A note from Lucy: Sooooooooo…I made apart two. Part three might be coming up? Who knows pfft. Again, pretty short due to the fact that I'ts all poetry. Anyway, I hope you enjoy
The Finer Things
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Entrapped in your gaze I no longer choose violence. My breath has been stolen from me as your face twists into a smile. How gentle and angelic of you to love me. I am a monster. But to you I am a lover. I bear fists to others. But to you I just bear my heart.And I wish to do that forevermore.
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Gentle touches spur me forward. A feeling I wish to indulge in selfishly cradles my beating chest. I’m certain you can hear it. I’m frozen to the spot with you there. You see, you have a strange power over me, Love. A monopoly over my mind. I’m almost infatuated. I cannot stop thinking about you and your delicate face.
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Please be careful with me and I will be gentle with you, Love. It’s a fragile game we are playing. I promise to put you first and take time for you. Listen to your woes and console you. Let me breathe you in and savour your scent. I promise to look after you.
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Mornings are one of the sweetest creations of god. A silence I can listen to while you rest by me. Your breaths rise and fall; the drowsy kisses and hushed giggles prepare me for the day. Take time for me too. I vow to you that I will be here if you need me. Call my name in the most delicate of tongues and let me relish in that luxury. You are all I could want for the rest of my life. It is a true pleasure to know you.
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The moon may cast it’s silver shine and the sun it’s warm glow, but no light is greater than yours. I take great pride in calling you mine, love. You are wonderful. Words have a strange way of showing it justice. And yet they still fail. The reason being, you are too divine to be understood in that way. My mind is put to a halt when I take a moment with you. Pure serenity.
jamie lee curtis reposting bad reviews of multiverse of madness in order to promote everything everywhere all at once is possibly the funniest thing she could’ve done idk i think she’s a queen
There is just too much. Too much to think about, too much to hold on to, too much to fight against. Too many people to talk to, too many restaurants to eat at, and definitely, definitely too many movies to watch.
At the end of 2016, when we started to write Everything Everywhere All at Once, we were already feeling the too-much-ness of it all. We asked ourselves, why add to the noise? In a world where everything and everyone is clawing for our attention, where billion dollar corporations see every single minute of our lives as potential real estate to be bought up and sold off for profit, asking anyone for two hours of their time to watch one of our films felt like asking for, well… too much. We realized if we were going to make a film and ask an audience to give us that precious time, the only responsible thing to do in return was to blow their minds and change their lives forever. Or, at the very least, we were going to attempt that.
Movies can change lives. Though the cynical parts of our hardened hearts often come close to forgetting this fact, it is why we became filmmakers in the first place: films changed our lives. We carried those films with us into the writing process as we weathered years of increasing polarization and a global pandemic, all the while, our newsfeeds filled evermore with contradictions and chaos. We felt the too-much grow into too too-much. Everything was stretching, all the seams were being exposed, and most troubling to us, our movies, our stories — our cultural glue — felt too slow to keep up. Film production moves at the speed of years, the world was moving at the speed of milliseconds.
WritingEverything 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. 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. And holy shit, these two clowns named Daniel were not up for the challenge.
We struggled for many years to crack the code for this script. We went to weddings and we went to funerals. Had kids, became uncles. Planted trees; the tress grew fruit. And every year, the too-much grew. We were the proverbial room of infinite monkeys, diligently smacking away at our typewriters, hoping to stumble upon a script that could hold all of this, and not break. Eventually, we got close. Close enough. We knew if anyone was going to be able to help us over the finish line, it would be our friends. It was time to bring in our crew.
If our script was a prayer, then our movie was a miracle, and the hands doing God’s work belonged to the film crew/family we had slowly collected over the course of our decade long careers as directors. Though our script would have made most industry veterans laugh in our faces, we had faith that our film family was ready to handle the task of creating a film that tried to touch infinity but with the budget of a rom com. With only 40 days of principal photography we were trying to make 7 or 8 movies all at the same time, we averaged over 30 lighting set ups a day, we used every single possible camera lens, played in every genre. We made an entire action movie in the same amount of time some Hollywood blockbusters shoot a single set piece but in an environment that promoted safety and respect above all. From the dizzying number of costumes and looks, to the clear and confident flow of the editing and sound design, every frame of this film is filled with their love, passion, and trust. We knew with our crew we could get even closer to making a movie about everything, but we would have to find the right cast to ground the blistering chaos.
Oh, lord, this cast. Between giving the unmistakable Ke Huy Quan his first American role in decades, showcasing the fact that the legendary James Hong still has more to offer even after nearly a century of being in the industry, allowing space for the iconic Jamie Lee Curtis to fully let her beautiful freak flag fly, and introducing cinemagoers to the undeniable talent of Stephanie Hsu, there is no doubt that bringing this cast together will be one of the things we are most proud of in our careers. Despite all of that, we cannot imagine many things in our lives ever topping the fact that Michelle Yeoh said yes to this movie. Not only did Michelle say yes and dive right into the deep end with us, she practically triple back flip cannonballed in. This movie does not exist without her incredible talent and her unwavering trust in our team. This movie is a miracle because she is a miracle. To be a part of any one of this cast’s legacy is a privilege enough. But to have even a small hand in revealing to the world all of the untapped potential of these Asian actors who have been waiting their whole careers for roles that demanded this much range and this much heart, is truly soul-bending.
So now after many years of miracles piling onto miracles, the movie is coming out in theaters everywhere. Working on this film has been one of the most beautiful and fulfilling experiences of our lives. We hope many of our see yourselves in the characters. We hope you laugh, cry, and throw your hands up and enjoy the ride in a theater full of strangers. We hope it gives you the beginnings of a vocabulary for better understanding the too-much and how to exist in it. But most of all, we hope after you watch it, even if you agree we didn’t quite reach our goal of including everything, that at least you feel included in this giant, messy, group hug of a film.
From these two Daniels, the cast, and our entire crew, thank you for giving us two hours of your attention. We tried our best not to waste it.
so, I’ve been watching this YT channel called Well There’s Your Problem, about engineering disasters… and they have this diagram for explaining nuclear reactors
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I honestly love it, there are some really great explanations in laymen’s terms and the people contributing are really fuckin funny (2 guys and a trans lady)
i mean this in an entirely platonic, slightly powerhungry way, but i love when people call me the friendly “boss.” like “you got is boss” or “whatever ya say, boss.” it’s so fun. like we’re in the worlds shittiest cartoon mafia
So I’ve been rewatching derry girls for the millionth time and I actually don’t think I’ll ever get over how un-sexualized the characters are. Like they’re teenagers who are allowed to openly express their interest in sex and sexuality, to pursue it and talk about it often, but they’re never sexualized by the show. Every attempt at a glam walk is undercut by the humor of their imitation of adult behaviors. The contrast between their self-perception as mature and adult and the actual reality of their existence as teenagers is basically a major theme and really shines through in those moments. (I actually especially love the way it’s approached when the girls have these crushes on older characters like Father Peter or Emmett, because I feel like it explores a real teenage experience of having those feelings without ever entertaining the idea of these kids engaging in a relationship with adults.) Like in a world where somehow explicit sex scenes have become a staple of teen shows (in a world where teen shows aren’t even made for teens anymore) I’m just really appreciative that this show lets teenagers be young and messy and un-sexy, that it highlights a realistic teenage exploration of sexuality without glamorizing or sexualizing it for an adult audience, and in fact emphasizes the way their attempts at imitating adult behavior falls flat.
