#ok but why was it so difficult colouring his scenes in the trailer

[waterdeep]

THANCRED WATERS IN THE FINAL FANTASY XIV: ENDWALKER TRAILER

[joliepixie]

Book update! books I’ve read recently and what I thought/how I felt about them! Also I really branched out into genres this time around! Another personal goal of mine.

Once again pictures from left to right!

1) Silver Flame! I read this back in February but had lent it to a friend and forgot to include it in my last book update. I absolutely loved this book like everything else Sarah J. Maas writes. I thought it gave a good perspective into how Nesta was doing mentally and helped me understand her struggle. I think after reading this novel I’ve even began to like Nesta more then Feyra and I think the turning point was when Nesta posted the list in the library and continued to check on it hoping someone would sign up. I was in tears when Cassian told her to keep reaching out a hand. This book made me feel so much and I feel even more in love with the ACATAR world. Oh and I learned I really do not like Amren.

2)This was a challenge and I’m pretty sure I had a breakdown or two while reading it. I had high hopes going into this book and I was super excited to read it after watching the trailer for the new movie, but I’ve learned sci-fi isn’t for me. Don’t get me wrong the story was really good and I had a fun time with the sun worms and the descriptions of Dune made me want to vacation there or just anywhere with sand dunes. However I had a really difficult time getting into the book with all the made up works I was so focused on pronouncing them and trying to keep track of what they all mean that I kept losing the story and being pulled out of the immersion of it all. I eventually bought the audible book for it and listened to it to finish it off and it made the story so much more enjoyable.

3) I have a Mount Everest addiction. I absolutely loved the movie Everest (2015) about the 1996 expedition. When I found out there was actually a book written about the fated 1996 expedition I knew I had to read it. Since learning more about the expedition and what it takes to climb the mountain I have gained even more respect for the climber. This book also set me on a path of wanting to read a bunch of non fiction book about other events I find interesting like “Jungle” by Yossi Ghinsberg as well as just reading more of Jon Krakauer’s work.

4) I had heard so many good things about Sally Rooney’s book as well as heard a bunch of good reviews regarding the TV show. This book fell flat for me. Right off the bat it was jarring to read a novel with now quotations, although I did get use to style after a couple pages. I found the characters dull and boring and honestly while trying to explain this book to a friend I couldn’t cause I don’t even know what it’s about.. I didn’t get much from this book and I still can’t even begin to describe what I read. Luckily it was pretty short so I was able to get through it quickly. Also what even was that ending? That wasn’t a ending where’s the next chapter? I struggled through this book for that?!?

5) I really wanted to try a Gillian Flynn book and considering I liked the movie (see the theme in all these books yet?) Gone girl and enjoyed it, I wanted to start with a book by her that I don’t know the ending too and sharp objects seemed like a good start and I wasn’t disappointed. This book was extremely twisted and there where a couple parts where my stomach turned. I really enjoyed reading about any interactions the main character had with her sister Amma. The first “conclusion” left me dissatisfied with thinking it was all to predictable and boring but as the last few chapters went on I was not disappointed. Definitely a good, dark, and twisted read.

6) Found this at a used book store and I was drawn in by the title. Two things you need to know about me. I love anything French and the idea of a small run down cottage in a country that I could fix up is a dream of mine! So a year in provenance had me from the title and then the summary, however I walked away from it only to constantly be thinking about it till my next day off when I zipped back to the used book store to pick it up. Luckily it was still there and I’m so happy I went back for it. This novel is so mundane and just simple. It makes me so happy reading about something I love to constantly dream about and the descriptions of food are to die for. Honestly I don’t have much to say about this book other then it’s just nice calming and mundane. A great read.

7) I have seen Brandon Sanderson books all over every social media platform known to man and I knew one day I’d have to give one of his books a try. “Mistborn” seemed liked the obvious choice but Warbreaker seemed more my pace plus a stand-alone. I honestly don’t know how to feel about this book. I like the story but I had a hard time getting into it. I think it has to do with the fact I’ve read a couple pretty heavy thinking books lately and I’m just tired from having to think while reading? If that makes sense. Ok some things I like about the story. I love Siri and her scenes with the God King. He’s just so cute if that the right word for him? Maybe innocent is better! I’m in love with the magic system and how colour plays such a important role in the story. Somethings I’m not liking which is mainly one thing is how political some of the chapters are. I understand it’s dealing with the topic of being on the brink of war but I just can’t get into the politics of war. Mind you that’s normal for me when it comes to any book that is heavy in politics! Just don’t care for it. So basically I like the in-between scheming and plotting about war parts.

