#Miles Davis Quinte

[tragedy125]

My take on The Turning.

Yes, I will say that Miles Fairchild and Peter Quint are two completely different people (because they are). I remember Mrs. Grose saying that Miles used to be a good kid, that he never got in trouble (I’m assuming). He began to change though when he became friends with Quint, getting drunk with him and such. Miles even went as far as wearing Quints clothes because they were friends OR Quint wanted to be able to wear his own clothes when possession Miles to feel like himself.

Nobody was there to tell Miles he couldn’t be friends with Quint and even if someone did he probably wouldn’t have listened because he was born into privilege and only cared about what his family thought. Cue Mrs. Grose saying “the other boys have always been jealous of Miles.” The people are supposed to respect him for doing shit things, and yes that’s a horrible way to be raised, but it happened but that’s not why he’s the way he is.

Most of the actions/words we see/hear him saying/doing are Quint taking over because Miles was his friend and Miles is going to trust a friend. Quint was a fucked up alcoholic, lunatic that r*ped and killed the previous caretaker. I saw a theory where it said Quint, after he died, would live out his death by possessing Miles to continue his infatuation with any other caretakers that came around. We see him do this with Kate on MANY occasions.

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Two of the Same Story

For my birthday, I got the movie The Turning.

This stars Mackenzie Davis.

Kate Mandell takes a job as a nanny for two young orphans at an isolated Gothic mansion in the Maine countryside. She soon learns that the children -- Miles and Flora -- are emotionally distant and unstable. When strange events start to plague Kate and the siblings, she begins to suspect that the estate's dark corridors are home to a malevolent entity.

Thing is, it's based on Turn of the Screw... just like Bly Manor is. That has me hesitant to watch it only because as much as I love Mackenzie Davis, I love the Bly Manor story and romance between Dani and Jamie. For starters, in The Turning, there is no Jamie. There's Quint, Jessel, Hannah Grose, and the kids, but no Jamie. It's also more of a horror take on the story, which is cool, but I'm still stuck at NO JAMIE.

Yes, Mike Flanagan created Jamie's character. Having played twins in Hill House and grown so close then, both Oliver and Victoria weren't big on playing lovers and Mike wasn't sure audiences would go for it having first seen them as siblings. Oliver Jackson Cohen also has said that since Hill House was Victoria's first job after graduating, he sort of took her under his wing and was very protective of her. That probably would have also made a romance seem convincing. Anyway, thank god for Amelia Eve as Jamie Taylor, but it'll impact seeing a different version.

Maybe I'll just have to watch Bly Manor immediately afterwards??? Hmm... that's probably what I'll do.

A young governess is hired by a man to look after his niece and nephew at their family country house after they fall into his care. Soon after arriving at the Bly estate, she begins to experience strange occurrences and a grim history starts to unravel.

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The Haunting of Bly Manor Cast: Where You’ve Seen the Actors Before

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There’s a simple answer to where you’ve seen most of 2020’s The Haunting of Bly Manor‘s cast before: in 2018’s The Haunting of Hill House. Writer-director Mike Flanagan has a resident company of actors with roles across several of his horror projects, as shown by the significant crossover between these two Netflix series alone. Victoria Pedretti, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Henry Thomas and Katie Parker are just some of the familiar faces appearing in Flanagan’s new Henry James-inspired spooky series Bly Manor. And here’s what else this bunch is known for on screen.

Henry Thomas – Henry Wingrave

Thomas’ most famous role came at the age of 10 when he played young lead Elliott in Steven Spielberg’s 1982 blockbuster E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (see his terrific audition tape here). In recent years, Thomas has been a frequent collaborator with writer-director Mike Flanagan, playing the young Hugh Crain, father to the five Crain children and husband of Olivia Crain in Flanagan’s The Haunting of Hill House. He also appeared in three of Flanagan’s feature films, Ouija: Origin of Evil, Gerald’s Game and Doctor Sleep, as well has having recurring roles in FX comedy Better Things and Stargirl.

Amelie Bea Smith – Flora Wingrave

Nine-year-old Amelie Bea Smith already has three significant roles under her belt. As well as her terrific performance as Flora Wingrave in Bly Manor, she’s also the current actor to voice cartoon character Peppa Pig (a huge deal in the UK), having taken over the role from her predecessor earlier this year. Before Smith took on that mantle, she had a recurring role in long-running BBC One soap EastEnders, playing Arshad and Mariam’s foster child Daisy.  

Benjamin Evan Ainsworth – Miles Wingrave

Ainsworth, the little genius behind Miles Wingrave will soon be seen alongside Alyson Hannigan, Ben Schwarz, Danny Pudi and more in Disney+ feature film Flora and Ulysses, the story of a girl and a squirrel with magic powers. Previous to Bly Manor, he also appeared in short film The Recycling Man and a 2018 episode of British soap Emmerdale.

Victoria Pedretti – Dani Clayton

Pedretti made a real impression as the adult Nell Crain in Mike Flanagan’s The Haunting of Hill House. Nellie was a sufferer of sleep paralysis and haunted throughout by ‘The Bent-Neck Lady’, if you remember. She and her twin brother Luke were the youngest of the five Crain siblings. Pedretti also played hippy Lulu, a member of the Charles Manson Family in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, and played major character Love Quinn in the second season of Netflix’s stalker-thriller You. She can soon be seen as Katherine in the Elisabeth Moss-starring Shirley Jackson biopic Shirley.

