It’s here! After a year and a half of hard work, we are both so excited to finally share our film with you. Thank you all for your support and encouragement – this film means the world to us, and your kindness and enthusiasm has made this journey all the more meaningful. It is our great pleasure to share with you this labor of love, and we hope with all our hearts that you enjoy watching it as much as we did making it.
Here it is! I’m SO EXCITED to finally share the film that I made with my friend/clone/partner in spline, Esteban Bravo, during our last year and a half at Ringling.
Thank you everyone for all your support throughout the making of this film! I’ve expressed time and time again how much this project means to me and how personal it is for both of us. We are so happy to know that we have the support of friends, family, and perfect strangers alike.
Ron: Hey Harry?
Harry: What
Ron: Do you think Voldemort was a virgin?
Harry: Seriously Ron-
Ron: I was just wondering-
Harry: *sighs* *pauses* In the Chamber of Secrets, the memory had him in 5th year…
yeah, he wasn’t a virgin
Seamus: Imagine being the lass to do the frick-frack with ol’ Dark Lord Voldy
Dean: The Gryffindor boy’s dorm; the place where we can talk about sex with the Dark Lord but not say the word sex.
Seamus: *throws pillow at Dean*
Neville: *after pause* Doing the Do with You Know Who.
Ron: He Who Must Not Be Laid
A new video released Monday titled “The Talk” compellingly tackles the impact of racial bias through the lens of black parents in America.
This video accurately displays what it is like to be black in America. It shows the conversations all black parents have with their kids to keep them safe and to encourage them to fight the racist society. And it’s heartbreaking that parents need to remind their kids that their “Black is beautiful”.Society needs to change and time has come to talk about this.
MGM took down my Bill/Ted vid. I don’t see them taking down other Bill and Ted videos. So fuck the system, I’m uploading it here. Song is Bill and Ted’s Homosexual Adventure by Pansy Division.
i always feel so guilty when someone is like “you’re being too loud” like sorry! got very little handle on this whole “volume control” thing! but now that you’ve told me i was yelling and i didn’t realize it i’m just gonna sit over here and Die because i was bothering other people!
These two were supposedly based on a real couple, who said they wouldn’t board a life boat as long as there were younger people still aboard the ship. They both went below deck, presumably to their room, and that’s the last time they were seen.
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Isador & Ida Straus
The couple had been married for 41 years at the time of the disaster. They raised six children together, and were almost inseparable. On the rare occasion that they were apart, they wrote each other every day. They even celebrated their birthdays on the same day, although they were well apart from one another. During the sinking, Titanic’s officers pleaded with the 63 year old Ida to board a lifeboat and escape the disaster, but she repeatedly refused to leave her husband. Instead, she placed her maid in a lifeboat, taking her fur coat off and handing it to the maid while saying, “I won’t need this anymore”. At one point, she was convinced to enter one of the last two lifeboats, but jumped out as her husband walked away to rejoin him.
When last seen by witnesses, they were standing on deck, holding each other in a tight embrace. Their funeral drew some 6,000 mourners at Carnegie Hall.
A monument to them still stands in a Bronx cemetery, it’s inscription reads: “Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.”
why wasn’t the movie about them
why wasn’t the movie about them
Another few bits of trivia:
Both were Jewish, and Isidor was one of the co-owners of Macy’s.
The maid, Ellen Bird, went to their family to return the fur coat, specifically to their eldest daughter, Sara Straus Hess. She was gently refused, with Sara telling Ellen that Ida had given her the coat and she should keep it.
When her husband urged her to get into a boat, Ida told him “We have lived together for many years. Where you go, I go.”Her words were witnessed by those already in Lifeboat No. 8 as well as many others who were on the boat deck at the time. Eyewitnesses described the scene as a “most remarkable exhibition of love and devotion.”
Long story short, there should absolutely be a movie about them.
I’m not crying you’re crying
Isador and Ida Straus were among the real-life individuals represented in the Titanic movie.
Mrs. Molly Brown was another. In real life, she organized the women in the lifeboats to row and search for survivors when the Titanic sank. Her leadership and spirit that night earned her the affectionate nickname among the press, “The unsinkable Molly Brown.”
An interesting tidbit: in the case of Isador and Ida Straus, the fact that such a profound story of self-sacrifice and love came from a Jewish couple made a serious impact, in the popular anti-Jewish sentiments in the U.S. at the time. I remember crying the first time I read about them (years before seeing the Titanic movie).
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