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rizonacigaravenue · 5 years ago

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Assign A Song : Tower of God

This is 100% self-indulgent. I love assigning songs to characters, so let's go 👉✨

1. Season 1 Bam

Ikuko Kawai - White Legend

A rendition of Swan Lake Op 20 Act 2 no 10 Moderato Scene with a twist of Japanese style music. Something about S1 Bam's state of blissful, innocent ignorance about the world and fear of loneliness just reminds me of white swans flocking on a serene lake beneath the moonlight 😔🙏✨

2. Jue Viole Grace

Kalafina - ARIA

"The future without you in it

Has just begun

yet the lantern you gave to me

lit a nameless light inside my heart

throughout this neverending darkness"

For me, this song is about loneliness after you have came to understand what it feels to finally not be lonely anymore. That feeling when you know that you have to go on only with fragments of dreams and memories the other person gave to you. The wailing voice that the main vocal uses during this song (especially in this live version) makes it sounds like she's crying out her loneliness and it just reminds me of that scene of data viole in the hidden floor 😭

3. Season 2 Bam

Jennifer Thomas - The Fire Within

This piano piece is all about discovering....your fire within. To discover your innate power, to go back to who you are. At least that's what this song makes me feel; which strongly resonates to Season 2 Bam who wanted to understand who he really is, to tap into his own power within.

4. Season 3 Bam

Nightwish - Ad Astra

Finding the right song for Season 3 Bam is the hardest because... I don't know, I don't feel like I can really understand him. But for me, he seems to be more grounded and in touch with his purpose, free from self-destructive patterns and limiting thoughts. It's as if everything has come full circle. Seeing him sometimes reminds me of watching the sun rises while riding a horse into the horizon -- free, purposeful, and in peace. Hence why I chose this song for him!

5. Khun Aguero Agnis

Raul Di Blassio - Otoñal

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What lies between winter and summer, ice and fire? It's autumn, hence "otoñal". The piece starts off with cold tunes frozen to the bones but then picks up pure fire and passion, especially towards the end, which reminds me of how Khun has a lot of emotions and thoughts behind his strong facade.

6. Rachel

Kajiura Yuki and Emily Bindiger - aura

"if you are near to the dark, i will tell you about the sun

you are here, no escape, from my vision of the world

knowing the song, i will sing till the darkness comes to sleep

come to me, i will tell about the secret of the sun

you will cry all alone, and it doesn't mean a thing to me

it's in you, not in me

but it doesn't mean a thing to you

the sun is in your eyes, the sun is in your ears

i hope you'll see the sun somewhere in the darkness

it does not much matter to me"

Oh. How this song is so Rachel. This song depicts how the singer loathes the other person because they have things that the singer doesn't (aka "the sun") yet the other person doesn't hold the gift to significance, and how the singer says that they doesn't care how will the other person be doing. But in the same time, the singer also doesn't want the other person to go away from their "vision of the world", depends on them, and also secretly cares for them, even though the singer's negative feeling outweigh the positive.

7. Jinsung Ha

Tears for Fears - Cold

"The coldest shoulder cast in metal frozen to the bone

To rely on hook, line and sinker, what a sinker sinking like a stone

You'd be better off alone

She saw me on the television underneath the sun

Thought that I was warm like mother, lover, brother, brother, she was wrong

Me, I don't long to belong

Cold, been excommunicated 'cause I'm cold

My temperature's been rated and I'm cold"

Jinsung just sounds like 80s 90s prog rock, that's the utmost first reason why I assigned this song to him. Also the depiction of the singer being a man who seems warm and adored by people due to his warmth and charisma, yet is actually cold, yet is actually crave for warmth just screams Jinsung in a way.

-songs for the rest of the characters will be incoming!

#Spotify #tower of god #twenty fifth bam #jue viole grace #havilahsselfindulgence #khun aguero agnis #jinsung ha #tower of god rachel

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majortomiscominghome · 6 years ago

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Oh fuck, was tagged by @coldwarriors to show 10 songs I've been listening to then tag 10 people!

