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The fun thing about lots of folk ballads just being multiple versions of the same story is that you start to see certain characters waltz through the lyrics over and over again - so that inspired me to do some little character designs based on this cast of cruel crooks and hapless victims 🎶
Many years ago I wrote an all-purpose folk song, and tried to get as many tropes as possible into one song…
Ok hear me out… what if I…. actually started posting again during the school term??? Here are some illustrations from the summer based on folk songs: the first is Edward, the second is Boys of Bedlam!
Maxson looks like a dude from Portland trying very hard to not look like he's from Portland and failing spectacularly
365 Characters ↳ #42 - Koschei, the Deathless
I do not tolerate a world emptied of you.
That feeling of yearning
Made some Joey Batey centred text versions too
Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to fight for what they desire more than anything.
this is actually literally the single most important post
Very Important Art Prompt
That feeling tho when you find that fic writer that just absolutely fucking
Something Rotten!
omg a musical song about COMPLAINING ABOUT WRITING My whole life I have been waiting for this. MY WHOLE LIFE.
OH MY WORD
YES.
I REBLOG THIS EVERY SINGLE TIME IT COMES ON MY DASH AN I HAVE LOVED IT EVERY TIME
…we also know that this actor and director’s entire direction for this was ‘CHANNEL TIM CURRY’
The Adventures of Prince Achmen. 1926. German. The oldest surviving animated film in history.
I am sorry BUT THIS IS NOT JUST “GERMAN” PLEASE DO NOT FORGET THE NAME OF THE ARTIST.
THIS WONDERFUL MOVIE WAS MADE BY LOTTE REINIGER! SHE WAS ONE OF THE PIONEERS OF ANIMATION!!!! SHE MADE OVER 40 FILMS IN HER CAREER USING A TECHNIQUE SHE INVENTED WITH HER HUSBAND! WALT DISNEY ENDED USING HER MULTI PLANE TECHNIQUE IN HIS OWN MOVIES! AND SHE FUCKING MADE THE FIRST FEATURE LENGTH ANIMATED MOVIE!! (she ended up fleeing Nazi germany eventually work in north america, both us and canada, on other movies.)
This woman is one of the most important figures in animation HISTORY!
These are all cut out stop motion animations made of paper which she cut by HAND and layered with glass.
i can’t talk shit about the pirates of the caribbean films as if elizabeth swann becoming pirate king didn’t hand my entire ass to me and make me the gay i am today
these 2 looks basically defined my sexuality and i’m not afraid to admit it
things pirates of the caribbean got right:
1. will and elizabeth’s love story
2. elizabeth becoming pirate king
3. avoiding sexualizing elizabeth or the other female pirate characters in the first 3 films by allowing them to wear period-accurate pirate outfits that aren’t tailored to be revealing and impractical for ‘sex appeal’ just because they’re women
4. hans zimmer’s entire score but especially the iconic ‘he’s a pirate’ main theme
5. When the movie came out, morally-gray characters like Jack were actually not really a thing yet in pop culture, and it’s not Pirates’ fault that there are a ton of stupid shitty copycats out there.
6. I run a corseting panel at cons and literally use Elizabeth’s lace-up scene as a video clip of what historical corseting was actually like, because the only thing they got wrong in this scene is that tightlacing wouldn’t be a thing for about another 200 years (and you couldn’t tightlace with the corset style Elizabeth is wearing anyway). It’s one of the most accurate corseting scenes I’ve ever seen.
7. Will’s hat.
8. That scene with all the pirates on the gallows where that little boy starts singing Hoist the Colours? Yeah, that’s fucking legendary. The rest of AWE was kind of a trash fire, but that scene gave me goosebumps.
9. There’s this great shot in the first one where they really drive home the class differences inherent in this time period by having the governor talking about progress and civilization to Elizabeth in their carriage, and then they cut to a shot outside the carriage where a beggar gets splashed by mud from the wheel. It’s a perfect way to underline that everything is not, in fact, a nice little upper-class fairytale, and to give some weight to Will’s storyline, because he has a lot more in common with that beggar than with the governor.
10. For its time, the CGI was fucking amazing.
11. And let’s not forget the work of the makeup department, which had to actually invent new ways of putting on makeup for this movie.
12. The governor’s death scene. Holy shit.
13. They could have gone with a Jack/Will/Elizabeth love triangle, but they didn’t. There are some hints Jack is in love (or at least in lust) with Elizabeth, but he recognizes that she loves Will, and that’s that.
14. You’ve got to admit that wedding was unique.
15. The introduction of fantasy elements to historical fiction outside of Tolkein-esque fantasy, and how it contributed to and expanded the Fantasy Media boom we’re still enjoying today.
