[icon ] blenderdumbass . org [icon scene] Articles

The Peach Scene

January 06, 2023

πŸ‘ 109

https://blenderdumbass.org/articles?page=7 : πŸ‘ 1
https://blenderdumbass.org/ : πŸ‘ 1

[avatar]by Blender Dumbass

Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. The writer and director of the 2023 film "Moria's Race" and the lead developer of it's game sequel "Dani's Race".


From 3 years ago.
Information or opinions might not be up to date.


19 Minute Read



In comments under the previous article, people asked me to try writing dialogue in a more play-like style. I will keep the prose normal, but will do dialogues differently this time. Tell me if it was the right decision. ↩ Reply

↩ Reply
Also about the Moria's Race Livestreams. I have stopped streaming. But it doesn't mean that I have stopped working on the movie. People expressed to me the reason they avoid the streams. And the reason was that they didn't want any spoilers. Well. Okay then. I will work on it silently. And one day I will just release it. Hopefully by the next trailer I will have a release date ready. ↩ Reply

↩ Reply

It was one of those days when Mr. Humbert invited Sheiny and Chloe to watch a random movie in his dirty cinema. They avoided films shot in 16:9 aspect ratio since, well, Mr. Humbert's screen was an ultra-wide, curved CinemaScope. 16:9 films looked rather strange on this screen. But it seems like, this time, they were bored of the ultra-wide movies. ↩ Reply

They had a habit of picking a movie at random. That day Sheiny wanted to choose one herself. Mr. Humbert showed her the drawer of film reels. And asked her to choose one. She inserted her hand into the drawer of 16:9 movies, without looking. She knew that she is choosing a 16:9 film. Everybody agreed on it already. She took out her hand grabbing a 35 mm print of "Call Me By Your Name" directed by Luca Guadagnino. There was no poster, no trailer. Just a name and a director's name written with a marker on the casing of the film. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: Call me by your name? I heard something like this. The title sounds familiar. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: Oh... I think you girls will love this one. ↩ Reply

Chloe: What's it about? ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: Isn't it the whole point, to not know? ↩ Reply

Sheiny shrugged and walked over to the projector, looking for an easy way to insert the film cartridge. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: What are you doing? ↩ Reply

Sheiny: Trying to understand how to put it in. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: Wait... Go to the shelf again. ↩ Reply

Sheiny looked at Mr. Humbert surprised. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: Go... ↩ Reply

Sheiny went to the shelf. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: Take the next film reel from one you took. ↩ Reply

Sheiny did that and read the mark on it. It also said "Call Me By Your Name" and also was directed by Luca Guadagnino. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: Why do you need two of them? ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: I have six. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: Why do you need six of them? ... Oh... Wait. No... ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: The one you took was the third piece. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: Wait. But you only have 3 projectors. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: Well. I only have 2 film projectors. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: So you need to change to the third from the first while the second is running? ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert thought about what she said, since her analytical approach to thinking it all through, slightly confused him. But still nodded in approval. The thing she just discovered was that film which is projected from real physical film is not stored as one large reel. But rather as many small ones each around 20 minutes at length. So each time another 20 minutes passes, one projector gets shut off and the other projector picks up from that same moment, from a different film reel. Hopefully without the audience noticing the switch. And so because the first projector doesn't do anything anymore, the projectionist has time to load it up with the next piece of film, to do the switch again, in yet another 20 minutes. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: Damn!... Well I guess I will leave you to it. Hm... Strange. I never noticed a missing frame or anything. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: There is a second of error time. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: Wait. There are duplicate frames on those reels? ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: Yes. And I can switch during any of those frames. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: Oh... And you put a timer on a phone or something. ↩ Reply

Sheiny thought that maybe she could argue with him to use something better than a proprietary timer app on the phone. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: There are marks on the film itself. You know those burned frames once in a while? Like a black circle that appears at the top-right corner? ↩ Reply

Sheiny opened her mouth wide. Chloe, that I should remind you was present in the room, was fascinated with that Mr. Humbert found some information that Sheiny didn't know yet about. Anyway they put the movie in. And the girls went to see the film in the cinema. While Mr. Humbert stayed to change film reels in the projectionist room. ↩ Reply

