D’you know who we remember for how nice they was in the 17th century? Absolutely no one. And we all remember the music of the time. Everyone to a man knows Mozart’s name.
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) | Arthur Miller, The Crucible (x) | Jaakko Pallasvuo, solitude vs loneliness | Julien Smith, The Flinch | Planxty, “The West Coast of Clare”
Yeah, OK, I finally made a compilation of Con's scenes in The Last Seduction II (1999). It's a terrible movie and his character is a terrible human. (See warnings below.)
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I can't stress enough what a sleazy, misogynist prick his character (Troy Fenton) is. He punches a pregnant lady in the face. He runs a phone sex line. He has that awful Caesar haircut that George Clooney inflicted on us in the 90s. But if you really wanted to see him in it, you can now do so without having to watch the whole movie!
Content warnings: These scenes include lots of bad language, use of the f-slur, ableist language, a gay character who's a walking caricature, phone sex (obviously), implied oral sex, horrifically uncomfortable looking chair sex, coke-snorting and so much smoking it's like the whole movie production was paid for by tobacco companies.
(Also, just a fun fact for people who did not use computers in the 90s: Floppy disks only had 1.44 MB of storage apiece! How far we've come.)
Also just for funsies, it wouldn't be a Con O'Neill project without at least one scene of him looking like he's in a sexually charged situation with another dude:
“twin size mattress” - the front bottoms // “faulty” leila chatti // the carnivorous lamb, agustín gómez-arcos, tr. william rodamor // yves olade // georges bataille // richard siken // ocean hands - sol
Ladies and gentlemen, will you please stand? With every guitar string scar on my hand I take this magnetic force of a man to be my lover My heart's been borrowed and yours has been blue All's well that ends well to end up with you Swear to be overdramatic and true to my lover And you'll save all your dirtiest jokes for me And at every table, I'll save you a seat, lover
goncharov (1973) dir. martin scorsese // h of h playbook - anne carson // @/orpheuslament (x) // wolf in white van - john darnielle // “the gods show up” - michael kinnucan (x) // @/annevbonny (x)
“In the Highway Nemesis narrative, the American highway becomes a nightmarish no-man’s land in which the conventional rules of law, order and polite society hold no sway. Journeys which should be straightforward become terrifying, repetitive ordeals revolving involving cat-and-mouse chases, near-death experiences and brief pit-stops at roadside locations which (...) seldom prove to be places of sanctuary. Our protagonists are pitted against fellow travellers who perceive the freedom of movement and anonymity facilitated by the highways as a licence to do whatever they want, to whomever they like.”
Murphy, Bernice M. “‘That Truck Driver Tried to Kill Me!’ The Highway Nemesis Narrative”. The Highway Horror Film. Palgrave Macmillian, 2014. pp 38-60.
inspired by @dogdayafternoon1975′s excellent film analysis project
@justaskingtoask more movie homework!!
@romanromulus just tagging you bc we were talking about this film many moons ago & i thought you might be interested!