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Jenna Newell Hiott's avatar

❤️❤️❤️ I'm always in awe of how much work you put into these, Demi! You're amazing!

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The Starfire Codes's avatar

Thank you, Jenna! Sending my love!! ❤️❤️❤️

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Angela Morris's avatar

Thanks for the mention...AND I've not found my apocalyptic partner, he's gonna have to be something extra to convince me to budge from my hermit cave....like seriously, if he exists, we're gonna need Divine intervention to make it happen....the list of requirements has changed a lot since 2020...if you know what I mean.... LOL!

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The Starfire Codes's avatar

⚡️💥🔥

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Jacqueline Rendell's avatar

I def know what you mean!! When I've been imagining my man he's always chopping wood! 😂

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Angela Morris's avatar

😂 I just chased a coyote out of the yard away from my chickens, a true man would have handled the situation better than my pot banging and hollering....where he at?

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Jacqueline Rendell's avatar

Hahaha!! Sounds like you're working with what you've got, in the meantime! 😂

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i3utm's avatar

I will know have to show my collection apocalyptic wanna-be preparedness.

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The Starfire Codes's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

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Dorothy Unleashed's avatar

Always lol. He had me on, “I build AR15s for fun”!

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The Starfire Codes's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

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Trudi Nicola's avatar

Thanks for the mention, Demi ✨🤗

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The Starfire Codes's avatar

🙏🏻💜💫

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Nathan Carney's avatar

You're so right Demi.

Disorientating camera work is almost like a path to victory style.

There's movement, we don't have all the details, or the time to show it, but we're making progress.

Then too its a 'we're trying to help meme'. We know you are afraid, but we're trying to scare you to shake you out of it. See you're safe...

And also it can create apathy rather than empathy.

We've all seen the disorienting style so many times that it we've been conditioned to realize the help was a lie, that it never comes. I'm just saying the viewer loses interest and doesn't care.

In "The Thin Red Line" we see both kinds of camera work.

When they are assaulting the hill it is disorientating, but on the path to victory. It's chaotic, noisy, but valient and heroic.

Later in the movie, in keeping with theme and beautiful character arc of protaganist it,s slow, silent, moving but wide shots that capture the stillness of the forest. The actor stealthely leads the opposing side away in a beautiful game of cat and mouse, Robinhood running through the forest as if he was a rebel himself.

Somethings going to happen but we don't know what And then everything slows down and he just stops running, facing the Japanese.

If thats not fear then I don't know what.

And in that fear we see it's dissollution into the ephemeral, moved by empathy that he made a choice to love, to protect his fellow.

soldiers.

And he joins the etherial, and his true being, amid the senseless but also insane lies of war.

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The Starfire Codes's avatar

The strangest and most effective use of space and the passage of time to convey emotion I have ever seen was in House of 1000 Corpses.

There is a scene where Otis is holding a gun to the deputy's head. The deputy is literally waiting to die. As the camera slowly pulls out, the scene becomes painfully long and painfully quiet. As this happens, we have time enough to contemplate what it would be like to be in the deputy's shoes, the torture of waiting, knowing you're about to die, knowing the person about to shoot you is enjoying every second of the torture of watching you squirm, waiting for the moment he's going to pull the trigger.

Still, even after the camera fully pans out, we're waiting. We can see there's no one coming to save him. We can feel every second he's waiting. We've developed so much empathy at this point that it's like waiting on our own executions.

So when the gun finally goes off, everyone jumps, screams, or both. Because no one had ever seen that done before. And our expectations were toyed with to such an extensive degree that it caused us to feel our own pain as well as his. And it caused us to deeply understand the depths of Otis's sadism, something that is extremely difficult to convey to an audience in which most have never experienced anything like that and so they could never relate to that depth of terror or to understanding someone who is this terrifying, let alone needing to do so and quickly in order to save one's own life.

Once it's been done, the bar has been set and the expectation becomes a part of the grammar we use in subsequent films. But it will never hold the power again that it did the first time you saw it, the time when it was novel and defied expectation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6G9EyBM_Zo

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Nathan Carney's avatar

That reminds me of how Hitchcock would try or do exciting and shocking things (like the psychologist who points the gun at the screen- I forget the name of the movie) and the shock wheres off after many years. However the artistry, and thematic brilliance does not.

The movies are still good☺️

Nothing like trying to do a little inner work and watching HO10000 corpes.

But I have to say I'll watch it once based on your recommendation.

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Nathan Carney's avatar

Okay the Hitchcock movie is Spellbound. Even when I know what happens it's a dream.

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Nathan Carney's avatar

I didnt mention it but your comment on Corpes is a beautiful work of art. My jaw dropped when I read it, it's a poem- thankyou, I appreciate it.

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The Starfire Codes's avatar

Thank you, Nathan! That's very kind of you! :)

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Jenn's avatar

Thank you to everyone ☺️❤️. A very good and fascinating scroll!

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Wasteland Wanderer's avatar

Also as a man. . .I'm honestly tired of trying to live up to everyone else's expectations of me.

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Wasteland Wanderer's avatar

The world already has enough warlords.

That's how we got into this mess in the first place.

Lol or am I the only one who's recognized that fact

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The Natural Free Human Beings's avatar

I’m your man!! lol. Classic post.

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The Starfire Codes's avatar

Thank you so much!! 🙏🏻💜💫

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The Natural Free Human Beings's avatar

Cheers!

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Sue Cartwright's avatar

Oh my absolute word, what have I been missing! Tears of laughter (laughing emoji, laughing with tears emoji, laughing upside -down crying emoji) my PC speaks! The time and wit and skill it has taken tp bring this together, bless your heart ... and the BE BRAVE alert at the beginning for beginners like me, welcoming me in. This will be my new Sunday morning ritual with my small buy REAL COFFEEEEE and a large hankie. I love you, Demi, and ALL you beautiful peopele. Thank you.

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The Starfire Codes's avatar

Thank you so much, Sue!! Sending you so much love!! ❤️🥰❤️

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Sue Cartwright's avatar

Thank you, Demi, have a beautiful day. 💛🤗💫

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Prepper-Girl's avatar

I found my warlord, took me many years but we finally connected ten years ago. He is an ass kicker and I feel very protected. I consider myself very lucky.

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The Starfire Codes's avatar

⚡️💥🔥

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DSKlausler's avatar

High marks for the title alone.

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The Starfire Codes's avatar

Ha! Thanks!! 🙏🏻💜💫

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MRT’s Haircut's avatar

Thanks for the mention

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MRT’s Haircut's avatar

Hahaha never disappoints.

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An K.'s avatar

Thanks for the mention! 🫶

Have a great weekend!!

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The Starfire Codes's avatar

You too!! 🙏🏻💜💫

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An K.'s avatar

Thanks 🙏🌸🫶

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