#dev patel save me; save me dev patel

[requiemforaninsomniac]

I saw a man so beautiful I started crying?

[artigas]

look, the second that i learned that emerald fennell's next project is wuthering heights, i audibly groaned. to say that i had zero expectations would be an understatement. i was bitterly hedging my bets that i would detest her take on WH because, as someone who thought saltburn was fine and promising young woman was ethically shallow, i'm pretty resigned to the fact that i'm always going to find fennell to be, fundamentally, a bit insufferable. like, she is a director who has demonstrated (to me) that her capacity to write, direct, imagine, and construct stories is on a very short leash and is very explicitly tethered to her lived experience. she isn't paul thomas anderson or ava duvernay. she isn't celine song or chloe zhao or autumn de wilde. the worlds she constructs are very, very small and very adjacent to what i imagine to be her own. in a way that is, i think, far less palatable than greta gerwig, emerald fennell seems truly incapable of constructing a story that is not built on whiteness, wealth, and how that speaks to a very specific kind of privileged (and often self-vindicated) womanhood.

so, anyways, the casting of jacob elordi as Heathcliff makes me want to lick rust. because it's really appallingly offensive and and you would think (!!) we'd collectively evolved past the point of whitewashing when source materials actually include people of color! like, you'd think we'd finally stop ignoring how Heathcliff being a non-white racialized other is indivisible from the conflicts of the story and a core undercurrent for his character motivations. like, you wouldn't think that in 2024, Emily Bronte is still more radical than hollywood. so, i'm fuming. but maybe we should also think about this as a blessing in disguise because woe betide the day that fennell of all people is tasked to center a film around a villainous black/brown man lol

[firelise]

Stop feeding that dog. It's just going to keep coming back, expecting more. It just gives her hope. // [News: Baba Shakti today held a public prayer for victims of the ongoing land disputes, advocating that violence is never the answer.]

MONKEY MAN (2024)

[ierofrnkk]

he’s going in the trash compactor

[jonny-bee-meowrt]

had to do a quick sketch of this so I wouldn't go completely insane

[chaoticneutraltor]

[ruvviks]

i need to watch monkey man again

[officialkendallroy]

im going to the monkey man preview :3

[too-deviant]

did someone say challengers and monkey man double bill??

[peachybeesplease]

(has an earth shattering personal realization) (opens up browser) (opens up new tab) (searches dev patel) (looks at dev patel)

[deklo]

seein monkey man today :-)

[ahagisborn]

Moodboard for when the godforsaken dog you’re sitting pisses in the bed at 6am while you’re getting dressed to take her out

[mywittlecorneroftheworld]

OMG CHAT AFTER MONTHS (don’t look at me im desperate) OF HOPING I WOULD DREAM OF DEV PATEL THE UNIVERSE ANSWERED MY PRAYERS$3&;82$4&3& i can’t believe the delusions have bled over to the subconscious realm 😭😭

[dizaryswrites]

Monkey Man Dev Patel ....

[marklikely]

getting to go to the movies and see both monkey man and the peoples joker in the same month has made me raise my bar so hard im never accepting trans 'rep' that's just a token character with 2 lines in a cis gay movie or a trans actor playing a minor role that isn't even trans ever again.

[damitsfrida]

If this movie has a theatrical release in my country, I'm going alone. My friends don't need to see how bad I'm for Dev Patel.

MONKEY MAN (2024) dir. Dev Patel