JEANNIE BELL
TNT Jackson dir. Cirio H. Santiago, 1974
Tag: the silver screen
“This is the big reveal that’s mirrored in the game of mahjong. Rachel draws a tile in mahjong. It’s a set-building game; it’s very much like poker, so you can draw a card that gives you the win. So Rachel draws the win, but instead of winning, she lets Eleanor have [the winning tile], and so that mirrors the dialogue because what she tells Eleanor in that moment is, ‘Your son has proposed to me, but because I don’t want him to lose his relationship with his mother, I am going to say no and in the future, when he marries someone you think is appropriate, you’re going to remember that that’s because of me.” ~ Bourree Lam, journalist
Crazy Rich Asians (2018), dir. Jon M. Chu
I feel like something he loaded by mistake. Something to be jettisoned if necessary. Something disposable. I feel like I could disappear.
Gone Girl (2014) dir. David Fincher
I believe that we need not look outside of our borders for strength or guidance. What we need is right before us, and we need only have courage and be kind to see it.
Richard Madden as Kit/The Prince in Cinderella (2015)
“In winter here no heart could mourn for summer or for spring. No blemish or sickness or deformity could be seen in anything that grew upon the earth. On the land of Lórien, there was no stain.”































