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✨ NETFLIX GEEKED WEEK 2023: TUTTI I VIDEO E ANNUNCI LATO ANIMAZIONE

Novità su Arcane, The Witcher, Ultraman, Il Principe dei Draghi, Blood of Zeus e tanto altro!

Siamo nel pieno della Geeked Week 2023! Torna il grande evento annuale di Netflix, nella sua terza e abbastanza gustosa edizione, nonostante al momento siano latitanti novità su Moonrise, completamente sparita dai radar, e sulla da poco confermata terza stagione della serie live action di Alice in Borderland.

A proposito di live action, per quelli sto preparando un post a sé stante. Per ora godetevi trailer, clip e annunci lato animazione, che sono quelli che ci interessano di più alla fine, no?

🔶🔸ARCANE

Come vi ho già anticipato a parte - visto che non stavo nella pelle da quanto ho apprezzato la prima stagione, uscita ormai nel 2021- per la seconda, attesissima, stagione della serie che ha dato vita propria all'universo di League of Legends, dovremo aspettare novembre 2024.

🔶🔸MY DAEMON

Primo trailer per la serie originale scritta da Hirotaka “Otsuichi” Adachi (My Capricorn Friend, Summer Ghost, Exception), realizzata presso uno studio taiwanese di animazione in computer grafica.

La serie debutterà il 23 novembre e vi confermo che sarà anche doppiata in italiano.

🔶🔸ULTRAMAN: RISING

Annunciato ormai un paio di anni fa, si fa finalmente vedere il nuovo film d'animazione con al centro lo storico supereroe di casa Tsuburaya, protagonista della celebre serie tokusatsu anni ‘60.

Ideata e diretta da Shannon Tindle (sceneggiatore di Kubo e la spada magica), con John Aoshima come coregista, la pellicola è tuttora in programma per un generico 2024.

🔶🔸 THE WITCHER: LE SIRENE DEGLI ABISSI

Cerchiamo di non pensare alla serie live action (povero Cavill, per fortuna ora è passato a Warhammer 40k) e di essere positivi: Geralt torna sul piccolo schermo, stavolta in versione animata, doppiato sempre dal mitico Doug Cockle.

Il film si basa sul racconto "Un Piccolo Sacrificio", che fa parte della raccolta La Spada del Destino e arriverà a fine 2024. Dita incrociate che non macellino pure questo D:

🔶🔸BLOOD OF ZEUS

La seconda stagione della serie mitologica, nata dalla mente di Charley e Vlas Parlapanides, arriverà nel corso del 2024.

Svelati un primo teaser trailer e una clip in anteprima.

🔶🔸IL PRINCIPE DEI DRAGHI

Primo teaser ufficiale per la sesta stagione della popolare (e sempre più dark) serie fantasy creata da Aaron Ehasz e Justin Richmond, anche questa in arrivo durante il 2024.

🔶🔸ONMYOJI

Di seguito una clip in anteprima, tratta dal primo episodio della serie ispirata ai romanzi storico-soprannaturali di Baku Yumemakura (La vetta degli dei, Garouden, Chimera), in arrivo su Netflix il 28 novembre.

🔶🔸MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE: REVOLUTION

Il primo trailer della nuova incarnazione di He-Man e i Dominatori dell'Universo ci svela che la miniserie di 5 episodi, da 25 minuti ciascuno, approderà sul catalogo della piattaforma a gennaio 2024.

🔶🔸LEO

Pubblicata un clip in anteprima anche per film di Robert Marianetti, Robert Smigel e David Wachtenheim.

La commedia musicale, con protagonista la lucertola settantaquattrenne interpretata da Adam Sandler (e da Edoardo Leo nella versione italiana), farà il suo debutto a breve, il 21 novembre.

🔶🔸ORION E IL BUIO

Presentato il primo trailer del nuovo film d'animazione targato DreamWorks, tratto dal libro per bambini di Emma Yarlet.

Il lungometraggio uscirà su Netflix il 2 febbraio 2024.

EXTRA

Visto che il limite di video per post è di 10 e non ho voglia di mettermi a smanettare con l'HTML, vi linko semplicemente qua di seguito qualche contenuto bonus:

Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft (dietro le quinte)

Blue Eye Samurai (dietro le quinte)

Devil May Cry (dietro le quinte)

Scott Pilgrim: La Serie (trailer finale)

Terminator: The Anime Series (annuncio)

Exploding Kittens (annuncio)

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Holidays 7.25

Holidays

Act Like a Caveman Day

Antifascist Pasta Day (Italy)

Bayreuther Festspiele begins (Wagner festival; Germany) [thru 8.28]

Be Adamant About Something Day

Community Day (Galicia, Spain)

CTNNB1 Awareness Day

A Day Out of Time (Last Day of the Year; Mayan, Galactic)

Ebernoe Horn Fair (Sussex, UK)

Feed the Country Ducks Day

Festival of Picaresque Animality

Health and Happiness with Hypnosis Day

International AfroLatinx, AfroCaribbean & Diaspora Women’s Day

International Day of Solidarity with Antifascist Prisoners

International Red Show Day

International Sop Rapping Over Vocals Day

John Knill Day (Cornwall, UK) [Every 5 Years]

Jumatul Bidah (Bangladesh)

Jumat-ul-Wida (India)

Merry-Go-Round Day [also 5.17]

Mugwort Day (French Republic)

National African American Hepatitis C Action Day

National Campus Press Freedom Day (Philippines)

National Carousel Day

National Clay Day

National Day of Galicia (Spain)

National Hire a Veteran Day

National Houston Day

National Schizophrenia Awareness Day (UK)

National Video Game Team Day

Occupation Day (Puerto Rico)

Rain of Black Worms Day (Romania)

Red Shoe Day

Republic Day (Tunisia)

Rosiland Franklin Day

Santiago Apóstol (Spain)

Test-Tube Baby Day

Thread the Needle Day

Traditional Palestinian Dress Day

World Drowning Prevention Day (UN)

World Embryologist Day

World IVF Day

World Youth Days 2023 begins (Lisbon, Portugal; Roman Catholic; until 7.31) [Varies; @Every 3 Years]

Food & Drink Celebrations

Candles on a Cake Day

Culinarian’s Day

Frozen Fruit Freeze Day

Indie Beer Day (Australia)

National Hot Fudge Sundae Day

National Wine and Cheese Day

4th Tuesday in July

Waterton-Glacier Science & History Day [4th Tuesday]

Independence Days

Abode of Heaven (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]

Andany (Declared; 2017; Dissolved Sep. 2018) [unrecognized]

Commonwealth Constitution Day (Puerto Rico) 

Rathunis (Declared; 2011) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Anne (Eastern Christianity)

Christopher (Western Christianity)

Cucuphas (a.k.a. Cueufas, Cougat; Christian; Saint)

Feast of Formation of Saint Ann (Mother of the Virgin Mary; Byzantine Rite)

Furrinalia (Old Roman Goddess of Springs)

Glodesind (Christian; Saint)

Holbein (Positivist; Saint)

Hot Fudge Sundae Day (Pastafarian)

Ilyap'a Festival (Inca thunder god)

James the Great (Western Christianity)

John I Agnus (Christian; Saint)

Julian of Le Mans (Christian; Translation)

Magnerich of Trier (Christian; Saint)

Maxfield Parrish (Artology)

National Baha’i Day (Jamaica)

Nissen, Abbot of Mountgarret, Ireland (Christian; Saint)

Paul (Christian; Martyr)

Shylock Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Slippery Slim (Muppetism)

Thea and Valentina (Christian; Virgins)

Thomas Eakins (Artology)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

The Adventures of André & Wally B. (Pixar Cartoon; 1984)

Air Force One (Film; 1997)

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (Film; 2008)

Armor Wars (Film; 2025)

Back in Black, by AC/DC (Album; 1980)

Batman: The Killing Joke (Animated Film; 2016)

Broken Quest (Animated tV Series; 2013)

Caddyshack (Film; 1980)

China Grove, by the Doobie Brothers (Song; 1973)

A Chorus Line (Broadway Musical; 1975)

Drinking Buddies (Film; 2013)

Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (WB MM Cartoon; 1953)

Fame, by David Bowie (Song; 1975)

First Lensman, by E.E. "Doc" Smith (Novel; 1950) [Lensman #2]

Good Burger (Film; 1997)

Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man (Film; 1962)

Justice League: Warworld (WB Animated Film; 2023)

Kill ‘Em All, by Metallica (Album; 1983)

Lara Croft Tom Raider: The Cradle of Life (Film; 2003)

Last Train to Clarksville, recorded by The Monks (Song; 1966)

Lego Scooby-Doo! Blowout Beach Bash (WB Animated Film; 2017)

Lucy (Film; 2014)

Maximum Overdrive (Film; 1986)

Paul’s Boutique, by The Beastie Boys (Album; 1989)

Porky’s Spring Planting (WB LT Cartoon; 1938)

Ruby Sparks (Film; 2012)

Seabiscuit (Film; 2003)

Step Brothers (Film; 2008)

The Tree’s Knees (WB LT Cartoon; 1931)

X-Files: I Want to Believe (Film; 2008)

Yes, by Yes (Album; 1969)

You Can’t Hurry Love, by The Supremes (Song; 1966)

Today’s Name Days

Jakob, Jakobus, Thea, Thomas, Valentina (Austria)

Ana, Yana (Bulgaria)

Beata, Jakov, Krsto, Valentina (Croatia)

Jakub (Czech Republic)

Jacobus (Denmark)

Jaagup, Jaak, Jaako, Jaap, Jako, Jakob, Jass (Estonia)

Jaakko, Jaakob, Jaakoppi, Jimi (Finland)

Jacques, Valentine (France)

Jakob, Valentine (Germany)

Anna (Greece)

Jakab, Kristóf (Hungary)

Cristoforo, Giacomo (Italy)

Jēkabs, Marika (Latvia)

Aušrinė, Jokūbas, Kristupas (Lithuania)

Jack, Jakob, Jim (Norway)

Jakub, Krzysztof, Nieznamir, Sławosz, Walentyna (Poland)

Jakub (Slovakia)

Jaime, Santiago (Spain)

Jakob (Sweden)

Jac, Jack, Jacki, Jackie, Jackson, Jacky, Jacques, Jimmie (Universal)

Coby, Colby, Diego, Israel, Jacob, Jacoby, Jack, Jackie, Jackson, Jaclyn, Jacqueline, Jacquelyn, Jacques, Jaime, Jake, Jakob, James, Jameson, Jamie, Jaquan, Jaqueline, Jaxon, Jaxson, Jim, Jimena, Jimmie, Jimmy, Kobe, Koby, Kolby, Santiago (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 206 of 2024; 159 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 30 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 16 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Ji-Wei), Day 8 (Jia-Shen)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 7 Av 5783

Islamic: 7 Muharram 1445

J Cal: 26 Lux; Fiveday [26 of 30]

Julian: 12 July 2023

Moon: 50%: 1st Quarter

Positivist: 10 Dante (8th Month) [Holbein]

Runic Half Month: Ur (Primal Strength) [Day 12 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 35 of 94)

Zodiac: Leo (Day 4 of 31)

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Dream Career

La carrière de mes rêves après avoir obtenu mon diplôme, j'espère devenir archéologue dans le domaine. J'ai été amoureux de cette carrière depuis que j'ai regardé mon tout premier film d'Indiana Jones quand j'étais enfant, puis en regardant Lara Croft dans Tomb Raider a scellé l'affaire pour moi et les films qui ont suivi m'en ont fait tomber encore plus amoureux. Mais ce n'était pas seulement les films, c'était aussi mon amour pour l'histoire.