So here's some I've been listening to lately

When I Was Done Dying by Dan Deacon

Shadows On My Wall by The Poppy Family

Hiroshima Mon Amour by Ultravox

Steal Your Bones by Electric Six

Fire, Water, Earth & Air by Julie Felix

Cast No Shadow by Brown Bird

Strange Overtones by David Byrne

White Witch Of Rose Hall by Coven

All Hail Dracula! by Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin

With The Dark by They Might Be Giants

Uhh I tag (if you wanna)

@bisopod @audreyhornekin @funkynfat @lowkey-collins @sweetlikejello @officialscud @treehouse-of-horror @needsmoreexplosions @catsforartists @tmbgflood @pyotr-verkhovensky @monopuffstan

And anybody else who wants to do this!!

#shout shout let it all out

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genesis-creation · 3 years ago

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Banished from the Garden of Eden

Adam and Eve are casted out of the Garden of Eden. It is not written to express the intensity of their sentencing. Within the film, I am looking for melodrama and theatrics to emphasize the wrath of God. God assigns the punishments to Adam and Eve. I want drama for the moment God says, "Now that the man has become like one of us,16 knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” This line, accompanied by the crescendo and blaring brass in this arrangement will do this scene justice.

#Spotify

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godswalkwithher · 3 years ago

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Tagged by @best-beelieve ♡♡♡♡ (welcome back, by the by!)

Shuffle your playlist and list the first 10 songs then tag 10 people! ♡

(I have like 30 playlists, so just using my “liked songs”)

Sister Christian - Night Ranger

Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone - Rockapella

Come Sail Away - Academical Village People

Sneaky Snake - Tom T. Hall

Man With the Hex - The Atomic Fireballs

1812 Overture - Pyotr Ilyich Tcaikovsky

Gone Away - The Offspring

Blunt the Knives - The Dwarf Cast

Mysterious Ways - U2

Billy The Kid - Chris LeDoux

Tagging in! @tinycosmicangel @systlin @shyomission @lonerofthepack @garrettauthor and whoever else wants to play (since it seems tumblr did that thing where it unfollows half of everybody)

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spooky-brandon · 5 years ago

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Awesome Trailer For Russian Flick ‘Sputnik’:

A pretty bad-ass trailer has drooped online for a creature feature out of Russia titled ‘SPUTNIK’ the film will land on VOD in North America on August 14th, via IFC Midnight.

In case you didn’t know: The lone survivor of an enigmatic spaceship incident hasn’t returned back home alone—hiding inside his body is a dangerous creature. His only hope: a doctor who’s ready to do whatever it takes to save her patient...

Sounds pretty cool huh?

Cast: Oksana Akinshina, Fedor Bondarchuk, Pyotr Fyodorov, Anna Nazarova, Anton Vasilev, Albrecht Zander, Vasiliy Zotov.

Written by Oleg Malovichko, Andrei Zolotarev and Directed by Egor Abramenko.

Trailer gets 8 out of 10 severed thumbs

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7/21/2020

#horror #movies #russia #ifc

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swan-archive · 8 years ago

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neither Alana @youbuiltcathedrals or Hannah @the-everqueen tagged me in that “list 10 songs you’ve been listening to lately” meme, however both of them made the rookie mistake of ending their own posts with “do this if you wanna!” so you all get to sit through my self-indulgent text posts as i pretend y’all care about my mediocre and frequently obsessive music taste!

you did this, Alana. you did this, Hannah. both of you have done this to us.

“The Abduction,” Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 Original Broadway Cast (frankly, this entire list could be picks from the obcr, but i’m gonna exercise like...the BAREST scrap of self-control here, which i’m sure you’re all grateful for)

“King of Carrot Flowers Pts. 2 & 3,” Neutral Milk Hotel

“Dread in My Heart,” Mother Mother

Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23: I. Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso - Allegro con spirito, Pyotr Ilyich Chai Cow Ski (as i’m told you can render the Cyrillic however best pleases you, and this pleases me), performed by Martha Argerich

“Tchaikovsky’s Child’s Song,” Preludes Original Cast

“It Won’t Be Long Now,” In the Heights Original Broadway Cast

“Fool,” Fitz and the Tantrums

“I’m the One,” DJ Khaled feat. Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper, Lil Wayne (and before any of you make any smart comments, this song has been stuck in my head since May and if anyone has any tips on how to exorcise it i would greatly appreciate them. save my ass from this sinfully catchy hook. i want to die.)

“He Mele Inoa O Kalakaua,” Mark Keali’i Ho’omalu (or “He Mele No Lilo” if you’re lookin’ at the Lilo and Stitch soundtrack, but like, let’s give it its proper name, shall we?)

