Alexandra Mesghina

A mad geek who enjoys Disney, period dramas, film, history, reading and fashion. 📚⚘🗡☕

[Classic Spy Chic @ClassicSpyChic]

Top “movies never made” that I’d most want to see:

1. Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of John Buchan’s “Greenmantle” (planned to star Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman)

2. Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon biopic

3. The third Timothy Dalton Bond movie

[Megha @megha_lilly]

In the story of the Disney film Brave, Merida is a selfish, entitled, spoilt princess. She despises her mother because she her mother wants her to behave with decorum and manners as it is her duty. Merida looks to her own entertainment, whereas her mother guides her to her responsibilities as a future sovereign. The real rift occurs when the Queen tells Merida she must marry the winning Prince of a competition for her hand in marriage. The designers of the movie in typical American feminist fantasy, make every Prince look like a twig, sheep-brained loser (on purpose). In NO UNIVERSE would a wee wisp of a lass beat out grown men in Archery. Zero possibility. Archery is all upper body strength. Unless for some reason every Prince is a complete ponce which is impossible because then their lands would have all been conquered.

Merida runs away in a rage and enlists a witch to get rid of her mother and in a twist of the spell, her mother gets turned into a bear! Such a ridiculous, idiotic plot that has nothing to do whatsoever with the lessons the film could have built to.

The witch implies that reconciliation between the mother and daughter is what will break the spell. A great opportunity for Merida to finally become less selfish right? But this is not what happens. The reconciliation is not Merida recognizing the importance of duty, but rather she makes a speech announcing "everyone should marry whom they choose". It's idiotic modern secular American family badly transposed onto medieval Scotland.

There is a fight between bear mother and real demon bear and then this breaks the spell? Merida learns zero lessons. The whole world of the story just bends to the will of this spoilt feminist self-insert heroine. The aesthetics, animation and music of this film are fantastic. But the story? A BIG FAT L. It is possible to write female heroines with strong wills and free spirits who rally against tradition...but they need to have something virtuous they are fighting FOR. Merida fights for no one but herself. Selfish heroines are empty and vapid. Merida is nothing but a whole bunch of well animated copper curls. Sad. They could have done something so much better with the character and setting.

[Nerdrotic @Nerdrotics]

Matt Smith gets it right

[Marijo @Enderlazer_yt]

She is literally me btw 💞

[Asgy 🪡🎎 @Manim_Asg]

Friends 💕

[Historyland @HistorylandHQ]

Colorized photo of 9 European monarchs that ruled in 1910.

[brandy!!🌸 @smiledarnyou]

86>>>>>>>136 :,)

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

"Dreams" by Norman Rockwell

[Alexandra Mesghina @Wondermorena]

@allie__voss Tell her, it sounds hilarious

[tobi 🍏⚔️📚 @TobyAfton13]

sometimes you just gotta admit you're into older men and that's fine!

[Alexandra Mesghina @Wondermorena]

@belladonnafeli It would have saved the Targaryen dynasty

[Anime Pics & Gifs ツ @GifsAnime_]

the biggest dilemma 😭

[Alexandra Mesghina @Wondermorena]

What video game is this?

[jaxonloid @jaxonloid]

Women will selfship and be head over heels for a 45 year old fictional man from a video game who is balding and looks like he hasn’t showered in 5 weeks. Men refuse to even play a game if a fictional woman doesn’t fit their hyperspecific beauty standard.

[☆ • cr: asos @Lvnnister_]

I would KILL for a fire and blood type book on like the lannisters or the starks I need to know EVERYTHING

[felicity 📖 @belladonnafeli]

I wish we got a fire and blood type book for other houses.

[Marijo @Enderlazer_yt]

Do yall think CloverWorks animation has improved over the years?

[Alexandra Mesghina @Wondermorena]

@BellaBaddie__ Lemon water

[Alexandra Mesghina @Wondermorena]

If that is the general public belief then I am so sorry 🤣🤣🤣

[Alexandra Mesghina @Wondermorena]

@SDDonovan Not really, most shows don't end well to feel anything other than time was wasted.

[Fascinating History @Fascinate_Hist]

Why did we stop making trains like this?

Pullman Company train carriage, 19th-20th century in the United States.