8) Once again back to my movie/tv theme! I found this book in my recommendation on Amazon and after reading the summary I was sold. The premise reminded me of a old movie I watched called “Rear Window” and I was excited to compare the two. Then I found out that “Women in the Window” was being made into a movie with Amy Adams and that got me even more excited for the book! I did find that this book had a slow start but once it go going I was really into it. It was a bit predictable. I called the twist with their husband and daughter pretty early on and then with my motto expect the unexpected I figured out who the killer was pretty quickly, the how and why was tricky and that’s what kept me entertained. I love a good thriller book and o get even more excited when I pick up on the subtle clues left by the author.

[jugandbettsdetectiveagency]

#anyone noticed how this season the colouring of the bughead scenes has been very different#like season one it was all bright and pinks and purples#and this seasons its been muted and yellows and blues#and then the scene before the race in ep6 had very harsh lighting - @peterparkerrtrash

Ok, so I love these tags that the lovely Holly just put on this gifset but it reminded me of something I thought of when watching episode 2.05. 

Think back to the first moment we see Betty and Jughead on screen, interacting with each other in season 1.

They lock eyes in Pops which, before Fred got shot, is almost like a neutral zone in Riverdale. According to the map it looks to be right on the border between the town’s north and south divide. It’s a place that is not only decoratively but almost literally stuck in a time that no longer exists. The 50s diner has made its revival in recent years, but in Riverdale, to me, it also stands to represent just how out of touch with reality and the rest of the world this town seems to be, at least for its inhabitants who act like the dealings of this small fry settlement are the be all and end all - life beyond simply doesn’t exist. Pop’s stands still in almost a dream-like state that is safe, and comforting, and the epitome of both nostalgia and the thoughts of what could be. I like that it’s the place that Jughead chooses to write at 2am, with endless cups of coffee, because his comfort is food (less explicitly than in the comics but it’s still there) and Pop’s is a comfort. And it’s open 24hrs because of course dreams never sleep. This soft blues and pinks theme starts here. The neon signs coat the screen in a glow that is both warm and harsh, hazy around the edges while still being solid and defined. Both certain and uncertain simultaneously. Betty and Jughead are aesthetically complete opposites, characteristically right for each other, the last pairing their friends expect but perfect soulmates all the same. And this look, in these lights, is their starting point. 

It’s there again when they reveal their demons to one another. After the hazy, white mist that seems to exist even inside the Andrews’ residence during the party scene, their reconciliation doesn’t happen there but in the protective bubble of their booth at Pop’s, sweeping from vibrant blue to bright pink as the shot pans over them. A lot of people at the time wanted to know why this conversation happened here, and what was said in the moments between, but I think there was a very specific reason that it had to happen here, in this place that belongs just as much to the north side as it does the south. They are existing outside of everyone’s expectations here, after Jughead so unfortunately reminded them of their stereotypes earlier on. It’s where Jughead and Betty have their equal share of fond memories. When Betty first met Veronica, and shared childhood days with Kevin, and... Jug. 

They saved it, after the bleak, dull tones that coloured it during Fred’s shooting, heading to the warm, soothing glow of the retro night.

It returns again in season 2 when Jughead comes to greet Betty with that desperate, lingering kiss after their time apart. Mutual ground, level footing, the feeling of safety, the feeling of coming home. Still holding on to the hope that this thing that is keeping them afloat is still solid and sure. Even still, there’s just a hint more of the bright, white outside light that threatens to overtake as things become more blinding, more difficult to see past...

