#Arthur Wilde Parsons

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Arthur Wilde Parsons - Any Old Fairy Tale (1919)

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Any Old Fairy Tale, 1919 by Arthur Wilde Parsons (1919, watercolour on board)

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Arthur Wilde Parsons Any Old Fairy Tale 1919

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Any Old Fairytale, by Arthur Wilde Parsons, 1919

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ARTHUR WILDE PARSONS

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biopics are generally a highly overrated genre imo, but this is a list of people who i would actually be interested in seeing a biopic about:

jack parsons

marianne faithfull

the mitford family

aleister crowley (lmao that shit would be wild)

prince

arthur rimbaud

josephine baker

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ANNIE’S NEW SHIPS | ALL ERAS |

Coming out of my shell… I decided to make a video of my newest ships. Last month for me was filled with kids and this month has apparently been about ships (few are older but don’t yet have video content!). Some of these are side characters and some have a bigger role in my universe, but they all deserve a good amount of love. Also, all these storylines are super interesting and different.

In order:

Jaren Greenaway & Livia Alden @cursed-herbalist FBAWTFT  These two are truly so interesting and I'm loving the juicy story 👀 Still they're so wholesome ❤️❤️

Caiaphas Byrn & Timotheus Malinda @gaygryffindorgal HP Victorian era What is their story? Catch me if you can? Whatever it is I’m in into it and here for it. VampirexVampire hunter is 👌👌👌A new gryffie ship?? You know it's gonna be wild.

Ella Byrn & Siv Arcano-Thorne @kathrynalicemc HPMA/HP next gen Height difference and vigilante meets assassin?? Yes. Both are such; looks like a cinnamon roll, could kill you.

Thane Greenaway & Lucie Cromwell @endlessly-cursed HP Victorian era Them 🥺 They build a beautiful life together and change each other’s lives. And they’re both so damn pretty.

Gillie Beck & Edwin of Alderly @gaygryffindorgal FBAWTFT Another juicy story. Two cutie pies meet, and it’s forbidden love. Absolutely yes!

John Arthur & Shreya Battersea-Parsons @endlessly-cursed HPMA They might not be endgame but damn they are cute while they're together. She's exactly what John needs for his own journey so it was a perfect idea to match them.

Ríoghán 'Boyd' O'Connor & Ottilie Enfield @cursed-herbalist FBAWTFT It's a difficult dynamic to explore but I know we can make it work.

Mina Berker &Timéo Durand @cursed-herbalist HP modern era Ah they have my heart 🥺. Opposites attract and slow burn. Mo is so my type of character and it's like Mina was made for his story. I like having a muggle character for change and it’s nice that she found a wizard boyfriend/baby daddy (ps. I know we have so many ships together at this point, but I wouldn't mind if we had 20 more.)

Twyla Brindlemore & Lincoln Maythorn-Raines @cursebreakerfarrier HPMA I started to make this video before this ship existed, but I had to add a little bit of them to the end. We love a good friends to lovers also weird girl and a jock 😊

 Thank you all for picking my babies! ❤️

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Bonnie and Clyde 1967 by Arthur Penn- WEEK 3

The film I watched this week was Bonnie and Clyde and it was amazing. The film is about a woman named Bonnie Parker who boards as a waitress and runs away with Clyde Barrow falling in love. On their way, they start a violent crime spree throughout the country, stealing cars, robbing banks, and sleeping from house to house. Eventually Clyde gets his older brother and his wife involved in the crimes. This film featured Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, and Gene Wilder. All at the time were very popular. This film came out August 13, 1967 and it was a wild success, particularly with younger people. It cost $2.5 million to make and made $70 million at the box office.

