#dave and bambi novel

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Project ir : Who will survive?

Heaegav sumanto. The founder of emerald. Decided to trick the whole world but he didn't know that the trick doesn't work that made the twins of devil trick him back.

Sumanto made potion for twins. Sumanto learned that twins the youngest one will be a potion maker. Sumanto advertised it on tv. maikal and daikal was interested and goes to the place. The place is an alley way. 12 twins showed up. And the first twins are maikal and daikal and the last twins are Dave and David. Sumanto decided to convince them to fight. Each of twins dies. And the last one standing was maikal and daikal. Maikal decided to make a celebration potion if they win. So then he throws the potion to sumanto making the glitters and acids consuming his own body. And sumanto died. But not to worry. Maikal transferred sumanto soul to a tree. Called an birch wood tree. So as the other dead body. Both of them put them inside the Redding hood tree. A red tree..as for that. Maikal and daikal noticed that it doesn't really look like sumanto. But found out that was an artificial intelligence. So maikal and daikal was winned as the project ir and ot..for that. Sumanto gives them Vivian potion a potion for people to lead them to being a sin. But maikal and daikal refused for it and then left without a word.

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Heaegav Sumanto. Pendiri zamrud. Memutuskan untuk mengelabui seluruh dunia tetapi dia tidak tahu bahwa tipuannya tidak berhasil sehingga membuat si kembar iblis mengelabui dia kembali. Sumanto mengetahui bahwa si kembar yang paling muda akan menjadi pembuat ramuan. Sumanto mengiklankannya di tv. maikal dan daikal tertarik dan pergi ke tempat itu. Tempat itu adalah sebuah gang kecil. 12 anak kembar muncul. Kembar pertama adalah maikal dan daikal dan kembar terakhir adalah Dave dan David. Sumanto memutuskan untuk meyakinkan mereka untuk bertarung. Masing-masing anak kembar mati. Dan yang terakhir bertahan adalah maikal dan daikal. Maikal memutuskan untuk membuat ramuan perayaan jika mereka menang. Lalu ia melempar ramuan tersebut kepada Sumanto yang membuat kilauan dan asam memakan tubuhnya sendiri. Dan sumanto pun meninggal. Tapi tidak perlu khawatir. Maikal memindahkan jiwa Sumanto ke sebuah pohon. Disebut pohon kayu birch. Begitu juga dengan mayat yang lain. Keduanya dimasukkan ke dalam pohon tudung merah. Sebuah pohon merah..seperti itu. Maikal dan daikal menyadari bahwa itu tidak benar-benar terlihat seperti sumanto. Tapi ternyata itu adalah kecerdasan buatan. Jadi maikal dan daikal dimenangkan sebagai proyek ir dan ot..untuk itu. Sumanto memberi mereka ramuan vivian, ramuan untuk membuat mereka menjadi dosa. Namun maikal dan daikal menolaknya dan kemudian pergi tanpa sepatah kata pun.

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[masaworkdesignfan]

[MASTER OF THE GRAVEYARD/GRAVEYARD PARTY]

(short novel)

[at the graveyard]

Maikal and daikal the siblings of devil, at the graveyard they were digging the dead people's body only one person. Bambomerina fendomana x'usoc Ak'gan'harta'm..who died because a man raped her and then shoot her in the heart. As maikal and daikal digging. The body was...destroyed...so they grab the body and then an police saw what they do. As the police blink their gone. But left an empty digged out grave with blood trails...sibling of devil reach home...their mother..mukolilia saw what they both were carrying..

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Happy 404 day..?

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I could use some humor in my life today - do you mind recommending some of your funnier fics? And/or any fics you find funny? Thank you!

Of course anon- I hope these cheer you up.

My fics

Harry Potter and the Hogwarts Health and Safety Inspection

Snippet:Although touted as the “safest place in Great Britain”, the school has been subject to several break-ins. Unwanted guests have included a knife-wielding mass murderer and a mountain Troll.

Sirius Black and the Goblet of Freud

Snippet: Nobody could afford Hermès on a PA salary unless it was the type of Hermès sold out the back of someone’s van. 

Sirius Black's guide to using an extraordinarily intelligent cat to order a broom.

Snippet:I have just noticed quite how much this is sounding like your novels and would like it known that I am no cat shagger and that this tale will not have an unexpected turn.

Other fics

@leogichidaa's Psychoanalysis Sunday's series

So now Regulus is sat on a cream chaise lounge, staring at the ceiling, across from Dr. Boring, with the PhD in Stupid Questions. “Do you often find yourself in competition for your mother’s affection?”

@lanaturnergetup stolen glances, stolen cauldrons

“What’s in the sack?” Rosmerta said. She recognised the differences in her own tone: cutting, on edge, as opposed to flirtatious or anything close to banter.

