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American Flagg #4: Southern Comfort

by Howard Chaykin: Leslie Zahler and Ken Bruzenak

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Heroes for Hope Starring the X-Men

Volume: 1

Issue: 1

Heroes for Hope

Writer: Chris Claremont, Ann Nocenti, Jim Starlin, Jim Shooter, Stan Lee, Ed Bryant, Louise Simonson, Stephen King, Bill Mantlo, Alan Moore, Harlan Ellison, Jo Duffy, Mike Baron, Denny O'Neil, George R.R. Martin, Bruce Jones, Steve Englehart, Mike Grell, Archie Goodwin, Bernie Wrightson

Penciler: John Romita Jr, John Buscema, Brent Anderson, John Byrne, Bernie Wrightson, Charles Vess, Richard Corben, Mike Kaluta, Frank Miller, Brian Bolland, John Bolton, Steve Rude, Bret Blevins, Herb Trimpe, Gray Morrow, Paul Gulacy, Alan Weiss, Jackson Guice, Howard Chaykin

Inker: Al Gordon, Klaus Janson, Joe Sinnott, Terry Austin, Dan Green, Jeff Jones, Jon J. Muth, Tom Palmer, Richard Corben, Al Milgrom, Bill Sienkiewicz, P. Craig Russell, John Bolton, Carl Potts, Al Williamson, Sal Buscema, Gray Morrow, Bob Layton, Joe Rubinstein, Steve Leialoha, Walter Simonson

Colourist: Daina Graziunas, Marie Severin, Bob Sharen, Petra Scotese, Christie Scheele, Michelle Wrightson, Glynis Oliver, John Bolton, Ann Nocenti, George Roussos, Leslie Zahler

Cover: Arthur Adams

Marvel

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Legends Shooter, Grummett, ‘Starman’ Artist Harris Among Top FAN EXPO Cleveland Creators March 24-26

Artist Alley at FAN EXPO Cleveland will be brimming with talent with today’s announcement of the leading creators attending the event, March 24-26 at Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland. Along with legends like Jim Shooter (Marvel Comics editor-in-chief, founder of Valiant, Defiant and Broadway Comics) and Tom Grummett (artist, “Superman,” “Teen Titans”) and standouts Tony Harris (“Starman,” “Star Wars) and Agnes Garbowska (“DC Super Hero Girls”, “My Little Pony”), fans can meet some of the most talented and influential comics artists and writers across a wide variety of titles and genres all weekend, as well as participate in Q&A’s, interactive demonstration sessions, autographs, commission opportunities and more, making the experience a can’t-miss for comics lovers.

Comics and pop culture fans will notice a strong selection of “Superman” creators as well as themed “Man of Steel” programming, as Cleveland is acknowledged as the “Birthplace of Superman.”

Other special guests attending include John Delaney (“Simpsons,” “Futurama”), Matthew Clark (“Superman,” “Wonder Woman”), Val Mayerik (“Howard the Duck” co-creator), Jim Calafiore (“Exiles,” “Justice League”), Matt Horak (“Spider-Man/Deadpool”), Thom Zahler (“My Little Pony,” “Love and Capes”) and Joe Wos (“WosToons”).

FAN EXPO Cleveland’s deep Artist Alley will also feature Bill Anderson, Jeff Brennan (“The Big Bang Theory,” “Heavy Metal” magazine), Ryan Drost (“Stealth Hammer”), Martin Dunn (Universal Pictures, IDW Publishing), Chris Ehnot (“Half-Elf Ranger,” “Tywin’s Fate”), Ryan Finlay (freelance hand-drawn artist), Michael Gustovich (“Justice Machine,” “Warp!”), Daimon Hampton (UX designer and illustrator), Gus Mauk (“Shi No Kage,” “GI Joe”), Mostafa Moussa (“Batman,” “The Flash”), Ian Chase Nichols (“The Tick,” “Ninja Turtles”), Martin Pierro (“Arthur: The Legend Continues,” “Deep Space Tragedy”), Uko Smith (“FX The Lost Land”), Mark Swan (“A Goofy Movie,” “Monsters on the Run”), Michael Watson (Freestyle Komics), Ken Wheaton (“Futurama,” “I Dream of Jeannie”) and more. The full list is available at https://fanexpohq.com/fanexpocleveland/comic-creators/.