They watched a lot of action films and huge drama movies while visiting Mr. Humbert like this. Most of them were digitally projected using the third projector. But this time the movie was simplistic and strangely minimal. All of the action happened in one small town and forest around it. There were no big set-pieces. The most epic shot of the film was perhaps a waterfall which was just a location to which you could walk up normally and shoot. But this didn't make the movie worse. Somehow the movie was amazing despite it's being entirely driven by actors. ↩ Reply

Something that Sheiny noticed a lot, while Chloe didn't notice much, was the amount of details put into the decorations of the house itself. The interior design. The various table scenes all happening in different places. She felt rather envious of this. She wanted to live in those places. But her own house was nowhere near this good looking. ↩ Reply

Chloe noticed something Sheiny didn't. Chloe thought a lot about the main character's ability to play musical instruments. And how much actual work there should have been as a performer to do all these things. He plays guitar. He draws notes. He plays piano... in an uncut long take... where you can see the entire keyboard... and his face... in three different styles... while making jokes about styles... This was something unbelievable to her. ↩ Reply

The last 20 or so minutes Mr. Humbert was sitting with them in the cinema itself. And when the credits started rolling, he ran to the projectionist room to shut the movie. And then went back. They had a small ritual of talking about the films after watching them. Sheiny started. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: Wow. I never thought a gay movie could be so good. ↩ Reply

Chloe: At first I thought it was boring. But then the sex started. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: Oh my god. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: Why, don't be ashamed. The movie is about not being ashamed. ↩ Reply

Chloe: Right! ↩ Reply

Sheiny thought about it a bit longer before talking. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: I think the movie is about something else? ↩ Reply

Chloe: About love? ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: What is it about? ↩ Reply

Sheiny: It's about childhood trauma. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert frowned. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: Oh... Why so dark? The movie is pure joy. ↩ Reply

Chloe: What? ↩ Reply

Sheiny: No, no... Hear me out. Remember the peach scene? ↩ Reply

Chloe: Woa, that was fucking weird. Even I wouldn't fuck a fruit. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: Yeah, but what does it symbolize? ↩ Reply

Both Mr. Humbert and Chloe thought about it. ↩ Reply

Chloe: An asshole? ↩ Reply

Sheiny: What? ↩ Reply

Chloe: The peach looked like an anus. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: Maybe something to do with fertility? He took out the seed and then he put his own seed in there. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: Fertility in a movie about gays? None of them can get pregnant. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: No... I mean... Yeah, well, that's kind of the point. He throws away the seed. As he thrown away that young girl earlier. And remember, they had an intimate moment in the same room. ↩ Reply

Chloe: They had sex! ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: Yeah... ↩ Reply

Chloe: You said "intimate moment" while earlier you said to not be ashamed. They had sex! ↩ Reply

Sheiny: You have to look at it more broadly. When Oliver comes then and discovers the fruit. What's his name? Ah... Elliot. He cries. Also. If I remember correctly. Elliot is 17. Which is a weird choice. And perhaps very deliberate on the part of the writers. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: It's Ellio without the T. It's a French thing. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: So what I'm thinking is that he got traumatized to the point he fucks a fruit. And he doesn't like it about himself. I remember there was a scene where the other guy, Oliver told him something like "I hope I didn't fuck you up". Well it seems like he did. The guy fucked a fruit. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert thought about it. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: But that's not how trauma works? Isn't it? If he was truly traumatized he should hate fucking. Not like it. But he likes it to the point that he fucks a peach. ↩ Reply

Chloe: What's wrong with fucking a peach? ↩ Reply

Sheiny: Exactly. What I'm trying to say, he doesn't like that he fucks a peach. Like he is ashamed of needing sex so much that he uses a fruit for it. ↩ Reply

Chloe: What's wrong with fucking a peach? ↩ Reply

Mr Humbert: I think I see your point, Sheiny. But it's not trauma your are describing. It's addiction. ↩ Reply

Sheiny thought about it. Mr. Humbert made an excellent point. And she just had to put it through her brain. Addiction! Not trauma! Addiction! Something that's perhaps worse than trauma in some way, she thought. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: What's wrong with fucking a peach? Technically nothing. But in this particular scene there was something off-putting. Perhaps, you are right, Mr. Humbert, an addiction. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: So the movie is about not caring too much what people say and embracing who you are. He cries since the world will not understand him fucking a fruit? ↩ Reply