One of many people’s - myself included - favourite bughead kiss is in 1.08 where this light glow just blooms behind them as their lips meet. It’s after a moment of vulnerability seen, a trust shared, a realisation that they’re in this thing together. It’s not bright and blinding, but soft and enveloping, tinted with blues and pinks and golds as it washes over them in that same bubble that they get at Pop’s. This feeling of invincibility, that they can do anything, that nothing bad can happen to them, is found in each other, available even outside of this one small, ramshackle building now. I think that’s why it was so poignant that Fred’s shooting happened in Pop’s just moments after we saw Bughead get interrupted by the Serpents. Bubble burst. Uncertainty ahead. Even the kitchen counter scene, like most in the trailer, has this mist over it, an unclearable fog that is persistent and unmoving. Danger ahead, proceed with caution. I ended up using the metaphor in one of my fics that Betty is like Jughead’s lighthouse. And I think when he’s alone in the trailer, alone with the Serpents, alone in Southside High, without the reminder of his lighthouse, he’s in the most danger of crashing into the rocky shore (look at me, getting all poetic *chucks Virginia Woolf at you*). Even the kiss at SSH, before Toni interrupts, has this same pinkish glow to it that has never been seen before in this location. 

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All of this is a convoluted, probably incoherent, unnecessary precursor to the point I originally wanted to make. The acts of initiation, the final punch up before the jacket belongs to Jughead, are lit in exactly the same way as that kiss with Betty - the one where he looks into her eyes, sees that she sees him for who he is and is probably one of the first moments where he starts to believe that he could actually be in love with her. That is the exact same combination of blue, pink, and gold. Exactly. And while I loved all the stylistic choices for this scene, this is why it breaks my lil Bughead loving heart. Because all those feelings of security, comfort, protection, looking to and thinking about the future are now placed within the hands of the Serpents and the life that Jughead has now accepted, believes himself to be worthy of, throwing himself into it headfirst, branding himself with this new identity. It’s no longer about girls next door, writing a novel at 2am surrounded by the constant smell of coffee (also this is the episode without Jughead’s narration - another thing at just tore me apart), and the thought of what could be beyond this slice of non-existent apple pie life. Jug’s scenes with Betty in the next episode are lit with that hazy fog of uncertainty, that mist inside the auto shop, until it explodes in a mid-afternoon drag race. It’s not covered by a blanket of late night darkness, kept under the radar with the utmost stealth. It’s a full on social event, right there on a day when Summer comes to Winter in Riverdale. It’s glaring and bright and there’s nowhere to hide, no softly back lit dreams of pipe dreams, just reality. 

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[allofbeercom]

George Lazenby on Bond, sex and the 60s: ‘They had the pill … I was a handsome guy’

When the Australian 007 didnt make another Bond movie, word got around he was hard to handle. In a new documentary, he tries to set the record straight

The 1969 classic On Her Majestys Secret Service, widely considered to be among the greatest James Bond movies, opens with 007 roaring his Aston Martin onto a beach at sunset. Jumping out of the vehicle to save a woman from killing herself in the ocean, he spectacularly defeats a couple of goons in hand-to-hand combat, then watches helplessly as the lady jumps into a car and drives away.

Alone on the sand, Bond played by Australian model-cum-actor George Lazenby turns to the camera and delivers the now- famous line: This never happened to the other fella.

Those words are a cheeky, self-conscious reference to a changing of the guard, the New South Wales-born performer landing the role in rather unlikely circumstances (more on that in a moment) following five Sean Connery-led films.

But the line works on another level too. When it comes to Lazenbys relationship with the James Bond franchise, a lot of things are relevant to him that never happened to the other fella, be it Connery specifically or any other actor who has played the martini-sipping, gadget-deploying, double entendre-delivering secret agent.

Lazenby is the only Australian to play 007, for instance, and the only actor to have landed the role with no prior acting experience. And unlike his colleagues Connery, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig, he played Bond once and never again.

George Lazenby with Michael Caine in 1969. Photograph: GQ Magazine US/Trinity Mirror/Mirror/Alamy Stock Photo

I intended to ask Lazenby, 77 speaking to me over the phone from Los Angeles what he thinks of the significance of that never happened to the other fella line, given it feels so relevant to his legacy as the outsider Bond: the blip on the radar; the aberration; the casting decision that never really made sense.