“Well – there were these cauldrons, see,” Mundungus said. “I nicked them off Warty Harris – but really, he stole them from old Sid first, so I–”

@ghost-of-bambi Calling Dr Prongs

"This is nurse Padfoot speaking. What's your problem, Desperate in Divination?"

@saintsenara Inhuman Resources

MM: Well, let me tell you, she’s a total bitch. But, actually, I reckon they won't go for her. I dunno, she's just... a bit too prissy to be Death Eater material. If you ask me, at least.

@celestemagnoliathewriter Dave the unwanted Gryfindor

It started with his name, three days into the term. James and Sirius thought it would be funny to call him Dave, instead of Dionysius. No matter how many times he told them his name, the boys never called him anything but Dave.

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Today may be Cinco de Mayo & Free Comic Book Day, but Today is also National Cartoonists Day, and here is a Dedication to some of my Favorite Artists & Animators that really made Classical Art & Animation very Special even more, helping me Discover what a great Classical Art world is all about, and a Reason to draw more for a Living. Starting from Top Left: Mr. Henry Selick  'Nightmare Before Christmas', 'James and the giant Peach', and 'Coraline' Director  Sequence Director for 'Twice upon a Time'  Storyboard Artist for 'Return to Oz'  Visual Adaptor for 'Nutcracker: the Motion Picture'  Design & Directed a Few Mtv ID's from 1987-1990 Ms. Tina Nawrocki Animator on 'Cuphead' Designer and animator of Baroness Von Bon Bon and the mini-bosses for the level Sugarland Shimmy Also Animated Hopus Pocus, Pirouletta, Mr. Chimes, Pip and Dot and the Tipsy Troop. Mr. Genndy Tartakovsky  Great Cartoon Network Legend/Dreamer  Creator of 'Dexter's laboratory', 'Samurai Jack', the 2D Animated 'Star Wars: Clone Wars', and 'Sym-Bionic Titan'  'Hotel Transylvania' Director Mr. Ian McGinty Creator of 'Welcome to Showside' Comic Artist for 'Adventure Time', 'Invader Zim', & 'Hello Kitty' Mr. Max & Dave Fleischer Owners of 'Fleischer Studios', the Creative crew behind 'Betty Boop', 'Popeye', 'Superman', & 'Gulliver's Travels'. Mr. Patrick McHale Has worked on 'Adventure Time' as Creative Director from Season 1-2, Story Man, Writer, & Story Artist for the episode "the Enchiridion!" Writer & Story Artist for 'Flapjack' And Creator of the Marvelous 'Over the Garden Wall' Mr. Nick Cross Art Director for 'Over the Garden Wall' Currently Art director on Cartoon Network's Shorts Development program w/ Pilots for 'Craig of the Creek', 'Apple & Onion', & 'Infinity Train' Story Artist for the Time Traveling sequence in 'the SpongeBob Movie: Sponge out of Water' Guest Story artist, Animator, & Director for 'Uncle Grandpa' Mr. Bob Camp Co-developer, story, storyboard artist, writer, director, producer, supervising director, creative diector, voice actor for 'Ren & Stimpy' Development artist & design leader for Rankin/Bass Programs like 'Thundercats', 'Silverhawks', 'Tigersharks', & 'the Comic Strip' Story Artists for Animated Films like 'Osmosis Jones', 'Looney tunes: Back in Action', 'Robots', 'Ice Age: the Meltdown', & 'Epic'. Layout Artist for 'the SpongeBob Movie: Sponge out of Water' Mr. Bill Wray Background Designer for 'Ren & Stimpy' Creator of 'King Crab: Space Crustacean' Supervising Director on 'the Mighty B!' Mr. Ub Iwerks Co-Creator of 'Oswald the lucky Rabbit', 'Mickey Mouse', & 'Flip the Frog' Walt Disney's good friend & animator Mr. Pete Browngardt Creator of 'Uncle Grandpa' & 'Secret Mountain Fort Awesome' Voice of Uncle Grandpa, Festro, & Dingle Cartoon Network's Supervising Producer of 2013 Shorts like 'Lakewood Plaza Turbo', 'Tome of the unknown', 'Clarence', & 'Steven Universe' Ms. Katie Rice Co-Creator of 'Skadi' & 'Camp Weedonwantcha' Story Artist for Nickelodeon programs like 'the Mighty B!', the 'TUFF Puppy' episode "Forget me Mutt", & Revisionist on  'Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness Mr. Frank Thomas One of Disney's Nine Old Men Good friends with Ollie Johnston Animator for Bambi & Thumper in 'Bambi', the dwarfs in 'Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs', Lady Tremaine in 'Cinderella', Queen of Hearts in 'Alice in Wonderland', & Captain Hook in 'Peter Pan' Co-Author of 'the Illusion of Life' Mr. Ollie Johnston One of the Disney's nine Old Men also Good friends with Frank Thomas as well Animator for Mr. Smee in 'Peter Pan', the Stepsisters in 'Cinderella', the District Atorney in 'the Adventures of Ichabod & Mr. Toad', & Prince John in 'Robin Hood'. Co-Author of 'the Illusion of Life' Mr. Ian Jones-Quartey Creator of 'OK K.O. Let's be Heroes' Voice for Rad, Darrell, & Crinkly Wrinkly Past storyboard supervisor & storyboard revisionist for 'Adventure Time' Developer, co-executive producer, supervising director, storyline writer, & storyboard artist for 'Steven Universe' Mr. Richard Williams My Huge inspiration that changed my Life forever Animation director on 'Who framed Roger Rabbit' Master behind the Unfinished Masterpiece 'the Thief and the Cobbler' Mr. Don Bluth Legendary Non-Disney Animated Film master of the 1980's Master behind 'the Secret of NIMH', 'Dragon's Lair', 'An American Tail', 'the Land Before Time', 'All Dogs go to Heaven', & 'Anastasia'. Former Disney Animator Mr. Bryan Lee O' Malley Such Wonderful Graphic Novel artist Creator of 'Scott Pilgrim', 'Lost at Sea', & 'Seconds'. Mr. Pendleton Ward Creator of 'Adventure Time' & 'Bravest Warriors'. Voice of Lumpy Space Princess & Shelby Ms. Natasha Allegri Past Storyboard Revisionist & Character Designer for 'Adventure Time'. Creator of 'Fionna & Cake' and 'Bee & Puppycat'. Character Designer, Story Artist, & Director for 'the Summoning' Mr. J.G. Quintel Creator of 'Regular Show' & 'Close Enough' Voice of Mordecai & High Five Ghost Creative director, writer, storyboard artist for 'Flapjack' Mr. Jose Luis Moro Co-founder of Estudios Moro Creator of 'La Familia Telerin' Director & Animator for 'Cantinflas Show' Director, Animation Director & Character Designer for 'Katy Caterpiller' Additional Character Animator for 'All Dogs go to Heaven'

