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I’ve been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it. He meant you’re gold when you’re a kid. Like green. When you’re a kid everything’s new. Dawn. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That’s gold. Keep it that way, it’s a good way to be. I want you to ask Dally to look at one, I don’t think he’s ever seen a sunset. There’s still lots of good in the world.

The Outsiders (1983) dir. Francis Ford Coppola

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Well, Clarice, have the lambs stopped screaming?

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS 1991, dir. Jonathan Demme 

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While working on the film, Bong Joon-ho called Parasite a “staircase movie”. It is an upstairs-downstairs film that explores every available rung on the ladder of class aspirationalism. The movie starts in the half-basement apartment of the Kim family, with windows that barely peer above the ground. Half-basements are distinctively Korean spaces in urban centers like Seoul, and while the Kim house is firmly below ground, it still “wants to believe it’s above the ground.” 

 A story about two homes — the upstairs family and the downstairs — reveals yet another lurking underneath. The original housekeeper confesses that her husband has been stowed away in a secret bunker underneath the Park house for four years. The Kims are shocked by the state of his living conditions.

In the end of the film, the father becomes the new resident in the bunker, hiding from the police in the last place they’d look to find him. The Parks move out, only to be replaced by a German family. The particularities may have changed, but everyone’s station has remained the same. There would always be a wealthy person to live upstairs, just as there would be another poor person positioned beneath them. - by E. Alex Jung

Parasite | 기생충 | Gisaengchung (2019) dir. Bong Joon Ho, production design by Lee Ha Jun

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Cinderella (1950) Background Art

“Mary Blair played a big part in the success of Disney’s Cinderella. Her rough color/environment sketches didn’t make it to the screen as such, nevertheless her artistic sensibilities influenced the entire production”

 - Andreas Deja

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“I wish I believed that was possible. But every time I’ve seen this world change it’s always been for the worse.”

V OF VENDETTA (2005) dir. James McTeigue

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THE HUNGER GAMES : MOCKINGJAY

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This is the hatred and bitterness that curses me! It rots my flesh and summons my death. You cannot yield to it.

PRINCESS MONONOKE / もののけ姫 1997 | dir. Hayao Miyazaki / 宮崎 駿

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“Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed. But still you find reasons to keep living.”

Princess Mononoke (1997) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

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You know, hope is a mistake. If you can’t fix what’s broken, you’ll go insane.

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) dir. George Miller

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walk man // broke bitch

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✿ endless appreciation ✿ ⟶ magnus

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question time: what is the one scene from a film or tv show that you could genuinely write a 2000 word essay analysing/ just generally expressing your appreciation for?

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— Kiki’s Delivery Service 1989, dir. Hayao Miyazaki

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rocketman + faceless

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that all you got? that’s it? i’m still here, you fucker! frank gallagher! i’m alive! you see me? you see me standing here? you lost, asshole! i’m alive motherfucker! me! frank gallagher. alive. 

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wardrobe appreciation ♡ Billy Hargrove (Stranger Things)

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