#Ticky Tacky

[cinderellaheist]

Photos by @thefullerview

[ominoose]

Big Gold Brick and Ticky Tacky have the same director, Brian Petsos.

Both Anselm and Lucian are both rich and eccentric.

Both have a cousin named Nick, played by the same actor, Tim Rock.

Lucien in Ticky Tacky started a fire, Anselm has burn scars.

Both Lucian and Anselm have a random younger boy that performs for them.

I don't think the Anselm is older Lucian theory is even a theory at this point, I think it's just canon.

[midgardian-witch]

Ok I forgot who said that Lucien from Ticky Tacky is the perfect backstory for Anselm from Big Gold Brick and even though I haven't watched the latter yet I did just finish watching Ticky Tacky and well

That man is so weird and wild with his decisions and mannerisms that yes I absolutely see it and accept this as canon.

[iolaussharpe-24]

I've realized something.

Brian Petsos movies don't have a lot of fans. Oscar Isaac fans like his characters in Brian Petsos movies. We don't talk about Revenge for Jolly!; we talk about Cecil. We don't talk about Ticky Tacky unless we're praising Lucien and/or comparing/connecting him to Anselm. We don't talk about Lightningface; we talk about how pathetic Basil is and compare him to Steven Grant. We don't talk about Big Gold Brick unless it's to bash it, talk about the cast, and obsess over Anselm. I didn't think this at first, because I just assumed I was the wrong kind of viewer for Petsos projects (I previously mentioned that they kind of reminded me of Jim Jarmusch movies), but the more I've looked around online at reviews and discussions, I've been finding this pattern of negativity. It seems like everyone just kind of agrees that Brian Petsos doesn't really make good movies, but Oscar Isaac makes them worth seeing at least once. And, yes, I am aware that there are things Petsos has done without Isaac, but when you search 'Brian Petsos' the first things that come up are the ones that Oscar Isaac is a part of. This includes The Letter Room, which was written and directed by Elvira Lind but Petsos does have a part in solely as an actor. Even on his IMDb page, there's little to nothing about him but half of the available information is, and I quote, "frequently works with Oscar Isaac". In my opinion, that's pretty telling on it's own. I'm not trying to be mean here, I just think this is kind of an interesting thing to note. If you disagree, please let me know. I'd be happy to debate this. Personally speaking, I've watched Revenge for Jolly!, Ticky Tacky, Lightningface, and a tiny bit of Big Gold Brick. (For the record, I know that Petsos didn't direct Revenge for Jolly! but he wrote and starred in it.)

One thing I will say in Petsos' favor: There's very clearly a lot of genuine passion and love in his work and it does show. Interviews with him, the proud displays of nonsensical strangeness, and the fact that he's able to keep making movies all reflect that. You can tell that the people involved are having fun and I think that's the most important part. I think his weakness (to me) is that his projects feel like they lack something. Revenge for Jolly! didn't feel like it was going anywhere for most of it's runtime. Like it wanted to be and do something but didn't know how. It had fairly decent moments... in the first half. But those moments only landed out of shock value, and they very quickly became predictable. (Also, what was up with that bar scene?) Ticky Tacky and Lightningface felt flat. Like bread that didn't rise. Maybe they needed more time to really explore their premises and characters. Like, if we saw Lucien and Claire together before he finds out about the cheating, or if we get to know Basil before the lightning strike. Both of these are about people going crazy, but without that sense of who they used to be, it doesn't really hit that hard and leaves you wondering 'what the hell did I just watch and why?' This is one thing I think Revenge for Jolly! understood, because we get to see Harry, Jolly, and Cecil before the inciting incident of the movie. We get a sense of their relationships with one another. I can't speak for Big Gold Brick because I haven't seen it in full so I'm not going to bother saying anything for the bits I saw either. That's just not fair for anybody.

[romanarose]

Does this Oscar Isaac media have

Oscar shirtless: 💦

Oscar with a gun: 🔫

Oscar smoking: 🚬

Moon Knight: 💦🔫

Star Wars: 🔫

Ticky Tacky: 🔫🚬

Inside Llewyn Davis: 🚬

Ex-Machina: 💦

Sucker Punch: 🔫

Scenes from a Marriage: 🚬💦

Dune: 💦

Triple Frontier: 🔫

The Card Counter: 🔫🚬💦 (the trifecta)

Lmk if I missed any of these, I feel like Nathan Bateman and Blue Jones smoked but I can’t remember and I can’t remember if Duke Leto carried a gun?

