#2018 favourites

[meggalice]

#2 Brains and Brawns :)

“Someone get the medic. Get the medic!”

[anyataylorjoys]

THE FAVOURITE 2018 | dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

[inpacho]

I need more of the little turtle guys

Leo comic | Raph comic

[bicryptide]

"Rise leo is not canon queer/MLM-"

Be serious.

[ladiesblr]

Emma Stone as Abigail THE FAVOURITE (2018)

[gizzymoes]

I watched TAU recently and turns out I really like him ❤️

[whewchilly]

Carlos Sainz Jr. pays tribute to Fernando Alonso at the 2018 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

[drawingbakeryy]

i lowkey rushed this— but take it

[cosmonautroger]

Rachel Weisz, The Favourite (2018)

[escapismthroughfilm]

#210

[rainnyydaysworld]

Do it for him <3

[sugdensdingle]

My favourite Robron moments 5/?

[anyataylorjoys]

THE FAVOURITE (2018) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

[robotwrangler]

I think one of my favourite visual details about TAU (2018) is its unique approach to the whole “robot/ai whose eyes turn red when they turn evil” trope. The way the colour of TAU’s display gradually changes over the course of the movie is just so lovely and so immensely important to me.

The rest of this post contains spoilers for basically the whole movie, so if you are concerned about that, please feel free to go and watch it first! This post will still be here when you are done :]

Initially, TAU’s light is completely red - aside from a slight orange tone in the centre of his “iris” - when he is still in his emotionally blank, unquestioning, “factory settings” state. The orange tones become more prevalent as he begins to speak with Julia, and the inner rings adopt an increasingly vibrant green as they interact more and his care for her and curiosity about the outside world grow, along with his defiance and resentment of Alex.

Once TAU reaches the point at which his loyalties lie firmly with Julia, only the outer edge of his display is red, the centre being a gradient from orange to bright gold to bright green, and glowing so much more brightly as well. When he shares his symphony and his being with her, all of his projections are made up of pure warm, golden light, flecked with green.

When I first watched it, the colour change was so gradual that I barely noticed it had changed until near the end, where he had all of his memories erased and his display reverted to being completely red like it had been at the very beginning, the intensity of his lights dulled back down as well. It was such a jarring change all of a sudden, and really helped to hammer home the realisation that all of his development as a person, the things he had learned and his time with Julia had been ripped away.

But perhaps one of my favourite touches is made evident by the drones TAU controls; they, too, have “irises” of red light at the beginning and gradually change colour along with the rest of him over the course of the movie, but when the drone Julia escapes with at the end wakes up and its eye glows only green, it’s just such a beautiful and relieving moment…

I could go on and on even more about the way colour and light are used in TAU because I absolutely adore it, but this is just what I was very focused on and appreciative of in my recent rewatch and I really wanted to shout from the rooftops about it for a little bit. I kept thinking about how much I loved seeing this reversal of the aforementioned trope; an AI whose light changes colour not to signify an impending cliché evil rampage, but to reflect positive change - growth and healing, the development of empathy, remorse, self-worth, loyalty, love.

It wasn’t at all what I expected from this movie when I first decided to watch it in 2019 but it was so pleasantly surprising to me, and these heartfelt and sincere themes are the main factor that secured TAU its place as my main comfort movie.

[lialox]

I finally bought an Apple Pencil!! Testing it out with a quick HSY sketch my beloved ❤️ (I say quick but this took me way too long)

[rb9]

in honor of FINALLY racing in china again

this track is truly one of the best. it’s a gray favourite

LOOK AT THAT FIRST CORNER. I LOVE HER