T’Nia Miller – Hannah Grose

Miller’s had roles in several Russell T. Davies projects, starting with Cucumber and Banana, and last year leading to the major part of Celeste in Davies’ BBC One future-set family drama Years and Years. She’s recently appeared in Netflix’s Sex Education as head of the school board Maxine Tarrington, and has popped up in a great many British TV shows including Marcella, Born to Kill, Hatton Garden and 2015 episode of Doctor Who ‘Hell Bent’.

Rahul Kohli – Owen

Kohli is best recognised around these parts as Medical Examiner Dr. Ravi Chakrabarti in The CW’s iZombie. A major character in the comic book-inspired horror-fantasy, Kohli appeared across the series’ five seasons, which kept him busy from 2015-2019. He’s also appeared in a couple of episodes of Supergirl as Lena Luthor’s ex, Jack Spheer. Along with Kate Siegel, Henry Thomas and Alex Essoe, he’ll next appear in Mike Flanagan’s forthcoming haunted island series Midnight Mass.

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Oliver Jackson-Cohen – Peter Quint

Unforgettable as Luke Crain in The Haunting of Hill House, British actor Oliver Jackson-Cohen’s biggest recent film role was as the titular lead aka Adrian Griffin in Leigh Whannell’s 2020 remake The Invisible Man, opposite Elisabeth Moss. He’s already had a full career on British TV, with early roles in cosy period dramas Lark Rise to Candleford and Mr Selfridge, as well as playing Prince William in 2011 TV series William and Kate: Happily Ever After. In the US, Jackson-Cohen played Jonathan Harker to Jonathan Rhys-Meyers’ Dracula in the NBC series of the same name. He also popped up as Lucas in Emerald City and will soon be seen in the Maggie Gyllenhaal-directed The Lost Daughter.

Tahirah Sharif – Rebecca Jessell

If you’ve seen Netflix’s A Christmas Prince and its unstoppable raft of sequels, you’ll recognise Sharif as Melissa, a friend to and former co-worker of lead Amber. Before that, she played the regular role of Carrie Norton in BBC One school drama Waterloo Road and Ella, Ash’s daughter on long-running British medical drama Casualty.

Matthew Holness – Dominic Wingrave

Comedian-writer-actor Matthew Holness has  appeared in Friday Night Dinner, Toast of London, Year of the Rabbit, Back, Life’s Too Short and Free Agents, but he’ll only ever be associated with one role for this site’s readers: dreamweaver Garth Marenghi of Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace fame.

Alex Essoe – Charlotte Wingrave

Before she took on the role of Wendy Torrance in Mike Flanagan’s Doctor Sleep (the same character memorably played by Shelley Duvall in Kubrick’s The Shining) Alex Essoe had a string of low-budget horror flicks to her name. She’s now part of the Flanagan rep company, and will be following up her Bly Manor role with a recurring part on the writer-director’s forthcoming TV series Midnight Mass.

Amelia Eve – Jamie

The role of Bly Manor gardener Jamie is, it’s fair to say, Amelia Eve’s biggest screen part to date, but surely that won’t be the case for long. She’s also completed filming roles in soon-to-be-released feature films Big Boys Don’t Cry, Shadowland, Dorcha and Thea.

Kate Siegel – Viola

Horror star Siegel is a key part of the Mike Flanagan company on screen and in real life (they got married in 2016 after working together on a host of horror properties from Ouija: Origin of Evil to Oculus and Hush). She played glove-wearing child psychologist Theo, one of the adult Crain siblings in Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House, and will also soon appear in Flanagan series Midnight Mass. In Bly Manor, Siegel plays 17th-century noblewoman Viola, whose story forms the basis of a full-episode flashback.  

Katie Parker – Perdita

Remember the 1920s flapper ghost in The Haunting of Hill House? That was Katie Parker, who’s back in Bly Manor playing 17th century noblewoman Perdita, sister to Viola (see above).

Carla Gugino – Narrator

Gugino played Olivia Crain, mother to the five Crain children in The Haunting of Hill House, and for obvious reasons she is (at the time of writing) uncredited for her role as the narrator of Bly Manor. Gugino’s screen career is as long as your arm (if your arm were very, very long) and goes all the way from recurring roles in 80s soap Falcon Crest to 90s comedy Spin City and medical drama Chicago Hope, 2000s comedies Entourage and Californication, all the way through the Spy Kids franchise, to more recent projects The Brink, Jett and Manhunt.

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The Turning (2020)

I have a confession to make: I nearly allowed the trailer for a film to keep me from seeing said film in theaters! I know, I know, “Fool me once...” and all that, but the trailer for Floria Sigismondi’s The Turning does a serious disservice to the film! Here I went in expecting something like The Nun or The Curse of La Llorona and instead I got a beautifully shot and (for the most part) well crafted ghost story.

The Turning is based off of the Henry James novel The Turn of the Screw, and follows Kate, a live in tudor, as she grows close to young orphan Flora and struggles to keep her older brother Miles in line. In this modern retelling of the story, set just days after Kurt Cobain’s tragic suicide in 1994 (... for some reason we’re given that as a point of historical reference), our main cast is made up of Mackenzie Davis as Kate, Finn Wolfhard as Miles and Brooklynn Prince as Flora. Supporting actors are rounded out by Barbara Marten as Mrs. Grose, Denna Thomson as Mrs. Jessel and finally Niall Grieg Fulton as Peter Quint.