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Par Charlène Badasie | Publié il y a 6 minutes La page de destination du site Web appartenant à la série animée Tomb Raider a été supprimée par Netflix. Cette décision, qui coïncide avec les grèves en cours de la WGA et de la SAG-AFTRA, a laissé les fans se demander si l'émission avait été annulée ou suspendue indéfiniment. D'après SportsKeeda, Hayley Atwell, l'actrice exprimant Lara Croft, a été vue se joindre à la grève internationale vers la fin juillet. Ce développement intervient quelques mois seulement après que le showrunner Tasha Huo a confirmé que l'anime Tomb Raider était toujours en production. Annoncée en janvier 2021, la série devait continuer l'histoire après Shadow of the Tomb Raider - le troisième jeu de redémarrage, qui a provoqué ses débuts en 2018 pour les consoles et PC de la génération précédente. Annoncée en janvier 2021, la série devait continuer l'histoire après Shadow of the Tomb Raider Shadow of the Tomb Raider a marqué l'aboutissement d'une trilogie de redémarrage et a jeté les bases du scénario de l'anime à venir. Fait intéressant, certains fans sont satisfaits de l'annulation potentielle car ils n'ont jamais aimé le concept d'anime Tomb Raider. Ces inquiétudes ont été suscitées par une fuite de 2022 a propos un jeu à venir qui a introduit un amour féminin pour Lara Croft. Beaucoup de gens étaient mécontents de la direction créative et ont exprimé leur dédain en ligne. Ces sentiments ont refait surface désormais que la page d'accueil de Tomb Raider a disparu. Pourtant, la nouvelle de la suppression de l'émission survient après plusieurs rapports non confirmés suggérant que la série avait été reprise pour une deuxième saison avant de diffuser un seul épisode. Les inquiétudes ont été suscitées par une fuite de 2022 a propos un prochain jeu Tomb Raider qui a introduit un intérêt amoureux féminin pour Lara Croft. Netflix n'a pas encore commenté le statut de l'émission Tomb Raider. en attendant, Atwell fait partie d'un groupe croissant d'acteurs internationaux pour faire preuve de solidarité avec leurs homologues SAG-AFTRA. On ne sait pas si sa participation au rassemblement de juillet à Leicester Square, à Londres, a perturbé le spectacle. Tomb Raider est une franchise multimédia populaire qui a vu le jour sous la forme d'une série de jeux vidéo et s'est ensuite étendue aux films. les jeux successifs, développée par Core Design et plus tard Crystal Dynamics, est centrée sur l'archéologue aventureuse Lara Croft. Le premier jeu, sorti en 1996, a affiché aux joueurs les exploits courageux de Lara alors qu'elle explorait des tombes anciennes et résolvait des énigmes. La franchise a connu un redémarrage réussi avec la sortie en 2013 de Tomb Raider, qui a exploré les origines et l'évolution de Lara en une aventurière résiliente. La franchise a vu à la fois des adaptations en direct et animées. La série de films d'action en direct a démarré avec Angelina Jolie incarnant Lara Croft dans Lara Croft: Tomb Raider en 2001 et sa suite Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life en 2003. Angelina Jolie dans le rôle de Lara Croft En 2018, un redémarrage du film intitulé Tomb Raider, mettant en vedette Alicia Vikander dans le rôle d'une Lara plus jeune et plus proche, est sorti. Le film visait à s'aligner plus étroitement sur le ton granuleux et réaliste du redémarrage du jeu en 2013. L'histoire a suivi les quêtes de globe-trotter de Lara, mettant en vedette des mystères archéologiques et des séquences d'action intenses. En janvier 2023, Amazon Studios, une filiale de MGM, a acquis avec réussite les droits d'un nouveau film. Le projet devrait impliquer Dmitri M. Johnson et sa société de production dj2 Entertainment. Le film est conçu pour faire le lien avec la série en cours de développement par Phoebe Waller-Bridge et un nouveau jeu vidéo de Crystal Dynamics. Ensemble, ces projets visent à créer un univers Tomb Raider partagé.

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Holidays 7.25

Holidays

Act Like a Caveman Day

Antifascist Pasta Day (Italy)

Bayreuther Festspiele begins (Wagner festival; Germany) [thru 8.28]

Be Adamant About Something Day

Community Day (Galicia, Spain)

CTNNB1 Awareness Day

A Day Out of Time (Last Day of the Year; Mayan, Galactic)

Ebernoe Horn Fair (Sussex, UK)

Feed the Country Ducks Day

Festival of Picaresque Animality

Health and Happiness with Hypnosis Day

International AfroLatinx, AfroCaribbean & Diaspora Women’s Day

International Day of Solidarity with Antifascist Prisoners

International Red Show Day

International Sop Rapping Over Vocals Day

John Knill Day (Cornwall, UK) [Every 5 Years]

Jumatul Bidah (Bangladesh)

Jumat-ul-Wida (India)

Merry-Go-Round Day [also 5.17]

Mugwort Day (French Republic)

National African American Hepatitis C Action Day

National Campus Press Freedom Day (Philippines)

National Carousel Day

National Clay Day

National Day of Galicia (Spain)

National Hire a Veteran Day

National Houston Day

National Schizophrenia Awareness Day (UK)

National Video Game Team Day

Occupation Day (Puerto Rico)

Rain of Black Worms Day (Romania)

Red Shoe Day

Republic Day (Tunisia)

Rosiland Franklin Day

Santiago Apóstol (Spain)

Test-Tube Baby Day

Thread the Needle Day

Traditional Palestinian Dress Day

World Drowning Prevention Day (UN)

World Embryologist Day

World IVF Day

World Youth Days 2023 begins (Lisbon, Portugal; Roman Catholic; until 7.31) [Varies; @Every 3 Years]

Food & Drink Celebrations

Candles on a Cake Day

Culinarian’s Day

Frozen Fruit Freeze Day

Indie Beer Day (Australia)

National Hot Fudge Sundae Day

National Wine and Cheese Day

4th Tuesday in July

Waterton-Glacier Science & History Day [4th Tuesday]

Independence Days

Abode of Heaven (Declared; 2018) [unrecognized]

Andany (Declared; 2017; Dissolved Sep. 2018) [unrecognized]

Commonwealth Constitution Day (Puerto Rico) 

Rathunis (Declared; 2011) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Anne (Eastern Christianity)

Christopher (Western Christianity)

Cucuphas (a.k.a. Cueufas, Cougat; Christian; Saint)

Feast of Formation of Saint Ann (Mother of the Virgin Mary; Byzantine Rite)

Furrinalia (Old Roman Goddess of Springs)

Glodesind (Christian; Saint)

Holbein (Positivist; Saint)

Hot Fudge Sundae Day (Pastafarian)

Ilyap'a Festival (Inca thunder god)

James the Great (Western Christianity)

John I Agnus (Christian; Saint)

Julian of Le Mans (Christian; Translation)

Magnerich of Trier (Christian; Saint)

Maxfield Parrish (Artology)

National Baha’i Day (Jamaica)

Nissen, Abbot of Mountgarret, Ireland (Christian; Saint)

Paul (Christian; Martyr)

Shylock Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Slippery Slim (Muppetism)

Thea and Valentina (Christian; Virgins)

Thomas Eakins (Artology)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

The Adventures of André & Wally B. (Pixar Cartoon; 1984)

Air Force One (Film; 1997)

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (Film; 2008)

Armor Wars (Film; 2025)

Back in Black, by AC/DC (Album; 1980)

Batman: The Killing Joke (Animated Film; 2016)

Broken Quest (Animated tV Series; 2013)

Caddyshack (Film; 1980)

China Grove, by the Doobie Brothers (Song; 1973)

A Chorus Line (Broadway Musical; 1975)

Drinking Buddies (Film; 2013)

Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (WB MM Cartoon; 1953)

Fame, by David Bowie (Song; 1975)

First Lensman, by E.E. "Doc" Smith (Novel; 1950) [Lensman #2]

Good Burger (Film; 1997)

Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man (Film; 1962)

Justice League: Warworld (WB Animated Film; 2023)

Kill ‘Em All, by Metallica (Album; 1983)

Lara Croft Tom Raider: The Cradle of Life (Film; 2003)

Last Train to Clarksville, recorded by The Monks (Song; 1966)

Lego Scooby-Doo! Blowout Beach Bash (WB Animated Film; 2017)

Lucy (Film; 2014)

Maximum Overdrive (Film; 1986)

Paul’s Boutique, by The Beastie Boys (Album; 1989)

Porky’s Spring Planting (WB LT Cartoon; 1938)

Ruby Sparks (Film; 2012)

Seabiscuit (Film; 2003)

Step Brothers (Film; 2008)

The Tree’s Knees (WB LT Cartoon; 1931)

X-Files: I Want to Believe (Film; 2008)

Yes, by Yes (Album; 1969)

You Can’t Hurry Love, by The Supremes (Song; 1966)

Today’s Name Days

Jakob, Jakobus, Thea, Thomas, Valentina (Austria)

Ana, Yana (Bulgaria)

Beata, Jakov, Krsto, Valentina (Croatia)

Jakub (Czech Republic)

Jacobus (Denmark)

Jaagup, Jaak, Jaako, Jaap, Jako, Jakob, Jass (Estonia)