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By Hoai-Tran Bui

The first thing you notice about Blade Runner 2049 is how stark it is. Opening in a desolate, grey field where Ryan Gosling‘s Officer K confronts Dave Bautista‘s Sapper Morton, the world of the Blade Runner sequel steadily unfolds into the cyberpunk mecca that we were first introduced to back in 1982.

It’s clear that director Denis Villeneuve and cinematographer Roger Deakins don’t want to ape the neon-drenched griminess of the original, instead delivering an oppressive urban labyrinth that parallels the dense claustrophobia of modern Hong Kong high rises. Only one-third of the way through the film do we see hints of a vibrant neonscape cutting through the smog and rain that covers the futuristic Los Angeles. And with that neon: holograms of dancing women in anime-inspired outfits, cute Hello Kitty-style machines, Chinese characters and Japanese kanji galore.

It amounts to a stunning, dissonant image in one of the most gorgeously shot movies of the year, and not an unfamiliar one: science-fiction movies have long borrowed East Asian imagery as a visual shorthand to portray a more globalized society. It has roots in none other than the original Blade Runner, which drew from the burgeoning Tokyo and Hong Kong metropolises of the time, as well as the rapid globalization in the ’80s. With the massive cultural influence that China, South Korea, and Japan wield today, it’s no huge leap to assume that in the near future, every city would be a cultural melting pot with East Asian influences run amok. But in Blade Runner 2049, it feels less like a nod to those influences so much as it feels like window dressing.

When East Met West: The Rise of Cyberpunk

Los Angeles is known as one of the United States’ most colorful cultural melting pots, housing a Chinatown that had become so synonymous with the gritty underbelly of the city that it inspired the title for one of Hollywood’s most famous film noirs. From that Chinatown spawned the makings of the classic cyberpunk aesthetic — Ridley Scott’s Blade Runnertook that Chinatown-set, gritty neo-noir aesthetic and ran with it.

With 1982’s Blade Runner and William Gibson’s seminal 1984 novel Neuromancer came the birth of cyberpunk, a sci-fi genre heavily influenced by Japan’s technological boom of the 1980s and Tokyo’s rapidly rising metropolis. After visiting Japan, Gibson once said:

Modern Japan simply was cyberpunk. The Japanese themselves knew it and delighted in it. I remember my first glimpse of Shibuya, when one of the young Tokyo journalists who had taken me there, his face drenched with the light of a thousand media-suns – all that towering, animated crawl of commercial information – said, ‘You see? You see? It is Blade Runner town.’ And it was. It so evidently was.

