spotify discover weekly playlist: You like shitty indie bands where the male lead vocalist can’t sing and so he overcompensates by singing in a kind of silly overenunciated voice and the background is some clumsy fingerpicking and he says Fuck a lot, right ?
Favorite color: all of them. but i enjoy pink and charcoal grey a lot.
Lipstick or chapstick: chapstick, I’m constantly carrying some.
Three favorite foods: linguine alfredo, pizza, and I hate to be the most stereotypical millennial, but honestly, avocado toast is magnificent.
Last song I listened to: Kajra Re from Bunty Aur Babli
Last movie I watched: Best In Show (Christopher Guest)
Top 3 shows: Broad City, Parks and Rec, Black Books
Books: currently in writing mode these days, but awaiting the arrival of The Rise and Fall of Meter: Poetry and English National Culture, 1860-1930 by Meredith Martin. I’ve read it before but this will be my own personal copy, so I’ll read it again to celebrate.
(I tried not to tag anyone Fiona already tagged but I think I failed, so just ignore it if you’ve already been tagged)
Yeah, but what I find very contentious about those fairy tales is that they are all pivoted on perfection and transformation, meaning the princess needs to be an innocent – a perfect innocent, you know? And then it sort of embodies a male idea of the female role. And, you know, she needs to be pure and altruistic, and she doesn’t seem three-dimensional to me. She doesn’t seem complex. And we take care of it in the movie in many ways, including showing that she has her own sex life in a lonely way – or in alone away, but not lonely, you know? And we also give her a life that is not grand, but very fulfilling.
And we don’t transform the creature. We don’t transform it into a boring prince at the end of the movie so that they can be together forever. He stays in its carnal form – an animal. And he still has a very controversial diet of raw protein that includes cats, you know? And he doesn’t get civilized and eat a cat with a fork and a knife.
It still is what it is because to me, if we’re going to talk about love, we’re going to talk about understanding, not transformation
Guillermo del Toro, on The Shape of Water as a modern fairy tale.
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