But mid question, Lazenby interjects. I wrote it! That was my line! he exclaims. On set, he would issue complaints such as, I betcha the other fella didnt have to do this and this didnt happen to the other fella. The films director, Peter Hunt, asked him to say it off the cuff, according to Lazenby, so I said it, thinking it would never be in the movie. And they used it.

As he keeps talking, the actor gives me yet another only George Lazenby to add to the collection. I did my own stunts except the skiing, because the insurance company said no skiing, although I did some anyway, in close-up and Im the only Bond who ever did that, he says. Sean Connery wouldnt step down a step without saying stunt man!

Becoming Bond trailer: how George Lazenby landed the role of 007

A new stranger-than-fiction documentary, Becoming Bond, explores Lazenbys life, unpacking how the former model lied and scammed his way into the audition room by pretending to be a seasoned actor and then, against all odds, nailed the part. The film, which is screening in Australia as part of the American Essentials film festival, also addresses the question that has plagued Lazenby for decades: why, after achieving the seemingly impossible, he did the seemingly unthinkable by rejecting a million-dollar offer to sign on for six more Bond films.

The documentary considers this mostly in the context of Lazenby rejecting a slave contract proposed by the studio. But also, as he explains to me, I had advice that James Bond was over anyway. It was Sean Connerys gig and, being in the 60s, it was love, not war. You know, hippy time. And I bought into that. They also said theres a guy called Clint Eastwood doing movies in Italy, getting 500 grand for a month, for doing a western. They said, you could do that. So I didnt feel like I was losing the million dollars.

Lazenby claims he was subsequently blacklisted by the industry, becoming the movie worlds equivalent of a one-hit-wonder. He agreed to participate in the documentary, directed by Josh Greenhaum, to set the record straight. I havent talked about it much lately in the last, say, 20 years but I did want the truth to be out there, he says. Word got around that I was difficult to handle. They said that was the reason I didnt do another Bond, but that wasnt the truth.

In his colourful and outspoken subject, Greenhaum found a mother lode of sex, drugs and rocknroll and a person more than happy to talk about his exploits. Lazenby estimates he has slept with maybe a thousand women. In the 60s alone there was sometimes three, four, five a day. For years. They had the pill. It was on script. I was a handsome guy from Australia …

It was ridiculous. It really was. If you were handsome, and you had the balls to ask them I mean, how many times you could get it up was how many times you could do it.

The actor has previously said that the day-to-day requirements of working on a film reduced his sex life (It restricts you to the people who are around you), and he clearly wasnt fond of the on-set experience. Youve got to be there on time. Youve got to be dressed and made up, he grumbles. Its OK every now and again but to do it seriously, you need to have a different frame of mine than Ive got.

George Lazenby with his first wife Christine Townson after their wedding at Caxton Hall, London in 1973. Photograph: Bill Orchard/Solo Syndication

One of the anecdotes Lazenby recounts in Becoming Bond, which features re-enactment scenes starring Josh Lawson, is of a day in the 60s when he picked up a woman off the street (she was engaged, by the way), and took her to a nearby friends house for tea. Some time later, when the woman announced it was time for her to leave, Lazenbys friend turned to them and said: You two arent going anywhere, I put LSD in your tea.

Lazenby says he didnt even know what acid was, until I saw my breath going across the room, watched the curtains moving and started to taste colours. The former 007-from-Down-Under was later fed marijuana by that same friend in Germany, he explains; when he noticed this friend reading a menu upside down in a restaurant, he erupted into a laughing fit so hard he had to leave the premises.

According to Lazenby, his consumption of mind-altering substances came after 007. And when it came to alcohol, his beverage of choice was a far cry from the delicate shaken-not-stirred: I was just drinking beer when I got the Bond movie and drinking beer during it, he says. There was never a martini. I had one sip of one once, and I didnt like it. I wasnt into hard liquor at the time. I was into beer, which wasnt very James Bond. Indeed, theres not a lot in George Lazenbys story that was.

Becoming Bond is screening as part of the American Essentials film festival in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane and Adelaide

This article was amended on 17 May 2017. An earlier version spelled mother lode as motherload.

from All Of Beer http://allofbeer.com/george-lazenby-on-bond-sex-and-the-60s-they-had-the-pill-i-was-a-handsome-guy/