A true tune. Happy birthday Heartbreak Girl!
Friendly reminder that Heartbreak Girl is turning 6 today
Thompson def Karlović 6-3, 7-6 (7-2) New York Open 2020
TB to Thommo’s run in Miami 🥰💪🏻 Thompson def. Norrie 4-6, 7-6(7-5), 6-3 Thompson def. Khachanov 6-2, 6-3 Thompson def. Dimitrov 7-5, 7-5
I’m not a clown fucker but like... Heath and Joaquin have me questioning
How is he so fckn cute like ???
looks like he could kill you but is actually a cinnamon roll.
From a mentally Ill loner,
To the Clown Price of Crime.
The prettiest boy 🤗💕 [from another pretty boy’s insta]
Seen ☼ Own ☽
Critters 3 (1991) ☼ This Boy’s Life (1993) ☼☽ What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993) ☼ The Foot Shooting Party, short film (1994) The Quick and the Dead (1995) ☼☽ The Basketball Diaries (1995) Total Eclipse (1995) ☼☽ Romeo + Juliet (1996) ☼ Marvin’s Room (1996) ☼☽ Titanic (1997) ☼ The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) Celebrity (1998) ☼☽ The Beach (2000) Don’s Plum (2001) ☼☽ Catch Me If You Can (2002) ☼☽ Gangs of New York (2002) The Aviator (2004) ☼☽ The Departed (2006) ☼ Blood Diamond (2006) ☼ Body of Lies (2008) ☼☽ Revolutionary Road (2008) ☼ Shutter Island (2010) ☼☽ Inception (2010) ☼☽ J. Edgar (2011) ☼☽ Django Unchained (2012) ☼☽ The Great Gatsby (2013) ☼☽ The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) ☼ The Audition, short film (2015) ☼☽ The Revenant (2015) ☼☽ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
Clowning Around (1995) Blackrock (1997) Paws (1997) ☼☽ 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) ☼☽ Two Hands (1999) The Patriot (2000) ☼☽ A Knight’s Tale (2001) ☽ Monster’s Ball (2001) The Four Feathers (2002) ☼☽ Ned Kelly (2003) The Order (2003) ☼ Lords of Dogtown (2005) ☼ The Brothers Grimm (2005) ☼☽ Brokeback Mountain (2005) ☼☽ Casanova (2005) Candy (2006) I’m Not There (2007) ☼☽ The Dark Knight (2008) The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) ☼☽ I Am Heath Ledger (2017)
Kids Don’t Tell (1985) Spacecamp (1986) ☼ Russkies (1987) Parenthood (1989) ☽ To Die For (1995) Inventing the Abbotts (1997) ☼ U Turn (1997) Return to Paradise (1998) Clay Pigeons (1998) ☼☽ 8mm (1999) The Yards (2000) ☽ Gladiator (2000) ☽ Quills (2000) ☽ Buffalo Soldiers (2001) ☼ Signs (2002) It’s All About Love (2003) ☼ Brother Bear (2003) ☼ The Village (2004) ☽ Hotel Rwanda (2004) ☼☽ Ladder 49 (2004) ☼☽ Walk the Line (2005) We Own the Night (2007) ☼ Reservation Road (2007) Two Lovers (2008) ☼ I’m Still Here (2010) ☼ The Master (2011) ☼ The Immigrant (2013) ☼☽ Her (2013) ☽ Inherent Vice (2014) ☼☽ Irrational Man (2015) ☼ You Were Never Really Here (2017) ☼☽ Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot (2018) ☼ Mary Magdalene (2018) ☼☽ The Sisters Brothers (2018) ☼ Lou, short film (2018) ☼☽ Joker (2019)
Garden Party (2008) The Poker House (2008) The Burning Pain (2008) Winter’s Bone (2010) Like Crazy (2011) ☼ The Beaver (2011) ☼☽ X-Men: First Class (2011) ☼☽ The Hunger Games (2012) ☼☽ Silver Linings Playbook (2012) ☼ House at the End of the Street (2012) The Devil You Know (2013) ☼☽ The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) ☼☽ American Hustle (2013) ☼☽ X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) ☼☽ Serena (2014) ☼☽ The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (2014) ☼☽ The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 (2015) ☽ Joy (2015) ☼☽ X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) ☼☽ Passengers (2016) ☼☽ Mother! (2017) ☼☽ Red Sparrow (2018) ☼☽ X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019)
Star Trek (2009) A Perfect Getaway (2009) Ca$h (2010) ☼☽ Thor (2011) ☼☽ The Avengers (2012) ☼ The Cabin in the Woods (2012) Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) ☼ Red Dawn (2012) Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Rush (2013) ☼☽ Thor: The Dark World (2013) ☽ Blackhat (2015) ☼☽ Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) Vacation (2015) In the Heart of the Sea (2015) The Huntsman: Winter’s War (2016) ☼☽ Ghostbusters (2016) ☼☽ Doctor Strange, post-credit scene (2016) ☼☽ Thor: Ragnarok (2017) ☽ 12 Strong (2018) ☼☽ Avengers: Infinity War (2018) ☼ Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) ☼☽ Avengers: Endgame (2019) ☼☽ Men In Black: International (2019) ☼ Extraction (2020)
