#had to remake this set with the newest instance!

[wistfulwatcher]

sophie devereaux + barefoot for the action

[yi-dashi]

//Actually, I have never really thought about this before. The implication, as it isn’t explicitly stated, is that Yi’s sword boots are something his parents made. The are canonical smiths, so it would make sense that a craft of theirs would be used to honor them. The swords are something Yi keeps on his person at least, and they fit in sheathes that adorn the place he buried his only noted family.

  I like to think that similar design beats carry similar explanations across AUs. For instance, any AU where Yi has the goggles is an AU where Doran exists and knew Yi. So any AU with a sword boot motif can also be an AU where he is compelled to carry them in memory of his parents. So lets do a silly, long-winded post about it, shall we? Let’s look at all the in game skins, their sword boot status, and suss out any headcanon commentary about them oh boy no more skins riot.

Assassin — Does indeed have sword boots, though they are of a different design. Assassin is an alternate history of base canon, where Yi makes a life for himself as a contract killer in Noxian territory. There aren’t many divergences from base canon pre war... except that his parents just made a different style of sword perhaps? Probably not, but I’m laughing about this for whatever reason. He might carry these blades instead of the real deal, as he can’t really go back home to retrieve them right now.

Chosen — Does not have boot lightsabers. Very sad. This could be a product of his home planet literally being blown up, or some other planetary catastrophe that meant he could never go back and get a craft of his parents. I’ve always thought of Chosen as a beat for beat canon remake, just in space, but I suppose I’ve not revisited this AU since Yi’s newest base lore. Him not being able to gravekeep could have some interesting implications. But anyway, does that mean his parents were making the lightsabers of this verse?

Ionia — Does not have any sword boots, which makes sense at least in headcanon. It is war regalia, or ceremonial attire. Not even an AU. If Yi was wearing this in base canon he still might strap the swords to himself, but if Ionia issued anything like this during wartime then he wouldn’t have had them yet. I have always loved the idea that Ionia is so magical, that pink being the standard color of army attire could have actually been camouflage.

Samurai — I like Samurai because he doesn’t actually have sword boots, in part because he’s not wearing boots. He keeps the two swords on his belt, which is a nice compromise that looks cool. Samurai is another alternate history of base canon, set a century or more in the future. He could literally be paying homage to his younger self, and may not even have his parents original crafts anymore. Hence why the two swords are in theme with his Samurai design. He’s taken up different sword forms by this point.

Headhunter — Apparently I have false memories of Headhunter having sword boots, because he doesn’t. Headhunter is a weird verse to me now. Used to be Alt History, now it is like.... they are part of a race of hunter aliens? Which, I mean, that’s the theme they were riffing off anyway but... I’m not gonna get into it here. His parents would have also been a part of this hunting species I suppose? Maybe too busy hunting to make swords? Maybe they made the bladed toes on his boot? Maybe they were armor or gunsmiths? I’ll have to think about it.

PROJECT — No sword boots, just cool shoes. This makes sense, as Yi would have lost everything he owned to the experimentation. Maybe Pyke knows where all his stuff is, ahahaha. Yi doesn’t knows he is human, or that he would have parents in this verse yet. I wonder how those memories will go down when they come back? I’d love to build this verse to a point where Yi knew he was human in some way, but I’ll just have to drabble about it when I can.

Cosmic — No sword boots, just some circles that orbit his shoes?? Makes sense. Cosmic probably has no parents. He is his own parent. Though, I will say that any AU featuring Yi in a faction where he has not experienced a Wuju cleansing... doesn’t bode well. The Dark Star is lurking. Light could be the last thing to exist in a universe filled with black holes? He’s not that important but still watch out.

Eternal — No swords, and no boots. Just nice shoes. Figures, since Yi is at a point in his life where his School may not have been destroyed yet. He left it, and so did Fiora, so this Wuju equivalent might have more hope than in base canon. He’ll probably find some swords to strap to his boots when he returns. Was the Sword of Jade worth it, my poor sweet child? RIP Yi’s parents in the potential future of Immortal Journey. They are probably ten times cooler in this verse at least, given that swords have great powers. This isn’t even mentioning the amount of swords he just has in general.

Snow Man — No carrots on his fluffy boots! Man, imagine snow people in their snow smithy, shaving carrots into weaponry. Who is Yi’s parent? The Poro King? Like I said, having Yi in your faction does not bode well for the Poro King vs Ice King Twitch. Since he made Yi, then he should prepare to be dead from some calamity his creation could have prevented. And then prepare for snow boy to tend all the snow graves oh nooooooo.

Blood Moon — Man, a lot of skins ditched the sword boots, didn’t they? IDK what’s going on with BM. Maybe I’ll flesh it out more some day. Yi probably had parents, they were still probably blacksmiths, and Wuju was probably destroyed. No time for honoring your parents by carrying their blades around. Time to kill. Demons are your new parents now. Or if Wuju was not destroyed, then you know how it goes.

PsyOps — Once again I have false memories. PsyOps ain’t got no sword boots. Instead, I like to think they replaced them with the dog tags he has. It’s probably not to do with his parents, but it is a similar feel. He’s still honoring the people he’s lost. He has a set of three around his neck, and a set of two on his sword, the latter he looks at longingly in his animations. At least one person has died that he cares about, maybe more depending on the ID system. RIP whoever Ezreal replaced, probably.

The moral of this post is that I have a lot of false memories about who has sword boots, and funnily enough its all the Alt History verses that have them. Makes sense in the end, I suppose.

[fuse2dx]

July ‘20

Final Fantasy 7: Remake

Straight to it: this game is gorgeous. It’s the closest thing to playing a CG movie that I think I’ve ever experienced. Heck, it sounds great too - not that everything is perfect, but it’s clear that the sound team have been given a pretty wide remit to try new, weird, and wonderful ideas out with the original’s motifs and themes - which I have a lot of time for. Split out almost any given moment from its 40-hour runtime, and it’s really something to behold. 

Where it all gets a bit more mixed for me is in how much it’s weighed down by its own ambitions, and the trappings of AAA game design. Intentionally slow walk-and-talk sections, shimmying through narrow gaps, climbing ladders, and balancing across long beams all do their best to stifle your momentum and mask the load times for the grand scenes they usher in. Rather than the varied and open world of the FF7 you remember, this is an exhaustive deep dive into the tiniest part of that world, creating new stories out of it, but ultimately prompting a constant re-treading of environments in the process, ones that are already pretty repetitive in their look and feel. That big wide world you want to explore is tantalisingly out of reach, instead holding you to a linear run of cut scenes and set piece battles with the occasional hub for side quests. Having the entire game voiced means that for every scene that’s enhanced with by a particularly powerful performance, there’s a multitude more that are bogged down in daft, over-egged nonsense. 

The change from traditional JRPG battles to more action-based combat is a bit more subjective; characters control in pleasingly different ways, there’s clearly some depth to how party and materia configurations influence your outcomes, and it certainly helps demonstrate this heightened level of visual flair - but it’s got plenty of room for improvement. The camera clings far too closely to your character, and when locked on, really struggles to keep up in a lot of instances. While some enemy attacks are telegraphed, they’re easily missed from as a result of these failings. Sufficiently rough beat-downs can prove difficult to recover from too, in light of its rather restrictive re-imagining of what the ATB system should mean in a real-time situation.

It all feels very elaborate and self-celebratory, and not surprisingly so given how rabid the demand for its existence was in the first place. I’m all for a bit of change, and while I enjoyed a lot of it, so much of it hangs on what comes next - and I can’t help but worry that this project as a whole is an over-commitment. 

Streets of Rage 4

Given the first three games in the series released within a 3 year window, and it’s now been over 25 years since, it’s perhaps not the most surprising revelation to find this newest title heralds the biggest changes that the series has seen to date. Love it or hate it, there’s a very distinct, very modern visual style, and no amount of ‘Retro CRT’ filter is going to bring back your beloved pixels as you remember them. That’s not to say the visuals won’t create a similar impression on you, but as it happens, I’ve seen enough to know there’s a pretty broad church of opinion on what a modern Streets of Rage game should look like. It’s a similar tale with the audio; the original games are often held up as the pinnacle of what was possible with the Megadrive’s sound chip, and while plenty of inspiration has been taken from these cuts, there’s a much wider range of instrumentation and sequencing complexity that’s become possible with modern sound processing. Some tracks stand out, whereas others blend more into the background, but in general it fits well. Is it as bleeding-edge cool as the originals sounded at the time? Perhaps not. Does it still capture that Streets of Rage magic? It’s a damn good shot.

Aesthetics aside, characters stomp about with good weight, feel delightfully unique in how they are best played, and both giving and taking hits feels really chunky and convincing. Moves chain into one another nicely, and juggling works well; there’s plenty of opportunity to showboat with good usage of situational specials and environmental features without too much opportunity for thing to become silly. There’s a nice range of stages, and a complete run poses a well balanced challenge. A good range of modes and features make this stand out as a generous blend of old and new, and in total you end up with a pretty great product overall. I like it a lot. 

Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 2

Supposedly put together on a pretty tight schedule, it’s no surprise that we found out about this only about a month before it launched. Unsurprising too, that it’s not much evolved from the first title. Zangetsu returns as lead, but supported by a new cast of companions, and eventually, in worst-kept-secret style, the rest of the first game’s cast too (they’re in the trailer, for heaven’s sake). The game’s eight levels are set out with multiple paths, designed intentionally to let different groups of these characters use their unique traversal powers to steer you down different routes - and while preferable to a totally linear setup, that’s not to say it changes things up enough to not get a little tiresome, either. Bosses do have harder variations in some modes but are not always the most fun to re-visit in the first place, given they vary wildly in challenge stakes, and are often best handled by experimenting with different character’s sub weapons until you find the one that’s exploitable. Chances are, turning on Hachi’s invincibility and just tanking your way through everything will do just that. 

Moment to moment things are still fun enough - particularly when you get in the spirit of things and experiment with different characters, rather than brute forcing your way through every scenario with the same one. The soundtrack isn’t quite as memorable, but is still plenty enjoyable. Despite the feeling that little’s new, it’s still a worthy release, and a good way to keep Bloodstained relevant in lieu of what’s likely to be a much longer development cycle before we see a proper follow-up to Ritual of the Night. 

Mother Russia Bleeds

A scrolling brawler it may be, but after the gloss Streets of Rage 4, it’s clear the two couldn’t be any further out of step tonally. The plot sits on top of an alt-1980s Russia, and revolves around a group of Romani street fighters out for revenge after being taken forcibly from their camp to be used as guinea pigs for a highly addictive, hallucinogenic drug... that just happens to grant them super-human strength. Smooth and sanitised this is not; the pixels are out in full force, and gritty, needle-fuelled ultra-violent thuggery is the order of the day. The tutorial running you through its range of moves is a succinct highlighting of this, where the first time you kneel in front of and pummel a blood-soaked opponent to death is handled in a way that’s genuinely quite striking, and yet is but is utterly inconsequential as you move on to fight your next. Weapons just crank this up tenfold, with chainsaws, grenades, rifles and the like having results akin to their real-world equivalents - with environments often left as a bloody mess of corpses, rather than a pretty picture with the aftermath faded from view.

The action is fast, almost frantic at first impression, but after some time adjusting, it begins to feel much more by intention, and manageable too. There’s a few options to mix up your combo endings - like pushing people back, or launching for a few more hits, but make no mistake that you’ll be focused more on crowd control by numbers rather than finesse. There’s a few neat ideas coming out of some of the game’s set pieces, and bosses are typically less dependent on your typical straight-up fighting skill, instead relying on your ability to determine the mechanical gimmicks needed to beat them - and this leads to them breaking things up nicely. The lack of one-on-one finesse might have been an initial detractor, but as the battles became bigger, and the stages became more interesting, I felt like the game came far more into its own. The game’s hard cocktail of downtrodden types pushed through a backdrop of sex, drugs, and violence feels a little too try-hard in places - and one does wonder how closely the team involved had been looking at Devolver’s other output before pursuing the theme - but it doesn’t take too much away from what’s actually a pretty refreshing example of this type of game.

