talvatis:

talvatis:

@bergamotbitsj

I’ve been noticing some confusion in the notes regarding what culture this is, so here’s some more info!

The girl in the video is Sámi. The Sámi are an indigenous people from the region of Sápmi, which encompasses northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia.

The traditional clothing of Sámi people look different depending on which area tradition they belong to. This girl is north Sámi and she’s wearing a Lyngen dress (ivgu gákti in the north Sámi language), which means her family/ancestors came from Lyngen, Norway. Lyngen’s proximity to the sea made fishing a common means of livelihood for the Sámi living there, which earned them the name “sea Sámi”.

The girl in the video mentions that Sámi people get harassed a lot on the 17th of May, which is the Constitutional Day / National Day of Norway.

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dorykinny:

It’s so annoying that Ghostbusters 2016 flopped because it’s such a good movie, and the only reason it flopped is because “4 female ghostbusters? The feminists are taking over!”

Like there are only 2 significant men in that movie, one is the villain, and one is sexualised like a female character in that position would be.

The effects are amazing, the acting and writing is great, and the cast is *chefs kiss* like who hired Kate KcKinnon to be the iconic lesbian Holtzman? Because they need a raise.

People are just mad that this movie is for the girls and the gays. The lead characters are all women, and the one guy who isn’t a villain is Chris Hemsworth acting as a stupid bimbo.

I get people angry by pointing out that, while the original was funnier, the 2016 version was a better movie.

As far as plot and character development, the 2016 version is actually a well-crafted script. With the exception of Holtzmann– who, I cannot stress enough, is somewhere between “self-explanatory” and “needs no justification”– we know exactly why these characters are where they are and doing what they’re doing. (Also, we like them.) Events unfold at a measured pace and build up to the big finale.

The original… has none of that. Character development is practically non-existent– the only people in the movie that are characters rather than comedy archetypes (the charming and funny asshole, the emotionless nerd, the exuberant nerd, the accounting nerd, the self righteous government official) are the client (Sigourney Weaver) and Winston “If it involves a steady paycheck I’ll believe anything you say” Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson).

The entire script revolves around Bill Murray– everyone else is exposition fodder, the Straight Man, or the Butt of The Joke– and the only reason we have any investment in his character is because he’s the POV character. Our introduction to him is literally him bullshitting his way through an experiment so he can hit on one of the subjects. Everyone who criticizes him is 100% correct, but treated as antagonists. (That jerk fired him just for being a conman! How dare the EPA want to know anything about the unlicensed nuclear facility in Manhattan?) There’s no real explanation why the two legitimate scientists would want to go into business with the guy who just got them fired.

Plot? More like “Setup of characters, villain, one success story, montage, big finale” with a general patina of “underdogs make it big”.

Yes, it was funny. But that’s all it was. And the funny was almost entirely “Bill Murray being clever” or “someone else being the butt of the joke.” (The exceptions being built around Zeddemore, and some of the funniest bits of the movie.) Basically, every ounce of dialogue is either comedy or exposition, and there’s very little exposition.

But the 2016 one was still pretty goddamn funny. If anything, the weakest points in movie are when it stops being “action/comedy” and slides into satire– most notably, Erin’s behavior around Kevin and, well, the general concept of Kevin– but it’s good satire, and let’s face it, it’s not like it wasn’t gonna get the hate it got anyway.

And not for nothing, but it was– for lack of an actual term– an original remake. They took the name, the concept, and some of the aesthetic, and built a movie around it, rather than try to turn that weaksauce plot into something modern.

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mysharona1987:

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Lady Gaga has been a real one since day 1. When rumors were flying around that she was trans early in her career, instead of saying “that’s absurd, of course not!” or something like that, she said, “would it be so bad…? My fans don’t care and neither do I!”

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abandonedandurbex:

Tornado touches down behind this abandoned homestead on the Colorado Palmer Divide on June 4, 2015; Eric Hurst [1200 x 800]

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