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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.
Some of my favorite facial expressions/reactions from the characters of Snowpiercer.
So yeah, I'm pimping the shit out of "Snowpiercer" over yonder at ONTD.
Tumblr, you need to stan for this film ASAP!
A batch of large "Snowpiercer" GIFs I made for a submitted post over at ONTD. Feel free to use them however, but please give credit to the original maker if reposting. Thanks and enjoy! :)
"Nobody said it was easy It's such a shame for us to part Nobody said it was easy No one ever said it would be this hard..." — "The Scientist", Coldplay
"Mason is a sort of Pandora's Box; a kind of hodgepodge, nightmare freak of all of our imaginings of what a worst-case scenario leader might be." — Tilda Swinton describing her antagonistic character in Bong Joon-Ho's "Snowpiercer".
Cinematic villain HBIC telling it like it is!
The antagonistic Front Section minions of Wilford on board the Snowpiercer.
Minister Mason's battle declaration to the Tail Sectioners at the Yekaterina Bridge and Tunnel standoff.
Tail Sectioner Curtis Everett (Chris Evans) vs. Front Sectioner Minister Mason (Tilda Swinton) aboard the Snowpiercer. Or as my headcanon would put it... An axe-wielding Captain America as a scruffy train hobo facing off against the demented bastard love child of Jadis the White Witch and Dolores Umbridge.
"You're always playing yourself. It's all autobiography, whatever you're doing. It's using them as a kind of prism through which to throw something real about yourself, or something relaxed at least. Because the last thing you want is to look like you're acting." — Tilda Swinton
Tilda Swinton striking fierce poses and calling out the names of fashion's legendary greats in her performance art piece collaboration with Olivier Saillard entitled "Eternity Dress".
003 Snowpiercer Character Headcanon Biography : Minister Mason +++ Prior to her appointment as the Prime Minister of the Snowpiercer, Mason served as the chief executive officer to the UK division of Wilford Industries. Having never had intimate relationships due to her dowdy appearance and haughty personality, Mason instead devoted her life to her career when she first held an entry-level job within Wilford Industries as a junior liaison officer. Her calculating nature and unflinching decisiveness contributed largely to her steady rise within the ranks of Wilford's transportation empire, but not without having her fair share of disgruntled enemies she has made along the way. It was during Mason's fourth promotion in the company—senior vice president of Global Logistics—that she narrowly escaped an attempt on her life. Several ex-employees whom Mason had unjustly fired had taken out a hit on her via rigging her car with explosives. The bomb, however, did not detonate in time and Mason was already past the entrance of her office building when her vehicle exploded. It was immediately after this harrowing event that she hired two Russian bodyguards with a military background to protect her from further assassination plots. Shortly after her promotion as CEO to the UK office of Wilford Industries, headlines had already been made around the world concerning CW-7 and how it would finally end global warming. While Mason was initially supportive of this development, Wilford called an emergency meeting with all his top executives and declared his belief that CW-7 would backfire on a catastrophic level. He then unveiled his finished plans of constructing his lifelong dream project: a massive luxury train powered by a perpetual-motion engine running on a globe-spanning track. Suffice to say, many of the Wilford Industries executives thought their leader to be mad and handed over their resignations in disgust. But Mason, seeing the greatest oppotunity this would give her, stuck by her eccentric employer and was justly rewarded by being appointed as Wilford's right-hand woman on board the Snowpiercer, symbolized by the ornate signet ring personally given to her by Wilford and bearing the symbol of his company. She is largely responsible for the initial hiring of the select few workers handpicked from around the world who would serve the different areas of the perpetually-moving train before its departure. In the years after the train's maiden voyage, Mason enjoyed her newfound position of power and did not particularly change in regards to how she treated her subordinates. It was under the leadership of Mason that the Front Section army successfully quelched the McGregor Riots, and it was on her suggestion to Wilford that they continually breed and use cockroaches as the main ingredient for the protein blocks being served to the Tail Section as a means of exclusively keeping the carefully controlled stocks of real meat and greenhouse produce for the Front Section passengers. And while she may have a soft spot for the children in the Classroom Section who sings praises to Wilford, the miracle train, and the Sacred Engine, Mason personally carries a certain disdain towards the older youths who regularly inhabit the Nightclub and Kronol Den Sections as she believes this kind of excessive indulgent behavior would lead to 'violent hooliganism' that would disrupt the peace of the train. Indeed, she has even sent such extremely wayward young adults of the Front Section fueled by too much partying and Kronol to the Prison Section without remorse. Always flanked by her two intimidating minions in their grey bespoke suits, Mason is both feared and respected by the Front Section while the passengers of the Tail regard her with complete hatred because of her lack of concern for humanity coupled with her extreme classist beliefs. Whenever she is off-duty, Mason largely spends her time listening to classical music, drinking tea with honey, and reading English literature in her private Executive Class guestroom, as well as attending regular fittings for the couture skirt suits and fur coats made for her by the clothes maker in the Custom Clothing Section. +++ Many thanks to the guys over at twogoodarms, and also to fyeahsnowpiercer for regularly liking and reblogging my Snowpiercer posts. Honestly, they’re doing the Lord’s work in giving major awareness to the Snowpiercer fandom within Tumblr, so you guys should definitely follow their blogs! And if you loved “Snowpiercer” just as much as I did (as well as the awesomeness of my faves Chris Evans and Tilda Swinton in the film), you can check out tons of previous stuff I posted about the movie (i.e. pictures, GIF sets, fanmixes) by clicking here, in case you missed anything good from tracking the main #snowpiercer tag on Tumblr Search.