[eyeodyssey]

I Saw Godzilla: King Of The Monsters (Mild Spoiler Warning)

While I consider myself an anti-commercial socialist, I do have an overtly specific Achilles heel when it comes to Japanese men dressed in monster suits that actively slow cook them like the models of cityscapes that they destroy on a daily basis. One moment I’m having a borderline Marxist inner-monologue on the nature of capital and humanity, and just a few minutes after that I’m worshipping a shelf full of vinyl Kaiju figurines while debating whether or not I should buy a figurine of Ultraman’s avant-gardism themed monster DaDa. You could call it selective hypocrisy, I just think they’re pretty neat. I’m generally selective on which films I go to see in the theater, I’m introverted to the extent that in some cases I’m too nervous to even comprehend the basic concept of a ticket line (late apologies to the people at the screening of Stalker at the Midtown Art Cinema that I unknowingly cut through like a socially awkward wind-up toy robot). My main track record is in art film screenings, the types where just about everyone in the theater are fellow introverts who are in the process of actively recharging as the film plays. Like I said earlier though, Godzilla is my selective hypocrisy. My experience with action films, especially a modern one in the theater, is practically nonexistent. Being that I was seeing this film with several friends, I chose to view it as a Gonzoesque observational probing into a personally unventured corner of the film world.

A drawing of Godzilla that I made when I was 5. The first time I technically heard of Godzilla: King Of The Monsters was on a film set. One of the actors and I were discussing the possibility of doing a no-budget comedy featurette, and he mentioned his on-camera role in the upcoming Godzilla: King Of The Monsters (this was 2017, mind you). He was the type to brag about the many film roles he had that seemed to never exist on any film database and he mentioned this role as being a top-secret job. Phantom filmography aside, we eventually cut ties and left the film project in limbo once it turned out he was a hard right extremist with a borderline Ballardian fixation for guns. Much like Ballard's interest in cars, he was fully enthralled with their designs, functions in the act of killing and the abstracted words and phrases associated with them. Having seen Godzilla: King Of The Monsters I can say that his character acting must be so complex that you’d never recognize him (which is a lot to say since he was a face you wouldn't miss). Either that or he just wasn’t in the film. Another one for the nonexistent database. I will give Godzilla: King Of The Monsters credit for opening on a strangely experimental note with its (presumably) 30-minute long pre-title sequence that they chose to start playing before people even entered the theater. This 30-minute opening is comprised solely of short film vignettes that are 20 seconds and under that all have the connecting theme of being explicitly related to a product or brand. The editing for each short in this sequence is notably fast-paced, bordering on whiplash-inducing. It became clear that these shorts were all edited by different directors, the short film that paraded itself as a Terminator sequel (going by the name of Terminator: Dark Fate) was obviously made by a high school student. The longest short of the opening was one related to the theater itself (presumably a different opening of the film is specially edited for each theater) that features glossy montages of families and couples enjoying the cinema while giving instructions for the moviegoing experience, one of which being “If something unexpected happens, exit the theater and move as far away as you can, and don't look back”. Leave it to Godzilla: King Of The Monsters to feature an allusion to the myth of Orpheus. Godzilla is back with his usual antics of shoving King Ghidorah in the locker, Rodan happens to exist, and Mothra is the mom of the group with the burden of having to wake Godzilla up in the morning so he can get to shoving Ghidorah in the locker. As this happens the film undergoes a steadying infection of a parasitic entity that commonly manifests itself as the collective personalities of a leading group of characters that most closely resemble a human family. This entity is mainly considered parasitic in its ability to manifest and hijack any sort of mainstream genre film with no seeming bias on the film’s subject matter. Continuing the theme of unnatural occurrences, all the backing characters were comprised of G.I. Joe figurines that were possessed by the embodied spirits of their Saturday morning cartoon counterparts. Amidst all these oddities however, Godzilla’s greatest challenge is keeping the attention of his audience. It’s said that you can escape dying by not looking directly into the light that you see while drifting off. In that regard the audience of an action film can be seen as a get-out-of the inevitable unknown free card practice round. It’s tough as a more eagle-eyed viewer to not look at the glaring lights of the iPhones of the two people in the row directly in front of you, but I’ve gotta survive my eventual first devastating accident somehow. Hideaki Anno already took care of reviving the bleak realism of the original 50s film, so in this case I was wholly expecting a monster brawler like the 60s and 70s films. The film sorta builds itself up to be like the American version of Destroy All Monsters with the promise of (if I recall correctly) 17 kaiju duking it out, but it eventually cops out where it only shows 7 of them, 3 of which being originals to the film that are on par with the weekly villains from the Hanna Barbara Godzilla cartoon. Rodan especially got the short end of the stick, he's the first instance I've seen of a kaiju reduced to a villain's henchman from a martial arts flick. He kicked the bucket just about as quickly as one too. Godzilla: King Of The Monsters is the most transparent film you get in the franchise with its reliance on the viewer buying more tickets to see the other films of the monster universe to get the full picture. They've already got a Godzilla VS King Kong remake scheduled. Legendary Pictures are essentially calling the Marvel shared universe over to meet their newest playmate in the box office. I’ll conclude on saying that Warner Brothers really missed their window on doing a gritty cinematic adaption of Godzilla’s Gigan character with Hellraiser's Clive Barker behind the director’s chair. It’s obvious that Gigan is the hardcore body modification nut of the Kaiju world. Call it a stretch but I’d hazard a guess to say that no animal is naturally born with a saw blade coming from their chest and a mohawk made of cast iron.

[weekendshowcase]

A Future ForesE3n

by Derek Skinner

This is our top 10 best games out of last week’s E3 2018 trade show, ranked all the way up to #1. WARNING: Some of these trailers, like the games they’re promoting, may contain mature content. Parental discretion is advised.

Okay, now that the disclosure’s out of the way, let’s get down to it!

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#10) Dying Light 2 (PC, PS4, XB1)      Bringing in new and rich environments, players will have to survive threats during both day and night while at the same time make important decisions that can and will change the world that you live in!

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#9) Death Stranding (PS4)      This game was created by the famous Hideo Kojima of Metal Gear Solid fame, and Guillermo Tel Toro (Oscar-winning director of The Shape of Water) and stars The Walking Dead’s very own Norman “Daryl Dixon” Reedus. It simply looks amazing!! Although I’m still excited for the game, the preview still leaves us with a lot of questions. For instance, what is this monster who we can only see the footprints of, and what role does Norman's character’s baby play in all of this?  I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

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#8) The Division 2 (PC, PS4, XB1)      Not set in New York but Washington, DC this time around, The Division 2 looks amazing! I just hope that Ubisoft learned from their previous mistakes in the first game that had turn away a great deal of people who had fun with the game before the constant patch updates.

Check out the E3 trailer right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7P5m9DPtZo

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#7) Gears of War [franchise] (XB1)      The reason I say Gears of War is because its not coming out with just one game, but three!  We'll have Gears of War 5 (now called simply Gears 5), which continues where the fourth installment left off. There’s also Gears of War: Tactics that takes a new turn for the series with turn based strategy, and Gears Pop! on iPhone and Android, based on the iconic POP! vinyl collectible figures. While we don't know much about Tactics and Pop! yet, I think a lot of Gears fans can't wait to get a chance to play all of them when they're finally released!

Announcement footage for Gears Tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR5eedO5P-Q

Cinematic trailer for Gears 5: http://youtube.com/watch?v=PlvVs1Z2TUU

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#6) The Last of Us, Part 2 (PS4)      Fans were wondering what happened to little Ellie after the events of the first game. The new trailer shows us a older version of Ellie enjoying a community dance party of some sort, while at the same time showing off some of the survival skills that she learned from Joel, the protagonist from the first game who protected her. It seems that developer Naughty Dog is taking a similar narrative and character growth approach as Telltale Games did with Clementine in the Walking Dead episodic game series, shifting the story’s primary focus to an older version of a previously-established character we last saw as a child.

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#5) Fallout: 76 (PC, PS4, XB1)      The newest installment in the long-running franchise - and looking better than ever! Being a prequel to the overall series, Fallout: 76 explains the story of the first people of Vault 76. Set in West Virginia, the game will have a world that is four times as big as Fallout 4, many new creatures and characters... not to mention the biggest new feature: Online play!

Check out the E3 trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9FGaan35s0

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#4) Resident Evil 2: Remake (PC, PS4, XB1)      Capcom finally released some gameplay for this game and it looks great! Long time fans of this franchise will finally be able to enjoy a true re-telling of the PS1/GameCube classic, now with updated graphics and gameplay. Rather than being in third person view like the original version, the game seems to use the over-the-shoulder view that was used in Resident Evil 4 through 6 instead.  And even though we will not get the classic fixed camera views, this new game still looks just as frightening as the original.

Check out the E3 trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtxJtQa6VSw

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#3) Kingdom Hearts III (PS4, XB1)      People have been waiting for this game to come out like Final Fantasy fans for the FF7 remake after all the tie-in stories and re-releases of previous titles We finally get to see a little more as to what's to come from it. There's seemingly resurrected organization XIII members, new worlds to visit such as Frozen, Tangled, and even Pixar worlds like Toy Story and Monsters, Inc. This time out, there are also apparently *two* Rikus and probably the biggest mystery of all: Why does Aqua look like she has been possessed by Xehanort!?

Check out Sora and friends visiting Jack Sparrow, right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn5WNxy-Wcw

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#2) Devil May Cry 5 (PS4, XB1)      Fans of this series have been looking for this game to come out for a long time now. Ever since the reboot that Capcom released back on the PS3 and Xbox 360. Don’t worry though, it’s been a while but the time away seems to be very well spent because this new game looks amazing. Not only do we get the original Dante, but Nero as well,  Although rather than have his Devil Bringer arm from the last game, he now has a robotic arm in place of it.

Check out the E3 trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmLTWYxEI_o

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#1) Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Switch)      Everyone has been waiting in anticipation for news about this game since its initial trailer and we all pretty much lost our minds after finally seeing it. Not only are you getting every single character from the the beginning. I’m talking from 1999′s Super Smash Bros. on Nintendo 64, through 2014′s Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. We’ll also be getting two new characters: Inkling from the 2015 hit Splatoon and Ridley from the Metroid series. The latter of whom was apparently *very* highly requested by fans.

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That’s it for now guys, thanks for reading and checking out this week’s post. Check back here later on, and at our main channel on YouTube (http://youtube.com/weekendshowcase) for more cool stuff next weekend! We’re planning different games to stream, and more new full episodes (it *has* been a minute....) We’ll see you then!

[letithappeneverafter]

A CONVERSATION WITH TAME IMPALA

Kevin Parker is no less of a lone wolf on Tame Impala’s newest album, Currents, than he was on Innerspeaker or Lonerism. Yet, this time out, he’s focusing on more active (still melancholy) aspects of the isolation he’s felt/written about in the past. The moving parts of disgust and bitterness are found in the heartbreak within the record’s electronic framework; a sound with its guitars tuned down and the light spattering psychedelia of his previous albums wiped clean. Currents, then, is that: a new Parker, now.

Dog man or cat man? I used to be a cat man—still love them—but my girlfriend is a dog girl and I dig walking her dog, so I’m in the middle. I’d probably get a dog before a cat at this point.

