silver is like “i hate the sea!!” and
flint?? gives an half laugh looking outrageously endeared and then he catches himself and you can read the what the fuck is happening to me writing itself
on his face in the space of a couple of blinks– please look with your own two
eyes:
THIS. Absolutely. AND, also in 2.02, the progression from “If you’re trying to impress me, it isn’t working” to the silent, slightly amused and very impressed look at the end of the scene
(But I still think the moment Flint started – tentatively, grudgingly, whatever – falling is the pig scene in 1.04)
You can’t, you absolutely can’t, leave us hanging like this. What IS this game?
It’s a game you learn at school or summer camp when you’re between 4 and 10 – but make no mistake people will play and get very into it at ANY AGE. Often played during bus rides on school trips, weddings, etc – basically anytime you have a large groupe of people getting kinda bored and one (1) idiot who wants to see the world burn.
You divide the people in two groups based on which side of the bus/room they are. One group is “Bâbord” (Portside) and one is “Tribord” (Starboard). Then one group starts chanting (there’s a specific tune) “C’est à Bâbord, qu’on gueule, qu’on gueule !!! C’est à Bâbord, qu’on gueule le plus fort !!!” (Literally “It’s here, Portside, that we yell, that we yell, it’s here, Portside, that we yell the loudest”) – then the other group does the same, louder, but saying “Tribord”, then the first group replies even louder, and so on and so forth until everybody is screaming at the top of their lungs and the bus driver makes you stop and threatens to throw all of you out.
Thanks! Sounds wonderful. Should be introduced in primary schools the world over. (visualises Muldoon and Jack Rackham getting the idea straight away, Anne and Billy looking on in earnest bafflement, Joji wondering about strange European customs, etc.)
Fun History Fact: The overwhelming majority of cowboys in the U.S. were Indigenous, Black, and/or Mexican persons. The omnipresent white cowboy is a Hollywood studio concoction meant to uphold the mythology of white masculinity.
Thank you.
I will always re-blog this
I think it was high school when i overheard some white girl put on her best semi-disgusted and confused voice and go “why do so many Mexicans dress up like cowboys?” and I had to be the person to tell her.
Why do you think the whites say buckero? Cause they couldn’t say vaquero.
I dunno if I reblogged this before but fuck it, y’all gon learn today.
Teach the children.
also, cowboy culture was hella gay. like, write-poems-about-your-cowboy-partner gay.
IF people acknowledge it, they play the necessity card– there weren’t any women out on the range, so they had to “resort to men.” this claim completely erases 1) the romantic (not just sexual) writings of actual cowboys, 2) the acknowledgement of cowboys’ potential homosexual activity by writers at the time, and 3) the possibility that some men would deliberately become cowboys with the intent to seek out homosexual encounters.
no one wants to admit it, but cowboy culture was just. so inherently gay.
My son and his partner live in Frankston. Hope they were nowhere near that train. (But yes, that’s part of the Frankston population for you: Americans would talk of rednecks, we would talk about bogans)
I´m just rewatching “Thunderbolt and Lightfoot” and look what i found …there´s a “LOVE” sticker/poster in the background in two different scenes and in both cases there are direct cuts between
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. So…Thunderfoot is canon and nobody can convince me this is just a coincidence.
Absolutely. It’s at least 10 years since I last rewatched it, and I can still remember many great scenes. The intimacy of Thunderbolt letting Lightfoot see his damaged leg, no embarrassment, no coyness. T totally bored when having sex with the one-night-stand women in the motel. The applause-worthy moment when the young feminist on the motorbike dents L’s truck. The dialogue in the old schoolroom. Interesting also that L doesn’t say anything about himself or his past.
Would really like to talk about this film with other fans. In private via email (hint, hint, @clinteastwood-blog), in a streaming, whatever.
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