Jaakko, Jaakob, Jaakoppi, Jimi (Finland)

Jacques, Valentine (France)

Jakob, Valentine (Germany)

Anna (Greece)

Jakab, Kristóf (Hungary)

Cristoforo, Giacomo (Italy)

Jēkabs, Marika (Latvia)

Aušrinė, Jokūbas, Kristupas (Lithuania)

Jack, Jakob, Jim (Norway)

Jakub, Krzysztof, Nieznamir, Sławosz, Walentyna (Poland)

Jakub (Slovakia)

Jaime, Santiago (Spain)

Jakob (Sweden)

Jac, Jack, Jacki, Jackie, Jackson, Jacky, Jacques, Jimmie (Universal)

Coby, Colby, Diego, Israel, Jacob, Jacoby, Jack, Jackie, Jackson, Jaclyn, Jacqueline, Jacquelyn, Jacques, Jaime, Jake, Jakob, James, Jameson, Jamie, Jaquan, Jaqueline, Jaxon, Jaxson, Jim, Jimena, Jimmie, Jimmy, Kobe, Koby, Kolby, Santiago (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 206 of 2024; 159 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 30 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 16 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Ji-Wei), Day 8 (Jia-Shen)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 7 Av 5783

Islamic: 7 Muharram 1445

J Cal: 26 Lux; Fiveday [26 of 30]

Julian: 12 July 2023

Moon: 50%: 1st Quarter

Positivist: 10 Dante (8th Month) [Holbein]

Runic Half Month: Ur (Primal Strength) [Day 12 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 35 of 94)

Zodiac: Leo (Day 4 of 31)

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What films would you most recommend?

Look I’m just going to give you a long list, cause I���ve been asked this a lot in the past, so I’ll just put it all here lol 💗

The hours, about time, Rear Window, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Stoker, Mulholland drive, pride and prejudice, Atonement, Little women (1994), Marie Antoinette, The great Gatsby, Romeo and Juliet (1996), Moulin Rouge!, The favourite, Anna Karenina, Picnic at hanging rock, Sicario, The others, Laura, Rebecca (1940), Black swan, And then there were none (1945), The Maltese falcon, The big sleep, Chinatown, Heathers, The exterminating angel, The imaginarium of doctor parnassus, Amelie, Donkey skin, The love witch, Jane eyre, We have always lived in the castle, A room with a view, The Aviator, Uptown girls, The craft, The virgin suicides, Jennifer’s body, Carnival of souls, Clueless, Inception, Shutter island, 10 things I hate about you, Girl interrupted, Cruel intentions, Legally blonde, Carrie, Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Suspiria (1977) and Suspiria (2018), Badlands, Big fish, Ready or not, 13 going on 30, Aquamarine, Freaky Friday, Confessions of a teenage drama queen, Ginger snaps, Last night in soho, The lighthouse, The red shoes, Gilda, Double Indemnity, D.E.B.S, The devil wears prada, Gone girl, Thelma and Louise, Death on the Nile (1978), The place beyond the pines, Practical magic, Natural born killers, Valerie and her week of wonders, Fallen angels, Roman holiday, Sucker punch, Battle Royale, Bonnie and Clyde, Scarface, Belle De Jour, Closer, Drive, Momento, The Girl with the dragon tattoo, Candy, Before sunrise, American psycho, The beguiled, The lady from Shanghai, Across the universe, And while we were here, The little Tailor, Drugstore cowboy, The Neon Demon, Gia, Vivacious lady, Legend, The shop around the corner, East of Eden, The dreamers, Like crazy, Leave her to heaven, Possession, The Edge of love, Molly’s game, Stregati, Doubt, The lady eve, Prozac nation, A girl walks home alone at night, Amuck, A girl walks home alone at night, Lost highway, Revenge (2017), the witch, Darling (1965), Season of the witch, The princess bride, X, Queen of the damned, la reine margot, The handmaiden, Etoile, Baba Yaga, Mermaids, Black narcissus, La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast), Pearl, The Northman, Perfect Blue, Lara Croft: tomb raider, Irma Vep, The Double Life of Véronique, The scent of green papaya, In the Mood for Love, Chungking Express, On the beach at night alone, 1001 Nights (1998), drop dead gorgeous, Barbarian (2022), Kamikaze girls, Belladonna of Sadness, Mustang (2015), Anna (2019), 3 women, Fruits of passion, Rouge, The banquet (2006), House of flying daggers (2004), Past lives (2023), Mysterious skin, The doom generation, White Oleander, Birthday girl, Betty blue, Mystery train (1989), Lilith (1964), The blood spattered bride (1972), One million yen girl, Russian ark, byzantium, The blue sky maiden (1957), Life can be so wonderful (2007), All about Lily chou chou (2001), Sakuran (2006), The living dead girl (1982), The prodigal (1955), La vie en rose, Marie poupee (1976), Practical magic (1998), Shiki-Jitsu (2000), Savages (2012), Coyote ugly, Les deux orphelines vampires (1997), Lost in Beijing 2007

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Formation   « Ecrire un jeu vidéo »

Comment est-on passé de ce marché dit de niche, à un marché représentant plusieurs milliards d’euros ? C’est en partie grâce aux prouesses graphiques développées à travers le temps, mais aussi grâce à des scénarios dignes de films hollywoodiens, et à une volonté perpétuelle de se surpasser.

Cette formation s’adresse aux joueurs passionnés qui se sont dit un jour qu’ils aimeraient réaliser un jeu vidéo, aux avides de programmation qui ne savent pas par où commencer, aux joueurs casuals qui ont une idée de jeu, aux joueurs convaincus que certaines histoires peuvent être mieux exploitées, aux fans de Sonic, Mario ou Lara Croft, aux passionnés de point and click, visual novel ou RPG, aux fans de Rockstar qui rêvent d’écrire un GTA-like, aux passionnés de jeux vidéo tout simplement. Ce jeu vidéo parfait dont vous rêvez, vous pouvez le faire vous-même !

👉 Formation   « Ecrire un jeu vidéo »

▶ AUTRES FORMATIONS

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MES FILMS. MES SÉRIES ET MON PLAISIR.