...you are aware of what a HEADCANON is, right? Of course, I am aware of the actual backstory of Mason as provided by director Bong. This is just my own version of it along with other characters of the film.
003 Snowpiercer Character Headcanon Biography : Minister Mason +++ Prior to her appointment as the Prime Minister of the Snowpiercer, Mason served as the chief executive officer to the UK division of Wilford Industries. Having never had intimate relationships due to her dowdy appearance and haughty personality, Mason instead devoted her life to her career when she first held an entry-level job within Wilford Industries as a junior liaison officer. Her calculating nature and unflinching decisiveness contributed largely to her steady rise within the ranks of Wilford’s transportation empire, but not without having her fair share of disgruntled enemies she has made along the way. It was during Mason’s fourth promotion in the company—senior vice president of Global Logistics—that she narrowly escaped an attempt on her life. Several ex-employees whom Mason had unjustly fired had taken out a hit on her via rigging her car with explosives. The bomb, however, did not detonate in time and Mason was already past the entrance of her office building when her vehicle exploded. It was immediately after this harrowing event that she hired two Russian bodyguards with a military background to protect her from further assassination plots. Shortly after her promotion as CEO to the UK office of Wilford Industries, headlines had already been made around the world concerning CW-7 and how it would finally end global warming. While Mason was initially supportive of this development, Wilford called an emergency meeting with all his top executives and declared his belief that CW-7 would backfire on a catastrophic level. He then unveiled his finished plans of constructing his lifelong dream project: a massive luxury train powered by a perpetual-motion engine running on a globe-spanning track. Suffice to say, many of the Wilford Industries executives thought their leader to be mad and handed over their resignations in disgust. But Mason, seeing the greatest oppotunity this would give her, stuck by her eccentric employer and was justly rewarded by being appointed as Wilford’s right-hand woman on board the Snowpiercer, symbolized by the ornate signet ring personally given to her by Wilford and bearing the symbol of his company. She is largely responsible for the initial hiring of the select few workers handpicked from around the world who would serve the different areas of the perpetually-moving train before its departure. In the years after the train’s maiden voyage, Mason enjoyed her newfound position of power and did not particularly change in regards to how she treated her subordinates. It was under the leadership of Mason that the Front Section army successfully quelched the McGregor Riots, and it was on her suggestion to Wilford that they continually breed and use cockroaches as the main ingredient for the protein blocks being served to the Tail Section as a means of exclusively keeping the carefully controlled stocks of real meat and greenhouse produce for the Front Section passengers. And while she may have a soft spot for the children in the Classroom Section who sings praises to Wilford, the miracle train, and the Sacred Engine, Mason personally carries a certain disdain towards the older youths who regularly inhabit the Nightclub and Kronol Den Sections as she believes this kind of excessive indulgent behavior would lead to ‘violent hooliganism’ that would disrupt the peace of the train. Indeed, she has even sent such extremely wayward young adults of the Front Section fueled by too much partying and Kronol to the Prison Section without remorse. Always flanked by her two intimidating minions in their grey bespoke suits, Mason is both feared and respected by the Front Section while the passengers of the Tail regard her with complete hatred because of her lack of concern for humanity coupled with her extreme classist beliefs. Whenever she is off-duty, Mason largely spends her time listening to classical music, drinking tea with honey, and reading English literature in her private Executive Class guestroom, as well as attending regular fittings for the couture skirt suits and fur coats made for her by the clothes maker in the Custom Clothing Section. +++ Many thanks to the guys over at twogoodarms, and also to fyeahsnowpiercer for regularly liking and reblogging my Snowpiercer posts. Honestly, they’re doing the Lord’s work in giving major awareness to the Snowpiercer fandom within Tumblr, so you guys should definitely follow their blogs! And if you loved “Snowpiercer” just as much as I did (as well as the awesomeness of my faves Chris Evans and Tilda Swinton in the film), you can check out tons of previous stuff I posted about the movie (i.e. pictures, GIF sets, fanmixes) by clicking here, in case you missed anything good from tracking the main #snowpiercer tag on Tumblr Search.
HOLY SHIT! One of the best fan-made videos of "Snowpiercer" I've seen so far! If you saw the movie and loved it just as much as I did, then you guys should seriously check this out!
One of my favorite scenes in "Snowpiercer" : the Aquarium + Sushi Bar Section. Four sushi four you, Curtis Everett! You go, Curtis Everett! And none for Minister Mason, BYE!
Acid-bright and filled with so many levels of fucked-up, the Classroom Section scene from "Snowpiercer" definitely was a favorite showstopper.
The Engine is eternal! The Engine is forever! Support #SnowpiercerDay on July 1, 2014!
Snowpiercer Day
On July, the 1st 2014… CW7 has been released into the atmosphere, with the consequences we know. During the second half of June the fandom will significantly expand due to the US release, but it also means a whole lot of bashing and terrible reviews coming up. Let’s stay positive, let’s spread the love!
On July, the 1st 2014… we move forward!
Share you fanworks on the #snowpiercerday tag and spread the word.
Fan art, videos, fanfics, edits, mixtapes, cosplay, meta, gifs, cooking recipes, selfies of yourself crying over the movie any kind of fanwork you fancy. Just do something! Don’t let Wilford have the last word. Don’t be a shoe, don’t keep your place. Don’t listen to Gilliam or Mason, cut everyone’s tongue. Humanity is what you make of it. You’re not a sushi, don’t be a part of the 74%. Eat babies, cut your own arm, open the damn door Nam! Are you a clairvoyant? You’re a train baby then. Be a dirty train baby from the tail, don’t listen to your teacher, the engine ain’t eternal.
Rumble-rumble rattle-rattle, this event is sponsored by Wilford Industries.