I Should Be Sleeping

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now 2 beanie baby dragons are crossing your dash together :3

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stars-bean:

Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder

#someone pointed out once that he chose his female name because he liked it#whereas the other man just picked the female version of his existing name#because it was easier and that was his main concern#lot of interesting gender stuff going on here

Oh yeah there was a lot of “Hayes Code be damned, all of us making this film are queer/friends with queers and we’re going to have some fun with gender identity” in this film. That’s why it still holds up. It’s not a story based around getting a laugh out of dressing men up as women so they can be clowns - there’s an integrity to the cross-dressing. Daphne is an identity Jerry realized he had when he put on a dress. Every time he chooses to keep his wig and outfit on and maintain his feminine mannerisms while alone with Joe, it shows his comfort in this identity, and it elicits laughter from the audience through the dialogue, ie. the audience isn’t laughing at the fact that a man is in a dress, but at the characters as fleshed out characters and human beings. The laughter comes from the situations the characters are put in and their reactions to them, not from a parody of womanhood presented through a male perspective. Similarly, Osgood’s classic line at the end of the film is an affirmation that he likes Jerry as he is, even if he’s Daphne. It’s a way of getting the audience to say, “this is fine, we’re comfortable” through laughter to something socially unacceptable in its time.

Joe’s masculine identity, meanwhile, is used to highlight his misogyny and force him to understand it (and the same with Jerry, but as he’s less of a womanizer, there’s less of a point to be made with him). In a world where men and women often had separate social circles that overlapped only when romance was on the table, putting a man like Joe in a female space where he’s privy to the conversations and emotions that his actions elicit gives him a lot to contend with and understand because he can see the consequences of his actions as raw pain and secondhand, instead of as anger being spewed directly at him. Again, the joke isn’t that he’s a man in a dress, or that he’s parodying womanhood, it’s that as a selfish misogynist he’s put in situations where he’s forced to empathize with the experience of womanhood in order to convincingly enact it for his own safety.

There’s a whole lot more to unpack in the metaphor of these two men having to pass as women because their lives are at stake if they don’t.

Okay so for one of my screenwriting and film studies sections I wrote a paper comparing the language of clothing and feminism from Wilder in two of his films, The Apartment and Some Like it Hot.

Now I am not going to spew out a wall of text on the subject or anything, but I did want to point out that he did not just “sneak things by” the code, he actually deliberately REFUSED to abide by it at all for this film, he willfully refused to even apply for the certification, he knew it wouldn’t pass, and he knew he wouldn’t bend to let it pass.

He and the studio took a gamble that a Wilder-Curtis-Lemmon-Monroe flick would do box office and get play without the “seal of approval” from the code folks.

And he was right.

A few years ago Some Like it Hot was brought to Broadway and it expanded on the comfort and decisions of Daphne. It’s incredible and left Broadway far too soon. Highly recommend listening to the soundtrack!

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pearlmarley:

Look how many people hate him. I’m pretty damn happy about that 😁😁😁😁😁😁

I’ve never reblogged something so fast

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curiouscalembour asked:

when you say "christian kane almost died scene" do you mean that as in the character he plays almost died, or that the actor himself nearly died?

ghostlyarchaeologist:

curiouscalembour:

ghostlyarchaeologist:

Christian himself. They talk about it in the commentary for that episode that the window he hits up against was not rated for that sort of impact, and had it shattered he would have plunged through. You can actually see it ripple ominously when he takes the gut punch.

holy shit!!

I’m pretty sure there are other incidents as well, but the ones I can remember off the top of my head are:

Somewhere in Season 1 - Christian gets two cracked ribs. This is from a facebook post of his 13 years ago so I don’t know which episode this happened in.

The Stork Job - Christian slips over playing football with Tim Hutton and scrapes his face. Hence the line ‘How was I supposed to know it was a lesbian bar?’

The Top Hat Job - Christian splits his forehead open down to the bone and had to get 17 stitches. It’s why he’s wearing a hat for most of that episode and The Two Live Crew Job until they could get Eliot to clonk his head against the pipe.

The Big Bang Job - When Moreau shoots the Italian, the bullet casing pings out and hits Tim Hutton almost directly in the eye. They had to pause filming to make sure he was okay.

As I said, these are just the ones I remember. If anyone knows of anymore, please add!

My personal favorite Leverage 'actors could have died’ scene is also the one John Rogers is angriest about: Aldis and Beth running on the train in the season 3 finale (part 1). If you watch the commentary, he brings it up in almost every episode and chides Aldis (who only joins the commentary this season) every single time.

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duckdotcom:

would you put a discarded fruit sticker on my forehead in whimsical jest yes or no

reblog to put a discarded fruit sticker on the forehead of the person you reblogged from in whimsical jest

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dailynightvale:

“Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.”

— NightValeRadio (twitter)

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bananaeatstape:

not very new hyperfixation rediscovered write a poem abt it

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