Il y a beaucoup  d'acteurs et d'actrices que j'aime beaucoup et que j'admire énormément et parmi cette liste il y a ACTEURS Johnny Deep Paul Walker Channing Tatum Robin Williams Adam Slander Jason Stanham Dwyane Johnson Kellan Lutz Chris Hemsworth Liam Hemsworth Heat Ledger Nicholas Cage Liam Neeson Brad Pitt Tom cruise steve Martin James Franco James Marsden ACTRICES Katherine Heighl Rachel Mc Adams Zoe Saldana Mila Kunis Anne Hathaway Drew Barrymore Jennifer Lopez Jessica Alba Scarlett Johansson Natalie Portman Reese Witherspoon Sandra Bullock Julia Roberts Cameron Diaz J'aime beaucoup le domaine du cinéma, c'est une passion c'est quelque chose que j'aime quand je veut relaxer. N'es ce pas réconfortant. Ici je me suis fait tout un répertoire de film de tout les genre vous y voyez tout un choix films et de série que j'ai beaucoup aimer alors l'es voici. HORREUR Annabelle série Us La conjuration série Ma Silence Dead (Silence de mort) Malédiction de l'enfer (Drag Me to Hell) Le cauchemar de Molly Hartley 2008 Le bal de l'horreur (Prom Night) 2008 Terreur sur la ligne (When a stranger calls) A Qiet Place (Un coin tranquille) Ça, Dans le noir One missed Call (Un appel manqué) Mortelle St Valentin Instinct de survie Visions, Ouija Ne t'endors pas Poltergeist Sinistre 1 Jessabelle Mama insidous 2,3,4 I Still I Know what you did last summer Halloween Chucky Jaws (les dents de la mer) Scream (Frisson) 1,2,3,4 N'aie pas peur du noir Freddy Krueger les griffes de la nuit (2010) Boogeyman Apparence Meurtre a la St Valentin destination ultime (Final Destination) La maison de cire The darkness Jeepers creepers SCIENCE FICTION ET FANTASTIQUE Les animeaux fantastique 1,2 La momie, Thor La belle et la bête le film Le livre de la jungle le film Coeur d'encre Pan, Pete's Dragon (Peter Elliot et le dragon) Oz le magnifique Alice au pays des merveilles 1,2 Percy Jackson 1 et 2 Chronique de narnia 1,2,3 Légende 1985 Merlin 1998 Casper, Maléfique Le labyrinthe de pan Le cygne noir (2011) Harry Potter série Bright Les gardiens de la galaxie 1,2 L'ascension de Jupiter A-X-L Transformers Armageddon Le jour d'après La stratégie Ender X-Men Life, Prometheus Alien, Passager La guerre des mondes La stratégie d'enfer La série Star Was Chappie Le chaos La guerre des mondes COMÉDIE DE FILLE Année bixestille Le journal d'une princesse 1, 2 Gagner un rendez vous avec Tad Hamilton 13 ans bientot 30 Elle a tout pour elle, Monte Carlo The Parent Trap Sweet Home Alabama, Le prince et moi Et si c'était vrai, Un amour infini Comment perdre son mec en 10 jours Something Borrowed (Duos en trois) Le mariage de mon meilleur ami 27 Robes Les douzes coups de minuit Ma belle est un monstre La fille du président Éloge de la liberté Blonde et légale Méchantes Ados Bring It On (Le tout pour le tout) 1,2,3,4,5 Lettre a Juliette Le diable s'habille en prada Confession d'une accro du shopping Profession hôtesse de l'air Julie & Julia Meilleure ennemies Because I Said So (Cherche homme parfait) Sexfriends, Sexe entre amis A Cinderella Story ACTION ET AVENTURE 300 1 et 2 Rambo : la dernière mission Le casse noisette et les quatres royaumes (The Nutcraker an... Un raccourci dans le temps ( A Wrinkle on Time) Aquaman Venom Le masque de Zorro série Mission impossible série Bumblebee Divergence série Spider Man série Charlie's Angel série Hancok The Island Jumanji 1,2 Life of Pie San Andreas Pacifim Rim 1 et 2 Voyage au centre de la terre 1 et 2 Les aventures de Tintin : Le secret de la licorne Jurassic World série John Wick 1,2 The Equalizer 1,2 Skyscraper (Gratte Ciel) Ant-Man et guêpe (Ant-Man and the Wasp 1,2 Mégalodon (The Meg) Peppermint (Déchainée) La légende d'Hercule, Lara Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Parker Trésor National 1,2 Fast Furious 4,5,6,7,8 le 1 et 2 (version française Rapide et Dangereux) Blanche neige et le chasseur 1 et 2 Mr. S Smith Bleu d'enfer Le mécano : la résurrection 47 Ronin Tigre et dragon Jake Ryan Le gardien Die Hard Rampage Maraudeurs Top Gun (1986) Underworld V for Vendetta ENFANT ET FAMILLE Dora et la cité perdue UglyDolls Jack Frost (1998) Free Willy The Polar Express (Boréal Express) Une nuit au musée Moins Cher La Douzaine 1 et 2 The Lizzie McGuire Movie Hanna Montana: The Movie Une princesse sur la glace Nancy Drew Les 101 Dalmatien Happy Family Pierre Lapin Enchantés Stailion Benji Mes vies de chiens 1,2 Whisper série L'incroyable histoire de Winter le dauphin 1,et 2 Tobby The Amazing Penda Le dragon des mers Chérie j'ai agrandi le bébé The House With a Clock In its Walls Incredibles 1 et 2 DRAME The lake house (La maison près du lac) La série Twilight Salt À Cinq pied de toi (Five feet Apart Midnight Sun (Soleil de minuit) A Star is Born (Une étoile est née) Forever my Girl Beastly (Sortilège) Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain 1995 Crossroads (A la croisé des chemins) 2002 Stepmom (La blonde a mon père) Match Point Doux Novembre The Roommate The Other Woman Red Eye (Vol sous haute pression) Flight Plan (Plan de Vol) My Girl (L'été de mes 11 ans) L'arrivée (Arrival) Sully Wicker Park Pearl Harbor P.S. I love You Le porte bonheur (The Lucky One) Tristan & Yseult Le secret de Charlie Hors du temps The Lovely Bones The Notebook Remember Me (La rage de vivre) A Walk To Remember (Une promenade Inoubliable) Une bouteille a la mer Coyote Ugly Apparitions (Libelule) La maison sur la falaise Flicka Sexe Intemtions Black Swan Ou le coeur nous mène Brothers FILM DISNEY À MONSIEUR Dumbo The Lion King Maléfique FILM D'ANIMATION Tout ce qui est film d'animation de Walt Disney, Dream Works. Peut importe, c'est les films que je préfère écouter. Quand j'étais enfant, je me souviendrai toujours à quel point, que j'ai eu beaucoup de plaisir à l'es écouter en boucle. Et encore aujourd'hui, j'ai du plaisir à l'es regarder. C'est des film qui sont réconfortant mais aussi que du bonheur. ANIMATION Ballerina La reine des neiges Coraline Kung fu Penda Rebelle (Brave) Dragon Hôtel Transylvanie Ratatouille Volt L'ère de glace La belle et la bête La petite sirène Pocahontas Cendrillon Le roi Lion Aladdin La princesse des cygnes 1 Le livre de la jungle Moana Abominable Storks Raiponce La princesse et la grenouille Zootopia Lilo et Stich La route d`Eldorado Rox et Rouky Spirit L'empereur du nouveau genre Le chat potté Drôle d'abeille Planet 51 THRILLER The Boy Next Door (2015) La prison de verre Fenêtre secrète The tourist Before I Fall Truth Or Dannce Le beau père (The Stepfather) Sans un bruit 2:22 Kidnap Home Invasion Get Out Sex Crimes COMÉDIE MUSICALE Heartbeats High Strung, Mamma Mia 1,2 Dirty Dancing 1,2 Honey 1,2 The Fame La série Step Up Footloose Romance Titanic Nos étoiles contraires Le voeux un été sur terre The longuest Ride (Le plus beau des chemins) Une seconde chance, Un havre de paix Cher John Everything, Everything Cinquante nuances plus sombres, 10 choses que je déteste de toi Get Over It, Adaline Bleu Saphir Cendrillon Amour et honneur Twilight Fascination A tout les garçons que j'ai aimés Love Simon À tout jamais 1998 COMÉDIE Sex and the City Simplement Irrésistible (Simply Irresistible) 1999 Miss congeniality (Miss personnalité) Patch Adams In Good Company, (En bonne compagnie) Never Been Kissed Home Alone (Maman j'ai ratée l'avion 1,2,3 Dr. Seus 'How the grinch Stole Christmas Le lutin (Elf) Madame Doubtfire The Santa Clause What a Girl Wants Pyjamas Party Sisterhood of the traveling pants New York Minute (Escapade à New York) Clic Bay Watch Game Night l'Abominable vérité Pas si simple Baby boss Book Club Drink, Slay, Love Mère indigne 1 et 2 Pourquoi lui ? Le stagiaire Famille recomposée Joue-la comme Beckham De père en flic 1,2 Intouchable Chérie nous avons été rétrécis Papa, j'ai une maman pour toi (It Takes Two) 1995 Little Giants Back to the Future Trilogy Encore 17 ans (17 Again) Grandes personnes Just Go With It (méchant menteur) LES MEILLEURES SÉRIES QUE J'AI ÉCOUTER Buffy contre les vampires Charmed 2018 Charmed Le chalet Chicago fire Dawson Dexter Elite Everwood Greenhouse Académie Good Witch (un soupçon de magie) Gossip Girl Grimm Gilmore Girls Heroes Izombie Jane the Virgin Lucifer Nashville Newport Beach Once Upon A Time Orange the new Black Prison Break Pretty Little Liars Riverdale Stranger things Scream Shadow Hunters Sense 8 Supernatural (Surnaturel) Switched at Birth Teen Wolf True Blood That' 70s Show Thirteen Reason Why - 13 Raisons Vampire Diaries PALMARÈS DE MES MEILLEURES FILMS Tout les films de Nicholas Sparks Le mariage de mon meilleur ami La blonde a mon père Titanic L'homme au masque de fer High Strung L'été de mes 11 ans Crossroad Le secret de bear mountain Un baiser enfin Coraline Miss personnalité A tout jamais (1998) Le jour d'après La belle et la bête (film à monsieur) La reine des neiges Ballerina Le livre de la jungle(film à monsieur) Fenêtre Secrète AUTRES SÉRIES À DÉCOUVRIR Younger Scandal Murder Revenge Beauté Désespérées   Hart of Dixie gg

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Artifact Series L

L. Ron Hubbard's "E-Meter" Electropsychometer

La Volpe's Cowl

The Lady from Shanghai's Mirror Maze

Lady Godiva's Saddle

Lady Jane Grey's Necklace

Lady Liberty Lighter *

Lady Lovibond

Lady Macbeth's Candle

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Journal

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Tulip Bulbs

Lady Saigō's Kimono

Laelaps

Laika's Harness

Lake Peigneur Diamond Drill Bit

Lamassu Statue

Lambert Simnel's Leggings

Lamp from Chicago Pile-1

Lampshade of Psychic Power *

Lance Armstrong's Trek Bicycle

Lantern from the Courrières Mine *

Lanterns from the Tillamook Rock Light

Laozi's Calligraphy Brush

Lara Croft's Holsters

Larry Walters' Lawn Chair

Las Vegas Atomic Skillet

Las Vegas Strip Neon Signs

Lascaux Cave Paintings

The Last Straw *

Laszlo Toth’s Hammer

Latasha Harlins' Two Dollar Bill

Late Schoolbus

Lauging Baby's Highchair

Laughing Moai

Laundry Basket from 'The Merry Wives Of Windsor'

Laura Bassi's Sample of Water

Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Schoolhouse

Laurel and Hardy’s Hats

Laurence Shirley's Noose*

Lawrence Joseph Bader's Eyepatch

Lawrence of Rome’s Gridiron

Lawrence Welk's Accordion

Lazare Ponticelli’s Shoebox

Lazarus of Bethany's Grave Clothes

Leatherface's Chainsaw

Leather Strap from the First Iron Spike Chair

LeBron James' Headband

Lee Harvey Oswald's Handcuffs

Lee Harvey Oswald's Rifle

Lee and Marina Oswald's’ Wedding Rings

Lee Morgan's Trumpet

Lee Travis' Fedora

Leena's Bed and Breakfast Painting *

Leendert Hasenbosch’s Tent

Left 4 Dead Survivor Clothing

Left Arm of the Statue of Fergus Mor

Left Handed Whopper Wrapper

Leg Lamp

Legalese-Forcing Desklamp *

Leif Erikson's Helmet

Lemuel Gulliver's Ship Wheel

Lenape Tribe's Cloak and Artifacts of Nature *

Leon Herrmann's Sword and Playing Cards *

Leon Panetta's Projector *

Leonarda Cianciulli's Cake Shovel

Leonardo Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa"

Lenoard A. Funk Jr's Thompson Submachine Gun

Leonard Smith's TV *

Leonardo da Vinci's Gargoyle *

Leonardo da Vinci's Notebook

Leonhard Rauwolf’s Herbarium

Leonidas' Cestus

Leonid Telyatnikov's Firefighter Gloves

Leroy Brown's Coat

Leslie and John Morton's Morgue Sheet

Leslie Scott's Jenga Blocks

Lev Termen's First Theremin

Levi Strauss's Original Pair of Jeans

Levitating Gurney

Lewis Carroll's Looking Glass *

Lewis Nixon's Pistol

Lewis Powell’s Pickaxe

Li Bai’s Rosewood Wall Panels

Li Ching-Yuen's Bowl

Li Zicheng’s Shackles

Liberace's Candelabra

Liberty Bell Ruby

Licking Dog Collar

Life Replenishing Clock

Lighter

Lightning Rod from Banqiao Dam

Lillian Russell's Evening Gloves

Lily Tomlin's Rocking Chair

Lilo & Stitch Experiment Pod Container

Linda Lovelace's Bathing Suit

Linda Hazzard's Wardrobe

Linda's IrisPhone

Lindsay Broom's Fozzie Doll

Ling Lun’s Bamboo Flute

Lin Zexu's Trunk

Linda Hazzard's Wardrobe

Lion Country Safari Park Sign

The Lion man of the Hohlenstein Stadel

Lippershey-Janssen Telescope

Lisa del Giocondo's Teeth

Lisa Howard's Press Pass

Liss Seltzer Bottle

Little Mac's Boxing Gloves

Little Match Girl's Box of Matches

Liu Ji’s Fire Lance

Liu Pengli's Hanfu Hat

Liu Ziye's Tanto

Lizzie Borden's Dress

Lizzie Borden's Compact *

Lloyd Loar's Mandolin *

Lloyd Olsen's Axe & Mike the Headless Chicken's Head

Lobengula’s Assegai

Locker 837 from Columbine High School

Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird"