Cyberpunk blew up in the ’90s, and you could see it in everything from The Matrix, to Total Recall, to anime itself. Ghost in the Shell, Akira, and more all depicted a futuristic, grimy vision of Neo-Tokyo whose visuals can be traced back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer. It’s a cyclical nature of inspiration, see — from Tokyo to America, back to Tokyo again.

“The work that has influenced me the most in my anime profession would be, of course, Blade Runner,” Cowboy Bebopand Samurai Champloo director Shinichiro Watanabe said in an interview about his Blade Runner anime short. There’s been a cross-pollination of ideas and influence between the two countries for years — just look to “god of manga” and Astro Boy creator Osamu Tezuka’s influences in Disney’s Bambi, and Disney’s subsequent “plagiarizing” of Tezuka’s Kimba the White Lion for their ’90s film The Lion King.

These sci-fi films depict a future where cultural boundaries don’t exist. One of the tenets of sci-fi is its potential to predict innovations or technologies within our reach. At the rate that the world is globalizing — on a political, cultural, and social media level — the vision that Villeneuve has for Los Angeles in 2049 is probably not far off. But amidst all Chinese or Japanese slogans and imagery draped over skyscrapers, where are all the East Asian people?

The ‘Firefly’ Effect

Firefly was an ambitious, witty, and wonderful sci-fi series that was gone too soon. But it’s been long enough since the series was unceremoniously cancelled by Fox that I can say this: Firefly has a race problem. While it was inspired for showrunner Joss Whedon to give his western space opera a Chinese twist, there aren’t many (or any) Chinese characters in the series to back up this piece of world-building.

Chinese culture in Firefly is so ubiquitous that all the characters curse, write, and read in Chinese. Yes, I know the Chinese curses were a clever way for Whedon to bypass prime time TV censors, and yes, I know that in the Fireflymythology, China and the United States are the two remaining superpowers. But for all the Chinese spoken in the show, for all the Chinese-inspired design and fashion in the series, there was barely a Chinese character to be seen. There is approximately one documented minor character of Asian descent in the series, and a few extras who were spotted. It’s odd to have Chinese culture be so dominant, and not have one Chinese character establish a presence.

Blade Runner 2049 runs into these same pitfalls. While the Asian-influenced imagery remains further in the background than it did in the original Blade Runner, where the sequel goes wrong is the utter lack of Asian characters. I spotted maybe two extras of Asian descent — one in the false memory that Carla Juri’s Dr. Ana Stelline was creating, another in a fleeting shot behind Officer K when he’s approached by Replicant prostitutes. And the one character with an Asian-inspired name — Robin Wright’s Lt. Joshi has a traditionally Indian surname — is most assuredly not.

So if East or South Asian culture or language is so powerful, who is it for?

Angelica Jade Bastien at Vulture makes an interesting point about sci-fi’s tendency to depict a post-racial world in which the white characters — often dehumanized and oppressed — exist in a strange space between the Asian-inspired landscapes and the allegories for minority oppression which they are acting out. “Science fiction has long had an uncomfortable relationship with Asian cultures, which are mined to create visual splendor in order to communicate otherness,” Bastien writes. “[R]ace is relegated to inspiration, coloring the towering cityscapes of these worlds, while the white characters toil under the hardships that brown and black people experience acutely in real life.”

Like Bastien notes, sci-fi stories don’t reckon with real-life minority narratives, instead preferring to turn them into allegory. This is an effective technique, no doubt, but assumes that this futuristic world we’re introduced to is a post-racial society in which culture has become so globalized that racial and cultural borders don’t exist — but these societies are still predominantly white.

Living in a Material But Not a Post-Racial World

One of the best depictions I’ve seen of a cross-cultural future was in Disney’s Big Hero 6, an often overlooked superhero-lite movie released in 2014. The protagonist, Hiro, is a half-Japanese, half-American boy genius living in the somewhat clunkily-named San Fransokyo — an amalgam of San Francisco and Tokyo.

But less than a clumsy merger of the San Francisco skyline with Japanese-inspired artifacts, Big Hero 6 creates a rich world in which the two cities comfortably mesh the old with the new, much like the neon-drenched Tokyo that became an inspiration for many a cyberpunk metropolis in the ’80s.

