#arthur kruger

[nobrashfestivity]

Arthur Krüger

The Vampire, 1890-1920

[hosts-of-valyria]

The Black Ones

The eyes of the woman he loved

You light the skies up above me a star so bright you blind me. Don't close your eyes, don't fade away, don't fade away. All the stars are coming out tonight. They're lighting up the sky tonight for you, for you. You saved my soul, don't leave me now. Don't leave me now. You and me we can ride on a star if you stay with me we can rule the World. All the stars are coming out tonight they're lighting up the sky tonight for you. For you!

Ashara Dayne introduces Barristan Selmy: The Injustice at House Targaryen

"Knighted under Jaehaerys Targaryen. It was Duncan Targaryen who gave it the nickname as you all know it....Barristan the Bold.

Prince Duncan

The deadliest guardsmen. He's a painter a force of nature. You feel called to greatness in the presence of his inspiration. Fear him when he sees what Stags and Lions do. A painter who only uses red. He's better, stronger and more powerful under the Targaryen banner. An artist he's the pure and real inspiration. Father of our daughter Alysanne and we love him with all our hearts. No army in the World can stop him from killing Robert Baratheon. The bold Star. He has balls of valyrian steel. His anger is tremendous.

My cake carver. He was always mine and i'm his. Best friend of Elia, Lyanna, Arthur, Rhaegar, Rhaella and Gerold Hightower. Only House Targaryen gives Independence since the Iron Throne was destroyed. King's Landing belongs to us we're the strongest and best side.

Gerold and Rhaella always loved each other and from the abyss screams Daemon Targaryen haha. Elia and Lyanna Targaryen married, adopted through Rhaella, she's Queen of King's Landing right now. Rhaella the mother of Lyanna and Elia. So much better than the three hypocritical, mad sons of Rickard Stark. Rickard Stark and his three mad sons rage in Winterfell haha haha haha.

The Tully and Ryswell bitches are raging haha. Fuck Ned Stark fuck that hypocrite. Fuck Robert Baratheon fuck that rapist haha haha. Bobby B my ass. Don't get what Lord Eddard Stark ever saw in him."

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A Woman is the Judge (1939) Nick Grinde

March 24th 2024

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Don't kill your detective!

This is an interesting little article I just discovered on Medium.com: When Arthur Conan Doyle Killed Sherlock Holmes. Now, every Sherlock Holmes fan, I assume, has heard or read the story of how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle got so sick of writing the Holmes stories, that he decided to "kill" his creation by having him plunge to his presumed death at the bottom of the Reichenbach Falls (in "The Final Problem"). I initially assumed that this article would just be a basic recap of that story. Instead, the author uses Doyle's assumptions about the value of his non-Holmes writing to make a point about how we rate our own work. She writes about something called "the Dunning-Kruger Effect," and shares this quote from Wikipedia:

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which relatively unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than it really is. The bias was first experimentally observed by David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University in 1999. Their research also suggests corollaries: highly skilled individuals may underestimate their relative competence, they may erroneously assume that tasks which are easy for them are also easy for others.

She sums it up thus: "In other words, mediocre people tend to be more confident and overrate their abilities." I'm sure many of us have encountered this tendency in everyday life. It's an interesting point, and relating it to Doyle's decision to kill off his most famous character is an intriguing take on the concept.

[the-kr8tor]

Lil facts about me!

I love horror movies, I have a sweet tooth, and I get flustered real easily.

Series OC face claims and comic OC art

Spidersona/oc

Current wips:

💌 TTN oneshot- the one where they build a bed

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Editing:

✏️ spy au

Music I'm currently listening to on repeat: recommend some songs? Mayhaps? 🥺

These are the characters I'm obsessed (in love) with! I might write for them in the future. Or if you just want to chat about them with me 🥺

Current obsession - Hobie Brown my Beloved

Faves: Morpheus/Dream of the endless and the Corinthian (The Sandman), Task force 141 men, especially Gaz my husband 🥺 including, Alejandro, Rudy, Konig, Keegan, and Hesh, Kruger (call of duty), Miguel o'hara (atsv)

Leon Kennedy, Carlos Oliveira (resident evil), Every Genshin impact character- especially, Xiao, Albedo, and Diluc.