“POWER,” Kanye West

tagging @stardust-rain, @likeniobe, @philly-osopher, @sidleyparkhermit, @sharkodactyl, and as always, whoever would like an excuse to share their Tunes with the world!

#swan talks #oh yall. i'm so sorry for how bad this is. please unfollow at your leisure

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2700fstreet · 6 years ago

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BALLET / 2018-2019

LE CORSAIRE

STUDENT GUIDE

WORKING REHEARSAL

MARIINSKY BALLET

With the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra Original Choreography by Marius Petipa Reconstructed choreography (1987) by Pyotr Gusev Music by Adolphe Adan, Cesare Pugni, Léo Delibes, Riccardo Drigo and Pyotr Oldenburgsky Libretto by Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Joseph Mazilier and edited by Yuri Slonimsky and Pyotr Gusev

School Show: April 9

Teacher and Parent Guide: Le Corsaire

Before the curtain rises, a little history…

Whether or not you’ve touched a tutu or performed a plié, you’ve surely heard of Marius Petipa’s (pronounced PET-ee-pahs) ballets. Does Swan Lake ring any bells? What about Sleeping Beauty? And that holiday classic, The Nutcracker! But here’s the oddest thing: Petipa—born in France—is considered the “Father of Russian Ballet.” How’d that happen?

When Petipa arrived in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1847, he was considered just an “okay” dancer. Decades later, however, he had successfully danced his way up the ladder at the Russian Imperial Theatre. To celebrate this famous choreographer, the Mariinsky Ballet performs Le Corsaire (COUR-sair, The Pirate). Set on an island in Greece, this ballet is filled with exotic characters, a shipwreck, treachery, romance, betrayal, and a boatload of pirates!

About that pirate ballet…

The story of Le Corsaire was loosely adapted from Lord Byron’s poem of the same name. The first production was choreographed by Joseph Mazilier in 1856, but Mariinsky’s version is a reconstruction of Marius Petipa’s choreographic revival about 10 years later.

Now here’s the interesting part: Petipa didn’t just choreograph one production of Le Corsaire. He actually revived it four times—each time adding more pas (pronounced pah, incidental dance variations that don’t necessarily forward the plotline or character development). This shouldn’t come as a big surprise since Petipa was famous for developing the form of the grand ballet—a multi-act production with a fully-developed plot, pantomime acting, and lavish sets and costumes. And you’ll soon see that Le Corsaire absolutely fits that definition.

Who’s Who

Main Characters

Conrad, Birbanto, and Ali: shipwrecked pirates Medora: the most beautiful woman on the Greek island Gulnara: Medora’s friend Lankedem: an evil slave trader Seid Pasha: a rich sultan

So, What’s Going On?

Prologue: The Shipwreck Three corsairs (“pirates” in French) struggle to save their boat during a storm. Their efforts fail and the boat sinks.

Act I

Scene 1: The Sea Shore Shipwrecked on a Greek island, the corsairs named Conrad, Ali, and Birbanto are saved by a group of young women. If found by the Turkish patrols, the men will be in immediate danger. The women decide to hide them as one of the women, Medora, falls in love with Conrad. Meanwhile, Lankedem, an evil slave trader, is pillaging the Greek coast in search of women to seize and sell. The women successfully hide the corsairs but are captured by Lankedem’s men.

Caption: Mariinsky dancers are renowned for their impeccable technique and their focus on storytelling. Credit: Viktoria Tereshkina in Le Corsaire by Valentin Baranovsky ™ State Academic Mariinsky Theatre

Scene 2: The Slave Market From his powerful throne in the marketplace, the sultan Seid Pasha is eager to add young women to his harem. Lankedem is equally enthusiastic to fill the sultan’s wish and sells Medora’s friend Gulnara to him. Then, just as Medora is brought in, another bidder enters the market area—the pirate Conrad in disguise. When Seid Pasha confronts Conrad, the other corsairs throw off their cloaks, seize the evil Lankedem, and rescue the women. The Seid Pasha is furious at the useless Turkish patrol.