Locust-Summoning Dog Whistle *

Locusta’s Vials

Lon Chaney Jr.'s Makeup Kit

Lone Ranger's Mask

Lonely Christmas Ornaments *

Long Island War Trumpet

Loki's Feather Cape

Lon Chaney's Makeup Box

Lonnie Johnson's Original Super Soaker

Loránd Eötvös' Torsion Balance

Lord Alfred Tennyson's Cracked Mirror

Lord Byron’s Cloak

Lord Zedd's Staff

Lorena Bobbitt's Knife

Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Bronze Panel

Lorne Acquin's Tire Iron

Lottery Ticket, Circa 1950s

Lottie Dod's Tennis Racket

Lotus Incense Burner

Louis I, Duke of Orléans' Torch

Louis XIV's Silverware Forks *

Louis Agassiz's Iron Auger

Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte III's Candelabras

Louis B. Mayer's Desk and Chairs

Louis Braille's First Braille Book

Louis Braille's Leather Awl

Louis Chevrolet's Crank Handle

Louis Chevrolet's Helmet

Louis Daguerre's Camera Obscura

Louis Essen's Alarm Clock

Louis Le Prince's Camera

Louis Le Prince’s Film Spools

Louis Pasteur's Beaker

Louis Pasteur's Flask

Louis Pasteur's Milk Bottle *

Louis Prang's Original Christmas Cards

Louis Slotin’s Screwdriver

Louis Vuitton's Suitcase

Louis XIV's Mirror

Louis XIV's Sundial

Louis XIV's Peg Solitaire

Louis the XIV's Scepter

Louis Wain's Cat Collar

Loukas Notaras’ Turban

Lourdes, France Madonna Statue

Lou Reed's Music Transformer Machine *

Lou Reed's Record Player

Love Bead Necklace

Love-In-Idleness Flower

Love Potion No. 9

L. Sprague de Camp's Theodolite

Lu Bu's Battle Armor

Lucius Apuleius' Pet Donkey Hoofs

Lucius Copeland’s Boiler

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus’ Plow

Lucius Tarquinius Superbus' Stick

Luis Garavito's Walking Stick

Luck Altering Dice

Lucky’s Magical Charms

Lucky Strike Cigarette Tin

Lucretia Garfield's Reading Glasses

Lucrezia Borgia's Comb *

Lucy's Diamonds

Luddite Hammer

Ludger Sylbaris’ Grate

Ludwig II of Bavaria's Cloak

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Drawing Board

Ludwig Prandtl’s Airfoil

Ludwig van Beethoven's Clock *

Lugh's Spear

Luigi Galleani's Wagon Wheel

Luigi Galvani's Bio-Electric Wires

Luigi Galvani's Scalpel

Luigi Lucheni's File

Luis María Mendía's Airplane

Luiz Vaz de Torres' Compass

Luke Howard's Barometer

Luke P. Blackburn's Linens

Lully's Staff

Lumiere Brother's Cinematograph *

Lunchlady Hairnet

Lycaon's Ladle

Lyn Robinson's Turtle Shell

Lynette Fromme’s Red Robe

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i’m LATE but i was tagged by @bpdanakins (thank u !!) to name ten favourite characters from ten different things (books, tv, film, etc.) then tag ten people !! ok !!

1. Lara Croft (TR) - Uh hi yeah hello can i get a uuuuuuh WIFE !!! also can i get lara some eternal happiness and also her bff sam back plea se

2. Nathan Drake / Elena Fisher (UC) - a package deal !!!!! idiots to lovers !!!! also nate has adhd and guess who else does. me bitch !!! and elena ??? so sweet and patient and perfect 

3. Ellie Williams (TLOU) - apocalypse butch !!! what’s not to love !! she’s my daughter who deserves the world !!! but holy fuck des she make me so sad sometime . i love her sm 

4. Boxer (Transistor) - listen. he’s so sweet. when do i get to love someone as much as he loves red . i am available 

5. Taako (TAZ) - listen. i’m gonna let this quote speak for itself bc mood ‘I never get to say what I’m feeling! I have emotions! It’s not all ‘Abra-ca-fuck-you’ and what have you! I have a beating heart! I'm multi-dimensional! I’m a fully-realized creation! Fuck!’ 

6. The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) - why wouldn’t u love him????? my interplanetary son, brave and curious. hair the colour of wheat fields

7. Liesel Meminger | Death (The Book Thief) - i love liesel so much. she is so brave and wise and kind. death is a wonderful narrator with a great sense of humour and honestly v relatable. same source so same number 

8. The Baudelaire Children (ASOUE) - i’ve adopted them. they’re mine. brave and bold and wise and inventive and deserving of happiness the world over. 

9. Joyce Byers | Will Byers (ST) - mama bear and baby bear have stolen my heart . They both deserve better than what they’ve been through !!!! im running to hawkins rn as i type this to give them the protection and happiness they deserve 

10. The Final Pam (MF) - bet you didn’t expect this one huh. or maybe you did. anyways, i don’t need to explain this one. if u kno, u kno. and if you’re NOT stanning her, what the hell are you even doing ? thank u . goodnight

i don’t know 10 people AAAAAAAA so i’m gonna go w @littlecation @ghostatm0st @chumpedkid and YOU !!!! that’s right, if you see this you have to do it. please. it’s fun i swear i just have no friends to tag 

also if i did tag u and u dont wanna do it dw about it !!! 

[themiscyracomics]

Carol et Maria, cas d’école du problème de Marvel Studios avec les LGBT

Bienvenue sur le blog du projet Themiscyra !

Ici Captain, c’est moi qui ai lancé le projet et m’occupe des réseaux sociaux. Pour donner le ton, sensiblement le même que sur Twitter, je vais m’attaquer à un sujet qui me tient à cœur : la relation entre Carol et Maria dans le film Captain Marvel, et son inscription dans un contexte LGBTphobe des œuvres culturelles, notamment chez Marvel Studios.

Alerte spoilers ! Si vous n’avez pas vu Captain Marvel et ne souhaitez pas en savoir plus sur le film, n’allez pas plus loin dans votre lecture.

Au mois de septembre 2018, le monde découvrait la première bande-annonce de Captain Marvel. Déjà dans ces premières images, le duo Carol Danvers – Maria Rambeau passait déjà plutôt bien à l’écran. Et cela c’est confirmé avec la bande-annonce suivante ainsi que les nombreux spots jusqu’à la sortie du film.

Mais pour ma part, j’ai eu un pressentiment dû à mon expérience de fan queer de pop culture. C’est simple, j’ai vu arriver de loin l’alchimie entre Carol et Maria dans le film. Je me suis tout de suite dit : « ces deux-là feraient un beau couple, mais on n’y aura pas droit ».

J’ai eu tristement raison.

Faisons un point sur la relation entre Carol et Maria.

On ne sait pas encore comment les deux femmes se sont connues, mais les souvenirs de Carol déterrés par les Skrulls nous en disent déjà beaucoup dès le début du film.

Carol et Maria étaient toutes les deux pilotes militaires, elles travaillaient ensemble. Elles s’amusaient aussi ensemble, puisqu’on les voit prendre un verre, faire un karaoké, rire… Et puis vient cette séquence où Maria appelle Carol, qui regardait les étoiles avec la petite Monica. Notre héroïne emporte l’enfant dans ses bras en l’appelant affectueusement « Lieutenant Rebelle ».

Plus tard, on apprend aussi, et surtout, que Carol vivait avec Maria et sa fille Monica.

« Elle ne s’entendait pas avec sa famille, du coup on est devenu sa famille », explique la petite au sujet de Carol.

Pendant cette même séquence, se succèdent de nombreuses photos de Carol, Maria et Monica, souriantes et heureuses. À Noël, à Halloween, en soirée…

Bref, c’est une adorable petite famille. Mais remarquez qu’on parle ici de deux femmes qui ont élevé une enfant ensemble, sous le même toit.

Et malgré tous ces détails qui auraient amené logiquement à la révélation que Carol et Maria étaient en couple… Les dialogues ont bien insisté sur le fait qu’elles étaient « meilleures amies », deux fois. Elles ne partageaient d’ailleurs pas la même chambre : 

« Tu es venue me réveiller en tambourinant à ma porte », disait Maria au sujet de la fameuse matinée de l’enlèvement de Carol.

Alors que Marvel Studios a réaffirmé à deux reprises depuis l’été dernier (juin 2018 & mars 2019) que des personnages LGBT arriveraient très bientôt, le traitement de la relation entre Carol et Maria est très décevant. Les éléments que je viens de citer sur les dialogues sonnent terriblement comme une volonté d’évacuer explicitement toute possibilité que Carol puisse aimer une femme.  

La première potentielle famille homoparentale, incluant une super-héroïne lesbienne ou bi, du MCU était pourtant servie sur un plateau en or. Tout était là, il n’y avait plus qu’à remplacer « meilleure amie » par « compagne ». Tout allait dans ce sens et l’impact en aurait probablement été incroyable sans rien changer à l’histoire du film.

Pourtant, dans le même film, comme l’a souligné Rowan Ellis dans une vidéo très théâtrale mais factuelle, un schéma identique à l’histoire de Carol, Maria et Monica est montré explicitement.

En l’occurrence, Talos retrouve sa compagne et leur fille dans le fameux laboratoire de Mar-Vell. À ce moment-là, la situation est largement comparable à celle de notre petite famille terrienne. On assiste aux retrouvailles de deux parents, dont l’un·e retrouve sa fille qu’iel n’a pas vu depuis des années. Mais notre Skrull préféré n’a pas droit à une « meilleure amie », lui.

« Mais c’est bien, aussi, une héroïne sans love interest ! »

Oui mais non. En parlant du sujet sur Twitter, c’est une réplique que l’on m’a renvoyée systématiquement. Et c’est très fatigant. Parce que concrètement, les héroïnes sont plus facilement représentées célibataires plutôt qu’ouvertement lesbiennes ou bi.

Rey dans Star Wars, Elsa dans la Reine des Neiges, Moana, Lara Croft dans le dernier Tomb Raider, Adora dans She-Ra & les princesses au pouvoir, le 13ème Docteur… Et j’en passe. Les voilà, les héroïnes indépendantes · célibataires. Elles sont déjà là.

