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[Image: A photo of Dames Helen Mirren and Judi Dench seated in side the shadow interior of a vintage (circa 30’s-50’s) automobile. They are wearing vintage clothing and have very badass expressions on their faces.]
jhameia:
cacchieressa:
carnivaloftherandom:
Gorgeous and badass. Dames Helen Mirren and Judi Dench.
What is this from? Is there an amazingly awesome movie attached to this photo? Or is it just a photoshoot that will make me yearn for one?
Oh man there better be a movie attached to this photo.
i hate to burst your bubble my friends but this was just a vanity fair photoshoot back in 2007 called “killers kill, dead men die” by annie lebowitz. more photos/details here. and this closes yet another chapter in, this could have all been prevented if people learned to post things with credit!
also here is the original caption, for the curious ones:
THE GETAWAY. INT./EXT. MULHOLLAND DRIVE—NIGHTCue swirling, maddening violins. Tilda Lydeker (Helen Mirren), aunt to Laura and Rebecca Lydeker, paramour to three-fourths of Beverly Hills circa 1929, and the brains behind the city’s third-largest citrus fortune, must drive, and she must drive fast. She knows just how lemonade is made in this town, and she knows Oscar learned the tricks of her trade all too well, and she knows how it all went sour. Oscar may have been just some low-life private dick, and he may have been too free with his fists, but sometimes a woman needs a man who’s man enough to remind her that she’s a woman—that is, if she’s woman enough to take it. And Tilda could take it. Oh, how she could take it. She took it, and she took it, and she took it again. And then once more for laughs.Along for the ride is Tilda’s older half-sister, Alma (Judi Dench), issue of their father’s youthful dalliance—or was it something more sinister?—with the beautiful daughter of migrant citrus pickers. They say Alma’s “slow,” but, like her half-sister, when it comes to trouble she’s awfully swift on the pickup.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lklpevkH3K1qzp36vo1_500.jpg)
[Image: A photo of Dames Helen Mirren and Judi Dench seated in side the shadow interior of a vintage (circa 30’s-50’s) automobile. They are wearing vintage clothing and have very badass expressions on their faces.]Gorgeous and badass. Dames Helen Mirren and Judi Dench.
What is this from? Is there an amazingly awesome movie attached to this photo? Or is it just a photoshoot that will make me yearn for one?
Oh man there better be a movie attached to this photo.
i hate to burst your bubble my friends but this was just a vanity fair photoshoot back in 2007 called “killers kill, dead men die” by annie lebowitz. more photos/details here. and this closes yet another chapter in, this could have all been prevented if people learned to post things with credit!
also here is the original caption, for the curious ones:
THE GETAWAY. INT./EXT. MULHOLLAND DRIVE—NIGHT
Cue swirling, maddening violins. Tilda Lydeker (Helen Mirren), aunt to Laura and Rebecca Lydeker, paramour to three-fourths of Beverly Hills circa 1929, and the brains behind the city’s third-largest citrus fortune, must drive, and she must drive fast. She knows just how lemonade is made in this town, and she knows Oscar learned the tricks of her trade all too well, and she knows how it all went sour. Oscar may have been just some low-life private dick, and he may have been too free with his fists, but sometimes a woman needs a man who’s man enough to remind her that she’s a woman—that is, if she’s woman enough to take it. And Tilda could take it. Oh, how she could take it. She took it, and she took it, and she took it again. And then once more for laughs.
Along for the ride is Tilda’s older half-sister, Alma (Judi Dench), issue of their father’s youthful dalliance—or was it something more sinister?—with the beautiful daughter of migrant citrus pickers. They say Alma’s “slow,” but, like her half-sister, when it comes to trouble she’s awfully swift on the pickup.
![[image description: a closeup of a juicy couture advertisement from 2006 shot by tim walker. this image shows four older women (in their 60s or 70s) with candy coloured hair and contrasting outfits]
quick thoughts: so this has been pretty much on Every Awesome Person Ever’s tumblr over the past week or so so i figured i’d throw in my two cents because i love it too and because i love an excuse to share my over-thinking with the internet.
i love that i know what this is an ad for because i loved it so much and i love that i know they cut out the “actual” model (which is of course a young thin white model) and the “actual” products they were selling us. what i find amusing about this image, cropped in such a way that alters its original context, making the rounds on tumblr around a bunch of mostly feminist and generally badass identified young peeps is kind of about how i see that as a form of resistance. a way of reclaiming the very rare instances we see something that speaks to us in an advertisement. aspiring to be like the “background” of an ad campaign, rather than the model hired to make us want to look, dress, live like her.
i mean, this was originally an ad for juicy couture - a brand i’ve resented for as long as i can remember for branding their customer’s (largely targetting a young-hetero-thin-white, cis-female market) asses with the word JUICY. but i think a fair amount of the people who made it so this image has 4,000 notes could care less about what its original context was. what i find fun and empowering about this fact is that the people reblogging this (that i follow, i suppose i cannot vouch for the others) is that they are changing the gaze, resisting capitalist advertising bullshit, and just turning it into something fun and fluffy they can aspire to: be a badass old person who just does not give a fuck.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk7caz3x7N1qzx0zxo1_500.png)