Caption: Pas (incidental dance variations) are common in Petipa ballets. While these dance variations might not move the plot forward, they still help the audience better understand the characters. Credit: David Zaleyev in Le Corsaire by Natasha Razina ™ State Academic Mariinsky Theatre

Act II: The Corsairs’ Cave The corsairs cheer the rescued women as well as the money they stole from the sultan. In celebration, Medora dances with Conrad and his friend Ali. The other women, however, express to Medora their desire to return home to their villages. Birbanto wants the women to stay, but Conrad is convinced by Medora to take the women home. Lankedem watches this conflict grow between Conrad and Birbanto. In exchange for his freedom, he offers Birbanto a sleeping potion. The plan is for Birbanto to pour the potion on a bouquet of flowers and give it to Medora. Medora passes the flowers to Conrad to thank him for his chivalry. Conrad falls asleep as Lankedem abducts Medora and he escapes the cave.

Caption: Medora is considered the most beautiful woman on the island; her movements are graceful and virtuosic. Credit: Oxana Skorik in Le Corsaire by Natasha Razina ™ State Academic Mariinsky Theatre

Act III: The Seid Pasha’s Harem Lankedem brings Medora to Seid Pasha’s harem, where he eagerly buys her from the slave trader and celebrates his new prize in his “garden of beauties.” Suddenly, mysterious pilgrims enter the palace and are invited to join the evening prayer. But Medora recognizes the visitors to be the corsairs, once again in disguise. The pirates surprise attack Lankedem’s patrol and Conrad saves Medora once and for all.

Epilogue Medora, Conrad, and their friends sail toward their next adventure.

Check This Out…

Everything about this production is grand—from the spectacular sets and ornate costumes to the challenging choreography and large cast of dancers. The intricate plot calls for such grandeur, but it is also a famous quality of the Mariinsky company itself. Let’s take a closer look at what makes this production so impressive.

What to Look for:

SETS The sets in Le Corsaire feature spectacular backdrops, curtains, and panels that set the scene without taking up the dancers’ real estate on the stage. There are a couple of scenes (including the slave auction) where there is a small platform on stage. But for the most part, the stage is wide open. This allows for a large number of dancers to be on stage and for them to perform dynamic, traveling choreography. This is particularly noticeable in the opening of Act II where the corsairs and women are celebrating.

Caption: A scene inside the elaborate cave setting. Credit: Viktoria Tereshkina & Andrei Yermakov in Le Corsaire by Valentin Baranovsky ™ State Academic Mariinsky Theatre

COSTUMES The costume design in Le Corsaire fuses Eastern-inspired apparel like harem pants and intricately wrapped stomach baring tops, with more traditional ballet apparel and accessories, including grand tutus and leotards and tights. Both the men and the women are dressed from head to toe. Headpieces and hats, facial hair and wigs, jewelry, and specially crafted shoes all reinforce characterization in Le Corsaire.

Caption: The costumes in Le Corsaire are extremely detailed and ornate—from the dancer’s headpiece and hairstyle to the pattern on her shoes. Credit: Olga Belik in Le Corsaire by Natasha Razina ™ State Academic Mariinsky Theatre

Caption: The costume design fuses traditional ballet tutus and pointe shoes with more Eastern inspired apparel. Credit: Renata Shakirova & David Zaleyev in Le Corsaire by Natasha Razina ™ State Academic Mariinsky Theatre

CHOREOGRAPHY Le Corsaire features both virtuosic choreography as well as elaborate pantomime. In fact, the character of Conrad initially didn’t dance at all—he only acted through pantomime.

Pay attention to the height of their jétes (zhuh-TAYS, jumps), intricate pirouettes (peer-WET, whirls or spins sequences), and effortless athleticism. Additionally, the corps de ballet (core duh bah-LAY, dancers in a company that perform as a group) demonstrates its unity of style.

Caption: Years of training allows this dancer to travel through the air with amazing flexibility and height, making this difficult jump look effortless. Credit: Philipp Stepin in Le Corsaire by Natasha Razina ™ State Academic Mariinsky Theatre

Additionally, Mariinsky dancers have distinguished themselves for their beautiful port de bras (pawr duh BRAH, technique of moving arms gracefully) and epaulement (ay-pohl-MAHN, placing of the shoulders and head). This meticulous attention to expression, fluidity, and detail gives a sense of aristocratic elegance.

Caption: The corps de ballet often works as a backdrop to the principal dancers. Credit: Renata Shakirova in Le Corsaire by Natasha Razina ™ State Academic Mariinsky Theatre

The female dancers don’t always wear pointe shoes. They perform the more folkloric choreography in character shoes with a short heel.

