just waiting to get revenge on the aliens who did this to me
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they’re gonna Shutter Island him on an Amtrak full of babies to kiss and women to grope when the dementia fully takes over
Schoenbrun makes movies that—in the best way—miss me on the first go-round then refuse to leave my head. A true long-haul filmmaker that we’ll still be talking about decades from now. Can’t wait.
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oh my god he really just is going straight to the UAE lmao
Cue the Fincher clip where he throws a stuntman down the stairs 40 times and doesn’t tell him he went with the second take
the ending plays like a beautiful punchline. he spends three hours raging like a bull in a china shop in the name of His Purpose only to see that purpose disintegrate in his hands. it’s the only time I don’t second-guess his intentions.
just finished my semi-annual rewatch of Generation Kill last week. you gleaned his lived-in relationships with characters just through a glance or the tone of a wisecrack. his biggest curse was making it look easy.
Even more diffuse than the film-borne strain of Malickia is his effect on television advertisements. I think his influence has reached 10x more viewers through his influence on commercial and creative directors.
For the latest issue of The Yale Review, I wrote about Terrence Malick's massive influence on modern American filmmaking. yalereview.org/article/bilge…
It just dawned on me that not everyone doing the Ella McCay challenge actually went to see the movie
