Gillian Anderson being an agent of chaos while filming The X-Files | bloopers/behind-the-scenes compilation
18 photos from a trip to the set in Season 3 - Including one of the studio as it looked from outside in 1996, via Reddit
QUEENDOM — WOMANHOOD & SELF LOVE
queendom is not only a "body swap" romance, it's an exploration of the complexities of womanhood. this is a story about two women who don't fully like themselves in their own bodies and must unlearn those feelings through a journey of self-acceptance.
the patriarchy teaches women to compare themselves to each other: who is prettier, more successful, more popular. this is to the point where women can't see the beauty (both internal and external) in themselves anymore. the world fears a woman who sees her value.
switching bodies allows rey and print to see themselves from someone else's perspective. they see both their own "flaws" and each other's "flaws", which allows themselves to truly understand and love themselves, and each other, at the same time.
the deep connection these two women have for each other is more than physical attraction. their love for each other exists beyond the confinements of their physical bodies. they are in each other's bodies, but they are in love with each other's soul.
"i want this series to give strength to women and girls around the world.." - queendom's director, tawan panusittikorn, talking about her intentions for queendom.
tawan: in thailand, we have come very far embracing the queer community, and i think that's the whole point for me. i want queerness and lesbianism to be completely embraced. i just want everyone to feel like they're completely embraced. for women, especially, i want this series to give strength to women and girls around the world that we can be anything. we can be strong, but also stupid. we can glamorous and bratty, we can be vulnerable and cringy. we can be whatever we are. we can embrace who we are.
PRACTICAL EFFECTS! YAAAASSSS!
Éric Bogosian (Daniel Molloy) describing how Armand (played by the talented, amazing, beautiful, otherworldly Assad Zaman) approaches his relationship with Daniel.
Eric is hilarious, he’s really having the time of his life.
Love how Miyazaki lost his shit
Imagine the validation of having Hayao Miyazaji be so delighted at your choice!
oH RIGHT This was before LotR pioneered cgi for massed crowd behavior
There was so much cool cgi in those movies I just assumed all the clones were too but back then I guess they still couldn’t really be
this is so sexy
I wonder what happened to all the agent smith masks
I can actually answer this! So the latex/rubber they used, while standard for Hollywood at the time, reacted REALLY BADLY to being doused in pouring water nonstop for an entire day of shooting. They ended up corroding, which caused them to stink really badly and glob together at the seams. The original plan was to hand out masks to various crew members on the final day of shooting as souvenirs, but the sopping wet, melting, rotting rubber got so gross that by the end of that shooting day they’d already thrown most of them out. Somewhere in a landfill are hundreds of disgusting, bloated, slimey Hugo weaving heads fused together into a nightmarish rotting amalgam :)
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Behind the scenes photos of Max Payne for the graphic novel cutscenes. Small team Passion Freedom to make anything Simple ingredients make great projects
"This film was an incredible opportunity for me. And more than anything, I thought it was an opportunity for me to write a love letter to cinema, to all the things I love about going to the movies. [...] In many ways it's most important movie I've made, straight for me to all of you." - Ryan Coogler
SINNERS (2025) BEHIND THE SCENES (1/2)
Dir. Ryan Coogler
emperor kuzco was clearly gay
hes 19, with unlimited power, and he ain’t got a gf. the only time we see him interact with any women his own age is when he’s rejecting like 7 of them rapid fire. he pretends to date pacha in a gag that lasts like 10 solid minutes. listen to me god damnit
Okay, but just in case anyone is coming to tumblr dot com for my hot takes on 20+ year old kids' movies: Kuzco super WAS gay (or at least coded as such) and of course, I didn't get it until I watched it as a gay grownup.
He is played obviously camp and dramatic, for a start, and there is the aforementioned "hate your hair/not likely/yikes yikes yikes/let me guess you have a great personality" summary dismissal of all his potential brides. Then he spends dinner asking Yzma about Kronk ("so he seems nice? He's what, in his late twenties?") and otherwise being slightly obsessed with him.
Then there is the whole Adventure of Doom with Pacha, him being ever huffy about the Kiss of Life, and then the restaurant gag where Kuzco takes to playing Pacha's fake wife and dressing up in ladies' clothing with great gusto (reinforced by the waitress' "bless you for coming out in public" remark when Pacha says they're on their honeymoon). Then when he is finally de-llamafied, we don't see him paired off with the obligatory girl from the lineup earlier, as might otherwise be expected in a Disney movie. Instead he is still single, but goes to found family it up with Pacha, Chica, Kronk, etc, which dare we remark is a very queer trope.
In short, I have no idea how a Disney movie with no white people (all the characters are Indigenous/people of color), a gay king, cross-dressing jokes, and the most offbeat plot of all time actually ever got made (can you imagine the Family Friendly Mouse doing that today? Let us also talk about Kronk because he is a brilliant deconstruction of both toxic masculinity and the musclebound henchman stereotype.) Other than that this was the Chaos Hour of animated movies in the late 90s/early 2000s, and yes.
So yes. There you have it. I will not be taking criticism at this time.
In response to the question “How did a movie like this get made at all much less by fucking Disney?” there was a recent Vulture article that outlines the whole shit show of a history behind this film according to everyone (writers, directors, VAs, Stings) involved. The gist of the story is that they fucked up making a whole, true-to-form Disney musical that never came to see the light of day SO BADLY that Disney switched directors, locked the writer’s room, and didn’t review a single script until weeks after the film was in theaters.
Please, read this article if you have some time. This story is wild, and involves directors being pitted against each other Bake-Off style and a shockingly intimate documentary created by the wife of Sting who, himself was heartbroken by the decimation of the songs he wrote for the film including cutting a fantastic Yzma villain song sung by Eartha Kitt that is SO DAMN GOOD but would not ever have fit the more nailed-down Yzma we would eventually come to know and love. It’s so catchy though, I’m doubling up on calls to action but please listen now:
holy shit read the article. it’s worth it and completely batshit
I've never adequately appreciated the batshit brilliance of this joke, I've taken it for granted
We watched this with the FC literally last night so I'm delighted to reblog this again. What a fucking movie.
Just said to @petermorwood last night, "I'd say it's time for a rewatch." Gonna do that right now. (If I have to sit here doing this Mailchimp crap, at least I can have Yzma yelling "Why do we even have this lever?!" in the background.
Remember that time that Trudie Styler was allowed to make a Making Of Documentary about Kingdom of the Sun/Emperor's New Groove because her husband (Sting) was hired to do the music and this was part of his contract, but the doc showed how much of a disaster the making of this movie was so Disney refused to release it but then it got leaked on the internet and now the internet archive has it?
The entire documentary is freely available to watch here (so not exclusive to this clip, although these scenes are of course fabulous):
Dune: Part Two | Scene Breakdown with Denis Villeneuve | Sky Cinema
This is fantastic. He says something VERY interesting about Paul and Chani that seem to hint at huge changes from the books that have been predicted.
Oh this is JUICY. He mentions a few things that people have already picked up on, about the blocking of the scene and the fight choreography, and some stuff that is not necessarily textual but very interesting to chew on about what he thinks is going on in Paul’s head.
And oooooo yes the Paul/Chani stuff my inner angst gremlin is FEASTING :-))))
If you're going to have somebody who can go toe-to-toe with Kathryn Hahn, you can't really do better than Aubrey Plaza.