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Mason: "Passengers! As in the beginning, I belong to the front and you belong to the tail. Know your place! Keep your place!"

Curtis: "All past revolutions have failed because they didn't take the engine--now we'll take the engine."

Wilford: "The train is the world. We, the humanity. Curtis, I'm not a leader. This is your destiny..."

The Main Passengers of the Snowpiercer

Japanese Trailer for director Bong Joon-Ho's visionary film, "Snowpiercer".

Snowpiercer Smackdown : Tail Section vs. Front Section Side note: I just learned that the film distributor of "Snowpiercer" for the Philippines is NOT going to be The Weinstein Company, but rather Parkit Films--who will also be handling the release of director Bong Joon-Ho's visionary dystopian sci-fi epic in Malaysia. Which basically means I will definitely be seeing the ORIGINAL UNEDITED VERSION of "Snowpiercer" as opposed to the potential Harvey Scissorhands cut which will likely be serviced to the US, UK, and other English-speaking territories. Excuse me while I proceed to uncontrollably shake and cry with joy at this bit of good news.

Inside The Snowpiercer 03 : Greenhouse Section + Classroom Section Nearly midway through the train lies the verdant Greenhouse Section, which is officially considered as part of the Front Section. This area houses an impressive display full of plants, fruits, and vegetables. Yet the flora and edible food cultivated here is minimal and strictly controlled since the car was never designed to provide speedy production food supplies. Only the privileged few from the Front get to taste the produce cultivated in the Greenhouse. This car serves nothing more than an exhibition and leisure space, offering the Front Section passengers to enjoy a bit of greenery in contrast to the barren and icy world outside the confines of the Snowpiercer. As the train ride prolonged, the adults of the Front Section raised needs for proper education to their young children. But the curriculum, however, is drastically different from what was previously taught on a pre-ice age Earth, as the lessons learned by the children of the Front covers the history of the train and unquestioned veneration for Wilford--the creator of the Snowpiercer. The Classroom Section is more of a daycare school where the Front Section adults merely drop off their kids while they enjoy their leisures in peace. The design of the car itself--from the hyper-saturated color scheme, wooden desks, and an organ altar in the front reserved for the Teacher (Alison Pill)--highly suggests that the train's academic institution was built with a religious function from the very beginning. On the subject of children, there is a distinction between those who were born on Earth before the new ice age began and those who were born within the Snowpiercer once the nuclear winter destroyed the planet. The latter youths are known as "Train Babies"--generations conceived and birthed aboard the train and have never stepped foot on Earth. For the Train Babies, both from the Front and the Tail, the Snowpiercer is the only world they know. Having been born on the very first year that the train departed, Yona (Ko Ah-Sung)--the daughter of Namgoong Minsu--represents the first generation of the Train Babies. But considering the extreme class division within the confines of the train, the lives of the children from the Tail Section are vastly different from the kids living in the Front. Only the kids from the Front benefit from a pampered lifestyle and receive the cult-like education in the Classroom Section, while the Tail Section children are forced to deal with the hardships of their miserable existence together with their elders, and are subject to a mysterious event that allows the Front to seize selected youths away from their parents by force and be carted off to parts unknown within the Snowpiercer.

