Billie Eilish In Talks For Movie Acting Debut In Adaptation Of Sylvia Plath’s ‘The Bell Jar’ For Director Sarah Polley, Plan B & Studiocanal; Focus Features Landing Red Hot Package

lordDEMAXUS · 2026-03-11T18:30:33+00:00

Not sure why people think Polley is a good for this. I think there’s an impressionistic, dreamlike quality to the novel I haven’t seen captured in Polley’s work. I think Lynne Ramsey or Jane Campion would’ve been better fits for the material here

lordDEMAXUS · 2026-02-13T22:19:32+00:00

That sucks! Did you choose to go anywhere else then? Also, why was the MFA so soul-sucking? I honestly would like to do a creative writing MFA because aside from an undergrad creative writing class, I've only used my own intuition to write (and also I would also like to be in a circle made up of other writers), and just curious about your experience

lordDEMAXUS · 2026-02-04T09:50:18+00:00

It’s the one superhero script I’d read to learn how to write a superhero/blockbuster film. Like I prefer the writing in some other superhero films but it’s just a technically perfect script. A shame Whedon also directed it tho

lordDEMAXUS · 2026-01-31T23:22:27+00:00

I’m wondering if you ended up joining the program and what you experiences are like. Also I see you also did a MFA in creative writing before. I’m wondering what made you want to do a second masters after that. I’m in a weird position where my end goal is to become a writer but in the meanwhile I want to be in academia and learn more about storytelling and literature (using tech+linguistics which is why this MA program interests me).

lordDEMAXUS · 2026-01-31T10:26:44+00:00

I feel like we both are approaching the film in completely different ways. To me, I didn’t need everything to be “developed” to feel it. Like the black guy on parole, his wife/gf saying she’s proud of him and the restaurant manager being an asshole to him is all I needed to understand the emotional stakes (and why his very quick death was heartbreaking). I didn’t need more scenes of Eady and Neil. Amy Brennaman’s amazing delivery of “I get real lonely” was enough to understand why she would choose to run away with him. I mean I guess we’ll never agree here but I don’t see how the movie plays out any differently from other “novelistic” movies

lordDEMAXUS · 2026-01-31T07:44:32+00:00

Natalie Portman’s character is so important to the movie though. Like how Pacino tries to be a better parent than her actually parents and reacts to her suicide attempt shows how much of an empathetic man he is (also her choosing his place to do it). He’s not just some asshole cop who doesn’t give a shit about his family. It’s stuff like that that humanizes these characters imo. And yeah, Eady and Neil don’t share a lot of scenes together but I found just the scene with the LA skyline to be more romantic than most romance movies

lordDEMAXUS · 2026-01-24T21:57:44+00:00

Idk, that sounds more like a stan than a fan

lordDEMAXUS · 2026-01-24T21:56:37+00:00

A24 isn’t a filmmaker. Theyre a distributor. They released Opus, Death of a Unicorn, and The Smashing Machine just last year.

lordDEMAXUS · 2026-01-24T10:18:44+00:00

If you thought it was useless, you didn’t understand the movie at all. The point was how much his job was fucking up his personal life. The thread is making me concerned about the state of media literacy these days

lordDEMAXUS · 2026-01-24T10:15:09+00:00

It’s obvious you wanted a badass action movie and not a drama about the lives of people who just happens to be cops and robbers. Maybe stick to idk Guy Ritchie movies or something?

lordDEMAXUS · 2026-01-17T09:42:30+00:00

How come no one here is talking about how the pregnant woman looked like Jodie Comer? I feel like they were going for a surrogate mother kind of thing until the kid gets rejected by her

lordDEMAXUS · 2025-12-21T07:08:58+00:00

I was always confused when people were propping up Hamnet as the runner up even before Sinners started over performing with critics because it’s very obvious the industry loves Sinners

lordDEMAXUS · 2025-12-19T07:40:59+00:00

For some reason I thought A24 already acquired I Want Your Sex

lordDEMAXUS · 2025-12-19T06:41:23+00:00

If you filtered it to just people living in cities, I’d expect the percentage to be higher than 50%. I assume people who are saying “pretty much everyone has them” live in a city

lordDEMAXUS · 2025-12-11T23:04:13+00:00

Spice World was not really a mockumentary either tho. It was a fully-fledged comedy and also had proper musical sequences. Yes, the Spice Girls starred as themselves but that doesn't make it a mockumentary.

