haven't followed all the intricacies, but it seems to me the response essay may be a case of......
.....putting out fire with gasoline
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Monday, 12 July 2021 23:36 (two years ago) link
It seems to me that if someone researches biographical details about you in order to write a sex scene between you and your actual ex-boyfriend in which both of you can be easily identified, you are justified in writing anything you please about it.
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 20:59 (two years ago) link
I would simply correct the record privately
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 13 July 2021 21:07 (two years ago) link
xp. otm
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 13 July 2021 21:24 (two years ago) link
sorry y'all, just making a david bowie joke.....
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 01:47 (two years ago) link
Just heard there’s a Cat Person movie! It stars two ppl I’ve never heard of which is perfect (for me) and I’m weirdly psyched to see what it looks like as a movie. I’d imagine it’s going to be REALLY uncomfortable 😀
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 20 January 2023 22:39 (one year ago) link
damn, Greg the Egg getting done dirty with this casting.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 20 January 2023 22:42 (one year ago) link
Cat Person - Official Trailer (2023) Emilia Jones, Nicholas Braun, Thriller Movie pic.twitter.com/on9gU0QU4q— Movie Coverage (@MovieCoverage_) August 24, 2023
Lol what the fuck
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Thursday, 24 August 2023 20:42 (eight months ago) link
Isn't it a truism that a longish short story is the perfect length for a movie? So what the fuck is going on there? Why does it continue? They don't think that's enough for a film, they've got to amp up everything? Such a shit decision, whatever you think of the original short story.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 24 August 2023 21:06 (eight months ago) link
What’s wrong w a cat person movie? I think it’s an appropriate length/level of complexity
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 24 August 2023 21:34 (eight months ago) link
the trailer has the whole original story as just setup for some stalker / thriller thing.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 24 August 2023 21:37 (eight months ago) link
One of us has to die
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Thursday, 24 August 2023 21:44 (eight months ago) link
if I was in charge of the marketing for this movie I would change the name from 'Cat Person' to 'The Ick', gotta move with the times
― soref, Thursday, 24 August 2023 21:59 (eight months ago) link
The Horrible Twin
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Thursday, 24 August 2023 22:00 (eight months ago) link
lol the poster art directly references the photo that accompanied the NYer story (with a font that feels very late 90s)https://people.com/thmb/D-Z4q769sW6zWUTo7T4bf2GJS5Q=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(749x0:751x2)/cat-person-poster-082323-288b858191b0498fb2d084fde6581d6d.jpg
― jaymc, Thursday, 24 August 2023 22:27 (eight months ago) link
this person still sucks
― k3vin k., Friday, 25 August 2023 23:04 (eight months ago) link
damn, Greg the Egg getting done dirty with this casting.― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, January 20, 2023 10:42 PM (seven months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, January 20, 2023 10:42 PM (seven months ago) bookmarkflaglink
I'm was very OFFTM with this one in retrospect. Knowing what we know now about Nicolas Braun, it's kind of like when Chris D'Elia played a celebrity who groomed teens on YOU.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 25 August 2023 23:09 (eight months ago) link
Reading over my posts on this thread, I understand why some people don’t like me.
― treeship., Friday, 25 August 2023 23:14 (eight months ago) link
we all love you
― k3vin k., Friday, 25 August 2023 23:26 (eight months ago) link
it’s better to read your own old posts and realize personal growth than it is to read them and consistently think “this guy? otm”kind of nice to do the latter a bit, too
― mh, Saturday, 26 August 2023 03:00 (eight months ago) link
from a studio bottom line $$ perspective, this is a A++ idea
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 26 August 2023 22:57 (eight months ago) link
I can’t believe there is nearly 1,000 posts in this thread. Who says ILx is moribund?
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 26 August 2023 23:14 (eight months ago) link
One of my coworkers heard the word moribund for the first time last week! So if people are calling things moribund maybe they just learned that word.