The standout for me has to be Brooklynn Prince, bringing honesty and childish wonder to her performance as Flora. It really felt as though she memorized her lines and the film makers just set her loose in Bly Manor. Finn Wolfhard does a great job as Miles, interacting very well with Prince to make their sibling connection convincing. He does have a few lines throughout the movie that just feel overly dramatic, but he does the most he can with what he’s given. I can not ignore Davis’ performance in the movie either. Her scenes with Flora are some of the best in the film, and she makes it clear that she wants to help Flora and Miles, while also showing us just how much stress she is put under after a number of sleepless nights and constant torment from Miles. We feel for her and also want to see her make it out of this situation in one piece.

Cinematographer David Ungaro creates a beautifully gothic look, with washed out colors through out and the setting of Bly Manor is so wonderfully gothic that one can’t help but think of movies like The Others and The Lady in Black. Nathan Barr provides a haunting soundtrack and great atmosphere throughout, though I do wish we would have gotten more out of the score during the more tense and frightening scenes. Carey W. Hayes and Chad Hayes do a good job of adapting James’ novel and worked in enough hints to the film’s surprise ending that it’s baffling why they decided to end the movie in the manor they did.

Though this is better than most January offerings, The Turning leaves you wanting so much more out of its’ scares. There are sequences where we go in for a scare and suddenly pull out of them too quickly to feel any real fear. On the other hand, there are sequences that don’t ramp up the scares enough, leaving us watching Davis’ reacting to specters and spooks and feeling unconvinced and unaffected. This is, of course, no grounds to call a movie bad, but it is sort of disappointing. Though we do get a fare share of jump scares, it’s clear the film decided to focus more on the psychological horror that’s woven through the source material.

Herein lies the problem with the films ending. “Show, don’t tell.” is one of those hard and fast rules in film making, except when a film maker wants to show you you’ve been bamboozled for the entire runtime. We’ve seen it done time and time to great effect (The Usual Suspects is the KING of this device), but when it’s poorly executed it just ends up feeling like unnecessary exposition. The film makes the odd decision to go back in time to create doubt in Kate, but it’s in the execution where it fails, and fails hard. It’s clear that the director wants us to question EVERYTHING we’ve seen, to paint Kate as an unreliable narrator, but rather than solicit an “Oh my God! Can you believe that? I need to see that again.” type of reaction, the film feels unfinished. They were so focused on giving us an ambiguous ending that they forgot to actually end the story.

Though not a perfect affair, The Turning did surprise me with how much I enjoyed it. For the most part I was entertained and invested, genuinely wanting for Kate to discover the secrets of just what was plaguing Flora and Miles. We get some beautiful shots, a sweeping score, standout performances from our younger cast members and an emotional and sympathetic performance from our lead. It’s ending be damned, I have a feeling that The Turning will enjoy a cult following in the years to come. Though they missed the mark with their twist ending, Sigismondi and company have crafted a film I’m actually looking forward to seeing again and re-examining through a different lens. That in and of itself makes The Turning an effort they should be proud of.

Rating: 3 Full Moons out of 5 🌕🌕🌕

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fandom list.

categories:

Films

TV Shows

YouTube ASMR Voice Audios (misc.)

* Italics = a character I will only write platonically.

—films

The Maze Runner

Thomas / Teresa Agnes / Newt / Minho / Frypan / Gally / Brenda / Aris / Sonya / Harriet

Janson / Ava Paige

The Hunger Games

Katniss Everdeen / Primrose Everdeen / Peeta Mellark / Gale Hawthorne / Finnick Odair / Haymitch Abernathy / Cato / Clove / Glimmer / Foxface / Enobaria / Johanna Mason / Effie Trinket

Rue / President Snow / President Alma Coin / Cinna

Titanic (1997)

Jack Dawson / Rose DeWitt Bukater / Fabrizio / Cal Hockley / and maybe the ship officers

Triple Frontier

Tom “Redfly” Davis / Santiago “Pope” Garcia / Francisco “Catfish” Morales / William “Ironhead” Miller / Ben Miller / Yovanna

Reservoir Dogs

Mr. Orange / Mr. Pink / Mr. Brown / Mr. Blonde / Mr. White / Nice Guy Eddie

Pulp Fiction

Vincent Vega / Jules Winnfield / Mia Wallace / Butch / Ringo "Pumpkin

Inglourious Basterds

Aldo Raine / Donny Dorowitz / Shosanna Dreyfus “Emmanuelle Mimieux” / Marcel / Archie Hicox / Bridget Von Hammersmark / Hugo Stiglitz

Hans Landa, Major Dieter Hellstrom, Fredrick Zoller (in some cases, I can write implied topics but nothing of my writing condones Landa, Hellstrom or Zoller’s actions as N*zis - in no way am I tangentially condoning their actions in this film - so they are written platonically - preferably as enemies of the reader)

Dunkirk

Tommy / Peter / George / Gibson / Alex / Collins / Farrier / Soldier (Cillian Murphy)

Midsommar

Dani Ardor / Christian Hughes / Josh / Mark / Pelle

Heathers (1989)

The Heathers / Veronica Sawyer / Jason “J.D” Dean

Scream franchise

(1996) Sidney Prescott / Billy Loomis / Stu Macher / Randy Meeks / Tatum Riley / Dewey Riley / Gale Weathers

(2000) Roman Bridger

(2022) Tara / Sam / Amber / Richie / Chad

—tv shows

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Bruce Wayne / Selina Kyle / Edward Nygma / Oswald Cobblepot / Jim Gordon / Jerome Valeska / Jeremiah Valeska / Ecco / Barbara Kean / Tabitha Galavan / Jervis Tetch / Lee Thompkins / Ivy Pepper (older), Fish Mooney, Eduardo Dorrance “Bane” / Ra’s Al-Gul / Victor Zsasz, Jonathan Crane “Scarecrow”

