Polysyllabic Pretentiousness (she/they/he)

Filmmaker, anarchist, proud sibling to @gempaw18.

'So caught in estrange' - my friend Bella
'Cotton-based underwear is strange' - my friend Ava @missmegamindd

[Polysyllabic Pretentiousness (she/they/he) @PolysyllabicP]

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We must reclaim the Joker as a disabled icon.

Refuse the appropriation by incels and toxic fans. They can have Leto's at best.

The Joker is inspired by the great 1928 film "The Man Who Laughs."

At heart, he is a disabled person fighting ableism.

#JokerFolieADeux

[Polysyllabic Pretentiousness (she/they/he) @PolysyllabicP]

@TheAmericaMan1 @frontastic Depending on the interpretation. Any adaptation can invert or change the meaning of the "original" work, and some of the best adaptations pay little or no fidelity to their source material, which is at the end of the day irrelevant.

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@CalebWachter @holland_tom “One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many.... Whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things for the great, abysses for the profound... in brief, all that is rare for the rare.”

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@CalebWachter @holland_tom What you're describing is a valid artistic philosophy. It is not the only one. There's also an artistic philosophy, just as valid, just different, that posits that the greatest art must be understood and appreciated by as few people as possible, that this is the art's greatness.

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@CalebWachter @holland_tom I would say that second stage is fine but optional. It is not necessary, and for some artists, it is in fact detrimental. How many of the greatest artists and thinkers were not understood in their lifetime for this very reason?

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

"There are no entertaining moments in 'Mirror' (1975). In fact I am categorically against entertainment in cinema: it is as degrading for the author as it is for the audience."

--- Andrei Tarkovsky

Full Excerpt:

"'Mirror' (1975) is an autobiographical film. The things that happen are real things that happened to people close to me. That is true of all the episodes in the film. But why do people complain that they cannot understand it? The facts are so simple, they can be taken by every one as similar to the experience of their own lives. But here we come up against something that is peculiar to cinema: the further a viewer is from the content of a film, the closer he is; what people are looking for in cinema is a continuation of their lives, not a repetition. There are no entertaining moments in the film. In fact I am categorically against entertainment in cinema: it is as degrading for the author as it is for the audience.

The purpose of 'Mirror', its inspiration, is that of a homily: look, learn, use the life shown here as an example. There are so many films now, and they are all so different, that very soon it will be impossible to plan for distribution to cinemas. That will be the beginning of a new phase in the development of film, which is after all the youngest art form, it is only about seventy years old. Films will start to be handed out as cassettes, people will take them home, every viewer will find himself face to face with the film he particularly likes. And what of cinema, the mass medium, you may ask ? Mass is not a criterion of quality. The same could be said about the number of people involved in the making of a film. Numbers are not the point. A small team working together is preferable to a large collective.

Another question: What is going to happen to Mirror? We don't know yet. For the moment the film is only being shown in three cinemas, and they started with two. They are trying it out first, because the organs responsible for distribution are afraid it might be a failure. When they heard that people sat on and wouldn't leave, one of the highly placed distribution officials observed that normal people leave the cinema."

[A talk by Tarkovsky in the Building Institute, 1975 about his film 'Mirror' (1975)]

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@CalebWachter @holland_tom Different artists have different views on this. Mine is that some of the best art is done when the artist does the art with one person in mind as an audience (e.g., themself, a loved one) or even with no audience in mind, and if an audience comes to relate, great.

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@CalebWachter @holland_tom I care about the art. You're talking profit motive, which is why art is homogenized in the first place. Fuck profit.

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@CalebWachter @holland_tom Audiences are irrelevant. The artist's vision is absolute.

[Dan Marcus @Danimalish]

@AwardsWatchErik You haven’t seen THE ODYSSEY unless you’ve seen Christopher Nolan’s whole odussy in IMAX 70mm.

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@kevsk28 @NolanAnalyst Movies are more than entertainment. They are art, and the artist's vision is absolute.

[Polysyllabic Pretentiousness (she/they/he) @PolysyllabicP]

@QuintusCurtius My answer: absolute liberty. To put it bluntly, the source material is irrelevant.

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@goldboob @NolanAnalyst It's underrated, if anything.

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I hope the day will soon come when people will stop regurgitating the claim that Christopher Nolan's films are right-wing, and people can recognize and appreciate the anarchist themes at play in his work.

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@Somun03682911 @cole_squires All of these films lean anarchist, if anything. You're regurgitating intellectually dishonest takes.

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@JohnnyC4077 @vayunandini @lightbrownmonke Elliot is a man.

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@thecblive @DiscussingFilm He's already gotten companies to invest. Keep in mind, when he started back in 2008, there were no theaters offering IMAX blockbusters.

It's a long shot, but so's saving theaters and cinema, and his take is that the best way is to offer the best quality possible.

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@thecblive @DiscussingFilm Because he's trying to popularize it. IMAX 70 is the highest quality. If more people see it, we can expand that higher quality into more than just the handful of theaters we have today.

[Shane @sbliss89]

New level of Catholic guilt unlocked: the pope wants to know why you haven’t finished that draft yet.

[Polysyllabic Pretentiousness (she/they/he) @PolysyllabicP]

@samuelcm88 I consider "Oppenheimer" more polished but "Tenet" more daring and politically radical. They're companion pieces in a way.

[Amina 💌 @fawnn404]

I genuinely think one of the highest forms of alienation is watching your people’s suffering become an intellectual exercise for people who will never bear any consequences from being wrong.