Q (Daniel craig's bond), Santino D'Antonio and John Wick (John Wick), Gojo,Getou and Nanami (jjk)

Joel Miller (tlou) Rhaenyra, Aemond Targaryen (hotd), Eddie Munson, Steve Harrington (stranger things), Aaron Hotchner, Spencer Reid (criminal minds), Gregory House (house md), Jason Todd (batman), James Conrad (kong skull Island), Arthur Morgan (rdr2), Louis (iwtv) Levi (aot) Peter Parker (tasm), tangerine (bullet train)

And so much more I can't remember from the top of my head lol

[f--e-u-e-r-t-r-u-n-k-e--n]

When you go to sleep you only have to choose between one of these as your dream

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8.-

What would such a dream be like?

[In case anyone needs the names of the artists, here they are in order:

Aleksandra Waliszewska D. D. McInnes Jules Perahim Arthur Handy Russell Drake Remedios Varo Leonora Carrington Markus Matthias Kruger Leonor Fini

[carbone14]

"Full victory - nothing else"

Le Général Eisenhower en discussion avec le Lieutenant Wallace C. Strobel du 502nd PIR de la 101st Airborne Division avant le décollage pour la Normandie – Opération Albany – Opération Overlord – base aérienne de la RAF de Greenham common – Angleterre – 20 h 30 – 5 juin 1944

©Library of Congress – LC-USZ62-25600

La photo montre le général Eisenhower discutant avec des parachutistes de la Compagnie E (easy Company) du 502e Régiment d'infanterie parachutiste de la 101e Division aéroportée sur la base aérienne de la RAF de Greenham Common.

Les personnages identifiés sont les suivants :

Le Sergent Fred Lindsey tenant un carnet de croquis, derrière et à gauche du dos d'Eisenhower (Source : Chad Lindsey, 2014)

Russell Wilmarth, derrière le menton d'Eisenhower (Source : Alan Offen, 2009)

Le lieutenant Wallace C. Strobel avec une étiquette '23' (Source : Dwight David Eisenhower - The Centennial, CMH Pub 71-40)

Ralph 'Bud' Thomas ou Arthur L. Wegener, à gauche de Strobel (Source : Eileen Thomas Hayes, 2012 et Sandra Edwards, 2021)

Probablement le caporal Donald E. Kruger, au premier rang, à l'extrême droite, portant un sac musette sur la poitrine (Source : Alice Kruger Bruns et Jason Bezis, 2013)

Joseph Burdette May Jr. (1920-1995), au-dessus du pouce d'Eisenhower (Source : Ashley Barnes, 2018)

[freetheshit-outofyou]

USS Albacore (SS-218), a 311-foot, Gato-class submarine lost 7 November 1944 of the coast of Hokkaido Japan, she was presumed lost on 21 December 1944 and struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 30 March 1945, found 16 February 2023.

The USS Albacore earned 9 battle stars, received 4 Presidential Unit Citations and was responsible for sinking at least 10 ships.

Below is a listing of the ships compliment, their names are written in memorial at the National Memorial Cemetary of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii:

