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Napoleon Solo + suits

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Can we just take a moment to appreciate the looks they give each other. 

Napoleon does that little look-down-and-up eye-flick once-over thingy.

Illya does that adorably smug smirk as he raises his glass to drink.

Oh, my heart. <3

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More costuming love, this time focused specifically on the menswear of the film. I just want to roll around in the lushness of the detail.

(Companion post: the female TMFU wardrobe.)

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how ridiculously well dressed the TMFU characters were?

Take Napoleon. His suits are predominantly Timothy Everest. His white shirts are potentially from Zegna, Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana, Hugo Boss,  On missions, he potentially wears Alexander McQueen and Gucci. Anachronism aside, if this were a modern day spy caper - oh my.

Illya’s staple wardrobe - let’s exclude the suits he wears as part of his cover - is no slouch either. While nowhere as fancy as Napoleon’s, those are still pretty fine classic pieces he wears in the circumstances: turtlenecks from John Smedley, jackets from Ralph Lauren and Baracuta.

I only hope that Gaby was not actually using a Hermes scarf to keep her hair back while in the chop shop. Ahahaha.

Mostly, suit lust aside, I’m also lusting over Victoria’s wardrobe. Sadly, the suggested clothing matches make me weep. I may need to whip out the trusty ol’ sewing machine.  

Anonymous asked: oh god while we're on the topic of napoleon & agency how about how his response to getting fucking drugged is "i'll just lay down & make myself comfortable then, been here before" TALK ABOUT CLINGING TO SCRAPS OF AUTONOMY

ingu:

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(x) Honestly the gender politics in this film is some curious stuff. Reverse the genders and both this scene and Napoleon bedding Victoria becomes infinitely more sinister. Same goes for Gaby slapping Illya. From start to end, Victoria treats Napoleon like a plaything, an object, something to be toyed with.

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Further to the re-blog earlier today about Napoleon’s character, agency and control - because, yes, I would agree with this view.

Also, the mention of the subversion of gender roles, which I was already having some thinky thoughts about after watching the film.

sergeantjerkbarnes:

ingu:

mamalaz:

The Man From U.N..C.L.E

The Final Cut vs Behind the Scenes

#I REALLY #WANT TO TALK #ABOUT THAT TOP LEFT MOMENT #because victoria doesn’t kiss napoleon in the context of the finished film #(she apparently does there in a version that didn’t make the final cut but that’s besides the point) #there we get to see napoleon in a sexual situation that he is a) not in control of and b) has not consented to #he’s fucking terrified #he already knows what kind of human being victoria vinciguerra is and he already bedded her in a last ditch effort to salvage their covers #which was likely victoria just playing along with him to lure him into a false sense of security until she sprang her trap #having all of this turned against him and weaponized is absolutely terrifying for him#his agency as an individual has been questionable for a decade thanks to what the cia keeps holding over his head #and his grip on that remaining autonomy is likely pretty tenuous considering how often he’s thrown around as the team honeypot #so he shields himself from intimacy by turning it into game after game #tryst after tryst #mark after mark#because the second he lets his guard down is the second he loses everything or dies #and there was probably a pretty big part of him that figured victoria and her nazi “doctor” were about to go for broke on both options #HI SORRY I’M REALLY EMO ABOUT THIS SAD BARGAIN BIN 007 I’LL SHUT UP (via brodinsons)

#ALL OF THIIIIIIS #him bedding victoria was such a dubcon moment #and the next morning he looked exhausted #and so resigned #‘trust me i gave her everything i got’ #napoleon tries so hard to cling to his last shreds of agency #truffles #clothes #giving illya the watch instead of shooting him like a good dog #and in this he and illya have a lot in common? #illya also never chose his life it was chosen for him #him imprinting on gaby like a puppy seemed just that #how many opportunities do you think he has for touch and intimacy? #because this may be the first time he’s had a chance to have something like a connection #and the same goes for napoleon #‘i work better alone’ #as admissions go are actually a little heartbreaking (x)

Re-blogging for the various tags, which I found rather thought provoking. The above did not occur to me at all, those three times I watched the film. However, on hindsight, this definitely seems plausible. (New headcanon?)

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TMFU film character profiles, compiled by a kind person on AO3. So much love for all the tiny little details. I mean, backgammon, Solo? Really? And Illya, an Oedipus complex? (Just when you think Illya’s backstory can’t get even more angsty.)

Speaking of Solo, if he was born in 1929 and joined the army in 1945, he would have been 16, not 18 (per Illya’s research), at the time of joining. Did he lie about his age when he enlisted, I wonder.