The outstanding creators roster complements the standout FAN EXPO Cleveland celebrity lineup, which includes Christina Ricci (“Wednesday,” Casper), Emily Swallow (“The Mandalorian,” “Supernatural”), Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future, “Taxi”), Sean Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Endgame), Carl Weathers (“The Mandalorian,” Rocky), Peter Weller (RoboCop, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension), “Star Trek” franchise stalwarts Ethan Peck and Anson Mount, “The Office” trio of Kate Flannery, Oscar Nuñez and Leslie David Baker and the stars of “Trailer Park Boys” Mike Smith, John Paul Tremblay and Robb Wells.

Tickets for FAN EXPO Cleveland are on sale at http://www.fanexpocleveland.com now, including individual single day, 3-day and Ultimate Fan Packages for adults, youths and families. Advance pricing and VIP packages are also available now, with dozens of special benefits including priority entry, limited edition collectibles, exclusive items and much more.

Cleveland is the fifth event on the 2023 FAN EXPO HQ calendar; the full schedule is available at fanexpohq.com/home/events/.

ABOUT FAN EXPO HQ FAN EXPO HQ is the largest comic con producer in the world. Collectively it hosts nearly 1 million fans annually at FAN EXPO Portland, FAN EXPO New Orleans, FAN EXPO Vancouver™, Toronto Comicon, FAN EXPO Cleveland, MEGACON Orlando, Calgary Comics & Entertainment Expo, FAN EXPO Philadelphia, FAN EXPO Dallas™, FAN EXPO Denver, FAN EXPO Boston™, FAN EXPO Chicago, FAN EXPO Canada™, Edmonton Comics & Entertainment Expo, Dallas FAN FESTIVAL, and FAN EXPO San Francisco. The latest schedule of events is available on the Website, along with up-to-date ticket information. Discover. Celebrate. Belong.

(cover image: Jim Shooter, credit: Gage Skidmore)

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To the Bone (2017) Review

Ellen is a 20 year old woman who is trying to survive with anorexia nervosa, so many family issues surrounding her start in life and battling her own fears. She has been in many different rehab centres but everything with change when she meets Dr. Beckham and is accepted to the group home he runs.

⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Great Comic Book Panels

From American Flagg! Definitive Collection (Dynamite Entertainment, 2008 (after First Comics, 1983)) by Howard Chaykin (writer & artist), Ken Bruzenak (letterer) and Avalon Studios (colourist) after Leslie Zahler (original colourist).

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Heroes for Hope

HEROES FOR HOPE DECEMBER 1985 BY CHRIS CLAREMONT, ANN NOCENTI, JIM STARLIN, JIM SHOOTER, STAN LEE, ED BRYANT, LOUISE SIMONSON, STEPHEN KING, BILL MANTLO, ALAN MOORE, HARLAN ELLISON, JO DUFFY, MIKE BARON, DENNY O’NEIL, GEORGE R. R. MARTIN, BRUCE JONES, STEVE ENGLEHART, MIKE GRELL, ARCHIE GOODWIN, BERNIE WRIGHTSON...

JOHN ROMITA JR, JOHN BUSCEMA, BRENT ANDERSON, JOHN BYRNE, CHARLES VESS, RICHARD CORBEN, MIKE KALUTA, FRANK MILLER, BRIAN BOLLAND, JOHN BOLTON, STEVE RUDE, BRET BLEVINS, HERB TRIMPE, GRAY MORROW, PAUL GULACY, ALAN WEISS, JACKSON GUICE, HOWARD CHAYKIN...

