#count olaf

[mackmaxkmacs]

Once again these kids are way better than me because if I had lost both of my parents in a fire, been hunted for months, and then was given hope that there was a chance one was alive !!!!!!!!! Just for it to be goddamn Quigley Quagmire ?????

[bigmilkymantatas]

Just saw someone point out that Sunny Baudelaire probably knew more about Olaf than her own parents

[fanonical]

count olaf? easy. there's only one of him

[villiarty]

A Series of Unfortunate Events | 1.02

[wakkass]

No matter how much time passes, I'll still periodically return to the universe of ASoUE and draw something.

And recently I had an epiphany. I remembered the final credits of the movie (2004), and I somehow wildly wanted to see such a cartoon. I think that ASoUE are ideal for adaptation in animation, especially in the style of these very credits.

This inspired me to draw their world literally out of paper. I imagine cutout animation where everything is intentionally made out of paper, cardboard, wallpaper and other materials that burn easily 😏

Thanks to Alice for the animation style examples

The Baudelaires are children's drawings on scraps of book pages. Olaf is a doll from a paper puppet theater. Aunt Josephine consists of calligraphic elements, and Esme is made of clippings from fashion magazines. And so on.

I also imagine how the logic of the world adapts to the material from which it is made. For example, paper gets wet and swells when in contact with real water, and cut things can be glued together with glue or tape, if you find them between the pages.

In general, I would like to develop and think about everything that is shown in the credits further. Imho, this is a very creative visual and a fresh basis for interpreting events

[anisaftz]

Violet projecting her period cramps onto Olaf

[astheworldgoesonitswickedway]

This is vaguely disturbing ASoUE information but if I have to live with it in my brain, so do you. (insert diabolical laughter)

In the Carnivorous Carnival, Violet finds her ribbon in Count Olaf's pocket. (In his coat from the trunk) She theorizes he must have taken it when he prepared her for surgery. Now this idea is bad enough. That's disturbing already isn't it? Well, I have been informed that Violet was mistaken. That would be completely understandable, considering the chaos, but she was drugged on top of that. Anyway, here is the thing. Last we saw that ribbon, it was part of the set of fake keys in Hal's possession. Which, if I am remembering correctly, he holds out on display during the scene in the operating theater. So. This means Olaf not only decided to keep her ribbon, he went to such lengths as to steal it. I’m assuming he ran across Hal at some point between that scene and getting in the car. But agh, he was really like, "Hey give me that?" Like, the building is on fire and this is his priority? We know he is a trophy taking villain, he has their parents lion's head on his wall. But still. That's some dedication. I'm just saying, it is both creepy and disturbing. So there.

[paintedwingz]

count olaf? more like CUNT olaf

[cryst-c4stles]

30 Days of ASOUE

Day 2- Favourite episode.

The Penultimate Peril 1 & 2, the best episodes of the the entire show. The line between good and evil completley blurs, the setting and plot twists are GENIUS, and the whole script and characters are perfectly written out. Its also where we meet Frank, Ernest and Dewey (my favourite siblings of the show).

[miss-alice-evelynn]

With how manic Netflix cancels shows these days it's frankly a goddamn miracle we got a full adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events.

[juniperhillpatient]

As a huge fan of the books I think part of why Netflix A Series of Unfortunate Events is so successful is that it does something that requires a VERY delicate balance & that’s getting Count Olaf right. Like this scene right here? This is Book!Olaf at his scariest.

The show leans heavily into the over the top comedy of Olaf & I think that makes perfect sense in a visual medium utilizing an actor like Neil Patrick Harris to show Olaf’s over the top theatre obsessed personality with musical performances & outlandish visuals like his crazy costumes.

But unlike the Jim Carey movie which relied SO heavily on Carey’s comedic & over the top style that it forgot the emotional heart of the story, the show never does that.

Even when Olaf is at his most ludicrous, he’s still terrifying. Even at his most idiotic he still has power over the much more intelligent Baudelaires. The show never loses sight of that from the very (bad) beginning & that’s a huge reason why it works.

Getting that balance of morbidly hilarious & absolutely terrifying (& even vaguely tragic but we’re not there yet we’ll talk about that if I get that far this rewatch) is SO so crucial to getting Olaf & thus the entire tone of the series right.

[beatricebidelaire]

[veryfashionabledesigns]

I'm like a year late for this meme but Count Olaf would absolutely make a ukulele apology video

[tarragonthedragon]

i think if the Baudelaire children had pretended to be fooled by one of Olaf's disguises immediately he would have been so thrown he would have outed himself on the spot

[villiarty]

A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS (2004) dir. Brad Silberling