Scarlett’s stunt trainning for her role as Black Widow in Iron Man2
“Scarlett hadn’t really done an action role.And she assured me that she would work as hard as she needed to both get in sharp and do her stunts and learn all that stuff.She spent hours and hours and hours for months.By far the most dedicated actor when it came to stunt work and the physical work.” - Jon Favreau:Director&co-star
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Matt Skiba singing along to Gotye. In his bedroom.
This video feels intimate, vulnerable in a way. In a good way, like he’s letting us in to see some private emotion, even though he’s still the consummate performer (love the pick throw and the kiss at the end). It’s beautiful, and a little bit heartbreaking.
Also, inspiring. It’s easy to think that the work and the practice of being a musician or artist starts and ends with what we see when in reality, it’s happening almost constantly, in sketches and doodles, or in playing along with a song to warm up, or dancing and wiggling even when in the car or while doing dishes.
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Sam Anderson, opening his NYT Mag riff on Mythologies with quite possibly the greatest lede of all time. (via millionsmillions)
This is magical.
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I’ve always liked those mysterious ones. Lacan for me, all the way.
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Pics from last night in the photobooth at my best friend’s wedding.
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Celebrity chef Mario Batali • Discussing the diet he’s currently on — he’s eating like he’s on food stamps (an average of $1.48 per meal, or $31 per week) in protest of potential cuts to the federal food stamps program. His family was nice enough to join him in what he calls a conversation starter about being hungry in the U.S. Unlike most people on food stamps, he knows ways to make the best of a bad situation, smartly sticking to foods like lentils, apples, rice, beans, peanut butter and jelly. But the problem is, eating good on a diet like this is tough, so many do not. Think his family’s experiment will be effective? (via shortformblog)
I think this is the key argument for those who think that poor people could eat better if they just tried harder. This guy prepares food for a living and he still cannot manage to do this without feeling like he’s going hungry. This is a problem.
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SO MANY FEELS
This scene is SOOOOO important and so few people are talking about it.
WHY? Seriously.
If you want any proof that he’s not completely in control the whole movie, here it is.
Loki is just a pawn with big plans who has gotten himself into huge shit and can’t get out of it.
And this scene makes it pretty fucking obvious that they’ve been torturing and manipulating him and are threatening to make it a thousand times worse.I should probably just post my insane 5k essay I’ve written on how fucked up Loki is in this film. Because I’ve just got a lot of feelings.
thank you.
The look in his eyes says it all. It’s pure fear, which is something he isn’t used to. Whatever the hell they did to him is haunting him, and that’s why he is so desperate to make sure his plan succeeds. Come on, at the start of the film he looks terrible. He looks so sick and like he has the weight of the world on his shoulders. He’s desperate.
Sigh. Oh my feels.
YEAH. And this scene pretty much sums up his entire character. He acts like he’s in control, but he’s not, and he’s never been. He has no fucking CLUE what he’s doing. He’s just acting out and pretending he doesn’t care to get back at Thor, which is really ironic because it shows that he DOES care. In fact, that’s all he cares about.
But he’s never had a place, and like Coulson says, he lacks conviction. He doesn’t know what the fuck he’s doing. He’s just trying to pretend like he has it all together - which he clearly doesn’t. So he ends up doing things for others. Becoming what others want of him or what others think of him.
He’s just searching for an identity he’s never had.
Some of the cats in that box he keeps in his head are nastier than others.
The ~question with Loki is often: how much of what he’s doing is PLANNED. I seem to recall Hiddleston saying they played it both ways—as if he exactly knows what he’s doing AND as if he’s just making everything up on the spot; as if he means what he says AND as if he’s lying through his teeth. I think Loki doesn’t know. He’s chaos! He does enjoy making shit blow up; he likes it when nobody knows what’s going on, but I imagine a side-effect of always striving to increase entropy is that, well, chaos ensues on the inside as well. And Loki really is a sheltered child still. His daddy issues and his lashing out and his posturing: he’s little league in the cosmic bad boy game, and it’s really pretty obvious in The Avengers. He does know how to talk a good game, but this kid is hanging on tooth and nail just to keep it together.