AL GORDON, KLAUS JANSON, JOE SINNOTT, TERRY AUSTIN, DAN GREEN, JEFF JONES, JON J MUTH, TOM PALMER, AL MILGROM, BILL SIENKIEWICZ, P. CRAIG RUSSELL, CARL POTTS, AL WILLIAMSON, SAL BUSCEMA, BOB LAYTON, JOE RUBINSTEIN, STEVE LEIALOHA, WALT SIMONSON... 

DAINA GRAZIUNAS, MARIE SEVERIN, BOB SHAREN, PETRA SCOTESE, CHRISTIE SCHEELE, MICHELLE WRIGHTSON, GLYNIS OLIVER, GEORGE ROUSSOS, LESLIE ZAHLER AND JANET JACKSON (NOT THAT JANET JACKSON)

SYNOPSIS

The X-men are attacked by a strange entity that makes them feel despair and end up going to Ethiopia to help people against the famine (and fighting this entity after a while).

OFFICIAL CONTEXT

CONTEXT BY CHRISTOPHER PRIEST

The most heated racial episode in my career occurred during Marvel's production of their charity book for Ethiopian famine victims. Promoted as work from "the top writers and artists in the industry-- the very best of the very best," profits from this effort were going to be donated to help the poor starving Africans. It was a truly noble effort, one the entire industry rallied behind (at least until DC decided to do their own book, thus dividing the talent pool along company lines). Denys Cowan dropped by and mentioned, amused, that he'd seen the list of talent working on the famine relief project. There wasn't a single African American creator invited to participate. This actually amused me tremendously, and I went over the list myself to make sure, but, yup, no blacks had been thought of as, "the very best of the very best," and none were invited to work on this book.

Tickled, I picked up the phone and called Larry Hama, telling him no blacks were on the list. Larry was hugely amused, and suggested we do our own charity relief book for the poor white trash of Appalachia. He and I howled with laughter, and then shook off the dumbness of it all and got on with our lives.

Only, a white staffer had overheard part of the conversation (I assume the notion of my "recruiting" Hama to do my "own alternate charity book"), and some warped interpretation of my conversation with Hama got reported down the hall to the X-MEN office (where the book was being developed). The editors became incensed and loudly demanded my head on a plate for, essentially, inciting the black talent to stop working for Marvel. I mean, this thing got blown to huge proportions, so much so that, by the end of the day, it was largely accepted as fact that I was organizing a walkout of black talent, and the EIC kind of put me and the X-Men editor in a room to negotiate a deal.

I just couldn't stop laughing. I mean, it was all so stupid. These were stupid people. It was extremely stupid to do an African relief charity project and not invite any damned Africans to work on it. It was even sillier for these stupid people to invent some massive protest out of a silly joke in a 30-second phone call with Larry Hama.

The X-Men Ed was not amused, and refused to believe me when I said I had no intention of bad-mouthing the project. I was invited to participate, but I just chuckled and said, "No affirmative action, please." And this just set the Ed off into a screaming match that could be heard everywhere in the office, "What is WRONG with you? Why do you have to make a RACIAL ISSUE OUT OF EVERYTHING?!?!?!"

It just got out of control, and the episode (along with my paying my assistant to stay home on MLK's birthday once it was ratified as a national holiday but Marvel refused to recognize it, other than the numbingly patronizing "We got us our own holiday" speech by Luke Cage in the VISION & SCARLET WITCH Miniseries) fairly cemented my pariah status at Marvel. Without saying a word and without actually doing anything, I was routinely assumed to be some radical activist who saw everything as a race issue.

I felt trapped in a world of loons. It was totally no-win, and I tended to simply withdraw from the office more and more, from people who, in my view, had now invented a justification to do what they'd been doing all along: fencing themselves off from me.

CONTEXT BY JIM SHOOTER

Pam had arranged for Oxfam America to receive our donation. Their reaction to our offer, at first, was what one might expect from people who had never seen a comic book up close: “Comic book? There’s nothing funny about famine!” Sigh.

