José María Luna
@JoseMLuna
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All romantics meet the same fate someday | Writer/Director | Colombiano | Film, Art, Old Buildings, Public Transit, Theme Parks, Contrapposto, Essays | Él/Him
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Joined October 2009
Presidential inaugurations—lavish displays of pageantry meant to symbolize the peaceful transfer of power in the USA. But what if this transfer isn't peaceful? What can a political tragedy reveal in the American fairytale?. Mythologizing American Politics.
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Letting you all know that Ángel Barajas, who just won Colombia our first Olympic medal in gymnastics, started practicing because he was inspired by Lazy Town's Sportacus when he was a kid
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A friend who just saw Wicked asked me to tell him what happens in act two and he just made this face at me the whole time
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Going back in time to tell Walt Disney his beautiful passion project over which he almost killed himself and his studio, costing him an unprecedented and almost bank-breaking $2M, gets remade almost 90 years later for $270M and it's the ugliest thing anyone could ever imagine.
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The way Wicked sets up Wicked Witch lore is so funny. "We need to show how she got the broom" Oh, she gets locked in a room and there's a broom there. "And the cape?" Well, the cape's also there. "Why is she 'of the west'?" She escapes the room and sort of just goes west, I guess.
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Me seeing all your “wish I had Olivia Rodrigo’s music in high school” tweets
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“Try being gay in Palestine” Anyway, remember when British queers started “Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners” to fundraise for striking miners even though they were homophobic because it was the right thing to do, after which, the Miners Union supported gay rights legislation?
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Disney+ is removing Howard, the documentary about the man who literally saved that company, as well as their only real acknowledgment of a queer figurehead within the studio, right before Pride month. It's time for Gay Wrath.
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After a rewatch I can confirm that my Wicked hot take is they butchered the momentum in "Defying Gravity" by splitting it into seventeen fragments.
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I’ll never forget you, Indian restaurant owner in Mumbai who asked where I was from and when I said Colombia he excitedly said “Columbia Pictures!” while doing this pose
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Outraged Catholics are so funny. Yeah, how dare Pope Francis put a keffiyeh on a representation of a refugee family fleeing the Massacre of the Innocents in Bethlehem, Palestine.
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Conclave Oscar campaign goes crazy.
Openly gay men can now become priests, Vatican signals
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BARBIE SPOILERS (?). I think it’s very telling that right wingers saw a plot line about how men redefining themselves outside of patriarchy can and should be more fulfilling in terms of finding meaning than living shackled to it and their response was “it’s anti-men”.
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I’ve gotten a few responses from foreigners saying they wouldn’t have known about the movie’s historical context if it weren’t for this essay and it makes me so glad I wrote it.
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Shakira is going to fulfill Simón Bolívar's dream and bring on the downfall of Spain.
Shakira’s mother-in-law reportedly helped her son Pique hide his relationship with home wrecker Clara Chia. Shakira allegedly got into a physical altercation with Piqué's mother after discovering she also lent her house for her son and his mistress to use.
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I need Americans to please stop stanning their politicians.
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My boys gave the best male leading performances of the year and all the attention is on that annoying guy from Zoey 101
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Walt Disney and his nine old men would have killed these things with hammers, I can tell you that much
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Finding out the Fiyero and Boq transformations were musical additions and not poorly adapted from the source material made me feel insane because WHY would they do that.
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Imagine having two of the best performances in modern cinema under your belt
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If Dev Patel murders me in his strip club, DO NOT PROSECUTE HIM because HE caught ME slipping. That is on ME.
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I hope the success of “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” sends the message that people like it when songs in musicals sound like they’re songs in a musical.
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Oh Conclave really is THAT bitch, this is what Pope Francis meant about an air of f*ggotry in the Vatican.
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Babe, wake up! They are having a Pride party at the illegal Club Penguin revival 🥹
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Why isn’t Broadway doing everything in their power for Julie Andrews to win a Tony and get her to EGOT status.
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Solidarity for the oppressed shouldn’t be transactional.
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Magnús Scheving shared my tweet to congratulate Ángel Barajas 😭
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I’ll never forgive Netflix for not letting me watch Glass Onion in a theater, I went to see Knives Out THREE times in theaters WHY do they hate money
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The best thing about Oz is it's so World's Fair coded. You can tell L. Frank Baum was inspired by the Chicago Columbian Exposition for Emerald City (rapidly built city of a specific color), but also the charlatan running it all with pretend magic is so 19th century magnate coded.
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It's so. mundane? I don't know, it has big Solo: A Star Wars Story energy except here it's somehow charming instead of cringe.
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The best part of Tick, Tick… Boom! was my friend saying “I thought Jonathan Larson died getting hit by a bus” then realizing that all along he was confusing his death with the gay playwright’s in Smash.
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Not to mention they’re about to make a billion dollars off of him AGAIN, the absolute disrespect.
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Loved revisiting Lilo & Stitch with my boyfriend who hadn’t seen it because I kept being like “this scene meant a lot to me as a kid, no idea why” and the scenes were all Lilo and Stitch being told by everyone that they were weird and destructive and that they didn’t belong
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While opposed to bringing in animated characters into Animal Kingdom, this sketch shows a how to divide Dino Land. Moana in a lush environment with a water ride, and a Coco redo of 'Dinosaur' with sort of Mexico/Central America vibe. #WDW #AnimalKingdom
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MISSED CONNECTION: Years ago I met a young man at the Bean in Chicago. He was so wonderful and gay and knowledgeable about Judy Garland and we had an incredible time. After years looking for him, I found our only picture together in a dusty photo album. Twitter, do your thing
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You’re not born bi, you watch Disney’s Hercules at a very formative age and develop a lifelong crush on both Megara and Hercules.