Last time I saw Tame Impala, you were touring with Flaming Lips and Sean Lennon’s Tiger band. That sounds like a hoot. Were you shocked when Lennon told you that you sounded like his dad? That whole thing was like a festival atmosphere—the habitual drinking and such. The Sean thing? I hate to get into a big thing about it. I get the feeling it’s just something he said o the top of his head one night. I mean, wow, that’s his dad.

Let’s talk about someone else: Mark Ronson, who had you on his new album. Tame Impala is one of his favorite acts. You don’t do a lot of guest spots. How was that hookup? What was the takeaway? He was fun to work with, if for no other reason than he’s got all these other artists around him—Bruno Mars included. He gathers an amazing team—musicians, singers, authors—and uses them like an orchestra, just conducting. Brilliant minds that in any other situation you’d be worrying about the old “too many chefs spoiling the broth” cliché. Mark had this great way of bringing people together and bringing out the singular thing in each of them—but shows there’s no one way to do things. He finds inspirations in groups of people, and that provides another layer. Collaboration is his instrument, I think. None of that reflects on me and the way I make music on my own, but I see it.

As a person now, do you like your own company more than you like the interaction of friends? I appreciate both these days. I do need time alone to allow thoughts to rattle around my head—for instance, that’s the only time I hear melodies—but I do want to connect with people. That’s what Lonerism was all about, just that wanting to connect.

That’s fine for Lonerism, but what about Currents? Do you think you have the goal you set out for? There’s not a story per se. I’m not playing one character, but I do think there is a realization. The feeling that we’re not so disconnected is there. Definitely.

You’re in this, I know, but are the other characters pieced-together facsimiles? Fictions? People you’ve observed? Are they closer to you than that? There’s definitely something autobiographical about Currents. I don’t know if I would be able to pull such meaning from subjects more distanced. It wouldn’t be as meaningful to me. Then again, I can always run out of true stories.

Woody Allen just said that, given the chance, he would remake every one of his films. Even his newest. Considering where Currents goes sonically, how different it sounds than anything in you catalog, think you would you change anything? That’s a hard question. I have to force myself to say no. There’s always that temptation, and I know there are flaws, but I like accepting it that way. People have done things with and people have fallen in love to my records. Luckily, I’ve gotten better at making records, but I think I like what each of them does in their present state. I can make them sound better, but I can hear them for their romantic crustiness. I can hear the romance in the ramshackle way in which they’re put together.

How did the new sound become a thing— your thing for this album—in the first place? I’ve always loved electronic music and wanted to make more of it; I just had to find a way to make it mine. Air. R&B things that use electronics. I probably listened to that more than, say, the sort of music I was making at the time, but I’ve never really had a way of mixing it into my music, my songs—or had the courage, really. To bring those two sides of me into one sound. For instance, I’ve always been into Michael Jackson, but I never found a way of expressing that influence.

Courage—that’s a funny way to think of it. I don’t want to analyze every word you say, but why that? I think because eventually you have to stop second-guessing what you do, not be careful anymore. I think I have been too careful in the past. Before I took a next step, I self-analyzed every reason why and why not. It’s a blessing and a curse, really, because you do have a filter—what to leave in, what rubbish must come out—but it also stops you from making brash decisions, finding the wild and crazy, the joy of things. I think it takes courage to say fuck it, to dodge the consequences.

What motivated “Gossip”? It felt very Bowie Low to me, which is what—just an album of interludes, really. I love interludes on an album, a thing that connects everything, comes out of nowhere, but act seamlessly. “Gossip” is its own little thing.

Are you a guy who keeps notes/letters from your past, or writes down volumes of lyrics? Currents come from a deep emotional wellspring that I imagine you ruminated upon somehow. I’ve got that dreaded book, but I’ve never really written down a whole thing in my life. I just scribble some things down, but mostly just put what’s coming out of my head onto tape or whatever, attach  them to a melody and hope they stick—and that I at least remember them all when I’m onstage. —A.D. Amorosi from http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2015/09/28/a-conversation-with-tame-impala/

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10 Things In Horror Movies You Didn’t Know Were CGI

By and large, we think practical effects in movies are superior to ones made with CGI. The horror community especially feels a strong reverence for handmade effects. As ideal as it is to feature homespun visuals in a scary movie, it's not always feasible. A film sometimes resorts to using CGI because of time constraints or other on-set problems. It can be painstaking to go fully practical.

Moreover, the special effects in some horror movies are CGI-based in spite of looking practical. It doesn't happen frequently, yet it's not impossible either. Let's look at ten movies that challenge the odds.

RELATED: 5 Things Midsommar Did Better Than Hereditary (& 5 Things Hereditary Did Better)

10 Pan's Labyrinth: The Pale Man & Pan

In Guillermo del Toro's fantasy-horror Pan's Labyrinth, digital effects were necessary to bring two of the film's most memorable characters to life. The horrifying Pale Man's signature eyes-in-hand aspect has fooled many into thinking those are prosthetic peepers in his palms. Not at all.

As for the legs on both the Pale Man and Pan, they augmented what was already there. Pale Man's legs were real, but they needed some help to make them look thin and gnarled, so greenscreen sheets were wrapped around Pan's suit actor's limbs so they could create a pair of faun legs from behind.

9 Final Destination 2: The Logs

The basic plot for every entry in the Final Destination pentalogy has someone randomly experiencing a premonition that tells them how they and others around them will die. The seer must then prevent the vision from coming true.

The Final Destination franchise is famous for its imaginative kills. It's also well known these splatter films depend on computer imagery. Otherwise, so many of the over-the-top death sequences wouldn't be possible. Something not well-known about Final Destination 2's indelible highway pile-up is the logs are enhanced. In post, they used digital means to make the logs bounce better during the collision.

8 The Skeleton Key: The Swamp

Kate Hudson's The Skeleton Key concerns a hospice worker who thinks her newest patient is under some kind of dark spell—and breaking it will come at a cost.

This Southern Gothic mystery was shot at the Felicity Plantation in Vacherie, St. Joseph Parish, Louisiana. The house was exactly what the director wanted, but it lacked a crucial amenity: there was no swamp. The property was only surrounded by fields. So, the crew built a swamp in the backyard. They dug trenches and piped in plenty of water first, then used CGI later to give it a more swampy look.

RELATED: The 10 Best Slasher Movies Of All Time, According To IMDb

7 Friday the 13th (2009): The Weapons

The Friday the 13th remake incurred the wrath of angry fans during its initial release. They were divided and unimpressed at first, but they later realized the movie's a "greatest hits" collection of sorts. It updated Jason Voorhees without taking him out of his natural habitat. He was as vicious and unrelenting as ever.

The remake did one thing well, and that was serving up the kills. Something viewers may not have noticed, however, was some of the weapons were computer-generated for safety reasons. This made the remake the first entry in the franchise to ever do such a thing.

6 Mama: The Hair

Director Andrés Muschietti astounded the horror community with his debut feature, Mama, before he helmed the new adaptation of Stephen King's IT.

The film was based on his short film of the same name. In the 2013 movie starring Jessica Chastain and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, two fostered children's imaginary friend turns out to be real—and frightening. Viewers usually think the titular monster in the movie is completely digital. That's not the case, though. Double-jointed actor Javier Botet portrays the gangly creature in the film. The only element that is achieved through CGI is Mama's hair, which was added in post-production.

5 The Shallows: The Shark

Killer shark movies have one job—deliver a shark that makes us scared of going back in the water. Most modern fin flicks can't even do that.

The problem is these films use poorly designed and rendered sharks. As a result, the man-eating fish ends up looking too fake to be taken seriously. Of course, at the time, CGI was out of the question for Jaws. The stunning Great white in The Shallows had viewers scratching their heads, though. As it turns out, Important-Looking Pirates' shark is a combination of practical and digital, with an emphasis on the latter.

RELATED: 10 Creepiest Movie And TV Clowns

4 Scream 4: The Knives

Wes Craven's Scream is a marriage of golden age era slasher sensibilities and contemporary cynicism. And, like the majority of older slashers, the deaths in Scream and its sequels are largely executed through hands-on work.

The first three Scream films in the quadrilogy had the masked killed Ghostface typically brandishing a Buck 120 Hunting Knife, which has been discontinued since 1992. The knives in those films are all collapsible props; safety was important when filming. For the fourth installment, Wes Craven wanted to abandon physical knife props. This meant going the digital route for the knives and some "gore enhancement."

3 The Hills Have Eyes (2006): The Mutant Children

The general consensus is that remakes are inferior when compared to their predecessors. Alexandre Aja's 2006 update of The Hills Have Eyes goes against the grain and then some.

While this new version didn't stray much from the original's plot—a family vacation is under siege by a clan of mutant killers—it exponentially changed the threat level. To great effect, the film blended practical and digital near seamlessly. For instance, prosthetics were applied to the actors playing the fully deformed adult mutants. As for the mutant children with only partially deformed faces, the movie resorted to digital manipulation.

RELATED: The 10 Best Indie Horror Movies Of All Time, According To IMDb

2 Dawn of the Dead (2004): The Baby

Thanks to his Dawn of the Dead remake, Zach Snyder changed the rules of the game for zombies. The undead were no longer restricted to ungainly strolls as they pursued their prey. No, Snyder's zombies ran after their food.

People back then resisted Snyder's reshaping of zombie lore as seen in cinema; they wanted zombies to remain walkers and lethargic. Nonetheless, other filmmakers adapted the same modification. One of the most distinguished moments in the remake involved a baby. Considering the little one's fate, it's no wonder they didn't use a real tyke. Instead, the zombie baby is wholly digital.

1 Halloween H20 — 20 Years Later: The CGI Mask

When Halloween H20: 20 Years Later needed to reshoot a specific scene—the character of Charlie is about to meet his maker in the kitchen—they didn't use the film's real Michael Myers mask for some reason or another.

So, director Steve Miner approved the use of a digital mask in post. To this day, Halloween fans harp about this strange directorial decision. In all honesty, no one thought this mask was legit. It looked absolutely off, but viewers didn't realize why as the infamous scene happens so quickly. Yet, once you do see it, you will never un-see it.

NEXT: 10 Things In Sci-Fi Movies You Didn't Know Were CGI

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Top 5 Pokemon types (I assume Fire and Dragon will be up there!), top 5 Pokemon locations (from any regions, gameverse or animeverse), top 5 BotW locations, top 5 Zelda characters that aren't Zelda or Link, aaand top 5 Hogwarts classes!

Hmmmm, let’s see!

Top 5 Pokémon Types:

Fire

Ghost

Dark

Dragon

. . . Normal . . . ?

Fire has been my favorite since Gen I, wherein I gleefully set Erika’s entire gym ablaze with my charizard, laughing all the while at the idea of grass-types posing a threat to me. (I’m awful, I know.) I also have two on my One True Team™, so that’s a testament to how much I love them, haha. I loooooove most ghost-types, both in terms of lore and overall design, but I never had one on my OTT™ until Gen VII graced us with the amazing grace that is mimikyu. Dark-types are also great; I love most dark-types, even if the only one I have my OTT™ is my umbreon. When it comes to dragons, I prefer ones that are dragon by species over dragon-type, technically (e.g. I’m always going to prefer charizard and consider charizard to be more of a dragon than, say, Alolan exeggutor, which may be a dragon-type but is not an actual dragon by species), but a lot of dragons by species are also dragon by type, so it still does count. And lastly, I don’t think I have a fifth favorite, but, uh . . . normal types are cute . . . ? Hahaha.

Top 5 Pokémon Locations:

These are practically all going to be in Johto, orz. All the same, not in any particular order:

The Charicific Valley --- It’s literally a wild charizard reserve, what’s not to love? Even if it’s anime only, it’s still a place where charizard can live freely and happily. It’s a dream come true, tbh.