For some reason Pam was determined that we should donate the money to them, though, and we convinced them that comics weren’t always comic. They still demanded to review the finished book before they would commit to accept our donation.

When the book was ready to go to press, we sent a mock-up to Oxfam America to review.

Their response was that they wanted nothing to do with it. Flat rejection.

Furthermore, they said that the book was unbelievably offensive and that we, the people of Marvel Comics, were racist, sexist and reprehensible.

When this was told to me by Pam and Marvel President Jim Galton I felt as if I were being called on the carpet. I was flabbergasted. I showed them the mock-up.

They didn’t see anything wrong with it.

Galton called the exec at Oxfam America we’d been dealing with to ask what their specific objections were.

Their response was that, while under no circumstances would they have anything to do with our project or with us, they would send an executive to meet with us and explain the many horrific, repugnant, disgusting elements that made our “comic book” anathema.

So they did. Oxfam America’s representative came to meet with Galton and me. The meeting took place in Galton’s office.

I do not remember the man’s name.

He was a nice-looking, thirty-something man. He had on a suit that probably cost more than my entire wardrobe. Designer shoes. He had on more gold and diamond jewelry than I’d ever seen on a human being. Jeweled watch. Cufflinks. Stickpin. Bracelets. A neck chain that would make a rapper blush.  Doubt me, go ahead. Discount by two-thirds what I’m telling you and you should still have an image of a guy wearing clothes and jewelry that at market price would feed a thousand starving people for a month.

After the greetings and handshaking, Galton, making conversation, said that he imagined that Oxfam America and other charitable organizations had, at least, gotten a lot of people to focus on the ongoing tragedy in Africa, and had inspired many efforts such as ours from musicians and performers and artists.

This Oxfam America fellow, let’s call him Midas, just plain gushed about how good for business the East African famine was, how donations were rolling in at record levels. He talked about the millions dying as if it were a great marketing opportunity.

Galton and I were stupefied. We couldn’t believe how thrilled Midas was that his business was booming.

Midas explained that the purpose of his visit wasn’t here to request changes or negotiate. He had come to save us from our own folly. He made it clear that Oxfam America had nothing but contempt for us and our work. He came as a favor, to urge us not to publish the abomination that we had created. He assured us that it would destroy Marvel Comics.

Right. Well, naturally, I wondered why.

Midas flipped through the mock-up. Again and again he pointed out black characters that he said “looked like Michael Jackson.” We were obviously trying to capitalize on Michael Jackson’s image and fame.

Michael Jackson in particular and the Jackson family in general were huge supporters of Oxfam America, by the way. Every drawing of a woman, he said, was sexist and exploitative. He was particularly offended by depictions of Storm, which he thought were more than sexist, a denigration of women of color.

I mentioned that the men were heroic and glamorous, too. Just like in the movies, stars tend to be good looking.

He pointed out a panel in which Chris had a carnival barker saying: “Yowza….” That, he said, was racist in the extreme. I don’t have the book handy, as explained above, but wasn’t that character Caucasian?

Moore and Corben’s pages? Yikes.

I cannot begin to tell you all the racism, sexism and hate that he (and Oxfam America) read into the words and pictures.

Wow.

The punch line is this: Midas accused Marvel of “stealing Janet Jackson’s logo.” He believed that the Heroes for Hope logo, credited to Janet Jackson, was ripped off.

I offered to introduce him to the designer on our staff who had created the logo, one Miss Janet Claire Jackson. He dismissed my obvious attempt at a cover-up.

No, really, we have a designer named…. Oh, never mind.

No wonder Janet Claire Jackson eventually started going by the name “Blog Elf.”

Finally, the lunatic left. Galton and I shared a moment of “what a jerk.”

Pam was instructed to find some other organization to which to donate the money. She came up with the American Friends Service Committee.