Pantomime is a major element of Le Corsaire. It often helps to set the scene but is also incorporated into much of ballet choreography. For example, watch how Seid Pasha’s movements and gestures tell much about his intentions. Another dramatic moment of pantomime is when Conrad smells the bouquet of poisoned flowers at the end of Act II.

What to Listen for:

The score for Le Corsaire is a hodgepodge of tunes from many ballet composers, the result of scenes added over many years by Petipa. The “legend” is that ballerinas would often demand “a special solo” be added whenever they entered a production. Over time, each favorite solo became part of the standard version. In fact, ballets like Corsaire, (which didn’t start with a strong central score like Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty), were often subject to these kinds of musical additions.

Listen closely. Some music seems more Eastern Greek-inspired with accents from tambourines and flutes while other compositions sound like they may have come from another ballet like Swan Lake or The Sleeping Beauty.

What to Think About:

Le Corsaire has been performed internationally for over 250 years. Why do you think it remains so popular?

How is Le Corsaire similar to ballets you might have seen in the past? Can you make a list of qualities common among Petipa’s ballets or other classical ballets?

“Seeing a ballet” means more than simply watching dancers dance. A ballet is a total theatrical production with all parts working together, from the sets and costumes to the music and choreography. Think about how seeing Le Corsaire has changed your perception of ballet.

Let’s Talk About Shoes

In Le Corsaire, the ballerinas perform in both pointe shoes and heeled shoes. For some background info, here’s a bit of history behind the evolution of the ballet shoe.

Ballet and pointe shoes might seem inseparable today, but the art of ballet actually came about 200 years before ballerinas began dancing on their tiptoes. The Royal Academy of Dance was founded in France by King Louis XIV in the mid-seventeenth century. While ballet was practiced all throughout Europe, this Academy helped codify the language of the art form (which is why ballet terminology is in French). As ballet grew out of the social court dances, both male and female dancers wore heeled shoes (as you’ll see many dancers wear in the start of Act II). As you can imagine, heels inhibited a lot of movement. The heel was “dropped” in the early eighteenth century; the more formal shoe allowed for greater articulation of the foot (think of demi-pointe/soft ballet slippers that we have today).

By the late eighteenth century, choreographers began experimenting with wires and harnesses to elevate dancers from “mortal to ethereal.” Dancers also began stuffing their shoes with padding to get higher and higher on relevé (reh-luh-VAY, a raised body). Soon after, alterations were made to the shoes themselves to make this toe work more possible. The pointed-tip shoes were swapped with a sturdy front platform, or a layered fabric “box” to encase the toes, and a stiffer (but silent) sole. What we consider “modern day” pointe shoes are even stronger and sturdier than those early versions.

Surprisingly, the pointe shoe has remained relatively unchanged over the past 200 years despite the increasing demands of modern ballet dancing. A professional ballerina can wear up to 120 pairs of pointe shoes in a year and will often “alter” her shoes depending on a particular role (breaking them in more or stiffening them to last longer). Dance shoe companies provide the pointe shoes—the tools for the art—but it is often the dancer’s responsibility to mold and shape the shoes to fit her needs (and to care for her feet with tape, toe pads, etc.).

Learn more about the pointe shoe with this ARTSEDGE resource.

Take Action: Tell Your Story

Classical ballets were generally based off well-known fairy tales, fables, and folklore. Some examples are The Sleeping Beauty, Romeo and Juliet, and Swan Lake. Le Corsaire follows this model in the story elements of a shipwreck, a sleeping potion, and a happily-ever-after ending.

Think of a well-known story you especially enjoy—anything from the Three Little Pigs to Spider-Man. Either by yourself or with a group of classmates or friends, tell your story through movement using choreography and/or pantomime. Like a game of charades, communicate your tale without speaking. If you choose to present your work to your class or family, see if they can guess the story you’ve chosen to tell.

EXPLORE MORE

Go even deeper with the Le Corsaire Extras.

Top Photo: Le Corsaire by Valentin Baranovsky™ State Academic Mariinsky Theatre

Writer: Mary Callahan

Content Editor: Lisa Resnick

Logistics Coordination: Katherine Huseman

Producer and Program Manager: Tiffany A. Bryant

David M. Rubenstein Chairman

Deborah F. Rutter President

Mario R. Rossero Senior Vice President Education

Support for Ballet at the Kennedy Center is generously provided by Elizabeth and C. Michael Kojaian.