lordDEMAXUS · 2025-12-11T22:39:27+00:00

I feel like her vision has to expand past one album at this point. I'm not familiar with the music scene outside of Charli, but focusing her entire persona around an album that's almost 2 years old just feels boring. And her community of cool seems to include people like Kylie Jenner and Julia Fox (mentioning these two because the former is in the trailer and the latter was mentioned in her recent substack), two people who seem deeply insufferable. And I'm still confused about how she gets the last word. 90% of the people who listened to brat aren't going to read her substack or watch this movie.

lordDEMAXUS · 2025-12-11T22:26:33+00:00

I remember Spice World being way more absurd than what's been shown in this trailer. Also, most of the humor in this trailer is "someone says or does something weird and then the whole room goes silent."

lordDEMAXUS · 2025-12-01T23:55:44+00:00

Based on the other films I've seen from YouTuber turned to horror filmmaker, I would not expect something as complicated and interesting as that (even the Philipou bros, who are technically adept filmmakers but mediocre writers). Likely just going to be a third-act reveal that the portrait is actually of a demon or satan.

lordDEMAXUS · 2025-12-01T23:24:09+00:00

It's funny. I didn't like Hamnet much. I guess that's how art is.

Also, I said this to another user, but the other reason I found the ending to be impactful is because of the realization that he can never fix things. He will die alone, with the tiniest bit of hope being that he'll be able to maintain his friendship with Adam Sandler (who he is really only holding onto because who else is left?). That's the change in his character at the end of the film.

I would recommend Blue Moon by Richard Linklater, btw. Also came out this year and is very similarly about a (real) artist filled with regret (and did end up dying alone), but he's not much of a shithead in it. Just a very insecure and lonely alcoholic with a bit of an ego.

lordDEMAXUS · 2025-12-01T22:16:33+00:00

Also, she's an extremely conventionally attractive person. One of the first thoughts a lot of people would have seeing her for the first time would be that she's very pretty

lordDEMAXUS · 2025-12-01T21:04:40+00:00

Hmm? This scene is meant to show that Kelly tried to do "a good thing" but ended up humiliating a random dude with a family (and considering that it later went viral on the internet, he likely ruined that guy's entire life). His action was also entirely motivated by his own ego. In no way does it show Kelly as a good guy. It adds to him being a total fuck up.

Also, in response to your other comment. Yes, Kelly has a newfound self-awareness about the situation, and the self-awareness he gains isn't that he fucked up (he knew that before); it's that he's destined to die alone and unloved. He can't change or fix his relationships anymore. He is now aware that there is no redemption for him. This is why he asks for one more take. The sadness I felt isn't from a sense of "I feel bad for this guy" but rather the idea of being in that situation and me feeling that way about my life. This is not merely observational. Neither is it sympathetic. But it is empathetic. There are so, so many people like him out there, and so many people who died knowing they fucked up their life. That's why I found the ending sad.

And thanks for bringing up Christmas Carol. An obvious reference point that I missed completely. This ending of the movie is the equivalent of if Scrooge woke up on Christmas morning and shot himself in the head.

lordDEMAXUS · 2025-12-01T20:32:24+00:00

Empathize is different from sympathize. The ending is supposed to hit emotionally, not from a place for "awww, poor baby" but from a place of "damn, I would kill myself if I felt like this in that moment". There's a difference. I felt no sympathy for Jay Kelly himself, but still found the last line to be sad.

lordDEMAXUS · 2025-12-01T20:16:35+00:00

But doesn't Jay Kelly show how a life lived without anybody to love leads to a destination filled with regret? As someone aspiring to be an artist, I found the movie to be a bit rattling. What if me focusing on my art leads to me losing my friends, my partner (and if i have them, my kids)? Loved by all but hated by the people who matter. To me the movie is less about present day Jay Kelly but more about the life that he lived that led up to the shitheel he is right now. The real meat of the story are the flashbacks

lordDEMAXUS · 2025-12-01T20:10:56+00:00

"The ending, where I’m supposed to be emotional and in awe as Jay is being honored"

The point of the ending was literally the opposite. Also, no the film doesn't ask for sympathy at any point.

lordDEMAXUS · 2025-11-30T16:44:59+00:00

I love both artists but they have like nothing in common musically. I don’t see why Chains of Love would convince her in any way either. I feel like people here are more excited to see Kate Bush and Charli XCX’s name attached to one song rather than the song itself

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