Andrew Scott in Vanya (one of the best things I've ever seen)
Another fully self indulgent gouache painting and ugh, fuck it, I'm gonna say it - I'm actually super proud of myself for this one. Seriously thought I'd bitten off more than I could chew with the lighting and hands. So pleased that I persevered :)
progress pics below ↓
(and for real everyone alive has to watch Vanya at least once in their life it's absolutely incredible)
Andrew Scott makes history with Critics’ Circle Theatre Awards Best Actor for ‘Vanya’ (March 2024), having already won the Critics’Circle Film Award 2024 for Best Actor in “All of Us Strangers”
I’ve made a few parallels of Fleabag and Good Omens 2 before, but they were really just one liners. But I wanted to show how the two endings line up quite well even though I don’t believe the motivations are directly equivalent.
“You nailed it.” -Fleabag.
“They always lie. it’ll always come in a minute. There really into each other those two.”-Priest
“They really pulled it off.”- Priest
“Was your sister okay?”- Priest “Yea, she just..” -Fleabag
“-seemed a bit on edge.”- Priest “-she..uh..had a bit of a work thing.” -Fleabag
“Wow, dedicated.” -Priest “Addicted.” Fleabag; they say at the same time
a pause, she smiles at him..
“Its God isn’t it?”- Fleabag
“Yeah.” -Priest
another pause
“damn” pause” damn” -Fleabag
then she looks directly into his eyes
“You know the worst thing is that I fucking love you. I love you. No. No. Let’s just leave that out there for a second on its own. I love you.”-Fleabag
the priest takes her hand, “It’ll pass.”
“This bus is not magically coming”- Fleabag
“I think I’ll walk.”
“Okay.”
The priest turns to look at her, “Uh, see you Sunday. I’m joking you are never ever allowed in my church again. I love you too. Okay. “ A small wave then he takes off down the street.
-The bus doesn’t come. But a fox does. She tells him that he went that way. Hugs the statue close. She gets up. Shakes her head to camera. Leaves the statue in the trash.
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The sister and the man at the airport is a interesting parallel to Beelzebub and Gabriel running off together. Then ‘flying’ away. They were both ‘dedicated and addicted’ to Armageddon but they left that for each other.
Aziraphale chooses to go to Heaven. In my opinion, to try and change things, but nonetheless, he leaves. Crowley makes his confession anyway. They let a kiss ‘hang in the air’. Either way, Aziraphale still has to leave.
The fox(the Metatron) makes sure to go after him and leave Crowley. Crowley is the one to tell Aziraphale to talk to the Metatron. Crowley watches as he leaves. We watch them both walk away.
I think it could work for season one as well with Shadwell and Tracy. Dedicated and Addicted to their former selves but giving it up for the other. Adam chooses being a kid over being ruler of everything(if they’d won). A nightingale sings in Berkeley Square whilst angels dine at the Ritz like the fox(sometimes a metaphor for God) following them. They were holding onto their statuses like the statue and finally let it go.
I have no idea what this was for or why I wrote this, but hopefully you’ve enjoyed it if you’ve made it this far. I don’t really think their motivations line up specifically the Priest’s and Aziraphale’s. Fleabag and Crowley and their similarities and differences as well. But I think it’s interesting to look at the ending similarities. Anyway, hope you’ve enjoyed it.
Before the frenzy of Ripley promo takes over, I wanted to highlight Andrew's beautifully moving acceptance speech and tribute to his mother (who died very recently, March 7th) from the Critics Circle Theater Awards and his Best Actor win for VANYA.
Apologies for any mistakes in the captions (and to the stage crew for not catching their names) I did what I could with the audio and the limitations of the free editing software I was using.
Thanks to Cindy Marcolina for the original video source.