At the time of the movie’s release, The New Yorker‘s Roland Kelts called the elegant-yet-eclectic design of San Fransokyo a “marvel of architectural alchemy”:

“Shibuya skyscrapers with pulsing video screens hug San Francisco’s iconic Transamerica Pyramid. Victorian Mission duplexes line hilly San Fransokyo neighborhoods, aglow from the pink-white light of Japanese cherry blossoms in full bloom below. Trains from the Yamanote and Chuo lines, two of Tokyo’s central and most popular railways, stream by on elevated tracks. The sprawling Yokohama Bay Bridge connects the financial district to San Francisco’s East Bay, which may well be home to Oaksaka and Berkyoto in this Japanamerican universe.”

As much as I point to Blade Runner 2049 as one of the perpetrators of the problem of choosing “costume” over “collaboration” (see: this Vulture roundtable discussion on where the line of cultural appropriation should be drawn), the original Blade Runner managed to avoid this stumbling block. Perhaps it was because its neo-noir style was as much ingrained in the Chinatown of Los Angeles as it was inspired by the Hong Kong skyscrapers, or perhaps it was because Rick Deckard negotiated with as many Asian noodle sellers and seedy pawn shop owners as he interacted with those of other ethnicities. Whatever the case, this is one of the few places where the sequel falls short of the original.

Still, there are other films that sit uncomfortably on the periphery. Ghost in the Shell divorced itself of any cultural context completely by moving the setting from a futuristic Tokyo to the ambiguous New Port City — though that setting still retained its cyberpunk East Asian influences. This means that the 2017 Ghost in the Shell tangled entangles itself with its own  representation and diversity problems — there are a few Asian characters and one of the two recognizable actors featured (Rila Fukushima) is a geisha robot. In Ghost in the Shell, the vague nods to all cultures only make the film feel more hollow and aimless — a shell, you might even say.

A Future to Look Forward To

Blade Runner 2049‘s missteps with race don’t detract from the powerful story it tells about the will to live, and love. Rather, Villeneuve’s film becomes an interesting confluence of issues that have been simmering beneath the surface of sci-fi for a long time now.

It only becomes noticeable when held up to the original film, whose influences become all the more stronger even as Blade Runner 2049 becomes less about any cultural inspiration than it is about an all-encompassing message about humanity. Blade Runner 2049 comes at a time when Tokyo is no longer than awe-inspiring cultural metropolis that spawned so many cyberpunk stories and movies. It comes at a time when the future looks less like the colorful, grimy neon lights of Blade Runner and more like the dense, smog-filled labyrinths. So the story it tells is no longer one that is rooted in our current paranoias and beliefs, but rather a universal story about the abstract concepts that Villeneuve comes to again and again: cycles of brutality, and cycles of empathy.

I wish I could say I had a better conclusion — but then again, who does?

[aion-rsa]

Mortal Kombat: The Challenges of Making the Movie Reboot

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“Respect is the word I just kept using over and over,” says Simon McQuoid about his directorial debut, the Mortal Kombat movie reboot. “Elevate and respect the material. So it was all just born out of respect for the characters.”

For McQuoid, it’s a challenging beginning to take on such a long-running and venerated franchise. Since 1992, there have been 14 editions of the video game, two animated films, two live action films, an animated series, live actions series for TV and the web, a novelization, and even a live stage show. McQuoid and 30+ year industry veteran, producer Todd Garner (xXx, Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2), sat down with Den of Geek and other members of the press for a virtual roundtable to discuss making a movie based on one of the most successful fighting games ever. 

Cole Young’s Place in Mortal Kombat Lore

This version of Mortal Kombat is completely new, not beholden to stories told in the previous films. McQuoid had several discussions with Ed Boon, one of the creators of the original video game, but says that NetherRealm Studios weren’t involved with the film the whole time.

“There was conversations back and forth at key moments,” McQuoid recalls, “and they were really helpful and great guys.”

But overall, the reboot does its own thing, as the gargantuan continuity of the Mortal Kombat franchise would be too daunting for newcomers, Garner explains: “How are you able to have somebody come in, sit down in the theater, and watch this movie and not be completely confused by the unbelievable lore that Ed and John [Tobias, the other creator] have created over 30 years?”

Garner compares trying to grasp franchise’s deep lore as a newcomer to showing up for Avengers: Endgame without seeing any of the previous MCU films. Audiences would have no idea what was happening. Every installment in the game series also introduced new characters so there are dozens of them, plus there were outrageous cameos from characters from other franchises like Rambo, the Joker, Freddy Kruger, Spawn, and the Terminator.

“If I could spend nine hours, like they did in WandaVision, just with two characters falling in love, I’m in,” Garner says. However, the project was only greenlit as a lone feature film. “Would I love to make the Snyder Cut of this movie and have it be four hours? Sure. But my goal is to tell every story and tell it well and tell it honestly.”

