A change of projector locale

I didn't originally think I would "take advantage" of my wife being out of town in any way, except maybe leaving some dishes unwashed for longer than I ordinarily would, or never making the bed.

Then I realized that our bedroom would make a perfect location for the new portable projector screen she got me for my birthday, and that shelf that runs along the length of our bed, above the pillows but under the windows, would be the perfect height to hold the projector.

And so it is that I set up the screen in front of our bureau, which she accesses more than I do, and that's where it's been since Friday evening, with a few more days expected since she's had to extend her trip. 

This is a picture from the first film I watched, After the Hunt, which I didn't particularly care for. I've subsequently watched Until Dawn, Yi Yi, First Blood, Rolling Thunder and Freakier Friday. Quite the mix of films there. 

It's fun, and unusual, for me to watch movies from bed. I usually take the living room, and my wife winds down her night in bed with her device, on nights we aren't watching something together. 

However, I have to admit it is not as comfortable as I might have thought. I need one of those pillows with the arms that used to be all over the place when I was growing up, so instead I'm kind of slumped over, scrunching up as many normal pillows as I can to try to recreate the same effect. Suffice it to say, I won't miss it when I have to take it down when my wife gets back on Wednesday, but it's been a fun novelty. Change is as good as a holiday, or so they say. 

Not a lot more to say today, just wanted to let you know I'm still here, and already feeling a bit snowed under -- though not in Australia, where today is the first day of summer -- by end-of-year obligations at work and with Christmas coming up.

You can't exclude just one

Poor Chloe Sevigny, not famous enough to make the poster for After the Hunt.

Oh her name made it, but her face did not. 

The poster for the new Luca Guadagnino film has five names on it, but only four faces.

Sevigny is obviously edged out, fame-wise, by one of the biggest female stars of her generation, Julia Roberts, and also by a guy who once played Spider-Man, Andrew Garfield. Ayo Edibiri hasn't been around very long but she has skyrocketed during the short time we've been aware of her.

But Michael Stuhlbarg? Sevigny is more famous than he is, right?

We shouldn't even be having this conversation. If you can get five names onto the poster, can't you get five pictures? Does Julia's shoulder really need to take up all that extra real estate?

Not knowing what the movie is about, I'd argue that there's likely a plot reason she's not pictured. I don't know, maybe her character is dead or something, seen only in flashback. Or maybe these characters have specifically adversarial relationships with one another, which could explain why they're all giving such suspicious looks in each others' general directions. Maybe Sevigny is separate from those dynamics. 

The real point, though, is not who is more famous than whom, or who has a plot function that others don't have. I think the real point is that when designing a movie poster, it's okay to have way more people pictured on the poster than names, or way fewer. For the purposes of our argument, "way more" and "way fewer" can both mean "at least two."

A difference of only one, though, calls attention to itself, and results in posts like this one. 

There, I've fixed it. I guess Chloe is not as suspicious of the rest of them as they are of each other. She's just bemused.