International Programming at the Kennedy Center is made possible through the generosity of the Kennedy Center International Committee on the Arts.

Major support for educational programs at the Kennedy Center is provided by David M. Rubenstein through the Rubenstein Arts Access Program.

Kennedy Center education and related artistic programming is made possible through the generosity of the National Committee for the Performing Arts.

#ballet #lecorsaireat2700f

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awkwardpenguinproductions · 5 years ago

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1) Lieutenant Kije Suite Symphonique, Op. 60: I. Birth— Sergei Prokofiev

2) Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner— Fall Out Boy

3) Laughter Lines— Bastille

4) A Much Needed Breath Before the Movement Entire— Jeremy Siepmann, Classics Explained: Stravinsky-The Rite of Spring

5) Lake Effect Kid—Fall Out Boy

6) The Sleeping Beauty, Ballet, Op. 66: Act III: The Wedding: 26. Pas de Caractere— Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky—Moscow RTV Symphony Orchestra & Vladimir Fedoseyev

7) But It’s Better If You Do— Panic! At the Disco

8) Hurricane-- Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton & Lin-Manuel Miranda

9) Dragon Racing— John Powell—How to Train Your Dragon 2 (Music from the Motion Picture)

10) Hava Nashira—Josh Nelson Project

A pretty good snapshot of my own preferred music-- I tend to save the classical stuff for studying or other instances of deep concentration, #4 reflects my love of “behind the scenes” stuff (the album it’s from is basically a bar-by-bar breakdown of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, which is my FAVORITE piece of classical music), #9 is from the massive playlist I made to listen to while working on my equally massive How to Train Your Dragon/Brave crossover fanfic, and #10 reflects my interest in Jewish music.

tagging @iswear-thecatdidit, @casual-plague, @ruelukas22, @calming-calamitea, @captainkirkk, @muffinlance, @thegayallen if y’all are interested!

rules: we’re snooping on your playlist. put your entire music library on shuffle and list the first 10 songs then choose 10 people.

1. Paprika — Kenshi Yonezu

2. Geronimo — Sheppard

3. Lover — Taylor Swift

4. Wasted Daylight — Stars

5. Heartlines (ft. Meadowlark) — EMBRZ

6. Spanish Sahara — DOLKINS

7. Talk — Khalid

8. Let It Go — James Bay

9. Shima Uta — Hiroko Shimabukuro

10. Seagulls (stop it now!) — Bad Lip Reading

This is honestly a pretty good mix of the kind of shit I listen to? A little pop, a little bit of indie shit, a little jpop, a little bit of Yoda singing about seagulls...what else could anyone want?

Tagging @awkwardpenguinproductions and @flameo-hotman if they wanna do it.

#tag game #playlist tag game #of course I haven't actually LISTENED to a lot of this in a hot minute #oh well #maybe I'll redo this with stuff I actually listen to #why did I delete the automatic Top 25 played playlist?#penguin you dork

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love-midnight-sunshine · 5 years ago

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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Language: Russian (Eng-Sub)

IMDb Ratings: 6.1/10

Quality: WEBRip

Movie Size: 720p (796MB), 1080p (2.08GB) (5.1)

Director: Egor Abramenko

Movie Cast: Oksana Akinshina, Pyotr Fyodorov, Anton Vasilev

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Sypnosis: The lone survivor of an enigmatic spaceship incident hasn't returned back home alone-hiding inside his body is a dangerous creature.

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placetobenation · 6 years ago

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Fantasia

Release Date: November 13th, 1940

Inspiration: “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Budget: $2.28 million

Domestic Gross: $76 million

Worldwide Gross: $83 million

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94%

IMDB Score: 7.8/10

Storyline (per IMDB): Disney animators set pictures to Western classical music as Leopold Stokowski conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra. “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” features Mickey Mouse as an aspiring magician who oversteps his limits. “The Rite of Spring” tells the story of evolution, from single-celled animals to the death of the dinosaurs. “Dance of the Hours” is a comic ballet performed by ostriches, hippos, elephants, and alligators. “Night on Bald Mountain” and “Ave Maria” set the forces of darkness and light against each other as a devilish revel is interrupted by the coming of a new day.