[nikistrokes]

https://vimeo.com/147472417

Short Film "TICKY TACKY"

Starring Oscar Isaac

[ivystoryweaver]

Oscar Characters #3 (can't help myself)

All right, POLL 1 had 580 votes, POLL 2 had 127 votes. Let's see how obscure roles/Poll #3 does lol

[six-six-cicada]

MOST FUCKED UP CREATURE AWARD GOES TOOOOOO

[justagirldude]

wtf did I just watch ????

[welcometofrogtown]

Housing Crisis. Such a huge issue. Or maybe an issue politicians love talking about. It's both, really.

[mama-ivy]

This little idea has been brewing for a bit. About a month ago, browsing through some fanfics I found this on the page of one of my faves, @reallyrallyauthor. I love Oscar Isaac, I do. But the whole idea of Gabriel fascinated me. How dare he be so adorably lethal.

So here (unbeta'd) is how I imagine his backstory to go.

And if you're in need of some good reads, check out Rally's masterlist.

Gabriel’s older brothers liked to hunt. They were good at it. All five of them.

Gabriel was good at hunting too, but he didn’t like it as much. It was boring.

Their father took them hunting quite a bit. Most of their grocery cabinet was wild game that he would clean for his mother to cook. Gabriel always brought a book with him on these trips. He would find his target early in the morning, kill it, and then settle down in the tent for the rest of the day to read. He like biographies. Of true crime.

His brothers liked to tease him about the books, but Gabriel didn’t care. Hunting was boring. Using a firearm to kill an innocent animal that couldn’t even defend itself was definitely not the challenge that he sought. If he were honest with himself, he would admit that the only reason he perfected his aim was so that he could make his kill early and impress his father enough that he could hide and read for the remainder of the day. Gabriel much preferred the cleaning part of the hunt. He liked the way the knife would slice cleanly and precisely. He liked the glint of the metal and the weight of the hilt in his palm. He liked the scritch noise he could make with the sharpening stone. He liked to try and skin the animal without tearing or slicing the pelt.

Gabriel imagined that if his father let him hunt with a blade, then he wouldn’t need the books. Or the shooting lessons.

When Gabriel was nine, his father died. Officially, it was called a “hunting accident”. Gabriel, being the youngest, and most expendable as far as the household was concerned, was shipped away to school where he was quickly reminded that as boring as he thought hunting was, school was far worse. He blew threw his lessons and spent all his free time at the nearby butchers where he pretended to apprentice. Really he was just honing his knife skills.

During his boss’ smoke breaks, Gabriel would go out back and throw knives at a makeshift target. That is where Lucien found him. Throwing knives at a painted pallet.

“You’re very good at that.”

Gabriel looked up momentarily at the fancy man. “Yeah.”

“What do you do for a living that you are so good at knives?”

Gabriel stopped and looked at the man. He was kidding, right? He had to be.  “I’m in between jobs right now.”

“Do you want to work for me?”

Gabriel stared blank faced for a moment trying to figure out his next move. Surely this man understood that he was a kid. This had to be a trap of some kind. “What would I be doing?”

“Throwing knives. At things that are not wooden.” The man waved his hand toward the pallet propped up against the fence. “And getting me things.”

“Things?”

“You know, things. People. Information. Weapons.”

If this conversation had started out as a joke, Gabriel no longer thought it was funny. “I’m supposed to be starting on the hog inside.”

“I mean, if you don’t want to, that’s fine, but you wouldn’t have to smell like old meat.”

“Where would I be staying?”

“I guess you could crash with me until you find a place of your own.” The man put his hands in his pockets and rocked back on his heels a couple of times. “But not for long. My girlfriend gets loud.”

“Hm.” Gabriel nodded like he was completely aware of this strange man’s girlfriend and her sexual preferences. “How much?”

“Enough. We’ll talk about that later. Discussions of money make me agitated.”

Gabriel thought about his school that he hated, the butcher that he hated, the family that hated him. “Yeah, ok.”

[iolaussharpe-24]

I think fans of Brian Petsos would like Jim Jarmusch.

Ticky Tacky, Lightningface, Revenge for Jolly!, and the little bit of Big Gold Brick I saw all put me in the same headspace that The Dead Don't Die, Only Lovers Left Alive, and Paterson put me in.

Or, maybe this is long winded way of saying that I have a weird niche for odd movies starring hot men. Both are true.

[romanarose]

Watched Ticky Tacky

Not entirely sure what I watched but it was worth it to see him licking his fingers, and dance around with a can of gasoline

(Plus Oscar smoking is my fav thing)

[the-physicality]

See the thing I love about the houston dash is having low low low expectations.

[kaiju-wolfdragon]

Sleeping bugs

[voyagerprobe]

We shouldve given malvina reynolds a gun for real