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watched eeaao with my mom who left my dad for being too sensitive… an experience
also worst decision ever her takeaway was “oh thank god i’m not like that! i love you!” like… evelyn didn’t not love joy…
EEAAO was such a good movie. that rock scene made me have an existential crisis 💀
HISTORY.
my takeaway from the wicked movie is that michelle yeoh is collecting spongebob: the musical cast members like pokémon
Escape From Everything Everywhere One by One —a film-inspired escape game
A series of escape rooms based on Everything Everywhere All At Once:
(Warning: Spoilerverse ahead!)
The first escape room: The first escape room is set in a laundromat, just like in the movie. The walls are covered in graffiti, and there are clothes and other laundry strewn about the room.
The keys: Players must find items that will allow them to travel to different universes. For example, they might need to find a pair of shiny buttons, a woman's and a man's, to travel to the universe where Evelyn is a movie star reuniting with her old love, or they might need to find a rock with googly eyes among many rocks to travel to the abiotic universe.
The puzzles: The puzzles in the escape room are all based on different universes that Evelyn Wang verse-jumps to in the movie. They block clues to the locations of the keys. For example, one puzzle might involve using the knowledge of a bagel chef to piece together the perfect bagel model, which acts as a knob of an oven cabinet where a key or clue to a key location can be found. Another puzzle would be translating Cantonese words on a signboard, by chaining up a jumble of bilingual dictionaries, only one of which contains English and none of which translates Cantonese to English, in the universe where Evelyn is a sign spinner.
The clues: Like in all escape game recommendations, some of the clues are obvious, while others are more obscure. For example, one clue might be a piece of paper with horrifying tax figures that would wake up even the deadest work zombie, while another clue might be a song lyric that only makes sense if you've seen the movie.
The physical challenges: Some escape rooms entail physical challenges. For example, in the universe where Evelyn is a cook contending with a rival who has a raccoon master, players can "knock out" an army of agile staff members dressed in raccoon costumes by hitting their fake tummies with paintballs. In the universe where Evelyn is an opera star, players are to wear Chinese opera costumes and gather in front of a camera within a time limit. In the hot dog universe—you've guessed it—players must work through everything using hot dog fingers. That, and playing piano keys correctly with their toes. The hot dog fingers could be made slippery, so that it's difficult to control them.
The ending: If players are able to solve all of the puzzles and overcome all of the challenges, they will be able to exit the multiverse through a giant everything bagel. Or maybe, they will beg the game host to let them stay for an eternity.
Obvious choices for background music: Laundry sounds, kung fu themes, Chinese opera, Le Festin, and the soundtracks of the film itself, In The Mood For Love, The Matrix, The Mask and maybe 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The escape room would be a great way to test film lovers' creativity and problem-solving skills while exploring the different universes that Evelyn Wang verse-jumps to in the movie.
Kindly remember to send this human editor and human generative filler the bagel donations.
unknown // ladybird (2017) // white oleander by janet fitch // elektra by sophocles // everything everywhere all at once (2022) // sharp objects by gillian flynn // mamma told me by mother mother
THANK YOU FOR BEING BORN🥯
my piece for @2e2ezine! leftover sales for the zine are still for sale, please check everybody's hard work out 🙏
🌀 sucked into a baaagel 🌀
my piece for the incredible @2e2ezine!!! now's the very last chance to grab a copy - leftover sales end tomorrow (and u can get 50% off physical bundles rn too) 👀
🥯 Everything Everywhere All At Once 🥯
Fanart of Jobu Tupaki and her iconic costumes from the movie. Congrats to Stephanie Hsu on her Oscar nomination, it’s about time!!
I had to do a lot of research to draw the looks accurately, so thank you to the EEAAO styling team for posting high quality photo refs but also for their stellar work overall.
You can get a closer look at each of the outfits by selecting any image on the bottom row!
Also, bonus look that unfortunately didn't make the cut below ;)
she put everything on a bagel
they have brunch every saturday
Here’s a christmas gift I made for my partner cause eeaao is their favourite movie
— EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE’s (Oscar-nominated) screenplay
Quotes from the Everything Everywhere All At Once Directors’ commentary, part 1 of 2
i laugh about it but also!!! the moment in eeaao where alpha wong tells evelyn that she's living her worst life is just!!! IT'S JUST SO!!! HMM!!! makes me think. because like. that's the thing right. their life is actually kind of shitty yk? her business is not a success, they're literally buried under the pile of their failed ambitions. everything very objectively sucks!!! and it's like that's. someone's worst fear. i know it's mine. that you'll blink and it'll be 25 years years and you're barely holding it together. career, husband, kid — every. thing is a mess..and you're just. making it all worse against your own better judgement because you're so overwhelmed with a kind of grief and loneliness and sorrow and goddddd like. like. that's terrifying. the prospect of that life is so terrifying. and EEAAO looked at this woman and it said. yeah. you know what. it sucks. you actually did fail spectacularly at everything. but you're here. and you can decide to embrace this reality. and put googly eyes on your laundry bags and hug your daughter anyway. because life is unpredictable, and you did what you could, but the point of it all is to steal what little love and joy you can from it. and it's just. okay. I'm emotional about that i am..