Harvey Bullock, Alfred Pennyworth, Butch Gilzean

Squid Game

Gi-Hun / Sang-Woo / Kang Sae-byeok / Hwang Jun-ho / Ali Abdul / Ji-yeong

Arcane (League of Legends)

Vi / Jinx / Caitlyn Kiramman / Sevika / Silco / Vander / Ekko / Jayce Talis / Viktor / Mel Medarda / Deckard 

Powder (younger) 

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Gia Bennett / Ashtray

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Skins (UK)

Generation 1: Tony Stonem / Sid Jenkins / Cassie Ainsworth /  Michelle Richardson / Jal Fazer / Chris Miles / Anwar Kharral / Maxxie Oliver (no female pairing unless platonic/familial)

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The Haunting of Hill House

Steven Crain / Shirley Crain / Theo Crain / Nell Crain / Luke Crain

Young!Crain siblings, Hugh Crain, Olivia Crain

The Haunting of Bly Manor

Dani Clayton / Jamie / Peter Quint / Rebecca Jessel / Owen / Hannah Grose

Henry Wingrave / Flora Wingrave / Miles Wingrave

Black Mirror

Bandersnatch: Stefan Butler / Colin Ritman

Fifteen Million Merits: Bingham Madsen / Abi Khan

Be Right Back: Ash Starmer

White Christmas: Matt

San Junipero: Kelly / Yorkie

Hated in the Nation: Karin Parke / Blue Colson

USS Callister: Nanette Cole, Walton, Elena Tulaska, Shania

Hang the DJ: Frank / Amy

Kenny (Shut Up & Dance) / Robert Daly (USS Callister)

*I do not write for all Black Mirror episodes*

The Pacific

Bob Leckie / John Basilone / Manny Rodriguez / Lew “Chuckler” Juergens / Wilbur “Runner” / Conley Andrew “Ack Ack” Haldane / Eddie “Hillbilly” Jones / Bill “Hoosier” Smith / Eugene Sledge / Merriell “Snafu” Shelton / Sid Phillips / Jay D’Leau / Bill Leyden / R.V Burgin / Vera Keller / Lena Riggi

Superstore

Jonah / Amy / Dina / Garrett / Cheyenne / Mateo / Marcus / Bo

Glenn Sturgis

The Queen’s Gambit

Beth Harmon / Jolene / Benny Watts / D.L Townes / Harry Beltik

The Good Place

Michael / Eleanor Shellstrop / Chidi Anagonye / Tahani Al-Jamil / Jason Mendoza / Janet

The Walking Dead (S1-11)

Rick Grimes / Shane Walsh / Daryl Dixon / Carl Grimes / Glenn Rhee / Maggie Rhee / Beth Greene / Michonne Hawthorne / Negan / Simon / Enid / Rosita Espinosa / Yumiko / Magna / Connie / Kelly / Jesus / Siddiq / Noah / Cyndie / Tara Chambler / Dwight / Sherry / Sasha Williams / Eugene Porter / Jerry / King Ezekiel / Abraham Ford

Aaron, Lydia, Judith Grimes, Henry Peletier, Sophia Peletier

Dracula (BBC/2020 Netflix original)

Count Dracula / Agatha Van Helsing / Zoe Van Helsing / Jonathan Harker / Jack

Peaky Blinders (S1-S6)

Tommy Shelby / Arthur Shelby / Ada Thorne / John Shelby / Finn Shelby / Polly Gray / Michael Gray / Grace Burgess / Lizzie Starke / May Carleton / Alfie Solomons / Luca Changretta / Tatiana Petrovna / Gina Gray / Aberama Gold / Bonnie Gold

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Jake Peralta / Amy Santiago / Rosa Diaz / Charles Boyle, Gina Linetti

Raymond Holt / Kevin Cozner

Shadowhunters

Clary Fray / Jace Wayland / Alec Lightwood / Isabelle Lightwood / Magnus Bane / Simon Lewis / Maia Roberts / Luke Garroway / Raphael / Jordan Kyle / Seelie Queen / Meliorn / Hodge Starkweather / Helen Blackthorn / Aline Penhallow

Jonathan Morgenstern / Sebastian Verlac (as disguise) / Valentine Morgenstern / Jocelyn Fray / Maryse Lightwood / Max Lightwood / Camille Belcourt

Stranger Things

Steve Harrington / Jonathan Byers / Nancy Wheeler / Robin Buckley /  Eddie Munson / Chrissy Cunningham / Dmitri Antonov / 001/Henry Creel/”Peter” (not writing him as Vecna) / Jim Hopper / Joyce Byers

Eleven / Mike Wheeler / Will Byers / Lucas Sinclair / Dustin Henderson / Max Mayfield

***no longer writing for Billy Hargrove***

—youtube asmr voice audios (misc)

ZSakuVA 

Professor Andrew Marston (Strict Professor series)

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‘Behind’ al Trianon: è a Forcella la sesta edizione del TEDxNapoli, l’appuntamento con le ‘idee che meritano di essere diffuse’

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Cosa c’è ‘Behind’, dietro un progetto, dietro le cose, dietro le idee? Cosa accade “dietro le quinte”? Cosa si nasconde dietro le apparenze?  Sabato prossimo, 26 ottobre, dieci speakers italiani e internazionali proveranno a dare una risposta raccontando storie di integrazione, di futuro, di tecnologia e innovazione, di musica, cinema e teatro, raccogliendo una sfida: quella di portare il TEDxNapoli nel Teatro del Popolo “Trianon Viviani”, nel quartiere di Forcella, dove è forte il disagio ma forse ancor più forte la voglia di riscatto. L’evento segue la formula del TED, format americano che ha visto protagonisti personaggi come Bill Gates, Isabel Allende e Greta Thunberg, e che vanta oltre due miliardi di visualizzazioni sul web. 

