Here, in color and widescreen, is a shot straight of out of a late silent. This is the first image of Plastic City after the credits and it really is, I tell Yu, a silent image, a Lang image. A hand holds a stack of bills above a crowd and loosens its grip to let them flutter into the wind, down on the people. It’s a perfect opening shot for a gangster movie—a strong image, a metaphor for the appeal of gangster fiction. The fantasy at the heart of gangsterism: the tough hand that take the money, but which can also loosen its grip enough to let it trickle down to the community. What gangsters want to be, and what we want them to be. (via the auteurs)
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reblog: mudwerks:WWII: Intense Propaganda Posters - Photo Gallery, 37 Pictures - LIFEBlackout!
A 1943 German poster exhorting citizens to keep their lights off at night to hinder Allied bombings reads: “The enemy sees your light! Blackout!”
Photo: Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images, Jan 01, 1943
"Sexual intercourse is kicking death in the ass while singing"
Charles Bukowski (via bendingsumbission)
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This is my favorite movie. It always feels a little weird to say that, as I don’t have a second favorite, a third, etc. There is no ranking, there is only this one film standing out among a hundred others. It probably isn’t the greatest film ever made, and I don’t insist that everyone must see it, but for me, this is it.
“Without discipline, there’s no life at all.”
-Katharine Hepburn (via nytimes.com/getty)
attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
As of 2009, eight percent of all Major League Baseball players have been diagnosed with ADHD, making the disease epidemic among this population. The increase coincided with the League’s 2006 ban on stimulants.