To solve all this, Mortal Kombat adds a new character who discovers this universe along with the audience: Cole Young (Lewis Tan). With so many popular characters already on the roster, a new one may seem superfluous, but Garner says the difference here is that players are invested in all the previous characters because they played them. He knows that longtime fans would feel that their favorites were poorly represented, especially if they weren’t in the lead role.

“Cole is the audience surrogate because he doesn’t know anything,” Garner explains. “He has no backstory in the game…We just needed a character that was a cipher that came in and went, ‘Okay, I’m going to connect the dots between the fans and the non-fans, so that by the end of the movie, we’re all in the same place.’”

Tan is an up-and-coming martial arts star and second-generation stuntman. His father, Philip Tan, has been in the stunt business since 1987. Tan had major roles in AMC’s Into the Badlands and Netflix’s Wu Assassins, but this is his first lead role in a feature film. “Lewis is an incredibly gifted martial arts fighter,” McQuoid says. “He also has a great presence on camera that connected.” That combination sealed the deal for Tan.

However, Tan isn’t the only cast member with a strong martial arts background. The film is packed with many of the top martial actors in cinema today. After all, Mortal Kombat is based on a fighting game, a brutal one at that, so it is critical that the fight scenes be next level. 

A Martial Arts Film, Not a Video Game Movie

One of the foremost priorities for the filmmakers was to cast actors who can fight well on screen. For martial arts fans, the Mortal Kombat cast list is impressive: Max Huang (Chinese Zodiac, Dragon Blade) as Kung Lao, Ludi Lin (Power Rangers, Black Mirror) as Liu Kang, Hiroyuki Sanada (The Twilight Samurai, The Last Samurai) as Scorpion, Tadanobu Sato (Zatoichi, 47 Ronin) as Raiden, Joe Taslim (The Raid, Warrior) as Sub-Zero, plus Elissa Cadwell (Nitara) and Daniel Nelson (Kabal) are formidable stunt people. There hasn’t been a major Hollywood picture with a fight card this stacked in forever. 

It made casting more challenging because finding this level of martial talent dramatically narrowed the field, but Garner claims it was a non-negotiable term. “The first thing we said out of the gate was: I’ve got bad news for you, Warner Brothers. Not only is this going to be diverse, they got to know how to fight.” McQuoid concurs that they wanted real martial artists. “We needed people who had the ability to fight when they needed to fight and have that martial arts skill that not everyone has. That’s something that comes from having years of training.”

Garner says everyone is saying this is a video game movie, but he insists that it is a martial arts movie. The filmmakers didn’t want to overuse stunt doubles because they felt it would detract from the authenticity of the action. “I watched Max and Lewis go at it. I watched Ludi and Lewis go at it. I mean, these guys are phenomenal artists, and that’s what we wanted.”

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Garner shared a production anecdote about working with martial actors: “When you have somebody like Max Huang come on set and go, ‘By the way, guys, for the last six months, I’ve been practicing doing a 540 with no wire. Watch this.’ And he does it. You go, ‘Oh, you bet your ass we’re putting that in the movie.’ Because I don’t care, Tom Cruise can’t do a 540 with no wire, right?”

Garner claims that Mortal Kombat has one of the most beautiful fights he’s ever seen, one of the coolest fights he’s ever seen, and one of the most brutal fights he’s ever seen. That’s three separate fight scenes and there’s more. The video game was notorious for gratuitous violence. Characters get their spines ripped out, their heads blasted through their bodies, their bodies torn asunder, and so much more. The original was so over the top that it was censored and banned in many countries.

“Compared to the game, we’re like Bambi, right?” confesses Garner. “We’re like a G-rated movie compared to the game. The game is just incredibly operatic in terms of the violence.”

Mortal Kombat’s Diverse Cast

The cast of Mortal Kombat is not only well trained, but also conspicuously diverse. No whitewashing here. According to McQuoid, from day one it never crossed anyone’s mind at any point to do it any other way. “Perhaps the guys at New Line are just braver than most.” With racial tension on the rise, particularly anti-Asian hate, a diverse cast without an A-list actor is a bold gamble for a Hollywood production. “The thing about Mortal Kombat is it’s a rich, textural mixture of really great things. Many different cultures.”

Garner hopes that by the end of the movie audiences aren’t stuck on the cast being predominantly Asian, or Mehcad Brooks (Jax) being African American, or Sisi Stringer (Mileena) being Black Australian. Racial issues need not interfere with their escapist film. “You’re just going to go, ‘I just love them. It was great.’ And the color will just wash over you.”

McQuoid understands the diversity issue. “It’s important because it’s just the right thing to do, right? It’s that simple.”

Easter Eggs

When it comes to easter eggs, Mortal Kombat wrote the book. The video games are packed with hidden codes, references to previous games, and the legendary “Toasty!” taunt which dates all the way back to Mortal Kombat II from 1993. The game was ahead of its time in that respect.