Tandis que des héroïnes qui aiment explicitement les femmes au centre de grosses productions, ça ne court pas les rues. Donc s’entendre dire, à chaque fois que l’on prend la parole pour dénoncer l’effacement d’une héroïne potentiellement non-hétéro, qu’elle est aussi bien seule ou du moins sans love interest laisse un goût très amer. Car, comme le monde entier ou presque nous le dit, cela renvoie le message qu’une femme est mieux seule qu’avec une femme.

En plus, le MCU n’en est pas à son coup d’essai.

La déception n’en est que plus grande quand on constate que ce ne sont pas les premiers personnages potentiellement non-hétéros effacés par Marvel Studios dans le Marvel Cinematic Universe.

En un an et demi à peine, ce sont en tout 7 personnages LGBT qui ont vu cet aspect de leur identité se faire effacer.

Rien que dans le sublime Thor : Ragnarok, on en compte 3.

Dans les comics, la Valkyrie aime les femmes, aussi bien dans sa version originale que celle issue du film. L’une a entretenu une relation avec Annabelle Riggs (Fearless Defenders), l’autre avec Becky Barnes (Exiles (2018)). Mais il a été révélé qu’une scène avait été tournée pour Thor : Ragnarok, où l’on voyait la Valkyrie sortir de sa chambre en compagnie d’une femme. Elle a été coupée au montage, soi-disant pour ne pas casser le rythme du film.

Loki, quant à ellui, est fluide de genre dans les comics depuis déjà plusieurs années. On rencontre donc selon les moments Loki en tant qu’homme et en tant que femme dans les pages de Loki : Agent d’Asgard et d’autres séries. 

Son père Odin lui-même reconnaît que Loki est « parfois son fils, parfois sa fille ».

Enfin, l’adorable Korg est gay, et c’est officiel depuis 2011 dans Incredible Hulks #619.

Comme Captain Marvel, Thor : Ragnarok était une occasion idéale pour officialiser plusieurs personnages LGBT d’un seul coup, et facilement.

On peut aussi parler de Black Panther, dont le script original incluait un début de flirt entre Okoye et une des Dora Milaje, Ayo. Cette dernière est en couple avec Aneka dans les comics (Black Panther: World of Wakanda). Au lieu de ça, Okoye est en couple avec un homme. 

Marvel Studios n’est donc absolument pas aussi ouvert vis-à-vis des LGBT que sa communication récente le prétend. De nombreux personnages ont été effacés de même que leurs romances, alors même que chaque film du MCU contient au moins une romance hétéro explicite. En l’espace d’un an et demi et 5 films, Marvel Studios a eu de nombreuses occasions d’introduire naturellement des personnages LGBT, mais n’en a rien fait.

Cela s’inscrit dans une triste tradition dans les œuvres culturelles. 

Poe Dameron et Finn, Leïa Organa et Amilyn Holdo, Chirrut Imwe et Baze Malbus, Albus Dumbledore et Gellert Grindelwald, Sherlock Holmes et John Watson…

On a des exemples à la pelle, très récents, de possibles romances non-hétéros jamais officialisées, dans des œuvres où, pourtant, des romances hétéros fleurissaient explicitement et sortaient de nulle part. Eux ont droit à l’amour et la reconnaissance de leur existence, mais pas nous.

Je termine cet article sur un rappel important : la représentation n’est pas un caprice mais relève de la pure et simple logique. Les LGBT existent, de même que les personnes hétéros, il est donc normal de les représenter aussi explicitement à l’écran. En particulier dans un univers aussi riche que le MCU.

À la prochaine !

Captain Chocolatine

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Films watched in 2018

Leopardi (2014) dir. Mario Martone ★★★★☆

Bram Stroker’s Dracula (1992) dir. Francis Ford Coppola ★★★★☆

Dans Paris (2006) dir. Christophe Honoré ★★★☆☆

Battle Royale (2000) dir. Kinji Fukasaku ★★★★☆

Frida (2002) dir. Julie Taymor ★★★★★

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) dir. Isao Takahata ★★★★☆

The Darjeeling Limited (2007) dir. Wes Anderson ★★☆☆☆

Dangerous Liaisons (1988) dir. Stephen Frears ★★★★★

Bottle Rocket (1996) dir. Wes Anderson ★★★★☆

Chungking Express (1994) dir. Wong Kar-wai ★★★★☆

By the Sea (2015) dir. Angelina Jolie ★★★☆☆

Interview with the Vampire (1994) dir. Neil Jordan ★★★☆☆

Me, Myself and Her (2016) dir. Maria Sole Tognazzi ★★★☆☆

Woman in Gold (2015) dir. Simon Curtis ★★★★★

Big Fish (2003) dir. Tim Burton ★★★☆☆

Jack et la Mécanique du cœur (2013) dir. Mathias Malzieu & Stéphane Berla ★★★★☆

La Dolce Vita (1960) dir. Frederico Fellini ★★★★☆

The Tourist (2010) dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck ★★☆☆☆

What We Do in the Shadows (2014) dir. Taika Waititi & Jermaine Clement ★★★★★

American Psycho (2000) dir. Mary Harron ★★★★☆

Happily Married (2015) dir. Aluizio Abranches ★★★☆☆

Saint Laurent (2015) dir. Bertrand Bonello ★★★★★

Wilde (1997) dir. Brian Gilbert ★★★★☆

Naissance des Pieuvres (2007) dir. Céline Sciamma ★★★★☆

Les Deux Amis (2015) dir. Louis Garrel ★★★☆☆

Velvet Goldmine (1998) dir. Todd Haynes ★★★★★

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) dir. Taika Waititi ★★★☆☆

Logan (2017) dir. James Mangold ★★★★☆

Belle de jour (1967) dir. Luis Buñuel ★★★★☆

La grande belleza (2013) dir. Paolo Sorrentino ★★★★☆

Brice de Nice (2005) dir. James Huth ★★★☆☆

God’s Own Country (2017) dir. Francis Lee ★★★★★

Blade Runner (1982) dir. Ridley Scott ★★★★★

Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972) dir. Luis Buñuel ★★★★☆

Paris qui dort (1925) dir. René Clair ★★★★★

Ocean’s Eleven (2001) dir. Steven Soderbergh ★★★☆☆

Ocean’s Twelve (2004) dir. Steven Soderbergh ★★★☆☆

Stromboli (1950) dir. Roberto Rossellini ★★★☆☆

Paris je t’aime (2006) dir. [18 directors] ★★★★☆

Black Panther (2018) dir. Ryan Coogler ★★★★★

Quand on a dix-sept ans (2016) dir. André Téchiné ★★★☆☆

When Marnie Was There (2014) dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi ★★★★☆

Love, Simon (2018) dir. Greg Berlanti ★★★★★

Through a Blue Lens (1999) dir. Veronica Alice Mannix ★★★★☆

Ma Mère (2004) dir. Christophe Honoré ★★★★☆

El faro de las orcas (2016) dir. Gerardo Olivares ★★★★☆

The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos ★★★☆☆

Ocean’s 8 (2018) dir. Gary Ross ★★★☆☆

Beginners (2010) dir. Mike Mills ★★★★★

Charlie’s Angels (2000) dir. McG ★★★★★ 

Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003) dir. McG ★★★★★ (I’m gay)

Deadpool 2 (2018) dir. David Leitch ★★★★☆

Sleepy Hollow (1999) dir. Tim Burton ★★★☆☆

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) dir. Simon West ★★★☆☆

Wanted (2008) dir. Timur Bekmambetov ★★★☆☆

Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) dir. Ron Howard ★★★☆☆

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) dir. J. A. Bayona ★★★☆☆

The Hitch-Hiker (1953) dir. Ida Lupino ★★★☆☆

The Emperor’s New Groove (2000) dir. Mark Dindal ★★★★★

Incredibles 2 (2018) dir. Brad Bird ★★★★☆

mother! (2017) dir. Darren Aronofsky ★★★☆☆

Tom of Finland (2017) dir. Dome Karukoski ★★★★☆

Coco avant Chanel (2009) dir. Anne Fontaine ★★★☆☆

Hereditary (2018) dir. Ari Aster ★★★☆☆

Neuilly sa mère ! (2009) dir. Gabriel Julien-Laferrière ★★★★☆

Maurice (1987) dir. James Ivory ★★★★★ 

Hurricane Bianca (2016) dir. Matt Kugelman ★★★★★ 

The Fall (2008) dir. Tarsem Singh ★★★★☆

Sorry to Bother You (2018) dir. Boots Riley ★★★★☆

Elle (2016) dir. Paul Verhoeven ★★★★★ 

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) dir. Anthony Minghella ★★★★★

The Devil Wears Prada (2006) dir. David Frankel ★★★★☆

The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) dir. Peter Jackson ★★★★★

The Two Towers (2002) dir. Peter Jackson ★★★★★

The Return of the King (2003) dir. Peter Jackson ★★★★★

Sissi (1955) dir. Ernst Marischka ★★★★★ 

Disobedience (2017) dir. Sebastián Lelio ★★★★☆

Hercules (1997) dir. Ron Clements & John Musker ★★★★★ 

Burning (2018) dir. Lee Chang-dong ★★★★☆

Free Fall (2013) dir. Stephan Lacant ★★★☆☆

Under the Tuscan Sun (2004) dir. Audrey Wells ★★★☆☆

The Spy who Dumped Me (2018) dir. Susanna Fogel ★★★☆☆

Mission : Impossible - Fallout (2018) dir. Christopher McQuarrie ★★★☆☆

Thunderball (1965) dir. Terence Young ★★★★☆

Ladybird (2018) dir. Greta Gerwig ★★★☆☆

Lilo & Stitch (2002) dir. Chris Sanders & Dean DeBlois ★★★★☆

The Silence of the Lambs (1991) dir. Jonathan Demme ★★★☆☆

Dovlatov (2018) dir. Aleksei German Jr. ★★★☆☆

The girl who played with fire (2009) dir. Daniel Alfredson ★★★★☆

L’inconnu du lac (2013) dir. Alain Guiraudie ★★★★☆

Venom (2018) dir. Ruben Fleischer ★★★★★ 

Rafiki (2018) dir. Wanuri Kahiu ★★★★★

The house that Jack built (2018) dir. Lars von Trier ★★★☆☆

Steel magnolias (1989) dir. Herbert Ross ★★★☆☆

Fantastic Beasts : The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) dir. David Yates ★★★☆☆

Lazzaro felice (2018) dir. Alice Rohrwacher ★★★☆☆

Loro (2018) dir. Paolo Sorrentino ★★★★☆

Suspiria (2018) dir. Luca Guadagnino ★★★☆☆

The Duchess (2008) dir. Saul Dibb ★★★☆☆

My best friend’s wedding (1997) dir. P.J. Hogan ★★★☆☆

The Mummy (1999) dir. Stephen Sommers ★★☆☆☆

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King Of The Castle: At Home With Dominic West

As the star of HBO's The Wire and The Affair, Dominic West made his name playing conflicted Americans battling their demons and struggling to find their places in the world. And cheating on their women. In real life, he's a self-deprecating father of four from outside Sheffield, and among his chief preoccupations is how to preserve the 800-year-old Irish castle inherited by his wife.