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In The New Yorker article named "Bonnie and Clyde" written by Pauline Kael, she said "how do you make a good movie in this country without being jumped on? “Bonnie and Clyde” is the most excitingly American American movie since “The Manchurian Candidate.” The audience is alive to it." (Pauline Kael) I would have to agree 100% with her, I loved the film so much that if you haven't seen it I would highly recommend you do. It has to be the best Drama/ Crime film I have seen and I'm not the biggest fan of watching movies.

During 1967 there was a lot happening in the world like The Vietnam war that broke out, with about 3.8 million people dying, and 6.3 million survived. The war went on until 1975 and throughout that Martin Luther King Jr. delivered speeches pointing out if we did not stop the war then the world would be left as some horrible, deadly game we played.

Some historical evidence I found for the film is an interview with Arthur Penn the director talking about his success with Bonnie and Clyde. He has also made other films that have gotten him many awards: the top one. At the bottom is an interview with Warren Beatty on his film in Bonnie and Clyde.

In the end I loved the look of the film for the time it was made, at some points you could see some silly mistakes like a door was opened then it was shown in the next scene being closed and at times the quality dropped or was too fuzzy. Its general type of story was romance, drama, and crime. Its style was an American biographical neo-noir crime film. I think some scenes that stood out to me are when someone got hurt or shot, the way that the fake blood looked kind of made me laugh because it was either too light of pink or too red. Finally I think the film was Conventional because of how much money was spent for it, it was based on the real Bonnie and Clyde, they had known actors, and the audience could see and understand the events and the characters’ motivations.

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Any Old Fairy Tale

Arthur Wilde Parsons (1854-1931)

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Juillet MMXXII

Films

Elvis (2022) de Baz Luhrmann avec Austin Butler, Chaydon Jay, Tom Hanks, Helen Thomson, Richard Roxburgh, Olivia DeJonge et Luke Bracey

Some Came Running (1958) de Vincente Minnelli avec Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Martha Hyer et Arthur Kennedy

Compartiment tueurs (1965) de Costa-Gavras avec Yves Montand, Jacques Perrin, Catherine Allégret, Pierre Mondy, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Simone Signoret et Charles Denner

Astérix : Le Domaine des dieux (2014) d'Alexandre Astier et Louis Clichy avec Roger Carel, Guillaume Briat, Lorànt Deutsch, Laurent Lafitte, Alexandre Astier et Alain Chabat

Les Figures de l'ombre (Hidden Figures) (2016) de Theodore Melfi avec Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst et Jim Parsons

L'Africain (1983) de Philippe de Broca avec Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Noiret, Jean-François Balmer, Jacques François et Jean Benguigui

Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) de Taika Waititi avec Chris Hemsworth, Tristan Hemsworth, Christian Bale, Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson et Taika Waititi

Au bout du conte (2013) de Agnès Jaoui avec Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Arthur Dupont, Agathe Bonitzer, Benjamin Biolay et Nina Meurisse

Le Fantôme du Bengale (The Phantom) (1996) de Simon Wincer avec Billy Zane, Kristy Swanson, Treat Williams, James Remar, Catherine Zeta-Jones et Patrick McGoohan

Les Dalton en cavale (1983) de Morris, William Hanna, Joseph Barbera et Ray Patterson avec Jacques Thébault, Roger Carel, Pierre Trabaud, Jacques Balutin et Pierre Tornade

Tous à l'Ouest (2007) d'Olivier Jean-Marie avec Lambert Wilson, Clovis Cornillac, Alexis Tomassian, Christophe Lemoine, Bernard Alane et François Morel

Les Amants du Capricorne (Under Capricorn) (1949) d'Alfred Hitchcock avec Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding et Margaret Leighton

ARCA (2022) de Germain et Robin Aguesse avec Gilles Graveleau, Clémence Verniau, Gilles Arbona et Emmanuel Rausenberger

Astérix chez les Bretons (1986) de Pino Van Lamsweerde avec Roger Carel, Pierre Tornade, Graham Bushnell, Serge Sauvion : Jules César et Pierre Mondy