Heroes for Hope was a huge success. Thanks to our sales department, we got donations from downstream—distributors, retailers, even fans.

Can’t find the press release and the picture of me and Galton giving the AFSC honchos the PR “Big Check” created by our production department to symbolize the real check. I think the initial donation was $500,000. Much more came later.

It was a great thing. Jim Starlin, Bernie Wrightson, Ann Nocenti and Chris Claremont are great heroes in my book. Heroes for hope. There are people alive today who wouldn’t be without their efforts.

AND ABOUT THOSE STEPHEN KING PAGES

The non-comics writers who participated needed some help in most cases, which Ann and Chris provided. The biggest challenge was Stephen King’s contribution. I may be exaggerating here, but not by much—he gave us something like 5,000 words for three pages. Almost overnight, by the way.  Chris, Ann and I somehow cut that down to what would fit on three comics pages. 500 words? I forget.  Has anyone else ever had to cut out 90% of Stephen King’s brilliant words?

REVIEW

This was bound to not be a nice comic-book to review. The famine in Ethiopia at the moment had political origins that people decided to look over in favor of Live Aid and We Are The World.

Let’s just say that sending super-heroes there to help doesn’t guarantee a success (although they could have done something more against politicians, but let’s not go there).

The story is a bit abstract and the characters pretty much end up making sense of it without ever checking their facts (like the entity being a mutant and why it exists). The sequences about each X-man being tortured psychologically was too repetitive. By the time they end up in Africa (something that happens on a wild guess), the book is almost over.

The art doesn’t have a nice unifying feel. Something that could have been possible with breakdowns and less inkers and colorists.

But you know what? I understand why it had to be like that. This book was made ad honorem, and people did a great effort to just put the damn thing on the stands.

My other concern is that the X-men weren’t the right fit for a story like this. I understand they were popular back then, but these comics should attract non-readers as well (it’s for a good cause after all). And to be frank, things like Rachel Summers, Storm not having powers, Magneto being the leader... those are things of that time. Very hard to relate to. The Avengers would have been a better choice, or even Spider-man and the Fantastic Four (even if Spidey was looking a bit different at the time).

I like the message of not losing hope, and hope being the one thing keeping people alive in such tragedies... but then they kind of go back home. Leaving hope?

I don’t think the ideas in the book were brought down on something concrete or to keep thinking on. It is just confusing.

I give the book a score of 5

[ekatheshallowbird]

Nama Lily Collins sebenarnya udah sering aku dengar, tapi aku nggak begitu penasaran sama sosoknya. Satu filmnya yang aku tahu adalah Mirror Mirror, tapi itu pun belum sempat aku tonton. Barusan aku ngecek Wikipedia, ternyata aku udah nonton beberapa film yang juga dibintangi dia. Kayaknya wajah dia nggak begitu nempel di otakku ya, lol.

Waktu seorang teman baca biografinya Lily Collins, aku mulai penasaran lagi sama sosoknya. Makanya, begitu ada film To The Bone di Netflix, di mana Lily Collins menjadi bintang utamanya, aku langsung download. Apalagi filmnya berkisah tentang gangguan makan yaitu, anorexia. Menurut Wikipedia, kisah di film tersebut berdasarkan pengalaman sutradaranya, Marti Noxon. Lily Collins pun katanya pernah mengidap penyakit tersebut.

Di sini tubuh Lily Collins benar-benar kurus. Aku antara percaya dan nggak percaya ketika melihat tubuh Lily sesaat sebelum ditimbang. Serius dia rela menguruskan badan sampai sedrastis itu demi peran di film ini? Atau ada efek tertentu biar kelihatan jauh lebih kurus dari aslinya? Memang sih ada yang nekat menguruskan tubuh sekurus-kurusnya demi akting. Contohnya, Christian Bale di film The Machinist. Tapi… aku nggak tega kalau pelakunya cewek. Apalagi cewek itu punya histori mengidap penyakit tersebut. Takutnya penyakit itu balik lagi. Kan kasihan.

