Dean

Was Half-Life 2 mapper, now cinephile.

[Dean @DeanAmythe]

@Iachorite @HiddenYorkshire Not unusual for noir detectives

[Dean @DeanAmythe]

@loeysmiffy There’s a part in Anna Karenina where a certain phrase (iirc) is established to have an ulterior meaning and whenever that phrase was used again Tolstoy wrote “(By which he meant this…)”

[Dean @DeanAmythe]

@loeysmiffy This really depends on where we’re drawing the line with ‘older literature.’ I read a ton of 19th century novels and those are frequently not that subtle. The reign of subtext is more so in modern literature

[Dean @DeanAmythe]

@TheFilzak @splatterwatcher @Variety Funny thing is stick figures are immensely political because they display what we consider to be ‘normal’. Very telling that stick figures without features are usually interpreted as male and the features to add are considered typically female (long hair, skirt)

[Dean @DeanAmythe]

@RansomStoddard1 @M_Sawce Yeah, 50 years ago. My parents introduced me to the film but my generation hasn’t looked back on it much. It sure doesn’t have as much of a presence as Jaws, E.T., Indiana Jones, Saving Private Ryan — even Hook seems more talked about by people my age

[Dean @DeanAmythe]

There are people genuinely saying this movie looks good

[lucas @boboomf]

He's doing something different everytime it cuts to him LMFAOAK

[Dean @DeanAmythe]

@VizorIts @FwipsArt I think they could’ve very easily not made Ryan Gosling shoot off a dozen jokes in this scene

[Dean @DeanAmythe]

@chenchenwrites It was my first big Russian book and I was so surprised how digestible it was. Super short chapters too

[Dean @DeanAmythe]

@heee1950 @misandreil Desperate attempts to hook readers who hate prose where they have to read attentively

[Dean @DeanAmythe]

@AdrienneLaF "Some students want Nietzsche in the same way that they want a hamburger; they fail to grasp – and the logic of the consumer system encourages this misapprehension – that the indigestibility, the difficulty IS Nietzsche.” (Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism)

[Dean @DeanAmythe]

@franzsherbert The final two episodes of The Return (spoilers) are Cooper doing everything he can to change what happened, to give Laura a happy ending, only for all his acts of selflessness to end with his dream world imploding on itself as reality bursts in

[Dean @DeanAmythe]

@GenBellisarius @spherection In contrast to you, who in merry spirits and with only good intentions stated an entire group of people must be miserable because they criticize a type of film

[Dean @DeanAmythe]

@cringusss @woop54 They praised a film in the same tweet it’s right there for you to read

[Dean @DeanAmythe]

@AligedlyAwesome @artofseanmurphy Fury Road and I think Skyfall

[Dean @DeanAmythe]

@rickitas @uskglasses It’s applicable to texts for sure! Instead of, for example, explicitly saying “these characters are middle-to-upper class”, you could describe them in that regard — what sort of house they live in, how they converse, their interests. The reader can then infer what class they are

[Dean @DeanAmythe]

@regularaugust Doesn’t have enough ratings to qualify

[Dean @DeanAmythe]

@karunsagar15 @AmberRayOfGrain @bluecollarprose @FSahelanthropus @TheLincoln And I agree! ‘Complex’ is a vague term here and the dichotomy of complex vs. simple too binary. But you also have to understand that in a hasty, necessarily short reply on social media one must oftentimes write in facile generalizations and reductive terms

[Dean @DeanAmythe]

@AmberRayOfGrain @bluecollarprose @FSahelanthropus @TheLincoln It’s a bad sign when a lot of people are unwilling to engage with any complex narratives. A desire in culture for simple narratives can be a precursor to fascism

[Dean @DeanAmythe]

@PeterTu90447906 @KI11ERKLOWNS People are always like “why do you care what other people do?” How about because it’s indicative of an utter devaluation of art and culture?

[Dean @DeanAmythe]

@ClarkGrifffin @denzelephant @Jtaylor0_3 I’m with you there! It’s true that The Brutalist directs a lot of its effort formally towards feeling ‘big’, but that’s one of those things that works tremendously when you (already) like the film but feels pretentious when you don’t.