Reboots today are judged by their easter eggs, and Garner says Mortal Kombat will make for good hunting with long time fans. “What’s awesome is that every single person on this movie, I’m telling you down to the set painters, loves Mortal Kombat.” When the production began, he sat down with fellow producers Richard Brener and Victoria Palmeri, Dave Neustadter from New Line, and screenwriter Greg Russo and discussed what easter eggs they could put in. “And James Wan came on, and he’s like, ‘I got some easter eggs for ya.’ And then every person from the set painters to the prop to the costumers to Simon to Ludi to everybody said, ‘Well, what about this? What about this?’” 

According to Garner, there’s even an easter egg in the trailer when Sub-Zero grabs the barrel of the gun and fires. “If you look behind him, it’s the cheat code for that exact move that Sub-Zero does: in, down, left, right.” 

“The intent was to respect the material,” McQuoid says. “That had to be first and foremost.”

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Mortal Kombat premieres in theaters and on HBO Max on April 16, 2021.

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[yellodisney]

five got scalped camping with 3 gollywogs

five go camping with a random Australasian stranger ( Davin / Dave ) who is imminently going to maniac-ville with the exception of a return ticket , he’s abt to become perverted put on a mask then skin and eat a koala and baby deer that looks just like bambi . ( a thing from his childhood ) he then embarks on the completely insane tradition of wrestling with bears followed by the eating of wild hallucogenic mushrooms and * berriezz* which is in turn succeeded by deep prolonged thought provoking and sincere conversations with blue wilderbeests  . he then proceeds with the incantation of ancient native tribes to summon the spirit and ju-on of running hyena no fear from the massacre at eagle creek in 1810 known as blood sunday . once overwhelmingly possessed by the spirit of * running hyena no fear * the tomahawk throwing legend of the wild west known more commonly as ‘ red kill swift-foot ‘  the thoroughly encompassed :’D individual ( davin / dave )  will then consume 7 liters of poisonous benyarni lizard juice , one of which he keeps alive and pushes into his soiled potato stained dudu pip yellowing bark like underwear , ( he enjoys the pain of the acid ) then he will brandish a hammer 🔨 and a bowie knife 🔪,  and leave 5 boneless and 5 swinging in the breeze alongside 3 gollywog effigy’s from atop 5 cedars at 5 alternative locations within the 5 boundaries of kissimee national park....

From the Novel ‘’ Five got scalped camping with 3 gollywogs ‘’ ‘’

By Winston Rohan

[serendipitous-magic]

Freckles: Most worn item of clothing? Cupcake: Are you a good cook? Paper: Favorite children's book? Cuddles: Do you have any pets?

Freckles: Most worn item of clothing?

I have a dark gray sweatshirt with Bambi on it that I bought like two and a half years ago and I've probably worn it for at least 1/4 of the days since. It's my favorite thing ever. It's exactly the right size to be loose enough to be comfy but not baggy, and it's soft inside, and the gray color goes with literally everything because it's gray, and I bought it because it's Bambi, like bambi lesbian (me!).

And lately, since I've been doing a lot of work from home, I've worn my sweatpants to death lol. I didn't even own sweatpants before this year.

Cupcake: Are you a good cook?

Hit or miss. I can usually produce something pretty good, following a recipe. However, I usually get bored about halfway through a recipe and start going off the rails, adding extra shit and ignoring the measurements of spices. So usually it's just fine, like a solid B or B+, and sometimes I fuck it up and make it kinda sub-par, but then like once in a blue moon I produce something absolutely fantastic - and then I can't replicate it because I was messing with the recipe and didn't write down what I did. Lol. But usually I can make something tasty, if not particularly memorable.

Paper: Favorite children's book?

I really liked Nancy and Plum by Betty McDonald, when I was growing up. And I would stay up past my bedtime to read Peter and the Starcatchers (by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson) by the light of my nightlight. And of course I adored The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and the other Narnia books (C.S. Lewis), and Harry Potter (y'all know who it's by), and Inkheart by Cornelia Funke was a big favorite, and the Eragon series (I guess that's not a children's book per se, but I read it a lot in middle school). I also quite enjoyed Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark by Alvin Schwartz, even though they scared me to death (LMAO), and I was a fan of Goosebumps books by R. L. Stein. Oh and my grandma basically taught me to read by reading me The Hobbit over and over and over and over and over (which I didn't mind at all; I was the one requesting it over and over and over and over and over).

My top favorite book from childhood has to be A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle, though.

If you mean, like picture books instead of novels, then hmm. I really liked The Wolves in the Walls by Neil Gaiman, The Rainbow Goblins by Ul De Rico, and The Story of Holly and Ivy by Rumer Godden.

