#and the actor's performance

[prlssprfctn]

Jason Todd should have dropped the UTRH plan and go pursue the acting career, instead. Confronting Batman? Easy and ineffective. Having your face plastered across the whole city, and intentionally picking up roles in remakes of your father's favourite movies? That is scary. That is haunting.

[hopeless-eccentric]

going wild thinking about the use of Rocky Road to Dublin in Sinners. It’s a really tight microcosm of a lot of the film’s themes just by itself. Credentials: I’m a retired Irish dancer, I went to worlds and the whole bit. My family is appalachian and I grew up on bluegrass

It’s played on a banjo, an instrument with origins in West Africa formally invented in the US by enslaved people (and then popularized in Irish music through Irish American immigrants, largely in the South and Appalachia). Even the instrument telegraphs an attempt at cultural exchange morphing into theft and exploitation, especially because the history of the banjo has been purposefully obscured by white people

It’s got a strong down beat, making it the musical opposite of the swung blues sound (emphasis on 1/3 as opposed to 2/4). The scene is clearly meant to evoke klan imagery, and giving it this marching feel ABSOLUTELY contributes

It’s in 9/8 meter (with some mixed—it’s a uniquely weird song), making it, traditionally, a slip jig. Historically, this is a light shoe dance for women only (he’s dancing hard shoe in the movie) meaning that Remmick’s attempt to reclaim his own culture has been botched, obscured, and lost as he’s been alienated from it and co-opted into the symbolic hive of American whiteness/cultural orphanage/cultural patricide.

The song itself is about a guy cutting a shillelagh (a walking stick/club with a folkloric purpose of warding off evil spirits) to protect himself on his journey to Dublin, but winding up using it against a few Englishmen mocking him for his Irish accent. It’s a parallel to exactly what Remmick was not able to do—protect himself from monsters, and protect himself from colonization. It also highlights that this number is being used to threaten violence against the leads

It’s such a clever combination of inverting swing/jazz sounds and showing ways Remmick is missing the point. Since he sold his soul for power, comfort, and conformity, he’s only able to access a shadow of his culture, while misunderstanding and misrepresenting major pieces of his own traditions. Even his attempts to culturally “share” through the banjo is plowed over by his use of it and Black bodies and voices for his own individual pleasure and as a threat of further violence. It’s such a smart pick

[miscellaneouzz]

There is no better duo than the high charisma low wisdom method actor and his ride or die partner in crime.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Your beats make me sick

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[notebooks-and-laptops]

People do not talk enough about how amazing Lae'zels voice acting is. Devora Wilde put her whole ass pussy into some of those lines but nobody pays attention and calls laezel one note and angry. But have you listened? Have you heard her voice shake as she cries "what good - this heart of stone - for it to be shattered?" Have you heard the conviction where she declares that Vlaketh has sinned against her? Have you listened to the fear in her voice, the slight tremble when she is talking of becoming a mindflayer and the way that she has utter awe in her tones when she experiences something that is truly spiritual to her? Like. It's such a subtle and great performance.

[captmuldoon]

Carol Maso - The Art Lover

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

Experienced chinese actor teaches new entrant actor how to perform 'seduction'

[kimwexlers-brownhair]

"Patti Lupone isn't racist! Sure she publicly diminished two Black women's careers and called one a bitch in a major publication, but that wasn't her being racist, that was just her being a shitty person, which is her brand! Pleeeease can I go back to sucking Marvel's dick or fawning over her stage performances without thinking deeply about why over 500 of her colleagues felt compelled to call her out and demand the toxic shit she and others like her pull needs to stop?"

[cy-lindric]

Anyway yesterday night I had a front row seat for the new Les Mis production at the beautiful Théâtre du Châtelet with some of my dearest friends and I don't think I'll ever be normal again tbh

[dremiruu]

stumbled upon this video of Jana Stelleys last "Popular" with Willemijn Verkaik as Elphie and oh my GOSH??

[enden-k]

1/? actor AU (ivlk)

[rosalyn51]

Matthew GoodE photographed by Kate Peters/The Telegraph May 25, 2025

[khaoala]

cute aggression

[ariadne-mouse]

nothing funnier than when someone heavily critiquing or opining about a piece of media admits they haven't even watched it