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Oscar noms thoughts

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This is my first year in over a decade viewing the Oscar noms as something other than an entertainment journalist, and that bums me out. Still… I guess I still got thoughts.

  • I really hope Jacob Elordi wins for playing my boi the Creature, obv I’m biased now, Frankenstein was a downright religious experience for me
  • I’m so happy Wunmi Mosaku got nominated for Sinners! Representing us Brits! I’ve followed her since her In The Flesh days. I always hoped Doctor Who might snap her up, although for what role I don’t know.
  • Sinners is now I think the most nominated film in Oscars history and it does deserve it, it’s an amazingly well-made movie. With songs!
  • I haven’t seen Hamnet, even though it’s an area of history I’m interested in, because it looks TOO SAD. :( I remember the Upstart Crow episode about Hamnet’s death and that was very upsetting so I don’t think I could handle a whole movie of it.
  • I thought Weapons was kind of overrated but it was good to see Amy Madigan get a nomination, I don’t think she’ll win though admittedly.
  • I never get to watch the Oscars live cos I live in the wrong country. :(

More Frankenstein

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I am distracting myself from this terrible timeline with Frankenstein, my first new fandom in a while. I can’t believe such a great book was sitting out there all this time and I never read it! And that I probably wouldn’t have seen the movie if I wasn’t leeching off someone else’s Netflix!

I still write articles from time to time, contributing to the websites of folks I already know, even though obviously I don’t write for a living anymore. Here’s one I wrote about Frankenstein, book and movie. (Can’t embed it because WordPress still lacks that very basic functionality).

“After all, when the Creature rages and murders he’s only doing what monsters are supposed to do, but Victor very much wasn’t doing what humans are supposed to do when he made a living being out of corpses.”

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rosietealeaves:


Once again I have watched the GDT Frankenstein and once again it has turned me into an emotional, sobbing mess. I don’t think I’m ever going to get over how wonderful of an experience this film was for me, so why not make a little fanart for the occasion.

I love this style so much. It reminds me of the old animated movies I used to watch with my family as a kid.

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flightlessfinch:

imo people calling the creature Adam instead of acknowledging the scene where the creature is born and his first word when he sees his maker’s face is: “Victor?” and then he touches his own chest and says, “Victor?” again and his maker says, “Yes! Of course you are, of course you are!” with real excitement (and their shared first and fleeting taste of love for each other, when neither of them were monsters yet) are missing pieces of the intention of the story and the significance of them sharing a first name as well as a last name.

the constant question of “Frankenstein, or Frankenstein’s monster?” turns into “Victor Frankenstein, or Victor Frankenstein?” (giving the creature back his humanity in a sense but also cursing him with the sins and patterns of his father the way anyone can be cursed with their father’s blood, and at the final moment of his maker’s life he says his maker’s name with love again, and if his name is also Victor by extension he is giving love back to himself through his forgiveness for his maker and erasing what would have been a curse to replace it with self-acceptance and something warmer, like the sunlight) Basically, what I’m saying is, we should call him Junior,

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