IN THESE GARDENS ARE RECORDED

THE NAMES OF AMERICANS

WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES

IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY

AND WHOSE EARTHLY RESTING PLACE

IS KNOWN ONLY TO GOD

Walter Henry Barber, Jr., Kenneth Ripley Baumer, Henry Forbes Bigelow, Jr., Edward Brown Blackmon, William Walter Bower, Allan Rose Brannam, Herbert Hodge Burch, Nicholas John Cado, John Joseph Carano, Charles Lee Carpenter, James Louis Carpenter, Pasquale Charles Carracino, Stanley Chapman, Douglas Childress, Jr., Frederick Herbert Childs, Jr., Perry Aubrey Collom, Audrey Cecil Crayton, Eugene Cugnin, John Wilber Culbertson, Philip Hugh Davis, Ray Ellis Davis, Fred Wallace Day, Julius Delfonso, James Leroy DeWitt, James Thomas Dunlap, Carl Hillis Eskew, John Francis Fortier, Jr., Gordon Harvey Fullilove, Jr., John Wilfred Gant, John Paul Gennett, William Henry Gibson, John Frederick Gilkeson, Charles Chester Hall, James Kenneth Harrell, Robert Daniel Hill, Allen Don Hudgins, Donald Patrick Hughes, Eugene Edsel Hutchinson, Burton Paul Johnson, Sheridan Patrick Jones, George Kaplafka, Nelson Kelley, Jr., Morris Keith Kincaid, Victor Edward Kinon, Joseph Mike Krizanek, Arthur Star Kruger,Walter Emery Lang, Jr., Jack Allen Little, Kenneth Walter Manful, Patrick Kennyless McKenna, Willie Alexander McNeill, Joseph Norfleet Mercer, Leonard David Moss, Richard Joseph Naudack, Encarnacion Nevarez, Joseph Hayes Northam, Frank Robert Nystrom, Robert James O'Brien, Elmer Harold Peterson, Charles Francis Pieringer, Jr., James Teel Porter, Jerrold Winfred Reed, Jr., Francis Albert Riley, Hugh Raynor Rimmer, A. B. Roberts, James Ernest Rowe, Philip Shoenthal, George Maurice Sisk, Joe Lewis Spratt, Harold William St. Clair, Arthur Lemmie Stanton, Robert Joseph Starace, John Henry Stephenson, Maurice Crooks Strattan, Earl Richard Tanner, William George Tesser, Paul Raymond Tomich, Charles Edward Traynor, Theodore Taylor Walker, Elmer Weisenfluh, James Donald Welch, Richard Albert West, Wesley Joseph Willans, Leslie Allan Wilmott, David Robert Wood

[slashingdisneypasta]

So I clearly missed some things due to my severe lack of activeness on this hellsite (derogatory) but I'd very much like to know more about Then He Got Rough if you feel comfortable sharing.

If not though, that's totally okay!! Either way, hope you're doing well, my friend 💜🙏🏻

!!!! Thats my Original Work!! I occasionally mention it on here, but I do need to be quite careful about what I say cuz theirs a lotta stuff in it that is meant to be a surprise XD But goddddddddddddddd I love talking about it, so thank you for asking!! ^^

Basically it is a small town murder mystery, but using Slasher Movie Tropes. Its also got a lotta platonic love and other more complicated kinds of relationships because I'm, of course, aro and I need that shit XD Here's a basic blurb I made up for someone else who asked one time ^^

Hallie (the virgin) meets Edward Brown (the killer) and they hit it off- she's exactly the kinda girl he likes; friendly, kinda reserved, and they have... err- certain things from their pasts... in common, it turns out. And to her, Edward's the perfect guy, too! He's a young English teacher at the high school and he's got this skinny Clark Kent thing about him?? Awkward, and funny. She doesn't realise he's a part of the little town's most powerful (and tight-lipped) family, the Bamford's (He was adopted into it- Edward Bamford-Brown), until she tells her best friend and roommate Maggie (the whore) about him. Maggie immediately develops a bad taste in her mouth when it comes to Edward. She goes rogue and decides to investigate, employing Hallie's family doctor, Arthur (the scholar), and his old friend/new roommate combo; anxious ex-con Rodney (the fool), who just so happens to be Edwards adoptive aunt Carla Bamford's ex husband. Doors are opened for Maggie into the world of the Bamford's through Arthur and Rodney, and Winnie Bamford (the athlete) later on, and she uncovers some bone chilling secrets about everyone in this family, and everyone a r o u n d them, too, that make her determined to save her friend before its too late.

**You might also be interested to know that, in my head, Rodney (Who is a very charismatic, but very anxious man who used to do some pretty bad things but feels terrible (he knows his behaviour had everything to do with self-loathing) is really truly trying to clean up his act these days post-divorce; rooming with his old friend Arthur and working at the grocery store as its the only job he could get) is played by a more middle-aged Robert Englund XDD (Closer to Professor Wexler in Urban Legend then Inkubus) . Arthur is played by Brad Dourif XDD (so yes- freddy kruger and chucky XD Of course.)