Ilex Forest / Celebi’s Shrine --- This whole area has a very mystical feeling, especially since Celebi’s Shrine is so unassuming, yet so important when it comes to the fact that a time-traveling legendary has an attachment to it. And it makes you wonder, like, did people used to pray here? Is it possible that the people of Azalea Town still do? Johto pays so much more adherence to legends than Kanto does, so it’s possible . . . but it’s also possible that it’s forgotten. Ilex Forest just has a sort of Lost Woods vibe to it, though. I love it.

The Burned Tower / Bell Tower --- Likewise, I love both of these towers for a similar reason. There’s so much history here, and with the Bell Tower especially you know that it still is visited by Ho-Oh in the right circumstances. These are sacred places, even if (or perhaps especially because) one of them was burned to the ground. It just has that sort of feeling to it, that you’re walking somewhere special whenever you go there.

The Ruins of Alph --- THE GREATEST MYSTERY IN THE WORLD, THE GREATEST SOURCE OF LOST POTENTIAL, LIKE---what is this place? Why is this place the way it is? Radio signals don’t work there. The unown haunt it. But why? We know that the Sinjoh Ruins might have something to do with it, given the connection there, and that Arceus and the unown have some kind of connection, but we still don’t know what, precisely, that connection is. There’s so much mystery and I feel that there’s so much more to be done with the Ruins of Alph, more dimensions that can be accessed from them, more that can be uncovered and explored. I want to uncover that, I want to see it!

All of the mystical / legendary islands in Hoenn --- Okay, there are too many to list here, but like . . . Mirage Island, which changes location and really does appear and disappear like a mirage. Faraway Island, which to this day is the only known habitat of Mew. Birth Island, where you find Deoxys in the original Gen III games. Southern Island, where you find one of the Latis. And all of the mystical islands where you find Hoopa’s Rings in ORAS. Like . . . these places, they’re always so remote, the music is usually mystical and fills you with this sense of wonder and legend and myth. God, I crave this sort of thing, these are always my favorite places, and Hoenn was so great for that because they could include so many different little islands scattered throughout the region. (Something you would think Alola would have done as well, but alas . . .)

So yeah, all my favorite places are in, like, Johto or Hoenn, hahaha. But really, I love mystical, legend-infused places. Give me your remote islands with legendaries. Give me your sacred places of ancient worship. Give me your alternate dimensions with your eldritch abominations. I want to see and explore it all.

Top 5 BotW Locations:

My House --- I’m really attached to the idea that Link has a home, haha. I like to keep Keith there a lot, I always go back there to cook, et cetera. I really love that Link has a place to call home amidst all the adventuring and traveling.

The Temple of Time --- I’m mad that the Temple of Time can’t play an actually important role in this game, even if I kind of understand it. Even so, I’m very attached to the Temple of Time and probably always will be. It’s sacred to me even if it’s just a cool place in this game where the Old Man tells you who he really is.

The Lost Woods --- This is the best rendition of the Lost Woods yet. Although I’m not too fond of Korok Village itself (too many framerate drops, the music isn’t great, Koroks are annoying), I love the Lost Woods, how creepy and ethereal they are, and the music is fantastic. A++++, best Lost Woods yet.

The Forgotten Temple --- One of my newest favorite locations. To me, the Forgotten Temple is definitely linked to SS. How much is debatable; that’s clearly the Statue of the Goddess in the very back, but I’m not sure if this temple is supposed to be the Sealed Grounds (maybe built on top of the Sealed Grounds?) or what. But it has a very mystical feel to it all the same, so I love it.

The Mounted Archery Camp --- In truth, I can’t decide on a fifth, so this one will go here because JINI IS WAITING COME WIND OR STORM, AND WANTS LINK TO BE CAREFUL. ;__; JINIIIIIII

I’m really attached to Jini, okay.

Top 5 Zelda Characters (that aren’t Zelda or Link):

Tatl --- Tatl is always going to be best companion, best girl, as far as I’m concerned. I love how she actually had a full personality of her own; she’s incredibly snarky (especially in the N64 original; they toned her down for the 3DS remake and I’m mad), unwilling to help at first, and is extremely focused on protecting her little brother, Tael, regardless of what happens to others. But she develops; she becomes more helpful, more attached to Link as well, and she even continues to develop after you beat the game once, because the first time you go to the moon she doesn’t want to go until Tael says that, fine, he’ll go. Every time after that she jumps at the chance, saying that Link is her partner and if he’s going, she’s going, too. I love how much development, personality, and history she gets. She even gets it in response to other characters, such as how she keeps snarking Kafei as he tells his story. Tatl’s not a perfect person, but I love that. I love her. (And I mean, she’s a wonderfully protective big sis. Give credit where credit is due.)

Urbosa --- QUEEN. Urbosa is everything I ever wanted from the Gerudo and more. She’s clearly a fierce warrior, but she also has a nurturing aspect to her as well with how she looks after Zelda and the others. She’s incredibly badass with the way she calls lightning with finger snaps. And on top of it all, she calls upon Gerudo history and marks her beef with Calamity Ganon as being personal due to the time he was reincarnated as a Gerudo. Fuckin’---I love her. Far and away the best Champion in the game (excluding Link, of course). I love her. 

Marin --- Marin is especially notable because of how much characterization she got despite the fact that Link’s Awakening is a GB game. She could have easily been just another boring maiden, but we see that she, too, takes to calling Link “thief” if he steals from the shop; Link gets to go on a date with her, in which we see more of her personality through the various shenanigans they get up to; and we even learn that she has suspicions about a world outside of Koholint Island, that while everyone else on Koholint believes that there is no world outside of the island, she does. And she’s so desperate to see what’s out there that she daydreams about being a seagull, just so she can fly away. That’s pretty deep for a GB!Zelda character, and I love that she was fleshed out so much. I’m always going to love my girl Marin, and I’ll always headcanon that she, like Link, washed up on Koholint’s shore. I hope that she got to find a life outside of the island one day, as a person or seagull or otherwise.

Kafei --- Not only is Kafei being notable for one of the few (and perhaps the first) instances where you get to play as someone other than Link temporarily, but I love him as a character, too. I think my favorite part of Kafei is how deadpan he is about so many things; he refuses to even acknowledge Tatl’s snarking, much less rise to it, and he insists on calling Link “green-hat boy” for pretty much the entire time they know each other. But he’s also so sincere; if you fail to get the Sun’s Mask back, his despair over losing it is palpable. I do wish he realized that Anju would accept him regardless, but even so, that’s just another fault, and characters who have flaws are good. I love Kafei, he’s great. (And I also still believe that he’s a Terminian Sheikah.)

Fi --- Lastly, Fi. I wish that we saw more development from her over the course of the game, but the connection between the Hero and the Master Sword has always been important to me, and SS just made it even more so. Her goodbye can still bring tears to my eyes. Here’s hoping that the BotW DLC gives us a chance to see her interact with this Link. Please, Nintendo. Please.

Top 5 Hogwarts Classes:

Care of Magical Creatures

Defense Against the Dark Arts

Transfiguration

Charms

Ancient Runes

Those are the ones I’d be most interested in, anyway!

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News for Traders: Downtown Los Angeles Is Modifying

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Architects, designers, builders, the mayor of Los Angeles and its enthusiasts have extensive known this fact: Downtown Los Angeles has at last attained its acceptance spin. Buyers are coming to the identical summary: Downtown LA is the most undervalued significant metropolis on earth Earth.

Properly, really downtown LA has been doing wondrously since 1995 during which time the Group Redevelopment Company of the metropolis of Los Angeles undertook to stage residences and apparent land for future industrial skyscraper advancement. This period noticed the clearing and upzoning of the whole community, much more section stores on Broadway shuttered, and quite a few of Downtown LA's remaining financial businesses going to vacant Course A place of work house on Bunkers Hill.

In mid-2013, Downtown was observed as "a community with an significantly hip and perfectly-heeled household population." It started off attracting, also international millionaires - predominantly from China - who rushed to commit in it, occasionally with income down. Downtown Los Angeles is the central enterprise district of Los Angeles, as perfectly as a varied household neighborhood of some 50,000 people at this time of crafting. A 2013 research identified that the district is house to above 500,000 jobs. Wikipedia mentions that the district declined economically and suffered a downturn for many years till the early 2000s. Now, building is brisk. Aged buildings are becoming modified for new utilizes, and skyscrapers have been created. Downtown Los Angeles is known for its governing administration properties, parks, theaters and other public spots.

In 2013, a research by Downtown Centre Small business Advancement District (DCBID) confirmed that of the 52,400 individuals resided in Downtown Los Angeles, the demographic breakdown was 52.7% Caucasian, 20.1% Asian, 17.% Latino, and 6.2% African-American 52.9% female, 47.1% male and 74.8% of inhabitants have been in between the ages of 23-44.The median age for people was 3. The median family earnings was $98,700. The median family size was 1.8. In terms of educational attainment, 80.1% of people had finished at the very least 4 several years of faculty. The study was a self-picking sample of 8,841 respondents across the Downtown LA spot. It was not a "census" but fairly a comprehensive survey of Downtown LA buyers.

Far more not long ago, Downtown LA has attracted a yuppie New York industrial sector that is all far too keen to stake out ground for its jobs.

The newest information is that a British agency programs to remake a historic downtown LA developing into its very own.

Hoxton and Los Angeles

Hoxton is a British lodge operator that - breaking information! - just today (29th Dec) purchased a historic setting up in downtown Los Angeles for $30 million and designs to renovate the decaying framework into a hip, stylish hotel, in accordance to JLL, the brokerage involved in the deal.

Hoxton owns lodges in London and Amsterdam and plans to open another in New York and a person in Paris future calendar year. The point that it selected LA - downtown for that - tells something significant about the area's increasing enchantment.

Hoxton describes its brand as the "anti-resort," where by travelers locate not only a bed, but "a position wherever men and women could eat, consume, do the job and participate in at any time of day." Its character is indicated by the description offered it by the British newspaper, The Independent, that referred to as Hoxton's Amsterdam outpost "an almost painfully fashionable lodge in the Netherlands' hippest metropolis."

Downtown LA would seem to be fantastic for it.

JLL has explained downtown Los Angeles as...the place where by individuals search to take in, reside and perform. It is a trendy place with a varied residential neighborhood of some 50,000 persons at this time of producing. According to a map from JLL that tracks millennials and infant boomers, Downtown Los Angeles outnumbers little one boomers by 10% in a shopper market. In most of the business markets in Los Angeles, the breakdown is 25% millennials to 21% little one boomers. Claims Sara Lo, a senior supervisor specializing in the hospitality enterprise at consulting and accounting company Ernst & Young."Downtown is thriving and worldwide businesses are all having note"

Ultimately.

The area's hotel market place has lengthy been dominated by corporate giants catering to small business travelers. Visitors flocked to West Hollywood or beach front communities these kinds of as Santa Monica and Marina del Rey. The metropolis space was as soon as derided as a ghost city right after 5, but is now household to a bustling cafe and bar scene. Developers sketch pages of small "life style" boutique lodges - types with uniquely intended rooms and higher-conclude foods and nightlife choices. And a new Los Angeles Instances commented that the investment is the most current indication that the neighborhood's renaissance has produced a location where travellers, not just enterprise tourists eyeing a comfy surroundings, want to lay down their heads. Proof: money's coming from overseas now. Worldwide traders benefit the spot way too.

A Hoxton lodge at 11th Avenue and Broadway would be a part of numerous other folks close by.

Just throughout the street will occur the 148-home Downtown L.A. Proper Resort that will situate alone in a vacant developing managing from the 1920s. Two blocks away is the common Ace Resort, a boutique that opened last 12 months in the historic United Artists constructing and is credited with drawing far more investment to the place.