La Chatte sur un toit brûlant (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) (1958) de Richard Brooks avec Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives et Judith Anderson

Le Seigneur des anneaux (J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings) (1978) de Ralph Bakshi avec Michel Caccia, Jean Davy, Serge Lhorca, Bernard Dhéran et Georges Poujouly

Signé Furax (1981) de Marc Simenon avec Bernard Haller, Roger Carel, Jean-Pierre Darras, Michel Galabru, Paul Préboist, Jean Le Poulain et Michel Constantin

Séries

Le Coffre à Catch

#79 : CM Punk, MVP du catch ? J'CROIS PAS NAN ! - #80 : Bonne Année de Catch + Balls a disparu = ECW - #81 : Grosse Ambiance, C'est la Maladie, On a l'intro ! - #82 : Kofi Kingston : les Débuts Historiques !

Affaires sensibles

29 septembre 1957, l’accident nucléaire de Maïak ou le silence atomique soviétique - 10 juillet 1976 : La catastrophe de Seveso - 11 Septembre, l'avant (1) - Le 11 septembre 2001, le jour qui a changé le monde (2) - 9/11, l'après : la guerre contre la terreur (3)

Columbo Saison 13

Une étrange association

Commissaire Dupin

Les secrets de Brocéliande

The Grand Tour Saison 4, 3

The Grand Tour présente… Seamen - Spéciale Colombie : Première partie - Spéciale Colombie : Deuxième partie

The Rookie Saison 4

La vie et la mort - Cinq minutes - Dans la ligne de feu - Chaud bouillant

Spectacles

Jazz à Ramatuelle : Hugh Coltman (2018)

Henry Mancini and Friends (1980)

Livres

Les dents de la mer de Peter Benchley

Fairy Tail : Tome 1 de Hiro Mashima

Elfes, Tome 1 : Le Crystal des Elfes bleus de Jean-Luc Istin, Kyko Duarte et Saito

Kaamelott, Tome 6 : Le Duel des Mages d'Alexandre Astier, Benoit Bekaert et Steven Dupré

Astérix, Tome 16 : Astérix chez les Helvètes de René Goscinny et Albert Uderzo

Lucky Luke, Tome 24 : La Fiancée de Lucky Luke de Morris et Guy Vidal

La cage aux souvenirs de Pierre Mondy

Les aventures de Tintin, Tome 8 : Le Sceptre d'Ottokar d'Hergé

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Arthur Wilde Parsons Any Old Fairy Tale (1919)

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Privateers tied up at Hungroad in Bristol in the early 19th century, by Arthur Wilde Parsons (1854–1931)

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Bonnie and Clyde (1967); AFI #42

The next film that we covered for the group was the period true- crime drama, Bonnie and Clyde (1967). It is the story of the notorious Barrow gang, led by Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, during the American Great Depression. This film features a cavalcade of some of Hollywood's biggest actors including Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, and Gene Hackman. It is supposedly quite accurate because some of the witnesses and even a couple of the gang members of the actual crimes were still alive during the production of the film. Actress Estelle Parsons won Best Supporting Actress for he portrayal of Blanche Barrow, which I would like to comment on. I also want to speak a little to the accuracy of the story, but first I want to spoil the plot of the film.

SPOILER WARNING!!!! I AM GOING TO REVEAL THE WHOLE MOVIE SO I CAN COMPARE TO WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT THE ACTUAL HISTORY!!! THE MOVIE AND THE REAL LIFE STORY WILL BE SPOILED COMPLETELY!!! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!

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In the middle of the Great Depression, Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) and Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway) of Texas meet when Clyde tries to steal the car belonging to Bonnie's mother. Clyde had spotted Bonnie hanging out in her room naked from the heat, and she spotted him watching her and was intrigued by the danger. Bonnie is bored by her job as a waitress, which Clyde correctly guesses, and decides to take up with him and become his partner in crime. They pull off some weak crimes including a bank heist at a location that has been hit by the depression and there is no money. Clyde actually makes the teller come out to the escape car and tell Bonnie what the deal is and she just laughs at the situation.