Inside The Snowpiercer 01 : Tail Section + Prison Section The Snowpiercer is composed of sixty (60) cars and its last twenty (20) make up the Tail Section. When the world froze, people with no tickets hopped onto these cargo sections. After the Front Section seized control of the food and other useful resources from these cars, people have reinvented the space into residential areas. These sections are overcrowded, are scarce of water, and lack proper heating. While the passengers of the Front enjoy comfortable and affluent lives, the people living in the Tail are trapped in such hellish conditions as access to the Front is denied to them by heavily armed soldiers. +++ The Plaza : Tail Section people are summoned here to receive their rations or sit through humiliating public announcements from the Front Section authorities such as Minister Mason (Tilda Swinton). This is also where the people line up to receive their daily ration of protein blocks from the soldiers. Public Area : Next to the residential area is a communal space for the Tail Section people. It houses bathrooms with very limited water access, a hospital where minimal treatment is available, and a corner known as Painter's Place where the Tail Section's artistic historian resides. Residential Area : This portion of the Tail Section was reconstructed by the passengers with leftover material from the then cargo areas that the Front Section didn't bother to take away. Between a long and narrow corridor stand multi-story beds housing thousands of people. The extremely limited space have forced at least two or three people to share a single bed, with others having to improvise a sleeping sanctuary with hammocks hung between the upper levels of the bedspaces. The Slum : This communal area of the Tail Section is where the passengers go about their everyday lives aboard the train--kids zigzag through narrow corridors, wise men play chess, devotees gather for prayers, and women trade goods with each other. Gilliam's Tent : On the very end of the Snowpiercer resides the guardian of the Tail Section, Gilliam (John Hurt). His tent sits on the complete opposite end of the train as opposed to the Engine Section, where Wilford (Ed Harris) lives. The tent is guarded by the twelve (12) great elders of the Tail Section. Prison Section : Originally, smaller cages housed pigs and chickens while the bigger cells carried horses and cows. The cells now carry political prisoners or criminals who have disturbed the peace of the train, such as Namgoong Minsu (Song Kang-Ho). When the Front seized control of the Tail Section, this area became the border between the Front and the Tail within the Snowpiercer. The armed guards who patrol the Tail Section are required to cleanse themselves in the Quarantine Section.

Inside The Snowpiercer 02 : Protein Block Section + Water Supply Section While the elites in the Front enjoy a luxurious array of food options, the only food rationed to the people in the Tail Section is a substance called a "protein block". It is a large, black, and translucent jelly bar which looks similar to a Japanese red bean dessert. The ingredients that make up a typical protein block remain ambiguous to the Tail Section people, but they are resigned to resort to eating these tasteless bars on a daily basis. Protein blocks are the sole source of nutrition and contain the bare minimum required for survival among the people of the Tail Section. The protein blocks themselves are produced in the area adjacent to the Greenhouse Section of the Snowpiercer. Previously, the machines in this car created fertilizer, but it has since been modified to manufacture the protein bars that are distributed to the Tail Section. Since all the foods are controlled by the Front, the jelly-like substance made in the machine housed in the Protein Block Section is the only lifeline for the Tail Section people. Also produced within the Protein Block Section is a substance called "kronole". These are small, greenish cubes which are highly flammable and give off a hallucinating effect when inhaled. Kronole is now considered as a popular new form of recreational drug, replacing the now-extinct cigarettes, that is abused by both the indulgent elites in the Front and the derelict addicts in the Tail. Close to the Greenhouse and Protein Block Sections of the train is the Water Supply facility. As the train perpetually circles the globe, it constantly encounters large barriers of ice and compacted snow which the train easily pierces through with sheer force (hence the name, Snowpiercer). The head of the train was designed to catch large chunks of ice and snow and goes through an intricate system and ends up in the Water Supply section. It is here that the melted ice and snow is cleansed, filtered, and sterilized before it is redistributed to the Front Section. But while the collected water is transported to the Tail Section as well, the water is barely usable as the amount the Tail dwellers receive is extremely scant and the pipelines running toward the back of the train are poorly managed.

"Passagers! Je ma place est l'avant. Vous avez la votre à l'arriere. Restez votre place!" // "Passengers! I belong to the front. You belong to the tail. Keep your place!" - Mason "Toutes les révolutions ont échoué car ils n'ont jamais atteint la Machine. D'ici à l'avant du train. D'une seule traite..." // "All the past revolutions have failed because they couldn't take the engine. From here right in front of the train. Everything in one stroke..." - Curtis "Le train est le monde. Nous sommes l'humanité. Je ne suis pas un meneur. Curtis, c'est ta destin..." // "The train is the world. We, the humanity. I'm not a leader. Curtis, this is your destiny..." - Wilford

SPOILER ALERT FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN'T SEEN "SNOWPIERCER" YET!!!