Sheiny: No he cries since he just found out that he lost control over himself. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: Yeah but why? Like does it matter? If he wants to fuck a peach, why not fuck a peach? You are the one that promotes freedom here, Sheiny. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: But he doesn't want to fuck a peach. ↩ Reply

Chloe: What? He clearly wants to fuck a peach. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: Yes. He... wait. ↩ Reply

Chloe: What? ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: I think she is right. He doesn't want to fuck a peach. ↩ Reply

Chloe: But nobody forced him to do it. He did it himself. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: That's why this scene is so brilliant. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: He doesn't want to fuck the peach, but he does it anyway, since he is addicted to fucking assholes way too much. ↩ Reply

Chloe: See? Peach does look like an asshole. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: Well, but that's scary. What if somebody is addicted to say, alcohol. Should we ban alcohol? Last time it didn't work. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: Shit! ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert still looked at Sheiny as if she will any moment answer the question about alcohol that he just asked her. But she did something else. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: Chloe? ↩ Reply

Chloe: Yes? ↩ Reply

Sheiny: Are you traumatized? ↩ Reply

Chloe: What? ↩ Reply

Sheiny: I mean, I'm sorry, are you addicted to sex? ↩ Reply

Chloe: I love it a lot. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: Yeah, but are you addicted to it? ↩ Reply

Chloe thought about it. She didn't ever seem to ask herself this question before. Meanwhile she thought about it, Mr Humbert found something either clever or stupid to say. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: I'm addicted to food. Isn't sex like a biological necessity? ↩ Reply

Sheiny: With a fruit? ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert thought about it, rather awkwardly. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: I'm not saying that you should not have a freedom to fuck a fruit. But is it really a biological necessity? I don't see how you can make an argument of fucking a fruit by using biology. I think the only argument you can make in this case is freedom. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: Well, but how about the fact that you need to cum every once in a while? ↩ Reply

Sheiny: Do you? ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: Hm... ↩ Reply

Chloe: So wait? Am I addicted to sex? ↩ Reply

Sheiny: Yeah, well, I think so. ↩ Reply

Chloe: But is it bad? ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: Like, yeah, it's perhaps the least harmful addiction out there. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: Well. There is a fundamental problem with any addiction. Like, I'm not saying that I'm not addicted. I think now... It seems like in life, there are only two possibilities, it turns out, either you are traumatized by it, or addicted to it. With the first one you will have a very hard time thinking about it or having it. But it seems like the other one is more popular. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: Yes, the psycho-tards social workers put both types under one umbrella though. That makes for 100% of people on earth traumatized. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: What are you talking about? ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: We here made a business out of a legislation that made what you do illegal. Right? ↩ Reply

Just to clarify to the readers of this article, the characters of Sheiny, Chloe and Mr. Humbert are from my book Sheiny The Hacker. The book is about two little girls ( Sheiny and Chloe ) that using a black-market connection ( Mr. Humbert ) sell illegal pornography that they themselves produce. I guess you can now, re-read the article to get the most cringe out of it, knowing that the two girls are 9 year olds. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: If this was not illegal, we could not possibly charge the amount we charge for a copy. So the whole business requires it to stay illegal. But on the other hand, this is a kind of hypocrisy from our side. We don't believe that it's wrong to do what we do, but we have to keep it wrong enough in the public's eye, for it to be profitable to us. Right? ↩ Reply

Sheiny: Well if the regulations regarding child labor were a bit less strict, I don't think I would have done what I do, to be honest. ↩ Reply

Chloe: I would. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: That's because you're addicted. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: Yeah, w-well... about this addicted thing. One way to keep it illegal is to keep telling the public that no matter what deviation in behavior happens, it's trauma. From one side, you have people who are really hurt by it, so they cannot think of sex. Or it's very hard for them to have intimate relationships. This is what I would call trauma myself. But addictions? Such as of Chloe here, we call it trauma as well. Since both are a deviation from the norm. But I don't personally believe that it's trauma. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: Well here is a thing, though. Addictions take freedom also. Like, what's the whole point of making rape illegal in the first place? ↩ Reply