Some little tid-bits I can/want to share also:

The Bamford Family Line-Up:

Mrs Emily Bamford: The matriarch. A cold-hearted snake woman. She pretty much only loves Edward.

Mayor Richard Bamford: He and Em were highschool sweethearts back in the day but broke up when he left to pursue politics in a big city-- but mysteriously came back and married Emily a few months later despite everyone knowing he was doing so well in the city?? Took the Bamford name and everything. Its rumoured that Emily's parents blackmailed him *cough*. Everyone knows Emily is in charge. Richard always looks kind of like a show pony next to her, despite being actual Mayor.

Carla Bamford: Emily's adopted sister and town journalist. She's kinda lily-livered. The only thing she really stood against the family about was her marriage to Rodney (They didn't approve. He was a damn con), but even that fell apart eventually.

Rodney Hawk (Formally Bamford. They made him take their name but he's got his back, now): I already talked about him XD

Edward Bamford-Brown: THE MAIN VILLAIN. Edward is Emily and Richard's adopted son, the same age as their biological daughter (Winnie. up next) who... well, its no secret- is the favourite. Emily would let him get away with anything. She would help him get away with anything. He can do no wrong, in her eyes.

Winnie Bamford: Emily and Richard's biological daughter. She's an insane freak- they sent her away to boarding school in Georgia but she came back worse, and there are s o many rumours about her in town; Orgies and deviant sexual activity, mostly (most of it is true, too). She has a major thing for 'Uncle Rodney' and makes him very very uncomfortable. On the bright side though?? She's more then happy to fuck things up for her spiteful mother by assisting Maggie to uncover some dark secrets (: She wont make it easy, though 😅 That would be no fun.

Unnamed Bamford Family Member: I cant tell you anything about them, whoops.

And Tom Manning: Richard's best friend, and the town lawyer (Edwards lawyer). So close with Rich and Em (And Winnie and Edward) that he's practically part of the family. I have described him as 'a hot dill pickle in a sharp suit if he was a harvard law graduate'. He's slimy, charismatic and seemingly perfect.

Here are the main characters Looks, if you're interested 😅

(Also another little thing that is really just a convoluted blink-and-you'll-miss-it kind of inside joke- Maggie, who has a huge thing for Arthur and constantly describes his eyes as 'brad dourif-blue', is a major Childs Play fan.

... and hallie loves a nightmare on elm street *cough*. she doesnt really interact with rodney, but during the few times they do, they totally have Something. and when she describes her perfect guy?? its the opposite to edward. its rodney. anyway- )

Anyway, thank you for asking! And reading, if you made it this far XDD Sorry for the word-vomit!! I just really really love this story and I really hope one day I can finish it ^^ <3<3<3<3<3<3

I hope you are doing well too- better then before at least ^^ I hope the time away from Tumblr is doing you well! You're right, it can be a very harmful atmosphere and I'm so proud of you for knowing when you need to take a step back!! 💛💛💛💛💛

[kwebtv]

Rhodes - BBC One - September 15, 1996 - December 3, 1996

Period Drama (8 Episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

Martin Shaw as Cecil John Rhodes

Joe Shaw as Young Cecil Rhodes

Ken Stott as Barney Barnato

Frances Barber as Princess Catherine Radziwill

Neil Pearson as Leander Starr Jameson

Oliver Cotton as Joseph Chamberlain

Ron Smerczak as Edward Arthur Maund

Frantz Dobrowsky as Alfred Beit

Paul Slabolepzi as Frederick Selous

Philip Godawa as John X. Merriman

Owen Dell as Robert Coryndon

Nicky Rebelo as Solomon Joel

Margaret Heale as Queen Victoria

Rex Garner as Henry Loch

Ken Stott as Barney Barnato

Washington Xisolo as Lobengula

Carel Trichardt as Paul Kruger

Ian Roberts as Johannes Wilhelm Colenbrander

[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

Do you think the wizarding world would ever accept science and technology? Personally I think eventually they would be forced to adapt

Some thoughts on the Wizarding World's profound ignorance when it comes to muggles and technology. Thoughts on the Wizarding World's acknowledgement of the muggle sciences. Thoughts on the Wizarding World’s knowledge of math and science.

