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what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?
would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?
Screenshots of Kieran Culkin on The Graham Norton show, casually adding to the absolutely wild Eric Bogosian lore
Not me scrolling through the Conclave tag only to see no one talk about the deliberate positioning and framing of the women in this movie.
Pulling up this movie I completely expected to only encounter Sister Agnes as the one woman we see in the trailer, the conclave a space that has been kept from the female members of the church. Now, color me surprised when I started the movie and most of the establishing shots we got were focused on all the women working in the Vatican.
And it is such a deliberate choice, it does the film a disservice not to talk about it.
Because while Cardinal Lawrence is having his fifteenth breakdown during sequestering and Bellini finds the ambitious asshole within himself, Ray does all the leg work, and Bel---- we see the women work.
We see the kitchens, we see them cook, we see them stand aside. Most of the time when the Cardinals are conspiring it is the women who interrupt because they are busy working, walking, running errands.
And there is power in that.
I think it is very deliberate how often (and with such lingering gaze) the camera shows us the lives of the other half - partially to connect to the wider themes of the movie, on how Bellini asks for women to get more power but never thanks them, and how Benitez stumps them all by thanking the women preparing their meals when asked to say the prayer (considering his own probably tumultuous relationship to gender within the church).
But it also stands in direct opposition to a long tradition in story telling: servants don't exist. How often the heroes of a regency romance are "alone" because the two hand maidens and three maids don't really count.
Conclave doesn't do that.
It doesn't let us look away.
Between all the petty drama, the politics, and the real life consequences of the conclave, we never stop looking at the people doing all the work.
Yes, we follow the ups and downs of Lawrence and Co, but in doing so the movie reminds us again and again of the women working the kitchen.
And that was just such a powerful artistic choice in a movie about a famously misogynistic church... I loved it. And I had to talk about it.
Eric Bogosian in the comments of the New York Times best TV Shows of 2024 article!!!
We love this man! ❤
Source
This is so dumb but I'm directing a production of the prom rn (stay with me) and there's a line where they flip through what's trending on Twitter. Well, since Twitter isn't a thing anymore I changed the line to be what's trending on tumblr and we send them the trending list in the moment
My ask is please please please on Friday (Jan 10th) we use the byler tag SO MUCH that it gets in the top three trending and can be mentioned in the show 😭🫶🏼
welcome back troy and gabriella!
mike and el wouldnt have been endgame even if mike wasnt queer but yall arent ready for this conversation
User suremaybeiguess returns after months of silence with TRC content of all things??? Who would have guessed!
major traffic incident
I start to think I’m seriously aromantic because why are all my friends are either, in relationships, having crush or being heartbroken, and I’m just… existed. No crush. No love life. Only gay ships, coffee and works. On loops.
these two statements back to back make me laugh every single time i watch it. what an apt description
To remember..
Mike when he found out that the drawing was for him:
Mike when he found out that El recommended it:
