Adil Khan

Films, Football, uFc. As you can see my life is a “F”

[Tony Vegas @tonypayments]

“Yo send me the pic we took last night”

The pic:

[Christopher Nolan Archives @NolanAnalyst]

The practical effects of THE ODYSSEY

[KP (Digger era 🪏🟠) @NoQuarter_DC]

Someone did an Odyssey x Pink Floyd edit with the bow pluck syncing with the drop in Shine On You Crazy Diamond and I'm genuinely entering the astral plains

[Pushkar @Musafirr_hu_yar]

First in my bloodline to see a person asking for sick leave during a protest

[Adil Khan @ad_ilkhan]

@jashansuri Anne Hathway too

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Matt Damon reading ‘THE ODYSSEY’ on the set of ‘THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY’ in 1998

📸: Greg Williams

[n @ctrlarchive]

happy nolan week

[aether @bluewdrift]

Remember this: even if you go for it and it doesn't work out, you still win. you had the guts to head into the unknown and try something that scared you. this type of bravery takes you places.

[charlie (5-0) @charliodyssey]

I love what i woke up to, just immense praise for the odyssey (pic from theodyssey subreddit)

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

🫲 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🫱

#FIFAWorldCup

[Spurs Army @SpursArmyTweets]

Antonin Kinsky, what a story! 😍🧤

😳📉 In March, he was HOOKED by Igor Tudor after SEVENTEEN MINUTES, having conceded THREE. People claimed Tudor “KILLED HIS CAREER.” They said he’d never return after his errors.

But Roberto De Zerbi’s trust has turned his career around. Match-winning stops that have SAVED #thfc from the catastrophe of relegation.

👏📈 His performances have earned him the right to don the number one shirt next season. Guglielmo Vicario is set to leave, and Spurs aren’t pursuing a first-choice goalkeeper. Kinsky is De Zerbi’s man, and it’s fully deserved!

🎥 @Ronhotspur

[Colin Millar @Millar_Colin]

Cape Verde centre back Roberto 'Pico' Lopes has spent his entire career in Ireland, ignored a LinkedIn message from Cape Verde FA asking him to play for them because it was in Portuguese. A year later, they sent it in English. He accepted. An all-time great World Cup story.

[Farnoush Amiri @FarnoushAmiri]

Anthony Bourdain: “…the world is, in fact, filled with mostly good and decent people who are simply doing the best they can. Everybody, it turns out, is proud of their food (when they have it). They enjoy sharing it with others (if they can). They love their children...”

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

IMPORTANT: First anniversary of Air India Ahmedabad crash in which 260 people died. Still NO SIGN of the final report. Lots of assurances but still NO report. Without a final report, there can be no closure for the victim families. Interestingly, UK newspapers have asked more searching questions than we have at home. Will the TRUTH ever come out? Or will it be another case of NO DETAILS AVAILABLE? (NDA). Prayers and thoughts with victim families: they surely deserve better 🙏

[The Muslim @TheMuslim786]

Location: Gaur City 2, Noida

This man was drinking alcohol in a public place and when he saw a Muslim couple (the girl was wearing a hijab), he started asking for their names and identification and harassed them. Seeing this, the woman present there and other people protested against him.

[The DeshBhakt 🇮🇳 Akash Banerjee @TheDeshBhakt]

Don’t know what’s more dystopian:
1. Random policeman getting the power to decide what content is ‘suitable’ & what is not
OR
2. A standup comedian having to fight for the right to free speech (something that opposition parties usually do in a democracy)

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.

He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.

When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.

Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.

The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.

Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.

The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.

That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The woman who inspired Before Sunrise never saw the movie. She died in a motorcycle accident seven weeks before filming even started.

Richard Linklater met Amy Lehrhaupt in a toy shop in Philadelphia in 1989. They spent the whole night walking the city from midnight to 6am talking about everything, and he turned that one night into a script. Took him 11 days. The casting search lasted nine months. Jennifer Aniston auditioned before she ever got Friends, and Gwyneth Paltrow tried out too. The role went to Julie Delpy.

Amy died on May 9, 1994. She was 24. Linklater kept waiting for her to show up at a screening, maybe tap him on the shoulder and say “Hey, that was our night.” He waited through the premiere. Waited through the sequel nine years later. Didn’t find out she was gone until 2010, when a friend of hers put the pieces together and wrote him a letter.

He kept making the films. Brought Hawke and Delpy back every nine years, letting them age on screen in real time. Before Sunset (2004) was shot in 15 days for $2 million. Before Midnight (2013), same thing, 15 days, under $3 million. That last one is dedicated to Amy. All three films together cost $7.5 million to make and earned $61.5 million worldwide, and both sequels got nominated for the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. The entire trilogy cost less than a single Janet Jackson music video that Kahn himself directed.

The Library of Congress added Before Sunrise to the National Film Registry earlier this year. It’s now one of 925 films the government considers worth keeping forever. Linklater turned a single night with a woman he’d never see again into an 18-year trilogy. He just didn’t know the “never” part when he started.

[NoteS. @NoteSphere]

Just came across what might be the hardest images from YE at Sofi Stadium.

Photographed by Sebastien Nagy.

[Pracool @thehighmonk]

A country that learns its history from propaganda films and its politics from WhatsApp forwards isn’t just misinformed, it’s intellectually bankrupt and willingly blind. The decline isn’t accidental, it’s self-inflicted.