No.

Why would they be forced to adapt?

They haven't yet, and the muggle world has certainly changed dramatically during the implementation of the statute of secrecy. That muggles now have computers, cameras on street corners, etc. seems to cause them no major concern in part because wizards don't understand it.

What will likely happen instead is that the statute of secrecy will blow up in their face in such a manner that they can’t obliviate it away. They may try a mass obliviate and go around smashing computer monitors, and that might help them for a bit, but they won’t really be forced to adapt.

Or certainly understand the muggle sciences and technology.

They have the barest concept that these disciplines even exist much less what they mean. Arthur Weasley is the foremost expert on muggle technology, heads the department in the ministry, and his flying car works nothing like an actual car. He uses magic to make the car work. He has no idea how muggle currency works. And he is constantly confused by anything muggle.

And he’s the best they’ve got.

Muggleborns are better, but not by much as they’re taken out of the muggle world at eleven and never receive the rest of that education. Then they think with hubris that they know all they need to know because they’re muggleborn.

It’s like people who use Twitter saying they’re very technically savvy and so much more aware than their parents. No, you just know how to use Twitter, congratulations.

The Wizarding World is a mass Dunning Kruger effect where they genuinely don’t know that they don’t know. And because they don’t know that they don’t know they’ll steal nifty muggle ideas when they see something interesting, but they’ll have no idea how any of it works or what science even means and how it works.

It’s very easy to think science is the technology. And for wizards I imagine them thinking it’s muggle versions of spells. I highly doubt they’d understand the scientific method, the history behind science and technology, let alone how these things even work.

Harry Potter never attends even a basic math course.

Remember that.

And because the wizards think they know all they need to know... why adapt?

[frankiethedarkangel]

Character list for requests

*No limits on the types of requests*

Last Updated 12/26/22

Smut, fluff, angst and anything in between :)

Supernatural

Dean Winchester

Sam Winchester

John Winchester

Gabriel

Crowley

Meg

Lucifer

Arthur Ketch

Castiel

Gadreel

Henry Winchester

Amara

Chuck

Sons of Anarchy

Chibs Telford

Jax Teller

Opie Winston

Tig

Juice Ortiz

Peacemaker

Adrian Chase/Vigilante

Emilia Harcourt

Chris Smith/Peacemaker

Stranger Things

Jim Hopper

Joyce Byers

Johnathan Byers

Argyle

Officer Phil Callahan

Chrissy Cunningham

Eddie Munson

Alexi

Robin Buckley

Steve Harrington

Horror Films

Bo Sinclair

Art the Clown

Michael Myers

Freddy Kruger

Jason Voorhees

Pyramid Head

Ghostface (90s-Present)

Vincent Sinclair

Lester Sinclair

Bubba Sawyer

Thomas Hewitt

Marvel

Captain America/Steve Rodgers

Black Widow/Natasha Romanov

Druig

Hulk/Bruce Banner

Eddie Brock/Venom

Spiderman/Peter Parker (Tobey, Andrew, and Tom)

Iron Man/Tony Stark

Ant Man/Scott Lang

Doctor Strange/Stephen Strange

Loki

Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff

Daredevil/Matt Murdock

Winter Soldier/Bucky Barnes

Barron Zemo

Criminal Minds

Spencer Reid

Emily Prentiss

Aaron Hotchner

Derek Morgan

The Vampire Diaries

Damon Salvatore

Stephan Salvator

Klause Mikaelson

Elijah Mikaelson

Kol Mikaelson

Kai Parker

Alaric Saltsman

Jeremy Gilbert

Caroline Forbes

Tyler Lockwood

Matt Donovan

Rebekah Mikaelson

Twilight

Edward Cullen

Jacob Black

Bella Swan

Charlie Swan

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Writing list

This is the list if characters i write for. Any characters or fandoms not listed? Ask and they might get added!

