#absolutely brilliant performance

[philiponmycracker]

The incredibly talented and gorgeous Tom Hulce as Ivan Sanchin, from The Inner Circle (dir. Andrei Konchalovsky, 1991)

[mediademon]

Anatomy of a Fall (2023) dir. Justine Triet

[possession1981-moving]

JUNG EUN-JI as Lee Mi-jin MISS NIGHT AND DAY (2024) Dir. Lee Hyung-min | Ep. 1

[minjoongism]

hi! i was intrigued by your tag that said San of ateez was not just born to dance but also forced to. would you mind explaining what you meant? thanks!

hi! i can definitely have a go :) maybe "born to perform and incredibly also forced to perform" would have been more apt in hindsight, but i still think the dance thing is applicable. 

re: born to dance, the sort of general kpop sphere fan-perception of him as a dancer is something that's interested me as far as i've seen during my limited time knowing ateez because i've seen a lot of (usually ateez anti-minded, admittedly, but it's interesting that they bring up the Same Criticism every time) people criticising him for being an over-dancer and then similarly a lot of people, including fans of the group, say that while he's a good performer, his technique as a dancer is something that's lacking a little. like - no matter whether they like or dislike ateez/san, there seems to be at least a semi-common line of thinking that's repeated over and over again about san being heavy on performance but ultimately not as polished technique-wise.

and it's just interesting to me because san's technique as a dancer is something that stood out to me when i started watching ateez performances properly, and it's also something that i've seen actual dancers highlight as one of his strengths. i think a lot of people fall into the trap of thinking that if someone is a particularly incredible performer, it must be to hide the fact that their actual dancing is in some way lacking (or vice versa for other people - "x is technically incredible, but they have no stage presence/their vocals are lacking"), and then when they hear it applied to someone (e.g. san) they just repeat it without really thinking to challenge it, but with san i don't think that's the case at all. 

i was actually really surprised when i learned that he didn't really have any dance training to begin with, because it just looks like something he's meant to do. like, this guy was born to move. him having a background in martial arts makes more sense though, because his bodily control is insane. his isolations are incredible, he's ridiculously flexible, and sharpness in dance is always enjoyable to watch but more than that the thing that gets me about san + dancing is just how fluid he is. there are plenty of examples but watch any it's you performance and ifl it's kind of obvious what i mean here.

i also like that he pulls from a wide range of styles. kpop, from what i've seen so far, is a hiphop heavy genre when it comes to the way male idols dance, and i just think it's really neat to see someone like san who clearly borrows from a massive range of styles and does it all incredibly well.

on the perform aspect, i don't think i need to go into too much detail re: born to perform, because the guy gives his everything onstage and embodies every single song in a way that's immediately immersive. i don't think he's actually forced to perform in the standard sense - it's part of the meme sentence i was parodying - but the thing that fascinates me about san is just how different on-san and off-san seem to be. 

like, if i only watched ateez performances and not any of their other content or lives or social media accounts, i guess i could sort of see how the more common fan-perception of san is formed. but he's just so different off-stage in a way that's more dramatic than most of the other guys, at least to me. it goes without saying that they're all incredibly multifaceted because i'm talking about real people here, but for people like yunho, or wooyoung especially, or jongho, i feel like there's a pretty cohesive identity formed between their on-stage and off-stage personas because every complex aspect of their personality is in some way advertised everywhere. mingi meanwhile more seems to match the vibes of whoever he's in front of at least from what i've seen, and then san gives me such powerful whiplash that i'm like wait, this is the guy people are portraying like that? i'm getting something completely different! and now even when i see san the onstage performer, i can't quite separate him from san the offstage idol, so i still can't quite see the more common fan* perception in full.

(*a lot of this comes from western/english speaking fans, and obviously, korean culture/masculinity/everything else is something that's inevitably going to be completely different to western culture/masculinity/everything else, but even looking at it through a western lens i'm still surprised by how differently i read things)

it's just something i've noticed re: celebrities but especially idols - they get assigned a persona or a set of traits that then become canon and unchangeable with no room for anything else at least for Some People, and then it becomes part of their idol persona, and then everything they do gets read through that lens. it's a bit like wooyoung + the feminine perception to bring in another example of a perception of someone in ateez that i don't fully see personally.