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Colombia be like: ___. 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊__/🌵/. 🌊🌊🌊🌊__/🎉 /🇻🇪. 🌊🌊🌊__/🏖🗻 |. 🇵🇦🇵🇦 /🍌⛰⛰ |___. 🌊🌊|💃🏿⛰🚉⛰🦡\___. 🌊🌊\ ☕️⛰⛪️⛰🐂 /. 🌊🌊 |🏗⛰⛰⛰👨🏾🌾👩🏽🌾|. 🌊🌊/__⛰⛰🌳🌳 ____\. 🌊🇪🇨🇪🇨\____ 🌳🐍 |🇧🇷\. 🇪🇨🇪🇨🇪🇨\___🐆/ 🇧🇷. 🇵🇪🇵🇪🇵🇪🇵🇪\_/🇧🇷.
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Now pawrdon mah assumptions, but if Mister Piqué here does naht like jam, then how come the strawberry mah-mah-lade was eaten when Miss Shakira here arrived from ‘er travels?
Shakira deduced Piqué was cheating on her after she returned from traveling to find that her strawberry jam was eaten. Piqué has never eaten jam in his life.
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Straight actors who aren’t just allowed but also encouraged to play gay: .-Ewan McGregor.-Stanley Tucci.-Richard E. Grant.-Cate Blanchett.-Annette Bening.-Timothée Chalamet.-Antonio Banderas.-The cast of The Favourite.-Colin Firth.-Natasha Lyonne.-The cast of Y Tu Mamá También.
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I didn’t think that when Ryan Gosling said “there’s something in it for the Kens too” that something was an ultimately comforting thematic exploration of the burden of manhood but thank God.
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Lives were changed
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend enjoyers…what was the best song from the show (besides Don’t Be a Lawyer, the obvious number one choice).
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I came from a Phantom of the Opera family, which is like being a Cats family but with the illusion of prestige.
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We would be FED
What dense 700-page Pulitzer Prize-winning history book should Chris Nolan adapt for film next?.
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“We need a liberal/leftist Joe Rogan” people couldn’t even handle ContraPoints.
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How do you serve cunt in a way supports public transportation?.
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The last person to yell “I pay your salary!” to Patti LuPone was Andrew Lloyd Webber and he hasn’t had a hit since.
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I keep seeing people suggest Encanto presence in Epcot or Animal Kingdom, but I’m daring Imagineers to put a non-white story in Fantasyland.
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@rachellacroixs It often feels like everything onscreen is working against the camera and the editing!.
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Dear Evan Hansen is just Amy Adams’s audition to play Helen Bechdel in Fun Home and the world better take her up on that.
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The wording of “floated an antisemitic trope that Jews control the media” straight up conflating that with her saying “Western media only shows the Israeli side” not only serves as an impossible reach but it also proves her point.
Spyglass quietly dropped Melissa Barrera as the star of the next “Scream” film, sources say, due to her social media posts that referred to Israel as a “colonized” land and floated an antisemitic trope that Jews control the media, writing: “Western media only shows the [Israeli]
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Hot take but wanting movies to be good is good, actually
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My research reminded me that, according to Ovid, Orpheus was killed by a horde of horny women that wanted to sleep with him but were angry that ever since Eurydice's death he only slept with men.
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I didn’t expect my on-joke with my friend in which we only have one picture together would leave my bubble and be taken seriously. This is my friend Zack and it’s his birthday and I annoy him on a daily basis!.
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My most anticipated moment of any iteration of Macbeth is when Macduff reveals he was born by c-section because it’s a super serious moment but Macbeth is always like
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Weird Disney adults trying to get Ron DeSantis to declare Splash Mountain a historical landmark is absolutely hilarious when you remember it looks like this
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I told my therapist I dressed up as the Phantom of the Opera and he was like “oh, Erik!”
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Rewatched The Holdovers again and I’m not exaggerating when I say I would die for all three of them
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Take that, Stephen Sondheim.
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Instead of spending this much time tweeting transphobic threads, why doesn’t J.K. Rowling just read a screenwriting book or something? Maybe then the Fantastic Beasts movies wouldn’t be such a mess.
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Also, I’m fascinated by the way different Colombian genres are used throughout (vallenato, salsa, cumbia, Latin rock, and even some reggaetón) but the lyricism kind of acts as the unifying factor that makes all the disparate style cohesive as a soundtrack.
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Anyone who says Up isn’t good after the first ten minutes didn’t get the point of those first ten minutes in the first place.
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Stephen Sondheim is responsible for some of the most beautiful songs in all of musical theater, very few artists have been able to capture the joys and pains of being human in such creative and vulnerable ways. No one did it like him.
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Nothing for respect for MY Prince Phillip who is very much alive and well
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@PunishedHoots Yeah, like I still really like the sequence, but I couldn't believe they felt the need to interrupt the flow of the last verse like that! I wish they had gone for the one long movie approach.
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I’ll never forget when as part of college orientation they had an information session for international students with an intro to American culture. The speaker said “Americans don’t actually want to know how you’re doing when they say ‘what’s up?’” and the whole room was like ohh.
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I haven’t stopped thinking all day about how Padmé Amidala was a fourteen year old elected official (with the title of queen?), which effectively makes Palpatine rising to power as Supreme Chancellor her Ice Town.
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I’m an originalist in that I don’t recognize the existence of Beauty and the Beast (2017).
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I have to say that the cringiest ones are the gays yass queen-ing her. Like, that's a genocide-enabling district attorney, not Liza Minnelli, please have some self-respect.
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That Canadian church with the weird plays Jenny Nicholson reviewed announced the theme of this year’s Easter play. Unrelated, does anyone have a couch in Winnipeg I can crash on this weekend
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Hello! I wrote about the power of Encanto’s portrayal of Colombia for Polygon!.
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