“Matthew has incarnated Darcy as that complicated layered person who isn’t easy in his skin and who isn’t easy to love, yet who is a good person with a sense of honor and integrity. [Macfayden] was not afraid to be disliked by an audience at the beginning of the story and we have to dislike him because we are seeing him through Lizzie’s eyes, and we grow to love him as Lizzie does.” - Joe Wright
“You need to see that kind of rugged beauty in Darcy, knowing that here was a man who walks across fields, climbs trees, and very much manages his own estate. With Matthew, you can see that etched across his face, yet he’s also got this extraordinary vulnerability. On the page, Darcy reads as being very cold, but Mathew is so vulnerable through his big manliness that he gives Darcy extra qualities.” - Keira Knightley
PRIDE & PREJUDICE 2005, dir. Joe Wright
Kill the mentality that a female character is “weak” if she is in love with a man. Love is not weakness.
Also kill the mentality that a female character is “weak” if she is kind and sweet. Kindness is not weakness either.
If women like an ugly, monstrous male character (like shape of water)they get shamed from being freaky, fucked up, perverse. If women like a hot, badass male character (most vampire romance) they get shit on for being shallow, stupid, and again perverse. Just admit y'all hate women and don't want us to enjoy anything. Why do men get so bothered by things like this?!
Its because women are historically an easy target to preach on and Americans tend to think we as a demographic are perpetual dumb who cannot be trusted to be rational no matter what age, but teenage girls are most frequently targeted. The underlying motivation , like all condescending people out there is power fantasy – of feeling you know better than anyone on something and one is using it to save others with barely any effort into the task .
It makes them feel better and women also tend to join in to have the same fun. Making an effort to learn better and treat others as equal is not as egotistically rewarding, you see?
The way they describe each others beauty as if they find it painful. They literally find each other so beautiful it hurts!
thor (2011) vs loki (2021) - some things never change
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Wolf Children scenery
i’ve just realized that the blonde hair makes you 10 years younger than your actual age..
Something I don't get about this hellsite:
When an actually well written piece of media has a main romance that has... conflict, the fandoms just decides to ignore them for those two that had like... two scenes (but zero conflict) and claim that that relationship should have been the focus or go all quirky 'uwu the writers want me so much to focus on Y but look how I'm liking X despite Y being the entire point of the story.'
But when it's actually a bad piece of media with a badly written boring relationship... The fandom goes on of how we have to Respect the Author and how the main relationship that is so Pure and Good™ is of course the focus of the story.
It's almost as if they just like boring, baseless relationships in which they can... Project.
''You came from nothing. You are nothing. But not to me."
by Kylo Ren/Ben
and
"I will strip away all that you know, all that you love, until you have no shelter but mine. "
by The Darkling/Aleksander
are the most twisted beautifully tragic declaration of villainous love I have ever seen
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