(I bet there’s an awesome mafia AU somewhere in here. If only I didn’t find mafia AUs kinda tedious.)
Tangent: is Loki more like young Snape or Draco Malfoy? I’d say Snape—messed up and hurt and lashing out rather than pressured by ~tradition and then suddenly in over his head.
Snape continued to be an utter bag of dicks even while ~doing the right thing~. Loki probably has even less of a moral compass, and no Dumbledore to nurse obsessive-compulsive loyalty towards, but it’s not a completely unfounded comparison. They even share hair-care regimens!
(When Loki swears, he swears by the moon, th’ inconsistent moon.)
Back to the point, I think: I don’t think Thanos has to torture him to make him do shit. I don’t think Thanos is mind-controlling him. Loki’s not calling all the shots because he’s basically playing catch-up in this crazy magic mindgame. When you’re punching that far above your weight every hit you take is going to cost you. Shady, desperate back-alley deals with the devil come with the highest price. I’m sure Loki knew what the price was, and I think he just didn’t give a fuck. No mind control necessary. I mean, Loki’s self-hatred is fucking EPIC. Whatever pain he’s in, it’s worth it to him; he deserves it.
I dare y’all to make sense of that.Also - he’s using that scepter to control others, but its also controlling him. This situation is a devil’s bargain, and he knows it.
It’s interesting; I didn’t see fear in his eyes so much as anger. He knows Thanos and company don’t take him all that seriously; the problem with being the problematic (adopted) younger sibling and being a trickster is that everyone underestimates him (except for, perhaps, the Avengers themselves, and that’s arguable). He knows no one takes him seriously; he’s willing to use that to his advantage and bide his time, even putting up with shit like in this scene. Loki is a chess player, one with a long term strategy — but, I think it remains to be seen whether or not he truly has an endgame.
I don’t think he wants to rule. It’s more like he’s the adolescent pushing his boundaries, wondering how far he can take things before the “good” brother and daddy and mommy come smack him down.
The only thing Loki really fears, I think, is Thor. And his fear is more that Thor won’t forgive him this time, that he’ll truly lose his love and attention — so he keeps trying to push him away.
So here is a thing I’ve been wanting to talk about since I saw The Avengers and haven’t been able to because I was too busy writing we were emergencies: Natasha Romanov? Is terrified of the Hulk. Let me stop right here and address the comment I least want…
And of course, because I can never leave my opinion left unsaid, I’d also add that on another level, she’s afraid of failing— to complete her mission, but more that she’s made a commitment to these men, even if they don’t realize it. To keep them safe from themselves; both have a very self-destructive side. Natasha is the opposite of that; she’s not self-destructive. Every risk she takes is measured and controlled; she’s the one in control. She doesn’t mind if others lose control of themselves so long as she’s the one making them do so.
She shows a lot of fear in their first meeting; she also shows a lot about her childhood when he asks if all spies start that young and she says, “I did.” For too long, other people were in control of her, the debts on her ledger, those are the methods that SHIELD uses to control her. Hawkeye says, “You’re not a soldier,” but she says she has to fight. She has to fight against Loki because he would enslave and control them all to his will.
SHIELD is pulling her strings, but it’s a lower price to pay than the alternatives she’s seen, or so it’s implied. There is a measure of autonomy and choice, or at least the illusion of it, and possibly the illusion of freedom at the end, if she can pay back all those debts. Hulk losing control and chasing her isn’t just about her fear of bodily harm; it’s the fear that when she told him, “We want just you, not the other guy,” she lied. And if the Hulk kills innocent people because she can’t contain him? That’s more blood on her hands because she didn’t keep her promise to him.
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