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I’ve honestly felt, and I will always maintain that Baz’s version of Romeo+Juliet was pure genius. Maybe you disagree with how he cut the text, but I really think if you’re going to make a modern film adaptation of a Shakespeare text, that’s how it should be fucking done. The versions that followed in the early aughts - ethan hawke’s hamlet, josh hartnett’s O, Taymor’s Titus etc just DIDN’T EVEN COME CLOSE. I don’t even know who the hell directed the first two.
Haters gonna hate, but this man understands and uses pop culture in a way that no other director is doing right now. The soundtracks to his films are always ballin’ and his long-time communication with wife and designer Catherine Martin is flawless. I’m always just floored at how cohesive the design world is, it’s as though she’s an extension of himself which is just something you don’t see very often, if at all. He’s a visionary.
For real: You’re THRILLED that Baz Luhrmann is adapting The Great Gatsby and you’re DOUBLE THRILLED he’s doing it in 3D, or you’re an idiot. I am so absolutely not joking. It’s not the best book ever and he’s not the best director ever but that book and that director could NOT be a better more appropriate pair. And 3D, which is shit and garbage and ridiculous normally, should ABSOLUTELY be used for BL’s GG. Big, lush, opulent, bananas; that’s what this will be. It’s ok if this type of thing isn’t up your alley, but get out of my sight if you’ve read the book and have an opinion that deviates from mine by one beautiful, golden hair on the who/how/why of this FILM EVENT. I’m not even kidding; my face looks like I just drank a big slurp of curdled milk when I hear “people” discussing this SITUATION in any manner than the one I’ve outlined, rigidly and correctly, above.
*applauds wildly*
Abbey Lincoln yusss also can we just talk about Meshell Ndegeocell for a hot second?!
(via bklynboihood)
“They say I have a sweet ass, nice tits, a real pretty dress. They say I’m their future wife, or I’d look good with their dick in my mouth. They try (and probably succeed at times) to take pictures down my shirt. They ask if they can get my number, they ask where I live, why I’m not smiling, why my boyfriend lets me walk around by myself. Then they ask why I’m such a bitch, if my pussy is made of ice. They say that they never do this, as though I’ve somehow driven them to inappropriate behavior and deserve it. They say they’re just having fun, trying to pay me a compliment. Pretty frequently they get mean, slipping into a loud tourettes-like chant of bitch-whore-cunt-slut.
Before you try to tell me that it’s because I take my clothes off for a living, let me tell you that this started way before I was 18. Let me tell you that every single woman I know has at least one truly terrifying story of street harassment and a whole bunch of other stories that are merely insulting or annoying. Let me remind you that in a room of pornography fans, who have actually seen me with a dick in my mouth and who can buy a replica of my vagina in a can or box, I am treated with far more respect than I am walking down the street.”
—Stoya
wow
(via femmedreamboat)
“One male poet approached me after a performance and said, “I don’t mean to be rude, but do you ever write about anything other than the struggles of women?” I replied, “I don’t mean to be rude, but take your finger off the trigger and I’ll stop.” After all, who among us ever wanted to speak about these things? What little girl dreams of growing up to write ‘rape poems?’ About violence? About the muffled voices of women worldwide?” -Andrea Gibson
(via un-gendered)
The following is some intense shoe porn, so you’ve been warned: Anne Hathaway wore Jimmy Choo Kalpa heels not available publicly til February 7th. The shoes, which were inspired by Art Deco, have an almost 6 inch heel and cost approx 2000 dollars.
i don’t have the ability to walk in 6-inch heels. but if i did, i’d wear the heck out of these.
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