Do diesis, la, la, do, do, la… Semiminima, croma puntata, semicroma, croma, poi ancora croma, semiminima. Le dita che sfiorano i tasti, il suono della tromba che pervade l’aria. Chi ha avuto il piacere di conoscere il genio di Miles Davis riconoscerà il tema di Jean Pierre, e ricorderà che è il pezzo di apertura dell’album del 1982 ‘We want Miles’, quello che segna il ritorno del principe delle tenebre dopo 5 anni di silenzio. Immaginerà Marcus Miller slappare sul suo basso, e Bill Evans soffiare nel suo sax. E coglierà il senso della coesistenza della terza maggiore con la terza minore, caratteristica del blues, retaggio africano, dove la stessa parola viene detta in maniera diversa secondo lo stato d’animo. E saprà prevedere le note che verranno, e forse distoglierà l’attenzione dalla sua conversazione. Nello stesso caffè, magari allo stesso tavolo, chi non ha avuto la fortuna di conoscere Miles percepirà solamente un vorticoso squillare di tromba, forse fastidioso o forse piacevole, e continuerà attento a conversare. O non lo sentirà affatto.

Scrutando un paesaggio urbano, una persona punterà la sua attenzione sulla cabina sopra quell’edificio basso, e capirà che lì sotto, in quello stabile, anche se non a vista, c’è una camera di verniciatura per le auto e quindi un’autocarrozzeria; per chi non ha nel proprio bagaglio queste competenze, quella cabina sarà solo un’inutile scatola gialla, o forse i suoi occhi non la vedranno affatto.

Per Pancho Tolchinsky, messicano di stanza nella Barcellona oggi infiammata dalla guerriglia dell’indipendentismo catalano – dottorato in intelligenza artificiale, ricercatore in scienze cognitive – la realtà si compone di ciò che vedi e di ciò che hai nella testa. Nel libro “The Visible and The”, realizzato in collaborazione con lo Studio Mucho, afferma che vediamo solo ciò in cui crediamo, solo ciò che per noi ha senso perché immaginiamo il mondo intorno a noi attraverso le nostre esperienze. Attraverso ciò che c’è dietro di noi. Dietro. Behind. 

‘Behind’ a Forcella 

Behind è il tema del TEDxNapoli, in programma sabato prossimo, 26 ottobre – a partire dalle ore 14.00 – che quest’anno, per la sua VI edizione, lancia un’altra sfida: quella di portare la manifestazione al Teatro del Popolo “Trianon Viviani”, a Forcella, nel cuore del centro storico partenopeo patrimonio UNESCO, un’area della città dove forte è il disagio sociale ma forse ancor più forte la voglia di riscatto. Il quartiere delle faide di camorra e del contrabbando, ma anche del progetto “Casa di vetro”, il quartiere di Annalisa Durante, la ragazzina di 14 anni uccisa per sbaglio dalla criminalità organizzata, ma anche dell’Associazione Annalisa Durante, un gruppo di volontari che coinvolge le famiglie in percorsi educativi e di cittadinanza attiva, finalizzati alla costruzione di una comunità educante e responsabile.

Cosa c’è dietro un progetto, dietro le cose, dietro le idee? Cosa accade “dietro le quinte”? Cosa si nasconde dietro le apparenze? Tolchinsky e altri 9 speakers si alterneranno sul palco del teatro di Forcella per dare, secondo la formula del TED, la loro risposta queste domande. 

La formula 

Il format dell’evento – organizzato dal team del Riot Studio con il patrocinio del Comune e della Città Metropolitana di Napoli – è il seguente: gli speakers avranno dai 3 ai 18 minuti per esporre le loro ‘ideas worth spreading’, idee che meritano di essere diffuse. Le talk, registrate e realizzate in post produzione grazie a una piattaforma video digitale fornita da Optima Italia, saranno poi caricate sul canale youtube TEDx, che conta più di 21 milioni di iscritti ed ha superato la cifra impressionante di 3,9 miliardi di visualizzazioni, e saranno tradotte e sottotitolate progressivamente in tante più lingue quante maggiori saranno le visualizzazioni sul web. 

Gli altri speakers 

“Con Behind – spiegano Valeria Scialò e Francesca Nicolais, organizer e co-organizer di TEDxNapoli – porteremo alla luce storie, idee, progetti, attività e persone essenziali che spesso restano invisibili”. Come Stefania Buoni, che racconterà cosa c’è dietro le storie delle persone come lei, chiamate a fare da caregiver a chi avrebbe dovuto prendersi cura di sé, ovvero ai propri genitori. Oggi Stefania è Agente attiva di cambiamento, presidente e co-fondatrice di “COMIP – CHILDREN OF MENTALLY ILL PARENTS”, e ha pubblicato “Quando Mamma o Papà hanno Qualcosa Che Non Va – miniguida alla sopravvivenza per figli di genitori con un disturbo mentale”, il libro che avrebbe voluto avere fra le mani lei a 15 anni e che sta ristampando e distribuendo grazie al crowdfunding. 