Cuddles: Do you have any pets?

Sadly I do not :( I live with family right now because pandemic, and they're allergic to anything with fur, so I don't get to have a kitty not matter how badly I want one. And I don't really have a place to put a tank or small enclosure right now - I could probably make space, but I have absolutely no idea how long I'll be here or where I'll be moving next (if I ever escape my hometown, which is looking terrifyingly less and less likely), so it's kinda an inopportune time to get one. I used to have a betta fish named Caspian. He was a pretty boy. But my ex got custody of him when we split, like two and some years ago, and he has since died, RIP. (The fish not the ex.) I would so get a cat if I could, though.

And to be honest I keep considering spending the money on another fish tank and getting some fish, or some other small pet, even though I probably shouldn't because it's bad timing, lol.

This was fun! Thanks!

[masaworkdesignfan]

INTRODUCTION

(since I have no intro)

Pronounces : any of them (not genderfluid)

Hi I'm dhia! Or you could call GATERBELT/masa!

I'm also transgender and bisexual because uhhh- don't ask.

I have cats!

Yes cat.

CATS.

I like drawing in different styles! And some times nfsw drawings....

IM A SLUG LOVER.

Accs I made : @ssaikolovesryou (mainly nfsw acc.) @gaterbelt1 (oc only acc) @kinitopetaskblogig (fucking abandoned) @ask-chartreuse

Oc lore acc : MASAWORKDESIGNFANOCLORE

Also! You can draw my main oc! That represents me!

My yt accs are banned from yt for no reason

I basically love some fandoms y'all didn't know so here's the list!

-little nightmares (main)

-undertale

-deltraune

-masa work design

-omori

-roblox

-evillious chronicles

-minecraft

-the amazing digital circus

-rayrayvision

-bugbo

-danganrondpa (udh,the,sdr2,drv3kh)

-fnf

-vocaloid

-dave and bambi

-rolli und rita

-onibi series

-ranfren

-maha series

-trigun stampede

-stranger things

-lapor pak! (INDONESIAN show)

-poppy playtime

-hazbin hotel

-regrevator

-yaelokre

-the pink corruption

-pressure

-murder drones

Also here's a question

[Also! My post could be underages because on how suggestive they could be!]

Novels and comics!↓

Novels :

missy flowered but I began to loose it volume 1

Missy flowered but I began to loose it volume 2.5

Missy flowered but I began to loose it volume 3.0

Happy hotel au : episode 1 season 1 : hello and welcome miss Vuitton

Happy hotel au : episode 2 season 1 : is it okay?

Comics :

Angel dust toture and life

_________

Head canons :

Hazbin hotel headcanons

TADC au

Bugbo

_________

Oc :

Demon's (seven deadly sins aka spooky month oc's)

My first post

My new series (comic only)

Bugbo oc's

The pink corruption oc

Fun fact about baq

MASTERPOSTS :

TADC slang au

Regretevator au (RENRENREN)

REGRETLOID (regretevator au)

THINGS I CREATED:

TADC au (slang au)

Regretevator au (renrenren)

Slime/goo folly

Eden garden (bugbo oc)

REGRETLOID (regretevator au)

Tripodilliant(TPC OC)

Chartreuse (PRESSURE OC)

Calne CA Uzi

Internperson (Mr lopee x good people)

HALL OF:

pressure

[masaworkdesignfan]

Wait if the devillious chronicles au is messed up does that mean there more messed up ships?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??????!???!????!????1!1!2!2!!2!2!2!2!

Yup! I should have told you guys this is inspired by evillious chronicles!, cameo x bandu is litteraly an incest same like milden and banjex!, but the ships I like is in there too ! Dave x muko is there which means daron and mukolilia is married! Okay here's spoilers for the next novel!

Recarnated boy:

"maikal! Harold killed chris!"

Give love and vague, mad. (Maya haha):

Terrianna and tristanilia looks at the same mirror they wore different clothes in the mirror.

Incantation farce :

"scissor of mad, bloodstained wine glass, katana within lust, flowers of evil, and guns of the devil. No one could ever like you're project! Ma..." Mukolilia said. She knew she wasn't trick ma. Her mother.

Servant of evil :

"I will promise I'll help you"

Daughter of evil :

"BOW DOWN TO ME PEASANTS."

Master of the court :

He wishes if he didn't died he wouldn't be a doll.

Master of the hellish yard :

Mother.

Master of heavenly yard :

Expunged tries to convince bandu and..he got sented to heaven which made him as one of the angels.

Tasan party :

Bambi chan singing on the stage while people dancing oh boy! I hope nothing happened!