The pair find an extra man in a worldly ignorant but mechanically inclined gas station attendant named C.W. Moss (Michael Pollard). Clyde apparently has a way with words because people just join him for no real reason besides being bored. Clyde's older brother Buck (Gene Hackman) and his wife, Blanche (Estelle Parsons), a preacher's daughter, also join them. The two women dislike each other at first sight because Bonnie thinks that Blanche will ruin their fun (she does) and Blanche believes that Bonnie is evil and wants to get rid of her (she does). Keep in mind while watching this that Estelle Parsons won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for this portrayal.

Bonnie and Clyde turn from pulling small-time heists to robbing banks since they now have a full gang. Their exploits also become more violent when C.W. comically botches a bank robbery when he sees an open parking spot and decides to parallel park. He can't get out of the space quickly and he delays their escape, forcing Clyde to shoot the bank manager in the face when he jumps onto the slow-moving car's running board. The gang is pursued by law enforcement, including Texas Ranger Frank Hamer (Denver Pyle), whom they capture and humiliate by taking his photo and setting afloat on a little dingy on a nearby river.

The group likes to switch out cars because they treat the getaway vehicles very rough. When they are seen stealing a car by its owner, a young man named Eugene Grizzard (Gene Wilder) and his girlfriend Velma Davis (Evans Evans), the robbed couple attempt to follow the stolen car. The gang stops and takes the couple hostage in the chase car and even pull over to get some burgers. They let the couple go when they find out they are in their 30s (too old apparently) and find a roadside stop. A raid later that night catches the outlaws off guard, mortally wounding Buck with a shot to his head and injuring Blanche so she can't see. Bonnie, Clyde, and C.W. barely escape alive. With Blanche sightless and in police custody, Hamer tricks her into revealing C.W.'s name, which they use to find any safe places where the remaining gang might go (until then, C.W. was only an "unidentified suspect").

Hamer locates Bonnie, Clyde, and C.W. hiding at the house of C.W.'s father Ivan (Dub Taylor), who thinks the couple have corrupted his son (as evidenced by an ornate tattoo that Bonnie convinced C.W. to get). The elder Moss strikes a bargain with Hamer: in exchange for leniency for the boy, he helps set a trap for the outlaws. When Bonnie and Clyde stop on the side of the road to help Mr. Moss fix a flat tire, the police in the bushes open fire and riddle them with bullets. Hamer and his posse come out of hiding and look pensively at the couple's bodies as a nearby flock of swallows fly away.

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This film stood out as it was a comical version of the super violent gangster films that were popular in the 30s. Storywriters David Newman and Robert Benton wanted to punch up the violence with a romantic undertone so they sent the script to French New Wave director Francois Truffaut for contributions. Warren Beatty was visiting Paris and heard about the project then decided he wanted to produce the picture. He was going to have his sister, Shirley MacLaine, play the roll of Bonnie until he decided that he was going to play the part of Clyde. That would have been really awkward, so he tried find a lead actress that he could have a romantic scene with. Many actresses were approached and Faye Dunaway was eventually chosen for the part.

Beatty decided that they needed an American director and offered that job to a plethora of established directors in Hollywood and finally landed on Arthur Penn even after he turned down the position multiple times. What it all comes down to is that not a lot of people wanted to be part of this production. It was considered somewhat of a risky art film at the time because of the questionable sexuality of Clyde and the heavy violence.

So what was so risky? Looking at films that were made only a few later, this seems rather tame. This film came out just a little before the MPAA was established and the writers had been influenced by the French films that didn't have the same restrictive film rules that were present in the United States. It was originally proposed that Clyde be played as bisexual, but the script eventually called for him to be more asexual. The real Clyde Barrow had been sexually assaulted in prison so he would have been scarred by that experience and might not have been interested in Bonnie in that way. This depth into a character's sexuality had generally been avoided in American cinema before this film and there was concern about audience reactions. They shouldn't have worried because the movie was a sleeper hit, eventually making $75 million on a $2.5 million budget.