"Excuse me," says Dominic West, "I’m just going to wipe this so you can sit down and you won’t be infected with disease." About seven crumbs on his otherwise clean kitchen table disappear with the swipe of a tea towel, and he gets back to the business of making lunch. We’re in the kitchen of his house in Wiltshire, where he lives with his wife Catherine and their four children.

His head turns from cupboard to cupboard, like he’s watching a tennis match. “Where has the rice gone? Would you like rice?”

Yes please, if that’s what you’re having.

“I am, if I can fucking find it.”

He fucking finds it and a pan of rice goes on the hob next to the pan of leftover beef stew. “So I’m on the cover?” he says, looking out of the window. “But doesn’t that mean you’ve got to try and make it interesting?”

In 2000, Dominic West joined an Argentinian circus. This was the year before he auditioned for and won his breakthrough role of Detective Jimmy McNulty on The Wire and the year after he had a single line (“The boy’s here to see Padmé”) as a guard of one of those science-fiction sliding doors in Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace. He was 30, five years out of drama school and father to a one-year-old daughter.

The circus, De La Guarda, had a show, also called De La Guarda, at the Roundhouse in Camden. It was the hottest ticket in London that year. The audience entered the round to ambient music under a low paper ceiling. Performers would burst through the paper, on ropes, and eventually a pounding live soundtrack accompanied a dozen or more roped performers as they ran around the walls of the circular venue. Water rained down. Some audience members would be lifted into the air; others, perhaps more fortunate, would be pressed into urgent dancing with attractive, adrenalised Argentinians unclipped from their shackles. Or indeed, West himself.

‘What’s amazing,’ says Keira Knightley, ‘is that Dominic can play characters who should be total dickheads, yet he manages to give them a point of view and his own incredible charm. It is a great skill’

“Why did I do it?” says West, somewhat incredulously. “You saw it! Wouldn’t you want to run away and join that circus? It was such a sexy show. I saw it in London and New York, then heard they were auditioning in London and I had to do it. I did a lot of shows in five months with those amazing men and women, then they went to Vegas. It was a disaster there. The water. People dressed up for a Vegas show — of course they didn’t want to get wet.”

West didn’t want to go to Vegas. But he would end up spending a lot more time in America, filming five seasons of The Wire and four seasons of The Affair, with a fifth and final one due to start filming a couple of days after we make lunch.

“The toughest part of making these big episodic American television shows is missing my family and the boredom,” he says, gearing himself up for the process to begin again. “Sitting around waiting and not being bored is hard. There was a time when I had a play in the West End [Butley, 2011] and was learning Iago [for Othello] and I had more on than usual. That was hard work, but the harder that aspect of the work gets, the more enjoyable it is. Actual graft is what’s great about acting. That’s something I relish, because most of the time, it’s about coping with tedium.”

To stop himself being bored on set, West likes to have fun. “You can’t not have fun with him,” says Keira Knightley, soon to be seen alongside West in the film Colette. “I think fun is something that Dominic brings to everything. He very much likes a night out, is always up for a laugh and is, in the best way, wicked. And he is a phenomenally good actor, he really is. So effortless.”

“For a lot of us,” Knightley says, “who do actually need to concentrate when we’re working, it’s, ‘How are you that good when you're chatting and joking until the very last second?’ Even I had to tell him to shut up so I could concentrate. Which I had to do quite a lot.”

West is not about to shut up. And he’s not the only one. “I just did a thing with Olivia Colman [a BBC mini-series adaptation of Les Misérables] and: fuck me! Ha ha ha! The whole thing is like playing top-level sports with her. How frivolous can you be up to ‘Action!’ and then be amazing. She doesn’t do that consciously, she is just really fucking good. She is way, way, way better than me. I had to stop listening to her because she is so funny.”

Then a more serious thought occurs. “Malcolm Gladwell’s thing about 10,000 hours [the writer’s theory, from his book Outliers, that to be expert in any field requires that exact amount of practice time]? I worked it out and I’ve had at least 20,000 hours. I’ve acted so much now I can turn it on and off, and that’s maybe where the humour thing comes in. I have had an awful lot of practice at this.”

Dominic West first got the taste for drama when he was nine years old. His mother, Moya, gave him a part in her amateur production of The Winslow Boy, at Sheffield University’s drama studio. His father, George, had a factory in Wakefield that made vandal-proof bus shelters. George’s father, Harold, a managing director of a steelworks in Barnsley, fought in WWI and was wounded at the Battle of Vimy Ridge. “After, he wrote a note to go with his medals,” says West, “that said, ‘Here are a few mementos from a deeply happy part of my life’.” West has found documentaries commemorating the centenary of the Armistice “deeply moving.”

He is the sixth of seven children, with five sisters and an elder brother. They grew up in a large house on the edge of the Peak District, about 10 miles southwest of Sheffield. He boarded at Eton and hated it to begin with. “I was very homesick, had no reference to it, didn’t know anyone who had gone and I felt I was in the wrong place.” Inspiring teachers and school plays gave him something to be excited about and set him on his path.

“It’s pretentious to say, really, but my acting education was defined by doing Hamlet at Eton, reading Ulysses when I was doing my English degree at Trinity College in Dublin, then War and Peace, which we put on at Guildhall [School of Music & Drama in London]. That’s it, really. All I learned anywhere.”

Legend has it that in the audience watching his Prince of Denmark was Damian Lewis, a couple of years behind West at school, and later the star of Band of Brothers, Homeland and Billions. So taken was the younger lad by what he saw that he decided to become an actor.

“Categorically: no,” Lewis tells me, over the phone from Los Angeles. “I had always acted at school and always enjoyed it. Me thinking it was something I could do more seriously didn’t happen until I was 16 years old, after seeing Dom do Hamlet. He was very charismatic. A big, booming sonorous voice, especially for a 17-year-old. I was very taken with him, he was very captivating up on stage.”

Since graduating from Guildhall, West has worked solidly. He is not a huge movie star but is highly successful and versatile. There aren’t many men who could convincingly play both Fred West and Richard Burton, as West has done. He won a Bafta for his Fred West. He’s most memorable as Jimmy McNulty, not least because he and The Wire are so good, but also because constant reminders of those two facts have become standard reference points in the increasingly vast conversation about the New Golden Age of TV.

He has, in his own words, played “a long line of philandering cads”, from McNulty on to Hector Madden, the Fifties news anchor in two seasons of The Hour for the BBC, to Noah in The Affair and Willy in Colette. “What’s amazing,” says Keira Knightley, “is that he can play characters that should be total dickheads, yet he manages to give them a point of view and his own incredible charm, so you sort of forgive them for how terrible they might be. It is a great skill.”

But he is far from typecast. His five film roles previous to Willy in Colette are: Lara Croft’s dad, a sort of country-gent Indiana Jones, in Tomb Raider; a quietly pompous pyjamas-wearing modern artist in the Swedish film The Square, which won the Palme D’Or at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival; Rudder, a comic-relief Cockney sea lion in Pixar’s Finding Dory; a Teflon swine of a CEO opposite George Clooney and Julia Roberts in Money Monster; and, in Genius, Ernest Hemingway.

There have been stage successes, including star turns in the West End. Following up the blockbuster and critically lauded play Jerusalem, the writer Jez Butterworth and director Ian Rickson could have done any play with anyone on any stage. They chose Dominic West to star in The River, a short, intense play with one man and two women in the 90-seater upstairs room at the Royal Court Theatre in London, for which West won universal praise.

‘It is a bad thing to be self-deprecating. It’s quite an English thing, which you become very aware of in America. People don’t understand: why do yourself down? I sort of agree with it, now’

“Dominic is able to unleash his unconscious in a really ‘present’ way,” says Ian Rickson. “It allows him to fuse into the darkness of Fred West, for example, or the troubled soul of McNulty. In terms of archetypes, he has a trickster quality hiding a warrior/lover inside. That’s exciting. There’s very little ego and a lot of generosity of spirit. He actually has a refreshingly comic sense of himself, so he does really value the opportunities he has, and doesn’t take them too seriously.”

West feels he does and he doesn’t. “I suppose deep down there’s a feeling that what I do isn’t desperately serious. It might have been Mark Boxer, the cartoonist, who said he went to some lunch for cartoonists, an awards maybe, and he was having a piss and the guy next to him said, ‘Cartoonist. It’s not a real job, is it?’ And he said, ‘No, it’s not. Isn’t that great!’ He took great comfort from that and I feel the same about acting. But there is something in me which feels, partly because I have been doing it all my life and did as a hobby before I did it professionally, that this is not a serious job for adults.”

Perhaps this is why he’s so self-deprecating. Twice during our conversations, he says that he’s not a “real actor”, bringing up Daniel Day-Lewis’s commitment to doing an accent the entire time he makes a film, on and off set, and his own inability to match that; and pointing out Robert De Niro’s weight gain for Raging Bull. For Colette, West wore a fat suit.

And yet, during our conversations, he trots out seven perfect accents and imitations: Mick Jagger, the German film director Werner Herzog, Northern Irish, Irish, Australian, New York and a deep, thespian-type voice to convey mock indignance. He’s not showing off. Some of the voices were to make anecdotes funnier and others were just as anyone might do an accent subconsciously when you think of someone with an accent. You know, for fun.

But he can be serious. “It is a bad thing, to be self-deprecating,” he says, a little bit disappointed with himself. “Maybe it’s an educational thing. It’s quite an English thing, which you become very aware of in America. People just don’t understand why on earth you would do that. There are enough people who would do you down, why do yourself down? I sort of agree with it, now. It is tiresome.”