Dietro agli ex sportivi professionisti c’è una filosofia: il “give back”, ovvero restituire alla comunità quanto di bello si è ricevuto nella vita. Coach Massimo Antonelli è un ex cestista del Napoli e della Nazionale italiana, uno scudetto con la Virtus Bologna nel ’76. Appese le sneakers al chiodo, decide di aprire una scuola di basket in cui i ragazzi possano allenarsi e giocare gratuitamente. Gli viene concesso un campo all’aperto, sul litorale straziato di Castel Volturno. Ben presto si rende conto che la sua squadra è formata quasi interamente da ragazzi di colore, quasi tutti nati in Italia, qualcuno arrivato in fasce, che frequentano le scuole del luogo ma che spesso non hanno non solo le scarpe per giocare, ma neanche quelle per camminare.

Visto il successo dell’esperienza, alla squadra – che nel frattempo prende il nome di TAM TAM Basket – viene assegnato un campo coperto. Nel dicembre 2017 le viene, tuttavia, negato il diritto ad iscriversi al campionato regionale under 15: troppi stranieri, ancorchè nati in Italia. Niente ius soli.  Gentiloni inserisce nella legge di stabilità la norma “Salva Tam Tam”, che consente a tutti i figli di stranieri, capaci di dimostrare la frequenza scolastica nella scuola italiana, di praticare qualsiasi tipo di sport senza limitazione. Oggi quel campionato regionale l’ha vinto, ma è scattato un nuovo divieto per l’iscrizione al campionato, questa volta nazionale, di Eccellenza under 16: massimo due ‘stranieri’. La parola al TAR del Lazio il prossimo 5 novembre. Ma ora coach Antonelli ha anche un altro sogno.

Tiziana Fragomeni, avvocato negoziatore milanese, sostiene spesso ci concentriamo su ciò che appare e non sui motivi invisibili che si nascondono dietro i conflitti. Insegna agli avvocati il metodo della negoziazione integrativa per aiutarli ad abbandonare la sterile contrapposizione, e a proporre una gestione costruttiva dei conflitti.

Nel corso della manifestazione – realizzata anche grazie al supporto di partner quali l’IRISS (Istituto di Ricerca su Innovazione e Servizi per lo Sviluppo), UniCredit e Materias, cui si aggiunge quest’anno il supporto di Del Monte e Rivivonet – spazio anche ai cambiamenti climatici, per dire che dietro ad essi c’è un’altra possibilità: l’adaptation narrata nei suoi documentari e reportage sulle principali testate nazionali ed internazionali dal giornalista e divulgatore scientifico Marco Merola. L’Olanda può insegnare all’Oceania come fronteggiare le maree, Israele può insegnare come insediare comunità nel deserto: si può percorrere la strada dell’adattamento.

Sempre sul tema ambientale la talk di Stefania De Pascale, ordinaria di Orticoltura e Floricoltura presso il Dipartimento di Agraria dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II – attualmente impegnata in un progetto di ricerca in collaborazione con la NASA che prevede la realizzazione di uno space farming, un’ipotesi di creazione di un ecosistema su Marte – che ci dimostrerà quanto siamo ciechi rispetto alla funzione svolta dalle piante sul nostro pianeta.

Come, in una stazione ferroviaria, dietro la linea gialla si ha la consapevolezza di non correre pericoli in caso di arrivo di un treno, così anche nel web dovrebbe esserci una linea gialla oltrepassando la quale si pongono consapevolmente a rischio le informazioni che ogni soggetto immette nel sistema. Alessandro Pane, Head of Ericsson R&D, proverà a spiegare perché dovrebbe spettare a ciascuno di noi il potere di garantire la propria sicurezza in rete. 

Tra musica, cinema e teatro 

Non è teatro sociale, né amatoriale. È ricerca. È professionismo teatrale, quello che Armando Punzo, drammaturgo napoletano, dagli anni ’80 pratica nel carcere di Volterra, con l’ormai famosa “Compagnia della Fortezza”. Lui le storie dei detenuti non le vuole conoscere. Dietro le sbarre, il recinto è immaginario, e il carcere diventa luogo di creazione e di vita.

Dal teatro al cinema, una storia dietro le quinte è quella di Fabio Frizzi, che rincorre fin da ragazzo la sua passione: contro il volere del padre che lo voleva serio in uno studio legale, studia chitarra, fonda il suo primo gruppo rock e comincia a comporre colonne sonore per il cinema, facendo incetta di premi e di collaborazioni prestigiose, specializzandosi soprattutto nel genere horror.

Il Behind di Mauro Gioia, nome d’arte di Maurizio Dittura, parte invece dalla musica. Nato a Milano ma trasferitosi a Napoli con la famiglia all’età di quattro anni, si diploma in scenografia all’Accademia di Belle Arti. Cantante, attore e regista, con ricerche, produzioni e spettacoli sui musicisti meno noti e personaggi “scomparsi” della tradizione, fa della canzone napoletana il centro della sua produzione, di cui è collezionista ossessionato di dischi a 78 giri. Proverà ad illustrare, suonando il pianoforte, cosa c’è dietro tanta bellezza. Perché la bellezza è anche nelle cose che non vedi. 

Che cos’è TED 

TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) nasce circa trent’anni fa in California per dare un palco a chiunque avesse un’idea interessante da condividere, un’idea potenzialmente in grado di cambiare il mondo. Da allora l’organizzazione è votata a dare voce alle ‘idee che meritano di essere diffuse’.

Nell’arco della sua storia TED ha ospitato personaggi del calibro di Bill Gates, Al Gore, Stephen Hawking, Philippe Starck, Gordon Brown, Daniel Kahneman e Isabel Allende. 

Oggi il progetto TED include il sito dove sono raccolti i video «TED Talks», il progetto «Open Translation» e «TED Ed», i «TED Fellows», oltre al «TED Prize» che si tiene ogni anno.

