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#f:eeaao #s:film #t:article/essay | To hear Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert — the directorial duo known collectively as “Daniels” — tell their origin story, it was something like withering contempt at first sight.

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Miracle Work: A Note from the Daniels

#f:eeaao #s:film #t:article/essay | Writing Everything Everywhere All At Once was a foolish prayer to a cold, indifferent universe. It was a dream about reconciling all of the contradictions, making sense of the largest questions, and imbuing meaning onto the dumbest, most profane parts of humanity. We wanted to stretch ourselves in every direction to bridge the generational gap that often crumbles into generational trauma. We scoffed at the false dichotomy of Scorsese Cinephiles vs Marvel Fanboys and instead asked "why not both?" It was an attempt to create the narrative equivalent of the Theory of Everything. A Big Data approach to myth-making. A post-genre deconstruction of traditional narrative. A maximalist's manifesto for surviving in the noise of modern life.

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the post about militarism and untouchable bodies in the mcu

#s:bodies #s:film #t:article/essay | + alfred molina's fat tits "it's Nea's appreciation for Molina's physicality, specifically the fond attention drawn to his visible paunch, that made me think of R.S. Benedict's essay "Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny." it's a good read but also a long one, so I'll summarize: Benedict posits that current standards of American attractiveness stem from post-9/11 anxiety - "When a nation feels threatened, it gets swole," she writes - and has created a national mentality of bodies as commodities to be honed to perfection without indulging in any of the pleasure a body can bring, a vessel disjointed from any sense of self and meant only to be looked at with awe."

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Box Office Blues

#s:film #t:article/essay | If this strikes you as a jim-dandy state of affairs, all right then. Someone, indeed huge numbers of someones, must like this arrangement, otherwise it wouldn’t keep going. The frustration, for those of us whose tastes do not run to Marvel or DC, young adult or children’s fare, is that we’re constantly told their obvious hegemony isn’t happening. Or if it is happening, it doesn’t matter, because there’s always TV—look at Mare of Easttown, that was great! What are you complaining about? Listen, I’m more than willing to “let people like things.” I’m less willing to sit still while I’m told, despite a mountain of evidence, that the great big corporate things aren’t crowding out other things.

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