#dr friedrich

[arwenkenobi48]

What my F/Os do on Christmas

Amsel’s more of a krampusnacht person, but still enjoys the wintery atmosphere. His narrations of A Christmas Carol are the best. He’s the first to put on a Christmas themed horror movie as well.

Sauron is utterly baffled by it and the overly joyful atmosphere associated with the holidays, but admittedly loves putting up decorative lights.

Feral has adopted a mini kawaii krampus and feeds it copious amounts of gingerbread and mince pies (while also consuming plenty of them himself).

Mephistopheles is in charge of what the Christmas movie marathons are going to entail. The Muppets Christmas Carol, Gremlins and Scrooge: The Musical always manage to be part of it.

Devil has mixed feelings about it, considering the fact that he had to become Santa that one time in season three of his own show. But he’ll gladly enjoy watching The Polar Express with us all.

Ratbag knits everyone sweaters. The sweaters must be worn throughout the whole holiday period. It’s the law.

Friedrich is a complete Christmas fanatic. As in, he makes other Christmas fanatics seem tame in comparison. He literally went on a one man trip to the North Pole so he could “obtain Santa Claus’ super powers” and was dubbed Frosty The Snow Scientist for months afterwards.

Koroviev can and will start a massive snowball fight. He’s also a massive fan of The Nutcracker and insists on seeing the ballet every year.

Gabriel basically just listens to Trans-Siberian Orchestra albums for a solid month.

Ulysses has an entire Christmas dinner to himself and spends the next few days flopped on the hearthrug.

Cortex has way too much eggnog and always ends up drunkenly singing Auld Lang Syne while wrapped up into a festive blanket burrito.

[weirdlookindog]

Lil Dagover, Friedrich Feher, and Hans Heinrich von Twardowski in Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920)

[diioonysus]

dresses + art

[shanks]

狐猫

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) (1920) Robert Wiene

August 10th 2024

[yes-im-a-simple-man]

[13-wonder-writer]

Ich liebs ja, wenn man ab und zu mal externe Reaktionen abseits des münsteraner Tatorts auf Boernes Art (TM) bekommt

[squishywizardd]

Theo is really THAT BITCH™️ she’s so slaY that woman ENDEDDDDDD his whole career with one word (like literally his thousand+ years reign just went kaPOoF)

[wanderingmind867]

The Incredible Hulk becomes The Inedible Bulk. This story was fun, if only because the Bulk wants to be a Hollywood Casanova. Which is such a great inversion of Hulk wanting to be left alone. Also Bruce Banner as a sanitation officer shockingly works, in my opinion. Also cool seeing a cameo from Dr. Sivana. That's one of the many Fawcett cameos I've seen in this comic series. (Not Brand Echh #3):

[ewzzy]

One of the funniest things in the early Warlock comics is that Counter-Earth was created so Roy Thomas could write him as being on an Earth without heroes. It was supposed to be *our* Earth. To that end it's mentioned that the most pivotal Marvel characters of Reed Richards and Dr Doom are normal scientists. (except for the mask because his face hadn't been revealed and this would be the wrong place to do it)

Again, only included in that story to show that they ARE NOT IMPORTANT HERE... but now that we know they're here... the temptation was too strong. It only takes a few issues for Reed and Doom to become featured super characters. Amazing.

[sixty-silver-wishes]

something about these pictures of lil dagover, hans heinrich von twardowski, and friedrich feher (the actors for jane, alan, and francis in “caligari”) in their older years

like . the picture of dagover was from a 1971 film but like. how do they still have the Vibes of those characters decades later. feher still has a very francis bow tie. look at the Swag that von twardowski has. wild

[arwenkenobi48]

My F/Os’ Favourite Disney Films

Amsel: Snow White

Sauron: The Black Cauldron

Feral: Brother Bear

Mephistopheles: The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Devil: The Aristocats

Ratbag: Treasure Planet

Friedrich: Cinderella

Koroviev: Aladdin

Gabriel: Beauty and the Beast

Ulysses: Robin Hood

Cortex: Pinocchio

[weirdlookindog]

Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920)

AKA The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

[theatrepup]

Intro to the 1990 GoodTimes VHS of the classic silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. In this edition, the movie is presented by Film Renters, Inc. I also included some key scenes from the film, as well as the VHS cover art at the end.

[adamwatchesmovies]

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

Although it doesn’t contain the types of scares modern-day audiences are used to, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari has a haunting, eerily chilling quality. This movie is over a hundred years old. Everyone who starred in it, who was behind the camera when it was made, who saw it upon its initial release is dead and gone. All that’s left of them are these strange images in this imaginary story. No one involved could’ve imagined that a century later, their work would still be influential. Made before sound recordings or colour cinema was possible and before modern-day cinematic techniques were established, it looks unlike anything you’ve ever seen. Combined with its subject matter, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari feels less like a movie from long ago and more like a glimpse into another reality.

Told in flashback, the story takes places in Holstenwall, where the town fair is in full swing. Francis (Friedrich Fehér) and his friend Alan (Hans Heinz v. Twardowski) attend a new attraction presented by Dr. Caligari (Werner Krauss). He commands a somnambulist named Cesare (Conrad Veidt) to tell audiences about the future. Cesare’s predictions of death prove to be true: there is a serial killer in Holstenwall.

The most striking aspect of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is the art direction. Buildings lean unnaturally, doorways, stairs, and streets twist like something out of a madman’s notebook. Pieces of furniture are disproportionate to the people who use them. Trees are hardly recognizable as living things. The architecture's angles, curves, and spirals are such that you might not notice a broken window in the background despite it being intact in the previous scene. The shadows are painted, which means people can move through them without disturbing the light. It’s like these places and people are merely fragments of an un-reality, or (appropriately enough) ghosts reliving their actions as best they can considering their life is over. More than an experiment in style, these visuals emphasize the panic Francis and his sweetheart Jane (Lil Dagover) experience as the murders continue. They also employ excellent graphic design techniques. Your eye is naturally drawn to important objects or characters as they follow the bold lines on-screen.

To casual moviegoers, the performances in old films tend to feel over-the-top. We’re used to natural performances, realistic dialogue and sets that mimic our world. Nothing you see in Caligari resembles real life but that’s the point. Even the title cards use a font reminiscent of insane asylum scribbles. The performances turn out to be just about perfect because of how they exaggerated they are. Rather than feel dated, this 1920 film is immediate and mesmerizing.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is the kind of movie you could watch a hundred times and still feel like you haven't seen it all. You can tell why it had an impact on filmmakers like Tim Burton and is very much the sort of movie that makes you repeatedly go "Oh! That's where that's from!" It’s so different from what we’re used to that you cannot forget the way it looks or feels. (On Blu-ray, January 15, 2021)

[nordleuchten]

Dear Anon,

thank you for the question. For whatever reason, tumblr deleted the ask after I edited it and I can not find any longer … but that wont deter us. :-)

2. top 5 books of all time?

Oh my, that is the most difficult question out of them all. And I admit it, I have to cheat a tiny bit. My five favourite fiction books of all time are, in no particular order:

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Die Bürgschaft by Friedrich Schiller (not a book as such but I love his poems/ballads, book-wise it would probably be Geisterseher)

Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare (again, not quite a book, but 116 is his best Sonnet in my opinion, otherwise it would be Macbeth)

Unterm Rad by Hermann Hesse

I feel as if I have personally offended several books on my shelf, but these five are my all time favourites (probably.)

19. most disliked popular books?

I have already answered this question here. :-)