the mc accidentally hits Peter Parker with their car or something.

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An exploration of themes in Netflix’s “Leave the world behind”

1. Societies reliability on technology and the side effects of this reliability. One example of this is Ethan Hawke’s character Clay. Clay attempts to drive back to town so he can buy a newspaper and hopefully come across someone who knows something about the blackout. Unfortunately Clay gets lost on the way to town due to the fact that his cars GPS isn’t working. If he hadn’t relied so heavily on technology he would’ve known how to read a map and likely would’ve made it to town.

2. Societies distrust in humanity. One theme that I immediately noticed is the characters distrust of other characters. Julia Roberts’ character Amanda immediately distrusts George and Ruth, while their spontaneous arrival is strange she immediately didn’t trust them (the second she heard them knock on the door she didn’t trust them). We as an audience also experience distrust. When we first see Kevin Bacon’s character Danny we think he is odd and is likely going to be a possible villain due to this odd behavior. When Rose and Archie come across the tool shed in the middle of the woods I presume most of the films audience thought someone creepy likely resided there. This growing distrust that society holds for humanity is caused by are easy access to negative media (petty and major crimes are reported more often) and due to our growing obsession with true crime which has made us paranoid and distrustful of even the kindest of people.

3. Sometimes old is better. The teslas. If your remember just after the halfway mark of the film, Amanda and Clay decide that it’s best to leave to Scott’s house and go to Amanda’s sisters house in Jersey. On the way there they come across a pile up of Teslas and nearly get killed by oncoming teslas. This is because Teslas contain a self driving feature. This feature is purely technological which is how the hackers were able to manipulate the Teslas self driving feature in order to isolate communities.

4. Violence in the media. This is a rather small theme but remember when the flyers are thrown from the drone and Clay is absolutely terrified. Well the flyers said you know what (I don’t want to get reported or banned) Archie immediately knew what these flyers said due to the fact that he saw that exact same phrase in a video game.

5. Our hatred, yet reliability on humanity. This movie has one major theme and it first appears in the beginning of the movie. Amanda reveals that one of the prime reasons why she wanted to go on vacation was because she wanted to get away from people. Ruth is consistently harsh and downright disrespectful to Clay and Amanda and everyone in the family shows an annoyance to Rose, the youngest child. It’s obvious that 90% of the characters don’t actually like people and dislike socializing yet the characters consistently attempt to rely on the news and fellow people in an attempt to figure out what’s going on.

6. Age leads to discredit. Rose is probably one of the smartest characters in the film. She consistently takes note of small details such as the sirens and the deer, unfortunately everyone around her including her own parents consistently ignore what she has to say and discredit her intelligence as simply being the musings of a 13 year old. It is obvious that everyone (meaning Clay, Amanda, Archie, and Rose) don’t have any respect for each other and because of this lack of respect they aren’t a cohesive family whatsoever and they consistently get in little tiffs about the dumbest of things.

These were just some things I noticed while watching the film.