SHAUN Minute 1: Establishment
The bell tolls for last call as Shaun takes a drink of beer.
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We’ve been “quiet as a rat” lately, but we’re back on Monday (8/28) with a final week of episodes dedicated to Back to the Future: The Ride!
This will include our live episode being recorded this Saturday in Chicago at the Greenhouse Theater! www.moviesbyminutes.com/Chicago
Have a nice trip, see you next week!
On August 28th… Nick and Scott are BACK!
One week of shows. One LIVE event.
One last RIDE before we’re HISTORY.
See you in the Future.
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This SpongeBob Comic is fucking w i l d
turns out you can make sponge bob say anything you want
The mashup you never thought would work
Congratu-fucking-lations.
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I would pay so much to have this as a ringtone I’m not even joking.
bamilton
Why?????
consuelodoodles
The face I made while listening to this was so visceral I had to draw it before reblogging it
@sillygooseface TORI I’M CRYING PLEASE LISTEN
sursumursa
Well. That was indeed a thing that happened.
(Would’ve been better with a different version of POTO but it’s irrevocably stuck in my head so…eh.)
magraithepeachyguy
This feels like a montage like the one in “Belle” from Beauty and the Beast. O_O
One of my favorite Luna scenes in Order of the Phoenix! Blatant Luna is life.
(Thank you to thatcrazyfangirl13 for the excellent suggestion!!)
oh my gdO CAN YOU DRAW GODZILLA MOMMA CARRYING LIKE A HUNDRED LIZARD BABIES ON HER BACK FOR TAKE YOUR CHILD (lizard) TO WORK DAY
oh SHOOT well i cant swing 100 but how bout
If I don’t always reblog this assume I am dead
Watching this (and fearing broken ankles with each loop) I can’t helping thinking about that old quote Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, except backwards and in high heels.
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But no, if you watch closely you’ll see she doesn’t even step on the last chair. That means she had to trust that fucker to lift her gently to the ground while he was spinning down onto that chair. That takes major guts. I’d be pissing myself and fearing a broken neck if I were in her place. Kudos to her.
pleasant-trees
I can’t stop watching this.
Whoa.
Okay so this is true, but a tiny part of a wider truth.
Ginger Rogers was a FUCKING BADASS. Ignore for a sec the rampant sexism in Hollywood (they once bleached her hair blonde in wardrobe without telling her beforehand), the fact that she fought her whole career against typecasting and stereotyping from fellow actors (Katharine Hepburn famously said of the Astaire/Rogers partnership “she gave him sex. He gave her class” ) for starting out in musicals, and went on to have a career lasting over fifty years, winning a Best Actress Oscar (Kitty Foyle, 1940). But… JUST focusing on the Astaire movies…
Not only did she dance “backwards” in high heels, the dances were a task in themselves. Astaire was an absolute perfectionist and choreographed for himself, so as a younger, less experienced dancer Rogers came in at a disadvantage and worked her ass off to match him.
Then there’s the filming complications… these numbers were filmed in ONE TAKE. So one thing goes wrong and you have to start over. Maybe you make a mistake or maybe your dress flies up because…
Ginger had to contend with her wardrobe. Dancing in heels is the norm at this time, but dancing in a dress designed for cinema cameras… not so much. They were heavy, embellished, uncomfortable, restrictive and cumbersome and essentially a third member of the dance, strapped to the body of one partner.Not only did she have to dance and look good, she had to control the dress too!
Take this routine from Swing Time… (it gets going proper at 1:30ish)
This dress has weights, YES WEIGHTS, sewn in to the hem to make it fly out and create a visual effect. So it’s heavy, it hurts if it hits you, and your partner gets mad if it hits him. So you gotta control it.
Well it turns out all these factors on this set, this particular day aren’t going so well. So you’re doing take after take, here’s no labour laws, so at 4am after 18 hours you’re still going, even though part of the routine requires you to spin up those curved stairs with no rail at high speed….
Okay so now back to those high heels. In Ginger’s autobiography she vividly remembers this night as the night she bled though her shoes. They did so many takes, her feet blistered, bled, and the white satin high heels she was wearing finished he night pink because they were literally full of blood. And still they keep shooting. She keeps dancing.
The take they use in the film is the last. Early hours. Bloody feet. And she spins, acts and bosses out until that last second. Because she was that professional, talented and bloody minded. This is the last set of spins…
So I say once again. Ginger Rogers was a badass.
She did everything Fred Astaire did backwards, in high heels, wearing a 20 pound dress, exhausted, injured and standing in a pool of her own blood. And watching her perform, you would never know.
I've reblogged this before but it got better.
Anyone else think this Buster Keaton looks like Peter Serafinowicz?
You were joking. People joke about the horrible things that they don’t do. They don’t do them. It’s absurd! requested by willagivens.
I love this movie so much.
I tried to scroll past this. I really did.
Impossible not to reblog.
