I remember how much her realization that she was “never going to be good enough for him” resonated with me when I first watched this movie. She decided to push herself, not to be with him, but to prove him the fuck wrong.
Strong female role models who can still wear pink and love fashion. Yes yes yes.
I FUCKING LOVE THIS MOVIE OH MY GODDDDDDDDDD
CAN WE JUST STOP FOR A SEC THO?
HE’S INSULTING HER FOR BEING DUMB
SHE GOT INTO THAT SCHOOL ON HER OWN.
WARNER NEEDED HIS DADDY TO CALL THEM TO BE ABLE TO GET IN.
I LOVE THIS MOVIE NO ONE EVEN UNDERSTANDS.
Elle Woods is my actual hero
WHAT MOVIE IS THIS
Legally Blonde, if I’m not mistaken.
I really liked that this isn’t an end-of-the-movie realisation where we have to sit through a whole load of regressive bullcrap to get to this. No, this comes at the end of act one. It’s like the writers wanted to get this part over as fast as possible so we can have two full acts of Elle Woods being an awesome law student.
It’s about to get a lot worse. The crisis on the border and the cartels trafficking in drugs and human cargo will accelerate with the likely new president of Mexico, Andres Obrador, a Communist and former mayor of Mexico City.
Tucker (Carlson) gave a summary of Obrador’s platform. Obrado says it is a ‘human right’ for everyone from any country to enter the U.S. illegally. The presidential hopeful promises to defend all migrants in the world coming into the U.S. illegally and he has an ulterior motive. He admitted the Mexican economy relies on remittances from the U.S. The likely future president of Mexico is also considering giving amnesty to the drug cartels — in exchange for peace. Those are the cartels that kill tens of thousands of Americans each year.
But not to eat in a leftist’s restaurant. No right to do that…Oh, unless you’re an illegal. Then, I’m sure it’s okay.
Good thing we’ll have a tough-as-nails president for the next six years…we’re going to need it. So if the U.S. and Mexico were ever forced into war because of invasion from the South – who do you think the left would fight with?
It’s not a human right to enter Mexico Illegally?
Why do they arrest border jumpers in Mexico then?
I just find it surreal that this guy is running for office in a county that he’s encouraging people to leave.
Imagine being so up your own leftist asshole that you actually say “it’s a human right to violate the laws of a sovereign nation”…we got idiots arguing for open borders, we got vacant skulled nitwits arguing that child rapists aren’t criminals…now…now this bullshit?! Am I in the fucking Twilight Zone?!?!?!
Jonathan, like Phryne Fisher, clearly hasn’t taken anything seriously since 1918.
And, I would suspect, for similar reasons.
^^^This. Jonathan being in World War I makes total sense. It’s
almost impossible for him not to have been. Given his age and background, he probably
volunteered in 1914.
Of course he’s going to not take anything seriously. Of
course he can shoot. The drinking, the skittishness, the recklessness, the
sense of ‘keeping your head down’, the scepticism about traditional heroism….
The one with more actual experience of death, carnage and
fighting is Jonathan. Not Rick. Not Ardeth Bey. Jonathan.
When Rick says ‘I’ve had worse (situation/odds)’ and Jonathan replies “ Me too”. That’s probably true.
Drop The Mummy
into the real world context and that’s a character who’s going to have seen a
lot of his school friends die, along with the myths and tales of heroism they
were raised on. Sort of makes the line where Evie’s scolding him for drinking/messing
about a lot darker…
Evie: Have you no respect for the dead? Jonathan: Of course I do, but sometimes I’d rather like
to join them.
I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS RIGHT NOW
*record scratch*
Wait a minute. Why is it being assumed that Rick and Ardeth wouldn’t have fought in WWI, as well? Johnathan isn’t that much older than any of them–in fact, there is a good chance that he, Rick, and Ardeth are all of an age. Just because Johnathan’s hair is thinning doesn’t mean he’s a decade older.
It was a LOT easier to lie about your age back in the day. So much easier.
Johnathan is the soldier who fought in WWI and became disillusionsed with pretty much everything except wanting to live (most of the time) and live well–and where is the shame in that? He would have seen some of the darkest shit humanity has to offer, and he kept going. And the thing is, though, archaeological digs at that time were DANGEROUS. Not from curses (usually) but from assholes who would turn up with guns to try and steal anything you discovered. Johnathan never really STOPPED having to deal with dangerous pricks, it was just less dangerous than death raining down from the sky in bomb, bullet, and mustard gas form all the time.
Rick grew up in Egypt as an orphan. What paperwork? He joined the French Foreign Legion, which fought in World War I in some seriously critical battles on the Western Front in Europe. Rick is the soldier who quickly grew disillusioned with everything, but he didn’t know how to stop being a soldier. Johnathan had a career and schooling to fall back on. Rick had guns, the talent of not dying easily, and not much else. When the army finally left him behind because he was literally the only survivor of his last FFL battle, he literally didn’t know what to do. At all. “Looking for a good time” was code for “Please someone give me a fucking purpose.”
Ardeth grew up in the desert. He probably never enlisted…but if you think his people didn’t fight against invading forces during WWI, think again: that region of North Africa was swarming with soldiers on both sides, and they alll tried to claim everything they stumbled over even while in the midst of fighting each other. Ardeth spent his entire life fighting to protect what belonged to him, what belonged to his people, and trying to keep assholes from stealing things that didn’t belong to anyone (for good reason). By the time the war was over, Ardeth was disillisioned in everyone except his own people, and seriously fucking done with stupid idiots who stole in the name of archaeology. He is completely (justifiably) resigned to the worst when Rick the Magic Survivalist returns to Hamunaptra.
This has been another episode of “Actual History adding context and depth to character behavior”
I love when “The Mummy” fandom comes out to play. But it’s even better when the history side of tumblr is also in “The Mummy” fandom.
Every time this post comes around I am compelled to watch The Mummy again.
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