#Muriel Heslop

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Toni Collette as Muriel Heslop

MURIEL'S WEDDING (1994)

Dir. P.J. Hogan

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pencil drawing from Muriel's Wedding

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2023: week 15

melbourne international comedy festival x 2. not quite back to back, but josie long at 6.30 and tim key at 9pm. both were good, although tim key's entire set being about lockdown reminded me heavily that i am sick of stand ups talking about lockdown.

this vanity fair interview with toni collette. when she starts talking about how sad muriel's wedding really is and starts to tear up, rip me because yes! it is a super sad movie! i hope muriel heslop is having a great day!

continue as a guest, new pornographers. i wish spotify had a decent mechanism for telling you when bands you follow drop new shit, because this has been out since the last day of march and i only found this the other day. i'm still marinating.

you know that really awkwardly placed cafe in the middle of flinders street station's upper level? did you know they sell pies and sandwiches and cases of fancy cakes all night? i do now! thank you for the 10pm cheesecake!

[goldlogie]

Plays 4D gender chess with Muriel Heslop

[dyingdreamgirl]

“muriel! muriel heslop. stupid, fat and useless. i hate her! i'm never going back to being her again! why can't it be me? why can't i be the one?“

Toni Collette - Muriel’s Wedding (1994)

[we-eternal-rp]

☄ 𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗨𝗘 𝟭𝟭𝟭. →    ❝ 𝐓𝐇𝐄  𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐋𝐄 ❞

  ☼ / ☃ seasonal note; we are now in mid winter; australia’s the three coldest months are june, JULY and august.

☄ →  magnetic island events; july !

+ NATIONAL GIVE SOMETHING AWAY DAY; A WEEK LONG CHARITY DRIVE !

there are four places that you can drop your donations to, depending on the type:    GOLDEN FLEECE THRIFT STORE: extra volunteers will be here alongside our regular staff to take in any items such as homewares, winter clothing only, furniture,     LITTLE WALLABY ANIMAL SHELTER: any towels, blankets, cloths that might not be suitable for donation to the thrift store, gather them up and bring them to the animal shelter where both they and the vet clinic can utilise them. any animals toys, bowls, accessories are welcome as well for our animals looking for a forever home.    MAGNETIC ISLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL: if you have toys, books, school supplies, or things similar to that, bring them by the primary school; where volunteers will be happy to accept them in the gymnasium.     + LOCAL PLACES OF WORSHIP: all the local places of worship on the island are also equipped to take in non-perishable foodstuffs and toiletries, they will then be circulated throughout the homelessness aids and support networks on the island.

☄ →  magnetic island birthdays; july !

CANCER — 8th july, 1985 + zahid naseem ( @sirenfather​ )

CANCER — 14th july, 1991 + minna gensch ( @ofghosts​ )

☄ →  showing @ pythia’s drive in!

muriel’s wedding (1994) —  muriel heslop, a socially awkward young woman, is the target of ridicule by her shallow and egotistical friends, perpetually daydreaming escaping her dead-end beach town and her domineering father, bill, a corrupt politician who constantly belittles his family. after reuniting with a former high-school peer, rhonda, the two move to the big city of sydney, where muriel changes her name and begins the arduous task of redesigning her life to match her fantasies.      ☄ + our australian film of the month.

the batman (2022) — batman ventures into gotham city's underworld when a sadistic killer leaves behind a trail of cryptic clues. as the evidence begins to lead closer to home and the scale of the perpetrator's plans become clear, he must forge new relationships, unmask the culprit and bring justice to the abuse of power and corruption that has long plagued the metropolis.

bound (1996) — violet, the mistress of the gangster caesar, enters a torrid love affair with tough lesbian ex-con, corky. in order to get away and start a new life, and for violet to leave the dangerous caesar, they formulate a plan to rob millions of dollars of stashed mob cash, and pin the blame on him.     ☄ + our lgbti+ film of the month!

harry potter and the order of the phoenix (2007) — with their warning about lord voldemort's return scoffed at, and the truth of cedric diggory’s death during the tri-wizard tournament covered up with a heinous lie, both harry and dumbledore are targeted by the wizard authorities in the ministry of magic as an authoritarian bureaucrat by the name of dolores umbridge slowly seizes power at hogwarts.      ☄ + our anniversary film of the month! (15th anniversary)

☄ →  dates of note for the island; july !

