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Silence Of The Lambs (1991) Dir: Jonathan Demme
Amputate A Man's Leg And He Can Still Feel It Tickling. Tell Me, Mom, When Your Little Girl Is On The Slab, Where Will It Tickle You?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102926/
http://mentalfloss.com/uk/trivia/27360/18-facts-about-the-silence-of-the-lambs
http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/silence-of-the-lambs-at-25-it-broke-all-the-rules-20160212
http://www.filmsite.org/sile.html
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-silence-of-the-lambs-1991
http://dramatica.com/analysis/the-silence-of-the-lambs
The Innocents (1961) Dir: Jack Clayton
Mrs Grose, What Was She Like? The Other Governess. The One Who Died.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055018/
https://www.criterion.com/films/28569-the-innocents
http://brightlightsfilm.com/spider-eats-butterfly-jack-claytons-the-innocents-1961/#.WAIbTJMrJE4
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/gothic-glamour-innocents
http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2008/04/film-dvd-review-the-innocents-1961/
http://www.classicfilmsreloaded.com/the-innocents/
http://liverpoolsmallcinema.org.uk/news/second-generation-gothic-and-the-innocents-1961
http://moria.co.nz/horror/innocents-1961.htm
http://filmconnoisseur.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/title-innocents-1961-director-jack.html
http://thefoxling.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/innocents-1961.html
https://crystalkalyana.wordpress.com/2015/10/01/the-innocents-1961/
http://mookseandgripes.com/reviews/2014/09/23/jack-clayton-the-innocents/
https://erea.revues.org/196
Dracula (1958) Dir: Terence Fisher
Sleep Well, Mr. Harker.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051554/
http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2008/11/horror-of-dracula-1958/
http://horrorfreaknews.com/horror-dracula-1958-review
http://site.pelgranepress.com/index.php/31-nights-of-dractober-horror-of-dracula-1958/
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/462320/
http://hollywoodmetal.com/2014/11/20/film-review-horror-dracula-1958/
So, hum, this happened. Yesterday I couldn’t sleep so I was watching a Sander Sides video, and, as one does, decided I should try to dress up as them. It wasn’t long ‘till I realized that I would actually need way more clothing than the ones in my bedroom, but it was 3am so I couldn’t wake up anyone else! So I decided to improv my way into “costumes”. Like, everything turned out so weird! But I liked it. Specially Roman and Patton. Well, specially Roman. I wished I had glasses. Anyway, this is way too long now, so I’m just gonna say: I really enjoy his videos! You should check him out. Ps: I based Virgil on the most recent design that’s the reason behind the weird purple-ish thing on my shoulder; and I didn’t put on makeup because I had nothing to take it off with. And instead of a blue tie, I used a almost white scarf for Logan. You know, tomato, solanum lycopersicum. Ps2: I separated the text into different “paragraphs” because I dislike the aesthetic of a long text. @thatsthat24
why is there so much Percy Jackson in my For You page? Is there a new TV show or something?
Evolutionary Genesis?
If those human species are truly of a biological evolutionary genesis, then there congenital behaviors would not be so reluctant to sudden needed/mandatory changes in their social lives and constructs. They would've easily adapted to extreme circumstances, if need be, to save their own lives. But even in the face of life or death, almost all of them behave obstinate to change(s). Truly, they're not of an evolution origin; or otherwise, they would've behaved in accordance(s).
TheHappySpaceman Reviews - Phantom of the Paradise (Part 1) - TENTH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL!
Part 2
It’s the tenth anniversary of TheHappySpaceman Productions, and to celebrate, Spaceman talks about his favorite movie of all time.
Cameo appearances by Magnetrex (The Boob Tube), Michael J. Gleason (BlackScarabFilmZ/Literary Lair), and The Second Opinion!
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TheHappySpaceman Reviews - Phantom of the Paradise (Part 2) - TENTH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL!
Part 1
TheHappySpaceman continues his tenth anniversary special review of Phantom of the Paradise, his favorite movie of all time.
Cameo appearance by QuilSniv!
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Question time for Tumblr.