So basically Madison Montgomery's iconic quote happens to be so fucking applicable to the fucktastic finale to Bong Joon-Ho's "Snowpiercer" when that polar bear is all like "SURPRISE BITCH" all up in Yona's (Ko Ah-Sung) face who's all like "Whuuuuuuuuuuuuut?!" LOL.

And before you ask... YES. These GIFs I made are indeed taken from the third act of the film, so yeah. SURPRISE BITCH! ;)

LOOKS LEGIT! <3

OH AND ALL OF YOU ON TUMBLR BETTER HARDCORE STAN FOR FUCKING SNOWPIERCER (HD LEAK IS NOW OUT) BECAUSE IT IS MAD AWESOME AND WILL SLAY YOUR FUCKING MINDS OFF, BITCH.

THAT IS ALL.

"This is so disappointing! Passengers, this is not a shoe. This is disorder. This is size ten chaos! This, see this? This is death. In this locomotive we call home, there is one thing that goes between our warm hearts and the bitter cold. Clothing? Shields? No! Order. Order is the barrier that holds back the frozen death. We must all of us, on this train of life, remain in our allotted station. We must each of us occupy our preordained particular position. Would you wear a shoe on your head? Of course you wouldn't wear a shoe on your head! A shoe doesn't belong on your head, a shoe belongs on your foot! A hat belongs on your head. I am a hat, you are a shoe! I belong on the head, you belong on the foot, yes?! So it is! In the beginning, order was prescribed by your ticket: First Class, Economy, and Freeloaders like you. Eternal order is prescribed by the Sacred Engine. All things flow from the Sacred Engine: all things in their place, all passengers in their Section, all water flowing, all heat rising—pays homage to the Sacred Engine in its own particular preordained position. So it is! Now, as in the beginning, I belong to the FRONT. You belong to the TAIL. When the foot seeks the place of the head, a sacred line is crossed. Know your place! Keep your place! Be a shoe!" - Minister Mason's separatist speech to the Tail Section passengers, "Snowpiercer" +++ A tour through the compartments of the Snowpiercer's Front Section (gifs by moi) Greenhouse + Garden || Aquarium + Sushi Bar || Zoo + Abattoir || Classroom || Luxury Guestrooms (Library, Dental Office, Custom Clothing Room, among others) || Lounge + Beauty Salon || Swimming Pool + Sauna || Nightclub + Kronol Den

My interpretation is that Yona's "clairvoyance" stems from the fact that she is a train baby and a Kronol addict. Because she was born on the train, Yona and her generation are likely to be more sensitive to their immediate surroundings. Living on a train is constantly noisy, and so train babies' senses are perhaps different from those people who were born on Earth. It may be possible that she can detect human presence behind barriers due to subtle sound waves (much like how Daredevil "sees" people even if he is blind) that only she can pick up and that others cannot.

Add the use of Kronol, and Yona's inherent abilities must be heightened significantly from the drug. This is apparent when you consider how even before she knew Timmy was under the floor of Wilford's engine, she accurately predicted if there was human presence behind the doors that her father opened each time she was given Kronol.

If you guys have any other thoughts on this, feel free to analyze further.

P.S. Yona is one of my faves, especially when she translated her father's words before the tunnel fight. "He says you guys are fucked..."

2) How the fuck did Yuna know there were children under the train? I sort of assumed she might have been a part of it...

The Main Passengers of the Snowpiercer 02

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Octavia Spencer as Tanya

Ewen Bremner as Andrew

Ko Ah-Sung as Yona

Alison Pill as the Teacher

Oh, so we're just conveniently forgetting Ewen Bremner in this gifset whose right arm just HAPPENED to be frozen into a block of ice and then shattered by a sledgehammer?

