#settings & props

[kandelia-mangrove]

Can we talk about how in the show Lestat and Armand are framed as narrative foils. Armand and Lestat who are both so aggressively theater kids, but Lestat who acts, who draws in the attention and holds it, and Armand who directs, who shapes and manipulates the narrative. Armand and Lestat's obsession with Louis and his love and frustration with his melancholy over Lestat and Claudia respectively. Who both felt second in his heart. Who fear loneliness above all else. Lestat taking what he wants to excess - no impulse control, and Armand letting things happen to him and trying to manipulate situations to get what he wants but never taking it. Armand, who even in the end, so much more powerful, never physically imposes himself on Louis. Armand who seeks complete control in subtle insidious ways. Lestat who seeks control in the physical. Armand and Lestat brought into vampire life in horrifying ways tangled up with SA. Armand who still talks about his maker with reverence, Lestat who hates his maker. Armand who pours all of himself into his partner, willing to shape himself into what they desire but ultimately needing control to feel safe. Lestat who pours all of his love into his partner but unwilling to change himself and ultimately cedes control in moments to maintain the relationship. Armand who clings to his breaking apart relationship for 77 YEARs, Lestat who let Louis go. Lestat and Armand who watch Claudia die, but one as a father and one as a murderer. Lestat and Armand so intense in their love but Lestat so painfully external and Armand so painfully internal as characters. Both constantly acting and putting on a face. Lestat as Mozart and Armand as Salieri (in the flashback scene!). Armand who loves routine and structure and repetion, Lestat who craves change and excitement. The calling cards are echos, who learned from who. Armand teaching Lestat the vampire gifts, Lestat teaching Armand a new way to live. on and on....

[possession1981-moving]

BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA dir. Francis Ford Coppola, 1992

[grayrazor]

The clean-yet-practical vibe of 1970s sci-fi.

The transition era between Raygun Gothic and Used Future/Cassette Futurism.

[radicaloptimisms]

THE FLINTSTONES (1994) dir. Brian Levant

[saryasy]

BROOKLYN NINE NINE (2013-2021) | 3.07 The Mattress

[wounded-warsong]

YOU'VE BEEN HERE FOR TWO DECADES

SILENT HILL 2 (2001 & 2024)

[vintage-tigre]

1975 Jaws set carpenter Allan Albee making good use of an unused arm prop.

For the beach scene where Chrissie's remains are discovered, Director Steven Spielberg said the prop arm looked too fake, so instead they buried a female crew member in the sand with her arm exposed.

[kriskukko]

portrait

[skybson]

4x10 - Our Man Bashir

[stagefoureddiediaz]

I need to sit down and check through other hospital scenes but...

Buck hasn't worn a visitor badge when visiting Eddie in hospital both of these are from 414

and Eddie isn't wearing one in this new scene

in fact none of the firefam is wearing one in the hospital scenes in 611 and Maddie and Karen don't wear them in 517 when Chim and Hen are in the hospital, and Maddie doesn't in 618 either!

So the fact that tommy is having to wear one is a really loud indicator of his place in Bucks life - he is literally a visitor - a guest - who will be here for a bit but then gone - a gone that is coming very soon!

[captainfantasticalright]

Good Omens 2 props by Micaela Ralph.

The Bullet Catch pamphlet.

plus some more

celestial chart

Some Whickber Street shops decor

[djkerr]

BTS: Noah Wyle checks to make sure fellow actor Lovensky Jean-Baptiste is comfortable, as Cody Birdwell and Steven Miller from the props crew prep him for a scene on The Pitt. (July 9, 2024)

Lovensky plays Sam Wallace, the good samaritan who rescued the Nepali woman that was pushed onto the subway tracks.

📷 @warrickpage IG

[denastudio]

I was always obsessed with the pearlescent pink poker chips in Marie Antoinette (2006)

[cartoonguy08]

MY SHAYLA MY SHAYLA 😔😔😔

Reading a depressing ass fic right now that is written SO GOOD CHEFS KISS TO THE AUTHOR AMAZING AMAZING—I’m so upset. I’m literally so upset I’m fuming it’s so well written but what do you mean soldier does what to Demo? WHAT DO YOU MEAN-

[anna-scribbles]

jinx went to the megamind school of presentation

[againwithpurpose]

Hi, it’s me again— the cultural history, art and literature nerd. I have seen more fun and clever stuff.

There are interesting books strewn all over the sets all the time, but I like this one in particular — The Savage Garden — not only because of the obvious, recurring references made to the concept in the show, but because it’s also very relevant to Daniel and Armand.

The book is about an art history student who goes to Italy to study a renaissance garden — which’s nine tiers correspond to the nine circles of hell in Dante’s The Divine Comedy — owned by an old aristocratic family. While he wanders round the garden, full of statues placed there to tell stories of love and grief (and other, less obvious, things) he uncovers secrets and clues that lead to the solving of one murder that was committed sometime shortly after WWII, and one that happened sometime during the renaissance.

So it’s basically full of parallels to Armand’s past in renaissance Venice, his religious journeys and relationship with god and the devil (which are, admittedly, more prominent in the books, but still absolutely there in the show), and references that feel very Marius.

And then there’s the parallels to Daniel, the man who travels to ask relatively straightforward questions but instead ends up solving murders committed in post WWII Paris. He also gets physical with the renaissance affiliated character, just like the protagonist in the book.

I now, once again, feel like I need to rewatch both seasons frame by frame.

(It’s been many years since I read it, so it’s not fresh in my memory, but I remember it as quite a good read. Not your run of the mill murder mystery. In the second pile there are books on US politics.)