My tastes are very specific - a phrase from the film “50 Shades of Gray”, as well as a four-panel comic of the same name, based on an episode from the movie.
Origin
Fifty Shades of Gray is a film released in February 2015. Based on the novel of the same name. In the story, a modest student meets a rich guy and later finds out about his secret sexual hobbies. The episode in which Gray introduces Anastasia to his “tastes” became a meme.
Meaning
The meme comes in three forms. The first is the phrase itself: “My tastes are very specific.” In the film, it meant the hero’s sexual preferences, but it became popular among the people as a confession of any oddities.
The second form is a four-panel comic. Three pictures show stills from the film and dialogue between the characters. In the first shot, Gray says, “My tastes are very specific. You won’t understand,” then comes Anastasia’s request to “involve her in them” or “open up to her.” Next is a picture that is not related to the tape, but is suitable in meaning. The comic ends with the girl's reaction: "Sick bastard."
And the third meme is the video itself from the film. After the release of “50 Shades,” videos began to appear on YouTube that begin just like in the comic, but end with something unexpected.
Gallery
After the films with Richard Harmon, I thought I would never see any more films with such an abundance of languid male faces in the frame. Well, naturally, I was wrong. Meet "Like minds", where TWO young men at once will drive crazy lovers of parted lips and distant glances, in which romantic thoughts about something bright and beautiful are read. Meet the main characters of the film:
The first boy, Alex, studies in a strict school for boys, making hooligan attacks with friends at night, and during school hours pleasing his venerable old man with impeccable academic performance. And everything would be fine until a second young man is moved in with him - a new guy, repulsive with his gloom, who is passionate about anatomy and taxidermism. As it later turns out, he also has another, strangest obsession. By chance, their destinies turn out to be connected, even stronger than it initially seems. What is shown in the film is true and what is not - it is up to the viewer to decide.
It seems to me that the film, despite all its gloomy atmosphere, is more “girly”. Well, seriously, I have never seen so many homosexual hints in a heterosexual film. The characters look at each other the way I don’t look at my favorite poppy seed buns! They have a connection and everything...
The acting should be given its due. Not only the languid faces of Eddie Redmayne and Tom Sturridge. They managed to betray such a strange connection between their heroes, which was manifested in all their gestures and these same looks... I also liked the heroine Toni Collette.
May 27th, 2015 , 10:01 am
At my philological faculty, I am an unknown animal that should not exist in nature. A philologist who does not like classical literature.
How can you not love literature, you philologist!
Yes, very simple. It’s unpleasant for me to read the vast majority of works of Russian classics, which tell five hundred pages about how bad everything is. It gives me no pleasure to watch heroes who are far from me, like Alpha Centauri, experience the same distant and incomprehensible emotions. I don’t like the types of a century and a half ago, and I’m very glad that I live now and not in that time. In addition, I believe that reading this very classic brings almost no practical benefit, since it can help little in real life.
And I’m not saying that literature is bad. This is great, if you are interested - I am sincerely happy for you. But I don’t like it.
What are you doing at the philology department then?
I don’t know why this doesn’t immediately occur to young philologists, but the Faculty of Philology is not only about literature. These are also languages. But I really love linguistics. Since the seventh grade, I wanted to study Russian (without literature into the bargain). I managed to do this only in my master’s degree.
But it’s not even the individuals who are tired of asking sometimes stupid questions. I'm sick of this stereotype about Russian-language-and-literature. That these two specialties should always be inextricably linked, that one, well, in no case can it be studied without the other. It’s good when people who are far from philology think so. But you, colleagues, who have studied all this yourself and who know how far Turgenev’s work is from the syntax of modern colloquial speech?
A linguist and a literary critic relate to each other much like a system administrator and a programmer. Both are computer scientists, but they rarely combine in one person, and usually no one requires system administrators to write programs or programmers to set up networks and install servers. And even more so, no one obliges them to love a field of activity that is not theirs.
Let's do the same with language and literature, shall we? And we will be happy.