Stranger things

Steve Harrington

Billy Hargrove

Nancy Weeler

Johnathan Byers

Eddie Munson

Joyce Byers

Jim Hopper

Good Omens

Aziraphel

Crowly

Slashers

Micheal Myers (og)

Corry Cunningham

Jason Voorhees

Thomas Hewitt

Chucky

Tiffany Valentine

Stu Macher

Billy Loomis

Freddy Kruger

Brahms Heelshire

Yautja (Male and Female)

Otis Driftwood

Beastars

Anime only sorry

Legoshi

Louis

Bill

Riz

Pina

Haru

Juno

Jojos Bizarre Adventure

Anime only sorry

Johnathan Joestar

Caesar Zeppeli

Joseph Joestar (part 3 and 4)

Jotaro Joestar (all parts)

Jean Piarre Polnareff

Noriyaki Kakyoin

Muhammad Abdul

Josuke Higashikata

Yoshikage Kira

Okuyasu Ninimura

Koichi Hirose

Giorno Giovanna

Guido Mista

Leone Abbacchio

Narancia Ghirga

Bruno Bucciarati

Jolyne Cujoh

Weather Report

Narciso Ananusi

Dio Brando (all parts)

Dialtown

Oliver swift

Randy Jade

Karen Dunn (platonic only)

Jerry

Bigfoot

Phonegingi

Norm Allen

Dead By Daylight

Dwight Farfield

Claudette Morel

Jake Park

Feng Min

David king

Ace Visconti

Nancy Weeler

Steve Harrington

Leon Kennedy

Trapper

Wraith

Doctor

Shape

Huntress

Legion (all except Susie)

Ghost Face

Oni

Deathslinger

Trickster

Nemesis

Detroit Become Human

Connor

Markus

Kara

Luther

Hank

Gavin

Red Dead Redemption 2

Arthur Morgan

Dutch Van der lind

Sadie Adler

Resident Evil

Leon Kennedy

Luis Sera

Claire Redfield

Chris Redfield

Jill Valentine

Ada Wong

Carlos Oliveira

Ethan Winters

Alcina Dimitrescu

Karl Heisenberg

Stardew Valley

Sebastian

Elliot

Shane

Alex

Sam

Harvey

Abigail

Hailey

Krobus

Monster Prom

Damien LaVey

Liam De Lioncourt

Polly Geist

Scott Howll

Vera Oberlin

Miranda Vanderbilt

Calculester

Zoe

Oz

Amira

Vicky

Brian

Life Is Strange

Max Caufield

Chloe Price

Warren Graham

Nathan Prescott

Mark Jefferson

Until Dawn

Joshua Washington

Christopher Hartly

Mathew Monroe

Jessica Riley

Michael Taylor

Ashly Brown

Our Life

Cove Holden

Cliff Holden

Derek Suarez

Baxter Ward

Obey me!