Buat pengetahuan soal anorexia, film ini benar-benar mencerahkan. Yang awalnya cuma tahu sedikit, yaitu sebatas ketakutan mereka untuk makan dan kejelian mereka soal jumlah kalori dalam suatu makanan/minuman, aku mendapat pengetahuan tambahan dari film ini. Apa yang dipaparkan pun benar-benar hal baru. Contoh khususnya, Lily yang berperan sebagai Ellen, suka banget sit-up berlebihan sampai tulang punggungnya memar. Dia juga sering mengukur lengannya memakai ibu jari dan telunjuk supaya nggak melebihi standar yang dia mau. Anorexia pun membuat Ellen mengidap Lanugo, yaitu tumbuhnya rambut berlebih di lengannya sebagai upaya alami tubuh untuk menghangatkan diri.

Kehidupan di rehab pun digambarkan dengan baik. Dokter dan terapisnya udah tahu banyak soal trik-trik para pengidap gangguan makan tersebut. Makanya di setiap kamar nggak boleh dipasang pintu supaya ketahuan aktivitas para pasien, apakah mereka olah raga berlebihan atau enggak. Tapi tetap aja sih ada pasien bulimia yang mengumpulkan muntahannya di sebuah plastik yang ditaruh di kolong tempat tidur. Di tempat rehab itu pun selalu diadakan konseling dan ajang curhat.

Yang menurutku kurang dari film ini adalah penyebab utama anorexia yang diidap Ellen. Memang sih Dokter Beckham (Keanu Reeves) bilang susah untuk menggali itu, karena penyebabnya bisa banyak. Aku awalnya mengira ini ada hubungannya dengan ayah Ellen. Tapi Ellen nggak pernah buka suara soal ayahnya (seingatku begitu). Atau bisa jadi karena dianggap menjadi salah satu penyebab bunuh dirinya seorang cewek. Cewek tersebut katanya terpengaruh oleh gambar-gambar yang Ellen buat dan posting di Tumblr. Bisa jadi juga karena ibunya yang menjalin hubungan sesama jenis. Whew! So, mungkin memang benar penyebabnya banyak. Tapi… sekali lagi, aku berharap banget penulis skenarionya memberikan alasan yang jelas soal gangguan makan Ellen.

Meski dia berasal dari keluarga broken home, ibu sambungnya, Susan (Carrie Preston) cukup perhatian sama Ellen. Adik sambungnya pun, Kelly (Liana Liberato), sayang banget sama Ellen. Cuma terkadang perkataan Susan agak nggak bijak untuk dikatakan sama seseorang yang jiwanya labil seperti Ellen. Tapi kelihatannya Ellen udah kebal dan agak apatis sama kehidupan. Dia nggak pernah menanggapi secara berlebihan ucapan ibu sambungnya.

Sama seperti film remaja dengan penyakit lainnya, film To The Bone pun dibumbui dengan kisah cinta antara Ellen dan Luke (Alex Sharp). Karakter Luke nggak jauh beda dengan karakter cowok lainnya, contohnya Gus di film The Fault in Our Stars. Kenekatan mereka ditengah penyakit yang mereka idap menjadi salah satu kisah romansa di antara mereka.

Bagian yang paling menyentuh hati dari film ini adalah ketika Judy (Lili Taylor) menawarkan pada Ellen untuk memberikannya susu melalui dot sambil menimangnya layaknya seorang ibu yang menimang bayi. Sewaktu Judy mengungkapkan idenya tersebut, aku sempat mengira adegannya pasti bakalan lucu. Namun begitu hal tersebut mereka praktekan, aku terharu banget, nyaris nangis. Mungkin selama ini Ellen cuma butuh kasih sayang seorang ibu. Dan mungkin ini pula yang sesungguhnya menjadi alasan utama Ellen menjadi pengidap anorexia.

