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Fun fact: Dustin Hoffman and Bob Hoskins decided secretly that they’d play Hook and Smee as a gay couple. When Spielberg, the director, found out, he was furious.
I just think it’s hilarious.
The movie veteran tells Playboy magazine, “Bob Hoskins and I were rehearsing and suddenly we looked at each other and realised it at the same time. We said, ‘These guys are gay….’ and it was fun.
“Suddenly we rehearsed it that way: ‘Get over here, Smee. Give me a foot massage.’
“We went to Spielberg… and he said, ‘This is a kids’ movie.’” - Source
I find it very interesting that Spielberg finds a playful on screen homosexual couple more harmful towards children than a scene about killing yourself.
I never saw them like this until now. If anything it just made it better lol
I find it very interesting that Spielberg finds a playful on screen homosexual couple more harmful towards children than a scene about killing yourself.
I find it interesting that we can show a dozen people getting their brains blown out, and people are fine with it. But heaven forbid that there should be breasts. We can have a rape scene (usually punishing an independent woman), but heaven forbid there’s a penis just hanging out, not doing anything. And sure, you could have a butt or two, but they had better be funny; we want to make sure that kids learn that their bodies are something to be embarrassed by.
Getting back to the original topic, I think we as a society have made great strides in showing normal homosexuals on television. There’s Battlestar Galactica, Stargate Universe, and Grey’s Anatomy all which have (or had :( ) gay characters in committed relationships portrayed as perfectly normal people. Even comedies like The New Normal and Modern Family treat their gay couples as no stranger than the rest of the characters. But ten years ago, if you had a gay character, he was either evil, the comedic relief, or was in some way destroyed by his sexuality (affairs with tragic endings, murders and blackmail committed to keep the secret).
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Pfc. B. Manning has now spent more than 1,000 days imprisoned without trial. The legal limit for military court is 120 days.
Manning allegedly released classified cables to Wikileaks, including the Collateral Murder video, the Afghan War logs, the Iraq War logs, State Department cables & Guantanamo Bay files.
The soldier has been imprisoned in conditions which Juan Mendez, a UN Special Rapporteur on torture deemed “cruel, inhumane & degrading”. Manning faces 22 charges. The most significant charge is that of “aiding the enemy.” If convicted of “aiding the enemy,” she would serve life in prison without parole.
The leaks have revealed indiscriminate murder of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, the murder of two Reuters journalists among a group of unarmed civilians in Baghdad, prisoner abuse & torture in Iraq, US officials covering up child abuse by private contractors, such as DynCorp, in Afghanistan, hundreds of innocent people are being held at Guantanamo, an official account of civilian deaths in Iraq & Afghanistan that the Obama administration previously maintained didn’t exist (between 2004 and 2009, the U.S. government counted a total of 109,000 deaths in Iraq, with 66,081 classified as non-combatants), the inner-workings of Obama’s then-secret drone campaign in Yemen among other incidents of corruption & crimes against humanity.
Manning has become the face of Obama’s war on whistleblowers, an attempt to shield the government’s war crimes & human rights violations.
(via adelenedawner)
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This is literally breathtaking.
My friend just sent this to me… wow. Watch until the end.
Jesus Christ
Nothing makes sense anymore
holy shit.
Oh my god.
Wow. Wow.
Wow. I literally have tears in my eyes, that was spectacular.
This exact act was part of Amaluna when I went to see it earlier this year, and I swear, I have never heard an audience so quiet in my LIFE. I remember thinking at the time, too, that I had never imagined an audience holding its collective breath to see if someone could keep a stack of things balanced that way before, but the audience reactions were very much like the ones in this video. It was amazing.
I saw this last week and since I knew that the first graders were working with balance in science class, I sent this over to their teachers. One of them came to tell me that her group of rowdy seven-year-olds had been completely transfixed watching this.
As was I.
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“It is okay to want your own happiness. It’s okay to care about yourself the most. You are not obligated to sit there and smile and swallow every bit of shit everyone heaps on you. You are more than furniture, you’re more than window dressing, you’re not their shiny toy. You’re human, and you have the right to say “That was shitty of you”. You have a right to protest your own mistreatment and set boundaries for respectful interactions. The rest of the world doesn’t realize you have this right, and they will act offended and appalled when you exercise it, but it is yours.” — (via hedgehoglife)(via adelenedawner)
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best marketing
A+
10/10
would recommend
WHEREDOTHEYSELLTHOSE?! I need them so bad. This is absolutely perfect.
They sell them at Target
This is a fantastic idea.
Raging pharmacology boner.
Bonus points for being single chemical pills.
you should check out their website! http://www.helpineedhelp.com
If you think that packaging is brill, wait until you see the site.
This company is a marketer’s wet dream.
That website is fantastic. Seriously, click on it and check out the whole site. Best waste of time EVER.
Oh my god, the website!
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curiosity-discoverer-of-worlds:
#SHE IS NOT EVEN ANYWHERE NEAR THE GENERAL AREA OF FUCKING AROUND GODDAMN
A princess Genovia would be proud of.
Excuse you, that’s Queen of Genovia
Hail the Queen!
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“Compersion” Means Shipping the People You Love | Emotional Mutation “Compersion” is when you ship people who are in your life.
I experience compersion as relationship-directed, not individual-directed. Compersion isn’t simply joy at someone else’s joy. (That’s just regular empathy.) Nor is it “the opposite of jealousy.” (Feelings don’t have opposites, silly.) Compersion is an active, personal, emotional investment in the well-being of someone else’s relationship. Joy and excitement when that relationship is going well, frustration or disappointment or sadness when it’s not. And also a kind of…protectiveness of a world in which that relationship has the opportunity to flourish.
Of course, this will only make sense to people who are in fandom. But that’s, like, everybody, right? :P
Ozy does this for me, I’ll tell zir about something that happened with someone I’ve got a crush on and zie’ll get all excited and declare us zir new OTP.