Lucifer

Mammon

Leviathan

Satan

Asmodeous

Belphegor

Beelzebub

Simeon

Diavolo

Barbatos

Raphael

Thirteen

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Harry Baur in Les Misérables (Raymond Bernard, 1934) Cast: Harry Baur, Charles Vanel, Florelle, Josseline Gaël, Gaby Triquet, Jean Servais, Orane Demazis, Gilberte Savary, Charles Dullin, Marguerite Moreno, Émile Genevois, Robert Vidalin, Paul Azaïs, Max Dearly, Henry Krauss. Screenplay: Raymond Bernard, André Lang, based on a novel by Victor Hugo. Cinematography: Jules Kruger. Production design: Lucien Carré, Jean Perrier. Music: Arthur Honegger. Harry Baur gives one of the great film performances in Les Misérables, beginning with a tour de force in the first installment, subtitled Tempest in a Skull, in which he plays not only the brutish convict Jean Valjean and his first assumed identity, the benevolent mayor of Montreuil-sur-Mer, M. Madeleine, but also the addle-brained Champmathieu, wrongly fingered as the fugitive Valjean. Baur's Valjean is not the dashing, younger heroic figure embodied by Fredric March in Richard Boleslawski's 1935 Hollywood version or Hugh Jackman in Tom Hooper's 2012 film of the musical. March and Jackman had to work hard to suggest Valjean's hardened convict past, but Baur looks the part. He cleans up nicely, though. Raymond Bernard's version is closer to the epic Victor Hugo novel than the later adaptations, which necessitates its miniseries length: a 281-minute total run time, divided into three films. Trilogies typically sag in the middle: In Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings, for example, The Two Towers (2002) is weaker than The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and The Return of the King (2003). But Bernard manages to give each part fairly equal heft, concentrating on Valjean's transformation in Tempest in a Skull, on the thwarted manipulations of the titular couple in The Thénardiers, and on the fight on the barricades in Freedom, Dear Freedom. This is not to say that there isn't some slackness within each installment: Bernard, like many directors who mastered their skills making silent films, doesn't seem fully at home with sound even yet; there are scenes in which the actors seem to be holding a pose a beat or two longer than necessary. And despite Arthur Honegger's distinguished score, Bernard allows some scenes that could use the "sweetening" of background music to go without it. In The Thénardiers, for example, the plot to ensnare Valjean and the ensuing fight scene could have used some tension-and-release music, but the score only begins, rather abruptly, when the lovers, Marius (Jean Servais) and Cosette (Josseline Gaël), meet. But as a totality, Les Misérables is a triumph, and apparently a little-known one, to judge by the fact that it doesn't come up as one of the top results in an IMDb search. Jules Kruger's cinematography gives an expressionist tilt to some of its scenes, and the production design, from the slummy haunts of the Thénardiers to the opulence of Gillenormand's mansion, is superb. But most of all it has Baur and a tremendous supporting cast, particularly Florelle* as a very touching Fantine, and Émile Genevois as a memorable Gavroche. Charles Vanel's Javert is not humanized sufficiently in the script, I think, so that his suicide comes as something of an anticlimax, but he gives it all the implacable menace the role allows him. But it's Baur who carries the film as impressively as he carries Servais's Marius through the sewers in the climax.

*Her full name was Odette Elisa Joséphine Marguerite Rousseau, and she was occasionally billed as Odette Florelle. It's too bad that today her screen name sounds like an air freshener.

[wessexroyalfamily]

Foreign Royal Tour. (part two)

The Royal Tour continued with Her Majesty Queen Anne II of Wessex meeting with Charles II, The Grand  Duke of Cornwall in the Minister’s Antechamber in Holyrood Palace. 

The Queen and Grand Duke posed for a brief photo, along side of David Kruger, the Minster of Wessex and Edmund Arthur the First Minister of Cornwall.  

The Grand Duke is expected to host a ball tonight at Holyrood Palace in honor of the Queen visit. 

[iconuk01]

Silent Knight Shō

After Saint Seiya, and before B'tX, Masami Kurumada came up with what turned out to be the very short lived Silent Knight Shō which lasted two manga volumes in 1991.

In this series we find that every human is descended, in some way, from an animal that they share a deep connection with. It can be any animal from a Tyrannosaurus Rex to a Spider, and certain people can call on the embodiment of that animal in the form of mystic armour, called, in this iteration, a Shelter.

I'm not sure about the plot to be honest, as it never came out in a langauge I can read, but I do like the designs of the various Shelters, and how they progress.

A lot of them are more than slightly similar to certain Saints, and Hades Spectres, but they're still cool!

Silent Knights Shō (翔) Shelter of the Falcon

Xīlíng (紫鈴) Shelter of the Fairy

Ryō (涼) Shelter of the Peacock

Ōko (皇虎) Shelter of the Tiger

Kruger (クルーガー) Shelter of the Buffalo

Kōmori (コウモリ) Shelter of the Bat

Midknights Arthur (アーサー) Shelter of the Eagle

Jacobini (ジャコビニ) Shelter of the Black Hawk

Neck (ネーク) Shelter of the Lamia

Taran (タラン) Shelter of the Spider

Bishops Alpha Romeo (アルファロメオ) Shelter of the Gryphon

Rooks Rook (ルック) Shelter of the Wild Boar