Chloe: Yeah, like why? ↩ Reply

Sheiny: Chloe, you are stupid! You know that? ... The point is. Rape is a physical stripping of freedom. One person doesn't want to do something. And the other person forces that person to do it. It is not about sex, per se, but about force. About power. Now, if we look at trauma, the way you describe trauma, the post traumatic stress disorder thing. Let's assume that it's possible that this person will want to have sex later in life. Say, they find a person they love. And they truly want to have sex. Then, the trauma stops them from doing it, since they remember something and they get frightened by it. Which means that technically freedom to have sex is taken away from them. ↩ Reply

Chloe: This is terrible! ↩ Reply

Sheiny: Yes it is. But then, say you have an addiction instead? You was perverted enough to the point where even if you don't want to have sex, the addiction forces you to do it anyway. Similarly to how drug addicts do not want, really, to take drugs. This is also freedom taken away. This time freedom not to have sex. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: I think I know what you are talking about. It's like when I'm trying to concentrate on something, like a paperwork. And I just can't stop jerking off to porn. Wasting all my time. Sometimes I catch myself on a thought that I rather want to get castrated to be able to think about important things. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: That's interesting. ↩ Reply

Chloe: I know that. My mom was telling me to do homework. And I was chatting with dudes instead. And I was getting bad grades because of it. Now Sheiny does my homework. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: But what are you saying here? Not to have sex? I mean... there are only two variables here. Either you hated it so much that you are traumatized. Or you liked it so much that you are addicted. Isn't the second one the better option? ↩ Reply

Sheiny: That's true. But maybe there is a third option. An option requiring a sort of self-discipline. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: But that's not freedom. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: Well. It depends. If your current desire is to have a ludicrous sex adventure. Discipline works against you here. But what if your desire is to do important paper work? Then the addiction is what takes your freedom away. ↩ Reply

Chloe: I choose a ludicrous sex adventure. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: I know you do. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: Maybe there is a way to switch between the two states of mind at will. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: If you find how to do it. Please tell me. I want to know. ↩ Reply

Chloe: Are you also addicted? ↩ Reply

Sheiny: Well. I'm not traumatized. It leaves only one option. Doesn't it? ... In whole seriousness though, I need that kind of technique to teach Chloe. I had enough of making her homework. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: Perhaps meditation. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: Perhaps. ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: But wait. The father had a different take on it in the end. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: What? ↩ Reply

Mr. Humbert: In the movie. The father, in the end. He was very much pro-perversion of any kind as long as this is how his son is. ↩ Reply

Chloe: I'd like a dad like this. ↩ Reply

Sheiny: I think the movie is not answering any question. It's just exploring a bunch of interesting ideas. And the ending was an exploration of a "What if the father was pro-gays?" or something. But that peach scene. With all it's cringe and stupidity. Well... That turned out to be extremely profound. ↩ Reply

Happy Hacking! ↩ Reply


[embedded image]


[embedded image]


↩ Reply

↩ Reply

↩ Reply






[icon unlike] 0
[icon left]
[icon right]
[icon terminal]
[icon markdown]

Find this post on Mastodon

[icon question]








[icon reviews]Anna 2019 is Luc Besson at war with Christopher Nolan

[thumbnail]

[avatar]  Blender Dumbass

πŸ‘ 40 πŸ’¬ 1



Christopher Nolan was developing his spy movie Tenet for decades before its release in 2020. In 2014 Nolan already was fully in the writing process on the script. While the general public didn't know much about the project, other filmmakers, including the French director Luc Besson probably could know something about it. And so trying to beat Nolan at his own game, Besson quickly wrote and directed his own spy movie with a palindrome title: Anna.



#Anna #LucBesson #SashaLuss #ChristopherNolan #CillianMurphy #film #review #movies #cinemastodon


[icon reviews]Cleaner 2025 is a feminist take on Die Hard

[thumbnail]

[avatar]  Blender Dumbass

πŸ‘ 10



I heard bad things about Martin Campbell's 2025 film Cleaner starring Daisy Ridley. People found this movie dull or whatever. And then I found out that the director was indeed Martin Campbell, the guy who brought us films like Mask of Zorro and a some of the good James Bond films, like Casino Royal ( arguably the best film in the 007 franchise ). The bad things people say and the director's reputation didn't make sense together. I had to see for myself what the fuss is all about.