"Too blind to know your best Hurrying through the forks without regrets Different now, every step feels like a mile All the lights seem to flash and pass you by So how's it gonna be? When it all comes down, we're cycling trivialities..." — José González +++ Circular, spherical, and round-shaped motifs found aboard the Snowpiercer Countdown timer worn by Andrew Frostbite punishment porthole in the Tail Section Eyeglasses with round lenses worn by Gilliam Blood droplets on the train windows Curtis' blue eyes Cultivated oranges in the Greenhouse Section Animated visual timetable of the Snowpiercer Hard-boiled egg with a perfectly cut hole Bullet holes on the windows of the Swimming Pool Section The sacred eternal engine of the Snowpiercer

The Seven Deadly Sins of the Snowpiercer...

Sacred Eternal · A Snowpiercer Fanmix 14 Tracks // Total Length : 1 hr. 1 min. 11 secs. The train is the world... We, the humanity... This is the sound of a new revolution... A collection of songs inspired by the themes and characters of Snowpiercer. +++

Trent Reznor + Karen O. - "Immigrant Song" // 2 mins. 56 secs.

So now you better stop And rebuild all your ruins For peace and trust can win the day Despite of all your losing

Linkin Park - "The Catalyst" (Gilliam) // 5 mins. 39 secs.

God bless us every one We're a broken people living under loaded gun And it can't be outfought It can't be outdone It can't be outmatched It can't be outrun, no!

Hypster - "The Uprising [Original Mix]" // 6 mins.

Sors salutis et virtutis michi nunc contraria est affectus et defectus semper in angaria

Kaskade + Dada Life - "Ice [FIRE Mix]" (Edgar) // 4 mins. 11 secs.

I was so lost And now I'm not And the boy that I was is inside I'm ice You can see right through me I'm ice There's nothing in my eyes

Anggun - "Saviour" (Tanya) // 3 mins. 44 secs.

Rescue me before I lose my head Rescue me from this sight of regret Cause only your love can stop me from wanting Need a saviour, you're my saviour

Ladytron - "Destroy Everything You Touch" (Mason) // 4 mins. 37 secs.

What you touch You don't feel Do not know what you steal Destroy everything you touch today Please destroy me this way

Kate Nauta - "Revolution" // 3 mins. 41 secs.

Just a little taste and you believe Like a bullet to a gun You'll be back for more I'm the rebel on the run So hide out with me all alone

Korn + Skrillex - "Get Up!" (Curtis) // 3 mins. 39 secs.

Times are looking grim these days Holding on to everything It's hard to draw the line And I'm, I'm hiding in this empty space Tortured by my memories of what I've left behind

N.E.R.D. - "Rock Star [Jason Nevins Remix Edit]" (Grey) // 3 mins. 49 secs.

I guess you ain't heard that we swallow guys It's too damn late to apologize When you see the mantle or when you see the skies It's almost over now, almost over now!

Visual Audio Sensory Theater - "Touched" (Namgoong) // 3 mins. 59 secs.

I... I looked into your eyes and saw A world that does not exist I looked into your eyes And saw a world I wish I was in

Kanye West - "Power" (Wilford) // 4 mins. 52 secs.

I embody every characteristic of the egotistic He knows, he's so fucking gifted I just needed time alone with my own thoughts Got treasures in my mind But couldn't open up my own vault My child-like creativity, purity, and honesty Is honestly being crowded by these grown thoughts

Garbage - "The World Is Not Enough" // 3 mins. 55 secs.

People like us Know how to survive There's no point in living If you can't feel the life We know when to kiss And we know when to kill If we can't have it all Then nobody will

Dave Matthews Band - "When The World Ends [Oakenfold Remix]" (Andrew) // 5 mins. 26 secs.

We’re going to float Through the criss cross of the mountains Watch them fade to nothing When the world ends You know that’s what’s happening now I’m going to be there with you somehow

Lara Fabian - "The Dream Within" (Yona) // 4 mins. 43 secs.

We tremble and spin Suspended within Free the dream within The stars are crying a tear A sigh escapes from heaven And worlds end...

+++ You can listen to the fanmix here.

Snowpiercer Overload

My apologies to some of my followers if I've been assaulting your dashboards with Snowpiercer stuff, but to be quite honest, this movie really needs more love and support from a lot of people before it's long-delayed US release on June 27, 2014.

