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Merle Oberon (Wuthering Heights, The Scarlet Pimpernel)—She was mixed race (born in India and her mother was Sri Lankan) and still managed to make it in the British and American film industries (by passing) despite a rough start in life and industry racism. She was the first Asian person to be nominated for any Academy Award (best actress in 1935)! She also survived a car accident in 1937 and kept on acting until 1973, despite potentially career-ending facial scars. Also, she met her third husband while they were filming a movie together in 1973 (her last movie and she still looks great!). They fell in love and got married in 1975 when she was 62 and he was 36. She died 4 years later in 1979. Iconic.
Jean Seberg (Breathless, Saint Joan)— Some of us watched À bout de souffle as a lil French undergrad and had the trajectory of our lives changed by Jean Seberg. She IS French new wave!! She is the moment!! She sadly had to work with a lot of shitty directors in her career but even so, she has this magnetic energy whenever she’s on screen. In her personal life, she was also very supportive of civil rights causes, and was even targeted/harassed by the FBI for financially supporting the Black Panther Party.
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Merle Oberon:
Beautiful. Talented. Biracial. Also please refer to the following promo from the aforementioned A Night To Remember, in which she plays the writer George Sand:
Her performances always give off this perfect blend of of being composed, refined, and aloof while still being deeply passionate and I eat it up every time.
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A rare example of a WOC working in lead roles in this era (mostly because she worked very hard to pass as white and had to hide her south asian heritage sadly). She has this very regal vibe but also a simmering intensity—even holding her own as Cathy opposite Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff.
I need all the gothic fans to STAND UP for our cathy!!
She has such a unique face when it comes to old hollywood actresses - a lot of them start to melt together in my brain - but Merle has always stood out to me<3
Jean Seberg:
anyone who plays Joan of Arc is kind of hot by default tbh
she's gorgeous, she's cool, she has the original blond pixie cut
She donated a lot of her money to civil rights organizations such as the NAACP and the black panther party as well as Native American school groups, as a result of this the fbi ran a smear campaign against her and a surveillance campaign which is thought to have led to her suicide tragically.
idk if this is propaganda but the COINTELPRO and the FBI are widely blamed for her death. If the FBI was after her for supporting the Black Panther Party you know she was good
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Thinking about the skills again ok so what’s up with the deal/vow Harry made with Volition 16 years ago and what exactly does it entail? The way he says “I’m failing you” like he has an individual end of the bargain to hold up that goes beyond the agreed upon wake up time. So how long has he had these skills? Have they been with him his whole life? Did they all come at once, or did they add on one by one? On top of that (and I know this dialogue is silly but in my defense it was put in front of me and therefore I will talk about it) there’s the dialogue where they all talk about being located in different places/pushing buttons/talking about Harry like he isn’t there (and he isn’t, since one you get out of the loop your dialogue options indicate that he has no memory of what just happened)
Okay, so they all exist in different spaces, but they can see each other, because they refer to each other by what they look like (not by name though! As far as I can remember?)
So what’s their deal?!? These guys seem to exist in some capacity without him, but they still live inside of him and (if Volition is right) have been there for at least 16 years (at least, volition has, and again, if he’s right) maybe, like how shivers is part of Revachol herself, the other skills are also a part of something greater that’s speaking to you? That might explain why most of them are “he” but shivers is “she” and Rhetoric and perception are “we” and “they”
Idk I just find it fascinating and really really cool. I wanna hear what you guys think! Or if I missed some dialogue that actually explains everything that I talked about haha. Let me know!!! :3
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