Still figuring this out
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made a picture i will use a lot
"we just got rid of the mexicans and now we get the argentinians back" hey, so I know what you are...
multishipping is a lost art…. yes i ship maysilee with asterid. yes i ship maysilee with silka. yes i ship maysilee with wyatt. yes i ship maysilee with ringina. We exist
i read the conclave book in less than a day and watched the conclave movie twice and i feel like i can say edward berger definitely read the book and thought "you know what the problem here is. not enough benitez as a jesus allegory content"
just a few changes to showcase this:
1. In the book Benitez is constantly portrayed being welcomed by Filipinos, Africans and other nations due to his reputation. Multiple times the book has shown Benitez being dragged into groups and numerous nationals listening intently to what he has to say, which is why he rose so slowly but prominently.
In the movie, Benitez is almost always alone--the scene where Lawrence finds him looking at the late popes turtles alone was originally Benitez talking to a group but deciding to leave to speak to Lomelli instead. The movie frames Benitez in the same quiet but thoughtful work as it does the nuns and all the important female figures in the Church--watching, listening, saying nothing until the spirit moves him to speak the truth. The book shows Benitez still being involved in the politics of the Conclave, dragged around his social groups, whether he wants to be or not; the movie expressly separates Benitez entirely from the politics, placing him in a kind of objective, angelic watcher position.
2. Jacopo Lomelli's name is changed to Thomas Lawrence. The book is likely referring to Jacopo as Jacob, the man who wrestled God, but in the movie he is clearly focused on being Doubting Thomas, the man who interrogates and sees proof of Jesus's resurrection from an abdomen wound. Guess who Lawrence was interrogating about the treatment of an abdomen wound in the movie
3. Speaking of the treatment, the movie changed Benitez's condition from having a fused labia to having ovaries, and also changed the way he found out from a car bomb explosion injury to an appendectomy. Again. This is probably an allusion to Doubting Thomas checking out Jesus's wound. But the fact that even this major detail was changed to fit the "Benitez as a Jesus allegory" narrative is hilarious to me
4. This is my biggest, funniest observation of the Conclave Book vs Movie Benitez. Book Benitez is determined to make Lomelli win. He gets up and speaks after the discovery of the terrorist attack to expressly say that the conclave has already had a majority vote (Lomelli) and that all the 24 people who voted for Benitez should vote for Lomelli instead to strengthen the church. He doesn't outwardly express any disdain for the conclave, just that he wishes they could work together to strengthen the Church. Movie Benitez is VASTLY different because he just straight up says sth along the lines of "all of you are petty and weird and know nothing about the conflict youre getting into and i cannot wait to go back to kabul and do some actual good for this world instead of being stuck here with all of you. " its just such a holy takedown of the church that clearly separates Benitez not as a member of any faction but as a voice of God
I love both the movie and the film for completely different reasons and I think everybody who reads or watches one should check out the other just to get a complete picture of both visions
good god forgive me. i want to walk away
All I could think when it showed this random guy tapping through his phone
Julien De Saint-Jean as Andréa & Anamaria Vartolomei as Haydée The Count of Monte-Cristo / Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (2024)
SEBASTIAN DOESN'T REMEMBER THE CARRY ON VIDEO, WE'RE SO DONE
Carlos Diehz as Cardinal Vincent Benítez/Pope Innocent in new stills from Conclave (2024) dir. Edward Berger
If there was only certainty, and if there was no doubt, there would be no mystery, and therefore no need for faith. Let us pray that God will grant us a Pope who doubts. Let Him grant us a Pope who sins and asks for forgiveness. And carries on.
I am what God made me. And perhaps it is my difference that will make me useful. I think again of your sermon. I know what it is to exist between the world’s certainties.
let god grant us a pope who doubts.
once again my favorite movie of the year has gone home without a best picture oscar and i am once AGAIN making it everyone's problem
instagram / inprnt
Porthos beats the fuck out of Rochefort in the Further Adventures of The Musketeers
I saw this post and I said “that’s SOO conclave-pilled”
1 kings 19:11-12
Reading yet another Horner stupid declaration about how they were 'loyal' to Checo and it was hard that he made them lose points...
I hope Checo sues him for using his name even when his contract is over; if they are cropping him out from all the Chestappen pictures, then he shouldn't even mention his name at all then.
13 nominations??? Even surrealism has limits, guys.
Johanne sacreblu shows what the global wealthy north dont get. Latinoamericans dont need an ex villain mercy to handle their problems, latam people can do it on its own.
Families of missing people are giving the fight in Mexico, they dont need the mercy and pity of an ex narco to help them as latinoamerica dont need the mercy of europe or usa. We resist, we fight, we create.
Mexico dont need hollywood to tell them how to represent their country.
It's kind of insane, isn't it? On the one hand, you have a film dealing with a dictatorial period in Brazil, caused by US involvement, which is what the US did throughout Latin America, by brazilians, director, producer, actors, all Brazilian, in Brazilian Portuguese. Authentically latino.
And on the other hand we have French and American citizens delivering the Mexican stereotype once again.
A colonizer still a colonizer, I guess...
Just in case you want to have a good laugh at the french, specifically because they suck at representing other cultures in movies (emilia perez i'm looking RIGHT at you) then let me present to you:
This magical little short was written, produced and filmed in only 5 days with help from donations, it was made as a clapback at the people who made that garbage movie who is now loosing their nominations to the oscars, and honestly its just very funny, watch it!
Bienvenidos a la France 🥖
From the movie Johanne Sacreblu (2025) the most authentic French film with not a single French actor and not filmed in France
Maybe, maybe, Emilia Perez is a social experiment to show how racist hollywood and cannes still are. Maybe when acepting the Oscar for best movie award Audiard the director will remove a mask and unveil themself as Juan Gabriel and said "atrapadaaa"
most movies can only dream of this stats, but only masterpieces like johanne sacreblu are capable