Pre-Watching Thoughts: We now move onto a very interesting piece in the Disney film canon and that is Fantasia, not so much a film as it is basically a concert with animation. This is a film that I can say that I have never seen in its entirety as I have only seen “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” and nothing else. I am curious as to how this film manages to hold up especially after how great Snow White and Pinocchio ended up being, but I have a feeling I might be in for a bit of a letdown though hopefully I’m proven wrong.

Voice Cast: So in a break from tradition, we have no voice acting as the film was mainly music pieces set to animation, but we did have a host for the event which was composer Deems Taylor who does a good job in setting the scene for each piece. We also hear briefly from the conductor of the orchestra Leopold Stokowski who speaks briefly with Mickey Mouse after “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”. Finally, we do have history made here as Walt Disney himself makes an appearance as the voice of Mickey Mouse when he congratulates Stokowski for his work. While this would be the least amount of talking in any of the Disney films, it worked out since it was more about the music.

Hero/Prince: N/A

Princess: N/A

Villain: While we don’t have a hero or a princess for this film, we actually do have a villain in the film and that is the evil Chernabog who appears in the final piece “A Night at Bald Mountain”. During the piece, we see the Chernabog summoning the spirits of the dead and they roam throughout the sky until the coming of day and the ringing bells return the spirits to their slumber and the Chernabog to its place in the mountain. As a result, the Chernabog is not one of the major villains in the canon though his presence in the film is enough to cause numerous nightmares. I do want to make an honorable mention as well to the T-Rex in “The Rite of Spring” as he does battle with and ultimately kills a Stegosaurus, but he will not be included in the main list of villains.

Other Characters: This is an interesting category for this film because we have various segments throughout the film and the characters included were confined to their specific segment. We of course have the icon of Disney himself, Mickey Mouse make his official film debut as the apprentice to the sorcerer Yen Sid along with the broom that Mickey brings to life and the numerous brooms that materialize out of the remains of the destroyed brooms. We also have the various creatures that are featured in their respective segments which help the animations keep moving through the pieces, and while the focus of the film was on the music the animations were the perfect compliments to these pieces.

Songs: Now as opposed to other films which have songs that are sung, this film features some classic musical pieces from various ballets and works from some of the most influential composers in history. We kick things off with “Toccata and Fugue in D Minor” by Johann Sebastian Bach and segue into “The Nutcracker Suite” by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, and then we have “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” by Paul Dukas and “The Rite of Spring” by Igor Stravinsky before going into the intermission. After a brief jam session and a demonstration of the soundtrack, we continue on with “The Pastoral Symphony” by Ludwig Von Beethoven and “Dance of the Hours” by Amilcare Ponchielli. We then close out the film with “A Night on Bald Mountain” by Modest Mussorgsky and “Ave Marie” by Franz Schubert, and this was a unique collection of music that did well complimenting each other.

Plot: This is pretty interesting as well as there really was no central plot for the film and it was just a collection of musical pieces that were coupled together with animations. Now a funny note is that “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” was originally set to be a short in the same vein as the Silly Symphonies as a way to help rebuild Mickey Mouse’s popularity. Ultimately, the budget was growing too big that a simple short would recoup it so the decision was made to make this into a full-length feature film including the other pieces featured in this film. In this short, Mickey is an apprentice to the great sorcerer Yen Sid and after he retires for the night, Mickey decides to put on his hat and bring a broom to life so it can get the buckets of water Mickey is supposed to get. It works briefly until Mickey can no longer control the broom and tries to destroy it with an axe, but multiple brooms spawn out of the remains and continue to fill the room with water until Yen Sid returns and sets everything right. Realizing the error of his ways, Mickey returns the hat to Yen Sid and walks away with the buckets with Yen Sid giving him a push with the broom as punishment. While the short would’ve worked by itself, being in this setting was fine and it would end up being the most memorable segment from the film as the image of Mickey with the hat on would become part of Disney lore in the years to come.

