#man of a thousand faces

[mudwerks]

(via 13: THE PEE-WEE HERMAN SHOW / Reubens-Callner Productions - 1981)

Pee-Wee using the Hugo doll to hypnotize an audience member...

[chernobog13]

Lon Chaney Sr., the Man of a Thousand Faces, shows off his make-up box between takes while filming The Phantom of the Opera (1925).

[balrog-slayer66]

Lon Chaney, Sr., the master with his makeup box.

[glittergroovy]

Man of a Thousand Faces - Regina Spektor

[muttonchopsalley]

Today marks the 95th anniversary of Universal's "partial sound" re-release of the classic "The Phantom of the Opera". This is a fan reconstruction.

[just-sp-in-inginthevoid]

What is tragic with Verso (not the painted one) is that. he's haunting the story through and through. His ghost is present everywhere. He is everywhere. The story revolves around him and what he left behind. The lingering fragments of his soul his family refuses to let die and join him to the grave, so much that they end up bastardizing it. Painted Verso isn't Verso but how Aline perceives her son in her mind. He Who Guards Truth With Lies/the Mask Keeper isn't Verso but how Renoir perceives his son in his mind. The Young Boy isn't quite Verso either. He's what is left of him, but mostly what he was as a kid when the painting was first painted. The Verso who died wasn't a child, he had lived more, he had changed. Sure, he still loved his dogs and his plushy and his trains but he was far more than that, and he was also someone who escaped being understood and known, who could be genuine and sincere but who still put on a lot of masks and appearances. I don't think he was unknown but he sure is for the players. You can only get to know Verso through others or through the little that remains of him from - mainly - when he was a child. The only clear scene and knowledge we have of him is from just before he was taken by the fire - he's trying to comfort his little sister as fire surrounds them, most likely ('you're okay' sounds clearly like a lie in this situation too) - the only knowledge we have of him is that he's dead (he died and his likely last words were a lie - a comforting lie, but one nonetheless.). He died protecting his sister. It's his only line. The Young Boy is both Verso when he was young and that version that has to deal with the consequences that his own(ish) death brought. A fragment whose memory is fading and that has to suffer his family's grief. He wants to have fun and laugh and be with his sister. He doesn't remember her name. He falls silent each time. His cinematic has him only paint, unable to talk. What's left of Verso wants to be at peace, to be at rest finally. The only thing we know of Verso is that he's dead and unknowable. He was a musician. I'm going to scream.

[fighting-naturalist]

the Iconic Face Journeys™ of "Full Circle"

[barbie0303]

"It´s not something I want for you"

"My dad was worried about that for me, too"

Invincible S1 Ep08/S2 Ep05

[astranauticus]

Director of the False Last Act

[thegoodmorningman]

Feeling stressed out? Shut up about that. Good Vibes Only!!! Good Morning!!!

[citizenscreen]

Remembering Lon Chaney, born on April 1, 1883. #botd "The Man of a Thousand Faces"

[chronicowboy]

buck pulling out of that hug like

[hi-heaux]

Obsessively

Will Graham x Cocteau Twins

[bromcommie]

Local Man Completely Unchanged by and Definitely 100% Fine with and Lucid About All Recent Developments. No the Lighting is Not Indicative of Anything Whatever Do You Mean

[bertrei]

The bertholdt hoover fandom is dying rt if youd wipe the sweat from his brow like if youd give him a warm glass of milk

[topaz-mutiny]

I feel like every time I hear "Bells Hells broke their word", there's this omission or forgetfulness (and I get it; this campaign feels like it took forever and it's easy to tune out conversations that feel circular and unending) that Bells Hells knows that if the Raven Queen and the Arch Heart were forced to comply by the rest of their family, the Divine Gate would be rent asunder and there would be a second Calamity in order to wrench things back to the status quo – that being the gods are all safe and protected and no one knows about Predathos.

The only reason it didn't happen already was the gods had hope Bells Hells would kill Ludinus (which they did); if Ludinus had defeated Bells Hells then the Gods would have immediately busted down the Gate and commit another Calamity in order to stop him... but the Raven Queen and the Arch Heart made it sound like the Second Calamity would happen regardless of who won, and all because the knowledge of Predathos the GodEater, their most feared predator, was out there.

But, Ludinus disseminated that information across all of Exandria, and there's been information exchange between Ruidians and Exandrians. The only way to take that information back would be to kill all the Ruidians AND kill every single Exandrian, just to be sure. Wipe the slate clean. Start over. Destroy every magical and non-magical record, including the people.

There would be no bargaining with the gods without Predathos, for they are too strong and would have no reason to listen. Any parley of "can you Gods leave forever, or can we leave the Hallowed Cage alone or have Vasselheim turn Kreviris into a military-religious controlled state colony" (that's a Bad Thing) would be met with "or we just kill the entire planet and moon so the information is guaranteed to be lost and there can be no more attempts at freeing Predathos". The Prime Dieties would grumble about it, but they would still go through with eradicating the mortals they love because they prioritize themselves and their Betrayer siblings more than mortals. We have proof of that.

I feel like the Gods broke the social contract first. If we want to point fingers at someone breaking their word, they should be included as well.