Even large chains are chiming in.

A Lodge Indigo, a hip brand name operated by InterContinental Motels Group, is less than development as component of a Chinese firm's $1-billion Metropolis improvement close to Staples Centre.

The downtown current market is robust - with a 77% occupancy price that outperforms the 75% ordinary for the nation's prime 25 marketplaces, explained Lo. Some are predicting an imminent danger of overbuilding, but designers will not want to assume about that. Ernest Wooden Jr., president of the Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Board, encourages the momentum. Says he: "The tasks at this time underway are vital to our very long-time period capacity to draw in both of those leisure and enterprise travelers," he claimed in a assertion.

Parts all around 11th and Broadway that saw tiny expense in the previous are now steaming up and numerous residential complexes are underway, including around 650 condominium units from luxurious developer Geoffrey Palmer. New York developer Georgetown Co. declared in September a $40-million venture to redevelop the historic Herald Examiner constructing into artistic offices and floor-degree restaurants. Many structures on Broadway are decrepit and have been vacant for many years. Many others are chipped, lined with graffiti, bent double under crumbling ceilings and bruised with chipped paint. No issue: they are becoming dismantled with unhesitating velocity.

What with New York yuppies, British, local and expatriate purchasers staking their plots in the area, downtown Los Angeles has come together way from its tottering techniques in the early 19th- 20th century. It has become an spot to be reckoned with.

And regional commercial really hard revenue loan companies are there to assistance buyers. See http://www.HMLInvestments.com for extra particulars.

Resource by Yanni A Raz

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Android Authority’s favourite bulletins from E3 2019

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E3 2019 lastly got here to an in depth on Thursday. Though there weren’t any new gaming consoles on show this yr, there have been a variety of thrilling bulletins.

Whereas Android Authority primarily focuses on Android, we clearly have quite a few avid gamers right here at Android Authority. WIth that in thoughts, we thought we’d do a particular publish about our favourite bulletins at this yr’s greatest gaming convention. We’ve compiled our favourite moments (spoiler alert: none of them are cell), and listed them under.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild sequel

Unquestionably, the sport we’re most excited for right here at Android Authority is the Breath of the Wild sequel. The trailer above doesn’t give a lot away, however it seems that Ganondorf, the King of Thieves, is ready to make his return.

There’s rather a lot to be enthusiastic about right here. We now know that the sport will happen in the identical world as the unique, and there’s an actual risk that Zelda herself will lastly be a playable character.

Right here’s what the group needed to say in regards to the Breath of the Wild announcement:

With none hyperbole, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is one of the best online game I’ve ever performed. I’m not a giant gamer in order that declare may appear ridiculous to some, however a sequel to this recreation is, to me, tantamount to the discharge of The Empire Strikes Again or somebody’s favourite band getting again collectively.

I purchase each Zelda recreation as quickly as they’re launched, however this one may see me taking the entire week off work simply to play it. -C. Scott Brown

We all know nothing about it, however ZELDA! There hasn’t been a Zelda recreation I haven’t loved, apart from these s****y ones on the CD-I, however we’ll fake they by no means existed. Additionally, it has a Majora’s Masks-esque vibe, which isn’t a foul factor. -Andrew Grush

It looks like it could possibly be what Majora’s Masks was to Ocarina of Time — identical engine, identical console, darker tone, maybe a brand new overarching mechanic driving all of it. -Scott Gordon

Wait, there have been different bulletins at E3? I believed Zelda was the one one. -Chris Thomas (SoundGuys)

Cyberpunk 2077

Subsequent on our listing is CD Projekt’s Cyberpunk 2077. An already hyped recreation was taken even additional by the shocking (and breath-taking) look of Keanu Reeves on stage.

The sport was first teased means again in January 2013 (that’s earlier than the announcement of the PS4, for reference), however we lastly have a launch date. It’s scheduled for launch on April 16, 2020, which is a full 57 years forward of schedule for these protecting rating.

Right here’s what we needed to say about Cyberpunk 2077:

I’m excited as a result of Cyberpunk 2077 appears to be like unbelievable and having Keanu Reeves, who’s experiencing some type of performing rebirth, there was simply superior. -Williams Pelegrin

I simply love that complete setting from Deus Ex to Watch Canines. If somebody could make a very good open world recreation like that, I’ll be the primary in line to get it.

Including the man who performed Johnny Mnemonic and Neo is like icing on the cake. -Luka Mlinar

Xbox Challenge Scarlett

Microsoft may not have had a console on show, however they did tease their upcoming hardware underneath the code title Challenge Scarlett. It’s 4 instances as highly effective as current-gen consoles, and guarantees to all however get rid of load instances in video games. Plus, it helps ray tracing at 8K 120 FPS.

The brand new console is coming in late 2020, however this October Microsoft will start testing its cloud streaming service, Challenge xCloud. Not solely will it permit you to stream video games from the cloud, you’ll additionally be capable to stream from your individual console. Time will inform the way it stacks up in opposition to Google Stadia within the upcoming stream wars.

Learn additionally: Microsoft’s Challenge xCloud: Every part we all know up to now

Right here’s what we needed to say about Microsoft’s E3 2019 bulletins:

The glimpses that we noticed of Challenge Scarlett have been fairly thrilling. Taking consoles to 8K and 120fps plus new audio tech will make for really next-generation experiences for many who like to recreation. In fact, Sony is correct there with the PlayStation 5, too, and each are utilizing AMD hardware which is an fascinating improvement. Many tech watchers pointed at Google Stadia as the true competitor to Xbox, however there’s an extended approach to journey earlier than that occurs. -Tristan Rayner

They advised us nothing, however IT’S THE FUTURE MAN! -Andrew Grush

I’m much less enthusiastic about Challenge Scarlett and extra enthusiastic about Microsoft’s strategy. The brand new console is unquestionably one thing to stay up for, however they’re seemingly taking the strategy of getting Xbox anyplace given the power to make use of your Xbox One as a server for xCloud.

It’s a tantalizing future that Microsoft is proposing -Williams Pelegrin

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

E3 2019 featured one more Star Wars title, this time happening between the 2 trilogies. in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order you play as Cal Kestis, who’s on the run from the Empire after escaping the fallout of Order 66.

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Respawn’s title options all of the cool lightsaber and power tips you’d anticipate from a Star Wars recreation. The gameplay trailer even confirmed a KX-series droid (made well-known by the sassy Okay-2SO in Star Wars: Rogue One).

Resident Star Wars fanatic Jimmy Westenberg was most excited for this one.

I’m excited for Jedi: Fallen Order as a result of it introduces considerate fight to a Star Wars recreation — it’s not simply Area Ian Gallagher mowing down enemies with a lightsaber. The fight in Heroes vs Villains in Battlefront II is somewhat too hack-and-slashy for my liking.

I’m additionally excited to see a not-annoying KX-series droid in motion. -Jimmy Westenberg

Ghostwire: Tokyo

There wasn’t a variety of large information out of Bethesda’s E3 occasion, however one recreation that acquired our consideration is Ghostwire: Tokyo. It’s the most recent spooky thriller from Tango Gameworks, which was based by Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami after leaving Capcom.

Not a lot is understood about its gameplay, however Ghostwire: Tokyo is centered across the mysterious disappearance of 1000’s (if not hundreds of thousands) of individuals, abandoning piles of empty clothes within the streets of Tokyo. Not like Resident Evil and The Evil Inside, this recreation is much less about survival and extra about motion. The trailer finishes with tagline “Don’t fear the unknown. Attack it”.

However what actually captured the hearts of the hundreds of thousands of web denizens was Ikumi Nakamura’s bubbly demeanor. Ollie Cragg says it greatest:

Bethesda held a reasonably drab convention at E3 2019 with a few brilliant spots. Doom: Everlasting appears to be like devilishly good and Deathloop has an intriguing premise, however the true spotlight for me was the reveal of Ghostwire Tokyo. Not solely does the most recent recreation from the studio headed up by Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami sound actually, actually cool — an action-adventure recreation the place you tussle with supernatural beings armed with a bow and arrow? signal me up! — however the announcement itself launched the world to its inventive director Ikumi Nakamura. Her infectious vitality and allure was a welcome breath of recent air from the limitless parade of company dudes in fits. That ultimate pose will go down in E3 folklore, and that’s why we stan Ikumi Nakamura. -Ollie Cragg

Honorable mentions

Even with out the participation of Sony, there was rather a lot to be enthusiastic about. Listed below are a number of different bulletins that caught our consideration at E3 2019.

Outriders – John Callaham is most excited in regards to the newest launch from Polish studio Folks Can Fly.

New Tremendous Smash Bros. Final characters – Dragon Quest’s Hero was the primary new character introduced, however Banjo & Kazooie actually stole the present.

Xbox Recreation Move – We’re itemizing this individually from Challenge Starlett, however who may say no to $1 for the primary month?

Closing Fantasy VII Remake – Closing Fantasy VII is among the most iconic video games of all time, so it’s solely pure that we’re pumped for the remake.

Watch Canines: Legion – Regardless of the leaks spoiling a number of the shock, the thought of enjoying as any NPC in an enormous world may make for some actually cool gameplay moments.

That’s it for our favourite bulletins of E3 2019! What have been your favorites from this yr’s occasion? Tell us within the feedback under!

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Fifa 18 Ps4 Legends — FIFA Forums

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A FIFA 18 demo will doubtless come to the Xbox One, PS4 and Pc. There is a good likelihood that we will also see a demo on the Xbox 360 and PS3. It’s not clear if there will probably be a Nintendo Change FIFA 18 demo. In the new FIFA 18 gameplay trailer, we get a look at the new FIFA 18 graphics and some of the brand new FIFA 18 features. Expect the perfect wanting video games on the Xbox One and PS4. There's a particular Nintendo Change FIFA 18 release, that isn't constructed on a Xbox 360 or PS3 build, but we still don’t count on it to stay up to the graphics on the Xbox One or PS4. We're approaching that point within the life of the Xbox 360 and PS3 that EA might stop making the sport, but that’s not taking place this year. EA confirms that FIFA 18 is coming to the Xbox 360 and PS3 as a Legacy edition. A ‘Legacy Edition’ of EA Sports FIFA consists of equipment and squad updates to reflect the newest changes on the earth of soccer. FIFA 18 will see the return of its single-participant mode known because the Journey, now called The Journey: Hunter Returns. Much like FIFA 17 it should focus around protagonist Alex Hunter. After a breakthrough first year within the Premier League, the whole world is speaking about Alex Hunter. Now he’s again for a second season, and rumour has it, he’s on the move," reads the mode’s synopsis. Very similar to last 12 months, there’s a star-studded solid of footballers too, led by Cristiano Ronaldo. Count on a jet-setting adventure with matches in Brazil and Los Angeles as well. Here’s what you possibly can anticipate from each of them. For India, the sport prices Rs. Computer. The Ronaldo Edition prices Rs. Icon Edition is Rs. The PS4 model of FIFA 18 prices Rs. The FIFA 18 Ronaldo Edition PS4 is Rs. FIFA 18 Icon Edition is Rs. On Xbox One, the Ronaldo Edition of FIFA 18 is Rs. Icon Version is Rs. FIFA 18 normal edition is Rs. If you would like to buy FIFA 18 on disc in India, your only possibility is Amazon – EA’s official unique retailer in the nation. If you’re questioning why a well-liked franchise like FIFA is exclusive to a single retailer in India, read ourin-depth reportto know why. We mentioned every part we expect from E3 2017 on our weekly gaming podcast Transition. You may subscribe to it by way of Apple Podcasts or RSS or just hearken to this episode by hitting the play button below.

