wreathed.bsky.social
wreathed on AO3, wreathedwith on tumblr. lying under the table together with you. (30s, she/her.)
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Conan was a great host. Excellent ceremony.
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Haha, thank you!
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In the back of my mind there's a general sense of foreboding that there was once someone who got into trouble for saying something like this, but I'm sure it's nothing.
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Oh, that sounds very interesting!
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Literally no other information is available about this but I have very much bought tickets. I miss plays so much!
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Same for Marx and Engels - that wasn't the historical guys, you honour, that was Rory K and Oliver C! Regrettably almost nobody whose read that fic has seen the play so they either thought about film guys or actual historical guys when reading. Does that count? Who knows.
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According to the content notes it's a nudity: YES and contains themes of sex, kink, misogyny and classism (and tons of others) whooo get it brian
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It's so funny! I've seen it a couple of times I think, though not for ages. Maybe I should rewatch.
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Come on, we already all know The Rutles is the only accurate Beatles biopic and Sam Mendes can't even hope to upend that (goodness me, Midas Man even does the same brief He Also Managed Other Acts montage! Although they sadly forgot to include Les Garçons de la Plage)
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Nor did it make him a bad manager - we know he worried over treating them equally or accidentally playing favourites, and we know that although he was into rough trade and found them attractive in their scruffy leathers, he knew that wouldn't play, hence the suits and haircuts and bowing.
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Even though it instantly gives him a kind of shared perspective or relatability with the primary impulse of the teenaged hordes! Or might have explained why he saw something in them that the crusty old head of Decca Records doesn't! It's a crazy omission!
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But within the movie - forget the audience's hindsight for a moment - this makes little sense. Why would he be so immediately keen without apparently any personal buy-in at all? What is missing is that... Brian thought they were hot. But the movie doesn't want to say this!
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In the movie, this is because he sees how the teenaged crowd react to them, & later he keeps pushing for them at rejecting record companies because he Knows They Are Going To Be Huge! Which is easy for the audience to sympathise with because we know he turned out to be correct! Huger than huge.
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I mean, it's okay & interesting! The casting is excellent and I enjoyed watching its Beatles. But its a by-the-numbers biopic, suffering from a budget not big enough to show the Beatlemania-era Canon Beatles Events it's telling us about, and from it taking 3 years to shoot with 3 different directors
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At least this got me to look at it again and notice the many many html errors on the AO3 version and try to correct most of them! (haha I thought putting it up on AO3 would be a super quick job and it instead turned into a html nightmare that took ages)
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A less middle-class one though. John and Brian were there to have a middle-class time exclusively
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Ian Hart really is very good at it, I agree! And yes, I'm afraid everything Paul has ever said about this on the record is deeply hilarious to me. Just once I'd like someone to ask 'Where were you at the time?' '...also on holiday in Spain'
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and Midas Man seemed quite a lot of the time to forget Ringo was there... well, I was kept interested watching both, but Midas Man definitely had its limitations. Here are some (too many) thoughts!
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I'd definitely recommend The Hours and Times if you're interested in John and Brian, a good little film and its only an hour long! Midas Man was overall not great, really.
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meanwhile Australia is just like