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i m watching snowpiercer i am so scared wat the fuck is this

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We’ve been watching Snowpiercer in my History in Film class, and Yona is hands-down my favorite character

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chris evans is so fucking rank in snowpiercer. like he hasn’t showered in 17 years and he’s covered in blood and he ate babies but i am like. yeah. yeah dude. after u fuck up that frozen capitalist death train u gotta call me. he looks fucking disgusting but he is so On

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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

Notable Strengths - Wide Shots, Action Sequences, Symmetry, Tight Sets, Lighting, World Building, Colour, Styles per Train Car

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

(I estimated Edgar’s age based on what information the movie provided).

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film genre meme ›› 2/8 – action  Snowpiercer  (2013) dir. Joon-ho Bong

You’ve seen what people do without leadership. They devour one another.

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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.

—Hollywood Sessions: Supporting Actress [x]

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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

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he said you guys are fucked

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Behind Scene

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When minor characters who are also ethnic minorities start talking among themselves in their native tongues, they sometimes take advantage of their invisibility to say things. Sometimes they break the Fourth Wall and start ranting about the movie director. Sometimes, they spout random obscenities or natter about their lousy lunch. It’s all in not-English, so whatever they say doesn’t matter! And the actual translations of their lines can be a secret source of hilarity in films where actors are instructed to use a Gratuitous Foreign Language (GFL) in order to make a scene sound more authentic. When some Native Americans cast in Westerns were told to speak their own language to add some authenticity, these actors took the opportunity to crudely editorialize about their director, which allegedly resulted in Native American audiences (in)explicably cracking up laughing during scenes that were meant to be dramatic.

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.

(via seasquared)

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Ko Ah-sung and Song Kang-ho, as father and daughter in “The Host” (2006) & “Snowpiercer” (2013) dir. Bong Joon-ho

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HAPPY YEKATERINA BRIDGE, YOU FILTHY INGRATES

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In the Eighties, when I was in college in 1988. That was almost the end of the military dictatorship. I was a student protester. I was part of a lot of demonstrations against the government and I would have to run away from riot police. In one particular instance, I ran away and opened a random door and ended up in a very classy, high-end hotel. I found myself in this lobby where there was piano music and just two seconds ago they were shooting tear gas at me. There I was listening to Mozart and guests were dressed up in nice clothes drinking coffee as if nothing was going on. I was just in a daze, thinking ‘where am I’? That feeling is definitely a part of the sushi bar scene.

Bong Joon-ho (x)

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"Look, Curtis. Beyond the gate. Section after section precisely where they’ve always been and where they’ll always be, all adding up to what? The train. And now the perfectly correct number of human beings, all on their proper places, all adding up to what? Humanity. The Train is the world. We the humanity."