To the broad enthusiastic soccer fans and professional soccer avid gamers, the yell and cheer of the spectators who watching the exciting soccer matches on the stadium in the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa have still been heard. Mbappe was the spearhead of a youthful Monaco workers which reached the semi-finals of the Champions League and whereas the crew has already Bernardo Silva to Manchester Metropolis, Mbappe remains to be on the club. With the starting display screen loading and exposing a dark picture of Manchester United’s Paul Pogba earlier than being confirmed the buyer logging into the EA servers earlier than the game’s primary display loads up to showcase some fascinating additions and visuals. Some gamers might excel of their clubs because of the place they're being performed in and, or because of the formation the membership supervisor adopts typically. He appeared strong, fast and, most considerably, decisive. Does The Journey function once more? Produced in a modern, dynamic style harking back to today’s trendy visual applied sciences, the poster’s colors are drawn from the river itself, the solar and the feelings associated with the sport of football. The image is based on waves and movement, very like a soccer staff in motion. Russia’s western-most metropolis, Kaliningrad is unique. The athlete in this poster symbolizes the open spirit of town and area, embracing each the old and the new with a watch in direction of the longer term. It's a city whose spirit is derived from the water that surrounds it, and whose soul is reflected within the soccer made of world-famous amber sunstone. Ekaterinburg, situated near the Ural Mountains is the purpose where the continents of Europe and Asia meet. On the centre of the picture is a "Stone Flower"; the stone is the gorgeous gemstone malachite, famous to the region. The Stone Flower can be the name of a famous Russian novel by Pavel Bazhov, set in the Urals.

For FIFA 18 too, this may very well be an incredible trope to make use of to attract in more gamers in addition to deliver a refreshing change for FIFA veterans. Gameplay:Don’t get us improper, there’s nothing unhealthy about FIFA 17’s gameplay strategies. But FIFA is commonly about so rather more than just matches, and focusing on all these extra elements results in a slower game tempo at instances. The FIFA 17 demo is proof sufficient of that. So for FIFA 18, we hope the developers work a little on the tempo of the matches in the upcoming recreation. Women’s Soccer:FIFA launched women’s football again in 2015, which was undoubtedly among the finest things about the sport that year. The brand new characteristic came in with 12 National groups, but their incorporation was not as extensive as their masculine counterpart. And we don’t quite understand the trepidation surrounding it a couple of years on. This is particularly because the women’s games have been nice and really passable to play. However the truth that they had been brought on in only a couple of modes was disheartening.

MegaRace- Megarace is a wild sport to say the least. Your character is on a loss of life sport present the place the objective is to race however to win you should kill your competitors on the street. The sport takes place in a futuristic world with 14 raceways to compete on. BC Racing- Think, The Flintstones meet Nascar, Lol. Chuck Rock is playable in the sport. Volcanoes, dinosaurs and riders who will assault are in every single place. Corny sport I need to admit however a real basic as a result of it is loads of enjoyable. Racing Aces- The game makes use of full 3D graphics and as a jet pilot you have to win races and shoot them down with heavy firepower along the best way. The game lets me down because you can solely fly from behind the cockpit. Road Rash- A remake of the racing recreation using motorcycles made for the Sega Genesis. You may race and do methods reminiscent of flips off the heel and handle bar holds. The game is nice in break up display screen two participant mode and the music is fast rock music which fits the circulate of the dirt races.

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'Game of Thrones' Composer Charts Journey From Westeros to 'Westworld'

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'Game of Thrones' Composer Charts Journey From Westeros to 'Westworld'

[Warning: this story contains spoilers for the season seven premiere of HBO’s Game of Thrones, “Dragonstone.”]

On July 11, Ramin Djawadi stepped into the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Downtown Los Angeles to conduct and perform his own music from the Game of Thrones score, in honor of the new season premiere. The next morning, he woke up to the news that his score for HBO’s Westworld was one of the show’s 22 nominees at the 2017 Emmys. Needless to say, it was an eventful twelve hours.

“I can definitely say it was quite a week,” the accomplished composer tells The Hollywood Reporter about his two recent major Thrones and Westworld moments. “Number one, I did not expect a nomination for Westworld, so I was super flattered about that. Very excited. And I had never performed at Disney Hall, so to be able to do that and to do it at the actual premiere it was absolutely amazing.”

But it was far from the first time Djawadi brought music from the Seven Kingdoms to a live audience. Earlier this year, he embarked on a live concert tour which showcased the Game of Thrones score, touring cities across the country. During this time, as he was revisiting Westeros’ past, he was also bracing for its future: work on composing new music for season seven was at hand, and remains at hand, as Djawadi is still working on the score for the final few episodes. 

Here’s what Djawadi told THR about the winds and sounds of winter set to hit the air in the season ahead, beginning with his score for Dany’s dialogue-free Dragonstone homecoming. He also weighed in on how he first became involved with Thrones, how the live concert experiences fuel his creativity, his thoughts on the Westworld nomination and the series at large as it approaches season two, and the newest project on his docket, a film called The Mountain Between Us, which has tragically little to do with Gregor Clegane.

At the premiere last week, in introducing you to the stage, David Benioff and Dan Weiss told their story about how you came to work on Game of Thrones. What’s your side of the story?

It’s pretty much exactly what they said: I saw the episodes, I was blown away by it, I met with them, and I was really busy at the time already. I realized that the scope of the show was so big and I didn’t know if I had enough time to make it happen. A few phone calls later, they said, “Come on, Ramin. We love you so much. We have to make this work.” And I loved them so much and the show so much that I said to myself, “Okay, you’re not going to sleep for three months.” We just dove into it, and here we are: season seven. 

How glad are you that you created the time to work on Game of Thrones, then? You’re more than Thrones, but there’s no question that this show is a central part of your life.

I’m so happy. I’m so happy I trusted my gut. Again, I loved David and Dan so much and we just clicked on that first meeting. I told myself I had to make it work and figure it out. And I did. The sleep had to give in, but looking back, it was the best experience I’ve ever had. We agreed on things right away. It’s so special. I think you can hear that in the music, that we understood what the language of this needed to be. I’m very happy to be a part of it.

Even before the premiere this past week, you had taken the show on the road before, in the form of the Game of Thrones Live Concert Experience. For those who weren’t able to attend, what would they have experienced?

It would have been the perfect preparation for season seven, because it’s really a large recap of all six seasons. We sort of stayed in chronological order and played through the most iconic pieces of scenes from the show. We did it in a way that it was a very immersive experience. It wasn’t “just the music,” we had the visuals and we took it even further. We had pyro and fire for the dragons, and we created snow, and we had Weirwood trees… it was very visual. We wanted the audience to relive the whole experience and feel like they were in Westeros. It was so much fun. We had such a blast. And the audience really loved it. It was so great to be on that stage and really feel that response from the audience.

Did the experience of taking your music out on the road, and getting that live feedback, fuel the work you’ve come up with for this season?

Definitely. I’m a fan, too. I was just as excited as everybody else to see what season seven will bring us. I only get to see it a little bit earlier than everyone. On the tour, I didn’t know what season seven would bring us. I was just as excited as all of the fans in the audience about playing the current music we had and looking at the current scenes, and then every night saying, “Okay, everyone get ready for season seven.” That included myself. I was just as pumped about it. Writing season seven, I was very inspired of now seeing where it’s going and pushing further with the melodies and new themes.

Once you started settling into season seven, what were your thoughts on what this year of Thrones needed to sound like? For instance, winter is here. In the premiere, we’re seeing snowscapes in places that were lush and green before…

What I really love is that every season, it kicks things up another level. Whenever I think that isn’t possible, then I see the material. The dragons are huge now. Everything is really expanding. So the music has to do the same. There’s a lot of really great and emotional scenes coming up. Just Dany arriving at Dragonstone, that was a five minute scene with no dialogue at all — just her touching the sand. It was a big music moment. I’m really expanding on that and using a lot more orchestral elements now, because there’s such a size to it. Normally we would go bigger with the orchestra toward the end of the season, but this year we were able to bring it into the very first episode.

Daenerys’ arrival is historic both for the show and within its universe. This is her first time in Westeros since her birth. Did the music have to have a royal quality to it?

Absolutely. I took her theme and the dragon theme and rearranged it in a way we hadn’t heard it before. Royal is actually a good word, because there’s a use of the French horns in that scene that would normally not take such a leading role in her music, other than action music. There was something very royal about her walking the halls and into the throne room. That’s why I changed the instrumentation and the arrangement quite a bit.

There are also quieter moments: Dany touches her hand on the beach for the first time, and we take a break from the feeling of a march to war. Was that important as well, capturing the personal nature of Dany coming to Dragonstone, and not just the mythical nature of it?

Exactly. It was a very internal thing for her. I wanted to make sure I captured her as an individual and her internal feelings as well. Being born there and now actually walking back there. When she rips down Stannis’ banner, I even put a little bit of the Stannis theme there. It was carefully planted.

What is the name of the piece? Is it called “Dragonstone”?

To be honest, I would actually have to look it up! (Laughs.) When I do the soundtrack, I can only do a selection of the pieces from the season, and then I summarize and pick some of the names. Since I’m still working on the show, I haven’t even had time to name the pieces. It’s probably safe to say that that’s what this piece should be called.

Season six concluded with “Light of the Seven.” Entering this season, did you feel any pressure to top it? 

I put pressure on myself every season, even before season six, that I want to push forward with new themes. I just want to top myself on the season before. At the same time I’m trying not to think about it too much. I’m just trying to write good music and hone in on what’s right for the show, and that leads me to write what I write. 

“Light of the Seven” was notable in that it brought piano into Game of Thrones for the first time. Did you find yourself experimenting with new instruments again this season?

Definitely. We always try to have some new instrumentation, some more subtle than others. But there are some developments. The music though, just as with the rest of the show, I don’t want to say too much. We’ll have to see how things unfold over the next couple of episodes.

Turning away from Westeros, I wanted to ask you about Westworld. First of all, does the Emmy nomination still feel surreal, a few days since the announcement?

It’s so exciting. I’m very proud of the whole show. Twenty-two nominations is just incredible. Westworld is another show that’s very special to me. I’ve worked with Jonah Nolan on several projects. I really love collaborating with him. And the show itself is very special because I loved the original Westworld as a child. Now working on the remake? It’s just incredible.

Season one featured memorable covers of great rock songs. What went into the selection process? Was it mostly your choice, or was it done in consultation with Jonah and Lisa Joy?

It came from them. They would pick the songs. I was always happy because every song they picked, I liked it too, so that was great. The songs would always come from them: “How about we do a Radiohead song, or Paint it Black?” Then I would go in and do the arrangements.

What was it about Radiohead that made them such a muse?

I think it’s because Jonah, Lisa and myself were all big Radiohead fans. Some of the lyrics… just the vibe of that band seemed to fit really well and into the world of Westworld.

When is the Westworld Concert Experience happening?

Well, we’ll see. (Laughs.) I definitely already have ideas for it. Let’s see what season two brings us. There’s already plenty of material. Season two starts soon. Who knows? After that, I would love to do a Westworld tour. I have a ton of ideas. I cannot wait [for season two], now that Game of Thrones is kind of coming to an end. 

And what’s next until then? Still finishing work on season seven?

We’re pretty close to the finish line. And then I’m working on a feature film: The Mountain Between Us. The director is Hany Abu-Assad and it stars Idris Elba and Kate Winslet. It’s a great story and a fantastic director. I’m a big fan of both of the actors. Very excited to start working on that.

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The Musical Journey Of Telugu

Tamil songs are interesting and heart-warming, an ultimate source of enjoyment. These songs' early types accepted the wealthy compositions from Sangam Literature but within the period of the sort time, the shape, along with the kind of audio began transforming into a completely new form that's refreshing and mind relaxing.