***

  MY FINE LINE

    “It’s like, every time you turn on the TV or look at a magazine, it’s, “Oh, my God, this cake is so delicious.” And, like, your reward on something. And then, you turn the page, and there’s some sad, fat “before” girl, and she’s all, “I hate myself.” And then, the thin “after” girl goes, “I did this diet, and now I’m happy, and everyone loves me.” What about the chocolate cake? It’s like they’re trying to drive us crazy.”

(Penny)

  “Society’s to blame. The world is so unfair. I have to die.” There’s no point in blaming everybody. Live with it.”

(Ellen)

  “Oh, my God. Its like you have calorie Asperger’s.”

(Kelly)

  “You know that I love you like a full sister, but you look like absolute crap. And every time I ask you why you do this, I always get some stupid non-answer from you.”

(Kelly)

  “I’ve got it under control. Nothing’s bad gonna happen.”

(Ellen)

  “Susan, my stepmom, has a reality problem. You get one letter, you have a crazy fan.”

(Ellen)

  Dialogue:

Susan: She said she was taking the anti-depressants, but she’d been flushing them down the toilet. She was afraid they would make her gain weight. And I know, she has a right to lash out. Her mother Judy, she is a bipolar lesbian. Ellen: That is not why— Susan: Judy has had several breakdowns, hospitalizations. Poor Ellen had to call us one time because her mother was writing her own bible on the walls. Judy came out when Ellen was 13. The child is going through puberty, and overnight, she’s got two moms? Traumatic. It has got to have something to do with the weight and— Dr. Beckham: Sounds rough. But looking for one reason is a losing battle. It’s never that simple. Susan: Absolutely. I say that to her father all the time. He blames himself. Now, I think throwing Ellen into the deep end, real life… might do her some good. My family was on welfare. We had nothing. Dr.Beckham: Okay, thank you. I think I got it.

  “You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they’ll die? She’s kinda like that with talking.”

(Ellen)

  “Lanugo. Your body’s trying to keep you warm by making more hair.”

(Dr. Beckham)

  “I talk to kids like you all day, every day. So, I know that you are, as a rule, full of shit. You’re not thin. You scare people. And I’m guessing you like that. But the way that you’re going, one day, you won’t wake up. And I’m not going to treat you if you aren’t interested in living.”

(Dr. Beckham)

  “Jesus, Mom. Just because her mom is gay does not mean that she’s gay.”

(Kelly)

  “That’s why we don’t have any doors. They know we’d jog around the room all day if nobody could see us. It’d be like the Rexie Olympics up in here.”

(Pearl)

  “I know, Isn’t that fantastic? Nobody can keep up with me.”

(Luke)

  “When the exercise and the rituals kick in and… the cyclical thoughts about weight take over, everything else goes away. And starving yourself can make you feel euphoric, like a drug addict or an alcoholic. It’s not about “thin enough”, right? There’s no “thin enough.” It doesn’t exist. What you crave is the numbing of the thing that you don’t wanna feel. And we give you a lot of rope here. It’s scary, but only you can decide… to see what’s good, to be alive.”

(Karen)

  “I’m sorry… that I’m not a person anymore. I’m a problem. And it’s all my fault.”

(Ellen)

  “Fuck fault. Fault and blame have no place here. Only how you wanna live, moving forward. Who you wanna be.”

(Dr. Beckham)

  “If you die… I will kill you.”

(Kelly)

  Dialogue

Luke: Cigarette for dinner. That’s not gonna get you points. Ellen: Not in the mood. Luke: Okay. Ellen: And who in hell made you house den mother? You walk around here like you’ve got it all figured out. Well, if you’re so fixed and special, why don’t you go back to New Jersey or London or wherever the fuck you’re from? Luke: I am going back, as soon as my BMI’s closer to my age. But right now, I’d rather try and help people than mope about feeling sorry for myself. Ellen: You have no idea how I’m feeling. Luke: I never said I did. Ellen: And what? You wanna help people? What are you, a doctor now? You feel pretty proud of yourself? Luke: Yeah, I am, actually. I’m moving the needle in the right direction. Sorry if that scares you. But people actually go home sometimes and have a life, even people with fucked-up families. Yeah. There goes that fucking excuse again, huh?

