Hm. Katie Rife’s absence on this will frustrate me. Especially the opportunities for her laughter.

Essentially playing possum, this weekend.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/mar/18/the-falcon-and-the-winter-soldier-review-marvel-disney-plus-avengers

On the other hand, I could start a flamewar with my earlier self, and he wouldn’t be able to argue back.

I just can’t unsee Yaphet Kotto now.

Yeah. The problem with that in that, in french, “Anon” means literally “offspring of an ass”.

Everything’s ok with the alien spacecraft from planet 10 and we should not go ahead and destroy Russia.

Aha, ok.

“We live in a society” was a stock phrase used unironically by a lot of incels and “nice guys”

It all started in 2018 when someone named Bill Wilson made a petition asking Joaquin Phoenix to say “We live in a society” in Todd Phillips’ Joker.

It’s a spectacularly stupid point, but it doesn’t equate with “being trans is some sort of highly convoluted ploy to gain access to women’s restrooms”. Those kind of translations are dishonest.

Fun fact : I was already watching it “at my leisure”.

Which means checking AVClub titles every three weeks only ?

Yeah, Huppert is always terrifying, whatever the movie. I always find that she acts too well for cinema, it’s unsettling. I have these huge theories about her not acting but downright lying. Or her not being aware that it’s fake, and truly believing it all happens for real. Both hypotheses being equally frightening.…

Yeah, the french did quite a few transpositions that worked surprisingly well. One of my favorite movies of all time, “Clean Slate” by Tavernier with Noiret, Huppert, Marielle (and just a spectacular array of top notch actors), transposes Jim Thompson’s “Pop. 1280" to colonial Africa. The effect is fantastic.

The Cry Of The Owl by Patricia Highsmith

The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood by Sam Wasson

It would make transitions, and in-between moments, difficult.

Yeah. It’s a good example. In practice, I tend to forget who is or isn’t bulletproof, for instance. Because the line gets blurred.

All the former does is push them away, reinforce their “everyone to my political left is out to get me” mentality. Reaching out to an extremist is like staging an intervention for substance abuse but handled more carefully, it needs to take some form of “I care about you and I’m on your side, but these nasty things…