ANYWAY. i'm not even sure if all this makes sense i'm Very Sorry lmao. and i'll not go into the specifics here re: san and his Everything from my perspective because i've already been typing for a while and ALSO i'm very new to ateez and still trying to get to grips with everything so i'm fully expecting my understanding of everyone to evolve 100000 times in the next few months, but tl;dr i love san, i love his dancing, i love the way he performs, i want to bite him about it

[mariocki]

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)

"You have one choice, boy: sex or the saw. Sex is... well, nobody knows. But the saw, the saw is family."

[erbiumspectrum]

x

[scootersscooter]

Not seeing nearly enough love and appreciation for James Tolbert as the Prince in Cinderella's Castle

[long-suffering-little-spoon]

Not sure how hot a take this is but Twelve had the best regeneration sequence (at least in NuWho) by a landslide like good fucking god

[hellboys]

WE ARE SO BACK BABY (just watched saw x)

[justarandombrit]

So, I watched Fed's Backyard Theatre's RTC production...

This is only the stuff I've drawn so far. I really want to draw Monique (the costume was 😙👌) and SABM Ricky, because that massive glowing cape was magnificent. I might also draw Ocean in her red waistcoat and Mischa being all gangster to do the full set.

[ghosts-of-love]

i just saw the history boys play and oh my GOD I wish I could commit it all to memory, there were so many incredible parts of it. I can't believe it. I'm in awe!!!!!

[witchofthemidlands]

BAD SISTERS || Chopped Liver

This reads like an incorrect quote but this is, in fact, an actual line from this show in a conversation between the two most serious characters in this series.

[mangio-formaggio]

Had HSM trilogy marathon recently and now I'm in desperate need of the Part 4 where everyone have a middle life crisis. It would fix me and my quarter life crisis.

[bakedgoodsforbucky]

Thinking about tbosas from the other perspective is so funny to me because imagine you’re Lucy Gray and the way you make a living is by singing and being a charming, charismatic performer. The people in your district love you, you have a nice family, sure your parents are dead but things aren’t so bad.

Then you get Reaped because your boyfriend cheated on you - so now you have to fight for your life in an arena.

When you get to the Capitol you’re met by a guy around your age who says his job is to take care of you in the arena, so you figure you should probably use some of those charms you live by on him so you have a better chance at survival. So you flirt with him a little, save his life etc. It works! He helps you! Now you’ve won the Hunger Games! You get to go home and see your family! Thank you random Capitol guy for your help, bye bye now.

And then you’re singing on stage, with your family who you literally killed people to see again, thrilled to be alive and this fuckin Capitol guy has followed you home.

Oh and also he’s a peacekeeper now so is legally allowed a gun.

And now he kind of won’t leave you alone - the charm worked too well and he’s obsessed with you. Brilliant. But you’re a survivor. So you let him get closer, just enough to feel safe. And as you get to know him better, maybe you’re thinking, hey this guy isn’t so bad, he’s kind of cute with his buzzcut and he seems to really like you, maybe this could be something. Also it might be useful to have a peacekeeper on side - everything in your district is about survival.

Things are going well, you write a song about him, he cries, your little cousin loves him.

And then he murders someone in front of you and you’re like oh shit he crazy. And THEN you realise that because of the person he murdered, the mayor is now out for your blood and you’re probably gonna die so you have to get out of there ASAP so you say bye to this guy and he INVITES HIMSELF TO YOUR ESCAPE PLAN and you have to be like “oh sure, that’s super news, would absolutely love to have you along with me, I’m so glad you asked.�� So now you’re stuck with him again.

And THEN you’re in the middle of escaping and he fuckin tells you he’s murdered an extra person you didn’t know about and when you ask him who, he says his old self and now you’re thinking oh shit he CRAZY crazy. And THEN he finds the gun he used and you realise that if he destroys that evidence then you’re the only loose end and he has a kind of crazy look in his eye so you’re like, okay time to nip this in the bud, I’m outta here gotta go pick some katniss. So you run away from him and THEN he follows you again and fuckin shoots at you so you run FASTER and now you’ve disappeared and no one will ever find out what happened to you which drives him absolutely crazy for 60+ years.

Oh and also they’re going to erase all footage of your Games so no one will remember you and he’s going to become a tyrannical dictator who has personal beef with three different sixteen year olds from your district over the years, all because you hurt his feelings one time.

[ginkovskij]

If you had to, which would you choose between Rashomon and Seven Samurai? 😈

don't do this to me ):

[onwhatcaptain]

And to add on to this, he's got even the small mannerisms down. I noticed this additional little detail.

Paul Wesley is a fantastic James Kirk.