I thought at first these vintage Prince Albert tobacco ads had to be a parody of old-times ad copy (because srsly, David Malki! would kill to write monologues like this); but apparently they’re legit.
interrogation scene in a movey where the guy refuses to cooperate and he’s like “fuck you” and spits blood and the people interrogating him are like “what the fuck. nobody’s even hit you yet. where did you get all that blood from”
“What about the attention to… well, young people always pay attention to their appearance but it seemed to be, not excessive but they had a lot fun with it didn’t they?”
“Oh absolutely and there’s certainly a sense that girls were dressing as boys, boys were dressing as girls. There was a massive influence of Hollywood, so everyone slicks their hair down like Rudolph Valentino.”
– Reel History of Britain
OK but why are there pirates and a dude in a top hat in the background?
I feel like all media representations of “stern or emotionally cold + stoic man secretly cares abt the people in his life” are simultaneously wish-fulfillment and propaganda
Mooncustafer 