                            + MONTH LONG !

    — 🖼 🎨 🖌 world watercolour month: celebrating art and creativity through the use of watercolors, or aquarelle, is a beautiful medium that has captivated people around the globe for centuries. this month encourages people to paint with watercolour, and to raise awareness about the importance of art and creativity everywhere. anyone can join the celebration, whether you’re a master watercolorists or a beginner, it’s your time to show off your art.     — 🌱 🍃 🌳  world hemp month: celebrating the roaring comeback of one of the world’s most useful and versatile plants – hemp! this month offers an occasion to rediscover hemp and its usefulness for both people and the environment; it is an all-natural, eco-friendly fibre with many applications. as a crop, it helps clean pollutants from the soil and hemp also provides a rich source of CBD, the hottest new addition to the health and wellness world.

                     + MARK YOUR CALENDARS !

6TH JULY ! NATIONAL KISSING DAY — never be afraid to show your wholesome affection! so take today give your loved ones, you friends, your parents, siblings or kids, a kiss to show how much you love them. don’t forget to get consent, of course.

10TH JULY ! NATIONAL KITTEN DAY — 25% off adoption fees for any kitten at the little wallaby animal shelter.

11TH JULY ! SLURPEE DAY — it’s 7/11 day, so stop by and grab a free slurpee at any 7/11 store, BYO cup of any size!

15TH JULY ! NATIONAL GIVE SOMETHING AWAY DAY — a week long collection drive for gathering donations, see newsletter details for where to drop your donations.

17TH JULY ! NATIONAL ICE CREAM DAY — ice cream, sorbet, frozen yoghurt, who doesn’t love it? collect your coupon in this months newsletter for a buy-1-get-1-free sweet, frozen treat!

30TH JULY ! NATIONAL FRIENDSHIP DAY — as hellen keller once said; “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light,” and today is the day to make sure that your friends and supporters know just how much you value them. time for a friend date, perhaps?

[everyonesonthespectrum]

Muriel Heslop from Muriel’s Wedding is autistic. Her special interest is the band ABBA

Queued for August 2nd!

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Watch to the end i promise it’s worth it!

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Muriel Heslop from Muriel’s Wedding

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Porpoise Spit, Austrália. Muriel Heslop (Toni Collette) tem 22 anos e nunca teve muitos amigos, já que as roupas que usa são fora de moda e, ainda por cima, vive ouvindo as canções do ABBA. Além disto, está acima do peso e nunca demonstrou muitos talentos. Sua vida muda ao conhecer Rhonda Epinstalk (Rachel Griffiths), que também é excluída do meio social. Sonhando com uma vida livre, elas fogem para Sydney. Apesar das críticas de seu pai, Muriel acredita que possa enfim encontrar a felicidade e coloca como primeira meta se casar. É quando ela conhece e se apaixona por um famoso nadador.

[coffeesandfilm]

You’re terrible Muriel...

Muriel’s Wedding (dir. P.J. Hogan, 1994), came as part of a new-wave of Australian films that reached international success during the 1990s, along with the likes of Strictly Ballroom (dir Baz Luhrmann, 1992) and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (dir. Stephan Elliott, 1994). But what makes this particular film so special? All these films contain kitschy elements and are almost bizarre tonally, with larger than life characters, theatrical performances, and dance numbers, but part of what makes Muriel’s Wedding so addictive is its relatable central character.

To summarise, Muriel Heslop is an awkward, insecure young woman with an antagonistic father, a down-beaten, depressed mother, and two siblings who sit around the house lazy and unmotivated. Her ‘so-called’ friends, cliched popular girls, bitchy and materialistic, enjoy putting Muriel down any chance they get. They inform her she is not invited to their group holiday and is out of their ‘gang’ because “she brings them down and embarrasses them”. Undeterred, she sneakily follows them to the resort they are holidaying at, where she bumps into her old schoolmate, Rhonda Epinstalk. When Muriel’s former friends discover and demean her, Rhonda rushes to her defence humiliating the girls by calling them out on their behaviour, thus cementing a strong friendship between the two. Muriel then moves out of her home in Porpoise Spit, to Sydney with Rhonda where she changes her name to Mariel and starts to gain some self-confidence. Despite this, her constant desperation for marriage puts a wedge between the girls’s relationship, with Muriel agreeing to marry young, handsome, South African Olympic hopeful, David Van Arkle, who is looking for a green card in exchange for money. Ultimately Muriel chooses what is right, and the two girls reunite and return to Sydney together, Muriel now more secure in herself than ever.