Vigilante (2008) ICU (2009) About Time (2013) ☼☽ The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) Focus (2015) Suite Française (2015) Z for Zachariah (2015) Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016) The Legend of Tarzan (2016) ☼☽ Suicide Squad (2016) ☼☽ I, Tonya (2017) Goodbye Christopher Robbin (2017) ☽ Peter Rabbit (2018) ☽ Flopsy Turvy, short film (2018) Terminal (2018) Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018) ☽ Mary Queen of Scots (2018) Dreamland (2018) ☼☽ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) ☽ Bombshell (2019) ☼ Birds of Prey: and the Fantabulous Emancipation of one Harley Quinn (2020)
Scarfies (1999) Snakeskin (2001) A New Way Home, short film (2001) Turangawaewae, short film (2002) Henious Crime, short film (2004) Toy Boy, short film (2004) ☼ What We Do in the Shadows: Interviews with Some Vampires, short film (2005) Falling Leaves, short film (2005) Eagle vs Shark (2007) Boy (2010) ☼ Green Lantern (2011) The Captain, short film (2013) ☼☽ What We Do in the Shadows (2014) Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) ☼☽ Thor: Ragnarok (2017) Seven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss by Passing Through the Gateway Chosen by the Holy Storsh (2018) ☼☽ Avengers: Endgame (2019) ☼☽ Jojo Rabbit (2019)
Me: *writes elaborate 20-page essay about the social constructions and deep psychological perspective featured within Todd Phillips’s Joker (2019) and how Arthur’s fall into “insanity” had always been affected by his environment and not just because he was crazy from the beginning but rather neglected, traumatized, abused, underfed, and constantly ignored by those around him, even when he needed the most help and tried his hardest to seek it and take his medication, which was also ultimately stripped away from him because of society’s overall regard towards mentally ill people and the idea that those under the poverty line or that struggle with any sort of neurological issue are somehow responsible for their situation; how Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix managed to convey such powerful symbolism and imagery through tasteful stylism and a raw, emotional performance that’s revolutionary considering how popular this film has been, despite the fear and misunderstood perceptions that it would somehow spark violence, how they managed to make the depictions of an intensely lonely, mentally ill individual so vulnerable, mesmerizing, but also troubling and unsettling at the the same time, how this film shows how dangerous a man who has nothing else to lose can be and how there are red flags, there are things we can all do to better improve our health care and social services systems, the institutions we intrust to offer a safe place for people who have nowhere else to go. How beautifully constructed the question of nature versus nurture is woven through each scene, and how complex the human psyche is, how fragile and harsh reality is, such as a thin pane of glass, talking about the subtleties of Phoenix’s performances and how well developed his arc is and how much research and love and support and effort and work he put into this role in order to accurately represent mental illness, post-traumatic stress disorder, self-destructive habits, and self-deprecating self-images, yet the childish hope that things will get better, that things can get better, until the next blow comes, the next person brushes you off, until you realize that really, no one gives a shit and are so self-absorbed they can’t even begin to grasp the hardships you go through just to survive each day. And how by shedding himself of everything he used to know, everything he used to have, or have responsibilities toward, and reshaping his identity, Arthur ultimately became a symbol a movement he didn’t have any part in throughout the entire film because the people could see themselves in him, projecting their own issues onto this idea of a “clown” vigilante with an “eat the rich” mentality, morphing this broken man into one of the most powerful figures in Gotham history due to the political turmoil and environmental factors plaguing the city, which happened to occur during Arthur’s decent, which wasn’t even really a decent to begin with, and he could have been helped, and he could have been “saved” from himself, but society, in the end, failed him.*
Me, in the same breath regarding Arthur Fleck:
Arthur Fleck / Joker / Joaquin Phoenix: *Breathes*
Me: