#and jonathan pryce YES

[tonydaddingham]

OH LETS FUCKIKG GO ? ????

x

[thealdersgateoffice]

I have to talk to First Desk. I have to tell them what happened. What’s coming.

What happened? What’s coming?

The bomb. River. I have… why am I talking to you?

Slow Horses | 4.03 Penny for Your Thoughts 🐌🐎

[saivanmarly]

THIS IS OLD DO NOT JUDGE ME OR I WILL CRY... or just quickly delete this, that works too. 😭 Part 1.

My friend one time asked me to headcanon the Buffy characters in a horror movie (she also wanted me to include our OCs and stuff, so I did them too but I'm not showing theirs!) Think of this as an alternative universe, okay. And if some of the headcanon seems incomplete then it means I probably cut some stuff I was too embarrassed to include. If anything is inaccurate at all... Then it's an AU okay! I'm trying to defend my past self here a little. Warning these are all really bad, I should never be in any kind of writers room of any kind. Ever. And if you know me, which no one does, who the killer is will be so obvious. Also, this must be the most confusing movie ever, this sounds like 50 different things mixed.

Buffy Summers- Of course, Buffy is going to be the Final Girl. She spends most of the movie trying to protect her friends, and avoiding the killer (not knowing there are two) that is specifically targeting her. By the end of the movie she discovers both of them and to her shock, she knows exactly who they are. But what shocks her even more is when it’s revealed she is the reason that any of this even happened, as she was the intended target the whole time, but avoided it every time.

If it seems like I am taking things from other horror movies, then no I'm not, shut up. Willow Rosenberg- Willow possesses a crucial skill in the group, tech computer hacking, seeking information in just about anywhere. After many of her friends and acquaintances are killed, she walks on a path of vengeance ready to track down the murderers and tear them all apart. Apparently, even in this movie I made up Willow goes Dark. Xander Harris- Xander is the movie's comedic timing guy, making light of things, and having the goofest lines in his scariest situations. He is revealed to have more depth to him throughout. He sticks close to our Final Girl and avoids death, making it to the end of the film. Rupert Giles- Giles is the adult mentor that all of them go to give them important information and to learn about the lore. He also looks out for the others and is smart enough to stay alive, though has many close calls. Giles provides very useful information to them throughout.

I was uncertain for some of them so the descriptions were kind of dull.

Cordelia Chase- At first, Cordelia is the typical mean girl at the high school, who throughout the movie you really grow fond of. The killers underestimate her and she is able to out smart them twice and escape them many times, though, this only annoys the killers even more and they do not let up with the attacks. Unfortunately, the smarter-then-she-seems alpha bitch is not clever enough to escape this time and lets out her iconic horror-movie-worthy scream. Cordi is killed letting out one last cry that echoes loud enough for many others to hear. Why did I word it like that? Jenny Calendar- Jenny is the other adult mentor within the group but her specialties like within computers rather than book knowledge like Giles. She gets very close to figuring everything out but is killed before she is able to actually tell any of the information to the others. Oz- In the film, he is the most calm in the group, keeping his cool despite the unnerving situation. Oz often tries to get the others to do the same… But little luck that does. He avoids the killers many times and survives all the way to the end of the film.

Faith Lehane- For most of the movie, Faith prefers doing whatever benefits her and is pretty distant from the others. But eventually she warms up to the group and jumps in to save them. Anya Jenkins- Similar to Faith, Anya also isn’t too keen on the others at first. Her most known scene in the film is finding the group trapped and trying to get them free. Anya manages to get them out, but the same can not be said for herself, as she is murdered by the killers. Tara Maclay- Tara is the kind, empathetic one of the group, looking out for everyone else, and trying to keep everyone together. She meets a violent end when the killer accidentally kills her while actually trying to get to the Final Girl. The group has lost their support-friend. Side-Note: All of these headcanons had stupid titles, that I'm not including them, because they were embarrassing. If you're curious, this one was called 'Ops, I missed'. Dawn Summers- Much to the audience's likely annoyance, strangely, she seems to never get targeted or almost killed at all. Dawn fills the role as the mystical child being able to see things they can’t. But she is also the annoying younger sister of the group, often getting upset with our main characters. Even running off by herself which probably leads to someone's death as they go after her to try to bring her back. Viewers probably wonder, if she is supposed to be so special, why did they have to go and make her so damn annoying? (I like Dawn). How does Dawn keep avoiding death? I have no idea.

Joyce Summers- Joyce is the parent constantly wondering why her kids are screaming awake at night and constantly skipping class. Riley Finn- Riley is the Final Girl's current boyfriend who is also a part of the military. The two end up getting in an argument and he decides to go off on his own, believing he can stop it all himself. Riley begins to track something but reaches a dead end, unknowingly trapping himself. It lights out for Riley as the murderers add yet another tally onto the death counter of the film. If the way I worded this reminds you of anything, no it doesn't. 😭 Angel- Our Final Girl’s ex-boyfriend she broke up with not too long before she got with Riley. Angel suffers intense PTSD and spends most of the film almost unintelligible. Angel is aware of much more than the others but they can’t get him to tell them what he knows. Spike- Spike, like Faith, is outside of the group mostly fending for himself. He sits at the edge of the room listening in on the conversations. He begins to grow fond of the Final Girl during their time together. Spikes makes it to the end but ends up sacrificing himself in order to save Buffy. Wesley Wyndam-Pyrce- At the start of the movie, Wesley is nothing more than an annoyance to the rest of the cast. Over the course of the film he goes through a strange character arc where he becomes incredibly badass by the end of it. He even saves Final Girl many times. Darla- Darla’s scenes consist of flirting with the male cast members, especially Comic Relief Xander. Mysteriously, at some point during the film Darla is not even seen or mentioned again. Drusilla- Drusilla is the resident crazy lady that rambles on about what seems to be nonsense but actually is vital information, and has intense visions.

Harmony Kendall- Harmony is a fellow high school mean girl with Cordelia. Mostly being rather ditzy in most of her scenes or a preppy bitch in the school ones. As the dumb blonde of the movie, as you know, that never ends well. When caught by the killer she frantically begins crying, begging, and apologizing. She offers to do anything for them to let her go, but ultimately none of her exchanges or attempted sorrys about past wrong-doings are enough, and she meets a vicious end. Damn, I was really harsh on Harmony here, lol. Amy Madison- Amy, like Willow, is a part of a witch coven. In the film she is often trying to shield behind others to get to safety, and mostly just being very unbearable. She meets a fate stranger than death when—Jonathan oddly enough—turns her into a rat. Though some talk to the rat, the other characters don’t mention her that much going forward in the film, and only few even take notice of said rat. At the end of the film, Buffy finds the Amy rat and takes it with her. Even in this Amy is a rat. 🤣 Warren Mears- After killing his ex-girlfriend, Warren sets down a hellbent path of going after Buffy Summers with his murder partner, Andrew Wells. His inventions, cause many casualties to the other characters, being his main resource for inflicting the kills. Warren and Andrew are the constant influence to each other's dark actions during the entire runtime of the film. So, it's kind of just 'Dead Things', apparently.

Jonathan Levinson- When your only two friends turn to killing and no one notices your existence what can you do? Jonathan never actually kills anyone at all, only is forced to watch as the other two kill off his high school classmates and the Sunnydale town residents. Jonathan fears for his life as he can’t just simply leave. He roots the Final Girl on in his mind, almost acting as the viewer's eyes. Oh my gosh, way to open that headcanon. It's like a really weird synopsis. 🤣

Andrew Wells- There is not one killer, but two! Andrew is a horror movie enthusiast, who follows his dead-set murder partner, Warren Mears, becoming more and more thrilled with the kills; Going from just eliminating obstacles to get to the Final Girl, now into drawn out, vicious, disturbing scenarios for fun. Andrew assists him in overly extreme ways, enjoying it all. He sees it as ‘just like a horror movie'. The two encourage each other down the dark paths. Though, they also will target some out of total spite, the Swim Team and Amanda, being both good examples. There is also very obvious suggestive subtext between him and Warren throughout the entire thing, especially the end scene where Buffy confronts them. Damn, even the Swim Team. Yes, it is what you think between Andrew and Warren.

These are so bad. 😭

[drconstellation]

Brazil and The Dream of Escape

I was delighted to find in the Xtras that the machine created to be used by Furfur to use to find out how many demons Shax could requisition for storming the bookshop was inspired by the movie Brazil. This is another nod to Monty Python member Terry Gilliam, who directed this film, and who almost directed the failed GO film in the 1990's.

I love this film. Always have. Yes, I was around when it came out in 1985. I'm that old. It's always been in my top 5 favourite films. And its totally relevant to Good Omens.

Brazil can be described as a dark dystopian story based on the novel 1984. It doesn't have a happy ending, but its funny, horrific, ludicrous, romantic and timelessly beautiful all at the same time. Its so iconic that when ever I see its influence in other productions its been unmistakable.

It stars Jonathan Pryce long before he was a James Bond villain or the head Sparrow in Game of Thrones, a comedic turn from Robert de Niro and a handful of other famous faces that you are bound to recognise, such Bob Hoskins, Ian Holm and Jim Broadbent.

Pryce, as Sam Lowry, lives in a world that is strictly controlled with paperwork that comes in multiple copies, where people are routinely arrested and tortured and a long running unexplained terrorist campaign sees bombs explode in the most random of places. Sam has dreams of a beautiful woman floating in the sky, and he is a sliver-armoured winged hero trying to rescue her. He eventually finds that she is real, and finds out her name through various means via his work and contacts. He tracks her down, but that is where it all starts to unravel as she is mixed up with an unfortunate case of mistaken identity.

Its easy to see the common themes and elements that run through the film with GO: the desire to run away and escape (that doesn't work,) a totalitarian authority controlling the masses, propaganda, piles of paperwork, an undercurrent of rebellion, torture and abuse, forbidden love between classes, a villain hidden in plain sight.

There is an art deco aesthetic to the film that also carries over to other films and shows it has influenced, and the busy work floor scene that stops on a dime to watch the tv show de jour while the boss isn't looking is one of the highlights of the film.

It was a reference of this that caught my eye in the Cohen Brothers modern fairy tale The Hudsucker Proxy, where they copied the busyness of the work floor for their mail room scenes, but also the art deco aesthetic. That's another film that is always in my top five films, and could go a round of comparisons with GO - its got time stoppage, an angel appearance and a near-godlike manipulator.

It also appears, surprisingly, in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The casino at Canto Bight is Brazil inspired, in the way its introduced to us, its decor and the music. I know some people hate this film because of what they did to Luke, but I love it, the whole thing is just utterly gorgeous to look at.

And if you've watched any of Loki recently, since S2 of that show finished not long ago, you would also seen some influence from Brazil in the retro look.

I love the classic art deco style. my grandparents had an art deco house that I spent many of my childhood hours in. The style itself is a clean, unadorned look, and often is meant to give a look of movement, speed or strength. A classic example of this is the Bentley, of course, which comes from the height of the art deco era in the 1930's.

Hell is the other place we see the Brazil influence in GO, where is looks like it's constantly several decades behind the times, with overhead projectors and manual typewriters and odd looking not-quite steampunk contraptions.

Brazil is available to stream on Disney at the moment, if you'd like to take a look. I highly recommend it, its one of those influential films that once you know it, you see its long reach in the most unexpected places.

[courtneysmovieblog]

Trailers: "Wicked, "Nobody," "Zootopia," and other sequels

Got some big stuff coming up, and when I say "big," I'm talking BIG.

The Home: Pete Davidson does community service at a creepy retirement home. Horror is an interesting change for him.

The Thursday Murder Club: Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, and Celie Imrie band together to solve a murder. Should be fun.

The Man in the Basement: In what universe is letting creepy old guy (Willem Dafoe, of all freaking people) renting your basement a remotely good idea?!

Caught Stealing: Austin Butler still sounds like Elvis.

Nobody 2: This time, the whole family is going on vacation. I'M IN.

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey: Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie find mysterious magical doorways to take them through their pasts. Again, I'M IN.

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale: It's not gonna be the same without Maggie Smith, but I'm still excited.

Good Fortune: Keanu Reeves is a guardian angel that can't quite get it right. Oh HELL YES.

Black Phone 2: At first, I was confused as how Ethan Hawke's character can possibly come back. Then I remembered the first was a movie about a supernatural phone that contacts the dead.

Zootopia 2: I don't know what's going to happen, but it's an automatic must see.

Frankenstein: Guillermo De Toro's long-anticipated take on the classic monster tale starring Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi. Don't let us down!

Wicked: For Good: I NEED THIS NOW!

Kiss of the Spider Woman: Holy crap, Jennifer Lopez should have been doing musical movies this whole time!

Oh. What. Fun: Michelle Pfeiffer gets fed up with doing Christmas all on her own for the family and disappears. So it's another "Mom on strike for the holidays" movie?

[eliaca]

Saskia Reeves Breaks Down Jackson Lamb’s Shocking Betrayal

TheWrap: At first, Catherine is very touched that Lamb has come to her rescue. And then he tells her that her late boss was a traitor who was setting her up to take the fall for him. That’s a huge, huge betrayal.

Saskia Reeves: Yeah. It’s a shocking moment for her. Which is why I think she says, if you don’t mind my French, “F,U. Jackson Lamb, f—k the lot of you.” I think she’s just had it, that’s it. She’s had enough. And Catherine never swears. Jackson Lamb swears all the time, but she never swears. So that was quite a big thing for her to do that.

So of all the things that Lamb says to Catherine, what do you think was the most hurtful?

That Charles was only keeping her close because she was a drunk. [Lamb] helped her go to rehab. He helped her, she thought, recover. And I think after Charles Partner was killed, or when he committed suicide, as she thinks, she fell off the wagon a few times.

Lamb tells her, doesn’t he, in the end of Season 1 that he gave Charles Partner the gun. But she always blamed herself for his death. And she falls off the wagon, and then gets back on it because otherwise she’d probably kill herself.

And that’s when Lamb picks her up and says, “Okay, I’m going to offer you a job.” I imagine her self-esteem is very low. It’s a job that she can do incredibly well. She hasn’t sunk to the bottom like all the other [agents in Slough House].

She really gets a chance to shine this season as she gains the trust of her kidnappers and mines them for information.

I don’t know if anybody would have quite approached it the way she did. Knowing what she knows, and getting sort of caught up in their emotional reason why they need the information that they need. You have to remember she’s not a spy. She’s a secretary, a very, very good secretary.

Do you think Lamb is actually fond of her?

Yes. They’ve been part of MI5 since before the [Berlin] wall came down, they’ve been through so much together. They know the same people from before. And they’re both more analog than digital. She knows [he used to be an] exemplary member of MI5. And he knows her to be an incredibly experienced supporter of the head of MI5. I think he respects her, but he’s also a frightful bully and, and in some areas, a coward who doesn’t want to face his own alcoholism.

So he pushes her, he keeps pushing her to see how far she’ll go, to test her. I think she interprets that as, “He’s trying to break me. He’s trying to push me off the wagon, and I refuse to be pushed off the wagon.” And the longer she stays sober, the stronger she gets. And I love how strong she is. She’s very smart. And she’s kind but she’s f—ked up. Which is what holds them all together, isn’t it?

He has one one big secret left: As the viewers already know, he was the one who killed Charles.

Right. That hasn’t come out yet. Which is why when she asks him, “Do we kill our own?,” she’s not aware of how close she is to the truth.

I haven’t read the books but I assume that does come out at some point.

It does come out, but I can’t remember which book it happens in. I’ve read them all a few times.

Actually, it’s a conversation I want to have with the showrunner Will Smith. What are we going to do with this piece of humming knowledge, this thing that won’t go away? This thing that Jackson did, but he did it under the umbrella of David Cartwright (Jonathan Pryce). And that relationship will be unfolded in Season 4.

We get a few glimpses of Catherine in the Season 4 teaser trailer. Will we see her back at Slough House?

I can’t say anything!

Source: Sharon Knolle - The Wrap

[pazodetrasalba]

Vae Victis

Dear Caroline:

Just finished reading yesterday this recommendation of yours. It wasn't bad, but if I am to be sincere, it is up to now the least interesting of your 5 star choices. I imagine this comes as a result of my absence from the world it depicts: what might have been personally relevant for an (ex)finance bro like you is mostly irrelevant for me.

Yes, the book is a bit slow and rambling, and yes, it does accelerate and get more thriller-like once the bids are out (title gives away the resolution, though, if for some reason you had never heard of the RJR Nabisco leveraged buyout in the first place). The cast is too big - I actually benefited from watching the movie adaptation before finishing the book so that I could at least make a clear mental picture of the, say, 10 or so main characters.

One way of reading this book (and the popular narrative at the time of the events) is as a story of greed, with stereotyped and villainous figures (the film is much less nuanced than the book, and really goes full-hog in this direction: Ross Johnson is a a snake charmer wallowing in luxury who'd sell his mother for the right price, and Henry Kravis is literally Count Dracula - nobody does 'slightly creepy old dude' better than Jonathan Pryce), the worst of which are Wall Street bankers and lawyers who are out to make a catch with complete disregard for the well-being of businesses, shareholders, workers and public. This is how I would have read it many years ago, in my Marxist years. Now that I have become attuned to the fact that capitalism and markets are (mostly) good and the financial sector is necessary for keeping our social machine well oiled and running, I'd be inclined to make other readings as well.

On a side note -actually, it's not that much in the sidelines-, schools do a very poor job at pushing forward what is an extremely anti-intuitive but truthful view, first espoused by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations, and expressed in your own review as "You think about market participants each trying to maximize their profits, and everyone acting in their own interest ends up maximizing total welfare, and that makes sense in a zoomed-out way, and as far as I can tell is not a crazy model of the behavior of companies". But this really beggars belief until you actually see it: it feels no less stupid and false to a smart teenager than religious dogma. On the contrary, the same teenager who reads The Communist Manifesto will find a very believable narrative of the moral and economic progress of History through class conflict, and if he further pursues some basic readings (and remains, as we mostly do, economically illiterate), will also find the theory of surplus value scientific-sounding and a good basis for accusing all capitalists of being exploiters and thieves.

It is, indeed, nothing short of miraculous that individual egoisms actually end up creating a quasi-optimal arrangement for the most part, but I feel Barbarians at the Gate is mostly showing you the scenario when this doesn't actually happen. That is to say, for RJR Nabisco under Johnson's leadership, and through the LBO, it does indeed appear that (quoting you again):

- there is a CEO, who is a guy - there is a board, consisting of a bunch of guys who are friends with the CEO - they all have fiduciary duties and if they fail to meet them they will get yelled at by a judge in Delaware - ??? - shareholder value gets maximized

Love the ???. Actually, if one goes back to those dull, first chapters at the beginning of the book, we do get a glimpse of how companies manage to turn individual egoisms into positive enterprises. The book dwells a lot on the first years of Nabisco and Reynolds tobacco, on how founders made all the right choices of wise investment and expansion, use of local knowledge, ethics, hard work and know-how, treating workers and shareholders well, taking advantage of rising opportunities... It really reads like a guide on what to do, as contrasted with the relative vacuity of what Ross Johnson actually ends up doing. Does he actually create any positive value? Perhaps his best contribution is his rejection of stability and routine, a chaotic undermining of conformity which might help against the inevitable stagnation of consolidated companies, but that appears to be all he does. Yes, he charms board members and presidents, parties hard and lavishes wealth on executives and board members (including himself). on the face of it, all this doesn't seem at all better than its opposite.

I am not economically savvy enough, but moving to LBOs, I imagine one could make the case for them in that they judge company value more efficiently than markets (as seemed to be the case with the stagnantly low value of RJR Nabisco shares), and in that the debt and diet they impose on their companies trim out the fat, the redundant, the inefficient and (once the debt is paid), end with a more economically efficient company that can survive and thrive in the market better. Like all tools, though, they can be misused, making some people very rich (CEOs, their cronies and the lenders) and a lot of people quite miserable (workers and shareholders) through financial trickery and assaults orchestrated through 'phoney money'. It is all a matter of trade-offs, I guess. Still, I like some of the anti-LBO voices: even though the book has no heroes (Johnson might be an anti-hero of sorts), Ted Forstmann comes pretty close (and btw, he become a signatory of the Giving Pledge in 2011). It's a pity the way he's massacred in the movie. And crypto doesn't feel that far away from junk bonds...

The book did have some lovely snippets of humor (loved the private jet piloting Mr. G. Shepherd to safety). As for your belief that "it is reassuring that the whole system seems to kinda work anyway", I fear it seems to be the wrong lesson to learn from all of this; in fact, the book seems peppered with quotes that are the absolutely worst possible lessons one could take, most of them from the lips of Ross Johnson, about disregarding protocols, logic, reason and checks and balances. Your final quote about rows of figures with millions of dollars that no one knows the proper meaning of is actually quite an ominous note to end the review with, a precursor to the apparently very lax and chaotic management of vastly superior sums of money in FTX and Alameda.

Quote:

"It all started with a small lemonade stand in Manitoba,” read one Johnson parody. “The next thing I knew I had sold my mother. The rest was easy.”

P.S.: Among the things you mention that motivate you, "making guys think I am attractive" seems particularly ill-phrased. You are incredibly attractive, Caroline (both as a person and as a woman), so there should be little need of persuasion, except we usually find that these truths and feelings are seldom commutative.

[aslightlydifferentchristmascarol]

Amelie & Other Marleys

Inspired by the wonderful @rom-e-o's post about how their OC would get along with the various versions of Scrooge- go check it out, it's wonderfully written!

Obviously, in my own AU/retelling of A Christmas Carol, Amelie Wilson is Jacob Marley's soulmate and greatest friend (besides Scrooge, of course). But would she be this way with any of the other Marleys from across the different Christmas Carol adaptations I've seen?

Also, just a quick heads-up- she's meeting all of them pre-death.

Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962) version, played by Royal Dano: Well, he seems chill, but judging by that portrait of him we see in Scrooge's office at the beginning of the cartoon, he'd probably scare her away just by looking at her. No thank you. 0/10.

The Stingiest Man in Town (1978) version, played by Theodore Bikel: He isn't really the most attractive man, but at least he's not as scary as the Magoo version. He also has a good singing voice, and judging by his tone during the song, Amelie would probably offer a shoulder for him to cry on frequently. 7/10.

Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983) version, played by Goofy: He does constantly speak of "robbing widows and swindling the poor", but aside from that, Goofy's Marley seems to have had a soft side he'd reveal to only one person, and Amelie (who would also be an anthropomorphic dog- specifically a longhaired dachshund- in this version's universe) would certainly be the one for him to reveal it to. 9/10.

A Christmas Carol (1984) version, played by Frank Finlay: This version seems a little stuck-up, but not so much stuck-up as the 2022 version (more on him later). While Amelie wouldn't want to DATE him, she would probably enjoy sharing tidbits of advice with him. 4/10.

The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) versions, played by Statler and Waldorf: Believe it or not, I actually think they'd be pretty high on the list for her. In the Present scene of my version, the Ghost actually does show Scrooge a vision where Marley and Amelie are cracking jokes about Scrooge just the way that Statler and Waldorf themselves would normally do, so I think Amelie's humor would click perfectly with them (again, she'd also be a Muppet herself in this version's universe). The only problem with them is: Which brother would she date, Jacob or Robert? Maybe both of them at once? 8/10.

A Christmas Carol: The Musical (2004) version, played by Jason Alexander: He's actually the one I got most of the inspiration for my own Marley from, from the talent for singing to the tendency to give massive hugs to those he loves/trusts the most. So of course she'd take to him right away! 10/10.

A Christmas Carol (2009) version, played by Gary Oldman: Hmm, we don't know a lot about what he was like before he died. He doesn't seem to be the guy who would have much of a soft side like Goofy's or Jason Alexander's version, though. She most likely would probably just want to be his friend, if anything. 4/10.

Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (2022) version, played by Jonathan Pryce: Unfortunately, he seems far too snobbish and sassy to want to even interact with a cheery, affectionate girl like her, and I think that feeling of not wanting to interact with each other would be mutual between him and Amelie. Literally the only thing that might even attract her to him is the fact that he's always got Boris, the handsome bulldog, at his side. (Because yes, Amelie loves animals.) 1/10.

So, here's the final ranking:

2004

Mickey's Christmas Carol

The Muppet Christmas Carol

[mrscottdavis]

Filmmaker-A-Month: Terry Gilliam- Day 4

Brazil (1985)

Director: Terry Gilliam Writers: Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, Charles McKeown Cinematographer: Roger Pratt Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro  Seen before: Yes

[dortnumara]

3 Cisim Problemi Dizisi

3 Cisim Problemi Dizisinin Konusu Nedir, Oyuncuları Kimlerdir? 3 Cisim Problemi Dizisinin 2. Sezonu Olacak mı? 3 Cisim Problemi dizisi, Liu Cixin'in Hugo Ödüllü ünlü roman üçlemesinden uyarlanan bir yapımdır ve Netflix'in dikkat çeken projelerinden biridir. Dizi, evrenin uzak uçlarındaki zamanın sonuna uzanan heyecan verici bir hikayeyi ele alırken, 60'lı yıllardan başlayarak derin bir bilim kurgu ve psikolojik gerilim atmosferi sunuyor. 3 Cisim Problemi dizisi, Game of Thrones'un yaratıcıları David Benioff ve D.B. Weiss'in yanı sıra 'True Blood'ın yapımcısı Alexander Woo gibi deneyimli isimlerin katkılarıyla hazırlanmıştır. Bu dizi, izleyicileri bilinmeyen ve keşfedilmemiş evrenlere doğru bir yolculuğa çıkarırken, zekice kurgulanmış bir senaryo ve etkileyici görsel efektlerle büyüleyici bir deneyim sunmayı amaçlamaktadır. 3 Cisim Problemi'nin ilk sezonu, Liu Cixin'in romanından esinlenerek şekillendirilmiş ve izleyiciler tarafından büyük ilgi görmüştür. Dizinin başarısının ardından ise izleyicilerin merakla beklediği sorular ortaya çıkmıştır: 3 Cisim Problemi dizisinin konusu nedir? İkinci sezonu olacak mı? Dizinin konusu, evrenin gizemlerine ve insanlığın varoluşsal sorularına odaklanırken, bilim kurgu tutkunlarını ve genel izleyici kitlesini büyülemeyi başarmıştır. İkinci sezonun olup olmayacağı ise henüz resmi olarak duyurulmamıştır. Ancak, dizinin başarısı ve kitap serisinin geniş kapsamı göz önüne alındığında, ikinci sezonun gelmesi oldukça muhtemeldir. Dizinin oyuncu kadrosunda başrollerde tanınmış isimler yer almakta olup, yönetmenlik koltuğunda ise Derek Tsang bulunmaktadır. İzleyiciler, 3 Cisim Problemi'nin heyecan verici dünyasına adım atarken, bu yapımdan daha fazla heyecan verici bölümler ve derinlemesine karakter gelişimleri beklemektedir.

3 Cisim Problemi Dizisinin Konusu Nedir?

3 Cisim Problemi Dizisinin Konusu Nedir? '3 Cisim Problemi' adlı dizi, 1960'ların Çin'inde, o dönemin karmaşık ve sancılı atmosferinde geçen bir hikayeyi izleyiciyle buluşturuyor. Dizi, Kültür Devrimi'nin gölgesinde, bilim kurgu ve politik gerilimin harmanlandığı bir evrende yer alıyor. Hikayenin merkezinde yer alan baş kahramanımız Ye Wenjie, bir astrofizikçi olarak karşımıza çıkıyor. Ye Wenjie, gizli bir askeri proje kapsamında uzaya mesajlar gönderir. Ancak, bu mesajlar, kendi varlıklarını sürdürmekte zorlanan bir uzaylı medeniyeti tarafından alınır. Bu durum, Dünya'ya yönelik bir işgal planının başlamasına zemin hazırlar. Dizi, bu olaylarla eş zamanlı olarak, Dünya'da farklı görüşlere sahip iki grup arasındaki çatışmayı da ele alır. Bir grup, uzaylı varlıkları ağırlamaya ve onların Dünya'yı ele geçirme sürecine yardımcı olmayı kabul ederken, diğer grup ise bu işgale karşı direnmeyi tercih eder. Bu karmaşık ve zengin hikaye, bilim kurgu severler için oldukça cazip bir seçenek sunuyor. '3 Cisim Problemi' dizisi, izleyicilere uzaylılarla olan etkileşimimizin yanı sıra insanlığın kendi varoluşu ve geleceği hakkında derinlemesine düşündürücü soruları gündeme getiriyor. Bu sayede, dizi sadece bir bilim kurgu macerası olmanın ötesine geçerek izleyicileri farklı bakış açılarıyla düşünmeye teşvik ediyor.

3 Cisim Problemi Dizisinin Oyuncuları Kimler?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkVJYeDKb4k 3 Cisim Problemi | Resmi Fragman '3 Cisim Problemi' dizisinin oyuncu kadrosunda birbirinden yetenekli isimler yer alıyor. Dizinin başrollerinden bazıları Marlo Kelly, Saamer Usmani, ve Jess Hong gibi genç ve yükselen oyuncular olarak karşımıza çıkıyor. Bu genç yetenekler, dizinin heyecan verici atmosferine katkıda bulunuyor. Dizide ayrıca Jovan Adepo, Sea Shimooka, Benedict Wong, ve Tsai Chin gibi deneyimli ve tanınmış oyuncular da yer alıyor. Bu isimler, karakterlerini canlandırırken sahip oldukları derinlik ve ustalıkla izleyicileri etkilemeyi başarıyor. Ayrıca, John Bradley, Eiza González, Liam Cunningham, Jonathan Pryce, Alex Sharp, ve Rosalind Chao gibi isimler de dizinin dikkat çeken oyuncuları arasında yer alıyor. Bu deneyimli oyuncular, karakterlerine getirdikleri derinlik ve performanslarıyla izleyicilerin ilgisini çekiyor ve dizinin başarısına katkıda bulunuyor. Son olarak, Zine Tseng gibi yeni ve keşfedilmeyi bekleyen yetenekli oyuncular da '3 Cisim Problemi' dizisinin kadrosunda yer alıyor. Bu genç yetenekler, dizinin gelecekteki bölümlerinde daha da ön plana çıkabilir ve izleyicilere unutulmaz performanslar sunabilirler.

3 Cisim Problemi Dizisi Kaç Bölüm?

3 Cisim Problemi Dizisi Kaç Bölüm? "3 Cisim Problemi" dizisi, tam olarak 8 bölümden oluşmakta. Bu bölümler, dizi boyunca izleyicilere karmaşık bir hikaye sunmak için özenle planlanmıştır ve izleyicilere uzaylılar, insanlık ve evrenin derinliklerine doğru bir yolculuk vaat etmekte. Her bir bölüm, hikayenin ilerleyişine katkıda bulunurken, izleyicilere heyecan verici ve düşündürücü bir deneyim sunma amacını taşımakta.

3 Cisim Problemi Dizisi Nereden İzlenir

"3 Cisim Problemi" dizisinin ilk sezonu, izleyicilerle 21 Mart 2024 tarihinde Netflix platformunda buluştu. Bu tarih, dizinin yayınlanma tarihi olarak kaydedildi ve izleyicilere Liu Cixin'in aynı adlı ünlü romanından uyarlanan bu heyecan verici bilim kurgu dizisini keşfetme fırsatı verdi. Netflix aboneleri, dizinin bölümlerini kolaylıkla platform üzerinden izleyebilirler.

3 Cisim Problemi Dizisinin 2. Sezonu Ne Zaman?

Dizinin yaratıcılarından David Benioff, ikinci sezon için hazırlıklara başladıklarını duyurmuştu. Ardından, Alexander Woo'un yaptığı açıklamalar dizi için umut vericiydi. Woo, üçüncü kitabın son derece kapsamlı olduğunu belirtti ve diğer iki kitaptan çok daha uzun olduğunu vurguladı. Bu durum, dizinin bir sezondan fazla sürebileceği anlamına geliyordu. İki ya da hatta üç sezona yayılması gerekebileceğini ifade eden Woo, hikayenin tamamını anlatmak için en az üç veya dört sezonun gerekebileceğini düşündüğünü dile getirdi. Bu sözler, dizinin geleceği ve potansiyeli hakkında heyecan verici bir öngörü sunuyor. Read the full article

[boomgers-blog]

En 1977 detectaron una secuencia, la señal WOW… “El Problema De Los 3 Cuerpos”

China, durante la década de 1960. La fatídica decisión de Ye Wenjie, una joven prodigio de la astrofísica, llega a través del tiempo y el espacio hasta un grupo de científicos brillantes del presente. Mientras las leyes de la naturaleza se manifiestan ante sus ojos, cinco excolegas de Oxford se reúnen para enfrentar la mayor amenaza en la historia de la humanidad.

El grupo de los ‘Cinco de Oxford’ está conformado por:

Jin Cheng · Genio de la física teórica con una sed insaciable de respuestas sobre los mayores interrogantes del universo.

Auggie Salazar · Pionera de la nanotecnología, se dedica a resolver problemas reales ahora, no teóricos en el futuro.

Jack Rooney · Grosero, franco y adorable. Utilizó su licenciatura en Física para desarrollar un imperio de botanas.

Will Downing · Profesor de física de sexto año, quien recibe una noticia que le cambia la vida y le obliga a reconsiderar su lugar en el universo. 

Saul Durand · Ayudante de investigación que no ha alcanzado todo su potencial. Cuando se le presente el reto definitivo, ¿lo superará?.

Estreno: 21 de marzo de 2024 en Netflix.

Basada en la trilogía homónima de Liu Cixin, la serie está protagonizada por Jovan Adepo, John Bradley, Rosalind Chao, Liam Cunningham, Eiza González, Jess Hong, Marlo Kelly, Alex Sharp, Sea Shimooka, Zine Tseng, Saamer Usmani, Benedict Wong y Jonathan Pryce.

Dentro Del Episodio: Juicio Final

El elenco atendiendo el estreno mundial de la serie el 8 de marzo de 2024 en Austin, Texas

[thealdersgateoffice]

I love how gentle and comforting Catherine is towards David when she’s taking care of him. She knows he’s confused and “has just had a massive shock”, as she says, and she’s clearly trying to keep him calm and content.

After he kisses her hand thinking she’s Rose, he keeps hold of it and she doesn’t let go - not even when telling Jackson to have a heart - or correct him because she knows it’s bringing him some comfort.

It’s the same when she’s sitting him down after he’s demanding to speak to First Desk and she’s managed to convince him that she’ll get him an appointment. She pats his hand, he reaches for her hands again and she holds his.

She just wants to help and look after everyone 🥺

[mermaidsirennikita]

The Crown S5 review?

Eeeeh I'm still not sure where it ranks for me. For me, the seasons are probably--

Season 2

Season 1

Season 4

and then the last two spots belong to 3 and 5 but I'm not sure what order they're in. It's not a bad season of TV, but it's not up to par for The Crown and I'm not sure why, entirely. Because it had moments, but those moments were not consistent. Frankly, I think they pulled a lot of punches this season, where season 4 was nothing but punch after punch--and I don't get that. Like, why make a season as inflammatory as season 4 was, and then get scared after people react to that...?

Anyway, here are semi-organized thoughts

I Liked:

Elizabeth Debicki's Performance. Though I think Emma Corrin was a perfect 80s-era Diana, Elizabeth was perfectly cast for 90s era Diana. She had the accent down, the mannerisms (looking up from underneath her lashes, the head tilts, the wry smirks), Diana's snarky delivery and sorrow mixed with frustration and yes, vengefulness, along with the sense that she's kind of a good time girl who wants to have fun? One facet of Diana that people overlook is that she was a Sloane Ranger before she married; she married very young; and I found that a couple of the things the show pointed out about Diana (her codependence with her children despite her being a great mom, plus her desire to get out and be a bit messy in her 30s) are very common among women who get into bad marriages and have kids quite young. They experience the shit most of us do in our twenties like a decade later. I thought it was very authentic, and far, far, far better than whatever little girl lost routine Spencer had going on. Basically, the Emma to Elizabeth pipeline gives me Diana perfection.

The Fayeds. The Fayed episode was one of my favorites of the season? The acting was good, the pathos were great, I loved the way you could see Diana genuinely getting along with Mohamed. Plus, that episode had the flashback return of David, and that actor is just... great lol.

Diana and Hasnat Khan. Hasnat Khan is a figure that I think is really hard to fictionalize, but the actors had good chemistry and I really liked that soft little love arc. Even if lol it's gonna lead to one of my complaints.

Diana Being Petty. I'm so tired of victim complex Diana portrayals. Diana had fire and wit and she did go after the royals at points. By no means do I think she wanted the monarchy done for (she wanted the throne for William). But the individuals? Oh, she wanted them annihilated lol. Best scene of the season was her dialing no over and over.

What I Didn't Like:

So Much Miscasting. Look man, anyone who followed up Josh O'Connor giving like... an actual career-defining performance as Charles was gonna have a hard time. Dominic is not a bad actor. But he's not it for Charles, and he knew it. He and Elizabeth lacked chemistry, which took a lot of the tension out of their marriage story scene at the season's end--compare that to Josh and Emma's fight. Josh and Emma had chemistry. It made Charles and Diana's issues even more tragic.

Imelda was also miscast, OR maybe she could've done better with a better script, but like... It just wasn't working. She's a good actress, and the truth is that Liz has had less and less to do after her great personal crisis (her marital issues with Philip) settled in season 2. But like as the season went on I kept waiting for Imelda to inject more into the role, and it didn't happen? And again, I don't wanna blame her, because the writing was just--trying to give her something and giving her very little. But things like Dominic and Imelda both skipping the Windsor accent that everyone else nailed in previous seasons was just weird to me.

Jonathan Pryce I feel was less miscast, but again he had little to do that made sense or mattered; Lesley is a great actress but they gave her like, nothing? And Margaret had shit happening lmao. She had kids to raise, her health was failing (by the end of the season Margaret will be dead in less than 10 years). I get why they did a Peter Townsend retrospective episode, but it was weird to me that that was alll they did for her, and Margaret and Elizabeth's confrontation felt so hollow.

Wasted Time. The pacing and time allocation for this season was SO WEIRD. Look, let's be real fucking honest here. What people wanted from this season of The Crown was the War of the Waleses. They advertised that. It's what we were all looking forward to. And there was really? Relatively little of that. There could've been other family dramas to get into, but they obviously didn't want to (Andrew and Fergie, Anne's divorce). And I think PM knew the War of the Waleses was the big show, and he got scared and swerved at the last minute. It was.... a choice.

And the thing is? Not anything nearly as interesting was happening for anyone else all season. So we got like, Philip palling around with his ambiguous lady friend which caused marital issues that I don't think Philip and Liz had at that point lmao. And they just kinda settled on sorta being discontented in their marriage? Which was weird because elsewhere in the season he was very ride or die defensive of her, and frankly they've seemed comfortable since season 2's end.

We had a whole episode dedicated to THE PRINCE'S TRUST LOL. And like.... yeah, Tampongate, but Tampongate was mostly used to be like "oh look, middle-aged people in love", which has always been the royals' attempts to downplay that lol. And it's like... no it's still pretty weird and he was pretty married, y'all. Having PRINCESS ANNE be like "I think that was rather noble and cool" like lol??? ANNE????? It was just weird, man. And The Prince's Trust is cool for a one off subplot, but to be the backbone of a whole episode???

Then you had shit really rushed and shuffled about at points--the Hasnat Khan subplot just flickered away, the Fayeds were introduced in ep 3 and didn't come back until ep 10.

Toothlessness. Look, PM is not anti-monarchy at all lol. But last season, there was an element of like... scathing cynicism towards the family and the institution, and that by and large was missing here. Except for in some Diana scenes, the Fayeds' complicated relationship with British shit in general, etc. That was really pretty missing here. Charles is progressing it, Camilla is suddenly ready to step up lmao, they're just a family!!! And like.... Not just s4, but all of the previous seasons had a sense of doom about it all that just wasn't here. It felt like the abuses of the family were just sort of washed away.

Which leads to...

Inconsistent Characterization. Some of this may have come from the recasting, but I don't think so? There was an adjustment in s3, but this was different. Charles ended season 4 as this like, borderline monster who's got a terrible relationship with his parents and is really pretty spineless. Suddenly, with very little explanation, he has a spine and is like, actively maneuvering to get rid of his mom and REVOLUTIONIZE THE MONARCHY LOL. Listen man, I'm not saying Charles hasn't had some successful power plays, but uh... they happened pretty recently. His mom being at death's door is what gave him that opportunity. He wasn't there in the 90s. He did not have the capital and Philip was guard dogging her.

As mentioned before, suddenly Philip and Liz are on the rocks again to give them something to do... Anne is suddenly like Team Charles lol. Elizabeth lost a lot of her coolness, and we really like... we know it's a hard time but we don't really see her have that hard time.

And it's not just people who were recast at risk here--John Majors begins the season weirded out by these freaks and at the end is like IT WAS AN HONOR AND PRIVILEGE and I have no idea why lmao. Because he mediated the divorce? Why??? A waste of Jonny Lee Miller, tbh.

And then there was just shit I didn't totally get. Like the Romanov episode. How was that the most graphic Romanov execution I've ever seen? How was that meant to indict the Windsors but then whoops never mind?

So yeah, there were like... moments? But I walked away from it feeling like they came so close to hitting the target and veered at the last minute. I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it and it did feel very different from the previous seasons. I never got that feeling that I was watching The Crown, a show where you get the "DUNNNUNNNNUNNUNUN" music over someone like, mournfully sipping tea and looking out a window, and you go "my god, this is CINEMA". They never earned that lol.

[courtneysmovieblog]

“Another Simple Favor” and more mini reviews

Caught up on some big sequels and other highly acclaimed movies...along with some very new ones that I was just too lazy to see in the theater.

The Two Popes: The friendship between Pope Benedict (Anthony Hopkins) and Jorge Bergoglio aka Pope Francis (Jonathan Pryce). If you loved Conclave, then watch this on Netflix if you haven't already. Not only do Hopkins and Pryce bring their A-game, you also learn a lot about Pope Francis' backstory, and it will make you even sadder than he's no longer with us. And just like with Conclave, I got a kick out of the pope and cardinals drinking Fanta and watching TV shows about dogs.

Avatar: The Way of Water: Just as overrated as the first movie.

Beast: Idris Elba fights a lion. Guess who wins?

Big George Foreman: Meh. I’m still sad he’s gone though.

Gladiator II: Not even Pedro Pascal and Denzel Washington could salvage this. It was so stupid and unnecessary, and Maximus being Lucius' father all along was the biggest ass-pull of a retcon I've seen in my life.

Sonic the Hedgehog 3: Keanu Reeves was fantastic as Shadow. And yes, I did geek out when the movie used the "Live and Learn" music for the climax. Sue me.

Nickel Boys: While the nonlinear style and first-person point-of-view camera filming can throw off some viewers, this was brilliant. It was even more devastating than the book, and it’s a crying shame it didn’t get more attention this awards season.

Love Hurts: Ke Huy Quan can do whatever kind of movies he wants, no matter how silly they are.

Another Simple Favor: Hoo boy, this managed to be even more insane than the original, and that says A LOT.

Nonnas: A wonderful feel-good movie about a Staten Island restaurant with homemade food from real nonnas/grandmothers. Now I want to eat at the real place, but there’s no way in hell I’d order the capuzzelle—look it up if you dare.

[cosmic-navel-gazin]

@dongtopus​ Oh boy oh boy, fasten your seat belt sir!

I’ll just go with the second question first and say: YES! This happens to me all the time! I distinctly remember this one time many years ago that really irked me. I was watching Barry Lyndon and this guy played by Patrick Magee suddenly appears:

Basically the only difference was the placement of the beauty spots. I shook my fist at Kubrick, I was in awe at first but then so pissed for a while that he beat me to it lmao.

Back to the first question, here’s the the first neat faces that popped into my head:

Max von Sydow

Basil Rathbone, I want his smug bastard energy

Speaking of bastard energy, Siân Phillips and Glenn Close

Our man Ian Mckellen

Gael García Bernal put a spell on me and I’ve never been the same since

Javier Bardem (that profile one!)

Jeremy Brett

These three...Omar Sy, Olivia Colman and Toni Servillo... their faces in general, but the million dollar smile just, arghh I want to capture that

“poor lil meow meows” category: Zbigniew Zamachowski  and Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Juliette Binoche

Charles Dance

Roger Hammond, Geoffrey Palmer, Cyril Shaps in   The Madness of King George (1994)

John Hurt and Richard Harris, the last two are of them in The Field (1990)

Philippe noiret and Massimo Troisi, love their contrast in Il Postino (1994) on the last pic

Willem Dafoe

Jonathan Pryce

Rachel Weisz

Peter O’Toole

Peter Vaughan

Daniel Day-Lewis

Rui Rezende, here playing a romantic well-read werewolf in a renown brazilian soap opera: 

The Name of the Rose (1986), the monks there is the gift that keeps on giving for me. I have nothing but love for all the diffferent and excentric looking characters  be it well known actors or lesser known,only appear for a couple of shots figures in the background

Ivan the Terrible (1944) is also a gold mine for tons great and distinct looking faces

I love this fella over here he looks like a small bird of prey

Bonus: Kapellmeister Bonno from Amadeus (1984) played by Patrick Hines. He has the best facial expressions and reactions, every time... I can't take my eyes off him

[clockworkouroboros]

If you could cast anyone to play the Doctor who would you choose? My own choices are John Noble, Jonathan Pryce, Kyle MacLachlan, Gillian Anderson, or Giancarlo Esposito. As for the Master I'd probably pick either Ian McDiarmid or Jared Harris (especially after his performance in Fringe). What about you? Who would you choose in your own opinion to play the Doctor or the Master?

I forgot about this ask and let it sit for ages, so I’m very sorry anon! But here are some fancasts that I’ve been thinking about for awhile. I was reminded of this ask actually as a result of yesterday’s news about Jodie and Chibs leaving, but I’m definitely not speculating on who will replace either.

For the Doctor:

Olivia Colman

But more specifically, Olivia Colman acting exactly like Godmother from Fleabag. Please. It doesn’t matter that she’s been in Doctor Who before, we all know that doesn’t matter.

Sacha Dhawan

Was he just the Master? Yes. Do I want him to continue being the Master? Also yes. Do I think he’d make a good Doctor? Yes. These statements are all coexisting in my brain.

Colin Baker

I just think he deserves a second chance and should be treated better. Also it would be funny.

Jameela Jamil

She’d rock, and we all know it.

Now, for the Master, I do want Sacha Dhawan to stay for awhile—I’m a big big fan of how he played the role, and I loved Spyfall especially, and would love to see more. However, here are some fancasts for when he’s gone:

Michael Sheen

I think he’d be incredible as the Master, and also I think the dissonance of him as Aziraphale and then as the Master would make it funnier. Also then Big Finish could do Ten vs Sheen!Master and make a killing from gomens fans.

Anya Chalotra

She’s great as Yennefer in The Witcher, and I think she’d bring some fantastic flamboyance to the role—not a Michelle Gomez, but another fantastic female incarnation.

Jack Black

I’m right, you cowards.