― mh, Sunday, 27 August 2023 13:43 (seven months ago) link
I didn't really like this story but somehow I never got around to saying so in the 1,000-post thread about it
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 27 August 2023 16:14 (seven months ago) link
It needed more stalking and murder imo
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Sunday, 27 August 2023 16:37 (seven months ago) link
people who use the word moribund sound bad. they are like cat person, who is bad
― imago, Sunday, 27 August 2023 16:39 (seven months ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/Moribundmusic.jpg
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Sunday, 27 August 2023 16:42 (seven months ago) link
xp Like Philip Parsons in the Times.
― kinder, Sunday, 27 August 2023 16:46 (seven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lAQHCpbUDw
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 27 August 2023 17:04 (seven months ago) link
Idk why but for some reason when I think about cat person I think about bad art friend why is this
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Monday, 28 August 2023 05:29 (seven months ago) link
Both short stories controversial for twisting real life stories without asking permission
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 28 August 2023 05:56 (seven months ago) link
Both short stories controversial for twisting real life stories without asking permission― Zelda Zonk
― Zelda Zonk
as someone who doesn't write professionally, i have wondered for a while how professional fiction works... i'm definitely a "write what you know" sort of person. everything i write is rooted in my real-life experience, whether i mean it to or not. anything "original" i come up with in terms of characters is just combining different qualities of different people i know, or looking at someone i know and using them as a kind of basis for a character... not drawing from actual incidents but thinking of a person and asking myself "what would this person say in this situation?" and then as i keep writing the character diverges from the real-life person i originally modeled them on. or if i am writing about an incident that happened, i feel like it's something that happens often enough and in enough different ways that basing a story on that situation is more or less "original". where's the line, i guess? i don't mean this as "discourse", i'm just trying to refine my process as a writer!
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 28 August 2023 11:00 (seven months ago) link
people who use the word moribund sound bad. they are like cat person, who is bad― imago
― imago
how about "moribundity"
i use that word
it’s better to read your own old posts and realize personal growth than it is to read them and consistently think “this guy? otm”kind of nice to do the latter a bit, too― mh
kind of nice to do the latter a bit, too
― mh
future me hates me
well, i guess not "hate", but a lot of my "personal growth" has come from reading my old writing and realizing "wow, i have said and done some genuinely awful shit"
it's pretty hard for me to read my old posts sometimes. i have a tendency to be ashamed of myself, which isn't helpful to anybody, particularly me... idk, sometimes it almost feels like the whole "so a fool returneth to his folly" thing is a form of digital self-harm, like when you log on to facebook and see old pictures of you with your ex (or in my case, see old pictures of just plain _you_ in the before time)... i've never understood why social media believes that people want to be reminded of their pasts...
― Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 28 August 2023 11:09 (seven months ago) link
I’m about halfway through the movie — has anyone else seen it??
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 25 December 2023 01:15 (four months ago) link
I haven't---please give us your take when you've seen it all, or as much as you can take.
― dow, Monday, 25 December 2023 02:15 (four months ago) link
so far the only point at which i said omg noooooo out loud and with genuine horror was when i heard the opening notes of "enjoy the silence"
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 25 December 2023 03:08 (four months ago) link
ok so "based on the story Cat Person" only goes about 2/3 of the way through the movie. there is an entire section at the end after he texts her calling her a whore in which many completely insane events occur, including a fight scene and a massive fire and a return of the dog i don't remember from the story.
the parts that were actually based on the story i thought were pretty good and true to life, somewhat subversive in their unvarnished truth. the scene you imagine being borderline unwatchable with cringe is just as bad as you're imagining it. i like the dissociated self talking to the real self parts. the ending though? idk wtf was going on there. i did enjoy the small role of the woman from The Bear as the cop.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Monday, 25 December 2023 04:09 (four months ago) link
A movie about the author’s shitty ethics and the subject killing himself would be far more interesting.
― Chris L, Monday, 25 December 2023 04:28 (four months ago) link
xp yeah the movie is better than i expected.. i think the end kinda works in its own odd way… i think the movie needed a way to get margot and robert face to face again outside of the end of the short story.. yes it is slightly absurd but not outside of the (mostly)truth of the characters
― johnny crunch, Friday, 23 February 2024 21:01 (two months ago) link