European musical convention significantly influences the newest kind of Tamil tracks. Moreover, many new instrumental tunes are infused while in the stunning lyrics of the melodies. These leave a lasting effect and contact the key of listerneris heart. Apart like Illayaraja Hariharan, Unni Krishnan from that excellent Tamil singers, and Lata Mangeshkar have gain minds of a thousand using compositions that are fantastic and their wonderful voice.

As it pertains to searching a Tamil melody, it becomes the predicament has altered. Web shows to be always a great supplier to supply a range of tracks Kanna nidurinchara for all music lovers around the world. There are many websites and online resources that provide a rich assortment of tracks for download.

With this particular it is practical and easy to get Tamil tracks using the maximum sound quality. This saves time that was usually spend ranking in the music retailers in long queues and maintains music fans from crowded music stores. Options exist that the sound-quality might not be good although there are lots of websites that provide download free. A lot of the people download tunes from free websites convinced that it isn't heavy on the pockets. Although some songs could be for sale in great sound-quality but many of these sites reduce some savings to be made by audio documents . This retention considerably lowers the sound quality.

Some are paid websites where high quality tunes can be found at a cost as no-one likes to pay for something that is available for free youtube telugu video songs but many of these websites are not preferred. Aside from these there are websites which people can tune in to a common songs online.

Some of the coolest downloads of Tamil songs would be the excellent compositions of AR Rahman. Rahman. youtube telugu video songs Tunes of Karthik Harini Mahadevan, and Ragavendra are also common amongst present day youth.

Theatre varieties of the ancient times are often inspirational to some moviemaker. The cine producers did not cease from discovering international developments. The typicality of Tamil cinema is still contained in presentation and the editing model. The movies that were earlier belonged for the quiet movies and cinemas were scarce. The Electrical theatre appeared to be the earliest theater to highlight videos. Gramophones and budding Indian talents made just how for bigger ticks inside the Tamil theatre.

The mythological movies' positioning was extraordinary and the quiet shows had a certain elegance about Tamil theatre. 1916 is marked while the advancement of Tamil theatre which assured lots of renaissance in the telugu bahubali songs instances ahead. The initial videos like Eratha Pana , Maniyosai and Tilagam Thottam had a distinct South Indian quality. Most of US still remembers Shivaji Ganesan, Gemini Ganesan and devi's achievements.

Tamil movie melodies are about real melody concentrating on the conventional touch. The audio of selected production homes was also typical. The manufacturing households that are old were AVM shows Kamala Theatre and Saravana Videos. The change in Tamil cinemas was also steady and the types that are operating also evolved fundamentally. The new personalities are far more perfected in westernized dancing types but the tunes be seemingly making the vernacular lyrics.

Tamil movies nowadays are also considerably about shade and focus. Experimental stars like Kamal Hassan with his performance in Thevar Maghan and Apurva Sarvodagal's share was inspiring telugu dance performance to different local film makers to remake the videos in their respective territories. Prize capabilities while in the South are also realizing the technical team's rich contributions.

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The monitor called "Why this Di" is from your film "Three" or 3 which can be posed to become released in 2012. The music video was leaked out a few nights before and it has become a major strike in the phrase that was net. On sharing websites that are video, 2 trillion that is very large indeed deemed the movie is only a couple of days old is being nearly approached by quantity of visitors. Additionally, several on Facebook and also other social network sites are currently expressing the video. Perhaps the lyrics are becoming popular as some are possibly tweeting and delivering SMS messages with their pals obtained the music track.

"Why this Di" signifies, "why this murderous rage, gal ", is actually a tune sung by the actor Dhanush who happens to be the child-inlaw of the Tamil legend Rajnikant. The video suggests that he's taking this melody as well as other celebrities such as the video Aishwarya Dhanush's representative and producer Shruti Haasan offering tips. According the audio directors, the track was composed within 20 minutes to and within seconds these recoded. Interestingly, Dhanush can be an actor and never acknowledged for this performing skills but have published the words of this music and sung it at the same period.

This monitor is sung with a lot of English terms in the Tamil language. This happening is being described by the majority as "Tanglish" meaning synthesis of Tamil and English. The melody is becoming popular not merely within the Tamil Nadu state-of India-But has entered state boundaries and all limitations even though the language as well as the English phrases includes solid Tamil feature. Many radio stations apart from Tamil have broadcasted this regional song for your very first time. This melody was actually played inside the Hindi speaking states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

Has this song develop into a national hit, the query to consult is? In virtually many circumstances, Tamil movies are rarely viewed outside Tamil Nadu are observing a www.youtube.com/watch?v=25t4a-FXakM&feature=youtu.be musical bonanza surpassing language limitations. Anyone can comprehend the music irregardless not or when they realize Tamil when the monitor is observed correctly.

A review that is crude shows that kids such as this track since it signifies those people who at the same time inside their entire life has endured a heart that is broken. Secondly, the audio track is quite appealing; it practically appears like the audio was created for Kanna nidurinchara wiki your individuals to sing inside the bathroom. Thirdly, the lyrics really are a thing of beauty as if setting a fresh craze in language where Language and Tamil has been fused in that way the song presents the normal people along with the method they chat in reallife.

Skillfully developed are saying this is cool melody and people can connect with this music and relate solely to the language. Nonetheless pundits at the youtube telugu video songs same are commenting that can be a distortion of the language. In any case perhaps, the monitor has changed into a reach and people are enjoying it.

Maro Charitra (1978), a film by K.Balachander starring Kamal Hassan and Saritha is really a history that revolves around a straightforward "Telugu - Tamil" nearby woman and child dropping in love and later separate using the interference in their family which makes the story result in misfortune. This video was the largest attack of the decade with center-touching tunes constructed by M.S.Viswanathan.

Now, the same story was remade utilizing the same old subject " Maro Charitra " starring Anita and Varun Sandesh in lead functions by "Dil" Raju in 2010 beneath the route of Yadav with output prices that were superior. This telugu bahubali video songs fresh charitra's history was same but only thing is where the aged film narrative takes place totally, the fact that it will take place in U.S. The Tunes were remixed from the ones that were old by Mickey.J.Mayor.

Tale of Maro Charitra (2010)

Effectively the history is actually a passionate account together with the history of U.S where Balu (Varun Sandesh) is a free-heading person who cease his studies as he didn't like the course. It's here he perceives the heroine Swapna (Anita) and in virtually no time, both fall in-love. At no-matter of occasion, the parents should come to know about their love and telugu bahubali video songs disapproves their love as a result of regular struggle between Baluis Papa and Swapnais mom (Urvashi). Subsequently, an agreement is closed in the reputation of Robert Sastry (Naresh) who's a cop cum Priest. Depending on the settlement, Balu and Swapna will not chat, see or match eachother for 1 year and their love does work if they still retains the same love.

Do they really satisfy after a year? Can their love stand still after the lengthy distance? All of this forms the story's rest.

Secret: Well, the Previous film Maro Charitra have a misfortune closing, this story that was new were changed to a happy ending love story.

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A Performance was given by Sandesh however, not not surprisingly from him. On producing an effect he could have worked more. A work that was good has been done by youtube telugu video songs blog Anita being a debut actor. Shraddha Das created her lifestyle sensed and was the top as she justified her function. Audio was not great as expected and common.

Conclusion

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Content and the degree of the film are extremely weak although the specialized beliefs are superior inside the film. Since it was a brand new notion at that time the folks Kanna nidurinchara of 70is acquired well the story nonetheless it was dull for the people as they have observed a lot of equivalent experiences in the meanwhile from 70's to now.

You are fond of navels and wish to see some of the hottest females with sexy bellybuttons, if, you should view South Indian videos. These movies, movies that are usually masala, possess mind boggling fight sequences, a gripping storyline and stunning performers.

A few of the shows also have actresses playing substantial tasks and are heroine driven. Like Telugu movie Arundhati where actor Anushka performed a very strong role and picture to fame overnight. But a majority of movies have glamor as story's fundamental section. And surprisingly the performers are so beautifully pictured that you will be mesmerized by their beauty. You will find no bare moments but nonetheless sexy movements, alluring costumes and water melodies exist.

Among the factor that has become nearly like a manner trend in these movie is that of show that is navel. Hot navel display with a sexy actress can abandon male fans mouthed. The actresses link the Saree below their navel to attract interest. Even yet in tight trousers, the sexy bellybutton of the stars is found very properly. And these films are crowd puller.

Indian actresses is their stomach and thus are generally voluptuous in their bodystructure. There are many stars like Namitha, Trisha, Nayantara who have fan-following that is large. Their title is enough to draw crowds towards the theaters. And then you can find stars of old years typically referred to as aunties because of their age issue. And do not be fooled by their age. These actresses are so sexy they can sometimes supply bahubali telugu video songs the stars that are fresh a run because of their cash. Simran, Ramya Shakeela might be devote to the class. And as for supporters these are named evergreen beauties who have an equally huge group of followers. It's truly a satisfaction to view these girls. And the credit of making navel show a trend visits these beauties just. Now it's typical for ladies to don exposing outfits that are navel in daily life and parties.

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Beauty and the Beast (2017)

Reboots, remakes and sequels come out all the time, and it is important for fans to consider the value of them. Disney fans, for example, should be skeptical of the company’s recent decision to film live-action remakes of a large slate of its popular animated films, which are largely understood to be classics.

Clearly, there is something financially remunerative to be found in this idea, with the 2015 Cinderella remake grossing over $200 million and the 2016 The Jungle Book remake grossing over $100 million more.

After questioning why, viewers must consider whether there is any reason, besides money, behind this year’s remake, Beauty and the Beast.

Beauty and the Beast tells a story of two outcasts falling in love. Belle, played by Emma Watson, is a bookworm surrounded by a mostly illiterate town of peasants.

The Beast, played by Dan Stevens, is a human who has been cursed to live in the body of a beast with only his enchanted furniture and other such home goods for company. The release is the newest of Disney’s live-action adaptations.

Fans of the original film who want an opportunity to revisit their favorite provincial French town or enchanted castle will not leave disappointed. Beat for beat, the film is nearly identical to the story of the 1991 animated classic.

Musical numbers return in great abundance and even costuming is directly adapted from the Disney source material. Even so, pulling a VHS or special edition DVD off a shelf to watch the same thing is not hard—there needs to be more to this.

The changes from and additions to the 1991 film are key points to be noted in the adaptation. While the original film existed in France to the point where a few characters had accents and one song was based around saying “Bonjour!” to greet people, the remake accentuates its French roots.

Before the Beast’s castle is enchanted, it resembles Versailles. Gaston, played by the wonderfully cast Luke Evans, is now a war hero. The mob storming the castle in the third act is reminiscent of scenes from the French Revolution.

The 2017 adaptation is very aware of the setting of the story. The studio logo is substituted with the Beast’s castle and instead of fading to black, the shot stays and is used as part of the storytelling process.

Shots pan from the castle over the forest and back to the town, giving a geographical contextualization of the play’s location. This helps the audience keep track of what is happening between the two or three concurrent plot lines, making the movie more easily understandable.

The soundtrack includes classics like “Be Our Guest,” “Gaston,” “The Mob Song” and “Beauty and the Beast,” as well as new songs.  Doing this failed in the 2012 adaptation of Les Miserables, where the added song “Suddenly” was a waste of time. Adding on to an established song list is risky.

Kevin Kline’s “How Does a Moment Last Forever?” opens up the way for a subplot about Belle’s mother, something unexplored in the animated original. The additions of “Evermore,” a beautiful song of longing, and “Days in the Sun,” the touching refrain for a return to non-enchantment, are well-placed.

A crucial theme of the original film, looking beyond the surface, is well-adapted in the remake. Gaston is loved by the town and is in pursuit of his beloved Belle. His attempted wooing would fit in among the great romantic quests, until his dark side is shown.

