Obviously not all villains have to be white dudes, but broadly speaking, if your show has a history of being mostly white people, run by a white showrunner, with extremely limited ability to show non-white characters with any depth or skill, like…. you gotta be real fucking careful when having your white heroes take…

I think only Humbert considers the feelings he has towards Lolita to be 'love'- if Nabokov is saying anything about the overwhelming power love has to make people do stupid things, I think he is satirizing the idea, given that Humbert has absolutely convinced himself he is a lovedrunk catspaw of the middle schooler he…

The distinction (which is only a few decades old) was first suggested by the same asshole who formulated the concept of autogynephila, ie one of the stupider attacks regularly made on trans women, and also fuck you, you make the case that there's a difference in appropriate treatment, diagnosis, or attitude between…

I think that's mostly because it's a bullshit distinction that has no merit psychologically and is used only by pedophiles who want to assure you they're not THAT kind of pedophile (just like Humbert!) and people who prize pedantry over accuracy

It took me three or four tries to finish the book, because I kept feeling like Will Graham in Manhunter- you realize how successful the book is in getting you into Hum's headspace, and what a nauseating place that is to be if you give yourself any distance at all.

Yeah, there were a couple of articles about that- most of the covers assume you are complicit with Hum in seeing Lolita as a sexpot, which is tbh fucking nauseating

I think for me Kubrick's version works specifically because it is haunted by the presence of the novel- it's a lie and we know it, and every little jokey moment or sitcom interaction between Humbert and Lolita is colored by it. Though Shelly Winters' nakedly vulnerable and intense performance kind of pulls away from…

Seriously though, even in the last line as quoted- "And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita." Hum is subtly lording his control of the narrative over us and referring to his personal possession of the Lolita he created. Then too, he instructs it only to be presented after Lolita's death- when…

I think it's difficult to capture on film how relentlessly self pitying and unreliable Humbert Humbert is- he is pitiable because you get inside his mind, and he pities himself, but it's an edifice he has built to avoid actually confronting anything he ever did. He's a monster who is only charming because he's allowed…

old/go
soul/goal
new/mood
rude/news
sweet/beats/meet
any/many
love/was
old/so
was/love

lmao do you not get the idea of rhyming the word before that

There's a bit of a forerunner of that in something like To Catch a Thief, but yeah I don't think escapist tastes were running in that direction in the 50s as a rule

family guy is funnier when they censor the whole thing

the worst masspike thing is now i have to have change with me to move from exits 1-6

The idea that the Indy movies were always pastiches of the period in which they're set justification never really worked for me for Crystal Skull- for one, the vast majority of the movie is still a running around action adventure that like, wasn't really a THING in the 50s, except maybe in Westerns (which this was…

yeah, but what exactly IS a street fighter

I think that's still true-ish? IIRC that's still a thing they do

He did kill Ripley off

I kind of admire Fincher killing Newt and Hicks off offscreen between movies- as much as I liked those characters, that is kind of a baller move

Yeah, and Ripley becoming great at basketball