The number of graphic murders actually shown on screen (especially when Clyde shot a guy in the face who jumped on the car during a get away) was unprecedented at the time. There was also some dismay by critics about the portrayal of Bonnie as sleazy and the whole gang as somewhat stupid. These were a bunch of uneducated folks that grew up in a time when it was more important to find a job. They were smart enough to avoid capture for years, which is shown in the movie, so they had to have some sort of intelligence.

There is a little bit of an elephant in the room with this movie and it involves the historical accuracy. The dates and crimes are well documented and a lot was known about the characters when the movie was produced. However, a major part of the movie was speculation and fabrication about the personalities in the gang. The characters that were based on living people at the time were actually the least accurate as C.W. Moss was a fictional person based on two different gang members (one who was still alive) and the actions of Blanche Barrow were based on a different member of the gang. The real Blanche Barrow lived until the 1980s and famously complained that Parsons's portrayal "made [her] look like a screaming horse's ass!" Parsons is the one the went on to win Best Supporting Actress.

This film was much more enjoyable for me on second watch. The first viewing left me hating the character of Blanche and I wondered if there was some sort of conspiracy to get that actress an Oscar. On second view, I realize that she was necessary to be a foil to the gang. There had to be a weak link in the chain and the audience knew that she would be the downfall of the group. Her presence made the police encounters all the more intense because there was this crazy wild card that could ruin everything at any time. It really adds a touch of comedy along with a bigger element of suspense. She is annoying, but enjoyable, and the people around her react to her behavior in a realistic way, so I appreciate what the character brings to the table.

I would highly suggest looking into the real life of Bonnie and Clyde along with the whole Barrow Gang because they took major advantage of the Great Depression banks, but not so much the suffering people. To some, the members of the Barrow gang were considered celebrities or even heroes because they were getting back at the banks that had mishandled so many people's money. I started my search off with this nice article on the Encyclopedia Britannica site and dug deeper to find out more about the connections between the real people and the film:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bonnie-and-Clyde-American-criminals

So does this film belong on the AFI top 100? I absolutely think so. It has some connections to French New Wave, but it is American directed with American actors and it tells the story of some of the most notorious criminals in American history. It is also a very good film that won Oscars and was a box office success. Bonnie and Clyde are part of Americana and were almost the equivalent of a Robin Hood character to many at the time. Would I recommend this film? I would. Keep an eye out for the Blanche character because she can be annoying, but know she serves a purpose and the movie is not all about her. The connection between Bonnie and Clyde is epic and has influenced a lot of American films, so enjoy it for the cinematic quality, the history in film, and the history of the United States.

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💗 i would like a list of all 3 million potential pairings please 🙈

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[fetus-cakes]

after seeing that post on Arthur Schopenhauer and how everyone including his mother found him to be an insufferable twat, I looked up up on wikipedia out of curiosity. 

Turns out the guy is both one of the early proponents of eugenics (and since was an influential philosopher it’s not a stretch to say he gave credence to the idea) BUT ALSO he strongly opposed the slavery of black people.

“...he condemned "those devils in human form, those bigoted, church-going, strict sabbath-observing scoundrels, especially the Anglican parsons among them" for how they "treat their innocent black brothers who through violence and injustice have fallen into their devil's claws". The slave-holding states of North America, Schopenhauer writes, are a "disgrace to the whole of humanity"

He also incorporated into his philosophy the idea that white people are not “natural” in the sense that none of the earliest humans were white, and this variation in skin colour appeared much later than the dawn of humanity and civilization. That’s rather wild for a white German man in the mid-19th century, I gotta say.

I guess everyone has multitudes