Random Watching Thoughts: I wonder what people were thinking when the film started and the first thing they saw was the orchestra taking their place; First film to not have an opening card or even credits; Did they film this in front of a live audience because we don’t hear a lot of crowd chatter; I also wonder how much this orchestra got paid to do this film; What kind of name is Deems Taylor?; It is interesting that this is considered part of the animated canon since it is a mix of animations and live action; The animation for the first song was really well done even though it was just a random sequence; It is funny that Tchaikovsky detested the Nutcracker Suite and it ended up being his most popular piece; It is weird hearing the Nutcracker Suite and not seeing anything related to the actual Nutcracker ballet or even Christmas; According to one of the animators, the Three Stooges were used as inspiration for the dancing mushrooms; Considering that there was a scene later in the film that caused a lot of controversy, I’m surprised the dancing mushrooms weren’t called out as a potential stereotype against Chinese people; Kudos to the animators for doing a great job matching the choreography to the music perfectly; The goldfish in the Nutcracker Suite looks like it was modeled off of Cleo from Pinocchio; How naïve is Mickey to think that Yen Sid’s powers came completely from his hat and not from years of work?; Of all the things to bring to life to help you, why would you pick a broom?; Mickey got pretty cocky with his ability so it shouldn’t come as a surprise what happens; It is fairly interesting that Mickey’s debut on the big screen in a film involves no dialogue during the short; Mickey learns the important rule about magic in that it’s all about being able to control; How many brooms were able to materialize out of the shards of the broom Mickey destroyed?; Shouldn’t the water be flowing out of the window when it reaches it?; Where did those whirlpools come from if they are in an enclosed room?; Of course, Yen Sid is such a badass that he can cause all the water to disappear in such a short time, but where did all the brooms go?; It was cool to see Mickey appear with the conductor after the short ended; So to fill time, they had the chimes fall apart and cause a scene even though it was pretty humorous to see; The Rite of Spring was apparently supposed to feature the early days of humanity, but reportedly creationists threatened action because of their beliefs; I wonder if the scene where the water overcame the volcano was an inspiration for Roland Emmerich’s “2012” when the water rushed over the mountains; The scene where the dinosaurs are being chased by the T-Rex is a pretty terrifying scene and of course the slow Stegosaurus would be the one he catches; How thick is the T-Rex’s skin because you would think the Stegosaurus’ giant spikes would pierce right through and kill him?; Considering there is only one T-Rex, wouldn’t the other dinosaurs help the Stegosaurus instead of just watching the T-Rex kill him?; It is weird hearing the upbeat music in between the shots of the Stegosaurus dying; It is interesting that they depicted the dinosaurs going extinct due to the lack of resources when the common theory is an asteroid hitting the Earth wiping them out; Did we really need an intermission and I wonder if it really was 15 minutes in the theaters because it wasn’t that long in the Disney+ version; Very rare to see the title card in the middle of the film; It was pretty cool to hear the orchestra do a jam session and to see how sound is rendered through visual film, but it does kind of bring the film’s momentum to a halt; It was pretty risqué for an animated film to have the female centaurs originally be bare chested before having something covering their breasts; Even more controversial was that there were black female centaurs acting as servants to the white female centaurs though that was cut out of future airings including the Disney+ version; I feel bad for that poor unicorn that has to carry Bacchus; Why is Zeus so upset that he crashes the party and has Vulcan throw down lightning bolts, was he not invited to the party?; Only in a Disney film can they bring together ostriches, hippos, elephants, and alligators to act out a comic ballet; So the 1940s had a bunch of ostriches fighting over a thing of grapes while the 2010s had a group of Minions fight over a banana; Those must be the most light-footed hippos if they are able to keep that sort of balance on their toes; That must’ve been an extremely strong gust of wind to blow all those elephants away; If the T-Rex was terrifying, the Chernabog is the stuff that nightmares are made out of; This last scene is so creepy yet so disturbingly beautiful in terms of the animation coupled with the ominous music; For as powerful as the Chernabog is, it is weird that it simply takes the tolling of bells and the coming of day to put him and the demons to rest; How many monks are there walking through this forest?; It is pretty unsettling to see a film just end without closing credits.

Overall Thoughts: Overall, this ended up being a pretty solid film though unfortunately it was a step down from the previous two films. While the film was not actively bad as the music was really good and the animations were beautifully done, it does seem like this film requires a certain taste since it is not like the rest of the films in the Disney canon. It almost feels like the film is in its own category apart from the rest of the canon since there is no real story and it is just a collection of animations coupled to the music. Considering that this was just supposed to be a simple short that was changed to a full-length film, Disney did a good job in making this film and a lot of credit goes to the animators who worked on the film. These next few years are going to be an interesting time for Disney as we inch closer to World War II, but we do have two films to get too before we get to that period of time. As for Fantasia, it is a pretty solid film though again it is a bit of an acquired taste to enjoy otherwise you might find yourself a bit bored even with the beautiful animations.

Final Grade: 6/10

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