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Lady Sybil’s Costumes [7/?]: 01x02

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COSTUME APPRECIATION Lady Sybil Crawley, Downton Abbey

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Aesthetic of the languages on earth : Dutch

Dutch is a Germanic language spoken by 30 million people over Netherlands and the Flanders. It is an official language in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname.

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Aesthetic of the languages on earth : English English is a Germanic language spoken by 750 million speakers, over Europe, North America, Oceania and as the world as a second language. It is an official language in Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Eswatini, Fiji, Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Malta, Mauritius, Namibia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States of America, Vanuatu, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

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Aesthetic of the languages on earth : French

French is a Romance language spoken by 76.8 million people in francophone countries. It is an official language in Belgium, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guinea, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland and Vanuatu. It is also spoken in specific regions like French Polynesia, Louisiana, Wallis and Futuna...

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Sometimes a show can be made so specifically for me...

(French women, 1914, how life changes during wartime. Currently on Netflix. I'll report back.)

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Knowing Kyle Adams played Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day at Paramount Aurora and now Grantaire in Les Misérables on tour proves his range as the loveable but responsable dad/big brother character and I love it.

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Some commissions I made

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Sisi (2021) + Costumes

Elisabeth of Austria's white night gown & dressing gown in Season 03, Episode 02.

// requested by @hauntedkaiserin

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Sisi (2021) + Costumes

Elisabeth of Austria's white dress in Season 03, Episode 03.

// requested by @hauntedkaiserin

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Sisi (2021) + Costumes

Elisabeth of Austria's white, silver & yellow dress in Season 03, Episode 03 & 04.

// requested by @hauntedkaiserin

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Casablanca is widely remembered as one of the greatest films of all time, coming in at #2 on the AFI’s top 100 list and similarly regarded by many other critics. You can quibble with its exact rank, but it’s at least undeniable how iconic Casablanca remains. Even now, more than 70 years after its 1942 release, few movies have ever produced as many enduring quotes.

But when I think of the film, the first thing that comes to my mind isn’t “Here’s looking at you, kid,” or “We’ll always have Paris,” or the song “As Time Goes By,” or any of the other often best-remembered parts. For me, it’s always “La Marseillaise” — the dueling anthems between French refugees and their German occupants singing “Die Wacht am Rhein.” I’ve never found a movie scene yet that can match it. So now, at a time when people are once again turning to “La Marseillaise” for comfort in the face of adversity, I wanted to revisit what makes this scene so powerful.

The scene marks a major turning point in the film. Directly preceding this scene, the bar owner Rick (Humphrey Bogart) refuses to give or sell letters of transit to the war hero/revolutionary Victor Laszlo (Paul Heinreid). The letters of transit are the only hope of freedom for Victor, and his only chance at returning to his efforts at insurgency against the Nazis; Rick knows this, but is still too hurt and bitter that his lost love Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) has chosen Victor over him. Rick’s refusal is essentially a Nazi victory, despite his careful attempts at framing his (in)actions as simple neutrality. The Germans, led by Major Strausser (Conrad Veidt), have established a de facto control over Casablanca, acting through the openly self-interested French Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains).

After “La Marseillaise,” everything changes. The uneasy stalemate between Victor Laszlo and Major Strausser can no longer continue in the face of such open defiance of German power. Strausser orders Renault to find a pretense to shut down Rick’s — leading to arguably the film’s best exchange of dialogue. Strausser uses Ilsa to increase the pressure on Victor. Everything kicks into gear, as now Rick, Ilsa, Victor, and Louis are all forced into unpleasant decisions that will push the film toward its climax. X

Morgan note - I've watched Casablanca more times than I can recall. Each time this scene comes on, I respond in the same way. 😢

On edit: The scene also completes Yvonne's character arc:

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Knowing Kyle Adams played Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day at Paramount Aurora and now Grantaire in Les Misérables on tour proves his range as the loveable but responsable dad/big brother character and I love it.

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This kiss was adorable but LET ‼️HIM‼️INFODUMP‼️

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Count Andrássy Gyula and Empress Elisabeth of Austria in Sisi (2021– )

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Dominique Devenport and Jannik Schümann as Empress Elisabeth and Emperor Franz Joseph in new stills from the third season of Sisi (2021).