  Dialogue

Luke: In my defense, though, I’ve been running on empty for so long that when I actually eat now, I get this crazy burst of energy. Ellen: That’s why you’re so weird. Luke: I’m always weird. That’s why I’m… assertive. Ellen: How do you do it? Eat. I mean, I see you, and I just… I get… I get all panicky even thinking about it, like the world is gonna fall apart. Luke: I feel that way. But you know, feel the fear and do it anyway. Ellen: Yeah, but aren’t you scared you won’t be able to stop? That you’re just gonna— Luke: Be like one of those guys who has to be lifted out of his bed with a crane? Yeah, but Dr. Beck says that’s not gonna happen, so… Ellen: Yeah, but he has to say that. Luke: Well, he’s pretty straight-up. Plus, I’m not gonna lie, I’m really fuckin’ hungry. Like, two years worth of hungry.

  “You know what the body burns after there’s no more fat? Muscles. Organ tissue. Pretty soon, you’re gonna be flopping around like a boneless fish.”

(Lobo)

  “Luke just made me touch chocolate.”

(Ellen)

  “Tell me it’s not the Holocaust Museum. My mother took me there to make me feel shitty, you know, about starving.”

(Megan)

  “Yeah, that’s bullshit. That voice that says you can’t. Every time you hear that voice, I want you to tell it to fuck off.”

(Dr. Beckham)

  “I… I need to do my research. And you… you need to be touched by someone who actually cares about you.”

(Luke)

  “People say they love you, but they mean is, they love how loving you makes them feel about themselves. Or… Or they love what they can take from you.”

(Ellen)

  “Listen. Bad things are going to happen. That’s not negotiable. What is, is how you deal with it.”

(Dr. Beckham)

  Dialogue

Dr. Beckham: There is no point. Or at least, big picture, we don’t get to know what it is. Why we live, why Megan lost the baby, why that girl killed herself. Ellen: You’re not reassuring me, doctor.” Dr. Beckham: I can’t reassure you. This idea you have that there’s a way to be safe… it’s childish and cowardly. It stops you from experiencing anything, including anything good. Ellen: You don’t think I feel bad enough already? I know I’m messed up… but you’re supposed to teach me how not to be. Dr. Beckham: You know how. Stop waiting for life to be easy. Stop hoping for somebody to save you. You don’t need another person lying to you. Things don’t all add up. But you are resilient. Face some hard facts and you could have an incredible life.”

  “I just want you to know that… I accept it if… If death is what you want, I accept it now. I accept it, but um… I love you. I just—I can’t keep fighting you.”

(Judy)

  “Whatever. You do this again, I’m gonna punch you in the vagina.”

(Kelly)

    COURAGE 

By Anne Sexton

It is in the small things that we see it. The child’s first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up the sidewalk. The first spanking, when your heart went on a journey all alone. When they called you ‘crybaby’ or ‘poor’ or ‘fatty’ or ‘crazy’ And made you into an alien… You drank their acid and you concealed it. Later, if you faced the death of bombs and bullets You did not do it with a banner You did it with only a hat to cover your heart. You did not fondle the weakness inside you though it was there. Your courage was a small coal that you kept swallowing.

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    MY BEST SHOT

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    Sutradara: Marti Noxon

Penulis Skenario: Marti Noxon

Berdasarkan Pengalaman Marti Noxon

Musik: Fil Eisler

Sinematografer: Richard Wong

Desain Kostum: Maria Tortu

Tayang Perdana: 14 Juli 2017

Durasi: 1 Jam 47 Menit

Nonton di: Netflix

Rating: 3½ dari 5 Bintang

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