Clarke Peters, who played Lester Freamon in The Wire, and Othello to West’s Iago on stage in 2011, has a different view of his friend’s dilemma. “As good an actor as he is, his self- deprecating comments are his truth. He would prefer to be playing than talking about himself; exploring a character, discovering nuances, dissecting a character’s arc, is where he’s comfortable. Presenting all that unseen work is nerve-wracking. And actors are never the best judges of their own work. So, to be safe from criticism and microscopic scrutiny, self-deprecation is the best defence."

The fat suit in Colette was no cop-out. “I was then about to play Jean Valjean,” West says, more forgiving of himself now, “a man who has been in prison for 19 years, so there was a clash of waistline imperatives.” He plays the lead in a song-free, six-part Les Misérables — the project in which Olivia Colman out-joked him — the BBC’s first big drama of 2019, with the opening episode broadcast on New Year’s Day.

According to Keira Knightley, the extra padding, and a walrus moustache, did not mute West’s physical attractiveness. “Nobody looks good in that,” she says, “but he somehow manages to be dangerously sexy through it. It was a main conversation between the rest of us on set: how he managed to ooze sexuality while he was farting in two fat suits. Quite extraordinary. I can’t think of another actor who might be able to do that.”

Sarah Treem, the showrunner of The Affair, could not conceive of anyone else but West as her leading man, Noah Solloway. “He didn’t audition. I wrote it with him in mind,” she says. “I was a huge fan of The Wire and I just loved how complicated he could be — both likeable and unlikeable at the same time.”

The Affair begins with Noah, a married father of four, embarking on a fling with a waitress, Alison, played by Ruth Wilson, and then follows the fall-out for the two of them, their spouses and extended families. West, Wilson and the wider cast are terrific, as is the show’s central conceit of telling the story from the point-of-view of different characters, usually two in each hour-long episode.

“Dominic is so good at playing all different facets of Noah,” Treem continues. “His intelligence, his lust, his insecurity, the pain of his childhood, his love for his children. He lets Noah be a very complicated, sometimes deeply generous, sometimes horribly selfish, man.”

West concurs, with a caveat. “I have had difficulty wondering why someone who I can identify with — he’s my age and has a bunch of kids — would do the things he does. Sarah, a very brilliant woman younger than I am, looked at me with a raised eyebrow when I said, ‘Men my age just don’t do that. Why leave your wife and kids for a waitress and start another family?’ She told me the stories of several real people who had. Not that I want my characters to be sympathetic, but I want to give them the benefit of the doubt and I have struggled with Noah in that regard.”

West has five children: a daughter, 20, with former girlfriend Polly Astor, and two sons and two daughters aged 12, 10, nine and five, with his wife, the landscape designer Catherine FitzGerald. It is Catherine’s beef stew we have been eating for lunch, their children’s clothes drying on the Aga behind us. On a smaller table in a nook in the corner of the kitchen, next to some half-completed maths homework, is a pile of dad’s hardbacks: The Flame by Leonard Cohen, William Dalrymple’s retelling of the Indian mutiny of 1857, The Last Mughal, and Changing Stages, Richard Eyre and Nicholas Wright’s history of 20th-century theatre.

Out in the driveway, a small child’s BMX has been discarded in front of mum’s Audi A3, in perfect position to be crunched into the gravel next time the car sets off. At lunch, West didn’t know where the rice was because he and his family have only lived in this house, a former brewery in a Wiltshire hamlet, for a few weeks. They used to live in Shepherd’s Bush, in a house that once belonged to another actor from Sheffield, Brian Glover.

“I have led my family out of London slightly against their will,” West admits, “and quite legitimately want my children to be around plants and animals more than they perhaps might be in London. My wife said I’m trying to create my childhood home here and I said, [now, the thespian accent] ‘No I’m not! Preposterous! What do you mean? It’s nothing like that!’”

His wife’s childhood home is Glin Castle in County Limerick, Ireland, a true country pile (15 ensuite bedrooms, 380 acres, secret bookcase doors) that, in various versions, has been in her family for nearly 800 years. (It’s the house you can see in the background of the photographs on these pages.) She and West want to hold on to it. To do so, the house needs to become a going concern as an events and private hire venue to cover its annual £130,000 running costs.

“I do like history and I do like old buildings,” West says. “I’m also conscious of my wife’s father and his and her legacies. He worked in conservation in Ireland, to try and preserve these old buildings, which were out of favour for many years. It’s up to us to try and keep that going, because when they’re bought by hotels and the like, they’re often destroyed.”

This Christmas and New Year, he says, “we have a super-A-list celebrity taking it. Who, I can’t possibly divulge. Actually, can you do us a big favour and put the website, please, at the end of the piece? ‘Glin dash castle dot com.’ It would make my life easier.”

It’s time to do the school pick-up. “We can keep talking in the car,” he says, and leads the way to a silver Chrysler Grand Voyager. “It has,” West says, buckling up, “the biggest capacity of any people carrier.”

Precisely something a turning-50-next-year dad-of-five should say. “I have no problem getting older,” he says. “For male actors of my age there is less emphasis, and I have already started to play the dad of the lover instead of the lover. The pressure is off. Some swami said that the key to happiness is ‘I don’t mind what happens.’ You mind less about things, let go of them. Turning 50 is great. My daughter is also turning 21, so we should have quite a party.”

He has regrets. “I suppose I wish I had played more Shakespearean roles.”

What about the old-man ones? “Only Lear is as good as the young ones.”

What about not being James Bond? “Fuck no! I’m delighted now that I didn’t get it.”

Auditioning for Bond, in 2005, West turned up in a T-shirt and tatty jeans. “I remember the director, Martin Campbell, saying, ‘Thank Christ you haven’t turned up in a tux like everybody else’. It was for Casino Royale. At the time, I really wanted to get it. I love Bond, and I was the right age for it. They asked me, ‘What do you think should happen with Bond?’ And I said something deeply uninspired like, ‘I think he should go back to being more like Sean Connery’. I thought then that it was the best job you can do. Now, I’m not so sure. You have a year-and-a-half of hell doing publicity.”

West pulls up opposite the school. “Wait here. Enjoy the smell. Kids’ banana skins,” he says, opening the driver’s door. Puzzled, I sniff the air. There is no unpleasant aroma. The interior of Dominic West’s car smells perfectly fine. But, of course, he claims otherwise. He’s a terrific actor and a thoroughly likeable chap, but that self-deprecation still needs some work.

Colette is in cinemas on 11 January; glin-castle.com (https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/a25557268/dominic-west-interview/)

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Un'immagine del film "I am the revolution" di Benedetta Argentieri I AM THE REVOLUTION – “Essere donna fa la differenza. Non si tratta di qualità e nemmeno di merito, è questione di punto di vista. L’approccio alle cose è diverso. Letteralmente. Se devi inquadrare una donna e dietro alla macchina da presa c’è un’altra donna, è facile guardarsi negli occhi. Quando l’operatore è un uomo, c’è il rischio di fare riprese non alla pari, dall’alto in basso. I AM THE REVOLUTION – “Essere donna fa la differenza. Non si tratta di qualità e nemmeno di merito, è questione di punto di vista. L’approccio alle cose è diverso. Letteralmente. Se devi inquadrare una donna e dietro alla macchina da presa c’è un’altra donna, è facile guardarsi negli occhi. Quando l’operatore è un uomo, c’è il rischio di fare riprese non alla pari, dall’alto in basso. .. Tre donne, tre Paesi, tre rivoluzioni. Un titolo evocativo per una pellicola che segue da vicino la quotidianità di tre donne mediorientali in lotta per l’eguaglianza di genere: Rojda Felat, Yanar Mohammed e Selay Ghaffar. Cambiano i paesi d’origine – rispettivamente Siria, Iraq e Afghanistan – e cambiano le modalità con cui la battaglia si porta avanti: Rojda è la mente strategica a capo delle combattenti curde contro l’Isis in Rojava; Yanar è un’attivista che da 17 anni gestisce rifugi antiviolenza non riconosciuti dal governo di Baghdad; Selay è la prima portavoce donna di Hambastagi – il Partito della solidarietà afgano – unica compagine politica laica a Kabul e dintorni. Ciò che resta invariato è l’obiettivo: affermare l’emancipazione femminile, garantire istruzione alle giovani donne e mostrare al mondo che – anche in Paesi stravolti da decenni di guerra e fondamentalismo islamico – c’è qualcosa oltre ai volti delle madri velate e sottomesse con gli occhi bassi e velati di lacrime, che nella maggior parte dei casi, per i media internazionali, sono emblema di queste realtà. Da vittime a combattenti. “Questo non significa che le donne non siano vittime”, chiarisce la regista. “Gli americani sono arrivati su suolo afgano nel 2001 dicendo ‘Libereremo le donne!’, ma ad oggi solo il 14 per cento delle ragazze può andare a scuola. Ancora l’87 per cento della popolazione femminile subisce violenza ogni giorno, l’86 per cento non sa leggere e scrivere. C’è un livello d’oppressione difficile da spiegare, non paragonabile a quello delle nazioni limitrofe”, spiega. “In Iraq invece tra le principali cause di morte per una donna c’è il delitto d’onore. Secondo la Sharia, l’interpretazione più rigida del Corano, se l’onore di una famiglia viene macchiato a causa di una donna – nel caso in cui quest’ultima sia stuprata, ad esempio – l’unico modo per ristabilirlo è ucciderla (di solito gettandola da una rupe) e inchiodare il palmo della sua mano sinistra alla porta di casa”, continua Argentieri. “I rifugi coordinati da Yanar finora hanno salvato oltre 500 ragazze da questa sorte. Vuol dire che di vittime ce ne sono tante, ma che c’è anche chi non accetta più di esserlo: prende in mano il proprio destino e quello di chi è più debole di lei”, precisa la reporter.... “L’insegnamento più grande, però, mi è arrivato dalle combattenti curde”, rivela la regista. “Sono le donne più donne che abbia mai incontrato e – anche se nell’immaginario collettivo somigliano a Lara Croft con il mitra imbracciato – mi hanno fatto capire l’importanza della dolcezza. Prima di incontrarle ero molto dura, pensavo di dover sempre dimostrare qualcosa, per farmi largo in un ambiente a maggioranza maschile come quello delle redazioni giornalistiche. Ora sono più solidale: bisogna avere fiducia tra noi femmine. Non significa che non ci saranno incomprensioni, ma che se si collabora si possono fare grandi cose”, sorride. TPI