On paper, Muriel is a pretty unlikeable character. She is a compulsive liar, she steals clothes, she does not try and get a job even though her father continuously sets up interviews for her, and she under appreciates her mother who is overlooked by everyone in the family, particular her husband who is having an affair. These negative characteristics should be enough to turn you off her, and for some film characters it would be. But these ugly parts of her personality, and her constant self-loathing, are very relatable and recognisable traits for many viewers. To put it simply, Muriel is a loser, and I think most people have felt like that at some point. All of her friends are moving on with their lives, getting married, finding successful jobs, but she is stuck at home, a constant disappointment to her parents, made only worse by the cruel jibes from her father. This builds up her insecurity and makes her resent herself even more, fuelling the cycle to continue on and on. It is a very raw topic, something that many people do not like to talk to their friends about, perhaps not even admit to themselves. But for me, the feeling of not being enough, and subsequently feeling guilty about not being enough has never been depicted more honestly on film. 

On another note, I never tire of the stream of larger than life characters we are introduced to. Personally, I find many of them to be very indicative of this era, the ‘laddish’ 90s, with its blowback to 2nd wave feminism creating a new place for men. It’s hard to speak from an Australian perspective, but here in Britain a new culture was arising, lads’ mags such as ‘Maxim’ and ‘Loaded’ were hitting the shelves, a new genre of pop music aptly labelled ‘Britpop’ was taking over the radio, skyrocketing bands such as Blur and Oasis to fame, laddish sitcoms such as Men Behaving Badly and Game On, which involved lots of ogling at pretty ladies, were emerging on our TV screens. I see many of these traits personified in the male characters of Muriel’s wedding, in particular Chook and his cronies. Chook is the husband of Tania, the leader of Muriel’s former friendship group, and the leader of her antagonisers, he resembles the stereotypical Australian surfer dude, with tanned skin and bleached blonde hair, Tania’s counterpart in every way. The first scene of the film takes place at the couple’s wedding, as Muriel successfully fights to catch the bouquet, Chook sarcastically jeers “sorry love I’m already taken” with his friends crowding around him laughing. We later see him exchange a flirtatious glance with Rose (another from the mean girl pack) and they sneak away to have sex in the middle of his wedding reception. These two instances already indicate to us the type of man he is, despite being his only appearance in the film. Tania does reference him in a later scene though, “they've accused him of raping a Japanese tourist, which is ridiculous! Chook hates the Japanese!”, effectively outing him as a racist, adulterer and sexual offender, displaying how his playful macho bravado does actually have sinister undertones. Characters like Chook, Tania and their friends almost seem like caricatures of 90s laddish culture, I wonder if they were included as a form of backlash to this emerging scene, and to highlight how poisonous it could be. Considering the levels of toxicity Muriel was surrounded by, ranging from grotesque men to nasty friends who constantly belittle her, it comes as no surprise that she fantasized about an alternative dream life and for a knight in shining armour to rescue her. Her knight in shining armour of course turned out to be Rhonda, but she did not conform to Muriel’s idea of an idyllic life, she taught her to stop caring about those who did not did not matter, and to start caring more about herself. A common and perhaps cliché idea used in films, but a very important one nevertheless. 

So... to sum up this brief digest, if you love films about true friendship, self-love, ABBA, Australian wit, larger than life characters and a hapless protagonist then this is the film for you, and even if not I would still give it a go, I am sure you will feel slightly better after watching it.

[autisticheadcanons]

Muriel Heslop from Muriel's Wedding is autistic. She has a special interest in ABBA, goes nonverbal when overwhelmed, and has no control over her expression of emotions. Playing with stereotypes, she *can* lie, and has a complex relationship with normality. Muriel has a much easier time coping when teamed up with her best friend Rhonda Epinstalk (who is also autistic but better at masking). They rely on each other and it's beautiful.

[girlflungoutofspace]

‘The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world’ - Toni Collette

[goldlogie]

love your muriel heslop icon! i haven't seen muriel's wedding in so long but holy fuck is it good

EVERYONE NEEDS TO WATCH MURIELS WEDDING. Required viewing for fans of tumblr user fratboysgonewild!

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[theroyallmess]

Muriel’s Wedding: The Musical (2017)