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July 31, 2024: Drake Was Right About His Friends

This week on The Deep Dive: The messy bedroom of every teenagerā€™s dreams, there will never be another Get Out, Shel Silverstein mightā€™ve spoken a little too soon with The Giving Tree, a reality show winner who kicked, screamed, and clung her way to the top, and Drake was so close to being too big to fail.

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DESIGN

The Messy Charm Of Sofia Coppolaā€™s Teenage Bedrooms by Little White Lies (7:54)

Another week, another quickie! This weekā€™s newsletter includes a three-plus-hour video, so the balance felt necessary. In this video, Little White Lies talks about the significance of the teenage bedroom in movies made for young audiences ā€“ and if youā€™ve ever envied an on-screen perfectly messy bedroom of a character you either identified with or wanted to be like, you know exactly what Iā€™m talking about. When you only have so much time to build the personality and story arc of a main character, what canā€™t be said about them in dialogue can be plastered on the walls of their bedroom. And who says a little clutter canā€™t be aesthetically pleasing? The Tumblr girlies certainly seemed to love it.

FILM

we have get out at home by Yhara zayd (23:40)

While it may not technically be considered the first of its kind if we take a look back at film history, Get Out undeniably stood out and broke ground in a way no other Black horror film had before. And when a piece of media makes cultural waves, you can expect to see at least a handful of copycats on the horizon ā€“ some will be good, others will miss the point entirely. But not every film that was sold to audiences as a Get Out copycat actually was one. In this video, Yhara zayd analyzes movies that are often compared to the 2017 horror classic ā€“ what makes them similar, what makes them different, and which never set out to make a copycat to begin with, but fell victim to the industryā€™s habit of flattening genres for the sake of lazy marketing.

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