Con l’intento di ispirare sempre più persone TED ha lanciato, altresì, un programma di eventi locali organizzati in modo indipendente denominati TEDx, di cui quest’anno si festeggia il decennale. Il TEDx si è diffuso in più di 180 Paesi con oltre 33.000 eventi. Uno di questi ha lanciato, recentemente, Greta Thunberg. 

Per acquistare gli ultimi biglietti rimasti occorrerà connettersi al sito ufficiale www.tedxnapoli.com e cliccare sulla sezione biglietti o direttamente al link https://www.metooo.it/e/tedxnapoli2019.

 TEDxNapoli è un evento non profit e quindi possibile solo grazie al generoso supporto di un gruppo selezionato di volontari, aziende e organizzazioni impegnate a sostenere il potere di trasformazione delle idee. Main partner della manifestazione sono Riot Studio, Optima Italia S.p.A. e IRISS – Istituto di Ricerca su Innovazione e Servizi per lo Sviluppo; nel gruppo dei partner si consolida la collaborazione con UniCredit, Materias, cui si aggiunge quest’anno il supporto di Del Monte e Rivivonet. Friends sono iPins, Santa Chiara Boutique Hotel, Pinzimonio e Esposito Mastro Fornaio, mentre Media partners sono SocialMeter Analysis, Metoo e Mailchimp.

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The Haunting of Bly Manor: The Poignant Tale of Hannah Grose

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The following contains spoilers for every episode of THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR.

“I liked your story”, a grown-up Flora tells an older Jamie in The Haunting of Bly Manor’s finale. “But I think you set it up wrong just in the beginning. You said it was a ghost story. It isn’t. It’s a love story.” Almost right. The Haunting of Bly Manor is two love stories: the centre-stage romance between Bly’s au pair and gardener Dani and Jamie, and the unrealised romance between housekeeper and chef, Hannah and Owen. 

Both are tragic tales. Dani and Jamie’s marriage was unfairly – like too many lesbian love stories on screen – cut off in its prime, while Hannah and Owen’s relationship was stopped before it could even begin. Before the pair had confessed their true feelings to each other, Hannah was killed. Not that she realised.

“You went off a cliff and you just kept going”

That’s the thing about living in a haunted house: when you become a ghost, very little changes. The rules of Bly Manor show that until a ghost’s facial features fade away, they look just like the living, can make themselves seen by the living, and are able to physically touch objects and people – hence, for instance, Viola being able to choke Peter to death.

Viola’s story, in which her intractable resolve to remain at Bly keeps the spirit of anybody else who died there prisoner on the grounds, also shows how the personality of the living can bring to bear on the rules of their afterlife. Hannah’s denial of her own death not only made her continuously visible to the living, but also ‘dream’ different outfits and accessories, creating the illusion that she was still one of them. 

In truth, Hannah Grose died on the day that Dani arrived at Bly. Minutes before Flora brought the new au pair to meet Mrs Grose, Hannah was pushed into a well by a possessed Miles, broke her neck, and died. The person who greets Dani and takes her inside the house is Hannah’s ghost, who then lives alongside Dani, Jamie, Owen and the children for a week or more after her death, not accepting that she too is caught in Bly’s peculiar “glue trap”. Incidentally, Mrs Grose may have the same name as the illiterate, exposition-tool housekeeper from Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw, but she’s an entirely new take on the character. 

The Altar of the Dead

Hannah’s denial lays the ground for The Haunting of Bly Manor’s strongest instalment by far, episode five ‘The Altar of the Dead.’ In it, ghost-Hannah slips from year to year and memory to memory, not cognisant of her murder. Her subconscious gives her a series of clues to prod her to the realisation that she’s no longer alive, but Hannah, played with beautiful sensitivity by T’Nia Miller (recently seen in Russell T. Davies’ Years and Years), refuses to accept it and fails to grasp the significance of the repeated motifs and phrases connected to her final moments of life.  

Phrases such as “Honestly, Hannah,” which were the last words she heard spoken before being pushed into the well and dying. They were spoken by her killer, 10-year-old Miles possessed by the ghost of Peter Quint. In episode five, we hear the words spoken by Peter on four occasions: after seeing Hannah spying on him and Rebecca in the children’s schoolroom (“Honestly, Hannah. You should give the vacuum a rest.”), a possessed-by-Peter Miles says them while walking away after Hannah berates him for smoking, ghost-Peter says them once again when she sees him standing with Miles by the well, (“Honestly, Hannah, do you ever get tired of being such a bore?”), before Miles finally repeats them as he pushes Hannah to her death.

The repetition appears to be Hannah’s subconscious reminding her of what’s happened, just the same as the distinctive crack she keeps seeing on walls around the estate. Appearing in the kitchen, in the chapel, and in Bly’s closed-down wing, the crack is the final image Hannah sees before death, hence its recurrence in the days immediately afterwards as her mind tries to nudge her towards accepting what’s happened. 

“Live a little”

There are other hints too. Listen carefully to episode five’s dialogue and the number of references to life, living and being alive are almost comically frequent in light of what we come to learn about Hannah. Sitting next to Owen (iZombie‘s Rahul Kohli) at the bonfire, Hannah is told that “any of us could die at any moment” and implores her to come with him to Paris. When she mockingly asks what she’d do in Paris, he tells her “eat croissants, drink good wine… live.” Earlier, in one of the many iterations of Owen’s job interview scene, he (therefore: she) says he’s “learning a lot about being alive.” After Peter Quint chastises her for spying on him, he tells Hannah to “live a little.”