The addition of the character of Agathe, the town spinster, gives the opportunity to see someone outcast and spurned because of being different. Belle, who is also different from the townspeople, is still accepted to some degree because of her beauty.

Belle resents the way she is described by her beauty. This is part of where her characterization shines. The film’s depiction of Belle disproves those who have often complained that the story is reminiscent of Stockholm Syndrome, or when a prisoner falls in love with his or her captor.

Belle tricks her father into letting her take his place as the Beast’s prisoner. She also avoids idleness by trying to escape and, when a singing wardrobe covers her with a French aristocratic dress, she slips out of it and stays in her townsperson clothing.

However, there are still some problems in this film. For instance, there are moments of excessive cheesiness. The music, like Phil Collins’ music for the Disney animated film Tarzan, is at times too on the nose about exposition.

Sometimes, the characters feel dwarfed by the need to create grand moments of reference to the 1991 film.

The remake, though not necessary, finds purpose by adding a new dimension, besides leaving 2-D animation. Compassion is argued over beauty. Characters feel more rounded and real.

There is magic and fun to be had, for viewers of all ages. With everything new that is offered, Beauty and the Beast is fittingly adapted.

Originally published in Baruch’s The Ticker

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It’s awkward ending a Hindi Film 101 series on a Tuesday!  So for this Thursday I’m going to do a quick one-off, not the history of a star or a star family, but of a genre.  Just in time to appreciate the newest iteration on the crime film in Raees! (all the Hindi Film 101 posts are visible here)

A different disclaimer than my usual one!  This is not a comprehensive overview, this doesn’t mention every important film or moment in film history.  This is just a starting point, a 101 type view of the topic.  If you have anything to add, or follow-up questions, please put it in the comments.

Hindi film began in 1913, but it had a struggling and difficult beginning because of the challenges of being an industry in a colonized country.  Not a lot of money and resources available.  And so genres and styles and so on didn’t really start flourishing until 1947.

And right at the start of that period, the crime drama began!  The early king of crime was Dev Anand.  Dev played the slick and cosmopolitan detective.  CID was one of his earliest triumphs, due more to the brilliant direction by Guru Dutt than by the acting of Dev Anand.

I know, that sounds like blasphemy, because I always believe the star is dominant over the director in authorship of the finished film.  But this is Guru Dutt!  The master of light and shadow, the pivotal artistic element of film noir (noir=black).  And also just a genius writer, came up with a great plot with characters filled with believable internal conflicts and memorable moments and so on.

(technically it was only produced by Guru Dutt, but it’s widely believed to have been ghost-directed by him)

Crime films in this era are shockingly similar to crime films in America in the same time period.  Partially because, I think, the two countries were going through similar upheaval.  Both of them and WWII vets returning home, rapid industrialization and urbanization, changing gender roles, etc. etc. etc.  And so both countries had the “film noir” genre, featuring urban landscapes, bad and good woman, a hero who travels through shadowed realms, etc. etc.

(Thank you British Film Institute for the handy graphic!)

But there were a couple of significant differences.  For one thing, while our hero may appear to have shades of grey to his character at the start, by the end of the film we usually discover he was fully moral and upright all along.  More importantly, mankind in general tends to be on the lighter end of the grey scale.  Taxi drivers, chaiwallas, strangers in the train compartment are all generally kind and considerate.  Maybe situations force them into doing wrong things, but at heart they are inherently good.  Essentially, this is film noir with an optimistic view of the future.  Which presages the later version of the Indian crime film, which is entirely optimistic.

While the crime films of the early Independence era are strikingly similar to their American counterparts, India quickly broke off and started forming it’s own kind of genre.  And this time, it was all about the star!  Dev Anand.

Dev had two brothers, Chetan and Vijay.  The three brothers formed their own studio, Navketan Films, and started cranking out brilliant mystery films featuring crazy twisty plots, colorful songs, and a casually debonair hero.  No more big social statements or dark view of the world, everything is light and bright and hopeful.  Both literally and metaphorically.  Chetan and Vijay and Dev (all three directed at one point or another) loved bright colors and clear outlines onscreen.

(escaping from the police who are trying to get your suitcase by singing a love song!)

Moving into the 60s, this is the kind of film the audience came to expect from a mystery story.  Even without Dev Anand, his brother Vijay would write and direct movies like Teesri Manzil with Shammi Kapoor had wacky rock and roll songs and a teen romance, mingled with a twisted murder mystery.  These films use the complex plot to draw in the audience and the light tone to keep them entertained.  And, since the point isn’t the family drama but rather the mystery, they also managed to throw in some really progressive ideas!  Lots of independent women, with jobs and love lives and minds of their own.

(They mooshed the opening titles onto this song, but that let’s you see all the drama of the mystery, and the light catchy love song, in one video)

And then, POW!  70s!  By the 70s, India and Bombay in particular were in a very different place.  The country had been independent for 25 years, and the promises of independence had not come through.  At the same time, thanks to restrictive laws, especially import and export laws, a criminal society had come into being, especially in Bombay with all the international shipping.

And so a new kind of crime film appeared.  This time, the criminal is the hero, not the villain.  He questions society’s rules, and if there might be a higher justice.  We watch him rise and rise through the ranks, before the final censor mandated fall.  But his death is shown not as a punishment for his sins, but as a final act of martyrdom, dying in an attempt to make society better.

The greatest of these is Deewar, of course.  Amitabh as the young boy who is literally tattooed with the sins of his father, who sacrifices his future so that his younger brother can thrive, who is driven to crime out of frustration at the corruption that keeps a working man down.  Who finally tries to move his life to a higher level, to find a better purpose, only to be driven back again and ultimately sacrificing all of his happiness so that the rest of society (his honest younger brother, his young sister-in-law, his aged mother) can move forward.

(The moment when he finally gives up on following society’s rules and starts to fight back)

Deewar is the greatest of these, but there are plenty of others.  Coolie, Kaalia, Trishul, Zanjeer, Shakti, Dostana, again and again and again those who live on the sidelines of society are ultimately more noble than those who follow the “rules”.  And then they end up as martyrs so that society as a whole can move on.  Very occasionally someone will actually live through to the end of the film, but if they do, it is only after a lot of strife and misery along the way.

(Kaalia is one of the more cheerful ones, but it still has our hero’s brother killed and our hero wrongfully imprisoned.  Also, Bob Christo!  Go to White Guy in a fight!)

That was the 70s, the era of brilliance and agony and Salim-Javed at the height of their writing powers.  And then came the 80s.  The era of Qurbani.  There were still good movies made in this decade, but the depth and misery of the 70s crime films slowly made way for something a little different.  All the agony of the 80s, but treated with the lightness of the 60s.  It was odd.

On paper, the plots were 70s style stories of separated brothers and good men driven to crime.  But instead of Amitabh, you had floppy-haired Anil Kapoor, or sincere Jackie Shroff.  And instead of Salim-Javed, you had Subhash Ghai coming up with his own stories and directing his own films featuring things like “Girl falls in love with her kidnapper, waits for him until he is released from jail, then has a huge fight scene on an island that convinces her father to agree to their engagement”.  Sure, our hero still has a tragic backstory explaining his criminal behavior, but SHE FALLS IN LOVE WITH HER KIDNAPPER!

(And the rest of the gang falls in love with her!  Stockholm syndrome is fun)

In 1988 Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak came out, and in 1989 Maine Pyar Kiya, and suddenly the crime dramas lost their place to romances.  This is also, coincidentally, the era in which crime in real life became increasingly involved in the film industry.  It had always been there, ever since the post-Independence era when blackmarket money from WWII started being laundered in film.  In the 1970s, Hajji Mastan became king of the smugglers in Bombay, and a regular at film parties.  It was his cool attitude and suits that inspired Amitabh’s character in Deewar.

(Haji on the left, Amitabh on the right)

But then in the 80s, Hajji was in jail and Bombay was run by Dawood Ibrahim and the D-Company.  They were into gun running and drugs and darker things than the 70s gangs.  They were also a lot more organized with a lot more international connections.  And they decided to take over film, just like they took over everything else.  They set up their own production companies, and terrorized the top talent into working for them.  And they tried to make sure their films were hits by any means necessary, for instance the story Karan just told in his bio about being threatened if he released Kuch Kuch Hota Hai opposite (presumably gang funded) Chote Miyan Bade Miyan.

(To see a fictionalized version of the difference between Hajji and Dawood, check out Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai)

And this is the era when suddenly crime films start to go away!  Not completely, there were still a few darker action films, like Ajay Devgn’s first big hit, Phool Aur Kaante, or Akshay Kumar’s Khiladi series.  But they didn’t have a really distinctive flavor to them, they felt more like tired rehashings of previous styles.

(For instance, Khiladi was a loose remake of the old Rishi and Neetu hit Khel Khel Main.  Campus hijinks mixed with crime drama)

And then Satya arrived!  Ram Gopal Verma’s first big crime film.  This was the first film to show gangs on a ground level.  RGV used real steetscapes and cheap costumes and slang dialogue to evoke life for the young criminal in Bombay.  And he heightened this effect by using mostly unknown actors, ones who disappeared completely into their characters and, more than that, into the narrative itself.  The effect is a sea of interconnected stories and random incidents, not the perfect clockwork narrative of Navketan films or the Greek tragedy of the 70s films.  Or the random colorful entertainment of the 80s.

RGV heightened this effect in Company, while at the same time adding style to it, color tones specific to certain scenes, odd angles, montages, using style to distance us from the characters feelings and keep the audience invested on both sides of the gangwar he is showing.  More than that, Company was an explicit recreation of real gangland events, more than had been done before.  Of course it wasn’t “officially” based on the feud between Chote Rajan and Dawood Ibrahim, but we all knew it.

(And because it is groundlevel and real, no big song sequences!  This is officially from the film, but notice the singers aren’t the characters)

Sanjay Gupta is the other important director to note, and the one who is directing Kaabil, the other important crime film that just came out!  Sanjay took Reservoir Dogs and remade it Indian style.  Each member of the heist got a backstory, there were song sequences (more than just the one in the original), and most of all there was style!  Kaante is the first Indian film to be shot entirely abroad (in LA).  Besides that, there was the way the light changed tones scene by scene, from golden to blue to green.  The loose suits, the styled hair and beards, the whole thing was just new and different and shocking.

(So sunny!  So goateed!)

The end result of this film was not that a lot of movies got filmed overseas, or that Sanjay Gupta went on to a brilliant career (there is only so far inventive light filters can take you).  But that style became a key component of crime dramas.  Hairstyles and cool camera angles and business with props suddenly became part of the expectation for crime films.

The newest string of crime dramas are period films, telling famous incidents from the real life of Bombay crime.  Mixed with stylish touches, catchy songs, “realistic” locations and costumes.  The character depth and twisted plots have gone away a little, but the style quotient has gone up.

(I love this song.  But from what I’ve read about it, I have no interest in actually seeing the movie.  It’s all about the final shootout.  Thus the title)

Raees is clearly based on Abdul Latif, even though the filmmakers deny it.  With some definite style in the filming of it, a big focus on hairstyles and costumes.  But also with the one liners (from the Salim-Javed era) and elaborate heist schemes (from Navketan Films) and bad woman dancing (from all the way back with Guru Dutt).  Along with some kind of goofy and applause inducing fight scenes from the 80s.

(We have crime films to thank for Helen!  This was her big break out song, age 15, in a twisty mystery with Ashok Kumar and stolen jewels and a missing brother)

Hindi Film 101 One-Off: a Brief History of the Crime Film It's awkward ending a Hindi Film 101 series on a Tuesday!  So for this Thursday I'm going to do a quick one-off, not the history of a star or a star family, but of a genre.