#cleaner #DaisyRidley #MartinCampbell #DieHard #movies #film #review #cinemastodon


[icon reviews]Avatar: Fire and Ash 2025 is very horny WTF

[thumbnail]

[avatar]  Blender Dumbass

πŸ‘ 26 ❀ 3 πŸ”„ 2 πŸ’¬ 2



Avatar: Fire and Ash adds a new villain to the Avatar universe, in a form of Varang ( Oona Chaplin, a grand-daughter of Charlie Chaplin ), an evil Na'vi lady with a tribe of fire-hungry psychopaths, traumatized by the shier insanity of human destruction. As she says in the film, when she was little she witnessed a huge fire ( probably caused by human machines ) that destroyed a lot of the forest. There was no Eywa to save them, or provide for them, so she turned to the "dark side", so to speak. So how the writer and director James Cameron show that she is evil? Well, she rapes people.


#avatar #jamescameron #fireandash #avatarfireandash #movies #review #film #cinemastodon


[icon articles]I'm Still Alive

[thumbnail]

[avatar]  Blender Dumbass

πŸ‘ 57



As I said previously in another article I am in a very bad position financially. To the point that back when I wrote it I believed that I might actually be dead. Later I wrote an update that didn't work much as an update, because it was more a philosophical piece about how I want to get out my problems ( as in how do I justify trying to get out of my problems ). So I hope I will not diviate this time around from actually writing an update.


[icon reviews]Is Strange Days 1995 about James Cameron's personal life?

[thumbnail]

[avatar]  Blender Dumbass

πŸ‘ 13 πŸ’¬ 2



So in 1989 James Cameron divorces his second wife, the film producer Gale Anne Hurd, opening for her an ability to marry Brian De Palma that just divorced Nancy Allen. The same year Cameron marries Kathryn Bigelow ( the director of 1995 Strange Days ). They make the 1991 Point Break kind of together. But then that same year in 1991 they divorce. Yet, his script Strange Days about strange love dynamics and stuff ends up being actually made by Bigelow in 1995 ( four years after their divorce ). Hm...


#strangedays #KathrynBigelow #jamescameron #film #review #movies #cinemastodon


[icon reviews]The Taking of Pelham 123 ( 2009 ) is Tony Scott continuing to mess with Michael Bay

[thumbnail]

[avatar]  Blender Dumbass

πŸ‘ 27 πŸ’¬ 3



Tony Scott's 2009 film The Taking of Pelham 123 is a remake of a 1998 TV movie with same name, which is a remake of a 1974 movie with the same name, which is an adaptation of a 1973 book, with the same name. Strangely enough, apart from Denzel Washington playing the hero and John Travolta playing the villain, the film also prominently shows John Turturro and RamΓ³n RodrΓ­guez which, the same year, also appeared in a Michael Bay film Transformens 2: Revenge of the Fallen.


#TheTakingofPelhamOneTwoThree #TonyScott #movies #review #film #cinemastodon


[icon games]Addons For SuperTuxKart


[avatar]  Blender Dumbass

πŸ‘ 166 ❀ 1



There is this game called SuperTuxKart that I didn't develop. But which is among the best Free Software games out there. And they have a way to make and publish addons. This is a list of addons that I made for SuperTuxKart.


[icon reviews]Predator 1987 was always a B-movie

[thumbnail]

[avatar]  Blender Dumbass

πŸ‘ 17 πŸ’¬ 3



As I observed in my review of Predator 2, the Predator films feel very B-movie-like. And the first film, John McTiernan's 1987 Predator is not an exception.


#predator #horror #ArnoldSchwarzenegger #film #review #movies #cinemastodon


[icon reviews]Dream Scenario 2023 is about Richard Stallman?

[thumbnail]

[avatar]  Blender Dumbass

πŸ‘ 16 πŸ’¬ 1



Kristoffer Borgli's 2023 film Dream Scenario starring Nicolas Cage is a movie about a man, who is being dreamed about by a lot of people. At first his family have weird dreams about him. Then people related to them. Then the whole world. At first the dreams make him famous. But then they take a turn for the worst. At first he is just doing nothing in those dreams. Then he is being a creep. And then he literally murders people in those dreams. Which makes the public, in the real life, react to him with greater and greater rivalry. Apart from, for some reason, people in France.


#DreamScenario #NicolasCage #film #review #movies #cinemastodon #RichardStallman #RMS


[icon codeberg] Powered with BDServer [icon python] Plugins [icon theme] Themes [icon analytics] Analytics [icon email] Contact [icon mastodon] Mastodon
[icon unlock]