In the chapel, Rebecca (therefore: Hannah) says she’s never felt “so alive”, and is told “there’s a difference between feeling good and feeling alive.” After Hannah’s marriage breaks up, Charlotte offers her the housekeeper role as a live-in position, offering her the chance to stay at Bly “forever” if she needs to. Again in the chapel, Charlotte tells Hannah she lit a candle for her (in truth for her cheating husband Sam) and it’s remarked on that remembrance candles aren’t lit for the living. 

On a second watch, the dramatic irony is overwhelming. Even the characters can see it. When Hannah tells Peter-Miles off for smoking, she asks him “Do you want to die a horrible, choking death?” and Peter-Miles laughs, because thanks to Viola, that’s exactly how he did die. And, while this may simply be period texture, when Dani leaves a ‘tucked-away’ Flora sleeping in bed and walks into the kitchen, Owen is midway through trying to convince Hannah to go with him to a Patrick Swayze concert. Now, can you really bring up Swayze in the context of an alive person/dead person romance and not expect viewers’ minds to think of 1990’s Ghost? (Yeah, maybe you can. I’ll give you that one.)

It’s not just in episode five; there are clues throughout. When Dani meets Hannah in the chapel on the day of Owen’s mother’s funeral, Hannah explains away her absence by saying that Owen understands that funerals are for the living. Of course, due to Viola’s curse on the manor, no spirits who die there are able to pass beyond its grounds, so there’s no question of Hannah leaving to attend a funeral in the village. When Hannah revisits the memory of her telling the children to slow down and stop running or they’ll “break their bloody skulls,” can it be a coincidence that she’s speaking as somebody with a broken skull? Imagery of her death is everywhere.

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Hannah’s denial is partly caused by the person who broke that skull: young Miles, whom she loves and repeatedly insists to memory-Owen is, “a good boy” though (dramatic irony klaxon) he “hasn’t exactly been himself” of late. Ignorant of Bly Manor’s ghosts (who, until Dani arrives, bringing her own ghost and trauma-related sensitivity to the afterlife with her, had only been seen by Miles and Flora), Hannah doesn’t know the deal. Until she witnesses Peter being dragged away by Viola as part of her episode five psychic travels, Hannah hadn’t seen the ghosts, despite having spent years cleaning up Viola’s muddy footprints. Hannah therefore didn’t realise that Miles was possessed by Peter, and so allowed him to lead her into the woods for the “surprise” of seeing her own dead body. 

“You just need to look down, Hannah”

Why, when Peter Quint realised his situation within minutes of being murdered, did Hannah have such trouble accepting her fate? The easy answer is: because it’s a TV-show twist-reveal to provide a The Sixth Sense-style ‘aha’ moment. Character-wise, the explanation comes from what the role of Bly Manor housekeeper means to Hannah, and the show’s thematic concern with the search for peace. When Hannah’s husband left her for another woman, Bly Manor became her permanent home. When Peter cruelly threatened her with dismissal, she insisted that Bly was not just her job but her home. Jamie’s voiceover leading into episode five tells us that “The housekeeper would always find her way back to peace in her daily routine.” Hannah is happy at Bly, and tells Dani as much in the chapel. The sense of purpose and peace that Hannah found in her role at Bly was so fundamental that even death wouldn’t stop her from getting up, putting on her earrings, and going to work. That’s part of it at least.

Episode five, written by Angela LaManna and directed by Liam Gavin, is a beautiful hour of television. It’s puzzling and disorienting but with a strong mystery thread drawing us through the fog towards a solid conclusion. It’s T’Nia Miller’s detailed performance that really makes it great drama. Miller beams out Hannah’s trauma from under a thick layer of emotional restraint. On the surface, Hannah seems as controlled as her primly co-ordinated and accessorised outfits, but Miller reveals the pain and panic underneath. 

The pain and panic, and the love. In one of the many replays of Hannah’s first meeting with Owen at his interview for the job of Bly chef, she girlishly recalls finding him a curious and charming man. “I looked at you and I almost forgot myself for a moment.” Hannah’s love for Owen is the reason she keeps returning to that first meeting. “I prefer it here, this one, this day, with you … I loved you Owen. I should have told you. What a life we could have had” If Bly means home for Hannah Grose, so does Owen.

Let life happen to you

Hannah’s last words are a message to Owen. While Henry Wingrave is being resuscitated in the finale, Hannah leaves his ‘figment’ with an instruction. “When he checks the well, please tell Owen I’m sorry. Tell him I love him,” she says, before being cut off mid-sentence as the spell breaks and Bly’s trapped spirits are released. “And as for the rest…”  Then Hannah is gone. What would the remainder of her last words have been? We can’t know, though, in light of Owen’s taste for literary quotation (he quotes both Hamlet and Romeo & Juliet in the series), perhaps she was about to cite Rainer Maria Rilke in his Letters to a Young Poet: “And as for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.” 

After Hannah leaves Bly for good, we learn the depth of Owen’s feelings for her. While he’s lighting a candle to Hannah in the chapel, Jamie tells us that he helped to retrieve her body and prepared it for burial, never leaving her side. His Parisian bistro is dedicated to her memory, and his speech at Flora’s rehearsal dinner has a bittersweet message that applies to so many of The Haunting of Bly Manor’s relationships, cruelly cut off before their time: Viola and her daughter Isabelle, Henry and Charlotte, Flora and Miles and their parents, Dani and Jamie, Owen and Hannah: “To truly love another person is to accept that the work of loving them is worth the pain of losing them.”

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