And if you happen to be a Tumblr individual who has seen the glorious light of Snowpiercer, feel free to follow my blog and track my Snowpiercer tag so you can check out, like, and reblog all the previous stuff I posted about it since last year.

And I just want to put it on record that I will be churning out more Snowpiercer stuff like gifsets, fanmixes, and possibly a fanfic piece (obviously Curtis/Edgar because that's my Snowpiercer OTP). If you don't have a problem with that, then you are awesome.

One last thing... SNOWPIERCER HAS A SEXY, HOT, AND BEARDED CHRIS EVANS LIKE HOW IS NOBODY INTO THIS AFTER THE BEAUTIFUL CAPTAIN AMERICA 2?! Trust me when I say that if your feels were irreversibly compromised with Stucky feels watching CA:TWS, then you're going to repeat the same emotional masochism watching Chris Evans in Snowpiercer.

Oh, and obviously watch it as well for the flawlessness of TILDA SWINTON. There are no words for her pitch-perfect performance in the film. And I'd like to add the adorableness of Ko Ah-Sung's character, too. Yona will be one of your faves, and you will love it.

Well, I think that's about it for now. Again, y'all need to blog and talk about Snowpiercer all over Tumblr because this masterpiece needs to be a goddamn fucking THING, okay?

Memorable quotes from the main passengers of the Snowpiercer...

This Is An Important Snowpiercer PSA

Okay, so let me settle this once and for all because it ticks me off so much when I go to the "Snowpiercer" tag on Tumblr and I read comments like THESE: "Oh, Snowpiercer is amazing but it was just basically The Hunger Games on a train..." OKAY CUNT, YOU WEREN'T PAYING FUCKING ATTENTION. For the record, the film is based on a series of FRENCH GRAPHIC NOVELS called "Le Transperceneige" conceived way back in 1982 and obviously PREDATING "The Hunger Games" which debuted in 2008, and even the acclaimed Japanese novel, "Battle Royale" in 1999, from which THG is often compared to and accused of being a total rip-off. So you ignorant fuckers better not make that damn comparison because basically "Snowpiercer" is the film that the "The Hunger Games" franchise WISHES it was, and it's all in just ONE SINGLE MOVIE. Now, I love the THG universe as much as the next Tribute, but let's not go as far to compare the world of Katniss Everdeen with the world of Curtis Everett, okay? They may be two reluctant protagonists fighting an oppressive regime of the privileged powers that be, but that is basically where their similarities end because they both have different character arcs that are unique to their respective worlds. Also, the Korean director who helmed "Snowpiercer" took the ENTIRE source material comprising THREE SEPARATE BOOKS and brilliantly compressed and distilled the themes and references of "Le Transperceneige" into just ONE FILM ADAPTATION that was carefully constructed with care and extreme attention to detail as opposed to hashing out several individual movies clearly generated simply for profit at the expense of thirsty niche audiences obsessed with a specific fictional universe (I'm side-eyeing you so hard, Twatlight). Furthermore, "Snowpiercer" features brilliant POC actors (Koreans Song Kang-Ho and Ko Ah-Sung and Academy-Award winner, Octavia Spencer) in major roles alongside their Caucasian counterparts, which (let's be fucking honest here) is a goddamn rarity in any given Hollywood blockbuster standalone film or ongoing franchise. So to recap: "Snowpiercer" is NOT "the Hunger Games on a train", okay?! It is an emotionally compromising masterpiece of a film based on a FRENCH graphic novel series directed by a KOREAN director and features a RACIALLY DIVERSE ensemble cast of actors and showcasing POST-APOCALYPTIC THEMES with a refreshing twist while providing biting social commentary at the same time. Haters gonna hate, but oh gee, look at all the fucks I give to your counterpoints. In the famous words of the deliciously despotic Minister Mason... This has been your friendly neighborhood Tumblr PSA regarding "Snowpiercer". Thank you for your time.