In movie adaptations of plays you love, what are some of the biggest stage-to-film changes that drive you up the wall? (Can include movies that are otherwise good.)
My example: The movie adaptation of Dreamgirls made many changes, some better than others, but IMO, getting rid of the song "Ain't No Party" was the biggest sin by far. I mean, not only does removing that song eliminate a significant amount of Lorrell's character development from a storytelling standpoint, but even ignoring that... they have Anika Noni Rose as Lorrell and they don’t even use her? What the hell?
I am invested in both actually. And they have some things alike actually, mostly their background information, the hostage situation, Theon being arrogant (even though way less then his book counterpart) in the beginning and liking girls. But they did some mayjor changes to him the more the show went on. Some I can absolutly understand (anything physical I would not want any actor to go though) some I don’t get at all (Ned was my father) but that is normal in adaptations. Different mediums will have different outcomes (that’s why there are no movie adaptations of “the catcher in the rye”). GRRM writing is something. He has a very interesting style that isn’t for everyone and doesn’t have to be. I personally love his dialogs but his descriptions I don’t like as much. And how good he is at writing dialog you can see of the GoT episodes he wrote. And having a actor back that up can be incredible (Theon shaving Ramsay scene is show only, written by GRRM but absolutly fantastic in conveying Theons emotions through Alfie Allens acting). I am absolutly with you about changing things from book to screen, it is incredibly hard,espeically characters that convey way more on the inside than the outside are very hard to adapt. Sansa is a really good example of that aswell, because she can’t speak her mind freely and they definitly tried with Theon and Alfie Allens performance is flawless, so they did a job, but I don’t think it was the best job possible writing wise.
Cutting out dreams is fine with me in general, they cut out all the dreams and as much as I love them it makes for a clearer outlay in the series so it’s an understandable change for style reasons. And because you wouldn’t want to make it so clear that Robb was going to die. But I generally think that the showrunners didn’t go for an as grey portrayle on any of the characters as they are in the books (especially later seasons, but even when they covered book material they tended to cut out anything that wasn’t part of the sterotype they wanted to go for-not saying all of them are sterotypes but they flattened the characters more and more over the seaons). I actually watched the show before reading the books so I wouldn’t be as critical and could enjoy the show more. Which is why I still love a lot about the show, especially the acting is amazing in general and it saves a lot of the scenes that just don’t fit the rest of the story plotwise. But going back to it I realize more and more how often charcter changes were made for what they felt like without taking the backgrounds the characters had into it (Ned was my real father vs. Ned was his captor) that they kept from the books. And if they changed these preexisting things I wouldn’t have minded. (Cut out the Maester Luwin scene and you can have the Ned scene). There are movies that I love (Howl’s moving castle, Scot Pilgrim to name some) that are very different from their source material but that pulled through on their chang but Game of Thrones is not one of them. At some point they kept taking book plotlines/ characters traits and stuffed them into the show without having the background for it and it felt off when I watched it already and am only now realising why that is. (Edmure being an idiot for everything, then having his baby catapult scene, to going back to being an idiot in the finale.) And I can absolulty get behind why you aren’t sure if book!Theon has regret/remorse because at heart he is still an arrogant ass (I mean that in the nicest way, even though it doesn’t read like it) and that is something I like very much, because as I mentioned in my original post being a victim doesn’t do a 180 on you it just fucks you up. So I appreciate GRRM not making Theon a completly different person (I get why the show changed him so much and I actually like it aswell, just for different reasons) because it shows that he has a better psychological understanding of torture than the showrunners. For a character ark Theon’s show storyline is more obvious to the viewer, especially for people that do react more like you to expressions and tone of voice (thanks to Alfie Allens acting), dialog is very different to interpret. Both are hard but for different reasons and some people catch on to one thing better than the other (I’d love to know what that means about our brains). To go back to my original point of the post: I think the books showed his inner turmoil earlier than the show did because he develops PTSD whereas I see remorse in show Theon but not straight up spiraling into mental illness because of it. And I think they changed that not because of timing issues but for character plotline changes and it’s a change I personally don’t think is good due to the implication that his change is more through Ramsay than himself. (Honestly one two scenes of him waking up sweaty and overreacting would have been enough for me) And it seems they did similar things with Jamie and his hand getting chopped of and Sansa getting raped making her stronger (that season 8 dialog with Sandor was not good, I guess what they were going for but only due to the acting not because of the words that were spoken). Just in general psychological or phsyical torture doesn’t make you stronger it just screws you up and you have it on top of your already excisting character flaws that you have to work through and watching Theon’s ark I felt that he changed more due to the torture because there was little build up before it. Not saying there wasn’t, just not enough.