1. They had a woman of colour play a goddess.
2. They had a woman pirate right in the first film, when the tradition is to only show male ones (hell, the PotC ride at Disney had a wench auction scene until recently). And it was a female pirate of colour at that!
3. Elizabeth may not have known how to fight in the first film, but she wasn’t helpless either. Her first instinct was to fight, but she also had the brains to recognize when it was best to hide instead. Plus when given the chance she stabbed Barbosa that one time.
4. Elizabeth’s lack of fighting ability was not simply because she was a woman, it was clear it was due to her societal circumstances, since we saw other women of different socioeconomic backgrounds being able to fight (and when given the opportunity to learn Elizabeth took to fighting like a duck on water).
5. The Hoist the Colours scene where we see pirates of multiple ethnicities and their varying flags, reminding us that pirates came in all shapes and sizes and weren’t just white men.
6. One of the Pirate Lords being yet ANOTHER woman of colour. She may not have had much of a speaking role if memory serves, but even her presence is already a big deal.
7. The pirates accepting their King is a woman without much fuss.
8. The actual fighting. I’m doing historical sword and rapier fighting and let me tell you while show fighting definitely is different there’re so many films out there where I just cringe at the fighting sequences. Not this film. My sword master actually told me to watch these duels because of their great swordsmanship. Like they’re SO accurate and amazingly good performed
9. That Pirate Lord? That’s Madame Cheng/Ching Shih. The most successful pirate in history. Her story is AMAZING. x, x, x
10. We can’t give all the credit to Hans Zimmer because it was Klaus Badelt’s work in the first movie that created the memorable tunes. They both worked on it but in the artist for the album, it lists Klaus Badelt. Another movie Klaus Badelt worked on? The Prince of Egypt. (Hans Zimmer was also a composer for this movie)
11. the first movie almost didn’t get made because pirate movies weren’t thought to be profitable anymore
12. casting Geoffrey Rush as Hector Barbossa. He is known to ask directors so many questions (and deep questions at that) about his character to really get into his roles that it sometimes gets on directors nerves. The fact that he cares so much about his role in 1-3 really made his character memorable.
13. that scene where Davy Jones plays the organ with his tentacles?? was no one going to point that one out? chills. is also the same time that will turner meets his father by accident?? and also just the spooky organ music in general for the kraken
14. the fact they actually built the ships instead of relying on CGI. and they filmed a lot of scenes on location and added and edited things in later really helped the CGI look better.
15. when Barbossa walked down the stairs at the very end of Dead Man’s Chest and said “So, what’s become of my ship?”, the facial expressions shown by the other actors were real because they were told it was going to be Anamaria (played by Zoë Saldaña) walking down those stairs. while unfortunately we didn’t get to see more of her character, the added detail of showing genuine confusion and shock on their faces really helped the scene end the movie excite the audience for the third one.
16. there are a lot of those kinds of situations sprinkled around in the trilogy, like the “i’ve got a jar of dirt” scene, to get genuine reactions from the other actors it’s great.
17. That last fight in the first movie where the moon is out and they have the hull widening the shot with the dead pirates trekking across the ocean floor. It makes it seem so much cooler tbh. Like, it’s such a small thing, but it makes it so much more dramatic and epic that like, I get excited every single time that part comes along bc of that one damn shot.
As adorable as those videos are of Italians singing to each other during the lockdown, I REALLY hope that doesn’t happen in the UK because you know it’ll be guys with acoustic guitars doing Wonderwall.
I really love this photo! I know the vignette isn't everyone's cup of tea, but I had a lot of fun editing this!
Massive shout out to Chris for taking photos for us!
Photographer: Alchemist Photographic
Alina: @luckygandor
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absolutely amazing to me how Henry cavill as superman I felt not a single ounce of attraction to him but once you smack a long white wig on him and rough him up a bit and suddenly I nearly choke on an Oreo and die while watching a bath scene
Henry Cavill is the precise opposite of “You clean up really good.”
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but don’t be racist during the COVID-19 scare.
My mom’s friend was out shopping when a (very not asian) woman came up and started berating her for not wearing a mask. Asian businesses in my area are suffering. Some people are refusing to interact with anyone who looks Asian.
Asian-Americans have been through racism already. We’re fucking sick of it. We’re not flea-infested rats; we are actual people who most likely have never been to China.
And if you’re not Asian and see someone being racist and giving a poor schmuck a hard time for having squinty eyes and dark hair, tell them to knock it off and they’re being a butt.