I am very glad GRRM decided to give Theon PTSD pre Ramsay. The fact that Theon gets PTSD in the middle of the war, because he has a break is showing that GRRM has an understanding of both PTSD and that torture doesn’t make you a better person or whatever D&D were going for. Theon developed PTSD during a break in war for him, he started his nightmares about dead people which is something that can totally happen to any person that is coming out of the adrenalin rush of survival (of any sort, but in this case war). The other thing is, Theon subcotiously started to regret his actions, deciding against Robb, letting bad come to the smallfolk of Winterfell, that were in no way at fault for his hostage status and the killing of the miller’s boys, as much as he tries to tell himself that they were JUST the miller’s boys and therefore for war purposes not important. But something in him knows that this is bs, that is is wrong to kill these innocent children and all of that triggers his PTSD way before Ramsay starts torturing him. The way it’s done in GoT shows Theon showing regret and remorse after he gets tortured, wich implys that his change in character comes from said torture whereas book!Theon has this point way before. And that is way better. Being a victim does not make you stronger or a better character. Reflecting on your actions and knowing they were bad does. Torture will just screw your brain up, it will not make you a better person, it will just fuck you up. But apperrently D&D think differently- The same thing happend to Jamie aswell, just saying.
If you want to complain about Alfie Allen as Theon, complain about the costume design.
"He chose boots of supple black leather, soft lambswool breeches of silvery-grey, a black velvet doublet with the golden kraken of the Greyjoys embroidered on the breast. Around his throat he fastened a slender gold chain, around his waist a belt of bleached white leather. He hung a dirk at one hip and a longsword at the other, in scabbards striped black-and-gold."
ACOK, Theon I
How did they manage to dress Theon more Stark than all of House Stark?
offended on alfie allen’s behalf only guy putting his entire pussy into that show and bitches are on tv tropes calling him mid
The only circumstance under which I would accept another TSC adaptation would be an animated show that completely leans into the wackiness, brings to life the beautiful and unique imagery of the books and has some genuinely epic action sequences.
Well, look, he starred in:
- Comic book adaptations
- Game adaptations
- Board game adaptations
- Mythology adaptations
- Movie based on a true story
- A movie based on his own story
- Movie based on the TV series
- Movie based on cartoon
So... CHALLENGING THE ROCK! He should now star in an anime adaptation!
Yet some examples that show that traditional or not, cultures don’t necessarily die, but they evolve with the times. In fact, cultures live on by adapting to the times (including the modern), & the Ainu culture is doing just that especially after the recognition of the group. In light of the old ways dying, may the new Ainu ways make way for use while old ways be preserved. Either way, may the tongue be taken with the other cultural facets for modern timing.
The Trial by Franz Kafka
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An adaptation, of the intro at least of Kafkas novel The Trial, done for a class where we are... well reading Kafka!!
Might refine it more but I’m tired and I need to type stuff for it!
Matthew Macfadyen as Mr Darcy PRIDE & PREJUDICE (2005)
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005) | dir. Joe Wright
jodie benson's (the original voice of Ariel) cameo where she says "you'll need this" and the camera pans to reveal her handing halle a fork was so sweet :') she's literally passing the torch to the next ariel :''')
RAIN
Issue 1 / Cover B Still completely over the moon that I got to contribute a cover to this incredible story 💜💙🧡 Make sure you have RAIN on your pull list for January, you won't want to miss out on this title!
Elizabeth B.
“The relevant question in psychiatry shouldn’t be what’s wrong with you, but what happened to you.”
— Eleanor Longden